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Deep Misunderstanding by some1_around
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
12 Mar 2026
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“Am I a bad friend?”
Hayden has always been the guy Shane joked with, the guy he trusted to feed him without mocking him, the guy he roomed with on the road, and Shane is the only man who has ever seen Hayden cry, and Hayden loves Shane. He fucking loves him. They are like brothers, and they have been for almost ten fucking years. He’s always been Shane’s guy, Shane’s best friend.
Except all along, maybe that wasn’t true. Ilya Rozanov, apparently, had been the guy. Before Hayden had ever met Shane, Ilya Rozanov had been there. And Hayden had never even noticed.
Shane is all over every inch of Hayden’s life. Hayden thought that was reciprocal.
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“You know I think about you all the time,
And my deep misunderstanding of your life,
And how bad it must have been for you back then,
And how hard it was to keep it all inside.” -
put your back into it by cmere for caterpills
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
28 Dec 2025
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"I have been thinking."
Shane lifts his head off the pillow only as much as necessary to turn his face toward Ilya. Ilya continues to trace nonsensical lines and shapes on Shane's bare back, leaving a trail of tingles in his wake.
"Hmm?"
"I have been thinking. I think I will retire at end of season."
Shane and Ilya are turning 40. Things are changing. Shane's not handling it well.
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30 Dec 2025
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Wyatt was not, like, nosy. For sure, he was interested. He was curious. He engaged with people, obviously, because most people were interesting and engaging and had cool thoughts and said neat stuff if you asked.
So, no. Wyatt wasn’t nosy, but he wasn’t stupid, either.
Or: A Bromance Blooms In Ottawa
Or: The Ballad of Wyatt and Ilya- Language:
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30 Dec 2025
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User Error by smugrobotics
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Mar 2026
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The ritual is simple: morning skate, home for a protein shake, then Shane strips to his briefs, lies in bed, and starts scrolling.
Or, a Grindr AU
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09 Dec 2025
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Gay, Small Town Texas by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting)
Fandoms: the waterfront - Fandom
28 Jun 2025
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Bleeding in the car of his long-lost father’s wife, who has taken a shine to him, Shawn West reflects on what got him to this moment – and how things are not what they seem within the Buckley family.
Everything seemed cosmic to him in that moment, the sea swelling and crashing out when Adam grabbed his face and kissed him. They were on the Ferris wheel, and the Ferris wheel kept turning even as the world stopped.
But when they came down to Earth, and were all out of tokens to go around again, they found themselves surrounded by a familiar group of eight who still smelled of locker room and too much Calvin Klein Obsession body spray.
“If you can’t run, you have to fight,” his mother told him when he was thirteen and bloody-faced. Gently, she’d pressed a cold washcloth to his split lip while he sat on the edge of the bathtub, shivering from the shock of being punched. “But if you can run, always run. Run, run, run.”
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30 Jun 2025
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“What am I supposed to do with him, Michelle? He set his kitchen on fire trying to boil water, but now you expect me to turn him into a restaurant worthy chef in six weeks?”
“Yes. That’s the premise of the show, is it not? You told the network you could turn the worst cook in America into a chef of your caliber within six weeks.” She points at TK trying to operate a pasta machine. “This kid is your challenge. If you can turn him into a chef, then you can probably turn water into wine as well.”
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10 May 2025
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“My name is Tyler,” the guy says softly. “Tell me what you'd like to do tonight.”
It's still unspoken what's really going on here. Tyler licks his lips as he looks Carlos over again. It's simple, assessing look, yet so charged.
"I just want to talk." Carlos swallows. “You're very pretty." Too honest. Maybe he's also the one who needs help, for flirting with a sex worker he's trying to get enough evidence to arrest.
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Alternate first meeting AU.
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21 Apr 2025
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Close Call by JustALittleBitBoohoo for EnchantedToReadYou
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
22 Jun 2024
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When TK borrows Carlos's car for the day and is late coming home, Carlos gets worried.
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22 Jun 2024
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It had been stupid, putting off trying on his one formal suit until the next-to-last minute. It had been hubris, thinking the suit he’d bought for his abuela’s funeral at 21 would still fit him at 28. It was all out of character, irresponsible, ridiculous, and a whole other raft of things, but the point remained the same.
The point being: his sister Luisa was getting married in exactly twenty-two days and Carlos didn’t have a goddamn suit.
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Carlos needs a suit for his sister's wedding. TK Strand, owner of Strand & Co tailoring shop, is only too happy to help - provided Carlos indulge him a little bit first.
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18 Nov 2023
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After a family-friendly community Halloween party at the 126, Carlos and TK go home, and TK surprises Carlos with a very special-and sexy-treat.
