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New post from 911onabc!

My Shaylas are series regulars. 🥹

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9-1-1 Fic Rec Tag Game!!

@sergeantchenford (edit as I’m hour 8 of this post: @keeperofdragons has tagged me too) tagged me in this new game they made! I went ahead and copy/pasted their rules:

Recommend a fic (or multiple) for each prompt! And if you want, tag some other readers to do the same. There are no rules against multiple fics from the same author, but challenge yourself to not name the same fic twice 😉. If you want, use the tag #911 fic rec game so people can easily find other recommendations

Please add trigger warnings or rating warnings! This was started to create a more safe way to find new 911 fics to read without risking coming across unwanted and mistagged triggering content!

A/N: I added a couple series on here. They are all complete or 100% readable without the series being complete. The tags I use for the series are the ones relevant to the most works.

Also, if I don’t tag an author but they have Tumble account, PLEASE let me know!!

The most recent fic you loved/bookmarked

Wildflowers Don't Care Where They Grow by orphan_account (E, 68,489, 8/8; Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Mpreg, NOT Omegaverse) [this is a period piece is a Carrier in the early 1900s(?)]

The first 911 fic you bookmarked or saved (if that applies to you)

Buck Day Afternoon by Bookworm0303 (T, 34,218, 2/2; Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Hostage Situations, Minor Character Death)

A fic you think deserves more love

lookin’ for the bright side of life by Chancy_Lurking (T, 15,277, 2/2; Ana Flores/Taylor Kelly, Personal Growth, Road Trips) [this bad boy only has 71 kudos and 583 hits] { @lurkerviolin }

A fic longer than 50k words

[series] the archer by nonalovesyou (T-E, 146,273, 20 works; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Autistic Eddie Diaz, PTSD,

A fic shorter than 5k words

this never would've happened in a catholic high school by itsactuallycorrine (M, 2,687, 1/1; Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Christopher Diaz & Eddie Diaz & Evan "Buck" Buckley, Future Fic, Sex Education)

A fic with a trope you don't often read but adored

Pretty much everything that @tinypeckers / tinypeckers has written during this summer hiatus. When I say explicit freak4freak, I MEAN IT. They are all incredible fics… that deserve their DD:DNE tags. Especially the one that says “improper use of a bandage.” Lacey is a bestie of mine, but I probably wouldn’t have read most of them if she wasn’t the one who wrote them 👀

A fic with your favorite trope(s)

[series] My Brother’s Keeper verse by pansiesandposies (M, 73,031, 2 works; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz; Daniel Buckley Lives, DV, minor character death, child abuse) [With the bookmark I had the note “Superior DBL fic”. So that is the trope we’re using for this prompt.] [there are a lot of stressful tags, too many to add here, so PLEASE look at the tags before you read!!]

An AU (Alternate Universe) you absolutely adore

[series] Braided Together AU by Rehearsal_Dweller (T, 66,924, 5 works; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, fem!Buddie, slow burn, canon adjacent) [I recognized this author from my time spent scouring the Newsies fandom a few years back. This is one of my all-time favorite Fem!Buddie AUs]

A fluffy fic

Nap Trapped by paleredheadinascifi (T, 3,501, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Getting Together, Cuddling & Snuggling)

A fic that made you cry (or want to cry)

Where It’s Safe by ClimbMeLikeaTreeMrBuckley (T, 30,114, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, PTSD, Trauma, barber!Buck, panic attacks [I read this at work. I almost cried at work.] { @climbmelikeatreemrbuckley }

An amazing whump fic

when the sun comes up, the glow holds me now by shootingthestarss (T, 32,298, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Transfeminine Eddie Diaz, Catholic Guilt, Panic Attacks, Gender Issues, Internalized homophobia) [it DOES get fluffy, but Eddie goes through it first]

A fic that made you laugh out loud

on the drive over by littleghost (G, 3,126, 1/1; Bobby Nash/Brad Torrence) [Anyway that’s the only tag on here but my bookmark note says “Bobby is canonically a freak (affectionate) Brad will do just about anything and Buck just wants to go home”] [Timeline is… the drive to intercept Athena’s plane] [This is a fic I make EVERYONE read]

A fic posted before 2023

you were looking at me first by hattalove (T, 3,449, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, First Kiss, Nudity) [Buck just. Chills in the nude.]

