#tk and owen are the best

[hopefulwonderlandrunaway]

Hey there! I was just curious—who are some of your favourite 911 Lone Star fanfiction authors at the moment? I’m always looking for good recommendations and would love to hear who you’ve been enjoying lately!

Hi Anon! Thank you so much for the question, so sweet of you to ask! Also, I’d love to know who you are! Don’t ever feel embarrassed around me. I promise I’ll always be kind. That’s of course up to you ❤️

So… my list has shifted a bit, unfortunately. Some authors have gone on a different path that what I normally enjoy, I’ve mentioned them in older posts if you’re curious, but yeah… that chapter is closed.

That said, there are so many incredible authors and fics that I keep on my special little list. These are the ones I recommend to everyone I meet because they absolutely deserve more love, kudos, and comments.

Mari_Marie

@littlemissmarianna

She has 77 stories. I can’t choose which one I like best cause they are all so good: “Long time coming”, “Bait and Switch”, “Breath”, “Rumble and Sway”, “Mi Familia es Tu Familia” and so many more! She’s fabulous. She’s not an author, she’s a therapist 😅

WonderfullyWonderingAlone59

@evanactually

She’s wonderful - I especially recommend “Cat Nap”, “Buddies Babysit”, “Hard”, “Three Days” and “Vertigo”.

Each a masterpiece! They have this light Dom/Sub vibe and I absolutely love how she writes this dynamic. I need more of these, a million more! It’s so healing.

noxsoulmate

@noxsoulmate

“Reunited and It Feels So Good”

“For the Love of Hedgehogs”

“Soothe My Soul”

But honestly, all of her stories are amazing. I just couldn’t add 67 links, ha!

ellay_gee

@ellay-gee

Such a creative, talented mind! Her current WIP is so good, I can’t wait for an update. I’ve shared this story in every platform I’m on. I hope she writes more.

“With a Gun and a Pack of Sandwiches”

These authors, whether they are currently working on new stories or not, are helping me heal from that god awful last season 🥲

Thanks again for the ask ❤️ hope you enjoy them and make sure to leave kudos and comments if you can, they deserve it!

[hopefulwonderlandrunaway]

A little unsteady

TK STRAND IN EVERY SCENE 1.10: austin, we have a problem

[lonestardust]

"call your loved ones do what you need to do" and he thought of her 😭 she really was his person!!!

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star | Tarlos + their in-laws

[lassie-farce]

I can’t decide if Captain Strand figured out the accidental nude situation so fast because

A) he’s been there

B) TK accidentally did the same and used a similarly flimsy excuse

C) He knows for a fact that Nancy and Mateo don’t know the current geopolitical situation between Russia and Serbia

D) It’s happened before in 252

E) All of the above

[best-series-forever]

[pimento-playing-hopscotch]

I was a dreamer before you went and let me down, season five 😭😭😭😭😭

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

When Owen is about to leave the hospital and then he turns back to go wordlessly hug Carlos…and Carlos, who has been holding it together this whole time, lets that single tear fall…

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

For your unedited gif game, can you do something from the rehearsal dinner? Maybe Owen and his brother looking over at TK and Carlos taking selfies with TK's cousins? Thank you!

Thank you so much for the ask, anon!

Yes, I can absolutely do that. There are several very sweet shots of the group taking photos. For now, let's go with this one:

I have a lot of feelings about this. 🥺

Unedited Gif Game

[strandbegins]

as much as owen strand’s innate need to be the center of attention annoys me sometimes. other times it really is so absurd it circles around and comes back to funny. what do u mean the main plot of the episode is investigating the kidnapping of a little girl and the b plot is that owen strand cannot stop having sex with hot women and now he’s on raya. and he saves the little girl in a high speed car chase that gets him a second date.

[hopefulwonderlandrunaway]

Best friends!

Dad. Dad. Dad. It's okay. I'm so sorry. It's okay, it's okay.

requested by anonymous

[lonestardust]

the way owen was watching TK at the karaoke. just like the wedding. just like whenever TK is happy and bubbly in one of those perfect moments. and owen couldn't help being weighed down by his big feeling like a sisyphus like he doesn't deserve this happiness. like TK feels no longer his little kid anymore, only for TK to invite him into this moment. not as an invitation but because TK's happiness is full at this moment because his dad is here with him 😭😭😭

[reyesstrand]

imagine going back five years and telling tk he’d be married to the love of his life and a stay at home dad. imagine going back five years and telling carlos he’d be married to the love of his life and ready to become a father. imagine going back five years and telling paul he’d become a lieutenant and a personal hero to a kid like him in austin, texas. imagine going back five years and telling marjan she’d be cherished for who she is and about to become a mother. imagine going back five years and telling mateo he’s not a probie, he’s a fully-fledged firefighter, who has found his place with a team that loves him. imagine going back five years and telling nancy there’s no more jocks versus nerds and she’s a core part of the team, and proving herself after a stint as acting captain. imagine going back five years and telling tommy she’d face so much loss but come back stronger than ever. imagine going back five years and telling judd that new captain isn’t out to get you, he’s going to become your best friend and make you the next head of the house as it was always meant to be. imagine going back five years and telling owen he did it—he saved his son and this rag-tag group and was able to go home again, his mission accomplished.

