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[silentxxsoul]

In an attempt to better organize my fics I've promoted on this blog, I'm going to dump them all here :) [or you can see them all on A03 under silentxsoul!]

!fics listed newest to oldest!

9-1-1 (Buddie)

Light Up the Night like Shooting Stars (T) | 3K Or: Christopher writes an essay about Buddie for school (cue the feels), and Buck and Eddie have secret dance nights outside under the stars.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (T) | 7K Or: The Play Ball continuation where Buck panics over (re)meeting Eddie's parents, paired with a hefty sprinkle of baseball references and sass from everyone with the surname Diaz.

Three Minutes is a Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Time (T) | 6K Or: There's a bet and conspiring to get Buddie together, Chris thinks he's an excellent negotiator, and Buck and Eddie are definitely in love your honor.

Loving You, Always (T) | 12K Or: 5 times Eddie reflects on the things he loves about Buck, and the 1 time he tells him as much.

Know That This Means Everything (To Me) (T) | 6K Or: Athena, Hen, and May collaborate to help Buck and Eddie pull off the ultimate surprise proposal. To each other.

Adventures of Smokey, The Fire Cat (T) | 5K Or: Buck accidently acquires a kitten, Chimney is haunted by chirping, and Chris terrorizes Buck in Minecraft.

Tis the Season (T) | 17K Or: The holiday gift exchange where Bobby learns that it was Eddie who killed his microwave and Chimney sees Jesus in Jee-Yun's scrambled eggs.

Play Ball (T) | 6K Or: Buck has poor impulse control, there's kissing, and Chris being an absolute angel of a child. And a generous amount of baseball sprinkled in there.

Harry Potter (Charmione)

Post-Traumatic (M) | 56K This wasn’t the first time he and Hermione had the same late-night thought, and he was sure it wouldn’t be the last. He caught her eye as he walked over to the steaming kettle behind her. Though no words were spoken, there was a mutual understanding of why they were there.

Bonded (M) | 21K Or: The soulbond AU that no one really needed, but it's here anyway.

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[foxgirl-sumireko-usami]

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[jonwatson]

lucy: literally drowning herself in the bath

george: ok but i need to pee so can you like hurry up

[impossible-improbable]

Wait hang on I want to talk about that scene with Lucy and George eating pizza and starting to not hate each other because seeing them find a common interest and start to like each other was wholesome as fuck

[thirtyfiveportlandrow]

George: So, what is Lucy to you?

Lockwood: The reason I get out of bed

George: Aww that's nice

Lucy, late last night, barging into Lockwood's room because she accidentally let Annie Ward's ghost out again: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP

[just-jessiejames]

guys can we just sit back and really take in the fact that lockwood & co was so good as a show, that everywhere we look, there are new people in the fandom actively going out and purchasing the books to read them? including myself, who didn't know of the books until the show released because i live under a literary rock.

but like, the show was good enough and compelling enough that it drew us all in and we wanted more, and we have it. we have the books. we can read them. and we want to. can we bask in that? can we appreciate this? this amazing. this so cool. idk i just find this so neat, you know? there's plenty of media that releases, based off books, and people don't go out and read the source material. but... it feels different with this one. and i love that.

[l-carlyle-deactivated20260421]

[lourdes-archieve]

SEX EDUCATION  Season 3 Episode 5

[yenvengerberg]

RUBY MATTHEWS in SEX EDUCATION, SEASON 3

[sockich]

Because I still have shit to say, apparently.

The thing that’s been really frustrating me about how the Adam/Eric break-up played out and how people have been reacting to it, is that I think there are two entirely different things at play here, and conflating them creates confusion.

The first thing is Eric feeling the need to break up with Adam because he feels like he can’t be his true self with him. And this might be controversial, but I think Eric had every right to do that. No matter what, everyone always has the right to break up with someone if the relationship doesn’t work for them.

The second thing is that, for the moment (we’ll see how a potential season 4 deals with this), I get the sense the show wants me to believe that objectively speaking, Eric was correct in thinking he couldn’t be himself with Adam, that he was losing himself because of Adam. And that’s the thing I have a problem with.

People have already talked about how Adam never once tried to get Eric to be anything but his true self as far as Eric’s behaviour and style goes. And while, yes, he wasn’t out to his mum yet, he was out to literally everyone else in their lives—and all he was asking for was a little time to gather the courage to come out to his mum too. But the thing I want to talk about is how, after a whole season of Adam going out of his comfort zone in various ways (and not just for Eric, but for his own sake too, like asking Ms Sands for help in getting better with school), Adam says he didn’t think putting make up on and going to a gay club would be his thing, and Eric immediately, without even talking to him about it, decided that was a fixed point of Adam’s character and that meant Adam wasn’t the guy for him.

And again, I’m not actually saying Eric was wrong to feel that. I’m just saying that, based on Adam’s pattern of behaviour, I wish the show wouldn’t act as if it was an objective truth.

Because the thing is, Adam doesn’t like poetry. That’s not his thing either. And the second Eric actually used his words and told him that he liked it, Adam went and not only read a poetry book, but actually put real, impressive effort into writing poetry himself. All because Eric told him he liked it.

What I’m saying is, the idea that Adam wouldn’t agree to go to a gay club with Eric (with or without putting make-up on himself), if Eric actually expressed that it mattered to him, just doesn’t work for me.

So, yeah, Eric broke up with Adam because he wanted to fly while Adam’s still learning to walk and, you know what, that’s fair enough. But it seems to me that the only reason Eric didn’t think Adam was ready to fly is because he never actually paid all that much attention to Adam, and all the ways in which he already wasn’t the person Eric thought he was. (See also Eric’s dismissive laughter at the idea Adam could ever write him poetry, when in fact, that’s exactly what Adam then did.)

