happy nice ask day!!! ahh okay so i’m a little over because it’s past midnight here but i just want to say i love your takes and your posts and your francesca tarlos video truly lives in my mind 24/7. any other video edits you’d consider making to other songs? what are some of your favourite tarlos-coded songs? any lone star headcanons you want to share? - maddie/reyesstrand <333
MADDIE @reyesstrand 💞😖 YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE SWEETEST OKAY. literally right back at you!! I'm forever in awe of your takes and your words and how you articulate and understand so surgically the development of carlos and tk's relationship and express it through and through in your posts and in your fics. also the fact that you have been here since the get-go is so fascinating and crazy to me like YOU'RE ONE OF THE VETERANS!!!!
I get so 🥺 whenever you reblog that edit truly <3 and yesss. I've found myself lately noticing themes of grief, family bonds and unconditional love in songs so I've been thinking of making a carlos centric edit or/and maybe an artwork where it's a collection of visuals with lyrics to combine all of these corresponding lyrics.
2) ohhh my tarlos playlist is endless truly (seriously need to import it to a famous music app so i could have a link to share) but here are some favourite staples in my tarlos playlist
High Hope — Patrick Droney
Know you're coming from a bad place
Honey, I was there just yesterday
So I know the time it's gonna take
For you to feel like you again
Wonder if you're seeing colours yet
And if your spirit needs a tourniquet
'Cause if it does I can hold you tight enough
Help you forget 'em for a minute, love.
I know you got a heart of gold
You wear it like an olden rose
these lyrics are just straight out of carlos' mouth to season 1 tk AND the line where he says he'd hold him so tight if his spirit needs a tourniquet is soooosjsksk it's so carlos with tk i CAN'T
Climbing and falling tied up in the rhymes and reasons
No city, no spaces, no oceans can stand between us
When it gets heavy, sometimes I've got doubts
And I'm just trying keep these shadows out
I've been thinking myself to death
You're calling me home like a ship that got wrecked
I know there's always a place for you and I
A place where every word that you say, can save my life
Where nothing hurts and nothing breaks
I'll know it when I see your face
I'm safe.
When the rivers are rising, I'm safe
When I look in your eyes, I'm safe
these lyrics are just so simple and truthful and the song is like this big dramatic loud ballad that's so powerful and and resolute in wanting to tell your person that they're your safe heaven on earth and it's so so tarlos coded :')
Julia Michaels – Little Did I Know
THE SOULMATISM AND S1 TK OF IT ALL *weeps* i love this one so much
3) oh oh my favourite headcanon atm is that tk sometimes sneaks out at night to their building's rooftop (they have access to it) to listen to music and have some solitude and fresh air (he used to sit on fire escapes at night back in nyc a lot) and one time carlos suddenly panics in the middle of the night when he called for tk and the silence in the loft was deafening at 2 in the morning, he rushes to call him and some relief washes over him when tk's quiet voice is on the other end of the line. he eventually joins him up there after telling tk that he scared the hell out of him and tk apologising saying he didn't want to wake him up after a long shift. But he's up now and he made sure to bring a jacket for tk because he knows him too well, how he'd argue he's fine when it's chilly outside then immediately regret not bringing a jacket and carlos (gladly) always ending up giving him his own and he rubs tk's arms and shoulders to warm him up :')
also carlos is scared of heights and he hasn’t told a soul 👀