#tomark fic

[cynicaltodeath]

TOMARKTOBER TIME!!!!! This started as a personal thing for my kid fic au but I decided I’d release it out into the world so here you go tomarkers, do with this what you will and tag your entries with #tomarktober for all the world to see

[terminals3v3n]

one of my favorite tomark fanfics ever got deleted

it was one man drinking games on lj

[rawliewheels]

i am so tempted to post this #tomark fic based on some reddit story i heard and made a story about

it’s where some dude talks about how he’s never had a hickey before, and obviously i don’t wanna spoil it just yet but it’ll probably be out like, tomorrow lol

[nordstarr]

what are your favorite present day tomark fics? I want to read about them being old…..

SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!

by the talented @phoebesbridgers:

I miss you too much (to be mad anymore) - Explicit - 2.8k

He can be normal about Tom DeLonge sleeping in his house. He doesn’t need to think about old times, the bad or the good. Not everything has to mean something. Sometimes a buddy staying over is just a buddy staying over.

let's make this last forever - Teen - 1.9k

Tom has had a lot of ridiculous ideas over the years, but this one – this one surely takes the cake. "You want... to date me..." Mark repeats slowly. "I want to court you," Tom corrects, and Mark barks out a laugh.

I'm here to lift you off the ground ('cause I'm always down) - Teen - 2.9k

It’s Tom who cares for him when he’s being shitty and uncooperative. It’s Tom who sees all the worst parts of him and chooses him anyway. It’s Tom who looked at him in wonderstruck awe at age sixteen and who loves him just the same—maybe even more—at age forty-seven.

if you rewrite your life, may I still play a part? - Explicit - 3k

He can’t take back all the pain he’s caused, all the years they’ve lost, but he can give Mark this. Himself. He just hopes he can be enough.

cool about it - Explicit - 7k

“You shouldn’t—I mean, I could help you with that?” Tom suggests, trying to sound casual about it despite the fact that this is an insane thing to offer your best friend. They’ve done a lot of shit that’s blurred the lines of their friendship, yeah, but not this. Never this. “If you want.”

whatever you want me to do (I will do) - Explicit - 5.1k

“Hold on,” Mark interjects, noticing a jar on the nightstand. “Is this the bubble bath and coconut oil thing you’re always talking about?” Tom beams at him. “You’re gonna be so fucking relaxed when I’m through with you, Mark Hoppus.”

always missing what we can't get back - Explicit - 5.4k

Tom’s concern is evident as he frowns. “What’s wrong?” Mark shrugs. “Just, you know. Another birthday. Another year older. Always weird.” “Mark.” “I already know what you’re gonna say,” Mark counters. “Just let me be a little weird about it, okay?”

you never touched me (but I felt you everywhere) - Explicit - 3.7k

Mark doesn’t know what exactly comes over him when he fires off the text to Tom. Just that he misses him, misses feeling close to him, and he wants to do something about it, damn it. He presses send before he can second guess himself. Mark Hoppus: hey what are you wearing right now

'til we're food for the worms to eat - Teen - 2.1k

“You know, you actually look kind of relaxed when you’re painting. Like you’re in your own little world or some shit.” Mark chuckles, a soft but bitter sound. “You mean until I get frustrated and throw it in the trash, right?” “Yeah, dude, no more of that,” Tom chides. He nudges Mark’s good ankle with his socked foot. “I love your clouds, Mark. Be nicer to your clouds.”

past the blood and bruise - Mature - 3.7k

An old injury bothers Tom and Mark knows just the thing to help.

don't blame me (love made me crazy) - Explicit - 3.5k

Tom tries to spice things up in his and Mark's relationship and it goes horribly, comically wrong.

come a little closer now - Explicit - 3.4k

Usually, it’s the other way around. Usually, Tom is the one wasted to hell off some expensive hotel liquor and Mark is the one keeping him upright.

who's gonna stop us from walking back into rekindled flames - Explicit - 7k

“I can’t fucking believe you, Mark Hoppus. Can’t believe you asked them to play Angels when we walked off,” Tom says, awed and giddy and disbelieving and so disgustingly in love, as he backs Mark into the nearest supply closet so that they’re out of sight. The closet is dimly lit, a muted hum of conversation filtering through from the chaos beyond the door, the muffled sounds of the crowd filing out of Petco Park. Mark giggles, delighted, and surrenders to Tom’s playful kisses, their lips meeting with a familiar heat. “I’m the best. C’mon. You can say it.” Or: two completely different hook-ups, eight years apart.

