#h50 parallels

[teruel-a-witch]

7.16/7.25/8.06/8.08/9.02 Steve and Danny walking like a couple on vacation, before work, after work, to and from crime scenes, everywhere anywhere.

[thematic0]

Hawaii Five-0 s05e06 - s06e17

[neanderthal-pessimist]

H50 9x23 Junior is about to do something stupid and Tani is like “dude? dont do that”, and Danny is like “that’s what Steve does every day, now you know how i feel”. only thing is, earlier in the episode everyone [yes Danny too] is clearly implying that Tani and Junior are in love and are going to the wedding as a romantic couple. so hes basically comparing this soon-to-be romantic couple to their partnership.

And then Danny is LITERALLY telling Tani to “have fun” with Junior while “she’s still young” cause now he’s “old” and it’s too late for him. implying he’s too old to start dating Steve, that it would be too much change. then later in the episode, Lou claims steve is “old” too. reminding us of the conversation Tani and Danny exchanged earlier. (we’re not gonna talk about how similar their name is)

PLUS earlier in the episode, Steve told Mary that “he doesn’t fight for love” the way he should. and then at the end, steve and danny just bicker cause they’re so clearly in love.

Also, during the wedding, someone mistakes Tani and Junior for a couple, and then Tani acts jealous when the girl wants to flirt with him. again, very mcdanno coded.

Anyway. those might not be the exact dialogues since im watching it in french but whatever. gay rights.

[ellena-asg]

In 1x01 Steve finds a key:

and soon he meets Danny:

In 1x24 Steve finds this key again (he gets it back):

and Danny is also there:

So. The first and the last episodes of season 1 have this "finding a key" scene.

In the first episode Steve finds the key and very soon Danny comes to his life. In the last episode Steve finds the key and very soon... Danny will be gone from his life (he won't but at this moment show's narration tells us that Danny is going to come back to Jersey and to sacrifice his own happiness and health for his dear Gracie).

Look, I remember that the key belongs to The Case. Yeah, John, governor Pat, Doris, Wo Fat etc etc. But to hell with them now. The key. It can't be a coincidence! I mean, I truly believe that it means something. I truly believe that this damn key is also a symbol.

What is a key for? It unlocks. What is still locked in the beginning of the Pilot? Steve's heart.

He's lonely, he lost his mother, father, brother Freddie, in some way he lost his sister. He has no friend now (and he has never had SUCH friend, absolutely best friend, like Danny before). He doesn't know what love (in romantic sense) is, has never truly loved and has never felt truly loved. And even his family... Steve felt a lack of love there too.

In that garage, oh, he is so alone. So damn alone with all his feelings, with his grief.

But suddenly he finds a key. And then boom! He meets Danny. He meets a person he needs so much. Destiny (seriously!) gives him Danny. Danny is the best friend ever. Danny is love of Steve's life. Every next episode shows us how perfect soulmates Steve and Danny are. How much happy and loved is Steve when Danny is present in his life.

Danny unlocked Steve's heart. The scene with Steve finding the key is like an omen. A good omen. It's like "something will be opened soon" and indeed, it happens.

And then there's the last episode of this season. Everything what Steve has... he will lose it. His best friend, his love, his everything soon will leave him, will leave Five-0, will leave Hawaii. And with whom? With Rachel. So a double nightmare is coming. Steve will be hurt. His heart will be locked again. No, his heart will be dead this time.

Laura's death... It looks like it's their last case together. Last adventure. Last moments in life. But hey, what Steve finds? The key. He has it back now. And what happens soon? He is arrested and Danny... Danny stays. Stays in Steve's life. Stays for Steve.

Danny realizes that he can't sacrifice himself and his love (yes, Steve is love of his life with no doubt). He loves Gracie deeply but he can't suffer like this even for her. He realizes that he doesn't have to. He can have both: Grace and Steve. And to have Grace he doesn't have to be with Rachel and to pretend he loves her. He is free now. Steve and Hawaii are his home, his freedom. They're his key (and Grace's) to a better and happier life. To love.

