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new fic: bittersweet
bucktommy, 7.6k
tags: post "confessions" (8x06), alternate season 8
Summary:
In the end, what can you really change?
Excerpt:
"I'll see you around, Buck." "No." Buck grabbed his wrist and dragged him away. "No, you're not leaving." "Evan—" "Marry me."
Chapters: 3/7 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Tommy Kinard, Evan “Buck” Buckley & Maddie Buckley Characters: Maddie Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Theo (9-1-1 TV) Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, maddie han critical, Kid Fic, Getting Back Together, canon atypical good friend Eddie Diaz, Cancer, insane4insane, Fire Fam Critical, Evan Buckley is allowed to be mad, POV Multiple Summary:
Parental leave brings many expected and unexpected changes for Evan Buckley.
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
Sundays can’t sunday properly without our domestic pookies, so here they are, taking hasty decisions only to fall into reality later at home. Lucky them they know how to solve problems easily🤭
REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/7 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Tommy Kinard, Evan “Buck” Buckley & Maddie Buckley Characters: Maddie Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Theo (9-1-1 TV) Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, maddie han critical, Kid Fic, Getting Back Together, canon atypical good friend Eddie Diaz, Cancer, insane4insane, Fire Fam Critical, Evan Buckley is allowed to be mad, POV Multiple Summary:
Parental leave brings many expected and unexpected changes for Evan Buckley.
It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
if you ship bucktommy in any form, can you like/repost this?
I’m trying to see something.
Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Tommy Kinard, Evan “Buck” Buckley & Maddie Buckley Characters: Maddie Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Theo (9-1-1 TV) Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, maddie han critical, Kid Fic, Getting Back Together, canon atypical good friend Eddie Diaz, Cancer, insane4insane, Fire Fam Critical, Evan Buckley is allowed to be mad, POV Multiple Summary:
Parental leave brings many expected and unexpected changes for Evan Buckley.
please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.
a PSA for anyone who is confused by the panic over the UK heatwaves! ☀️
the UK has an amber warning declared for a heatwave this weekend, where temperatures will reach above 30C (86F). to many, especially Americans, this doesn't seem like a notable temperature, and i've seen many ignorant posts mocking UK residents who are worried about how they and their loved ones will be affected by the temperatures. i'd like to explain why heatwaves in the UK are different than other parts of the world, and why they cause such a panic: 🔥 because we are an island nation, our heat isn't dry: it's horrendously humid. high humidity means that your lungs need to work harder to breathe, and it's much harder for your sweat to evaporate in the air. sweating is how your body regulates its temperature, and you sweat more in humid environments. when sweat doesn't evaporate it remains on the skin, leaving you feeling hot, sticky, and ill. 🔥 our homes and buildings are built to retain heat. because the UK is so cold and rainy for the vast majority of the year, our homes are supposed to trap heat, not let it out. not only are our homes smaller on average, but between double glazing, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation, when heat hits a British home, it causes a greenhouse effect. heat just sits in our homes, and it doesn't dissipate at night, meaning we are unable to sleep. 🔥 we have no air conditioning. i have never been in a home with air-con, and very few public buildings have it (except some shops). because of the aforementioned cold, rainy conditions that affect the UK for the vast majority of the year, air-con has never received a significant roll-out here. this means that we have little to no relief from being inside buildings besides being in the shade, and few homes even have fans. 🔥 our city centres are packed and highly urbanised, which causes heat traps. because our streets and homes are often stacked tightly together, including rows of houses/buildings/etc., heat in densely packed areas has nowhere to go, and will simply sit. trying to walk through a city during a heatwave will leave you sweating and exhausted in minutes. likewise, there are limited spaces to go to cool off during these temperatures: people will literally go to the shops to stand in the fridge/freezer aisles. 🔥 our infrastructure is not built to cope with heat. during heatwaves, our tarmac melts. the rails which hold our trains bend and warp. our grass catches fire. a few years ago, airport runways cracked and lifted in the heat, halting flights. the UK is brought to a standstill during high temperatures because our cities and towns are built for colder, wetter temperatures. add in the 16 hours of daylight we get during the summer, and you have a recipe for disaster. 🔥 the hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK is 40C (104F). this was in England, and in other UK countries, it's even lower: in Wales, it was 37.1C (98.78F); in Scotland, it was 34.8C (94.64F), and in Northern Ireland, it was 31.3C (88.3F). because these are our highest temperatures, many of us are unused to the symptoms which signify heat exhaustion or heat stroke. i need to emphasise: people die during heatwaves. i highly encourage people to read about the 2022 UK heatwaves, which saw the deaths of nearly 3000 people (many of whom were elderly). we could do nothing but hunker down and survive the heat during this time, and it was especially dreadful for anyone who is older, disabled, and/or neurodivergent. so while 30C is not unheard of in the UK, any heatwave poses significant risks, including illness, disruption to transport, wildfires, and even death. thanks for reading, and to everyone from outside the UK who's provided useful advice on keeping cool! i'm sure we'll be alright, but i'm hoping folks won't parrot misinformation about us just 'not being able to cope with the heat' 💔
it's that special time of year where a heatwave is hitting the UK and mockery/misinformation spreads like wildfire from people who don't live here. so just some reminders for those unfamiliar with how UK heat can be deadly 💖
I love Night Watch from the first time I read it, and every time I reread it I start tearing up at this point:
He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.
