a combined rec of tattoo au/florist au fics i’ve read and fics i cant wait to read!
Tattoo Artist / Florist AU
He eats red carnations by: UnderZeWeather – Rating: Explicit – Word count: 206,253 – Summary: Lance owns a tattoo shop nestled comfortably between Cafe Altea, and the florist shop Paladin’s Perfection. Life is pretty sweet working with and around his friends. However, his life gets turned upside down when the owner of Paladin’s Perfection hires a few staff member. Keith. A strange, young, handsome man with a mysterious past? How could Lance not mess around with him?
Hearts are Blooming by PsychologicalColors – Rating: ? – Word Count: 1,280 – Summary: Lance recently took over his family’s flower shop, it’s not like any of his others siblings were going too. It’s not like they could beat his flower knowledge anyway.
Across the street a new tattoo parlor has opened up and its owner is hot. Now, how the hell is Lance gonna talk to him.
Make Me Like You by: Butidoevenknow, Rating: T+, Word Count: 43,428 Summary: Lance is an aspiring tattoo artist, who is not too terribly covered in said tattoos. Keith, on the other hand, is definitely covered in them. And it’s terrible for Lance. Sort of.
Of Flowers and Cigarettes by Spritzerr – Rating: M – Word Count: 56,446 – Summary: Lance just wants a tattoo, Pidge’s family is against, Hunk is lovely and Keith is Texan and likes his job. Lance doesn’t understand but will befriend shit outta this cute tattoo artist.
Of Flowers and Motorbikes by downpoured – Rating: T – Word Count: 3,653 – Summary: Lance meets an overly flirty biker who just so happens to work at the tattoo parlor opposite his store.
Keith just wants the cute flower boy’s number.
⭐️ Pink Like Spring by Autumn_Ignited & SailUnchartedWaters (GlassAlice) – After a health scare, Lance’s grandmother is no longer able to work her flower shop.
Lance is the only Fuentes that can take over. But, in order to do so, he has to leave his California life behind: all his friends, the warm weather, and the ocean he loves, to move to the ass-backwards Southern town of Peach Springs with a population smaller than his old apartment complex.
Even worse, everyone there wants to chatter on with small talk and expects him to talk back (but slower). Everyone, that is, except the rude tattoo artist across the street.
All alone in a new town, surrounded by a culture he doesn’t understand and everyone saying y’all all the time, Lance counts down the days until his brother can take over and he can go back to Cali for University.
That is, until his heart gets stolen (by more than just the town) and he’s torn between two worlds.
The Voltron Boulevard Familia by kayleeshuyler (stephaniebithell) – Rating: T – Word Count: 37,958 – Summary: Lance is a hard-working florist who owns his own store, The Dandy Lion, and is proud of everything he has accomplished. A thriving business, a loving family back in Cuba, a family of his own in the shape of his friends and colleagues of the Voltron Boulevard, he couldn’t ask for anything more.
That is until someone new arrives on the boulevard. A tall, dark, mysterious someone who Lance would very much like to get to know, or behind, except for one little problem… He can’t seem to function properly whenever this someone is around, he will either freeze completely or turn into a stumbling mess. Not a great first, or fifth, impression to be sure.
Wear Your Cactus on Your Sleeve by shaqfu – Rating: T – Word count: 1,600 – Summary: All Lance wanted to do was buy a new cactus for his shop.
Florist AU
Make My Heart A Better Place by: Emo_texas_toast, Word Count: 4,181 Rating: T+ Summary: Another successful wedding worked, another reception where Lance wasn’t asked to dance. He had years to come to terms with this fact and never expected someone to ask him now, even at his best friend’s wedding reception. Lance certainly never expected the florist to ask him for a dance, and he definitely wouldn’t say yes. Keith was his rival, after all.
Tatto Artist AU (in general, bc 😻)
Artistic Attraction by cOcunt – Rating: G – Word Count: 3,921 – Summary: Lance had a dumb idea (again), and decided to drag Hunk along with him for it.
The dumb idea involved Altean Ink, and the unfairly hot tattoo artists that work there.
Lance’s dumb idea doesn’t pan out there, but Hunk wants to go back.