[hopefulwonderlandrunaway]

He’s so sweet and pretty with his little ice cream cup🍦

tk strand in every episode 2.10: a little help from my friends

[911lsbts]

The fifth and final season wastes no time addressing Sierra McClain’s departure, explaining Grace’s absence in a manner that’s meant to both satisfy viewers and honor the “irreplaceable” character. “People are allowed to feel the feelings they have about it, but I would say that we did all we could to protect her,” showrunner Rashad Raisani says to TVLine of the chosen storyline. Grace’s exit leads to a time of great “complexity” for Judd, who recently stepped away from the 126 and becomes “adrift” in a “deep place of isolation,” leading him to confront “uncomfortable feelings he doesn’t want to admit to himself.” Judd’s son Wyatt, now a dispatcher, “had a whole training period with Grace that happened before the season started, so he’s been taught by the best.” Still, we’ll see him “waffle under pressure” as he settles into his position. Meanwhile, Owen finds himself “living in a fog,” an overwhelming feeling he must “go to a dark place” to overcome; Tommy attempts to move forward in her relationship with Trevor, culminating in a “character-defining” moment; Carlos’ obsession with solving his father’s murder takes a toll on his marriage to TK, creating some “interesting and compelling drama”; and Marjan and Paul will “share in the delusion” that competing for lieutenant won’t affect their friendship.

BONUS SPOILER!: Now a Texas Ranger, Carlos gains a new partner with whom he goes to some “very interesting places,” Raisani says, adding that he’s been “desperately pushing” for them to get their own spinoff. “They’re great together, and the stories they tell are some of the most explosive and dynamic that we’ve done.”

RETURN DATE: Monday, Sept. 23, at 8/7c (Fox) — A.S. (X)

[paperstorm]

Meetings and Partings

Rating: Mature Warning: Owen Strand's Death Tags: future fic, grief/mourning, emotional hurt/comfort, found family, romance, canon compliant, non-explicit sex, mentions of cancer

Summary: 20 years later, after time and life have drifted the 126 apart from each other, they reunite in Manhattan to attend Owen’s funeral; to say goodbye to the first departed member of their family and remember why they became a family in the first place.

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“Hi baby,” TK says.

Carlos’s crinkled eyes shine and he reaches for TK as he steps inside, folding him into a tight embrace. He smells just like he always does, masculine deodorant and laundry soap and his sweet natural scent, and TK burrows into him. They’ve only been apart a few days but it’s longer than TK ever likes to be away from him, even when times are good. So many people in their lives have affectionately teased them for how clingy they are, how even after so many years together they’d rather sit and do nothing beside each other than do almost anything with anyone else.

Carlos is his best friend, he always has been. TK laughs along when they’re teased and knows it comes from a place of love, but it’s truer than even they know. He always wants Carlos within reaching distance and never feels quite right when he’s too far away.

They hold each other just inside the doorway for so long that TK wonders if seasons change around them, Carlos stroking the back of his head with his nose pressed against TK’s ear. Eventually, Carlos quietly says, “I’m turning 50 this year. Am I still ‘baby’?”

Smiling, TK kisses Carlos’s neck and tells him, “You’ll always be my baby.”

Carlos presses kisses to the side of his face and then leans back to look at him. He holds TK’s face in his hands, brushes his thumb over his temples where his hair has gone grey.

“You wanna graduate to a more mature nickname now that you’re an old man?” TK jokes.

Carlos smiles back at him, bright as the sun despite the shine of melancholy still in his endless dark eyes. “No. And I’m not old, yet. Not like you.”

Laughing, TK tilts his chin forward to ask for a kiss and Carlos, as always, meets him in the middle. Their lips brush and then their foreheads connect, TK’s hands curling around Carlos’s thick waist and keeping him close.

“How are you doing?” he asks softly.

TK sniffs. “I don’t know. We knew it was coming. It wasn’t sudden and tragic in the way that your dad was.”

“Or your mom.”

“Or my mom,” TK nods. Life has been good for long enough that sometimes it’s hard to put himself back into a time when the hits rarely seemed to stop coming. There was a sweetness to it, mixed in with all the tragedy, because he and Carlos got through it hand-in-hand. That doesn’t mean TK’s welcoming the return of loss to his life. He takes an unsteady breath and whispers, “But he was still my dad.”

“I know,” Carlos soothes.

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Author's note:  I attended a funeral a few weeks ago for someone I have known since childhood who died of cancer, and one part of the lovely service really struck me – a recorded conversation between her and her son about her famous Caesar salad recipe. It was a family favorite and something she made for over 40 years for all types of occasions, and a recipe she’d passed on to countless people – her children, her friends, her siblings, and who knows how many people they all passed it on to in return. Her son spoke of the power of a legacy, even when it’s something as simple as salad dressing, and how we all touch people’s lives in unintentional ways and leave a mark on this earth that’s bigger than we even know. Half because the Tarlos brain worms are real, and half because writing helps me process things sometimes, I spun up this little story as both a tribute to her and also to these incredible characters who have left marks on all of us who love them <3