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Ok ok ok!! For the fic asks

7 , 14 , 21 , 32 AND 42 <3

Hi! This is fun! Thanks for sending all of these.

One-shots or longfic: Both are good? Sometimes I have to save a longfic for when I have time to get stuck in, but I definitely enjoy reading both.

What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst: Funny fics for sure, but I'm always a sucker for getting to watch two characters fall in love (down any road - fluff, enemies to lovers, idiot4idiot - all of them!)

How and when did you get introduced to smut fic? Any horror stories? 😂😂😂 I was introduced to smut fics when I first started reading fics on ao3 and had a steep learning curve about the tagging system. I don't want to scar anyone with my horror stories, lol! I think most of them are from people not tagging properly? Or the usual 'well, i'm not sure if i'll enjoy this, but sure, i'll try reading it' and then figuring out it was not for me REAL FAST 😂

Favorite AU tropes? Different first meeting!!! Always love that one.

Least favorite fluffy tropes? Hmm. I think anything that really babies/woobifies a character? I love most fluff scenarios though.

Thanks again for sending in questions! 🫶 This was for the Fanfic Ask Game if anyone else wants to play.

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For the fanfic asks

32. Favorite AU tropes?

33. Least Favorite AU tropes?

Hi! Thanks for sending these!

Favorite AU tropes: I LOVE a good fix-it fic. There are certain fandoms where I will inhale all of the fix-its in every variation they appear, lol! I know it's cliche, but I also love a good coffee shop AU.

Least Favorite AU tropes: I'm willing to give most scenarios a try, but in general I don't vibe with ones that make things WORSE than canon. Like apocalypse AU stuff or most MCD fics, that kind of thing. I'm in it for the escapism! Thanks again for sending in questions! 🫶 This was for the Fanfic Ask Game if anyone else wants to play.

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Fan fic asks 10 and 12 🙂

Hi, Hannah! Thanks for playing!

10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic?

SO MANY, lol - I love a slow burn, idiots to in love kind of thing and fluff and shenanigans are always my jam for sure.

12. What turns you away the most from a fic?

In terms of content, I have my specific list of things I don't want to read about (assault, etc.) and I almost never enjoy character bashing. I think more than anything, what will turn me off from a fic is readability - if I click on something and it's a huge wall of text or is in first person or something like that, then I generally will click back out.

Thanks again for sending in questions! 🫶 This was for the Fanfic Ask Game if anyone else wants to play.

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Fanfic Asks!

General:

1. Do you read fic? Do you write fic?

2. Favorite genre of fic?

3. Favorite fandom?

4. Favorite pairing?

5. Favorite fic author?

6. Favorite fic (or one of them)?

7. One-shots or longfic?

8. Do you read WIPs?

9. What is the longest fic you’ve read?

10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic?

11. Least favorite trope/element/scenario?

12. What turns you away the most from a fic?

Angst:

13. Has a fic ever made you cry?

14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?

15. Do you mind when characters cry?

16. How do you feel about character death in fic?

17. Any characters who you can’t stand to see in pain?

18. Favorite angst fic?

Porn:

19. Do you read porn or does it make you uncomfortable?

20. Do you like PWPs?

21. How and when did you get introduced to smut fic? Any horror stories?

22. Biggest turn-ons in fic?

23. Biggest turn-offs in fic?

24. Do you have any dirty kinks that you’re ashamed of?

25. Any kinks that you’d love to try in real life?

26. Any kinks that you don’t want to try in real life (but are still hot in a fanfic)?

27. Rough sex or gentle sex?

28. How do you feel about masturbation in fic?

29. How do you feel about non-con and dub-con?

30. Favorite porn fic?

AU:

31. Do you read AUs?

32. Favorite AU tropes?

33. Least favorite AU tropes?

34. Do you like UAs (universe-alterations, when the main universe and characters are the same but one plot point/decision/outcome is altered)?

