28 Recs for my 28th Birthday
Hi everyone!!! Joining this fandom has been one of the highlights of my year and I have made SO many wonderful friends through it, people who feels like I have known for years, not months. šāØš„³ My 28th Birthday is Dec 22nd, so I wanted to put a rec list of the fics that impacted me the most / I have read most often, in vaguely alphabetical order, but I have so so many more wonderful recs in my bookmarks! (This'll also double up as my very belated contribution to @thirdwheelravi's incredible 50k celebration!)
another by @minalover - I first saw this as a ficlet on Tumblr and started reccing it to everyone I know.
bite the apple, baby! by watchriverdale - buck accidentally sexts eddie and it sets a whole chain reaction off, this fic makes me glad that I don't filter by completed works only, another one I have recced to everyone I know.
benign fatality by etoilegarden - āSay that again,ā Eddie said. āI didnāt want to be dead,ā Buck repeated, frowned slightly at Eddie. āI want us to be alive. To be together.ā Eddie kissed him. --- enough said!!!!
buck mortem by @punksalmons - I legitimately probably reread this once every two months minimum, the expert understanding of the way buck impacts the people around him blows me clear away.
downward facing doggy style by survivah - this made me consider getting back into yoga <3
drinkin' to call someone by @freezethismoment - a brilliant depiction of how silly Eddie can get, and was the reason I made the first friend in this fandom that I reached out to first <3 ty for being brilliant
family portrait by @prosperdemeter2 - Beautiful representation of the relationship between Maddie and Buck, also I think I'm weak for Buck speaking spanish casually
forever in a day by organyx - multiverse fics ily with my whole heart
god, gays and the texas rangers by k15n - GODDD I love an epistolary fic, and I adore Chris pov. best of all worlds
habitual damage by @eggmacguffin - Chris is delightful in this one, and Eddie as always is a ride or die.
how come everybody's dancing but you? by showedupatyourparty - Carly Rae Jepsen features surprisingly heavily here, and a response to a comment I left on this fic confirmed that buck and Eddie did indeed slow dance to guess by billie eilish and charli xcx. peace and love on planet earth
if I could see you (once more, to see you) by @colonoscopys - the Hen pov in this one gripped me tight.
if I have your heart forever by @2x01diaz - the same inevitability of living things to decay is the way they love each other holy fuck everyone just back tf up rn
I never thought about love when I thought about home by @lacerta26 - sooo them!!! loved the visual of them looping arms to take shots š„¹
learn from the ants by @bugbugly - I think about this one so so so often, this one drove me to make a fic cover for a fic that's not even mine just to exorcise the learn from the ants thoughts. They are each other's light through the darkness.
let every man be master of his time by illgetmerope - time loop fic to stop buck from mysteriously dropping dead, in one of the loops they Thelma and Louise off a cliff together while kissing bc they've never been normal about each other a day in their life god bless
need by rizcriz - yay @ Eddie making Buck tell him what he needs. mwah.
paint the ceiling black by hispolestar - I can't explain the impact this one had on me. I have reread it so many times, the prose here echoes in my mind.
pros and cons of resurrection by talls - Sososososo messy and brilliant??? Very 8x17 vibes where they're all so inexorably tied to each other but love each other and it's still a mess anyway!!! also calling out the Bobbychimney vibes from season 1, so correct to do so š«”
salt by @happydiaz - Eddie gets off on making Buck cry. They just like taking care of each other, yay forever.
something so precious about this by @damnit-buck - oh my god Eddie loves Buck so much it oozes out of every word here
stopgap by wabisabipapi - low-key unhinged4unhinged psychological warfare here <3 yay.
sweet tooth by @livesbetweenpages - The first and maybe only fic I have ever written a 1k word comment for. Also, oral fixations forever :)
tell me it's inevitable (that I end up with scars) by @theladyragnell - this is the 3rd fandom that I have come across theladyragnell's fic in independently, and it is such a delight every time <3
the haunting is inherited by bloodthinnerboy - I so enjoyed imagining Eddie wielding those big brown cow eyes with immeasurable force the whole time.
the stick-around by derryfacts2 - Buck takes his love of Eddie to the grave (and then back a few mins later :)). Deeply funny love confession.
yellow flowers grow in the sun by superheronerd_1 - okay so what if I laughed and then cried once daily about the love Chris has for his dads and vice versa!!! This probably left an indelible mark upon the part of my brain that shapes my characterization of Chris in my fic!
you left (your mark on) me by @the-hwaelweg - This fic is the reason I made my very first friend in this fandom. Thank you for the warm warm welcome Alice <3
and one for luck! - tell me, did you sail across the sun by waywardghost - I have been reading fic since I was 9 years old (unfettered internet access as a child is a trip!!) but 911 is the fandom that finally made me take the plunge to actually start posting it myself, and I started by making an entirely custom work skin, bc of course I did.