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I gotta say I still find it hilarious I wrote this months before the iconic “Trials and tribulations of Evan Buckley” line

trials & tribulations

Teen and Up | one-shot | 23.5k | Read on Ao3

Summary: Buck and Eddie have both slipped into old habits, and it’s been causing problems. They haven’t fought like this since the lawsuit. It’s not affecting their work, but Bobby’s fed up. He sends them to couples therapy. Well, he calls it “mediation,” but let’s be honest, it’s couples therapy.

Featuring: couples therapy but they aren't actually a couple yet, miscommunication, jealousy, buddie divorce arc 2.0, Eddie's moving to Texas and Buck is sleeping around about it

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fifty minutes left

“Who wants to start?” The therapist is sitting across from them in a large black chair, her hands folded in her lap and a soft, professional smile plastered on her face. She looks like Buck would imagine a therapist looking, wearing a white shirt, made out of some shiny, smooth fabric, a dark blue cardigan over it, so long it touches her knees, and gray slacks. She’s in her fifties with long dark, greying hair and glasses that sit primly on the bridge of her nose. “I’m Dr. Vyas, but you can call me Pramita,” she’d said, as she shook both of their hands in the waiting room and beckoned them back. Her accent is clear and lilting and her voice low and elegant.

When neither of them open their mouths to speak, she raises her eyebrows, eyes flickering between them. “Maybe by telling me why you’re here?” She encourages.

Buck shifts uncomfortably on his end of the couch, looking down at the floor. He can see Eddie out of the corner of his eye, unmoving, his arms crossed over his chest. He waits for Eddie to say something first but when he doesn’t Buck speaks up, impatient and wanting to get out of here, “Cap sent us.” 

“Why?”

We had a fight in the parking lot , Buck thinks, but he doesn’t say that. He just shrugs and says, “He’s overreacting. We’re fine.”

Eddie scoffs lightly from next to him, making a sound for the first time since they’d entered the room. 

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Welcome your gay neighbor

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Welcome your poor neighbor

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One thing I need you guys to know.

Nico is closer to the dead.

Will is closer to death.

The dead and death are TWO. DIFFERENT. THINGS.

Nico is the son of the DEAD. He interacts with souls, and talks to the ghosts of people are already DEAD.

Will is a healer. A war medic. Death is basically where he WORKS IN. Anyone in the medical fields knows you will be experiencing death. Seeing the process of death.

The moment where people leave the living world. And experiencing the grief that follows after seeing someone die.

That is death.

Nico represents the beauty of death. The aftermath. Knowing the soul/ideas and ambitions of the person's life. The person that roamed this world. The voice of someone's life. The memories. What is left of that person.

Will represents the uglier side. The reality of it. The moment someone's string of life goes silent. The moment life leaves, all is left is the corpse. The shell of someone you used to know.

Hence why solangelo's view of the underworld is SO contrasting.

It's black and white. Because both represent different sides. SEEN different sides. They're so similar yet so different at the same time.

Solangelo is the start AND finish of DEATH. Will represents the START of it. Nico represents the END of it.

Two sides of the same coin.

The literal bridge between life and death.

One starting point and one end.

(And if you think about it. If you switcharoo them. Nico can also represent rebirth. And Will represents the end of life, because he's both of that. Maybe I'm stretching but fuck it. They're practically making a circle. The cycle of life and death.)

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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“Nico Di Angelo is a token gay! His coming out scene sucked!” babes I’m BEGGING you to remember 2013 gay characters were not allowed in children’s media.

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

All of your gay heroes in children’s media have Nico Di Angelo to thank. It was important, and good. It deserves to be celebrated, even if we’ve progressed past it since.

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Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

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If you use Duolingo, maybe don't anymore? The company is moving to be "AI-first" and is using AI to generate their content. Meaning, AI is now generating your language lessons.

They announced that they were going to use AI for this a while back but now they're annoucing that they're getting rid of the contractors reviewing the AI generated content. So, very soon Duolingo is just going to be AI generated slop that might not even be correct.

For alternatives, I'd recommend checking with your local library. For instance, mine offers Rosetta Stone for free if you have a library card.

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if you’re ever worried about your fic being ooc just remind yourself that once a year the show itself decides they get to write every character completely ooc and then air it as the season finale so ur literally fine

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ASK CHATGPT??????? i would NEVER. i ask all my questions to the pythia at the oracle of delphi like apollo intended.

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Repeat after me, folks!!

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be pro-Zionist.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be anti-Semitic.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be homophobic.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be transphobic.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and hate on other minorities/religions.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be racist.

You can't be a Hellenic pagan and be an asshole.

