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🌈 i made a @bucktommyfluffebruary rainbow! 🌈

i just really wanted to see my drawings for the month all together and thought you might enjoy it as well 💖 there’s 30 in total and the first time i’ve ever completed a fandom project of this magnitude, i’m very proud. thank you to everyone for all of your support as always!!! 💖🦬

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Crack theory: buddie goes canon and it's all Margaret's fault doing. Walk with me...

IIRC, in some interview at the end of 8a, it was brought up that the Buckleys may make an appearance, so... They visit Maddie post kidnapping to check in (because they are good parents(tm) now or whatever) and then stop by Buck's loft while he's on the middle of packing it up. Buck tells them the story and that he's moving into Eddie's house.

Margaret: Oh Buck, how long have you been in love with Eddie?

Buck: *blue screens* what are you talking about

Margaret: well, he's very protective of you. And he snuck his son in to see you. We would've wondered if something was going on, but, well, we didn't know you were, uh, *wrist flick*

Buck: *too stunned to be offended*

Phillip, interjecting: which, you know, we support! We bought rainbow stickers for our car. We're *allies*. But kiddo, you're moving into his house?

Margaret: I had a question about that, actually. I was doing some reading - I thought that was a lesbian thing to move in quick?

Buck: *is hit over the head with the frying pan of realization*

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I need someone to point me towards, or make a gifset comparing the scenes in 7.04 and 8.09...

Evan Buckley: *has an abandonment issues crash out*

Tommy Kinard: apologizes, "I could never replace you"

Eddie Diaz: v. annoyed, "you make everything about yourself"

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Rarepair Bingo 2025

It's finally here! 🥳 Rarepair Bingo is running from March 1 to July 1! This post includes everything you need: Cards with prompts, Rules, AO3 Collection and Link to Carrd! Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. And like always: Have fun and share the love! ❤️

Cards

Alternate Universe Card

Angst "Bad Things Happen" Card

Fluff "Nothing hurts" Card

Kinky "NSWF" Card

Rules

- Every form of creation is welcome! (Examples: fanfic, fanart, edit, gif, headcanon, drabble...) - You reach a Bingo when you cover 5 squares/prompts in a row! (Horizontal, vertical or diagonal). The topic for the "Free" square can be picked by you!

- The main goal of the event is to have fun. There is no rush! You can choose one card or all of them if you want to. You don't have to complete a card (or all cards!). However, there will be a little surprise for everyone who manages to blank out a complete card! ;)

- The definition of “rarepair” for this event: Every ship that is not a canon couple or Buddie when it comes to 911onabc. Every ship that is not Tarlos when it comes to 911 Lone Star.

- Your contributions can include characters / ships from both shows. Crossovers and original characters are fine, as long as your story focuses on characters from the 911 universe!

- Tag your contributions with #911rarepairbingo so I can share your creations on tumblr!

- There will be a collection on AO3: 911_rarepair_bingo_2025

- Important: No character bashing or hate towards any ship allowed!

- Please tag your creations correctly and add trigger warnings if necessary! Be considerate!

Links

AO3 Collection: 911 Rarepair Bingo 2025

Link to Carrd

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FMK but it's actually who's Mother, Mom, and Mommy with the iconic Aes Sedai queens:

- Leane Sharif

- Alanna Mosvani

- Siuan Sanche

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If a fic like this doesn't already exist, I need someone to write it: Buck's on shift at the 118. He's limping but hasn't mentioned anything to the firefam. Eddie, Chim, Hen, and Bobby are all shooting each other nervous looks. Did Buck get hurt on a call while they weren't looking? Is this a chronic pain flare up?

Unfortunately, they could fill entire tomes with reasons why Buck might hide this... They all try to bring it up slyly, but Buck is either extra oblivious that day or he's suddenly learned how to act.

After a brutal rock paper scissors tournament, Eddie has to confront Buck...

