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#resurfacing from my three year hiatus to reblog this series because it’s simply perfection

You get an unexpected call from an old friend in need of an emergency repair on her opening night.

Good thing: that's kind of your whole gig.

Bad thing: you've been avoiding the Berzatto family since the funeral.

pairing; Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto & Fem Reader, but also like, reader's friends with the entire crew (esp Richie, Syd & posthumously Mikey), so if you're just here for the platonic fun of those dynamics, pls enjoy!

tasting notes; slowest of slow burns, semi-strangers (you'll see) to friends to lovers. lot of hurt/comfort. there will be angst, cause it's FX's The Bear.

portion; in progress!!

recommended listening; handmade spotify playlist.

possible allergies; fully spoils the entire series (par for season 3, as I'm writing this ahead of release, so, p.s if you're from the future: off-canon). I've never written smut before and I couldn't tell you if I'm gonna be willing to try by the end of this-- So if that's your thing, temper thine expectations! Mikey is very central to the reader's background-- which is also quite padded, so def prep the brain for a more in-depth look at his passing and struggles w/ addiction. No Y/N, just a FUCK ton of nicknames.

TABLE OF CONTENTS A.K.A REPAIR INVOICE

Tony, Terry, Tommy? | Walk-In Hotfix

Do the Thing! | Toilet Repair

Pretty. | Bolting Down Booths

I Want To. | Wellness Check

Where To? | Delivery Fees

Doing Too Much. | House Call

The Other Shoe | Consultation

Carved In. | Separate Invoice

Ad Interim. | No Service

Zero Pulse. | Oven Hotfix (New!)

Just Dropped. | Missing Invoice (Super new!!)

Lost my screwdriver, give me a second.

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I FUCKING LOVE YOU🥺💗 HEARD YOURE BACK SIEUHEHSBSBSBS I MISSED U JANE HOPE U HAVE A GREAT DAY BUNNNY I LOOOVEEEEE YOUUUU 🥺🥺 KISSIE 😚

I LOVE YOU TOO!!!!! you are the sweetest. v happy to be back and getting back to writing :’) hope ur day is filled with everyone + everything u love xxxxx

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I honestly think u are one of the best harry fic writers out there. Love your work so much!!💗💗

log back on and this is the first thing i see 🥺 such kind words. thank you a million <3

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Harry Styles album booklet by Molly Hawkins!

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Harry is at his wit’s end after multiple failed attempts at proposing to his pregnant girlfriend.

A/N: Hola mi amores(?)! Here she is, the (hopefully) last story of mine to post for the Christmas Song Challenge I’ve been hosting. We’re nearly at the end and I’m very sad about it, but it does mean that Christmas is nearly here! I love this piece, and I’ve had it ready for ages to post so I’m very excited to finally be able to share it with you. Thank you very much to Liz @all-things-fic and Anne @oh-honey-styles for reading this through (with lots of stabby knives in the comments, I might add), I love you both! Don’t forget to talk to me after reading (if you want, obvs)!

Trigger warnings: smut (YAY)

Word count: 8512

“Stay,” Harry warns, holding his finger up at the canine sitting patiently before him. Chester’s bum wiggles and his tail scratches excitedly against the floor, a soft whine following that’s barely audible. “Ah! Stay…”

The black spaniel gruffs again in retort, but sits still as a statue from that point onwards.

Harry folds his arms across his chest as he studies the animal with a little scrutiny. It’s true, the Springer looks ridiculous - tail wrapped in tinsel, comedy reindeer antlers meant for tiny humans fastened to his narrow head, and a bright red nose pinched to the end of his snout. That had been the most difficult to fasten, given how reluctant Chester had been to partake in his owner’s plan to begin with.

