Buck of All Trades Fest!
*with thanks to @ponyregrets for the excellent title suggestion.
Enough people seemed enthusiastic about the idea I (@frightfullytreeish) suggested on this post that I thought why not make it a reality.
The goal of this fic fest is to explore Buck's seriously underutilised jeep life backstory and all the skills he must have picked up (or, to be fair, discovered he was awful at) along the way. Tim Minear might have forgotten that Buck wore a cowboy hat prior to Nashville, but WE WILL NOT FORGET. In the postcards to Maddie in Buck Begins, we learn he did construction, mixology, dude-ranching, and picked up odd jobs, but those are just a few from a whole stack of postcards! What was his oddest job? Can he sex chicks by hand? Does he make a mean balloon animal? Let the spinning wheel decide.
Schedule
Between now and the 17th August, send me suggestions for jobs you think Buck might have/should have tried his hand at before he found his way to firefighting.
On the 17th August, I will post a link to a spinning wheel with all the suggestions (consolidating repeat/overlapping suggestions into one as necessary). Spin the wheel, receive a nugget of inspiration from Buck's employment history, and write a fic or create some fanart inspired by it! Contributions can be gen or shippy, pre-canon exploring Buck's time as e.g. a balloon animal artist or present day casually mentioning his balloon animal skills during an emergency, or some combination of the two.
On 7th September - when else but Labor Day? - post your fic to the AO3 collection here or on tumblr with the tag #buckofalltradesfest
Tagging people who I think expressed interest in participation, neath the cut