Buck: no I'm fine Eddie, getting frustrated: YOU'RE NOT FINE YOU'RE LIMPING. Buck, suddenly putting two and two together: OH! No, yeah, I'm not hurt. I got slammed down big style yesterday and I am FEELING it today. No regrets, though. Eddie: you got what? Buck: Got fucked? Energetically. Kinda sore today, but I'm good, I promise. Eddie: *stunned silence* Buck: What? Tommy's got a big dick. Eddie: *not sure if he's mortified or turned on or both*

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Bashing Fics in the 9-1-1 Fandom

Inspired by @beforeastorm‘s very neat look at 9-1-1 bashing fics in August and in September 2024, I took another look at the numbers yesterday (23rd January 2025) and… it’s been interesting.

Methods and materials:

For that I selected the 9-1-1 (TV) tag on ao3 while logged into my account and thereby ensuring I would see both public and locked fics; beforeastorm only considered public fics so by god I hope that some of the increases can be explained by that. Then I used the Include filter function to search for [Character Name] Bashing. Where this returned nothing I employed the Search within result function to search for “[character name] bashing”, trying out variations (last or first or nickname). To double-check I also did this search for characters with established bashing tags, using the Exclude filter to ensure that I would not count any fic twice.

Some characters have a bashing tag for themselves and a couple bashing tag. For example: if you search for Margaret Buckley Bashing, you will be offered two tag: Margaret Buckley Bashing and Margaret Buckley and Phillip Buckley Bashing. As far as I could tell, searching for the individual bashing tag also always counts the couple bashing tag, so the couple bashing tags could be disregarded. A list of the characters I looked at is under the cut.

The numbers were collected in an excel file and assigned the characters categories: main (meaning main adult character), family, love interest and other. I also took note of the gender. I did some analysis in excel before having the smart idea that I might as well use this as a training exercise for R (and I am very bad at R).

Disclaimer: this will not include all bashing fics because sadly some people are not familiar with tagging or love letting people run into a fic they will not enjoy. Also while I much prefer it when people tag bashing, some are overly careful and may use bashing tags when not really needed. Still, I much prefer that to people not tagging.

Results:

Disappointing but hardly surprising at this point: the extremely dubious honour of being the most bashed character goes to Tommy Kinard with 660 bashing fics to his name. That obviously makes him the most bashed character of the love interest category, followed by Ana Flores (241) and then Taylor Kelly (118 ^^). The most bashed characters of the family category are the Buckley parents (347 and 325) followed by the Diaz parents (238 and 176), with the mothers being given more bashing fics than the fathers. In the other category, Vincent Gerrard leads with the 66 times his bashing tag was used. Chase Mackey is in third place with 26 fics, and in second place is the Firehouse 118 Crew (45) which probably could be rather counted to the main character category.

Which brings us to that category. Chimney has been bashed in 317 fics, making him the most bashed main character. Followed by Maddie with 223 fics and Bobby with 163. Out of all the main adult characters, Buck is the only one without an established bashing tag. There are 7 fics out there that you can find if you employ a variation of queries with his name + bashing; that is if I have made no mistake. Because honestly? Finding Buck bashing fics is hard. Athena and Buck are the only main characters with less than 10 bashing fics to their name.

Fig. 1: This fucking barplot was a pain to make but here we are! Characters on the y-axis and number of fics that use respective bashing tag on the x-axis. The total number of respective fics are shown next to the bars; colour indicates the category the characters have been placed in. Top: continuous x-axis to allow for an easier overview of the proportions of the bars, bottom: x-axis with a break to allow a closer look.

Dishonourable mention: why the fuck would anybody write a fic with Christopher bashing?

Honourable mentions: Boeing and dolphin bashing. It did make the otherwise pretty depression task of data collection much better.

Gender-wise there are more bashing fics about men (54.3%) than there about women (44.3%) (of course I did not look at every character so I will have missed a few bashing fics). If nobody was writing Tommy bashing fics, that would be flipped (male: 43.0%, female: 55.3%).

Fig. 2: A lovely pie-chart showing the bashing fics per gender, with male subdivided into Tommy, and the other male characters.

Which brings us to the tragedy that is the hate this fandom has for Tommy Kinard. If you add up all the bashing tags I found (which does not equal fics, some people are happily bashing away in their fics), then his account for about 20%. Which is insane, wtf.