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Golden

Word Count: 15.3k

Requested? I don’t remember, but you always can here :)

A/N: Lord, have mercy SHE’S FINALLY HERE!!!!! My baby Golden is finally out to the public and can I just say how fucking relieved I am to post it. I love her, I hope you do too <3 little warning: there are mentions of panic attacks in here, and a heart condition (that i did my best to research on) so if you’re uncomfortable, pls don’t read. 

special thanks to my soul baby @stylesloveclub​ for being my biggest support system with this, she’s dedicated to you <3

for anyone reading this, please reblog! it really helps us writers out. okay onward friends!!! lemme know how i did and if you like it *nose boops*

Water. The ocean. Waves. The tide.

Symbolic of life, birth. Can be used to wash away even the most troubling of sins.

O’ahu, Hawaii, home to some of the best surfing destinations in the state, in the country, in the world. Also home to one of the best surfers in the state, in the country, in the world. 

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1964

Word Count: 20.2k

Requested? No, but you always can here :)

A/N: Hi welcome to the longest story I’ve ever written, hope you like you’re stay, you’re gonna be here a while. This is my lovely little but no so little addition to @havethetimeofyourstyles​‘s fic challenge, the timetravelathon! I truly hope you all enjoy it, because she was a bitch and a half to write and after this, I’m gonna need a nice and long mental break lolz. 

Big thank you to miss Ira for beta-ing this, and big thank you to Caitlin for dealing with my bullshit <3

Please, please, please, I beg with my whole being, to reblog this and any story you read, because it truly means a lot to all writers.

Good luck and have fun, in that order. *nose boops*

Sausalito, California

Eleven in the morning, a brisk Spring day. Y/N hugged her mug of tea in her hands, settling herself on her back patio swing as she looked over Richardson Bay, the sunlight gleaming over the surface of the water.

Bringing the hot beverage to her lips, she lightly blew on it before taking a sip to test it’s temperature. When it was too hot, she let it cool for a couple more minutes, not daring to burn the roof of her mouth. The sound of her seven-year-old granddaughter zooming outside almost caused her to drop the drink all over lap, which would’ve burned more than just the roof of her mouth.

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Harry winning his first Grammy !

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reblog this if you’re a fanfic writer & your motivation to write actually increases when readers actually show interest & give you feedback. even just a reblog or a little comment here and there

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what i think it's like to go to the grammys with harry (headcanon)

after any really sincere thank you speeches—where the room swells with a much needed dose of gratitude, he'll look at you while you're clapping to lean over and say "that was nice"

keeps refilling your drink when you're not looking

before he leaves the house, looks closely at himself in a mirror and takes a deep breath then he smiles widely and says "preeetttyyyy sharp"

as his stylists are flittering around him before he walks the carpet, he puckers his lips at you for a bit o' good luck

does a really good job of pretending he's not nervous with excited jokes and the brightest smile but he's unusually quiet and searching for your eyes every once and awhile for a reassuring smile

does that loud ass whistle for any of his friends and fellow musicians and when he does it a bit too close to you, he puts his hands over yours on your ears and pouts out an apology

right before he's about to go on he gives you a look solely reserved for you, a complete mix of disbelief, excitement and pure terror. then he takes a deep breathe, winks and then the show starts

just staring at each other after his name called, both of you completely too stunned to move. he lets jeff pull him up before hugging him. he'll squeeze you tight before he goes up, too baffled to even think to kiss you, just huffs a "what the fuck!" in your ear before he has to scurry on stage

finds some special secret way to thank you or keeps it simple by letting out a quiet laugh as he tries to emphasize around the particularly general thank-you's, though addressed to all large number of people in his life--really it's just for you

exactly 21 kisses to celebrate once he's snuck back to you

definitely some suggestive joke about how you should celebrate whispered into your ear, something to do with the subject matter of the song perhaps🤭

still in absolute disbelief, calling his mom with shaky hands

he barely can get a call into Gemma before he has to shut his phone off because how many congratulations he's getting

bursting into giggles whenever he remembers he won

"and then, yeah, i just left it up there." he tacks on bashfully to the story each time he tells it, his shrug dipping deeper and words slushing together more as the night goes on

