Thanks to @herefortarlos for the request of Carlos wanting to get closer to TK on the couch, but being quietly horrified that he’s sharing his husband with a lizard. I had so much fun drawing this 🦎 💛 (thanks also to @birdclowns for teaching me some valuable things about angles).
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*Quietly slides into 911 fandom*
Haven’t drawn fanart is so long, but I couldn’t resist these two! A firefighter friend of mine said they’re not allowed to wear their wedding bands on their fingers (if you’re squeamish I wouldn’t google why), so I guess TK probably will wear his next to his sobriety chip on a chain on his neck? A girl can dream.
Also Carlos I adore you boy but you’re so difficult to draw omg
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(Fluff!)ing It Up Friday! (Or a silly little look into Tarlos' first few weeks as husbands inspired by May @whatsintheboxmh' art (go check out her page and art right now!!), this post in specific:
https://www.tumblr.com/whatsintheboxmh/746490642133303296/ko-fi-exclusive-art-from-march?source=share ) which inspired a little snippet about just how disgustingly happy and in love these two newlyweds are!
(Reposted with creds and a little silly fluffy written imagining about Tarlos' first few weeks as husbands, with permission from the very talented May! Thank you for granting us and inspiring with your beautiful art and for liking this little thing I wrote to it at 2pm and letting me post it with your art on my blog!!)
Art by whatsintheboxmh.
This is how the first few weeks worth of mornings go after TK and Carlos return home from their honeymoon:
On the first day one of them have to work, they will be standing in front of the mirror sliding the chain through the their wedding ring, preparing to fasten it behind their neck to wear it to work. They purchased the simple gold chains several way before the wedding was scheduled, then canceled and then rescheduled - better be out in good time than risk having to leave the ring at home while they went to work and going without it for a whole day!
And the other will show up from behind under the somewhat false pretense of wanting to help with closing the little lock behind their neck. What they really came for was to catch the others gaze so they could both stand there beaming into each others eyes in the mirror, all happy and gloaty and lovestruck.. they get so distracted staring into each others eyes both looking glassy-eyes and disgustngly in love and almost telepathically (through giggles reciprocated back and forth) sharing the feeling of butterflies floating around in their bellies, that the one who was going to work ends up being ten minutes late on their first day back.
This quickly develops into a little ritual between them. Over the next week, whenever one of them is putting on the ring-necklace before work and the other hasn’t shown up behind them yet, they’ll purposefully drag the process out until the other notices what they're doing and shows up to help them so that they can spend ten minutes staring lovingly into each others eyes again, grinning and looking a little crazy and, for the hundredth's time, wisper things in each other's ears like “we’re married” or “have a good day at work husband”
On the tenth morning after returning to work post-wedding, Carlos is still sleeping, having gotten home from a night shift in the early hours in the morning. Hence TK standing alone in front of the mirror, trying to complete this last step of getting ready for work, this time without it including their little ritual that they've upheld since returning to work. TK has tried to be quiet and let Carlos sleep, and he thought he was ready to maybe start putting on the ring-necklace on his own but.. As he’s standing there he unconsciously drags the process out anyway, expecting or maybe just hoping that Carlos will magically awoken at the exact right time and show up behind him with that smile that tells TK that there is at least person that can measure up to the happiness he is feeling these days..
And even though he knows it’s irrational, he’s starting to get a little bit sad that Carlos hasn’t shown up yet.. and a bit grumpy too - it’s not fair that he has to go to work while his gorgeous, hot, sweet, larger than life, husband(!) is still lying in their shared bed making the most adorable little grunting sounds in his sleep, instead of going back to bed himself and cuddling said husband for the next 4 hours before waking him up for coffee and lazy, giddy morning s*x and.. TK is just not ready yet.
Carlos jolts a little when he is woken up by TK calling him from the bathroom. He is confused at first, sitting up after - he looks at the clock - two hours of sleep and wiping drool off his chin. And then he gets a little worried because when TK calls again he sounds a bit agitated, like something’s wrong.
Hurrying out to the bathroom, Carlos finds TK standing with the gold chain they use to wear their wedding rings to work in his hands, the ring already hanging from the middle of it, and he is pouting back at him in the mirror.
