🐚 summer of buddie 2.0 ☀️

a summer challenge for buddie fans (from june 16th 2025 to august 10th 2025)

[summerofbuddie]

summer of buddie 2.0 has officially ended!

it's been 8 weeks of fun and joy and sunshine but even good things must come to an end.

we want to thank everyone who participated in the second edition of this event. this year we want to give a special shout-out to the gifmakers in this fandom: y'all were so incredible and consistent and amazing <333 your beautiful creations were such a gift!

we are going to continue reblogging late submissions for the event until august 17th at 7pm. after that, we will consider the ao3 collection closed and we won't reblog any new posts even if we are tagged here on tumblr.

once again, thank you so much for all the community and support. we love buddie and we love you all.

your host,

maria (@thatbuddie)

[summerofbuddie]

on july 2024, we announced the first edition of summer of buddie as a way to inspire writers and get the buddie ao3 tag to 30k fics. that summer we were elated when our event helped us reach that milestone.

today, 17 months later, the buddie ao3 tag has officially reached 50k fics.

to the authors who made this possible: thank you. your creativity is unmatched, whether it is to make buck and eddie get together in infinite ways in the canon universe, or to imagine millions of different worlds where they still fall in love. your hard work is inspirational, whether to write long detailed fics full of yearning and angst, or short fun stories that still encapsulate buck and eddie perfectly in short format. whether you've written one or a hundred buddie fics, you are such an important pillar of this fandom

to the readers: thank you. your comments and positivity and reblogs and enthusiasm are the fuel that keeps writers going. we hope you keep laughing and screaming and crying and sighing with each new story that gets posted. remember to keep supporting writers in every way you can.

the buddie fic community has been around since 2018 and we've lived through many wonderful times together and the best thing is there is still so much more to come.

here is to the next 50k <3

[summerofbuddie]

Loved Summer of Buddie 2.0 and was wondering if there will be a Winter of Buddie 2.0 to match?

Whether it's yes or no, thanks for organizing some great events!

hi, friend! this year there won't be a winter of buddie event BUT we are contemplating organizing a spring of buddie event for next year so stay tuned 👀

[smolfunpenguin]

Home is Where the Heart is

Buddie fic | M | Complete | 6,200 words

Prompt fill for Buddie Month August 2025 - Week Two: Phone Call @buddie-month

And Summer of Buddie 2.0 - Week Eight: Home is where the heart is @summerofbuddie

Buck moved into the Diaz house and Eddie has returned to work following his recovery. They are more in sync with each other than ever and love being partners at home and at work. On one of their days off, Eddie receives an unexpected phone call from his Abuela - which causes some unspoken things to be addressed.

Set in an alternative season 5 and a sequel to It Feels Like Home Can be read as a standalone.

Read on ao3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69103411

[bilosan]

@summerofbuddie 2025 // week eight — home is where the heart is ↳ buddie + at home by jon bryant

[dangerpronebuddie]

We're Saving Three Grand (8k)

"The problem you two have run into can be fixed fairly simply," the woman says as they take a seat. "I just need to change my filing status, right?" Buck asks. "You need to get married." Eddie chokes beside Buck, who has just... stopped functioning. If anyone were to lean close to Buck's ear, they'd hear the AOL dialup tone echoing in his brainpan. He blinks the buffering symbols out of his eyes and shakes his head, trying to reduce the scratchy noise between his ears to just muffled static. "I'm sorry what?"

[read on ao3]

For week 3 of @summerofbuddie (I'm only 5 weeks late...)

(cover by the lovely @ronordmann thank yooooou 🩷🩷)

[summerofbuddie]

Hi, will you be leaving the collection open if we can't post today? Either way, thank you for a great event! 💜

hi! the ao3 collection will remain open until august 17th. after that, we will close it. but you still have this week to post any late submissions <333

[bestillmyirishheart]

@summerofbuddie Summer of Buddie 2.0, Week 6 "dreaming out loud", week 7 "making history" and week 8 "home is where the heart is"

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Buck is pretty sure that he is going crazy. There is no other explanation for what is happening to him right now. Or maybe he is still in a coma and is imagining things. Who knows? It’s weird as hell either way. or Buck dreams about what-ifs and different lives. And has trouble dealing with what it means. Eddie helps.

POV Evan Buckley, Buck/Eddie, General Audiences, 2749 words

[kindlingtotheflames]

@summerofbuddie week 8: home is where the heart is

(none of my edits will load unless i upload them to youtube-i think i've been cursed or something)

[gayeddies]

@summerofbuddie week 8 - home is where the heart is

[dozypigeon]

week 8 - @summerofbuddie - prompt "home is where the heart is"

the buckley-diaz scrapbook - volume 1 (made by buck)

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

notes below the cut

credits episode - 2x04, 2x14, 3x09, 3x12, 8x06, 8x17 lyrics - home by edward sharp and the magnetic zeros bucks heart drawing - courtesy of buddiesblr eddie's handwriting font buck's handwriting font christopher's handwriting font

notes post-its - yellow for eddie, green for christopher mario kart headcanons - buck and chris both want to play yoshi but buck obviously always gives over playing rights to chris. if anyone asks eddie why he plays luigi he says it's because he just always has and shrugs; but really the real reason is he wants to live his best moustache life vicariously. since buck can't play as yoshi he plays as waluigi to wind eddie up.

[punksalmons]

home is where the heart is 🏠❤

@summerofbuddie

[hollanderdiaz]

inspiration for @summerofbuddie week 8: home is where the heart is

[emziess]

week 8 (august 4th - august 10th): home is where the heart is - The Buckley-Diaz Fridge

[heartshapedbuck]

Eddie's welcome home party was a success...💖

@summerofbuddie week 8: home is where the heart is 🏡

Drawing pose reference from here <3

[minsvnshine]

@summerofbuddie week 8: home is where the heart is (insp)

[eventuallyyouwouldtoo]

Here it is, my first fic ever completed, aaaahhh!!!🤯🤩🤭

You'll never feel like you're alone (I'll make this feel like home)🏠💕

T | 35k | 3/3

Important tags: domestic fluff, buddie roommates, post season 8, Bobby Nash lives, sharing a bed, POV alternating between Buck, Eddie and Chris

Of course no place is going to feel like home in the way Eddie’s, and at the moment their home at South Bedford Street does. Honestly Buck hates picturing his future anywhere other than here with Eddie and Chris, but that can’t be what Eddie is trying to fish out of him. Surely not? “C’mon Buck be honest with me, please” Eddie pleads now, his deep brown eyes still on Buck’s, his voice more playful now, even fond. And who is Buck to resist that? He doesn’t think it would even be physically possible. Or Buck and Eddie decide to keep living together and everything starts to fall into place for the Buckley-Diaz family.

Written for @summerofbuddie week 8: home is where the heart is🫶🏻

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works