#Wrestling Angels

[carlos-in-glasses]

Fic Pride Friday - on a Saturday!

Thank you for the tag @freneticfloetry @lemonlyman-dotcom @bonheur-cafe

@literateowl @ladytessa74 @liminalmemories21 🧡 And for giving me a reason to create a banner for non-WIP tag games.

Rules: Post your favourite line or passage from as many of your published works as you’d like. Let yourself feel proud of your creations! Tag as many people as you post snippets, so your fellow fic friends can be proud, too.

I've opted to share from three fics- Suddenly in the Silence, Where All This Love Comes From, and Wrestling Angels:

Suddenly, in the Silence:

"I think the closet is haunted," TK says, fumbling the buttons of his lapelled pajama shirt. Carlos faces the opposite side of the room. "But it's from Ikea." "Not that one." TK throws an arm towards the white pre-fab nothingy unit that had housed their pajamas. "I mean the old Reyes relic." "My dad's tatarabuelo built that," Carlos says defensively. And occupies it now, TK thinks but does not say. Instead, he opts for, "It might be fun to sleep in your old bedroom like we did that time before. Snuggled up in that creaky twin with your adorable horse comforter over us." "My old room," Carlos breathes a laugh, "Is the most haunted in this house." "With memories, though, not ghosts."

Where All This Love Comes From

A single tear slips from Carlos' eye. Years ago, there was a young man in New York City called TK Strand and he had no idea that in Austin, Texas, a stranger called Carlos Reyes was aching, yearning, pining for exactly him. He had no idea how loved he was going to be by someone he had yet to meet. He had no idea how wonderful he was as a person with or without a partner – but he was about to find out. That's why you have to keep living, Carlos thinks, so you can find out.

Wrestling Angels

But love is going to come into his life, and it won’t be what he’ll expect, because it’s going to be TK Strand, a firefighter who shows up in Austin from Manhattan following a relapse. He’s a little fierce and rough and moody and funny. He’ll bring disorder to the orderly life he’s about to work so hard to create for himself and himself alone. TK will cause him pain, and he’ll push TK’s buttons, and then it’s going to work out, and he’s going to marry him. And TK is going to be the one to ask. Love is going to be powerful, runaway, gutting, enormous – yet weirdly and utterly defined by the small moments as much as the major events. It’s going to feel physical and invisible, like storm winds that take his breath and knock him off his feet. He’s going to have sex. He’ll have it with a few guys before TK, and every time with each of those guys, it will be somewhere on a sliding scale of outright bad, awkward, embarrassing, mediocre, good, better, great, fantastic. With TK it will be different. Supercharged, mind-blowing, right from the start, and it will also be gentle, romantic, connective in a new way. It will always be a deeper experience than with anyone else. It’s going to mean something real every time, even from the beginning when TK insists that it’s not going to, and Carlos will pretend as much as he can that he doesn’t mind.

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@fallout-mars - If you want to share/haven't already! No pressure ever! ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜

[rainbowpopeworld]

I needed a better look at the statue 😇

#foreshadowing bonus:

[darthbreezy]

You know you want it - I Sure do!!

[shermangiftbasket]

ALSO TBOY WRESTLING MADE IT TO LA TIMES WE UP 💪🏽😤

[scribblesandsnaps]

remains

I began working on this piece a month ago and I think it was the seed from which my Wrestling Angels Prompt was born. Having revitalised an old poem for submission at The Desperate Poets, I have now completed this one as a second submission. love’s bubbled illusion cocooned meuntil the pandemic’s kiss waved metumbling to a now far off home’s landno boat to carry me there in the stormonly the…

[dynamitekansai]

willowwrestles: Cutie Patooties💜🥰✨

[i-am-a-freg]

Friendly reminder to everyone that biblically accurate angels also include angels that look like men. Not all angels appear as terrifying multi eyed thingies. “Be not afraid” is not said only when they appear as terrifying multi eyed thingies. You would also be freaked out if a beautiful man appeared to you whilst you were alone in your house praying to God.

[rennebright]

REQUEST_1 by RUHEE ルヒ [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[reinvent-and-believe]

Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1855) | Eugène Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1861) | Rolin Jones, Interview with the Vampire (2022-) | Tony Kushner, Angels In America, Part One: Millinieum Approaches (1992) | Rolin Jones, Interview with the Vampire (2022-) | Alexander Louis Leloir, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1865) | Frederick Taubes, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1944)

[ricochetthegoat]

Angel Garza WWE Smackdown 10/4/24 

[ringsidechoir]

chuck taylor; wrestling, storytelling, and blood.

a shoot interview in 2013 | chuck taylor and trent beretta's parking lot fight | barrier blocks: on minecraft roleplay and the fourth wall | rothko | wikipedia page on professional wrestling | asofterworld 830: art is whatever gets you laid

[carlos-in-glasses]

Hello! As it is Tarlos Wedding Month (*screaming*) I would like to re-share a fic of mine that takes place during TK and Carlos' rehearsal dinner. (It's mainly canon compliant...as of season 3 anyway... threaded up with a little bit of magic ✨)

Carlos and TK are on the Reyes ranch preparing for their rehearsal dinner. Both of them wish they could invite another person to their wedding: for TK, it’s his mom. For Carlos, it’s his seventeen-year-old self…

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[ratsoupee]

A single stick was drawn a little to the left and changes the timeline

Obligatory Mango-adopts-Purple-earlier-and-now-Gold-and-Purple-are-siblings AU

Bonus:

Single mum who works two jobs

[questintheskies]

[jayteeland]

Koju Takeda

[scribblesandsnaps]

It has been my pleasure this week to write the prompt for The Desperate Poets. I have titled it Wrestling Angels Please visit and read the amazing work there and perhaps add a poem of your own.Having laboured over the prompt and had some helpful suggestions for the form from Brendan ( Thank You) I completed the task. Then I set about writing to it and found myself struggling. Angels wrestling me…