#tk update

[carlos-in-glasses]

Bought this Tarlos blanket without telling my boyfriend and I can’t wait for him to get home and see it!

[saguaroblossom]

I was way more focused on tonight’s 911: Lone Star episode than I was on the good news I got today:

This little cactus has just secured herself a *new job*.

With better hours, better pay, a better team …

I have cried so much today out of joy and relief.

I’m jokingly now going to say it was the blessing of TK and Carlos that got me it.

[sleepysheepytea]

ok so theres this one dude i work with and he’s cool and whatever but hes also super like touchy with his friends and stuff (and others too he gives me random fistbumps without saying a word lol) BUT TODAY HE HONKING TICKLED ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS AND OMG-

ok so me fren usually wears our uniform jacket all the time for some reason even though its like a gajillion degrees all the time but anyway its a pretty thick jacket (ive tried doing the side zap thing to my friends but havent really gotten any reactions cuz its a pretty thick jacket and also ppl have done it to me and. nothing.) BUT ANYWAY TO THE POINT-

MY FREN HONKING SQUEALS AND JERKS BACK- AND I WAS LIKE SIR OMG HOW TICKLISH ARE YOU 

LIKE IF HE REACTED THAT MUCH FROM TICKLES OVER A JACKET HOW TICKLISH- omigoodness

also his squeal was the cutest honking thing and he was so giggly afterwards im gonna miss him so much when i leave omg i gotta give him the fattest hug before i go

also my other friend was being so nice and she was helpin me out and stuff bc i lost my voice and she was talking for me lol i love her too im happy today was a good work day 

ALSO SORRY FOR THE LACK OF DRAWINGS WE’RE DOING HOUSE RENOVATIONS SO WE’RE PRETTY BUSY BUT I AM IN THE PROCESS OF DRAWING A FEW THINGS SO STAY TUNED ILY ALL MWAH TY FOR UR PATIENCE

[andthenshesaid-write]

Fathers and Sons Fic #3: Update 1

I thought it was time to do an update about the state of the third (and final) 'Fathers and Sons' fic. If I'm being honest, it hasn't been an easy time, which I wasn't prepared for because the first two fics were very easy to get through. It felt almost like they wrote themselves. That hasn't been the case with this one.

The draft I'm currently working on is actually the second draft. I started writing the first a few days after I posted No Legacy So Rich and worked on it for about a week before I finally acknowledged that it wasn't working. So then I took a couple of weeks off to think it through. After talking about it with a friend, I settled on a new angle to approach it from and I started again on what is now the second draft. I'm pleased to say that this one is coming along much better. As of tonight I have about 13,500 words, which is a lot, but at the same time, I feel like the story is only just getting started. I'm not sure how this progress compares to the second fic, but I know the first in the series was about 14k words at the halfway point. I'm nowhere near that currently so I have no idea how long this story is going to be.

I also don't have a super clear idea of how I'm going to get where I'm going. That in itself isn't unusual because I write using the flashlight method, which means I know largely where I'm going but I don't really know how I'm going to get there. I'm just writing scene by scene. My daily word counts are also lower on average than they were for the previous two fics. For the other two, I was writing between 800 and 1000 words per day, but for this third fic it's more normal for me to do between 500 and 800. That means that, unless I really hit my stride, it's probably going to take me longer to get through this one. I went into this hoping to have the third fic finished and released before the end of Lone Star S5 but I'm now resigned to the fact that that might not happen. There's still a chance, because I saw the other day that the last two episodes are slated to air in 2025, but I'm not holding my breath. I just really want to do the story justice and if that takes more time, it takes more time.

With that slightly disappointing update out of the way, I'll leave you with some info about the third fic.

I've had the idea for this fic since the day after I posted the first one and from that moment, I've referred to it as 'The Jonah Fic', because that's what it is. I wanted to write a trilogy that shifted the attention between each of the people in the Strand-Reyes-Morgan family, and now it's Jonah's turn. The third fic begins ten years after the end of the previous one, so we're reintroduced to Jonah in his teens. Some of his problems are typical for people his age, while others are specific to him, and he's just trying to work his way through it.

I've loved getting to write Jonah in this series. When talking to some friends I always called him the secret sauce of the series and I think that's still true. It's just a bit different seeing the world from his perspective, instead of viewing him through the eyes of TK or Carlos.