When Carlos’ bleary eyes finally show up in the mirror behind him, TK feels a surge of relief along with the flapping of butterflies that never really stopped showing up on occasion when Carlos is looking extra hot, does something extra romantic or adorable, or sometimes even just when he's walking around the loft with sleep marks on his face and pajamas on and his wedding ring on his finger.
Even though Carlos' initial reaction to TK’s pout upon having hurried into the bathroom half asleep in response to his love’s distress call is to lift an amused eyebrow followed by tiredly rubbing sleep out of his right eye, his eyes soften when they find TK’s in the mirror again.
And when he walks up behind TK and takes the chain from his hands into his own and helps him close the lock behind his neck, he can’t help but smile a bit like a crazy person at the fact they are married !!! He’s just too happy for it to be contained by being jolted awake after only two hours of sleep following a gruelling nightshift.
He kisses his way slowly up TK’s neck before turning him around to leave more kisses on first his chin, then his nose and both cheeks ending with a kiss to his forehead. When he looks down, TK is beaming up at him with glassy eyes cheeks a bit red, half from the sudden surge of emotions and half from being a bit embarrassed at having woken his poor tired husband up just because he couldnt go one morning without staring into his eyes like someone who is going maybe a bit insane from being so incredibly in love. Like all the other times Carlos has looked into those eyes in the past two weeks, Carlos thinks that he loves this man like never before.
Carlos plants his last kiss on his husbands mouth and then sends him out the door with a “stay safe husband”. He tries to wink but the truth is that this little ritual is also one he isn't ready to give up just yet, and the wink turns into probably a weird facial expression somewhere between looking like a kid who just got told that everyday for a year would be christmas, and like someone who's got something in his eye. TK responds with a breathy “I can’t wait to see you when I get back”, before sliding the door shut behind him, and Carlos heads back to a bed that could have just as easily been a pink cloud floating around way above the Austin skyline, he wouldn't have known the difference.
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Tarlos Secret Santa for Kirsty
Happy Holidays @fitzherbertssmolder. I was soooo happy to create something for this Secret Santa for you. I adore your art so I was so excited to draw and write something for you. 💝🌲I hope the gif will be displayed right.
Here's a story of Tarlos buying their first Christmas tree.
Sugar Spun Moments
Having their own Christmas tree was highly impractical. They’d barely be home to enjoy it with their shifts. They wouldn’t even be home for Christmas; they’d spend the holidays with the Reyes’ family and Owen, who’d also been invited. A tree would lose its needles and they'd be dragged everywhere, sticking to their beautiful polished floors with resin. It wasn’t good for the environment anyway.
That’s what Carlos and TK reasoned.
Carlos had much rather learnt about Hanukkah, observed TK bringing the shamach to the candles of Gwyn’s old menorah day after day and asked questions about Hanukkahs past.
Seven candles were burning gently as they cuddled on the couch after dinner, when TK said, “I always had a menorah growing up, but I haven’t had a Christmas tree in my home since my parent’s divorce. My dad never put one up. Most Christmases he had to work anyway. And once I moved out of my mom’s, I didn’t really need one for myself.”
Carlos hummed, tracing TK’s earshell with a finger because he loved making his skin break out in goosebumps. “I never had a Christmas tree in the townhouse either.”
And despite all the very sensible reasons not to get one, they find themselves at Robinson Family Farm a day later.
[Read the rest on AO3]
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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
- Joan Didion
(A quiet celebration of love and life, as TK and Carlos look back at the year they've had, starting new traditions of their own)
For @maxbegone,
Happy Holidays, my dear friend! Hope you have the most magical year ahead! ❤️✨
I hope that TK finds comfort in the arms of his love, and in the words of an author that means a lot to both of us.
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Hi Jamie, love your art and love you wanting to make some peeps happy with some practice drawings. 💕💕
Since I'm currently writing a scene like this how about TK kneeling at Carlos' feet? In any way you want to take it ;)
Helloooo! Michelle, omg I love this idea so much! Thank you for sending it my way, and for your kind words about my art! Your request, much to my excitement, is on the list 💛
If anyone else would like to help me practise by requesting a drawing, I still have three request spaces open! Just send an ask of DM to let me know 💛
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