hi again =)
I saw you talking about some wips and I remembered, besides crash! that! truck! about queer feelings and one, which I don't know if it would really be a wip, about Buck and Tommy getting back together but still having to go to couples therapy after the conversation about having children was brought up by Tommy and Buck said no.
hellooo. so they are actually both on that list, under their new names lol. queer feelings has become faithful to my freedom and therapy fic has become (dis)connect so here's a briefish yap about both
faithful to my freedom/queer shit
i actually wrote some of this yesterday!
my plan is now to finish this in the not too distant future and post it as a oneshot with numbered sections
it's another one where i'm not taking post-breakup canon into account lol
i'm merging it with another snippet i found that wasn't originally part of this, but features them being friends and talking more about the breakup and tommy casually saying some really out of pocket shit about disappearing into relationships because he's spent his whole life wanting to disappear
to which buck says ☝️ as your friend. you need therapy more than anyone i have ever known
and tommy's like "what, that's not weird, a mortal fear of being perceived living your life is normal."
and then...idk, stuff happens?
(dis)connect/therapy fic/communication is hard actually
i also wrote some of this the other day because @annie-a-lou asked me about it and i'm very easily led lol
so this folder contains the draft document, some notes on couples therapy, and some notes on What Is Their Deal
basically - why are they so bad at conflict
for me, it's because buck's - well. even if it wasn't for the daniel thing, they are WASP central, so i can imagine the buckley parents just absolutely not fighting in front of the kids and therefore giving them no model for how to resolve conflict
whereas for tommy, growing up conflict = anger, and anger = violence so he is so, so, so careful all the time not to have/express Bad Feelings. he also knows he fucked up real bad the first time around and so feels like he doesn't have the right to get upset about anything buck says/does
mostly this is a fic about how you can think you've worked your shit out and developed a Healthy Communication Relationship, but then!