35. Do you like high school and college AUs?

36. Do you like crossovers? If so, favorite crossover?

37. How do you feel about parent!fics/lovechildren? How about mpreg?

38. How do you feel about genderbending? De-aging? Animalizing?

39. Favorite AU fic?

Fluff:

40. Do you like fluff?

41. Favorite fluffy tropes?

42. Least favorite fluffy tropes?

43. Do you like fluff on its own or in conjunction with other elements (angst, sex, etc.)

44. How fluffy is too fluffy?

45. Favorite fluff fic?

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Yusuf and Nicolo/ JoeNicky / immortal husbands / kaysanova headers from The Old Guard 2

like or reblog if using || my other old guard edits

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Are we ever going to get more parts to Bex’s story? I miss it sm😭🫶

Yes! Absolutely. I'm sorry it's been such a long wait. I needed a break from the story, but I'm hoping to come back to it soon.

My plan is to wait to post the rest of this installment until I have all of the chapters done so I can post regular updates. (Although, it's going to end on a bit of a cliffhanger so I can't decide if I should finish the NEXT installment too so the cliffhanger wait isn't too bad, but that would add time to the initial wait so I don't know. If you have any thoughts as to which is better, please let me know.)

I know some folks moved on when I started writing 9-1-1 fics so I appreciate you (and anyone else who is still here) sticking around for the rest of Bex's story.

Thank you for your patience! 🫶

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Hannahhhhhh! You are so lovely! Thank you! 🫶

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Thank you for always being so wonderful and supportive ❤️❤️❤️ -Hannah 30somethingautisticteacher

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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I wish you would write a fic where Tommy can't fly for a while, for whatever reason, and he doesn't know what to do with himself.

Hi, @livelaughlou! Thanks for the ask! I went on the lighter side with this one, hope you like it! “There ‘e is,” Tommy slurred, head lolling against the bed as he tried to focus on Buck. “Th’r’s my guy.”

Buck smiled down at him, gently taking the hand that flopped in his direction. Honestly, Tommy had no business looking that cute with a swollen face and a mouth stuffed full of gauze. The level of pain killers in his system seemed to just be adding to the charm. “Hey, babe.”

“Th’a’s my Ev’n,” Tommy mumbled to the nurse. “He loves me. Even tho’ I can’t fly.”

“I think you’re flying pretty well, right now,” the nurse said with a gentle laugh before turning to Buck. “I’ll get his care instructions and the rest of the paperwork so the two of you can head out soon.”

He thanked her as she bustled out the door before turning back to Tommy. “Did you hear that? Home soon, okay?”

Tommy hummed and nodded slowly before blinking wide eyes up at Buck. “But…wha’ am I gonna do?”

“What do you mean?” Buck ran his free hand gently through Tommy’s hair. They’d told him Tommy would probably be out of it after his surgery, but seeing it was a whole other experience.

“I can’t fly,” Tommy repeated, eyes filling up with tears. “Wha’ ‘m I gonna do?”

“You can’t—” Buck swallowed back his laugh as he gave Tommy’s hand a squeeze before bringing it up to give it a kiss as he leaned in. “Baby, listen to me,” he said, waiting until Tommy’s gaze was mostly focused on him. “You just had your wisdom teeth out.”

“And I can’t fly,” Tommy said with the saddest little nod Buck had ever seen on anyone older than Jee.

“Only until next week,” Buck said. “Then you’re good to go. It’s like…five days. Max.”

“Nex' week?” Buck could practically see the wheels turning as Tommy processed that.

“Yes, I promise.” Buck squeezed his hand again to get his attention back. “And in the meantime, you’ll get to snuggle up on the couch with me while I feed you ice cream and we watch all of the romcoms you want.”

“Ice cream? An' you?” Tommy’s eyes went wide.

“Yeah,” Buck laughed. “Sound good?”

“Mm-hm,” Tommy nodded. “Ice cream. You. Snuggle. Sounds g’d.” He blinked slowly, heavily, before zeroing in on Buck again suddenly. “An' then flying.”

“Yeah, babe.” Buck kissed his forehead. “And then flying.”

“An' then more ice cream.”

"Sure." Buck was going to end up buying out the whole store before the weekend was up. He could feel it. "Anything you want, babe."

***

Thanks again for the ask! This is from this ask game if anyone else wants to play!

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I wish you would write a fic where...Buck and Tommy get very competitive competing in the Firefighter games ❤️

Ooooh, this would be too much fun! Here's a little snippet that popped into my brain for this one: “No.”