Discussion:

This was really depressing tbh. I showed the bar plot to my sister and she asked me what bashing is. She’s been in fandom for years; she was in the supernatural fandom and has read fics and somehow I still had to explain bashing to her. So really: yay for us, this fandom really is something.

 If you look at beforeastorm’s tally from August, you’ll see that Tommy bashing fics began popping up in April 2024 and since then he has become the most bashed character (out of those I looked at, I’m pretty sure that this holds true).

Now you may be wondering why these characters are being bashed. Warning: the following part is based on my opinions. I did not read the fics of all 3291 bashing tag instances that I found.

In some cases it seems pretty straight forward: Vincent Gerrard, Chase Mackey, Doug Kendall and Olivia Ortiz need no further explanation. Other “villains” such as Jeffrey Hudson and Jonah Greenway have no bashing fics that I could find though.

The Buckley and Diaz parents getting bashed is also not surprising. Can’t say that I’m wild about it since my experience with reading fics that tag bashing was usually “here’s a random evil person I made up and then gave the name of an existing character”, but I understand where people are coming from.

Now the main characters… I’m just gonna say it: it’s people who have wronged Buck – according to some of the fandom at least. Chimney’s crime: the punch (no, I’m not defending it, but some people really have run with this). Maddie’s crime: not telling Buck about Daniel and then wanting to talk to him about it when he didn’t want to. Bobby’s crime: not allowing Buck back to work. Hen’s crime: idk, being Chimney’s bestie?

As for Eddie: I guess he’s a misogynist now, if you ask some people? Idk, it’s not like I read the summaries of all the fics because there are too many and also just no.

The love interests – which yes, in this case all happen to be Buck and Eddie’s love interests, imagine my surprise – happen to be “in the way” of shipping I guess. I did look at other love interest or ex-relationships and could find nothing.

Tommy’s crime: loving Evan.

Conclusion:

If you write bashing please keep tagging it.

Appendix:

All the characters I looked at: characters with no bashing fics I could find, characters with an established bashing tag, characters with no established bashing tag but bashing fics can be found

Main adult characters:

Athena Grant, Bobby Nash, Hen Wilson, Chimney Han, Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, Maddie Buckley.

Recurring characters, family:

Michael Grant, David Hale, May Grant, Harry Grant, Beatrice and Samuel Carter, Emmett Washington;

Marcy Nash, Tim Nash;

Karen Wilson, Denny Wilson, Antonia Wilson, Nia and Mara;

Albert Han, Chimney’s father/Sang Han, The Lees, Jee-Yun Buckley-Han;

Margaret Buckley, Phillip Buckley, Daniel Buckley, Doug Kendall;

Christopher Diaz, Isabel Diaz, Helena Diaz, Ramon Diaz.

Recurring characters, love interests:

Tommy Kinard, Natalia Dollenmeyer, Taylor Kelly, Lucy Donato, Ali Martin, Abby Clark;

Kim, Marisol, Ana Flores, Shannon Diaz;

Eva Mathis;

Tatiana.

Recurring characters, others:

Firehouse 118 Crew Bashing;

Chase Mackey, Vincent Gerrard, Jonah Greenway, Jeffrey Hudson, Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz;

Josh Russo, Lena Bosko, Ravi Panikkar, Claudette Collins, Brad Torrance;

Boeing, Dolphin.

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New theory: Ravi, canonically, is some kind of Druid/Weather Witch/Storm Sorcerer.

Big emergencies with Mother Nature? Don't happen on Ravi's watch. Earthquake, Tsunami, Landslide - all these natural disasters happen one after the other, then, boom, Ravi shows up and they stop. Coincidence? I think not.

After he joins the 118, we have snipers and hackers and kidnappers: all terrible, but ultimately all people derived.

Then, Ravi goes to the Academy and what happens? Buck gets struck by lightning. Sure, Bobby missed Ravi and wanted him back regardless, but he also needed Ravi to protect the 118.

And then Bobby leaves Ravi's sphere of influence and gets caught in a hurricane. Sure, the pirates didn't help, but still, a hurricane.