A fic posted this year

born already missing you by collieflower (T, 54,328, 3/3; Christopher Diaz & Eddie Diaz, Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Girl Dads Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Coming Out, Trans Character, Mentions of Gender Dysphoria)

A fic that focuses on friendship or a not-romantic family pairing

Fatherly love by hxlpertss (G, 1,833, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley & Bobby Nash, Bobby Nash Acting as Evan “Buck” Buckley’s Parental Figure, Post-Episode 6x10, Naptime)

A fic that you want to recommend but hasn't been mentioned in the previous prompts

welcome home, moggie by sapphicsparrows (T, 10,879, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Autistic Eddie Diaz, Autistic Evan “Buck” Buckley, Evan “Buck” Buckley has ADHD, Getting Togther, Love Confessions, Coming Out) [Eddie Diaz has an emotional support toy dog named Moggie.]

If you are a writer, the favorite fic you have written for 911 (A/N yes I chose two, and what of it?)

Leaving Notes, Reminding You of My Love by shelfthe_reader (T, 2,539, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, reminders as love notes, ADHD, 5+1 things)

It’s gonna take a lot (to drag me away from you) by shelfthe_reader (T, 1,285, 1/1; Evan “Buck” Buckley & Bobby Nash, Coming Out, Fluff and Angst, Post-Episode 7x05)

Almost 9 hours later, and we’re done! I had a TON of fics open that didn’t get used, so I’ll (maybe) post a bunch of them at a later date!

No pressure tags under the cut

@whatwouldeddiedo @cavka @buckslasagna @young-waverer @crazygirleddie

@xompeii @closetfascination @peaksaturation @emgiehae @redlinebuck

And anyone else who sees this and wants to be tagged!

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911 fanfic rec tag game

Recommend a fic (or multiple) for each prompt! And if you want, tag some other readers to do the same. There are no rules against multiple fics from the same author, but challenge yourself to not name the same fic twice 😉. If you want, use the tag #911 fic rec game so people can easily find other recommendations

Please add trigger warnings or rating warnings! This was started to create a more safe way to find new 911 fics to read without risking coming across unwanted and mistagged triggering content!

The most recent fic you loved/bookmarked

Hold On To me Buck and Christopher emergency fic

The first 911 fic you bookmarked or saved (if that applies to you)

Work Widow By OceanOfChaos Presumed Dead Eddie Buddie Fic that it just a masterpiece.

A fic you think deserves more love

(Daniel) Must be The Clouds in my eyes: By Why_Didnt_Iget_anys_soup) This fic is so under apprecaited and it's just a really sweet fic.

A fic longer than 50k words

by the touch of my heart by dqstcrdly Unfinished Buck and Bobby fic with a side of Bathena and Buddie.

A fic shorter than 5k words

Baby By Redlitnight Buddie accidentally calling each other babe and rolling with it

A fic with a trope you don’t often read but adored

I read pretty much any trope so I don't have a rec for this

A fic with your favorite trope(s)

Those Two Firefighters ByDarkFairytale This fic has everything I love and it's a fandom staple fic

An AU (alternative universe) you absolutely adore

The One I Choose By CorgiQueen14 A The Selection Au and my gods was it a masterpiece! There is a brief non-con drug moment in one chapter, and it has some violence.

A fluffy fic

I don't read a ton of just fluff fics so here's one that I wrote myself that is just completely fluffy. Under The Light Of The Buck MOon By KeeperOfDragons A Oneshot that is just super fluffy it's a proposal fic.

