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okay i was having this thought earlier already, but all the bucktommy dads stuff you're putting on my dash tonight makes me feel like you are the right person to say this to:

picture tommy going to check on his suspiciously quiet child. said child has managed to find a couple pens and markers and scribbled all over himself. exasperated tommy goes to clean him up and the kid hits him with 🥺 but i wanted to look like daddy 🥺🥺🥺 and the devastating buckley eyes.

of course tommy folds immediately when he asks to leave his "tattoos" on until buck comes home to see, what else is he supposed to do???

nooooo i'm gonna cry. also for a beat of a second there i didn't understand this was about buck's tattoos and imagined him drawing a heart shape around his eyebrow because he wants the same birthmark as his daddy 🥹🥹 he copies that and the tattoos and when buck comes home and heals from his hour long emotional breakdown about this and gives him a bath he coos and awws about how they look great, just like daddy's, but we need to clean them up now and when he's big he can permanent ones like daddy. and ofc the baby asks how big and buck says hmm at least 18 and the kid goes "that's foreveeeer" and it is because he's only four. his entire life is just four years long. how can he wait another 14 years to be pretty like his daddy...

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the idea of buck and his mini-me doing an activity together dressed/sitting/standing/smiling/frowning the same

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You and your partners kinks and desires probably won't match completely, but it's important to note and respect the difference between "I'm not super into this, but I don't mind doing it for my partner" and "engaging with this causes me distress and ruins my enjoyment"

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i need him in ways that's concerning to the wellbeing of my internal organs

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Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

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love on the cards

Hey hey hey!! Soulmate AU is here! I know I said that I was going to wait for the beginning of October to start posting this, but I couldn't wait, I'm too excited lol. You guys chose this and I really, really hope I can do it justice. Story concept inspired by Expiration Dates by Rebecca Searles.

Thank you to @desert--moonchild for her invaluable help! 😘

bucktommy - chapter words: 2.8k - chapter rating: teen - chapter 1/7

It starts with a postcard on his windshield two days after he turns 18. It's simple, just a stock photo on the front....but on the back...well, that's a different story. Lila, 12 hours. He frowns at it, looks around, doesn't see anyone who could have left it, no one staring at him furtively to see if he's grabbed it, no one rushing away, so he doesn't give it another thought. Until he meets Lila at a bar one night when he's out with friends. They have a crazy night together but it's just a one night stand. Buck still doesn't think anything of the postcard and why would he? It was a weird coincidence, that's all. Except they keep coming.

Or: Soulmate AU wherein Buck receives postcards with the name of the next person he's going to date with how long that relationship is going to last…but when he receives one with Tommy's name on it and no time limit, has has to figure out what that means.

Read on Ao3

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for a minute, all the world can wait

On the plane to his new life in LA, Evan Buckley meets Tommy Kinard.

different first meeting au • 3k words • rated T • for @siratonin <3

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🔥!

🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

ughh well my brain keeps coming up with ideas, so i guess that 😂 the finishing things is not going so well though unfortunately. so i have like 50 wips and brain worms but i'm not posting anything lmao

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recognising your parent's mannerisms in yourself and physically feeling psychic damage occur

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for the fic writing ask game <3

🧮 🔚

i actually did both of these here, my answer for the changing direction one won't change but for the other one here, have a second summary:

eddie cancels on tommy for the vegas fight and buck offers to go with instead. shenanigans and realizations ensue

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For the fic writing ask game!

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

🧮 what are you working on? describe it in 20 words or less

🔚 have you ever completely changed the direction a piece was going?

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oh god this is HARD

i love this whole fic, but this line in particular hurt my heart when i wrote it:

In the end, the book was the final straw; some non-fiction thing about interstellar probes Evan had borrowed from Karen. The last time he'd noticed that book, Evan had been holding it and reading aloud, the fingers of his free hand carding through Tommy's hair. He'd fallen asleep like that, to the sound of Evan's voice, and now that stupid book was lying open and face down on the arm of the sofa, patiently waiting for a man who wouldn't be back. He could relate.

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the real answer to this is TOO MANY THINGS lmao but to answer "properly" here's one i was working on today:

a farmer's market au with baker buck and knife guy tommy

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oh god ALL the time. most frequently, i'll start in one pov and then realize halfway through that it works better in a different way. a couple times i've gotten stuck and basically completely scrapped and restarted the project which doesn't always change the entire direction, but just enough to fix it and get past the block!

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"hurts because i need to move more" and "hurts because i need to not move it at all" should really be different sensations. i should be able to troubleshoot my own body without just picking one and seeing if that makes it worse.

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9-1-1 8x09 Sob Stories

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fic writing ask game!

nothing groundbreaking but it’s fuuuuun

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

🧮 what are you working on? describe it in 20 words or less

🎶 do you write with music? does the music you’re listening to influence your writing?

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

😠 whats your least favorite part of your writing process?

🎀 how do you decide when something is done?

🌅 do you typically known the ending to something before you start writing it?

🔚 have you ever completely changed the direction a piece was going?

🤔 why do you write fic?

⛔️ whats something you try to avoid in your work?

📚 do you ever read similar works while writing, or do you intentionally not read them?

🦉 give yourself a piece of writing advice

😊 say something nice about your writing

😭 what’s something you’re currently struggling with?

🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

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9-1-1 s04e03 - Future Tense

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tragedy is when a man has so much failwife potential & yet gets assigned suave dom by the fandom and isn't allowed to be anything else. chin up king your loser energy is seen and appreciated. by me

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First my sister, now relentless Tumblr ads. Stop telling me to find Jesus! Im Jewish! I don't care that you lost him again, that's your problem!