#heartstringsduet

hello michelle thank you for this ❤️

i am guessing hoping you mean grief group au and it is coming!! it was supposed to come in october and then got slightly derailed bc my laptop's hard drive corrupted at the beginning of the month. thankfully i had another copy saved on ellipsus and i am almost done and very close to posting

here is a little bit of it (using it as my wip wednesday so thank you @carlos-in-glasses @whatsintheboxmh @carlossreaders @everlastingday for the tags!!)

✨✨✨Fall On Your Knees✨✨✨

E, 15k, 2 chapters both up on Ao3

Merry Christmas gorgeous @heartstringsduet! 🎄🎁🎀🧸 I am your Secret Santa and words cannot express how happy that makes me! Especially as I’ve been lucky enough to hang out with you irl too this year – it’s just extra magic. What a seasonal joy and blessing it has been to keep this secret from you! I’m so excited to finally share. This fic is for your prompt “The Christmas / Hanukkah they were broken up and missing each other”. For that, I want to say a huge thank you, because this has been a gift to me too. This is one of my personal favourite fics, and I wouldn’t have written it and had such a good experience without you! I hope you like it too. And much love to @tarlos-santa for organising!

During their breakup, TK and Carlos pine for each other on Christmas Eve – both remembering a time when it felt like nothing could tear them apart. Can conversations with family help guide them along the slippery path towards reconciliation?

Chapter 1: Carlos I Chapter 2: TK

Carlos’ gentle laugh floats up to the ceiling like a gold balloon. A thrown pillow lands on his face. A plush torpedo. “Hey!” He throws the pillow back, hits the wall. TK grabs the pillow again – again aims perfectly for Carlos’ face. All those Little League games paying off years later with his good aim. But Carlos’ sportsman strength is to wrestle, which TK well knows, and Carlos knows when he’s being goaded. He opts not to throw the pillow back this time, preferring to kneel up on the air mattress and enter a pillow fight duel. TK scrappily defends himself and starts batting away at Carlos – and they giggle and snicker and gasp at each other’s audacity, TK’s knees inching closer and closer to the cliff edge of the bed as he raises his pillow mightily for the final blow. Carlos withstands the impact like the mountain of pure muscle that he is, but TK tips over face-forwards into Carlos’ arms.

thank you, michelle!!! my squirrel sister <3

9. tell a story about your childhood

okay so i was reflecting today, and i think the reason that i'm scared of getting locked in a small room is because when i was about five years old, one of my parents' family friend's kids (he was also, like, 6 or 7) locked me in an attic as a 'joke' and i think i'm scarred for life from that LMAO. i thought my parents were going to go home without me!

12. what's some good advice you want to share?

my best legal advice - if you're going to say something risky, don't put it in writing.

17. name three things that make you happy?

snowboarding, squirrel pictures!!!! (or pictures of any cute animals), hiking to a really beautiful destination.

Hi Michelle!!

Aww, you are so kind!! 🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖 Adore you right back!! Ohh yes it was so much fun, we should totally do it again soon!!

One shots ♠

I'm a hot mess : TK is left to his own thoughts after Iris calls him a hot mess. 4x02 coda

Push and Relent : Carlos is traumatized after the kidnapping. He can hide it moderately well until TK bakes cookies. 4x04 coda.

A Heart with New Skin : Step by step, Carlos learns to see lizard Louis as family.

Any punk but...: high school AU. He's just a jock, he's just a punk, can I make it anymore obvious?

The kind you can't get away from : A 5+1 fic about the lizards in TK's life and how they tie in with the people he loves.

But most of it was beautiful : A Tarlos honeymoon at home

Take my hand, take my whole life, too : With each wrinkle, each scar, each crease, each spot, their rings, their hands tell the stories of their lives together.

I can tell you how it ends - college AU! written with @strandnreyes. TK teaching Carlos to dance (chairs included)

Sugar Spun Moments - Tarlos buys and decorates their first Christmas tree 10 to Midnight - AU. Year after year, they spend New Year's together

Multichapter 🎀

Danger Zone - Carlos and TK are roommates in college and absolutely are hot for can't stand each other. First Aid - New York AU. Two liars meet and try to fix each other.

Series 🍑

Let Me: Different stages of Carlos and TK exploring Dom/sub dynamics.

[In good hands] [In order to keep you] [In front of you] [In the dark] [In your corner]

Shorties 💐

Morning Glory - All the touches that lead to their first kiss

Larkspur - The first time TK made Carlos laugh

Borage - The first time TK says I love you to Carlos

Mint - Carlos turns on the light bar

Sweet Woodruff - Carlos bakes birthday cakes

Ring Bearer - Lou II is one of the ring bearers Split - meet cute + ice cream

Sparks Fly - Carlos' feelings another after casual hook-up with TK

(Omg, I'm so late to these! 🙈 Sorry about that.)

This is such a fun question! I feel like I'm giving an answer that's somewhat adjacent to it? But my thoughts immediately ran in this direction, so hopefully that's okay.

I think I'd want to direct a soft and cozy scene where we get to see TK and Carlos wake up together in the morning. (It's kind of shocking to me that we haven't had that yet.)

Start with a wide shot, then shift to close-ups. Decent lighting, please. Golden beams of sunlight falling across their faces. Smooth camera movements that let each moment breathe. An overall feeling of warmth.

And while I'm playing pretend, I'm going to imagine that this is the first time they wake up together in the loft.

If I go a step further, I'd like to also request Carlos' first morning in the loft, waking up alone. Let's make the lighting colder here. And shoot it in such a way that a parallel gif set of the two scenes is the natural result.

Oooooh easy! I can finally use my moodboard!!

I'd put Carlos is the suit I picked for him in the gallery scene in A Wash of Color -- the evergreen linen with a barely-there-patterned button down. Mostly because I think he needs more color in his wardrobe.

Costuming, I'd like to have a word about it. Just a chat, no need to worry! I'll bring cookies and coffee too :)

TK? TK I'd like to get into something pre-60s vintage. The high-waisted trousers, a real-deal aviator jacket, and laced boots. Now, I don't think he'd be very on board with this, but the reason I write so many historic AUs is because I love historic menswear. Truly. I own a lot of vintage clothes meant for, like, teenage boys (because I am very petite) because it's a look and lined wool trousers very comfortable in winter!

Something like this: