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Several Sentences Sunday ⭐️

Tagged by the lovely @spotsandsocks with an update on her story (that I will catch up on, I promise my dear!)

I haven't participated in one of these for a while but I have a couple of stories that I just need to edit (shh don't look at me like that), so here's something from one of those:

Although the whole Eddie going on a date with a man does matter. Simply because it means…well, it means that Eddie is an option. Buck is an option. And Eddie didn’t ask him. Buck frowns deeply as he mixes his dough. Eddie didn’t need to ask him out. Doesn’t need to at any point. Because they’re best friends. And best friends don’t date. Not unless they’re in love with each other. Obviously Eddie isn’t in love with Buck. Because he’s on a date with a guy he met at a coffee shop and liked enough to ask out. And Buck…Buck isn’t…

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buck being like yeah none of the apartments I saw today were any good and eddie's like oh no that's too bad then turns back to the stove where he's cooking one of buck's favorite meals and smiles to himself

eddie is like oh no what a shame. guess we’re gonna have to spend yet another night in bed wrapped around each other and cuddling. we just have to. do you wanna be the big spoon or small spoon this time, buck?

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buck should win a voucher for a couple's spa weekend getaway somehow and initially he tries to pass it on to madney or henren because he's in his Stoic and Learning To Be Alone phase but maddie and chim aren't ready to leave baby nash for a night and karen (whilst shooting hen a Look) loudly says 'ohh I think we're busy all that month, why don't you just take eddie?' and eddie ambles at the sound of his name and whistles at the sight of the voucher and says 'that place is FANCY, paco took pepa for their anniversary last year. hey if we tell them it's OUR anniversay they might give US free champagne too'

buck, weakly: oh... okay...

fake dating spa weekend to get extra freebies. there's only one bed and it's covered in rose petals. there are two massage tables but they're in handholding distance. buck's in a saw trap, eddie's having a lovely time :)

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I hope buddie ragebait each other more.

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@buddienetwork​ event: buddie on buddie

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kinda need a scene where the whole firefam are together and it’s game night or whatever and they need to pair up and someone goes well no couples this time! and after some arguing, everyone agrees. then buck chooses eddie as his partner, because duh, and everyone is like wait. no. and buck goes :) what? we’re not a couple. and eddie goes :) yeah. we’re not. and everyone just stares at them and says nothing and for the rest of the night they’re both kinda distracted and then when buck is driving them home he’s like eddie, we’re not a couple, right? and eddie is like. um. yeah. obviously. and buck is like yeah! because you’re straight! and eddie is like Actually, about that. and buck almost crashes the car.

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Official cast portrait for Oliver Stark from ABC end of summer event!

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it's lightning, look what you do to me

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it's the first day at work after buck and eddie make it official and it's still on the dl and the episode opens with them driving to work separately buck gets there first, him and chim are talkin outside the station, and we get the slowmo eddie 201 entrance of him getting out his car and whatta man is playing and hes like taking his sunglasses off running a hand through his hair the slut stand pops out hes flexing bc hes carrying his duffle and buck is watching this completely entranced doe eyed mouth open not listening to a word chim is saying and this time the song goes through to the line "I think I wanna have your baby" while eddie winks at him and they put in a special effects little ding then it cuts to the 911 tone

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when eddie told buck he put him in the will he really said im gonna give him the closest possible experience to an unplanned pregnancy i can manufacture so he can really feel like he’s actually one of chris’s parents huh

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hey, buck/eddie - what was this? - 2/∞ 9-1-1

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“Dad, who’s Buck?”

“Uh…” Eddie turns to look at Christopher from where he stands at the stove. “What do you mean, buddy? You feeling okay?” Eight-year-olds don’t get memory problems like this. Right?

Christopher doesn’t seem to notice his concern. “Yeah, I’m okay. But today, I told my teacher that we went to the aquarium on Sunday with Buck, and she said, ‘Who’s Buck?’ I told her he’s a firefighter, but she was still confused.”

Oh, thank God. Eddie sighs in relief, laughing a bit to himself.

“Buck is a firefighter, right, Dad? Even though he got hurt?”

“Yes, mijo, he’s still a firefighter, just taking a break until he feels better,” Eddie reassures him. “But I think your teacher was trying to ask how you know Buck, not just what his job is. So that’s why she was confused.”

“Oh.” Chris tilts his head thoughtfully. Like Buck, Eddie’s brain supplies. It’s adorable. “So what’s the right answer?”

Ever the little scientist, he is. “This isn’t the type of question that only has one right answer. Sometimes, questions have more than one answer that works.”

Rolling his eyes, Chris sighs impatiently. “Okay, so what are all the answers?”

Eddie smiles. “Well, you can tell her that Buck and I are partners.” Um. “Work partners, because we work together. So that’s why I know Buck.”

“What else?”

“He’s also our friend, right?”

Chris nods very seriously. “Of course.” After another moment, he asks, “Dad? Is Buck your best friend?”

Part of Eddie considers telling Chris that adults don’t always have best friends the way kids do, but Chris is at that age where he doesn’t like being reminded that he’s a kid, and—and anyway, he’s right, isn’t he? The way Eddie feels about Buck is just…different. Different from his other friendships, different from family, different from—from Shannon.

Well, obviously different from Shannon. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

Anyway. “Yeah, Buck is my best friend, Chris.”

“Best friend in the whole world?”

“Best friend in the whole world,” Eddie confirms with a smile.

“Good.” Chris grins back at him. “He’s my best friend, too.”

Distantly, Eddie wishes Buck could hear this. “So Buck has two best friends! Should we tell him?”

Turning back to his math homework, Chris shakes his head dismissively. “He already knows, Dad.”

Well, Chris is a kid, so of course he thinks that’s how it works. Eddie isn’t too sure, though. Sometimes, Buck really has to have things spelled out for him. Maybe this is one of those things.

But Buck should know. Eddie really hopes he does.

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This is probably a good way to get myself blocked by people, but I have such a problem with how normalized it's become for fanartists to have a Patreon and lock so much of their art behind a paywall. It's not about copyright infringement. Like whatever, I don't care about that. It's about the fact that it goes against what fandom is supposed to be about. It takes something that's supposed to be about freely sharing and turns it into a business proposition. Fandom is supposed to be a gift economy, where we do this for the community and social bonds it brings, where we give generously with no expectation of getting compensated for it.

And beyond that (and at the risk of sounding petulant), it's not fair. Imagine how much (justified) shit a writer would get for posting like, the first paragraph of a fic and then going, "To read the rest of this, first subscribe to my Patreon!!" I'm not saying I have any desire to make money off of fanfiction. I don't. But I do think it's strange that the labor of not only writing but of gif making and fanvid making and writing meta and even commenting and reblogging, all these things that make up the backbone of a fandom, is done for free, and fanart has become a thing where it's almost expected that every artist will have a Patreon and lock much of their art. I really hate it, if I'm being honest.

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one could argue the subtext of this scene indicates that he desperately needed to bounce on it

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PSA

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)

(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).

the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.

STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!