birk_a
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
OASIS FINE DINING CHEF AU set in the present day. Crack treated seriously, but only in the sense that fine dining is serious business.
After up-and-coming London restaurant Oasis is threatened with a lawsuit by The Coca-Cola Company for infringing the trademark ‘Oasis’, Noel hatches a plan to have the re-opening filmed for a documentary in a bid to drum up publicity for rebranding.
In which Noel wants a Michelin star and Heston Blumenthal’s head on a platter, Liam won’t stop putting things in his mouth, and everyone else in the band—I mean, kitchen—wishes they would stop doing things that aren’t technically workplace harassment, but probably should be.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,224
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 7
- Kudos:
- 30
- Bookmarks:
- 6
- Hits:
- 292
Bookmarked by birk_a
04 Sep 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Manchester, August 1989.
It's not that complicated, sometimes when there's a hungry pup nearby, the omega's body will start providing the food, and Noel has been sharing a room with his little brother his entire life. They have an agreement and they respect it, even if his brother's getting too old for this— something about him being a late bloomer or whatever.
That is, until Liam enters his rut for the first time.Bookmarked by birk_a
09 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“I mean it.”
“Mean what?” Lila leans back against the wall and glides her hands up his arms, settling on his shoulders. Tense boy.
“That you need to be locked up.”
“What’re you, the purity police? Ain’t nothing illegal about all this.” She drops a hand to gesture vaguely between them. “Just having a chat, you and I.”
“Lila, this is the legal equivalent of knitting a jumper with heroin needles.”
–
Noel gets dumped. Lila gets ideas. Everyone else gets a headache.
Series
- Part 1 of The Things That Sleep Inside
Bookmarked by birk_a
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Liam changes lightbulbs for a living. Noel plays the piano.
Bookmarked by birk_a
23 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
When Liam wasn’t lashing out at Noel, she was walking around looking deeply forlorn, eyes big and sad and full of despair, as if it was the end of the world and she was being sent off to her death and not to what had always been their favourite place on Earth. Their granny’s cottage, their uncle’s farm. Ireland. Big blue skies and endless fields of green, air to breathe and a whole canopy of stars to lie beneath for hours and hours, the peaceful late-night silence interrupted only by the buzzing of crickets and the occasional distant mooing of cows.
Their precious summers away from Manchester, away from their da. Where Liam could run around and just be the carefree kid she was always meant to be, perpetually skinned knees and wild unbrushed hair sticking out in every direction, more a part of the untamed landscape, the vast outstretching universe, than anything so trivial as a kid trapped in a small council house where even the stars refused to shine.
__Or, the story of Liam (girliam) and Noel's last summer in Ireland before everything changes forever.
Bookmarked by birk_a
08 Jun 2026