TL;DR Dude can control the weather I will not be taking questions at this time.

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118 firefam - "50 Ways to Say Goodbye" by Train for @beforeastorm

Christmas '24 commissions are open! 🎄

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Ships

Love is in the air (in hell).

Billford Bill Cipher & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls

Farcille Falin Touden & Marcille Donato, Dungeon Meshi

Poolverine Wade Wilson & Logan Howlett, the Marvel universe

Ineffable Husbands -3 Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Destiel -2 Dean Winchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Radioapple Lucifer Morningstar & Alastor, Hazbin Hotel

Buddie +3 Evan Buckley & Edmundo Diaz, 9-1-1

Phan Daniel Howell & Phil Lester, YouTubers

Polin Penelope Featherington & Colin Bridgerton, Bridgerton

Satosugu +16 Gojo Satoru & Geto Suguru, Jujutsu Kaisen

Percabeth +76 Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase, the Percy Jackson universe

Bucktommy Evan Buckley & Tommy Kinard, 9-1-1

Hannigram -4 Hannibal Lecter & Will Graham, Hannibal

Labru Laios Touden & Kabru, Dungeon Meshi

Zosan +18 Roronoa Zoro & Vinsmoke Sanji, One Piece

Narilamb Narinder & the Lamb, Cult of the Lamb

Huskerdust Husk & Angel Dust, Hazbin Hotel

Steddie -16 Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson, Stranger Things

Sonadow +27 Sonic & Shadow, Sonic the Hedgehog

Ghostsoap -6 Simon “Ghost” Riley & John “Soap” MacTavish, the Call of Duty franchise

Jegulus -3 James Potter & Regulus Black, the Harry Potter universe

Fiddauthor Fiddleford McGucket & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls

Byler -19 Will Byers & Mike Wheeler, Stranger Things

Wolfstar -8 Remus Lupin & Sirius Black, the Harry Potter universe

Soukoku -3 Nakahara Chuuya & Dazai Osamu, Bungou Stray Dogs

Bakudeku -6 Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Boku no Hero Academia

Loustat +5 Louis de Pointe du Lac & Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire

Hualian +30 Hua Cheng & Xie Lian, Tian Guan Ci Fu

Chaggie Charlie Morningstar & Vaggie, Hazbin Hotel

Lestappen +37 Charles Leclerc & Max Verstappen, Formula 1 drivers

Hilson James Wilson & Gregory House, House

Narumitsu +13 Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney

Spirk +15 Spock & James T. Kirk, Star Trek

Stolitz Stolas & Blitzo, Helluva Boss

Lokius +43 Loki Laufeyson & Mobius M. Mobius, Loki

Merthur -19 Merlin & Arthur Pendragon, Merlin

Payneland Edwin Payne & Charles Rowland, Dead Boy Detectives

Chilshi Chilchuck Tims & Senshi, Dungeon Meshi

Rhaenicent +61 Rhaenyra Targaryen & Alicent Hightower, House of the Dragon

Astarion x Tav +48 Astarion & Tav, Baldur's Gate 3

Armandaniel Armand & Daniel Molloy, Interview with the Vampire

Griddlehark -2 Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus, The Locked Tomb series

Superbat +12 Superman & Batman, the DC universe

Zolu Roronoa Zoro & Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece

Zelink -33 Zelda & Link, The Legend of Zelda

Jonmartin +5 Jonathan Sims & Martin Blackwood, The Magnus Archives

Vashwood -36 Vash the Stampede & Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Trigun

Zukka +20 Zuko & Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Staticradio Alastor & Vox, Hazbin Hotel

Ratiorine Dr. Ratio & Aventurine, Honkai: Star Rail

Blackbonnet -36 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach & Stede Bonnet, Our Flag Means Death

Hanamusa -9 Jessie & Delia Ketchum, the Pokémon franchise

Wangxian -28 Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi

Pearlina Pearl Houzuki & Marina Ida, Splatoon

Firstprince -32 Alex Claremont-Diaz & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Red, White & Royal Blue

Shuake Kurusu Akira & Goro Akechi, Persona 5

Drarry +6 Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter, the Harry Potter universe