I've been in fandoms for a long time so I know that people will probably be disappointed about the shift away from TK, Carlos and Tarlos, and I don't expect Jonah's fic to be as popular as the previous two. Still, I hope that some people will give it a chance and that people who enjoyed the previous installments will come back to see how the story wraps up because it's been a monumental task for me to even get this far and I'm really proud of the story I'm telling.

[skitskatdacat63]

Credits to @ayceeofspades, she was the director behind this, I was just the editor.(There's a full version of this, which I shall not be posting on main out of self preservation, but dm if you want to see it bcs I think the full version is truly a masterpiece :] )

[flames-tstuff]

GUYS.

I don't want to get ahead of myself by announcing this, but for the last few weeks now I've been working on this comic thingy, and I'm SO excited to share it with you guys. I really haven't done anything like this before and it's been so much harder than I thought for such a simple idea 😅 anyways, I've gone through multiple versions of it and now I'm finally onto the "final draft"!

I don't wanna accidentally get expectations up TOO high, because again, this is my first time doing anything like it, so it's going to be very simple. Nevertheless... I'm really liking how it's turning out. :)

[crossbackpoke-check]

the pics of morgan and joel are from travis sanheim's wedding this weekend!

^^^me experiencing the one-two knockout punch of “oh they WERE each other’s wedding date” followed by the realization that sanny finally got married 🥹😭 cheers indeed!!!

[angelpuns]

Really funny process of naming my rural au fic that I just found:

Like the amount of tries it took to get to the actual title -

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Eusine regularly gets up absurdly early in the morning to get a head-start on his travels.

It's not something Morty would get used to anytime soon. ☀️

tk-fluff bonus under the cut;

"Come on, Morty- what's the point of all that training if you're not even going to try to fight back?~"

[fishiecomics]

For anyone curious what's on the Beastlife Fishie playlist:

They are not in any sort of order and you can interpret why each song is on there yourself~

[thebingoo]

the new crob update is pretty good so far

it's the same format they've done for the last like 5 updates, it still works but I'm so sick of it

candy corn cookie is just an autistic child hyperfixating on a halloween party and I love her, she great

everything pie cookie kinda looks weird but I still like her design

overall, it's alright

[morgansyorkie]

He’s Backkkkk!!

[gullclan]

Moon 7

Gullstar's injuries heal, but he will be forever marked with scars of his clanmate's betrayal.

Laureldrop's sprain heals.

Splashfoot recovers from his heat exhaustion.

Riverlightning is finally well enough to leave the healer's den.

In recent moons, Riverlightning and Tansyspot have grown closer despite their initial argument.

[andthenshesaid-write]

Fathers and Sons Fic #3: Update 3

Today is a good day to do another update, but not because of The Jonah Fic, although I do have some progress to report there too.

If you read my last update, you'll know that I had a revelation about the climax of the story and I wrote a 1600-word scene in one hit and things were feeling good. Well, about a week later, I was lying in bed waiting to fall asleep and I thought, "I should have used TK instead of Carlos for that scene." And I was reluctant to admit that this was true, because I first imagined that scene in early September and I've had snippets of dialogue waiting for it since then. I wrote it the way I always imagined it so realising that I needed to scrap it and write the whole thing again was a hard pill to swallow, especially because I'd continued writing and everything that followed would also probably need to change. But I knew it was the right thing to do so I did it. The new version of the scene is a lot more emotionally raw because the relationship between Jonah and TK is very different from the relationship between Jonah and Carlos, and I think that makes the scene better. I think I only wrote it with Carlos in the first place because I thought I needed to draw it out more, but I don't think that's where Jonah's headspace is.

All that being said, I haven't done much work on The Jonah Fic over the last week because I've been hard at work on the other Tarlos writing project I've been doing. And this is why today is a good day for this update, because as of this evening I'm officially halfway through the writing. I was pretty vague in the previous update so I'll tell you now that this other project will be a collection of 26 short stories. I'm going to post the first one on 26 December (AEDT) and I'll post one every day in the lead up to the Lone Star 5x10 premiere. I've got 13 finished now and they range in length from 1400 to 4600 words. I don't anticipate they'll be longer than that, but I also went into this thinking each piece would only be between 1000 and 1500 words long and look how well that turned out. I'm really happy with how all these stories are coming together. The one I wrote tonight broke my heart but in the best way, and I'm really excited to share them with you when the time comes.

[newtness532]

they should let girls that are so so tired pass exams without studying

[avephelis]

idk if u know but-

ur in one of the fucking ‘dubbed tumblr posts’

ur famous

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