Bum Slapping 101 by Dickaster, Korns – Rating: T – Word Count: 78,147 – Summary: Lance is only a little obsessed with Allura, which starts the cascading events of joining a beach volleyball tournament, getting demolished by the pro duo Shiro and Keith, and being abandoned when Allura swoons into Shiro’s arm like one of those sassy erotica novel covers. To top it off, Keith’s on the hunt for a new partner when Shiro ditches him for his new Leading Lady, and Lance may or may not be falling into another pit of pining goo—so of course he accepts the offer to team up with Keith.
In the process of Keith and Shiro moving to San Diego—Lance, Allura, Hunk, and Pidge’s official stomping grounds—Pidge forces Lance to bum around with them to the tattoo parlor Keith now works at. The realization prompts Lance into accidentally agreeing to get a tattoo, mainly because it means sitting and talking to Keith for hours.
Ah, the things we do for love.
Can You See My Heart? by AsagaoSylph – Rating: G – Word Count: 3,079 – Summary: “But that doesn’t mean its right,” insisted Lance, groaning as he rubbed circles into the side of his head. “It’s not like the image in my head at all! I mean, look at it! It’s so dead! He just……he couldn’t seem to get what I was saying. Again.”
OR
Despite being a successful fashion designer of a company co-founded with his best friend, Allura, Lance struggles to find an artist who can actually express the clothes he wants to make. And, past a point, he stopped expecting to. But maybe the answer just comes in a different form than he expected….
Downtown Bakery by KrysBlack – Rating: Explicit – Word count: 175,441 – Summary: New town, new job. Lance just started his new job at Altea Bakery, and is swept off his feet by the sexy tattoo artist two spaces down (that would be Keith y’all!).
Heart on My Sleeve by unspokenwords – Rating: G – Word count: 3,688 – Summary: Keith has just opened up his tattoo parlor, but in an age where robots will take any image you want and print and tattoo that image perfectly, he’s not getting much business. He’s lucky that he was able to open the parlor in the first place, thanks to his brother’s support. He’s lucky that anyone was supporting him, considering Keith isn’t the type to ask for help. He doesn’t show his feelings often. He doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve.
But when a man named Lance McClain walks into his parlor looking for a tattoo, everything changes.
Hearts are Blooming by PsychologicalColors – Rating: ? – Word Count: 1,280 – Summary: Lance recently took over his family’s flower shop, it’s not like any of his others siblings were going too. It’s not like they could beat his flower knowledge anyway.
Across the street a new tattoo parlor has opened up and its owner is hot. Now, how the hell is Lance gonna talk to him.
Here Again… by G_ay – Rating: Explicit – Word count: 3,425 – Summary: Keith is a tattoo artist who pines over a frequent blue eyed customer.
Lance is a tattoo loving blue eyed customer who pine over his tattooist.
They are both running around each other, playing with their feelings.
Until they can’t anymore.
He eats red carnations by: UnderZeWeather – Rating: Explicit – Word count: 206,253 – Summary: Lance owns a tattoo shop nestled comfortably between Cafe Altea, and the florist shop Paladin’s Perfection. Life is pretty sweet working with and around his friends. However, his life gets turned upside down when the owner of Paladin’s Perfection hires a few staff member. Keith. A strange, young, handsome man with a mysterious past? How could Lance not mess around with him?
His Voice by NonBinaryBitch – Rating: T – Word Count: 2,629 – Summary: Lance and Keith don’t know each other, but their lives are about to come crashing together. (Soulmate AU)
I Needed You So Badly by melancholymango – Rating: Explicit – Word count: 35,314 – Summary:
“Hunk, don’t look now, be discreet about it… but there’s a really fucking hot guy sitting in your kitchen. I think it’s love at first sight.”
For a traitorous few seconds, something ugly rears itself in Keith’s chest and he wonders who just walked into the kitchen and stole Lance’s attention so thoroughly. But when he risks a sneaky glance up, it confirms that it’s still just the three of them in the room, and now Hunk is looking his way too with a sheepish sort-of smile. Keith practically crumples the plastic cup with how hastily he brings it to his lips, downing the last half of his drink all at once.
“Lance, I’m pretty sure he can hear you.”
“Good. Let him. Maybe he’ll take the hint and come introduce himself.”
