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New York City. 2016.
Two liars meet.In a city eating him up, Carlos hides how he makes ends meet and why he keeps on knocking on TK’s window to be patched up. Desperate to be loved, TK hides his true self and relies on substances to be the perfect son, lover, friend.
Two liars meet - and fall in love with each layer unpeeled.
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18 Nov 2025
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Carlos's heart is pounding. He can barely hear over the blood rushing in his ears or see through the fog clouding his mind. Because he knows those eyes. He knows the hand he just shook, and the voice he just heard, although it’s lower and richer than it was over a decade ago, when the man he’d just met was called TK instead of Tyler. He doesn’t know how or why TK is here, in Austin, a lifetime after circumstance ripped them apart and spread miles between them. He doesn’t know how or why the Tyler they’ve been tracking all these months has turned out to be Carlos’s childhood friend, to this day his most cherished relationship, his first heartbreak. He doesn’t know how or why any of this has happened, but it has. He’s completely sure of it. TK – Tyler – didn’t seem to recognize him. But that face is burned into his memory.
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In 2002, TK and Carlos meet in a third grade classroom in Manhattan. 21 years later they meet again, at a nightclub in Austin called The Firehouse.- Language:
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02 Nov 2025
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“As I was saying,” TK crowds him, placing his hands on his sides, smoothing down his ribs. “We got reports of a ten fifty-four on the premises. Do you mind if I search your persons?”
“I mean sure,” Carlos says, opening his arms as an offering. “But a ten fifty-four is code for livestock on the highway.”
“What?”
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TK dresses up in Carlos’ cop uniform and tries to roleplay. (The key word here is tries)
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04 Sep 2025
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in the deafening polar province called You by shineforthee
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
24 Sep 2024
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Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.
Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.
Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.
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22 Aug 2024
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Ao'nung’s mind stutters over broken, beat-back memories. Fractured in his mind. He does not know which are dreams, and which are real.
But his currently reality is this: wounded in the middle of the jungle with the last Na’vi on Pandora he’d ever want to be stuck with.
(It has been six years since Ao'nung and Neteyam have seen each other. Their clans are locked in a civil war. It is a pointless, endless bloodshed. No winners in this war. Neteyam makes a decision for them both.)
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20 Jan 2023