PornstacheDiaz

you may know me as BDEblueyes too old to be on this site | he/him | writer of things

[pornstachediaz]

you know... i've been bdeblueyes on here (and AO3, and everywhere) since 2020 but it's time for a change

i gotta live my truth

in the hopes that eddie diaz gets to live his, too

[star-shard]

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

[loveridden1999]

constantly trying to see the inherent good in people is a humiliation ritual that i continue to willingly participate in

[ruffboi-mags]

[impishtubist]

I've never been explicit about this because I'm a Fandom Old, and back in the day it was simply understood that anything on the Internet was fair game to do with what you wish, but: if you see a story of mine out there and you like it, download it. Fuck if I care. Keep it for yourself, distribute it to friends, print copies for yourself and your friends, mail it to people, I don't give a shit. As long as you're not exchanging money, I couldn't care less. And tbh you should be doing this with all fanfics you love - print them, save them, put them on a flash drive or a hard drive or share them with friends, whatever. Fanfic authors these days are really fucking precious about their fics, but honestly we're probably going to start seeing queer art being disappeared (especially in the US under the next president) so do whatever you can to archive the things you love to read. Even if that means just printing them out and sticking them in a binder for yourself to read as a bedtime story.

[azriona]

Rising from my migraine to add my name to the list. Please save my fanfics if you love them. Ask for any you can't find. And if you feel crafty, there are very easy and simple ways to bind them into books so they can sit on your shelf with the other books you read.

[nyxelestia]

AO3 gives you multiple download formats for a reason. Use them all, because in 10 or 20 or 50 years, you don't know which formats will still be supported or can be easily converted to whatever new thing comes next. And print them out if you can afford it; format doesn't matter much then.

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[malwareproductions]

hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[stargazing-enby]

And that's that on that.

[stargazing-enby]

Apparently I wasn't done 🤔

[lymmea]

These are FABULOUS, OP, but can I suggest one to the riff of "QUEERNESS IS NOT DEFINED BY THE AMOUNT PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED"?

[stargazing-enby]

Thanks! Here you go 🥰

Some other additions:

Inspired by @unicorn-in-the-library:

And because @surfs-up-roxy wanted an ace one:

I didn't want to make the message ace-specific because I wanted to make a point of how all of the above include aspec people, but I tried to use an ace colour palette for the background :) I also think the message applies especially (even if not exclusively) to the ace community!

Hope you like these 🥰

[prismatic-bell]

@rockmarina possibly “all labels were made up at one point, stop being an ass”?

[stargazing-enby]

I played around with the concept a bit, I hope you like it anyway!

I feel like this also needs to be said:

[oddler14]

[ID:

Image 1: (in white text, on a background of rainbow watercolors) Gatekeeping hurts queer people who are questioning.

Image 2: (in white text, on a background of rainbow paint strokes) Gatekeeping hurts more queer people than it protects.

Image 3: (in white text, on a background of pastel watercolors) How about you let people question their gender and sexuality in peace.

Image 4: (in white text, on a photo of the rainbow pride flag flying in a blue sky) People don’t owe you a chronicle of their life experiences and feelings for you to decide whether they belong in their own community.

Image 5: (in white text, on a marbled pink background) I don’t know how to tell you this, but you are not the queer police.

Image 6: (in white text, on a background of multicolored textile) Stop siding with our oppressors.

Image 7: (in white text, on a photo of pieces of chalk arranged in a rainbow on asphalt) Not every queer person’s experiences need to be like yours.

Image 8: (in white text, on a background of shiny, rainbow chunks of metal (?)) Mind your own damn business.

Image 9: (in white text, on a mottled black & rainbow background) Let people change labels.

Image 10: (in white text, on a photo of a full moon in a dark sky) There’s no such thing as not being queer enough.

Image 11: (in white text, on a background of paint strokes in pink, white, magenta, purple and dark blue, the colors of the genderfluid pride flag) Vocabulary is designed to be constantly reinvented as human societies evolve, and labels aren’t the exception.

Image 12: (in white text, on a background of pink, purple, and turquoise) Gatekeeping is a product of privilege.

End ID]

[stargazing-enby]

Thanks so much for the image descriptions!

Here's one more addition per @secretlycrazyhummingbird's suggestion:

[Image description: (in white text, over a black background with trees decorated with multi-colored lights) Queer people don't have to make themselves palatable to deserve respect. End ID]

[stargazing-enby]

And another one, per @mixed-bag-of-tricks's suggestion!

[Image description: (in white text, over a wooden background with curved boards the colours of the rainbow) It's okay to use a label even if it doesn't fit perfectly. End ID]

[stargazing-enby]

...you know what, I think the message of this post really boils down to this:

[ID: (in white text, over a black background with striking rainbow lights) gatekeepers are nothing but bullies. End ID]

And I'm really glad this post has helped so many people feel a bit less alone in their struggles. Bullies have made a LOT of damage in this community—have made so many of us feel like impostors, like trenders, like maybe we were making up the things we were feeling—and it makes me so happy we're all pushing back against their hateful, narrow-minded, queerphobic rhetoric.

Keep it up, everyone 💪🏼

[vamptits]

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[halberdbooks]

Yeah

[last-airis]

blushing husband 💋🥳

[bulkhummus]

based off of this post

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[buddienetwork]

You remember the beagle. 9-1-1, S09E17

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

[killergirlfuria]

Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!

For me it causes both <3

[5cs-fanart-and-misc]

Slow updates is a tag now? Well, if you insist:

[atavanhalen84]

What Convinced Me Eddie Was In Love With Buck

Out of all the questionably, not very straight things Eddie has done during his 8 years in the fire fam. There is only one thing that truly convinces me that Eddie is head over heels in love with his best friend.

I feel a lot of the other stuff can be seen from a different side and explained away reasonably. Like hating on Buck's love interests or putting Buck in his will to take Christopher. Those could have pretty platonic reasoning behind them, even if those reasonings weren't necessarily logical.

The one thing that's happened, that I feel like can't be walked-back, is Eddie knowing down to the second how long Buck's heart stopped. You don't just count the minutes and seconds that your best friend stops breathing.

This man counted from the moment he flew up the ladder, from the moment he rushed back down it, from the second he got behind the wheel and drove as fast as he could to the hospital, when he rushed to take over compressions from Chimney, while he pressed his fingers to his neck and prayed for a heartbeat and finally got one.

Eddie climbed a ladder in full gear after being struck by the same bolt of electricity that stopped bucks heart, and he didn't stop praying, begging and counting until he felt that heart start beating again.

And that's what truly convinced me that Eddie was in love with Buck.

Everything else is just tasty icing on the cake.

[desertdinerbuddie]

Late June is gonna be wild for the Buckley Diaz family - Eddie’s birthday, Buck’s birthday, and Fathers Day, all within a week of each other? And all in Pride Month?? Crazy work.