I always see my youth in you - Explicit - 12.1k

Five times growing older kind of sucks, and one time Mark realizes it’s actually not so bad.

by the talented @former-ghosts:

the long road between - Mature - 1.3k

Somewhere in the middle of getting older and feeling young.

here's to all the days ahead - Explicit - 3.5k

Nothing better at the of the year than a romantic night in.

same lines, steadier hands - Mature - 5.3k

It's a little bit about outdoing your friend and his wife, and a little bit about doing things right this time. Maybe mostly about doing things right this time.

memory in black and white - Explicit - 4.5k

He hadn’t expected for his breath to get caught in his throat at the sight of it. At that silly little picture, so clearly made by someone who’s never tattooed before, the slightly unsteady lines and uneven shapes, the stark contrast of black ink against the paleness of his skin. It’s beautiful, in the most ridiculous of ways.

new names for old things - Part 1 of Online Songs - Mature - 3.8k

The most awkward thing about coming out as a couple is that people just aren't taking the hint.

feel you even when you're not there - Part 2 of Online Songs - Mature - 7.1k

The response to their relationship has been overwhelmingly supportive, which he’s grateful about, but some people are shamelessly nosy about the details. Honestly, he doesn’t know what he expected. (Tomark is real, and the internet does what the internet does best.)

[tomdelongefuckedmymom]

They didn’t need to sit outside and watch the rain - Mark’s mom would have been plenty happy with them coming in and taking over the living room like they always did - but this was where they stayed for now. 

A moment passed, and then Mark took a seat on the ground next to Tom, close enough that their knees brushed together, the two silent as they watched a puddle of water near them growing larger, and larger, spreading closer to where they sat, each starting to feel more of the pleasant buzz that came with smoking those little joints Tom was always pulling out from behind his ear or inside that Altoids container. 

But the physical contact seemed to break some spell over Tom, and he leaned his head on Mark’s shoulder, reaching forward to dip his fingers in the growing puddle and drawing out two cartoon boobs. 

“That’s us,” he said, and Mark laughed, reaching over to dip his fingers in the same puddle, adding an exaggerated penis to the top of the breasts. 

“Now it’s a dick and balls,” he added, and Tom cackled. 

“Sounds like our band,” he grinned against Mark’s shoulder. “Scott’s the dick and we’re the balls. Two nuts outta the same sack.”

- from The First Five Times, a Tomark fic in progress I've got cooking for y'all

[tomblinkies]

can you post a list of fic recs?

see you - nordstarr on ao3 @nordstarr

kissing lessons - tripledogdare on ao3 (I dont know if they have tumblr I'm sorry)

crappy love songs - howtomflirts on ao3 @howtomflirts

star gazing - littlewindmill on ao3 (I dont know if they have tumblr either)

(all of these are tomark fics, that's all I read rn-)

these writers are incredibly talented, all of them are tagged for their tumblr next to their fic!!

I also suggest reading fics by sadwhales on ao3!! their tumblr is @farfromohio

[shutupandplayasong]

Sometimes I think about that fic I read where instead it of being labeled "tomark" it was labeled "delongus"

[blvrkr]

Im tomark fic starved, No pressure but you have a big fan here, (Im eating this OMT era up) All your writing is so good please dont feel like no one reads it because I love it sm 😓

[elokitties]

tomark fic recs 👀

there is a WEALTH of fic my dear all of the besties are there you just search that up and you’ll be able to tell what isn’t trash even by how things are tagged mwah (but you should know about tripledogdare, NORDSTARR (auto caps), sadwhales, infinitelycosmicchaos)

[extraordinarrygrrrl]

Hey guys! I'm in the process of writing a Warped Tour romance fic, with a light dash of Tomark/blink and some other skatepunk bands! It would mean the world if you checked it out and even give some feedback. I'm a fairly new writer and I'm super proud of this work in progress! XOXO Khloe!

[kantuh]

help :P

tomark people what are good fic / oneshot prompts i havent written since like november and im outta ideas

[3asy-t4rget]

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[karsticlife]

*kicks down your door* HI

We love your tomark writing SO much <333

I wake up every day excited to read the new entryyy

that's all :3

HI

Thank you sooooo much <333 I was planning to skip around the prompts so I could do more fics overall, but I'll try to add in a few more just for u :3

[rawliewheels]

thinking about dropping another tomark fic.. maybe..