Tommy stopped in his tracks, just inside the doorway of their home gym. “No? What do you mean no?” He managed to get the question out while fighting back the smile that kept tugging at his lips.

“I mean—” Evan set down the kettlebell before stalking over to stand in front of Tommy. “We had an agreement,” he said, narrowing his eyes as he crossed his arms over his—hello—bare chest. “And this is sabotage.”

“Sabotage is a strong word.” Tommy watched drop of sweat wind its way down between Evan’s pecs. They’d made an agreement earlier in the week to start working out separately. Something about it being too much of a distraction when they were together? Evan had made a whole presentation about it with graphs and statistics and honestly, Tommy had no idea what half of them had said, but one look at that very earnest face and he’d agreed to everything.

Which, a few days and some very lonely workouts later, definitely felt like a mistake. After coming home from his run and getting a glimpse of Evan studiously working his way through his routine, he thought maybe right now would be a good time to rectify that.

“We said no distractions!” Evan exclaimed, waving a hand at Tommy, top to toe. “All of this—” An extra finger jab in the direction of Tommy’s high-cut running shorts. “—counts as a distraction!”

Tommy raised an eyebrow as he caught Evan’s hand in his. “One could argue that the distraction goes both way, babe,” he said with a nod to Evan’s current state.

“I did, on page eight of my presentation.”

Oh, right.

“Now, go!” Evan started shooing him back out the door. “Get out of here and let me concentrate. If we’re going to kick everyone’s asses this year, including Harbor’s, I need to be in peak condition. These quads aren’t going to work themselves.” “I know something that’ll work them—”

“Out!” Evan slapped a hand over Tommy’s mouth, ignoring his laughter as he helped him the rest of the way out the door. The door slammed quickly in Tommy's face after that.

He chuckled to himself as he headed to the shower. Now that Evan mentioned it, a little bit of sabotage might actually be fun. ***

Thank you so much for the ask @30somethingautisticteacher! I'm definitely going to add this one to the WIP list and keep noodling on it. This is from this ask game if anyone else wants to play!

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....hmmm what about Buck and Tommy playing April Fools Day pranks on each other?

Hi, @chemistry66! Thanks for the ask! Did a bit of a twist on this one for you:

“Fake pregnancies, fake engagements, jump scares—every April Fool’s Day, it’s the same thing,” Buck groaned as he scrolled through his phone before dumping it on the coffee table. “You know what I want to do? Uno-Reverse April Fool’s.”

Tommy peered at him over the top of his book from the other end of the couch. “And that would be…”

“Something that everybody would assume was a joke, but is actually real,” Buck said, sitting up straight, enthusiasm growing as he got into the idea. “Like, we bake a thousand cupcakes.”

“Okay,” Tommy said, putting his book down, always ready to listen and bounce around ideas and Buck loved him so much. “And then what would we do with a thousand cupcakes?”

Buck even loved how annoyingly practical he could be.

“Fine, no cupcakes,” he said, waving that idea off as he searched for a new one. “Oh! Matching tattoos!”

“I don’t know that anyone would think that’s fake considering we already have matching tattoos, babe,” Tommy grinned at him, nudging his foot into Buck’s hip where the tattoo he’d gotten six months ago sat.

“That’s a good point,” Buck sighed. He’d never regret those tattoos, but they definitely could have done the reveal with a little more flair.

Tommy cleared his throat, catching Buck’s attention. “What about,” he said slowly. “Flying to Vegas and getting married?”

“…wait. You wanna—” Buck stilled in his seat. They’d talked about this. About wanting forever together and the appeal of stealing away to do it, just the two of them. Have a big party about it later. “Today? For real?”

“I know a guy who can get us there,” Tommy said with a little shrug, smile tugging at his lips.

“Yes! Let’s do it!” Buck leapt across the gap between them, landing on Tommy to kiss every inch of him he could reach. “Wait, no.” He pulled back before shaking his head vigorously a moment later at the doubt creeping into Tommy’s eyes.

“Not ‘no’ no,” he clarified. “There’s nothing in the world I’d rather do than get married to you. Right this second. But Tommy—April Fool’s Day? As our anniversary? Seriously?”

“Oh.” Tommy grimaced. “Fair point. Okay, new plan. We fly to Vegas today, but wait until midnight to get married.”