/ aka the one where Keith’s heart is stolen in equal halves by the cute drunken idiot he meets at a party named Lance, and the unfairly sexy and anonymous nsfw blogger named Leandro. (Part 1/2 of the Sugardaddy Keith Shenanigans Series)
I’d Give My Heart Gladly by: melancholymango – Rating: Explicit – Word Count: 72,898 – Summary: He can’t even justify it as desperation. If he were well and truly desperate to move out of Shiro’s place, it would have happened by now. He’s had other options, he’s had people offer, it’s not like he’s backed into a corner and living out of his car. But if it’s not desperation, what exactly is it? A sick, morbid type of curiosity to know Lance better, to expose himself to the same hurt he’s already felt by getting attached to the other boy? Is it still attraction pulling him in like a moth to a flame, despite all that’s happened and how he knows they’re a terrible match? He isn’t sure.
He does, however, catch himself pulling on his best outfit before stepping out the door to go and meet Lance in the park. So maybe that’s an answer in itself.
// aka the one where Keith makes an impulsive decision to move in with the man that stole his heart and broke it all in the same night. Will this end terribly for him, or will it be the start of something great? (Part 2/? of the Sugardaddy Keith Shenanigans Series)
Inside the Second by BleedingTypewriter – Rating: Explicit – Word Count: 28,426 – Summary: All things considered, things are going fine for Keith. He’s apprenticing under Shiro at his shop, and his brother seems pleased with his work. He gets along fine with Allura and Romelle; he even kind of likes Pidge. With James out of the place, things are blessedly, if precariously, okay.
Three minutes into Lance McClain’s first day, he manages to ruin all that for Keith.
It’s almost impressive.
“You alright, there, Kitty-Tat? Did I touch a nerve?”
“Kitty-Tat?”
Make Me Like You by Butidoevenknow – Rating: T – Word Count: 43,428 – Summary: Lance is an aspiring tattoo artist, who is not too terribly covered in said tattoos. Keith, on the other hand, is definitely covered in them. And it’s terrible for Lance. Sort of.
Moth and Flame by wittyy_name – Rating: Mature – Word count: 33,335 – Summary: Keith has been coming back to Altea Tattoos for months now, and it has little to do with the fact that his best friend is the piercer and more to do with the beautiful tattoo artist with talented hands and a smile that makes him weak at the knees.
Lance has had a lot of customers in his days, left his mark on plenty of people, but none so memorable as Keith. He finds himself turning to the door with every chime of the bell, hoping to see eyes like the night sky and a shy smile that could rival the moon.
When they meet at a concert, the spark between them ignites, creating a heat that’s impossible to resist. They’re both inexplicably drawn to each other. Like a moth to a flame.
Need A Room by Cuptat – Rating: T – Word Count: 35,108 – Summary: “Look,” Shiro started without giving Keith a chance to protest once letting him go. “Lance needs a place to stay for the summer.”
“Lance?! As in Lance McClain?” Keith whisper harshly.
Not Lance. He could feel his heartbeat pick up speed at the mention of his name. He still wasn’t sure as to why that always happened.
“Yes,” Shiro inspected the red mark Keith left on his hand. “He was going to stay with Allura but that means sleeping on her couch. So, I said he can stay here.”
Of Dough and Ink by mochacreams – Rating: G – Word count: 1,404 – Summary: Lance notices how they’re both good with their hands.
Of Flowers and Cigarettes by Spritzerr – Rating: M – Word Count: 56,446 – Summary: Lance just wants a tattoo, Pidge’s family is against, Hunk is lovely and Keith is Texan and likes his job. Lance doesn’t understand but will befriend shit outta this cute tattoo artist.
Of Flowers and Motorbikes by downpoured – Rating: T – Word Count: 3,653 – Summary: Lance meets an overly flirty biker who just so happens to work at the tattoo parlor opposite his store.
Keith just wants the cute flower boy’s number.
Of Tattoos and Books by blondeslytherin – Rating: ? – Word Count: 28,533 – Summary: It’s Lance’s first night going to the library staff’s annual Tattoo Night. He expected a night of fun getting tattooed, playing Cards Against Humanity, and eating pizza. He never thought that he might fall for the cute tattoo artist.
In which Lance is the Librarian and Keith is the Tattoo artist. If you’ve ever seen the tumblr story about the librarians who had tattoo night, this is based off of it.
