turquoiseviolet on ao3 | 7.7k words | buck/eddie | rated T
tags: fluff, pre-relationship, getting together, 5+1, idiot4idiot, pride month, and more
Eddie can smell the lime on Buck’s breath if he leans in close enough, and he lets himself wonder if Buck can smell it on his. He wonders if Buck would even notice such a thing.
Much more relevant to the matter at hand is that Eddie doesn’t have any reason to be leaning in close enough to smell the long-gone lime in the first place. He forcefully reminds himself of this fact and makes an effort to turn towards Karen on his other side, to actively listen to what she’s saying about the current question.
“Y’all would know Chappell if you heard her, I swear on my lesbian card.”
Eddie briefly wonders how one even acquires an official lesbian card, before realizing Karen is joking. Probably.
That tequila may have gone straight to his head.
or:
eddie’s been looking for answers without even realizing it. turns out, all it takes to find them is five rounds of pride trivia and a few increasingly fruity cocktails.
happy june 29th, i wrote a pride month fic!
follow eddie's descent into tipsiness and gayness through a game of pride trivia. takes place this pride month, post-s8, except in my world bobby lived and buddie stayed roommates.
short excerpt below:
Under ‘Team name:’ Chimney has written ‘Station 1gayteen.’
“What does that—” Eddie starts.
Buck bursts out in laughter when he reads it, stopping Eddie in his tracks.
“I joked about it when we got here,” Hen explains.
Karen cuts in, “I believe your exact words, when you saw Buck was wearing the same cutoff rainbow LAFD shirt as you, were ‘station 118? More like station one-gay-teen,’ Hen.”
Chim cheekily shrugs. “Well, I thought it was funny. And so did Loretta Lavender when she asked what our team name was and I explained, so…”
Eddie makes a point of not chiming in, since he’s one of the few of the group who probably shouldn’t get a say in whether or not something is gay.
Instead, he focuses on Buck’s shirt that Karen mentioned. ‘Cutoff’ doesn’t really do it justice. It has the LAFD logo in rainbow, and it was originally a short-sleeve t-shirt before Buck absolutely sinfully butchered the sleeves and the sides. Eddie had noticed it earlier, how could he not, but he hadn’t realized just how much more of Buck’s body it shows than it covers when he leans forward.
He focuses on his drink instead.
Thankfully, before he knows it, he’s able to focus on Sandy Eggo and Loretta Lavender getting everyone’s attention with a reminder of the rules before they start.
If you don't like the AO3 icons, or if you always have trouble figuring out what they mean, this site skin might be useful for you!
It replaces the content icons (for warnings, completion status, relationships and ratings) in blurbs with color-coded text labels. Additionally, multiple relationship tags or ratings are no longer grouped together under one icon. For example, you will see an "F/F, F/M, M/M" label instead of the "Multi" icon if all of these types of relationships are tagged in a story.
The label colors and the text that replaces the icons can be easily customized.
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a guide by a newbie who knows nothing about code. please feel free to correct me and/or provide your own resources.
so if you're here at all you've likely heard of site skins on AO3. this is going to be your main "modifying medium" and the method that allows you to stay vanilla. the two other things I'll be talking about are bookmarklets, based in your bookmarks, and user scripts which you need an extension and sometimes a different browser to use. (BUT THEY'RE TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!)
I'll be, in order, doing a quick explanation, helpful resources and a list of each kind of add-on. This is made by someone on a tablet, but a combination of common sense and provided resources should make doing this stuff on other devices fairly easy.
IF LIST ITEMS DO NOT HAVE CREDIT LISTED, I EITHER FORGOT, DON'T KNOW THE CREATOR, OR THE LINK IS TO THE CREATOR'S POST/WORK.
LIST ITEMS ARE LINKED ON THE COLORED TEXT
Site Skins!
What are they?
Site skins are the vanilla method of changing how your AO3 looks. Going to your dashboard and then skins [you need an account to use skins], you can see a list of your skins and public ones. The most popular, and likely the only skins you've seen before, primarily change the appearance of AO3. However, there is another kind of site skin that I've decided to call 'functional skins'. Functional skins differ from decorative skins in that they change things beyond font and color. My primary examples are perma-blocking tags, shortening blurb tags and adding a scroll bar, and replacing the (rating, relationships, etc.) icons with writing providing the same information.
To create a functional site skin, simply create a new skin and copy and paste your code below the CSS header! (the skin upon creation should automatically be set to a site skin with the CSS code box.)
To use a functional site skin in conjunction with a decorative site skin, set the F skin as the D's parent skin under "Advanced" in the D skin editor. If it doesn't immediately work, try flipping the parent chain around. If that doesn't work, your decorative skin might somehow block the function. (this is sadly the case with one of my functional skins.)
Resources
The best resources I can give you for site skins are Tumblr users @ao3commentoftheday and @ao3skin ! (sorry for the tag!!) Not only do they have a lot of decorative skins, they also both have functional skins!
The List
- warnings/rating/etc icons in text form
(I never really memorized the icon meanings so this is both easier for me to understand and is still colorful! I did change the text color to be lighter to work with my dark theme, though)
- shortens tag section and adds tag scroller
li.blurb .tags {
max-height: 7.5em;
overflow-y: auto;
}
(genuinely don't know where I found this one nor the link to it so here; very useful in preventing tag walls while browsing)
- perma-blocks tags (you won't have to filter them!)