“I’ll allow it,” Buck said with a nod. “But then we still need something for our Uno Reverse April Fool’s…”

“True.” Tommy mulled it over for a moment before his eyes lit up. “What about that one bit of news that you’ve been waiting to share? Now might be the perfect time.”

Buck gave him another kiss before jumping up from the couch. “You’re a genius. Now let’s go!”

***

Chimney stared down at his phone before laughing to himself as he shook his head. “How gullible do they think we are?”

“What?” Maddie asked, leaning into his side so she could peer at his screen.

“Buck and Tommy think they’re getting us with this April Fool’s joke,” he said, tilting the phone so she could get a better look at the picture of Buck in the pilot’s seat of a helicopter, an ear-to-ear grin as he ‘manned’ the controls, surrounded by blue sky and faraway scenery. As if he wouldn’t have told them the instant he got his license. Chim squinted down at the screen. “Gotta admit, that’s some pretty good photoshopping though.”

“Anything for April Fool’s,” Maddie laughed.

***

Thanks again for playing along!

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I wish you would write a fic where Tommy can't fly for a while, for whatever reason, and he doesn't know what to do with himself.

Hi, @livelaughlou! Thanks for the ask! I went on the lighter side with this one, hope you like it! “There ‘e is,” Tommy slurred, head lolling against the bed as he tried to focus on Buck. “Th’r’s my guy.”

Buck smiled down at him, gently taking the hand that flopped in his direction. Honestly, Tommy had no business looking that cute with a swollen face and a mouth stuffed full of gauze. The level of pain killers in his system seemed to just be adding to the charm. “Hey, babe.”

“Th’a’s my Ev’n,” Tommy mumbled to the nurse. “He loves me. Even tho’ I can’t fly.”

“I think you’re flying pretty well, right now,” the nurse said with a gentle laugh before turning to Buck. “I’ll get his care instructions and the rest of the paperwork so the two of you can head out soon.”

He thanked her as she bustled out the door before turning back to Tommy. “Did you hear that? Home soon, okay?”

Tommy hummed and nodded slowly before blinking wide eyes up at Buck. “But…wha’ am I gonna do?”

“What do you mean?” Buck ran his free hand gently through Tommy’s hair. They’d told him Tommy would probably be out of it after his surgery, but seeing it was a whole other experience.

“I can’t fly,” Tommy repeated, eyes filling up with tears. “Wha’ ‘m I gonna do?”

“You can’t—” Buck swallowed back his laugh as he gave Tommy’s hand a squeeze before bringing it up to give it a kiss as he leaned in. “Baby, listen to me,” he said, waiting until Tommy’s gaze was mostly focused on him. “You just had your wisdom teeth out.”

“And I can’t fly,” Tommy said with the saddest little nod Buck had ever seen on anyone older than Jee.

“Only until next week,” Buck said. “Then you’re good to go. It’s like…five days. Max.”

“Nex' week?” Buck could practically see the wheels turning as Tommy processed that.

“Yes, I promise.” Buck squeezed his hand again to get his attention back. “And in the meantime, you’ll get to snuggle up on the couch with me while I feed you ice cream and we watch all of the romcoms you want.”

“Ice cream? An' you?” Tommy’s eyes went wide.

“Yeah,” Buck laughed. “Sound good?”

“Mm-hm,” Tommy nodded. “Ice cream. You. Snuggle. Sounds g’d.” He blinked slowly, heavily, before zeroing in on Buck again suddenly. “An' then flying.”

“Yeah, babe.” Buck kissed his forehead. “And then flying.”

“An' then more ice cream.”

"Sure." Buck was going to end up buying out the whole store before the weekend was up. He could feel it. "Anything you want, babe."

***

Thanks again for the ask! This is from this ask game if anyone else wants to play!

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I wish you would write a fic where Buck and Tommy learn a new skill together

@ambernotember

Hi, @ambernotember! Thanks for the ask! This was a fun one to come up with! “Tommy, my body does not bend that way.” Evan grumbled, grunting to himself as something popped while they got into position.

“Well, don’t force yourself.” Tommy ran a comforting hand down his back. “Here, why don’t we switch spots?” They shuffled around a bit and Evan stretched out his leg with a sigh of relief.