Xenia is such a crucial part of Hellenic paganism. Anyone who disagrees with any of these points can kindly fuck off my blog.

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Special Children :: All Hell Breaks Loose

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Why I think the writers are setting up Buck to be captain, rather than Hen:

Okay disclaimer: I’m not saying I agree with the writing choices, I don’t think it’s been shown super well, I’m just think it’s what they are doing. But as a Buck girlie, I’m excited for him.

I was all for Cap Hen post-E15 bc I was unable to think critically but now I really think it wouldn’t be good for her. We’ve been shown time and time again that even tho she’s AMAZING at it, it’s bad for her. She’s a workaholic who starts neglecting her relationships. We saw this in the med school plot when she was briefly Cap. She’s said repeatedly she would only do it if she HAD to. Karen this season brought up her never being home. We’ve seen that even when she’s not Cap she struggles with work/life balance. During the Halloween ep it’s all they were fighting about and Hen practically promised never to do that to her and to prioritize her family.

I just don’t want that for her and Karen. I think so people are way better at balancing things than she is, which is why even tho Buck doesn’t think he’s ready, I think the show can show us that he’s been relying on Bobby unnecessarily. He was great during the bridge collapse.

He just needs to prove himself to himself. I think Hen and Chim would trust him now, Eddie would obviously be supportive, and Ravi would probably be a little brat but I love that for him.

If Bobby is gonna retire (bc he’s alive, I refuse to believe otherwise), then the show has always been setting Buck up as his natural successor. He would keep up family dinners. The team loves and trusts him. Bobby trusts him.

It’s the perfect thing for his character development. He goes from this kid who doesn’t know himself and who is so impulsive, and Bobby sees something in him. Something that Chimney really didn’t see and Hen was unsure of. But now they know him, they trust him. He’s proven himself time and time again.

I wish the writers would have been better in the last season at showing Buck is less impulsive, but it’s funny so ofc not. But when it matters to the plot, he knows his stuff. He’s competent. I think with Bobby gone he will have to rely on his instincts and realize they are good and I think that’s his personal plot coming up—other than Buddie ofc

I would obviously LOVE Hen to be cap, but she would kill it and a black female Cap is everything to me, but I don’t think that’s what they are doing.

I feel like this last season has just been reminding us why Hen can’t be. And we know Chim can’t be. And Buck is over Eddie and Ravi in seniority. Ravi’s def not ready. Eddie’s has other stuff going on. So I think Buck is the only option.

Plus i adds really good angst to Buddie bc even if they know their feelings, they will have another obstacle to overcome. Or a reason for them to keep quiet. And I eat up an slow burn so I love that.

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Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?

Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:

Ship and let ship (your ships don't harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that's okay; my kink stories don't harm you and vice-versa)

Harassment over fiction is not acceptable

Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either

Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.

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Stop shaming people for their body count

Who cares how many people she's killed so long as you love her and she looks pretty with blood on her face.

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I'm a statue you can pray to, you complain I'm cold to touch

patreon! (full version!!)

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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

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Our Little Garden of Eden

Gen | possibly canon MCD | 300 words

Imagine Bobby doing an angsty voice over at the beginning of the funeral episode à la Frank Gallagher in Shameless. This is that.

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Nobody's saying the 118 is the greatest station out there. Hell, some people would probably tell you to avoid us all together (disaster does seem to love us). But it's been a good to me, good to us, to me and my team, who I'm proud of, 'cause every single one of them reminds me a little bit of me.

Hen, my rock. Honestly, I couldn’t do this without you. All my best qualities and none of my bad ones. You’ll be one hell of a captain. Sorry that day came so soon.

Chimney…can’t really remember why we started calling you that in the first place, but that doesn’t matter. Couldn’t have made it this far without you. You’ve really found yourself. I hope I helped a little bit with that along the way.

Buck, I’m so proud of you kid. Smart, brave, great instincts, a little impulsive still but you’re working on it. Hope you find what you’re looking for. Wish I would be here to see it.

Eddie, you remind me of me. Sorry. Good luck with everything, you deserve it. You just need to get out of your own way.

Athena. I love you, baby. I’m so sorry. I hope you’ll forgive me for dying on you. It wasn’t my choice. Take care of yourself, and look after Buck, you will? When I’m gone.

Oh Ravi. Almost forgot. What to say about Ravi? You’ll do great. Stick with it. Don’t let your failures get in the way of that. You’re a good firefighter.

And me, Bobby Nash—father, mentor, captain of little team… family, really. Nothing much left to say… You’ll all be okay without me. I know that. I know because you’ll look after each other. If I’ve taught you anything, I hope it’s forgiveness. This wasn’t any of your faults. I promise. Forgive yourselves.