One Life for the Two of Us by: iwriteshipsnotsailthem – Rating: T+ – Word Count: 71,690 – Summary: Despite being a hopeless romantic, Lance has decided to put his look for love on hold when he suddenly becomes a father. That was until his plans get ruined when he meets Pidge’s childhood friend, a hot tattoo artist named Keith. (Part 1/10 of the Dad Lance & Tattoo Artist Keith Series)
Pink Like Spring by Autumn_Ignited & SailUnchartedWaters (GlassAlice) – After a health scare, Lance’s grandmother is no longer able to work her flower shop. Lance is the only Fuentes that can take over. But, in order to do so, he has to leave his California life behind: all his friends, the warm weather, and the ocean he loves, to move to the ass-backwards Southern town of Peach Springs with a population smaller than his old apartment complex. Even worse, everyone there wants to chatter on with small talk and expects him to talk back (but slower). Everyone, that is, except the rude tattoo artist across the street. All alone in a new town, surrounded by a culture he doesn’t understand and everyone saying y’all all the time, Lance counts down the days until his brother can take over and he can go back to Cali for University. That is, until his heart gets stolen (by more than just the town) and he’s torn between two worlds. ⭐️
Pet Buddies (Klance AU Month) by: sasuhina_gal – Summary: Lance and Keith became friends on Instagram because of the pictures they have of their pets. They know they live in the same area, they just didn’t also think it meant the same building.
Roommate Wanted by SuccubustyKisses – Rating: T – Word Count: 4,371 – Summary: “I’m sorry Lance.” She smiled sadly, her eyes quickly going down in guilt as she gripped tightly to the bag on her shoulder. “I know the lease isn’t up yet, and I’m leaving you in a bind but… I just can’t do this anymore.”
“Rosa, please I-“ Lance reached out, wrapping his fingers around the handle of the suitcase at her side.
“I’m sorry, Lance.” She pulled the bag away from him, stepping backwards towards the door. “I thought I was ready to be a mother when you asked me to move in with you. I thought we’d be one big happy family. But, she just doesn’t like me Lance. And I know you say to give it time but its been two months and she still wont even LOOK at me. I’m going to my mothers.”
She steps forward placing a soft kiss on Lance’s cheek before taking her bags and walking out of his life.
Secrets and Scars by aretia – Rating: T – Word Count: 1,721 – Keith seeks out a tattoo master to cover up his scar, but the one he finds doesn’t just do that–he also captures Keith’s heart.
Sparks Beneath The Water by: BleuSarcelle – Rating: T+ – Word Count: 4,527 – Summary: Keith groans pitifully. “Yes, that Lance.”
“Lance Bad Pick Up Lines McClain?” Shiro asks once again, his teasing smirk growing by the second. “Lance ‘My Nipples Are Cold’ McClain?”
Keith looks up just to glare at his best friend. “Are you done?”
Shiro shakes his head. “What? I just want to make sure we’re talking about the same guy.” He shrugs, smiling innocently. “This is Lance ‘That’s A Mullet’ McClain, right?”
[Or the one where Keith’s a tattoo artist who can put magi spells inside his tattoos. And he also has a massive crush on the cute guy with the shark tattoo over his chest.]
Strut Your Mutt by Kosmicknife – Rating: ? – Word Count: 9,233 – Summary: Keith likes routine. Keith walks his dog every day at the same time. Except that one-time Keith was running late and had to walk Kosmo an hour later than usual. That just so happened to be the day Keith (literally) ran into Lance. Weirdly enough Keith kept running into Lance? Everyday? But truth be told Keith didn’t find that to be too much of an issue…
Tattoo Artist (Klance AU Month) by dutchveertje – Excerpt:
Lance was nervous. Like, really fucking nervous. He was waiting on a chair, his leg bouncing like crazy and his fingers fidgeting with the sleeves of his jacket.
“Lance,” Keith said as he walked up to him. “You’re here.” He was wearing a tank top that showed off his tattoo sleeves nicely, and a few of the tattoos on his chest peaked out as well. He had a tablet in his hand.
“Yeah,” Lance said weakly.
Tattooed Love Boys by: star_twin – Rating: Explicit – Word Count: 19,314 – Summary: Hey no, it was fine. He just needed to breathe. No big deal, he could do it. Yeah. He had his appendix taken out when he was ten; he broke his arm twice the summer he turned fourteen; he split his head open trying out a stunt on his skateboard just last year… Lance was no stranger to pain. So then why the hell was this stupid tattoo freaking him out so much?