"get to sleep with a grammy award winner tonight. lucky you," he'll whisper to you with a wag of his eyebrows

he's absolutely off his ass by the end of the show and he's already started to wander around, taking Kelly Rowland up on the offer of one of the granola bars in her purse

he gets a bit caught up in everything and gets dragged away a few times at the after party but so he'll have a few minutes of panic as he tries to find you in the crowd, each time you're greeted with a big dopey smile when he finally finds you

takes a billion pictures with the award after, some of it just in his hand, some with jeff, a few with it proudly shown off as he lays in your lap

when you finally corral him into the town car to go home, he slumps against you with his eyes already shut. the blazer long spread out over your laps like a blanket as he hums contently into your ear. "feels like a dream. a really, really good dream," he mumbles before he passes out

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my professor: I need a 4-5 page essay

me: he must’ve lost his gotdamn mind

also me: *writes 10+ pages of fic*

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Watermelon Sugar (Behind the Scenes)

Word Count: 1.4k

Category: fluff!

Warning: Some strong language & not proof-read. honestly? i never proof-read ok, i’m always too excited

Summary: Shots of long-term girlfriend Y/N in Watermelon Sugar (Behind the Scenes).

Harry could remember when he asked her to be in his music video. He had been nervous, the fact that they both liked their privacy in his mind.

She was a 19 year-old university student when they met. They had taken their time to form a relationship; going on dates whenever neither of them was busy, talking on the phone like high school lovers, and by the 5th month, she had asked him that one question:

“Do you want to be my boyfriend?”

To the both of them, the setting was perfect. Her eyes were slightly red from crying out of exams’ stress, but Harry had come to the rescue with Chinese takeout and lots of cuddles.

He was sitting beside her on the ground, eating on the coffee table after promising to pretend to be her student so she could explain what she had studied, just to make sure it certainly stuck to her brain. She was studying architecture, and to say Harry was enamored by that would be an understatement.

The moment she asked him that one question, his head snapped to look at her, one noodle dangling from his mouth, eyes wide underneath his eyeglasses that it made her heart swell and giggle.

After containing himself and swallowing, Harry had managed to reply;

“I would love to be your boyfriend.”

And then he was always there. He was there at her graduation, taking numerous pictures of her and being in almost every single family picture of hers. He was there when she was going through a 2-year full-on stress to get her masters, showering her with love and pride until she was officially an architect at the age of 25.

He was there when she got her first full-time job, postponing all his events and work for the day just so he could drive her to and from the office on her first day – he even packed her lunch and slipped in a good luck note.

Harry was there in all the in-betweens and she was, too.

They had shared many milestones together as a couple, too.

When Harry met Y/N in one of his hometown friends’ house party, her hair was long. In fact, he could remember conversing with her about his own hair length which he was letting get longer during that time when he was 19. Reaching the middle of her back, she kept her hair at that very length for a long time, until she decided to suggest something one night after her and Harry had wrestled to eat the last pizza slice while in Jamaica in 2016 as he wrote his album:

“Hey, what do you think about cutting our hair and donating it?”

Harry had cut her hair, and she had cut his. While she gave him a boy-cut, he had cut her hair to shoulder-length, only for her to surprise him the following day by giving herself a matching boy-cut and heavens, he was in love.

Harry was definitely thankful and grateful for having Y/N beside him, and in his life; but he was also thankful for the relationship that grew between her and the fans.

The fans weren’t monsters, most of them could spot a bad person miles away. They disliked problematic people; the ones who were ignorant to world problems and didn’t use their privilege right. But it was when pictures of Harry and Y/N from a time when Harry visited her on campus surfaced on the internet that a whole lot of people grew happy.

How could they not? They could see how happy he was around her – the happiest they had seen him. Pictures of him doubled over as he laughed, her attempting to give him a piggyback ride, Harry at a uni party, drunk, with his arm around her as they both cheered.

From time to time, a picture would surface of the both of them and it would make the internet go crazy.

The fans’ had many favorite pictures of the couple, and right on top, were the ones from her graduation; pictures of Harry beaming at her as he recorded her speech, them posing with her graduation cap on Harry’s head, him carrying her bridal-style as she held one arm out in the air with her cap, a picture of Harry taking a picture of her and her family, everything was too wholesome and raw.