The key came back to Steve. Danny is now his again too. Another sign. Destiny, again. When Steve holds the key it looks like a scene from some fairytale. It looks like the voice of destiny whispers to him "Don't worry. You will never lose him. He is yours forever".

They're each other's key. Damn boomerang-key that can never be truly lost cause their love is too powerful.

[five-wow]

danny in that one episode, confiding in steve, his best friend who is his partner and the only person he confides in: i once had a best friend who was my partner and the only person i confided in. then i inevitably fell in love with her

[itwoodbeprefect]

Fic Writing Review 2023 🌈

i wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year and bring it to a nice close, so i took to tumblr search and google to see if there was some sort of tag game going around. i frankensteined this list of questions from a few different versions of what was probably originally the same thing, but the nature of The Website of course makes it impossible to locate an original, so this is me just sort of, well, joining the fun by starting a parallel thread.

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Words and Fics (on ao3) 📚

words posted: 73,947, but this is a little deceptive because all the words for A flip-flop state of mind currently get counted for 2023, so it's probably something closer to 45-50k

fics posted: 21, which will eventually go down to 19 when i update the two multi-chapter works and they get sorted into the new year

first fic: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Throuple [Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)]

last fic: Bases loaded, do your dance [h50]

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Ships and Fandoms ⚓

ao3 tells me the following:

Starsky & Hutch (8)

Hawaii Five-0 (2010) (7)

Ted Lasso (TV) (2)

Stargate Atlantis (1)

Hard Core Logo (1996) (1)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) (1)

Top Gun (Movies) (1)

and for each of those it's probably the ship you most expect if you know the thing (and the way fandom works), except maybe ted lasso (both fics are keeley/roy/jamie) and sga (a gen team fic, no ships).

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Top 5 Fics by Kudos 🏆

no big surprises here. ted lasso was easily the biggest fandom i've written for this year (not to mention that these two fics had the good fortune of being posted very soon after the finale), followed by h50 long before s&h comes on the scene:

How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) [ted lasso]

Honey honey, how you thrill me (Honey honey, nearly kill me) [ted lasso]

A flip-flop state of mind [h50]

Oh, kiss me like the final meal (Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight) [h50]

Something old, something new [h50]

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Top 5 Favorite Fics 💖

these are in no particular order!

3 AM, the time when most people die - this is a hard core logo (1996 canadian movie) fic which just kind of Happened, and it hung around on ao3 for a solid few days in a 0 kudos 10 hits sort of state, which had me giggling every time i thought about it. 2023 goal of writing for me, myself & i achieved (0 kudos on a fic)! ✅ (that said, it does also bring me great joy to see that the number is upwards of zero now. lovely to see an obscure thing find its audience. <3)

Your hands in my back pockets - a starsky/hutch fic, and in some ways the opposite to the previous one. i had a "this is alright" sort of feeling about it when i hit post, and the (lovely! very flattering!) way people responded to it surprised me somewhat. reading it back now, i don't know what bothered me about it at first - it's nice, it flows, it's all good! plus, i really like the title. it's a good s/h title.

POV: It’s a lovely day, you’re sipping a refreshing cold drink on your 70s apartment balcony, and the upstairs neighbor who always waters the sago palm outside your front door when you forget about it has that one friend over and his windows wide open. - this is a starsky/hutch all dialogue fic, and it was just plain fun! very easy to write, thankfully not hard to read, and the title is completely ridiculous in a way that still gives me a kick.

How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) - can't not mention this one, i think. it's the roy/jamie/keeley ted lasso fic i wrote in record time (for me), and i had a blast doing that and i think that's palpable in the end result. i have warm memories of this!

Oh, kiss me like the final meal (Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight) - h50! steve/danny! they'd gotten swamped by all the starsky/hutch in 2022, but they made a minor comeback this past year. and again, this fic was just plain fun - a scene that really needed the mcdanno rewrite, and i'm glad it happened, and that it decided to flow so smoothly it grew twice as long as intended. the gag with the gun is still good, the banter works, and i like "it tastes like a laugh".