OR
Lance loses a bet to Pidge and has to get a tattoo. Guess who the moody tattoo artist is.
The Canvas Effect by: neadevar – Rating: Mature – Word Count: 47,862 – Summary:
“For god’s sake, Lance, will you please stop drawing cocks on your arm.”
“Hey, no, we have a thing, me and dick face. I draw them a penis every morning and evening on the dot.”
Lance Mcclain is desperate to find his niche in the world, thought he might have when he discovered he had a soulmate. Only his soulmate seems to be a dick. Drowning under student loans and the crushing weight that is adult responsibility Lance tries to figure out where he stands in the grand scheme of the universe. He didn’t realize everything would change with just a belly button piercing.
AU where when you draw on your skin it shows up on your soulmate.
The Mark of a Lion by: incrediblydeadlyviper – Rating: Mature – Word Count: 20,842 – Summary: Lance has finally saved up enough money to get the tattoo he’s been dreaming of for ages, but there is one slight problem. He has no idea where to go for it. So he decides to put his faith in his childhood and current best friend Hunk who recommends him to his neighbor, a great tattoo artist. However, Hunk failed to mention two very important details before Lance went down to the shop: a) he is extremely attractive and completely Lance’s type and b) he’s a total prick.
The bakery door burst open as Lance marched in with a mixture of embarrassment and annoyance marring his normally carefree face. He stomped over to the counter, glad that for once the sweet shop was relatively empty because he had a few strong words to say to the man behind the counter. “Hunk, what the hell?! How could you let me go in blind like that? I thought that you of all people, my padawan, would know to give a guy a fucking warning!”
“Lance, be quiet! And what are you talking about? Did you not like his designs or something?”
Lance snorted. “His designs! No, they were gorgeous and guess what? SO, IS HE! You didn’t tell me he was hot!”
The One Where Lance gets Drunk by WintrRose04 – Rating: ? – Word count: 2,492 – Summary: Lance gets very drunk at a party and loses the only person who keeps him from doing stupid shit. (Hunk, of course)
He finds himself in a tattoo shop, with a very cute tattoo artist, and absolutely no shame. Safe to say some odd requests are made.
The Voltron Boulevard Familia by kayleeshuyler (stephaniebithell) – Rating: T – Word Count: 37,958 – Summary: Lance is a hard-working florist who owns his own store, The Dandy Lion, and is proud of everything he has accomplished. A thriving business, a loving family back in Cuba, a family of his own in the shape of his friends and colleagues of the Voltron Boulevard, he couldn’t ask for anything more.
That is until someone new arrives on the boulevard. A tall, dark, mysterious someone who Lance would very much like to get to know, or behind, except for one little problem… He can’t seem to function properly whenever this someone is around, he will either freeze completely or turn into a stumbling mess. Not a great first, or fifth, impression to be sure.
They Tell You Tattoos Are Addictive by: foxsmoulder – Word Count: 7,219 – Rating: G. Summary: “Those tears are mostly because that tattoo god is just too fucking pretty,” Lance sighed wistfully as he noticed another customer entering the shop. “The worst thing is, is that I can’t even do anything about it, because I’m fairly certain he’s got a boyfriend anyway.”
“So your solution is to just keep going back to get more dumb tattoos that you pretend have meaning.” Pidge rolled her eyes at Lance’s indignant gasp. “Just so you can pine pathetically over some guy that you want, but can’t have?”
“That’s about the size of it, yeah.” Lance whined.
Uncharted by: keefffff – Rating: T+ – Word Count: 88,448 – Summary: Lance McClain is fucked.
For multiple reasons.
Keith is acting more suspicious than usual. Allura is getting too close to his secret. Pidge is digging too deep.
His life is spiraling out of control and he doesn’t know who to trust.
And one thought plagues him endlessly:
What the fuck was Keith’s last name?
Wear Your Cactus on Your Sleeve by shaqfu – Rating: T – Word count: 1,600 – Summary: All Lance wanted to do was buy a new cactus for his shop.
White Ink by Sachiela – Rating: G – Word Count: 1,136 – Summary: Lance takes Hunk’s recommendation to check out a particular tattoo parlor to get his first tattoo. And might leave with both a new tattoo and a date.
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