“Yeah, that’s better.” He frowned a bit, glancing over at Tommy. “Will your back be okay with the twist, though?”

“I did yoga with Maddie and Karen this morning,” Tommy reminded him with a grin. “I can more than handle it.”

“Somebody’s confident,” Evan shot back, laughing when Tommy just scrunched his nose at him in reply.

“Is everybody ready to go again?” Emily called out from the front of the room and both of them instantly focused back in on the task at hand.

Neither of them ever thought they’d be learning to dance at this stage of their lives, but when the twins’ teacher emailed everyone with a proposal for a surprise routine from all of the parents at the end of this year’s recital, well, they couldn’t say no.

The idea of surprising Mitchell and Mabel and the looks on their faces was too good to resist.

Which was how they found themselves at the studio every Thursday night for the past six weeks, contorting their bodies in new and interesting ways as they tried to learn a (very modified for non-dancing old people, Tommy suspected) three-minute hip-hop routine.

“Hey,” Evan whispered at Tommy, eyes bright. “Think we can talk Emily into teaching us a flip too?”

Only Evan. Tommy snorted, shaking his head. “Why don’t we focus on making our way through the actual basics first.”

“Yeah, fair point,” Evan nodded with a little chuckle. “The kids would lose their minds though.”

Tommy couldn’t argue with that. And really...they still had a few more weeks left so it couldn’t hurt to ask, right?

“Okay!” Emily yelled. “From the top! And five, six, seven, eight…”

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I wish you would write a fic where...Buck and Tommy get very competitive competing in the Firefighter games ❤️

Ooooh, this would be too much fun! Here's a little snippet that popped into my brain for this one: “No.”

Tommy stopped in his tracks, just inside the doorway of their home gym. “No? What do you mean no?” He managed to get the question out while fighting back the smile that kept tugging at his lips.

“I mean—” Evan set down the kettlebell before stalking over to stand in front of Tommy. “We had an agreement,” he said, narrowing his eyes as he crossed his arms over his—hello—bare chest. “And this is sabotage.”

“Sabotage is a strong word.” Tommy watched drop of sweat wind its way down between Evan’s pecs. They’d made an agreement earlier in the week to start working out separately. Something about it being too much of a distraction when they were together? Evan had made a whole presentation about it with graphs and statistics and honestly, Tommy had no idea what half of them had said, but one look at that very earnest face and he’d agreed to everything.

Which, a few days and some very lonely workouts later, definitely felt like a mistake. After coming home from his run and getting a glimpse of Evan studiously working his way through his routine, he thought maybe right now would be a good time to rectify that.

“We said no distractions!” Evan exclaimed, waving a hand at Tommy, top to toe. “All of this—” An extra finger jab in the direction of Tommy’s high-cut running shorts. “—counts as a distraction!”

Tommy raised an eyebrow as he caught Evan’s hand in his. “One could argue that the distraction goes both way, babe,” he said with a nod to Evan’s current state.

“I did, on page eight of my presentation.”

Oh, right.

“Now, go!” Evan started shooing him back out the door. “Get out of here and let me concentrate. If we’re going to kick everyone’s asses this year, including Harbor’s, I need to be in peak condition. These quads aren’t going to work themselves.” “I know something that’ll work them—”

“Out!” Evan slapped a hand over Tommy’s mouth, ignoring his laughter as he helped him the rest of the way out the door. The door slammed quickly in Tommy's face after that.

He chuckled to himself as he headed to the shower. Now that Evan mentioned it, a little bit of sabotage might actually be fun. ***

Thank you so much for the ask @30somethingautisticteacher! I'm definitely going to add this one to the WIP list and keep noodling on it. This is from this ask game if anyone else wants to play!

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I wish you would write a fic where...

Send me an anymous (or not) summary of the fic you wish I would write. (maybe I will write a tidbit)

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EVAN BUCKLEY IS NOT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

requested by @comfortingevanbuckley for my 500 follower celebration also on youtube

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i feel like so many people misunderstand redemption arcs. they’re not about forgiving past actions. they’re not about softening previous behavior. redemption arcs are about realizing past behavior was heinous and resolving to be better, do better. that’s why so many redemption arcs fall apart upon close scrutiny.