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Fandom Fic Events 🤝

my knee-jerk first thought was none, which would have been a blatant lie for this year! i wrote a fic for the SHareCon (starsky/hutch con) zine, which is currently still zine-only but will appear on ao3 at some point in the future, and i also wrote something for this year's Starsky & Hutch Advent Calendar, which can be found here (which will also lead you to all the other lovely advent calendar gifts of 2023 and previous years!). neither of these things would have happened if starsky & hutch fandom hadn't been such a warm, welcoming, unbelievably well-organized space. <3

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Projects for 2024 👀

oh god. oh god i have so many things on the grill.

the end of 2023 was a stretch of time where i did write some, and at times even a very decent amount, but nothing seemed to be getting finished - which was annoying for a bit, and then sort of petered out into oh well. it'll happen, eventually, when it wants to. which means that currently i have a whole bunch of nearly finished things for a whole bunch of fandoms:

bad buddy - should this be top of the list? who knows. but oh, i need to write something for this - i have to, i need to, you know. it's just that it's turning out to be more of a challenge than most new things i start writing for, because i do feel i have a reasonable grip on the characters, but the fact that it's a thai series which i'm only consuming through fan-generated subtitles is clashing with some of the fundamentals of how i usually write fic, as it turns out. usually i watch a thing and then mimic character voices to write a section of (probably mostly, maybe only) dialogue, which then gets filled out with descriptions and an actual setting later on. the problem with bad buddy is that i love, love subtitles, and i love, love the people who write them, but they do (understandably! naturally!) lead to some very clunky english at times, and i just can't write things like "are you chickened out, fierce eyes". i cannot. which means i need to half-invent the right english character voice (and how that blends with the little i know of thai speaking patterns and customs), which takes away the thing i usually lean on way more heavily than i previously realized i did, so. it's a journey! it's an experiment! i'm learning things! i'm making choices! and i'm pumped about it but it's also REALLY slowing down the bad buddy fic production.

starsky & hutch - many things are happening! many many! they're just happening slowly. there's one particular fic about starsky and hutch comfortably out at a party and hutch fielding questions about names which has been 98% done for a month or two, but i need one (1) more connective paragraph to wrap things up, and apparently i'm in no hurry. and i love that for me, at the same time as i'm tempted to flick my brain and go Do It. Just Do It. oh god, and then there's a much older comedy fic stuck in close to the same situation only there it's 95% and the missing part is the end, which is at least a little more serious, and there are. i think literally a dozen probably. things that are cooking, bubbling, making interesting little noises. it's yet to be seen which of those turn out tasty.

h50 - there are some shorter wips here that have great potential to go somewhere, but mostly i want to finally (finally!) wrap up a flip-flop state of mind, which only needs finishing touches (albeit a bunch of them) on the final chapter, and then maybe 200 more words for the short epilogue to round things out. i had somewhat hoped to get that done before the new year, but it didn't work out that way, and i'm at peace with it - the longer this fic takes, the more comical my initial estimate of "i can probably get this done within the month" becomes. and after that's done, i can refocus my energy on Sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola, another ill-fated plan which i Will see through (while also enjoying myself), dammit, but i think for that one i'll need to pre-write the whole thing before i start posting again or i'll just keep going in circles.

nashville - it's been a while since my rewatch, so i'm not sure it will ever really come together, but i have a fun little 5+1 will/gunnar thing which lives half in a google docs file and half in my heart. could be nice!

sga - there's One Fic that's near done and has a few turns of phrase in it that keep making me go "oh, this might be worth finishing, actually" every time i return to it, but i think i'll need to let that happen a few more times before we actually get there. there's also a light and comedy-ish aro/ace john fic (heavily featuring john&rodney and john&team) on a low boil. i think that one might need to wait for me to rewatch the show at some point so i'm correctly immersed in the Vibes of it all, but it's very dear to me, so it still gets a permanent In Progress label.

due south - there's one particular thing that i might get back to? maybe. it could happen. @redgoldblue's dedicated live reporting on their due south watch, as well as their ds fic, did stir something in my brain.

other - there's literally two paragraphs of hard core logo fic kicking around in my notes which might turn into something some day. (when i started writing 3AM those new words were intended to blend with the two existing paragraphs, but they never did.) there's some ted lasso that can still be considered wip, but my ted lasso fic moment burned bright and short, it seems, though it's nice to know the framework is there if i ever do a rewatch. oh man, and there's a weird homoerotic over the top (because that's what this canon is) tango & cash wip which i hope will make it across the finish line some day, but i wouldn't be surprised if in the end that's, like. coming to an ao3 page near you soon! in 2026.