Also, I really could have gone without the idea that not wanting to go out to a gay club while wearing make-up means Adam isn’t ready to fly. It probably means he and Eric aren’t compatible, sure, but it’s not actually a sign that Adam isn’t on Eric’s evolved level of queerness yet. Shockingly enough, it’s possible to be a fully realized queer without enjoying the club scene!

Idk, I just wish the break-up happened because Eric realized they weren’t compatible because they enjoy different things. Presenting it as an issue of Adam not being on Eric’s level of queerness yet really left a bad taste in my mouth, especially as it was used as a way to sort of excuse Eric cheating.

And I know Adam loves Eric and is devastated by the break-up, but the main reason I’m okay with it is because he deserves better than someone who not only constantly pushes him out of his comfort zone, but then completely fails to even see the progress he’s making.

[pleasantphantomtragedy]

Hope truly is a fantastic villain, pure conservative terf. Knows how to dress and act young and understanding how to make you forget your dealing with an authority figure who wants order no matter what.

Starts the season off by going after Otis and Maeve to nip the 2 obvious trouble makers before moving on to focus on the black, queer and neurodivergent students, and there’s a clear intent in how she talks to the 3.

She does not respect Cal as a non binary person and sees them as a women, which makes the continuous assaults clearly misogynoir on top of transphobia and erasure.

She dismisses and then initially sees Jackson as useful particularly for image purposes before dumping him because of Jackson’s own sense of justice getting in her way.

Viv is the most useful for a lot of the season because as a neurodivergent coded character Viv is vulnerable to authority due to how isolating it can be, as well as her desire for structure and good prospects. Hopes treatment of Viv gets so comfortable that she finally says some gross stuff right before the open day. This ultimately destroys her plan cause us neurodivergent folk have a strong sense of justice when rattled, when something is wrong we hate it.

Then there’s the sign hanging scene. Truly monstrous attempt to tamp down on the school, force every student to follow the rules by directly separating the black (cal) queer (cal, lily, Adam) and nuerodivergent (it’s coding but lily and Adam have a lot of coding) students and labelling them as outcasts and freaks.

This all doesn’t work mainly because the students destroy hopes power the only way you can: make clear that you embrace being a loud proud deviant and are not going to be silenced

And right at the end when Hope is attempting to tut tut Otis with her ‘I’m older and wiser and everyone from back when agrees with me’ Otis destroys her logic calmly by saying ‘no, they just weren’t allowed to speak up back then’.

Pro tip: a useful trick to destroying a fascist is to make it clear they’re views are not popular and they are in the minority.

Like I’m surprised a British show went so hard on a specific type of horrible person that is a large part of why Britain has a transphobic movement.

[aerishey]

What I want is Otis and Ruby treating their relationship as a fun, more of a friends-with-benefits, nothing serious kinda thing with no strings attached, with the occasional deeper emotional moments where they’re like whoah what is this. And Otis constantly ruminates on how he lost Maeve, but when they finally kiss, it doesn’t feel right. When he kisses Ruby, it puts a smile on his lips, and his whole being feels lighter, and that’s when he realizes, that he’s fallen head over heels for Ruby without even noticing. So he apologizes to Maeve, and he goes off, because he knows now that love doesn’t have to be heavy and difficult. Love can be easy and fun and uncomplicated, love can be Ruby.

[obxfics]

i don’t understand why they would have the cute bowling double date, showing ruby and adam getting along with their respective partner’s best friend and with each other, and then break up otis and ruby the literal next episode out of literally nowhere and for what? for otis and maeve to yet again not get together?

as unexpected (not really after last season) otis and ruby were, they were good together. otis was actually really happy and not stressed out over his relationship. they were surprisingly a really healthy relationship and brought out the best in each other. the issue in their relationship that caused it to end came out of literally nowhere, like mere minutes after showing just how happy and cute of a couple they were. and having ruby fall for otis, having him be the first person she’s ever shown her house let alone introduced to her father… that’s just cruel and had no bearing on the rest of the plot. they were an amazing couple, miles better than otis and maeve at this point because the latter has been drawn out for three seasons already and the whole will they won’t they dynamic doesn’t work anymore because each of them has better love interests now.

[wxnderwell]

Okay but Ruby and Otis were absolutely fucking phenomenal together???? The development with Ruby was so incredible and he opened up a more vulnerable side to herself for him and you’re telling me sweet, kind, smart Otis went and said THAT????

Absolutely fucking not. I want a do-over cause Otis is in no way an idiot and would never regress as a character when he is so open to righting his mistakes, especially with how he went about with Ola.

ALSO, THEY REALLY ROBBED US OF OTIS AND RUBY BEING IN PARIS TOGETHER?????

I call bullshit.

[pestoprongs]

golden era girls are complete ✨

[argumate]

of course there’s still a problem that if the I-ain’t-got-no-sex bonus is paid equally to men and women then it won’t replicate the mythical 1950s husband’s income supporting a family situation, but the whole point is to compensate for inequality, not to guarantee the absence of inequality; a height bonus wouldn’t make people taller, either.

[confusedbyinterface]

Old: Hiding your boyfriend from the landlady because you’re not allowed to have men over

Bold: Hiding your boyfriend from Centrelink because you need your Incel Allowance to pay the rent

[argumate]

back to the old underwear-on-the-clotheslines check

[pglang]

we young but we stressing like we 40