A fic that made you cry (or want to cry)

laying waste to my lovin' long ago by lcvnie A Hanakai Buddie fic that made me cry, it had a resolution but damn it was a rollercoaster.

An amazing whump fic

The Easy (Kill) ByStrawberry Waltz Unfinished but a masterpiece that is being updated regularly. It is intense Buck is kidnapped it's go the Graphic Depictions of Violence Tag

A fic that made you laugh out loud

operation buddie by Sargent Chenford It's a Buddie text fic and hilarious!

A fic posted before 2023

Most fics I've read were post after 2023 and I don't have any bookmarked

A fic posted this year

I was born to take care of you By Beulaugh Just a good and funny Buddie fic!

A fic that focuses on friendship or a not-romantic family pairing

Tsunami Aftermath By Aphrosephone119 Cute Buck and Chris flufflyness

A fic you want to reccomend but hasn’t been reccomended in previous prompts Where Did I go wrong I lost a friende by pansieposies A Greys based Buddie AU and sooooo incredibly good it does have graphic depictions of violence tag tho

If you are a writer, the favorite fic you’ve written for 911

Since my Big Bang isn't posted yet, it's probably my fic For What is Grief But Love with Nowhere to go? By KeeperOfDragons This fic is a Buck "dies" instead of Bobby Au and I just am in love with writing it! I'm so proud of it! It does have the Graphic Depictions of violence tag because it is intense.

Alright *sighs* cause that took a LONG time. Here's the tags feel free to do it if you wish or don't do it that's fine too but enjoy some fun fic recs!

@soupfic @97actsbuddie @if-music-be-the-food-of-love @jenzzyuk @blazeblazeblazeee @super-powerful-queen-slayyna @thatgreyjedi @islandoforder @shelfthe-reader @inkstainedvictorian @barelybuckley

There we go all done now I'm gonna go and write my Dinner and Disaster fic!

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AO3 Femslash Top 100: Round 1

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To clear some things up:

- My fandom Icon is on BlueSky! It’s of Buck and Bobby!

- As we all know my origin story, but to recap, my grandmother told me to watch it July 2024 and who was I to say no?

- I also will be watching NV with her

- I have two stickers from Redbubble! One that says “Wee woo” in the 9-1-1 font, and one that says “I’m so confused, could you start over?”

- this one was filled on a technicality- everyone is my main ship, I just don’t make content for the rest of them because I’m scared to mess it up

- No. I didn’t read fic before watching, and no, I don’t have a fandom url because I hate sideblogs and all of my apps are the same url

- No, I don’t read BT because Tommy pmo. And not even from a Buddie standpoint- he acts like someone in my life that I needed gone five years ago

- Corrine, the loml 🫶 (though most of anyone on this show are very good at their jobs)

- do yall SEE ME stepping back?

- The perks of working at a small business that sells things you don’t need: you have time to read Rated E Omegaverse Mpreg

- I don’t have a favorite character- it all depends on which arc I’m watching

- I don’t have a “main” space- I use different apps for different types of interactions

🚒 9-1-1 Bingo 🚒

Thanks @keeperofdragons for tagging me!

Not tagging anyone because they’ve already done it 🫣 Unless I’m dumb, and forgot people, then just say I tagged you.

Here’s a blank one!

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🚒 9-1-1 Bingo 🚒

Thanks @keeperofdragons for tagging me!

Not tagging anyone because they’ve already done it 🫣 Unless I’m dumb, and forgot people, then just say I tagged you.

Here’s a blank one!

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It’s gonna take a lot (to drag me away from you)

Words: 1.3k

Rating: Teen

Relationship: Evan “Buck” Buckley & Bobby Nash

Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, *mostly* canon compliant, post 7x05, Bobby acts like Buck’s parental figure, coming out, fluff and angst

Summary:

While standing outside of the Grant-Nash residence, Buck continuously wrung his hands together, pacing across the porch. He knew that he didn’t have to tell Bobby about this new development, as it wouldn’t interfere with the job; afterall, they were at two different stations. It’s normal- two firefighters going on a date.