Because that... That is the sign of a real good man.
If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.
It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…
the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck
THE MUMMY (1999) dir. STEPHEN SOMMERS
This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.
Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.
As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley & Maddie Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley/Tommy Kinard Characters: Maddie Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley, Tommy Kinard Additional Tags: Firefam Critical, post episode 9.13, Mentions of PTSD Series: Part 2 of Going to Fennario Summary:
Buck didn’t come to the door; there was no sound of movement inside. He was probably still sleeping. She dug through her purse for the spare key. She could let herself in, tidy the place up and get breakfast started. It’d be nice for Buck to wake up to a home cooked meal and a clean house. Buck had done that for her when she got home from the hospital after Braeburn. He meal prepped a week’s worth of dinners and deep cleaned the entire house and then ended up looking after Jee for the rest of the day so she and Howie could get settled in.
Where had she put that key? It wasn’t on the ring with the rest of them. She must have squirreled it away. If she left it at home she was going to—oh, there it was, tucked into the zippered side pocket, put there for safekeeping. Before she even had time to fit it into the lock, the door swung open to—
“Tommy?” she said, taking a step back.
This follow directly after If They Have to Carry My Body There.
For the 5 Facts AU ask game, episode 9x05 BuckTommy AU - Buck who still believes his attic noise problem are being caused by squirrels, asks to borrow Tommy's cat(s) to scare them away. This leads to Tommy's involvement in the events of rest of the episode and reconciliation (of course).
THE FUCK, TUMBLR DID NOT ALERT ME TO ANY ASKS AND I WAS JUST SITTING UP ALL NIGHT WATCHING FUCKING DYNASTY LIKE AN IDIOT.
1. Tommy adopted Shirley when she was too young to be weaned, because she was hiding behind his chopper's landing skid and crying her little head off. His chopper is Laverne, ergo Shirley. She has the hunting instincts of a wet noodle unless crane flies or moths are involved, because they're easy to catch. She's a chubby tuxedo cat who wouldn't go outdoors even if she was allowed, because there's weather out there. She does like sitting at the window and making weird noises at birds, and Tommy tells her, "You wouldn't even know what to do with one if you caught it."
2. Buck loves Shirley immediately. Shirley takes a couple of tries to warm up to him, because he's louder and moves faster than Tommy. But once she realizes he'll pet her forever and sneak her treats, she prefers him over Tommy, who's fine with that, it's not like he brought her in from the cold and spends hundreds of dollars on top tier vet care and food that better make her live until she's his age. But he also loves Buck pretty quickly, so he gets it. They're both suckers. Shirley mourns their relationship as much as Tommy. She keeps looking for Buck and crying when she can't find him.
