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  1. Rec 3

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    A look at the Open Doors project, which (among other efforts) imports some digital fanwork archives as collections on AO3 -- and at its largest import so far, FictionAlley.

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    25 Jul 2025

  2. Rec 55

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    The first time Buck tries to sleep in the main bedroom of 4995 South Bedford Street, he can’t.

    He turns off the lights, double-checks that the oven is off even though he didn’t turn it on, and triple-checks he locked the front and back doors. The house falls silent except for the creak of floorboards underneath his feet. Buck has never thought about the floor so much as he does in that moment; the old, loved wooden slats - sanded and refinished over the decades. An oak tree somewhere in the country cut down so a family would have a place to stand, to sit, to sleep. To live.

    This house is not his. It’s not his home. Not yet. But he hopes it could be.

    or: Eddie leaves for El Paso to get Christopher back and Buck doesn’t even try to be normal about it

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    12 Jun 2025

  3. Rec *

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    So in the middle of Eddie’s dining room, with his brain to mouth filter non-existent (as per usual), Buck blurts out, “Marry me.”

    Eddie sits straight up, looking at him with eyes wide as saucers.

    “Excuse me?”

    “W-well, just think about it. If we get married I can add you and Chris to my insurance policy and that solves your problem.”

    Eddie’s mouth forms a perfect little ‘o’. Buck waits patiently for the floor to open up and swallow him whole.

    When the ground doesn’t do as he’d hoped he realizes he has to say something else. “Obviously, w-we don’t have to,” he’s quick to assure. “But if we did it would be platonic, of course, because you’re straight and–” he pauses, praying for another rogue stroke of lightning. Anything to put him out of his misery right now. “-and like I know that I’m bi now, but this wouldn’t be like that y’know? It would just be two friends helping each other out.” He’s rambling, the words won’t stop tumbling out. “Like a friends with benefits type situation! E-except you know not those kinds of benefits! Like actual benefits! Health and dental.”

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    Eddie is moving to Texas, losing his insurance, and marrying Buck all very heterosexually and platonically.

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    12 May 2025

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    “I thought you were ready to start dating,” Bobby says, which. Eddie doesn’t think that’s remotely close to the point.

    “Yeah, Eddie,” Buck echoes, all narrowed eyes and petulance, aggressively attempting to spear a tomato on his plate while maintaining eye contact.

    “I…I don’t think the blind dates were really working out.”

    “So you’re trying to get out of your aunt’s setups, again. And this is what you’re going with?” Hen says, eyebrows raised.

    “I did not say that. I hadn’t even thought about telling Pepa I’m seeing Felisa, to be honest.” But isn’t that a thought. “I just thought a break would be nice, you know? I can find someone at my own pace, organically.”

    A chorus of protests and objections, to the tune of “how are you going to meet someone organically when everybody thinks you’re dating someone else”, breaks out across the table.

    “Oh, he’s gonna find someone organically, alright,” Chimney interrupts. “Obviously, he’s gonna fall in love with Felisa.”

    Buck promptly begins to choke on his salad.

    Or: Eddie pretends to date Felisa Valdez, a normal thing to do, for normal reasons. Buck acts normal about it.

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    27 Apr 2025

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    “Do you guys think I’m in love with Eddie?”
    Hen and Chim froze—Hen’s hand tightened around the pack of gauze she held, crinkling the plastic, and the syringe Chim had been holding slipped from his fingers and rolled across the floor.
    There was a moment of stunned silence between the three of them, before Hen broke it with an amused, “Good morning to you too, Buck.”

     

    or, a 5+1 fic of post-"Holy Mother of God" conversations, because it’s way more fun to imagine Buck not letting this go.

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    29 Mar 2025