Landoscar Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri, Formula 1 drivers

Bingqiu Luo Binghe & Shen Qingqiu, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Shadowpeach +2 Sun Wukong & the Six-Eared Macaque, Lego Monkie Kid

Zutara Zuko & Katara, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Itafushi Itadori Yuji & Fushiguro Megumi, Jujustu Kaisen

Loumand Louis de Pointe du Lac & Armand, Interview with the Vampire

Timkon +25 Tim Drake & Conner Kent, Young Justice

Klance +18 Keith & Lance, Voltron: Legendary Defender

Nuzi N & Uzi Doorman, Murder Drones

Durgetash The Dark Urge & Enver Gortash, Baldur's Gate 3

Cherik Charles Xavier & Erik Lehnsherr, the Marvel universe

Kathony Kate Sharma & Anthony Bridgerton, Bridgerton

Staticmoth Vox & Valentino, Hazbin Hotel

Shin Soukoku Akutagawa Ryunnosuke & Nakajima Atsushi, Bungou Stray Dogs

Huntlow -65 Hunter & Willow Park, The Owl House

Haikaveh Kaveh & Alhaitham, Genshin Impact

Chainshipping Lawrence Gordon & Adam Stanheight, Saw

ButtonBlossom Ragatha & Pomni, The Amazing Digital Circus

Agathario Agatha Harkness & Rio Vidal, the Marvel universe

Broppy Branch & Poppy, the Trolls franchise

Lumity -65 Luz Noceda & Amity Blight, The Owl House

Radiorose Alastor & Rosie, Hazbin Hotel

Imodna -53 Imogen Temult & Laudna, Critical Role

Rosekiller Barty Crouch Jr. & Evan Rosier, the Harry Potter universe

Everlark Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games

Wenclair -78 Wednesday Addams & Enid Sinclair, Wednesday

Kataang Katara & Aang, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Caitvi -5 Caitlyn Kiramman & Vi, Arcane

Adrienette -50 Adrien Agreste & Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Davekat +3 Dave Strider & Karkat Vantas, Homestuck

Adamsapple Adam & Lucifer Morningstar, Hazbin Hotel

Twiyor -58 Loid Forger & Yor Forger, SPY x FAMILY

Shuggy Shanks & Buggy, One Piece

Scollace Scott Pilgrim & Wallace Wells, the Scott Pilgrim franchise

Madohomu Kaname Madoka & Homura Akemi, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Solangelo -23 Will Solace & Nico di Angelo, the Percy Jackson universe

Kimharry Kim Kitsuragi & Harry Du Bois, Disco Elysium

Klapollo -2 Apollo Justice & Klavier Gavin, Ace Attorney

Maxley Max Goof & Bradley Uppercrust III, An Extremely Goofy Movie

Megop Megatron & Optimus Prime, Transformers

Wilmon -34 Prince Wilhelm & Simon Eriksson, Young Royals

Johnshi Johnny Cage & Kenshi Takahashi, Mortal Kombat

Korrasami -5 Korra & Asami Sato, The Legend of Korra

The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded ships weren’t on the list last year.

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We had Matching Wounds

By @beforeastorm

Pairing: Chris & Buck, Chris & Maddie, Chris & the Buckley parents Chapters: 1/1 Words: 15,326 Rating: T Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Work Summary:

“Can we talk later? Eddie’s son is missing.” “Well, about that…” Margaret is looking at Chris, like he somehow knows how to break the news. Chris shakes his head. He didn’t want to call any of them in the first place; she can figure it out. “About – about what?” “Is someone missing if you know where they are?” “Do- do you know where Chris is?” Buck’s voice is raised in bewilderment and hope. There’s a clear ‘what!’ in the background, followed by shushing noises. “I can probably do you one better?” “Are you – are you telling me that Chris is in Pennsylvania?” Buck is speaking very slowly and very clearly, so different from his usual fast paced ramble. “In Hershey? How did he get there?” -- Chris fixates about what Buck shared during their conversation before he left for El Paso. Seeing similarities between his situation and Buck’s, he runs off to Hershey to learn more about Buck’s past, and hopefully get some answers for his future.