3. Tommy isn't depressed, he's just been trying to handle a lot of stuff personally and professionally and he's fine. Except he deletes and adds Buck's number into his phone every other week, which is symbolic because he has it memorized. He's about to delete it again because Halloween is coming up and he thinks about that fucking cowboy costume and the actual cowboy and smothering his boyfriend with kisses in the truck cab after they held a funeral for said cowboy because he didn't think he was gross, they just didn't know if he was contagious because he wouldn't see a fucking doctor (Eddie does not count, neither does a text message with Maddie that involves more emojis than words) and also Tommy kept getting his face blocked in the first place. But then Buck calls. And Tommy picks up, debates making a joke about not being allowed within fifty feet of Harbor's chopper fleet without prior authorization (except that's sort of not a joke), but instead he just asks how Buck is. Buck is not well, and he doesn't want to call an exterminator because he doesn't want to kill the mystery squirrels, just scare them out of the attic. So Tommy locks eyes with his kind of completely stupid cat who's been cleaning between her toes for the last five minutes straight and says, "We'll be right over."
4. Buck's new house is cute, but it feels as disconnected as Eddie's house had when it was all packed up. There's touches of him there, but it's like he's afraid to exist anywhere. When Tommy shows up with two coffees, a bag of assorted nuts to distract or lure the squirrels, and a very upset cat in a carrier, Buck looks so tired that Tommy's first reaction is to carefully set everything down, release Shirley, and plop her in Buck's arms. He hugs the most useless cat in the world like she's the last raft on the sea, and she tolerates it and seems to hug him back by burying her face in his neck and purring louder than Tommy's heard her in a while.
5. Tommy points out that she'll probably be more scared of the squirrels, he doesn't think she's ever seen one up close. But Buck says her instincts will kick in, and Shirley starts making biscuits on his chest and Tommy cannot believe he's jealous of a cat. It's probably more reasonable than being jealous of Eddie. And Buck says what his real theory is, that it's actually Bobby. Tommy, an eternal skeptic unless he's faced with Evan Buckley looking at him with big sad eyes, says that even if it's not, the fact that Buck wants it to be so badly means that Bobby's got connections in the world still. Buck asks him if he'll stay over that night, and Tommy says he'll sit up on the couch and keep an ear out for squirrels. Instead, he ends the night with a man pinned against the floor and his foot between his shoulder blades while he twists his arm until he hollers for Tommy to stop.
6. Tommy is furious with the guy for violating Buck's privacy, his space, and his sense of safety. When he helps Buck clear out the attic (with Shirley sleeping in a sunbeam in the living room), Buck finds the chip and thinks the whole thing might've happened for a reason. Tommy's pretty sure that reason is housing insecurity and lack of access to addiction care, but he gets to see Buck smile. He drives him to the station, he looms in the background while Buck is his usual supportive, kind self, and Dwayne is still bowled over by his kindness but also says, "Dude, your boyfriend is fucking scary." And Tommy says, "Good." Buck says, "Be nice." And they take him to a meeting, and Tommy sits in the back and remembers wishing more than anything that his dad would find one. He remembers worrying he'd need them, because he drank too much in his twenties for so many reasons and wrote it off as being young and partying. After, he tells Dwayne that he hopes things work out. He slips him the number of a social worker he knows through his job who helps people find housing and employment.
7. After all of that, he scoops up Shirley to take her home, and he looks at her sad little face as he puts her in the carrier, and he looks up and sees an identical sad face watching him from across the room. And Tommy feels so fucking lonely sometimes, and he's starting to realize that Buck might be lonely, too. It's a terrible reason to ask someone to try again, so instead Tommy uses the excuse that he's in love with him anyway and probably will be even if he walked away and never saw him again. He could be seventy and someone could ask him if he had anyone special, and the first face that would flash in his head is the one staring at him right now. So he asks Buck if he wants to do something together the next time they're both off, and Buck asks him what he had in mind. "I figured I could buy you dinner, maybe a couple beers, I might even spring for dessert," Tommy says, and Buck does that thing where he ducks his head and grins and it makes Tommy feel like he's stepping directly into a fire with how much he loves him. "And then I thought I'd see if you wanted to do that a few times a month for the rest of our lives." And Buck looks like he's hand the wind knocked out of him, and then he kisses Tommy like he did in the hospital but a little sweeter. Then Shirley yowls from inside her carrier, and it breaks the mood and makes them laugh, but they keep holding onto each other for a while longer.