[nordstarr]

what’s your process for writing such long and well thought-out fics? like you don’t have to go into extreme detail but do you 1) outline the story 2) rewrite a lot of parts 3) have a beta reader? also, i would love to write tomark so do you have an advice on how to get their voices right or a good interview example to base that off of. thank you and love your fics. big fan.

first of all, thank you so much, that really means a lot :(

I know you didn’t want extreme detail, but this is me we’re talking about, so this answer got sorta long and rambling. I APOLOGIZE for that, but I hope you’ll get something out of this?

I’m gonna do my best to at least give you a vague overview of how I approach writing, with the caveat that it’s probably/definitely not the objectively Best Way or only way to write fics. My ADHD and general perfectionism make me a really bad case study.

That being said:

1) On Outlining: for “See You”, I didn’t have an outline at first, or even really a good idea for a plot, and I just word-vomited a lot onto the page, vague scenes and ideas and the general vibes of what I wanted to touch on with that fic, i.e. old men in their healing era, looking back on their past, and then got lost in the weeds and abandoned it for a year because it became unmanageable without an outline. Once @phoebesbridgers and I started talking and throwing ideas back and forth and kinda brainstorming, we worked out an outline that evolved as I was writing it. Bare-bones at first, and then adding more scenes as needed, where the pacing was lacking or where I wanted to go into more detail. I was adding scenes up until the very end, so it’s definitely nice to have an organic outline you can edit and expand upon. In my experience, writing fics over 10k without an outline (no matter how loose or free-form it is) is basically impossible. Sometimes that outline is just text messages between Kristen and me, sometimes it’s me taking actual notes in a google doc.

“Who said I can’t go back?” was even more collaborative (duh), with us basically working out a full outline before we started to write, aka doing some brainstorming sessions, taking down notes for that, and then working out what scenes we needed, but still expanding on things and adding stuff in the middle of writing.

Here’s what the first brainstorming for “Sink into your sunlight” looked like (excerpt. these usually go on for a WHILE), just gathering the vibes and basic concept:

Those notes usually evolve into vague scene ideas, so I’ll have an empty google doc with scenes laid out in order, mostly “[scene 1: x happens here], or giving the scene a stupid name that encapsulates the main thing it’s going to be about.

2) On rewriting: I'm someone who edits A LOT as I'm writing something, which is 100% bad practice and perfectionism and not something I recommend because it slows my progress down so much, but that usually means once a scene is done, I don’t change much anymore. Usually after a few days of not looking at the scene and getting some distance, I’ll either print it out or throw it into an AO3 draft to have a different format to look at, and go over it again, editing spelling errors and doing minor edits, shifting some parts around, and once I hand the fic over to Kristen, I edit and add stuff wherever she had notes.

3) On beta readers: I think it’s pretty clear from all of the above that I’d be so, so lost without @phoebesbridgers being someone I can trade ideas with and also make her do all the heavy lifting of editing and beta-reading. She gives me notes and feedback and helps out on pretty much anything when I need her opinion, be it pacing or outlining. I can’t recommend enough that you have someone you can show your fic to, or just brainstorm with, and have them as your biggest supporter and hype man. It makes the mental barrier of writing so much easier to manage when I’m writing for one person, or a small group of friends, rather than the Big Vast Faceless Void of AO3. It takes the pressure off. As long as she likes what I write, I’m happy.

4) As for how to get their voices right: a lot of that is just the natural osmosis of spending 15 years being a fan of this band and watching interviews and hearing them talk, but what always helps me is either reading dialogue I’ve written out loud, or having some TTS go over it, or even just going over it in my head and seeing if I can hear the words in their voice, or can imagine them saying them. I wish I could give more helpful advice on that, but listening to interviews or their show banter always helps to kinda get their cadence right. If you're writing for a specific era, it helps to watch interviews or clips from that time, just to get a feel for what the dynamic is like.

Feel free to ask more questions, I'm just really bad at giving advice lmao

[tomdelongefuckedmymom]

happy bday to my favorite tomark writer @cosm1c-chaos

have you read her tomark fics yet? you should read them and leave her a little comment! sappy smut guaranteed to lift your mood 🩷