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Them: Oh, there's a new recurring character.

Me, a multishipper: I ship it.

Them: they probably won't even speak in canon

Me: That won't be a problem. SPARKLEY 4EVER

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This is from the IMDb listing for 8.06 Confessions.

Hello?! Who is Hot Waiter? Miceli's scene in 8.06 confirmed?!

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A quick note about the US elections in regard to 9-1-1’s episode on 11/7/2024, especially for our non-American friends or those who don’t have a strong knowledge of US electoral politics:

TL;DR – Depending on how fast states count ballots, it’s possible that 9-1-1 may get preempted by election coverage in some or all markets.

Slightly longer explanation below the cut:

Per ABC's official calendar, we should expect 8.06 "Confessions" to air on November 7th at 8:00 p.m. EST (this is also the week that the US changes from daylight savings time to standard time, so double check what that means for your time zone; eastern time in the US will move from UTC -4 to UTC -5).

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, Americans will vote in their quadrennial presidential election. This election includes the US president, about a third (34 seats) in the US Senate (upper federal legislative chamber), all 435 US house seats (lower federal legislative chamber), 11 gubernatorial elections, and for thousands of state and local positions. Each state has some ability to set how and when they will count votes.

In 2020, in part due to the pandemic, absentee voting exploded, and many states (used to very small numbers of absentee voting) did not have the capacity or processes in place to count them quickly. Of 51 voting entities (50 states plus the District of Columbia), most had reported enough votes to determine the apparent winner of their state/district (“calling the election/called”) by 4:00 a.m. on election night. However, that was not enough to determine who won the presidency.

Two more states were called later Wednesday, and the tipping point state (Pennsylvania) was not called until Friday morning. Other states had to engage in recounts and weren’t called until even later – but by then the overall winner had been announced so it was less urgent to report on.

Some states have since amended their election procedures to allow for quicker counting, while others have not. Early data indicates that less people may be voting absentee in this election, but it’s still possible, considering the anticipated tightness of the race, that we will not have a winner on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

What does this mean? Depending on when enough votes are reported in a state to make a call, networks may cut away from or preempt regularly scheduled programming to report the results. It’s also possible that some local affiliates may cut away if there are results to report in tightly contested senate, house, or gubernatorial races. We’ll have a better idea about the likelihood on Wednesday/earlier Thursday, if there are uncalled elections.

Not really anything anyone can do, other than brace for the possibility. I guess if you use a stream, try to pick one that does not use a feed from a local affiliate in a metro with major uncalled races?

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The Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard tag on AO3 just passed the Evan "Buck" Buckley & Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) for the second most common relationship tag.

(just to be super clear, it's the buddie gen tag, not the buddie romantic tag, because people struggle with the difference between / and & )

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More 911 reverse Bang art

Aquarium day out

Go check out @beforeastorm ‘s fic Anemones Taste Better Fried inspired by my fanart

And go check out the other fanart and fanfic from the @911reversebang event!!

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Anemones Taste Better Fried

words by @beforeastorm, art by @michi-hawkeye for the @911reversebang

Pairing: Buck/Tommy, Buck & Jee & Tommy Chapters: 1/1 Words: 5,504 Rating: G Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Work Summary:

“It’s the aquarium. I already bought a ticket for Jee, we’ll make a day of it and have a great time. Now get to work!” Buck, lovingly, starts corralling his sister towards the door, but at the mention of tickets Maddie reaches into her purse and starts fumbling for her wallet. Buck holds back an eyeroll. “I swear to God, Maddie – if you try to give us money for Jee, we’re going to have words. I am more than capable of spoiling my niece without any help from you.” “That’s what I’m afraid of,” his sister grumbles, dropping the wallet back into the purse. “Seriously, though. I know you’re the one who taught her those patented puppy dog eyes, but don’t let her bully you into buying out the whole gift store. And watch her sugar intake!” “Uh huh.” --- When Chimney is laid up and Maddie has work, Buck and Tommy are lucky enough to have Jee crash their date at the aquarium. They have a day filled with the three fs: fish, food, and fun.