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Val 🖤 30s 🖤 they/them serpentandflower on ao3

[buckinlove]

Hey, I'm Val. I'm in my 30s, I'm nonbinary/bisexual, and I prefer they/them.

This blog is 18+ and never spoiler-free.

I'm a longtime lurker in multiple fandoms but 911 is my main. Evan Buckley is my pookie and I love him very much. So I happily emotionally/physically/mentally torture him and then I make it all better. I am a multishipper across fandoms.

Links: AO3 • Edits

my icon/header were created by the wonderful @olismabel

[katiagrim]

May and Harry and Buck watch the Bachelor on Monday nights which is in fact a tidbit I find delightful

[buckinlove]

I need to see every single abc show ratings absolutely tank from now on I do not give a single fuck what gets cancelled because of it

[emziess]

Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley 9-1-1, S04E14

[ineffablehonor]

hot take: buck taking legal action and attempting to sue the 118, potentially jeopardizing the future function of the station was utterly justified, and he did nothing wrong. not allowing buck back into the 118/ wrongfully terminating him was entirely unethical. the fact bucks hurt and upset response to being sidelined in the one thing he's ever found true joy in, was seen as selfish and asshole behavior? something was truly wrong with that whole plot line, and a genuine rage fills me at the fact they tried to depict him and paint him out as this villain that whole time, when in reality he just wanted his family to take him back.

[totallyjustabunchofhocuspocus]

The union should have nipped that whole situation in the bud when Bobby refused to let Buck back for no medically documented reason.

[theboost]

The great thing about Gus is that he perfectly oscillates from playing the annoyed straight man to Shawn’s general insanity to yes-anding to an insane degree. For every moment where he says no Shawn, you did not hear that both ways there’s a moment where he, with no prompting, claims that his fictitious grandmother with a broken hip was teaching a line dancing class. For every time he says Shawn, stop messing around at work, there is a time where after Shawn says he’s been “looking at the man in the mirror”, Gus, in a move that never ever fails to make me laugh, with a completely straight face and no impact on the conversation, does the Michael Jackson “he-he”. He’s insane. He thinks he’s normal. He does 11 point turns. He’s a sympathetic crier.

[dailykinley]

#magnetism

[niraves]

Evan Buckley, listen up

[hallwords-deactivated20250118]

to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

[rowancampbell-author]

I needed to read this. Thank you.

[siratonin]

one of the scariest moments of Tommy's life 👀

[ilianitta]

i kinda can't stop thinking about them

[hubcaphalo]

Oh, we're NOT leaving this in the tags, @harmless-variety-of-garden-snake

[buckinlove]

there was a time that saying anything like this would have earned a person a hell of a lot of hate/insults and fandom exile on top of that but I've seen some really interesting takes today so I'm just gonna...

buck has outgrown the 118 treating him like the immature youngest child and he deserves better than to continually be the emotional punching bag and the laughing stock all tied up in one, and the "found family" tends to be more of an anchor weighing him down than a group of people that he can lean on during difficult times

I think that he absolutely should have gone through with the transfer to another station, because it would have been an incredible storyline for buck to explore his grief and his future as a firefighter outside of the 118 and bobby even (and hopefully) if that eventually leads him back to the 118 with a better more confident mindset

it's a better storyline than buck having to figure out how to be alone for the 319478th time

[epiphainie]

anywayyyy today i was thinking about buck and tommy early in their relationship 2.0 having a conversation about tommy leaving buck and buck's abandonment issues and having the half earnest half lighthearted exchange of "what if you leave me again?" "i'm not gonna leave you again. ever." "you can't promise that." "yes i can, don't tell me what to do" and then fast forward a year tommy being in a helicopter crash and buck trying to dig his way to him with angry, burning tears murmuring "you promised. you promised you'd never leave me again"

[epiphainie]

and then buck waiting by tommy's bedside after multiple surgeries, still unsure if tommy will wake up, and tommy waking up with a scraggly "i told you." buck looks up and wide-eyed immediately shuffles to him as tommy continues "i told you i wouldn't leave you" and then buck starts tearing up

[coffincoitus]

a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

[breakbleheavens]

Whispers of "Are you sure?" "Never have I ever before"

[buckinlove]

the way I just lost all desire to watch season 9…

[carolinawrenn]

Lord knows that the United States has and continues to commit atrocities. I can't justify that. And the current political situation here is scary as hell. But I love this place. I love the Atlantic Ocean and New York City and the Pacific Northwest. I love my Blue Ridge Mountains with my whole entire heart. I love cardinals and mockingbirds and kudzu and possums and black rat snakes and the way the woods smell in the mornings. 

I love that Americans are known for complimenting strangers. I love that we fry everything, and that we do it well. I love 12-foot-high plastic Halloween skeletons in people’s yards and tacky Christmas lights that stay up too long. I love that we are an unabashedly goofy people.

I love bluegrass music. I love stepping. I love that there are always folklorico dancers in my town’s Mardi Gras parade. I love that my town has a Mardi Gras parade, even though most people here aren’t Catholic or French and didn’t grow up with any kind of Carnivale tradition. I love that if "Livin On A Prayer" comes on a pizzeria, at least one person at each table won't be able to stop themselves from singing along. I love that the middle school gym shakes to the rafters when families cheer for THEIR baby finishing eighth grade and that they bring balloons and bouquets and flower garlands to celebrate.

I love the 80 year old couple at our local No Kings protest. I love all the little kids there with their families, too. I love the brass band that always shows up at protests here and plays old union songs and gospel music. I cry like a damn baby every time I hear “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”

This country is horrible and selfish and destructive, but it’s also wonderful and kind and full of people loving and fighting and trying to make things better. And the people saying that there’s only one kind of real American, and that if you don’t look like they do or talk like they do or think like they do, then you don’t count, those people can go pound sand. I’m as real American as they come, and those people aren’t the only ones who get to love our country.