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Tagging ✨

tag any number of people you want as far as i'm concerned (which can be zero! that's a valid number), but i haven't spotted this going around in my fandom circles yet, so i'll shoot for some good coverage: @redgoldblue @luredin @actingcamplibrarian @stephmcx @pterawaters @the-arya-silvertongue @logicgunn @incognito-insomniac @dedkake @spaceradars @spurious @sparrowsarus @flownwrong @theroseandthebeast @jimmyandthegiraffes @soleadita @ivycross @murphyhatesme @bgharison @thekristen999 @cowandcalf @msbeeinmybonnet @ruztyryan and you, reading this. i fully tagged myself to do this, so please don't feel shy about doing the same! i really do want to read your answers, if you feel like giving them.

obviously there's no pressure, and also feel free to modify this any way you want! give different stats, list top 5 by hits instead of kudos, name just one favorite fic, add in fics you only posted to tumblr rather than ao3, skip a category or invent a new one or throw the whole thing out and only reflect on a single piece of writing in more detail - it's all fair game, as long as it suits you.

[aceofwhump]

Im on season 4 of a H50 rewatch, because I miss it. Did you notice how in the end of the first episode, where they were sitting in the chairs by the beach, that’s how it ended, as well? OMG, when I realized it, I can’t explain that feeling. And how Grace just loves her Uncle Steve is amazing. I’m trying to remember when the first time she called him that was. Or maybe I’ve read too many fanfics and have now put the two, as one?

Oh man I miss H50 so much it's crazy. I need to go buy the dvd sets so I can watch it any time I want to. I'm about due for my own rewatch.

Ahhh yes!! The parallel of the first and last episodes with the two of them sitting on the beach together KILLS ME! And we can add in the dream sequence Danny has in 8x10 of the two of the sitting on the beach as old men. Danno and Steve. Sitting on the beach together. My favorite thing.

I love Grace's relationship with her Uncle Steve!! He's like a second father to her and i love them. She definitley calls him Uncle Steve in the show and it took some digging and thinking but I'm fairly sure the first time we hear her call Steve "Uncle" is in 1x23 which funny enough is one of my favorite episodes because it's the episode when Danny is poisoned with sarin. Steve picks up Grace from school after Danny is in the hospital and she calls him Uncle Steve then. I think that's the first time we hear it but certainly not the last time! The Aloha Girls camping trip, her homecoming dance, the episode after she gets into her car accident. I know for sure she calls him Uncle Steve in those episodes.

God I miss H50

[nade2308]

GIFS AND EDITS MASTERLIST POST 6

Previous masterlists: one || two || three || four || five

Mission Impossible

Ethan shooting Luther in Fallout: part 1 || part 2

Luther holding Ethan back + Benji winning the bet: part 1 || part 2 || part 3

Ethan and Luther gif in the boat

Boys and trust

Scared Ethan

Top Gun/Top Gun Maverick

July 29th anniversary gifset

Dogfight football beach scene: part 1 || part 2 || part 3

Rock of Ages

"Pour some sugar on me" by Def Leppard gifset: part 1 || part 2 || part 3 || part 4

Jack Reacher 2012

Jack gifset

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Jack and Susan at the motel: part 1 || part 2

Jack holding Sam

Reacher on Prime

Dancing little imp: part 1 || part 2

Shirtless Jack: part 1 || part 2

Jack and the medal

Reacher season 2 trailer gifs

Hit the road Jack video edit

OG Magnum PI

Scars of the past cover edit

Your softness is your strength cover edit

Squad goals

Exasperated Thomas

Detached

Delirium

Forever in time

Sleepy time Tom

Thomas and Rick edit (1x01)