(SO SOS SO SO SO AWESOME! haven't finished my list yet since it's (in my opinion) a bit tedious but definitely worth it and not all that difficult)
- rainbow text!!!
(very pretty! works with my decorative skin, too!)
- changes the color of links you've visited
(neat, but doesn't work with my deco skin :[ wanna try to figure out why!)
- my current decorative skin :]
(it glowy!!!!! prebby!!!!! need I say more)
Bookmarklets!
What are they?
Bookmarklets are bookmarks! But with javascript and therefore funky functions. Genuinely don't know how to explain them, nor how to free hand but the javascript from my understanding goes certain places in the bookmark's URL.
Resources
Again, I know nothing about javascript and therefore.... can only provide you a couple handy bookmarklets myself!
The List
- replaces y/n with specified name
(what it says on the tin! haven't tried this one out since I don't read y/n docs but it seemed helpful.)
- saved filters
(I should NOT need to explain why this one is awesome. seriously guys it's awesome)
- saved filters specifically filtering out smut tags
(This is my personal use of the last one listed! this is not an exhaustive filtering out but it's that many more that you won't have to type out next time. COPY AND PASTE THE TEXT ABOVE INTO AN EMPTY BOOKMARK'S URL TO USE!)
User Scripts!
What are they?
User scripts are where it gets spicy. They're outside the site, so can modify it beyond appearance, add new features and generally do stuff the other options can't.
To use a user script, you need a script manager extension, and some browsers don't support extensions (cough CHROME cough). Fear not, though! It's easy to download other browsers and find compatible script managers.
Resources
A good basic guide to scripts! Greasy Fork
A good, fairly universal script manager! Tampermonkey (search for downloading on your current browser)
A list of AO3-specific user scripts! Greasy Fork
The List
- adds Marked for Later button to work blurbs while browsing and on the home page/top of the screen
- recommends fics based on certain tag combos in a work
- adds download button to work blurbs while browsing
- allows filtering bookmarks by length
- assigns length to works and compares them to a list of published novels' lengths
- removes kudos button when you've already left kudos
- floaty reviewer box! for writing comments as you read
- when browsing, collapses blurbs of works that are later than part 1 in a series
- rearrange the tag order when editing works and bookmarks
- puts a badge in the menu when you have unread inbox stuff
- easy interface for formatting comments with HTML
- style editor, blacklist, bookmarks that mark your exact place, good all-in-one
(you can disable functions you don't want/need for this one ↑)
- score calculators based on kudos/hits ratio and chapters and a more complicated "engagement score"
(I more use these scores out of curiosity than anything)
Enfin!
Thank you for reading my guide! I don't usually do stuff like this but I suspect I'm hyperfixated. I'm very tired, worked pretty hard on this and it's currently past midnight for me so if this was helpful please share it!!!! All credit due to the respective creators in here.
fandom: 9-1-1
pairing: buck/eddie
chapters: 1/1
words: 42k
rating: explicit
notes: there's fluff and there's angst and there's smut and there's canon divergence. i plotted and started this two years ago and finished it just now and like. i cannot look at it anymore. take it off my hands, please!
Contrary to popular belief, Buck and Eddie haven’t always been strictly platonic. But if they don’t talk about every single time they’ve stepped over the line, they both seem to believe they can pretend none of these instances ever happened. That has to be easier than admitting it’s not all that normal to fall into bed with your best friend a couple of times a year, right?
Eddie, for his part, doesn’t think it’s a big deal.
Until, of course, it is.
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or; missing moments in buck and eddie’s friendship that lead to eddie’s pining, a hard look at love, and, eventually, a happy ending
eddie always going to buck whenever hes having problems with chris is so crazy to me. like EVERYONE else in the 118 actually has kids, buck is the only one without any, and eddie STILL goes to him.
Yea, you had changelings and demonic possession and “brats” and “back talk”, and kids that were “not all there”, your aunt who’s “crazy”, and your second cousin no one ever talks about cuz he’s “special”, and if you’re fucking lucky, your elder uncle who lives a nice quiet life with his 70 lego sets and writes grocery stores about changing the light bulbs cuz they’re too harsh.
tbh in retrospect i think bucktommy was the funniest relationship in the show. two grown men spend six months dating each other because they both really want to fuck some other guy but can't admit that this is the guy they'd rather be dating. the kind of behavior you might expect from like. the only two queer teens in a bigoted small town. not two men in los fucking angeles with whole ass careers. and mind you the whole time said other guy is completely unaware that this is going on and is just kinda thinking "my best friend and his boyfriend :) time to hang out with my best friend and his boyfriend :)" while carrying out an emotional affair with the doppelganger of his dead wife that will unbeknownst to him result in him spending a month living in el paso working as an uber driver.
feel compelled to say this even though i too am getting weary of #discourse:
but. i don't think it's crazy or wrong for people to question whether romantic buddie is actually something the show intends to follow through on when this is like the third (and certainly most egregious!) time they have built up a storyline that has all the ingredients to culminate in SOME kind of explicit confirmation of romantic feelings only to swerve away from it at the last second.
i also don't think it's crazy or wrong to believe they might indeed pull the trigger next season or in a future season.
acting like either one of these viewpoints is categorically wrong and you're stupid for believing it is tiresome
Is that really love? Shouldn't it be, they're at their worst, you're at your worst, you have every reason to give up, and you still decide you want to try again.
thanks to @bellabrady for providing the references on twitter