They enjoyed how relatable Y/N was. The tweets she wrote during her exams, how woke she was and how she continued to help people educate themselves on important matters, how she used stan lingo.

Yourtwitterusername: @Harry_Styles release medicine you coward

More often than not, Y/N would retweet memes Harry’s fans would create, and the fans loved that. They loved interacting with her, especially since she treated them as friends and as one of them.

With all that in mind, Harry was giddy and excited to ask Y/N a question one night:

“Baby, honey,” he nuzzled his head in her neck as he climbed on top of her on bed, smiling into her neck when he heard her laugh at his sudden move before she wrapped her arms around him, “D’you think you can be in my music video? Watermelon Sugar?”

It had taken him some convincing to do but they managed to reach an agreement;

“Fine, yes. I’d love to go on a beach with you and slurp and all watermelons.”

To which Harry replied back to with:

“Wanna slurp on one thing.”

The day of filming came, and it was everything Harry had wished for.

His Y/N was in yellow swimwear that consisted of a bikini top and high-waisted bikini bottoms that made her skin pop and glimmer. Face devoid of makeup, just the way she liked to be in at the beach.

The final video had many shots of Harry and Y/N together, making the world go crazy.

In the final music video which was released in May, after Harry’s solo shots, it showed Y/N. Looking straight into the camera, she ran her hands across her body before another shot showed her lips taking a bite of a watermelon, juice going down her lips and down her chin, all the way to the valley between her breasts.

Another shot of Y/N feeding Harry berries as he had his head on her lap, a shot of her caressing his lips, a shot of Harry running with her on his back, a shot of Y/N splashing water and having fun with the other models, a shot of Y/N with Ephrata on her back, both laughing, a shot of Harry’s fingertips, ring-clad fingers showed as he glided his hand across her leg, and the shot that many fans squealed and went crazy over; a shot of Harry’s thumb grazing her bottom lip before they kissed.

But when August came, 1st of, no one was expecting a behind-the-scenes video of the music video they were still trying to get over.

Watermelon Sugar (Behind the Scenes).

The video started with everyone running on the beach, only silhouettes shown. The moment Y/N appeared, everyone couldn’t help but gush over how goofy their idol and his girlfriend were.

A shot of Harry in his yellow shirt and swimming trunks, showing off how he could do push-ups with Y/N lying on his back.

A shot of Harry and Y/N lying on their fronts, propped up on their elbows as they talked before she reached to take his sunglasses off his face and onto hers, Harry’s smile growing wider,

A shot of Harry holding a Super 8 film camera, shooting his girlfriend as she held two small cut watermelon slices over her boobs, tipping her head back.

A shot of Y/N lying on her stomach, Harry lying with his head on her bum.

A shot of Y/N on a model’s shoulder, playing chicken fight with other 2 models from set, trying to push the other model before managing to and raising her arms up with her mouth open, turning to look at Harry.

A shot of Harry with Y/N on his back, spinning her around.

It wasn’t just a video to anyone.

It wasn’t just what was behind the scenes of the official video, it was a window to peak through at Harry and Y/N’s relationship. They could see the support, the love that was within the both of them and how alike they were with how they interacted with everyone else.

What made it all better, was the comments a few models wrote after the release of the bts video on the couple in reply to the fans:

“Yes! Y/N is a sweetheart! Can’t even tell who’s more lucky, harry or Y/N!”

“It honestly all felt like a friends’ gathering, and it’s because Harry and Y/N were making sure it all was fun”

“You should’ve seen the stuff that weren’t included in the video! They’re definitely a dream❤”

Harry and Y/N weren’t a perfect couple, no, far from it but one thing they reminded each other of, all the damn time was:

they were real.

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I am going to live my gay little life and notice my silly little symbolism in my silly little books and there’s nothing you can do about it

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mitch and sarah probably didn't even have to have sex to get pregnant, mitch just probably played a really sick riff

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Harry performing at the 2021 GRAMMYs - March 14