Every sunrise

Thomas/TC edit

Port side

Troubled birds OG MPI characters edit

Troubled birds OG MPI edit

Did you see the sunrise video

Morning swim + comfort cover edit

Heads and aches

Limbo

The boys

Thomas and Jack AU edit

Thomas 6x09 edits

A boy

Klutzy Thomas

Persist and prevail cover edit

Smiley boy

Thomas and TC edit (John Denver - Looking for space)

Criminal Minds

Hotch gifs (1x08)

MacGyver 2016

Fluke AU edit (MacGyver 2016 and CSI)

Imp Mac gif

WK 3x08 edit 1

WK 3x08 edit 2

Mac and Jack edit (first version of the show)

Drugged and disoriented Mac video 2x04

Video 1x03 - Mac and Jack at the cemetery

Jack angsty edit

For your eyes only (AU) edits

Winged Mac fic edit

"Sorry" by Daughtry, Mac and Jack edit

Monte Walsh 2003

Anniversary gifset

Smallville

AC being hit with a dart

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron being carried by his father

Reacher on Prime

Boy getting undressed: part 1 || part 2

Reacher in every episode of season 1

Hawaii Five 0 (2010)

Steve and Freddie gifs - 3x20: part 1 || part 2

Fast X

Boy in Rio

TMNT 2003

The turtles and their weapons

Leo and flashback

Missing scene to 2x16 fic cover

Parallels

Thomas and Greg parallels (OG MPI and Black Sheep Squadron)

Jesse Stone and Thomas Magnum parallels (OG MPI and Jesse Stone: Thin Ice)

Jesse Stone and Thomas Magnum parallels, "Bedside vigils" (OG Magnum PI and Jesse Stone: Sea Change)

Shower parallels (Smalville and Reacher on Prime)

Parallels Bill Cage and Nick Morton

Cuffs parallels

Mission Impossible and MacGyver 2016 parallels: part 1 || part 2

Miscellaneous

Hugs (H50, MacGyver 2016, The Old Guard)

Fanfic writers appreciation day edit

Ari Levinson and Clay Appuzzo edits: edit 1 || edit 2

Mirror gifset + bonus gif

Ella Thomas birthday edit

Donnie Wahlberg birthday edit

[teruel-a-witch]

they really are *that* couple, the one whose flame never burns out, bubble never bursts, honeymoon period never ends, warmth shining through the years, only growing closer and fonder. As crazy about each other as when they met but somehow more in love.

[zeeleybooth]

BONES: The Titan on The Tracks (2x01) | HAWAII FIVE-0: Ohana (1x02)

[ikleesfiction]

“Danno, I’m hungry”

[captain--steve--rogers]

Okay but saw a fic and now I’m absolutely obsessed with the idea of what would’ve happened if we got a H50 and 9-1-1 crossover. Imagine a scene where Buddie is bickering and McDanno is bickering and Chin, Kono, Hen, and Chim are just like “so this an everyday thing for you too huh?” Danny and Eddie bonding over being single parents and their anger issues and missing home but needing away from their parents and Steve and Buck being absolutely chaotic and reckless and their long suffering husbands partners just like “is he always like this?” “YEP” and maybe they bring Grace for some reason and her and Christopher are immediate fast friends and you just see double coparenting and Bobby is just like “oh god there’s two of them” but of course immediately wants to adopt them… yeah I need it

[ellena-asg]

[five-wow]

8x09: scenes that make you think about lou’s life once tani and junior join the team and steve and danny (separately) start throwing lou, their good friend, these Looks Of Understanding that the kids have chemistry and won’t even admit what’s going on, and isn’t that cute/funny/silly, lou? have you ever seen a will-they/won’t-they like this, lou? can you even imagine being in a situation like that with your best friend, where you clearly have romantic and sexual tension and you don’t even seem to know how bad it is but everyone around you can read it in every move you make and every word you say, wow, can you imagine ending up in a totally-just-a-friendship like that and never even being conscious of it, or just not daring to say a word and letting it drag on indefinitely? because steve and danny can’t! steve and danny are throwing lou Looks Of Understanding shared by the kind of smart adults who are endeared by that behavior but are fully above it, because it would never happen to them, of course!

... hey lou, why are you rolling your eyes? something in your eye again? you should really go see a doctor if it happens this much.