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An AU where Tarlos broke up over the loft, but the ice storm never happened. Carlos went on to take the Detective exam and started dating someone new.
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22 Oct 2023
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TK Strand hasn’t known Carlos Reyes for very long. He’s slept with him, run out on his attempt at getting to know him better, and been processed by him after an arrest. Despite all of that, TK can’t get over Carlos. He can’t get over the connection between them, the way he feels so desperately drawn to him. When TK gets bad news at an NA meeting, he quickly starts to spiral, and there’s only one person he feels safe enough to run to.
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A Very Pleasant Evening (plus lube) by paperstorm for LightningBoltReader
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
30 Aug 2023
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Carlos disappears through the opening and into the dining room. Owen hears the sounds of the table being set as he finishes chopping half a tomato. He grabs the cucumber when he’s done, and opens two drawers in search of a vegetable peeler. He finds one in the second drawer, but also finds something else.
Owen frowns. He looks closer, sure at first that he’s seeing things. But it’s unmistakable, upon further examination. It’s a small clear tube of sexual lubricant.Bookmarked by LightningBoltReader
31 Aug 2023
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HILARIOUSNESS. Owen stuffs Tarlos’ post-Push lube stash into his pockets during family dinner.
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Twenty-five years of chasing hope and happiness and the place where he belongs. Or: Carlos begins, and ends, and begins again, until he gets it right.
Series
- Part 1 of Roots Before Branches
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15 Aug 2023
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Missing moments with high emotional intelligence. First reading completely wrecked me in the best way. Bonus: alt wedding where Gabriel lives. Gorgeous. I sobbed and sobbed at the breakup and again at the wedding speeches. Gah.
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Guide to Beta Reading (for Authors and Beta Readers) by theirprofoundbond
Fandoms: No Fandom
30 Mar 2021
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A thorough guide to beta reading for both authors and beta readers. Neither exhaustive nor definitive, but hopefully a good starting point that covers the basics and explains how to get the most out of an author-beta reader relationship.
[February 2025: Minor edits and additions throughout the guide.]
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Tarlos Wedding Countdown Prompts #1: Bachelor Party.
In the run up to the wedding, Carlos's bachelor party ends with something he couldn't have imagined...
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03 May 2023
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'tis the damn season by WeWereEmergencies (FantasticTime)
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
16 Oct 2022
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Carlos Reyes is a police officer in the same small town in Texas where he grew up. His childhood best friend, and former boyfriend, TK Strand is a world famous movie star, constantly jet setting out of LA.
It's been four years since they last saw each other but now it's Christmas, TK is back in town, and it's snowing in Texas.
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an AU based on the song 'tis the damn season by Taylor Swift
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19 Jan 2023
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In Your Adorable Glasses by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting)
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
10 Dec 2022
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Carlos has a crisis of confidence while trying to select a poem for the wedding ceremony. Luckily, TK is keen to help.
Then he accidentally breaks Carlos’ glasses…
(Or, something cute for Christmas, in which Carlos is like a big cuddly hibernating bear and TK is his squishy enthusiastic cat companion.)
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i don't know what i want (but now i do) by falloutmars
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
31 Jul 2022
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Can we meet?
TK freezes in the middle of the firehouse’s kitchen. Eyes glued to his phone, to the text that’s just popped up, he’s blissfully unaware of the team’s gaze locked onto him.
It’s not that he doesn’t get texts from Carlos, but he doesn’t get texts like that. They have something of a casual texting… relationship? Friendship? Acquaintanceship? Honestly, TK isn’t sure. Between hooking up, a failed dinner, and continuing to hook up again, there hasn’t been much of a conversation about whats and whos and whys.
Honestly, TK’s been mostly okay with it. Mostly.
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or, they're friends with benefits until they're not.
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Teardrop on the Fire by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting)
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
05 Nov 2022
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He’s at the loft. Sunset through the west-facing windows fills the central living space with amber light. Discarded by the door there’s two large grey suitcases and a couple of boxes. He’s only acquired a limited selection of essentials since the house fire, but tomorrow he’s going thrifting – he’s letting himself look forward to it. Ideally, he wants to combine modern-eclectic with Tejano antique gems.
Carlos stands in the vast area of the main living space, where the sunset strikes most warmly. He tries to imagine a rug, a couch, lamps, art and ornaments, the dimensions of everything. And then he starts to cry. Slow tears slide down his face. He ignores them, lets them fall. Just stares into the emptiest place he’s ever been.
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Premise: Three days after moving into the loft, TK is left alone for the first time while Carlos is at work. Wandering around, TK discovers an unsent birthday card with a message in it – which Carlos had written for him during their breakup…Set after events in S3, ep 4. TK and Carlos each reflect on breakup angst they’d had around TK’s birthday and there’s some lingering trauma from the house fire.