wandering night

she/her ace/bi multishipper and multifandom ao3 @starlit_cities

[wandering-night19]

fic masterlist

The Weight of Grief

43.7k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Explicit

With all the loss they've suffered Carlos and TK deserve a happy ending. In their post-Honeymoon bliss they just weren't expecting to have to work so hard for it. 4x18 Coda.

i’ll be here if you will only come back home w/ @whenshereads

14.5k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . General

TK is determined to give Carlos the homecoming he deserves. As always, life has other plans, and TK and Carlos have each other.

Green Eyes, Blue Skies

16k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Explicit

When Carlos is tasked with uncovering the dump site of a serial killer on death row his biggest concern was being apart from TK for three months. But when a prison break goes awry, his biggest concern is TK being caught in the middle.

you dream of some epiphany

2.2k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Teen

TK feels like there should have been a warning. He should have known this was going to happen. He’s been doing this long enough that he usually has a pretty good read on patients.

Reaching for the Sun

3k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Explicit

Carlos is the sun and TK can’t handle being burned again, but he holds his fingers to the flame anyway.

Silence and Gloom

13k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Teen

Carlos is fine. So he wishes TK would stop looking at him with those wide, green eyes like he’s something fragile that might shatter at any moment. He’s fine.

Every Little Thing

2.7k . Carlos Reyes/TK Strand . Mature

5 times TK made fun of Carlos for being married and 1 time he didn’t.

[view-from-up-here]

[bunhed]

queue this post when it’s your birthday and be surprise

[official-lucifers-child]

oh man, future-me is gonna be so surprised

[hushpupper-deactivated20240118]

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who don’t or can’t write the 50k fan-fictions, because of a lack of focus or motivation, or mental illness.

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who don’t or can’t write smut, but are still lumped into a group that is almost expected to write smut. 

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who can’t update chapters frequently for maybe a multitude of reasons, and get messages daily from people asking for “their” new chapter. 

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who aren’t big name fans and hardly get ten kudos or one comment on their fan-fictions. 

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who stay up all night editing and rewriting and don’t get much attention on their work no matter how much they feel like they promote their writing.

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who don’t write a lot and are constantly asked to write more but can’t for whatever valid reason they have. 

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers who have the courage to post their writing online and only have it publicly made fun of for grammar or poor characterization. 

Shout-out to fan-fiction writers for writing their fan-fiction, posting it online, and continuing to do it no matter how much or little attention they get, and constantly improving as a writer with every upload.

You all rock.

[byjove]

writing historical fiction will make you google things like “when we’re towels invented?” “how much did a towel cost in American in 1885?” “historical average number of towels owned per household”

[byjove]

I’ll use a word or idiom and then be like “no, that seems pretty modern” and start googling its etymological origins and fall down a rabbit hole for several hours

[byjove]

I’ll start googling about the general area the story is based in and what was going on around there at that time. and then become transfixed by the juiciest small town drama of the 19th century. anyway. it’s about the journey.

[greelin]

people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[sinksanksockie2]

w-what if potato is actually lucky

[muuutant]

You ever just realized how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

[latex-salesman]

[appendingfic]

i love how george has become like the tumblr mascot

[larval-tear]

Apple Bottomjeans is a beautiful gname for a gnome

[irischroma]

Boots Witherfur is a joyful gname for this gnome’s friend

[yourchemicallyimbalancedromance]

Having imposter syndrome as a writer is a bitch

“What if I release this and I don’t get the reaction I was hoping for?”

“What if it’s not good enough?”

What if what if what if like omg I’m gonna lose my mind

This is one thing I really didn’t miss about writing tbh

But yeah this is why I haven’t released anything in almost a month lol, but im pushing through and still working on things despite all of the negativity my brain likes to throw my way sooooo 👍🏻

[writesterek]

For @sterekfests fall theme Sweater Weather

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

incredibly fucked up you can put off things for “tomorrow” and then. and then tomorrow comes

[phoebe-delia]

Just so y’all know: I can’t speak for every other fic author but I can say that I remember when people leave me kind comments. I recognize your urls and/or usernames on AO3. I remember you and sometimes in writing my fics I think to myself, “Oh, I hope this person sees this because they liked x in this other fic I did.”

Not only that—I go back and reread comments when I’m feeling low. I look at tags and reblogs and asks and wish I could hold them in my hand like a note from a friend on an old, torn piece of notebook paper.

Your comments have so much more impact than you know. So thanks to those who use the comment section to spread love and encouragement. We appreciate you.

[petricorah]

me, halfway through listening through a song: hmm this might have otp potential

*restarts song but this time listening with Blorbo Intent

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

[graceless-writing]

“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”

[actuallylemon]

NEW FIC LIVE ON AO3 NOW

The Greatest Gift I’ve Found, The Sweetest Thing I’ve Known

E | 7k | Tarlos; canon compliant

Join Tarlos and the Reyes family for Nochebuena. It’s Tarlos’s first Christmas as husbands, and the family’s first Christmas without Gabriel.

Thank you to @lightningboltreader for beta reading and @carlos-in-glasses for cheerleading this one from start to finish 💕

Official playlist

“You know, there’s a lot of things to adore about TK. But do you know the thing we love the most about him?” He makes a questioning noise. She points a finger into the dimple in his cheek. “This.”

He furrows his brow in question.

“Oh, I’ve known you for thirty years, niñito.” He bites back his quip about how he’s not 30 yet, wanting to know where she’s going with this. “But I’ve never seen that smile, not until about four years ago.”

“When I met TK.”

“When you met TK.” She nods. “We all knew something was different. Even if it took you a while to work up the courage to bring him around. You seemed so light, so happy. We knew something had happened.”

He looks over to where TK is chatting away with his abuelita.

“He’s a special person,” Carlos says.

“He is, but honey. So are you,” Lucy grips his bicep softly. “We love you, Carlitos, and I’m sorry that we ever made you feel like you had to hide any of your specialness from us.”

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