Or: Instead of coming out in the hospital with that kiss, Buck comes out to Bobby, directly.

This was the alternate prompt “Coming Out” for @buckandbobbyweek

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this summer has been full of so many inspiring events, challenges, and ideas! and while we're thrilled for what that means for the state of our fandom, we don't know about you, but we're a little tired.

so, we're taking the month off.

use august to catch up on your queue, to finally go through your likes (learn how to time travel through your likes here), and read all those little ficlets you keep saving but don't have the time to read. compile a follow forever (talk about old school!) or a fic rec list, get your TBR down to a... more reasonable level.

of course, events aren't done. many of us are still working on the @buddie-big-bang, @911reversebang, @911podficfest, @summerofbuddie and @bobbynashweek, among others, but we want this to be a time where, at least for us, there's no pressure. take a little rest. go outside. touch some grass, perhaps.

we'll be back in september with another new event as we get ready to welcome our wee woo show back into our lives in october.

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BASED ON A CONVERSATION I HAD ABOUT NEEDING MAY GRANT TO BECOME A CAT MOM

We know that Athena is allergic to Dog™️ (so a dander allergy) but even if she wasn’t…

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AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

Here are the results of filtering the Steve/Bucky tag for all works created between Jan 1, 2023 and Dec 31, 2023:

Not only would that place Steve/Bucky at #23 on this list, if the other counts are correct (hint: they're not), it’s also well above the 1520-new-work cutoff of the #100 spot. So how the fuck is it not on the list? Let’s check out the author’s FAQ to see if there’s some important factor we’re missing.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in the FAQ is that the data is being scraped from publicly available works. That means anything privated and only accessible to logged-in users isn’t counted. This is Sin #1. Already the data is inaccurate because we’re not actually counting all of the published fics, but the bots needed to do data collection on this scale can't easily scrape privated fics so I kinda get it. We’ll roll with this for now and see if it at least makes the numbers make more sense:

Nope. Logging out only reduced the total by a couple hundred. Even if one were to choose the most restrictive possible definition of "new works" and filter out all crossovers and incomplete fics, Steve/Bucky would still have a yearly total of 2,305. Yet the list claims their total is somewhere below 1,500? What the fuck is going on here?

Let’s look at another ship for comparison. This time one that’s very recent and popular enough to make it on the list so we have an actual reference value for comparison: Nick/Charlie (Heartstopper). According to the list, this ship sits at #34 this year with a total of 2630 new works. But what’s AO3 say?

Off by a hundred or so but the values are much closer at least!

If we dig further into the FAQ though we discover Sin #2 (and the most egregious): the counting method. The yearly fic counts are NOT determined by filtering for a certain time period, they’re determined by simply taking a snapshot of the total number of fics in a ship tag at the end of the year and subtracting the previous end-of-year total. For example, if you check a ship tag on Jan 1, 2023 and it has 10,000 fics and check it again on Jan 1, 2024 and it now has 12,000 fics, the difference (2,000) would be the number of "new works" on this chart.

At first glance this subtraction method might seem like a perfectly valid way to count fics, and it’s certainly the easiest way, but it can and did have major consequences to the point of making the entire dataset functionally meaningless. Why? If any older works are deleted or privated, every single one of those will be subtracted from the current year fic count. And to make the problem even worse, beginning at the end of last year there was a big scare about AI scraping fics from AO3, which caused hundreds, if not thousands, of users to lock down their fics or delete them.

The magnitude of this fuck up may not be immediately obvious so let’s look at an example to see how this works in practice.

Say we have two ships. Ship A is more than a decade old with a large fanbase. Ship B is only a couple years old but gaining traction. On Jan 1, 2023, Ship A had a catalog of 50,000 fics and ship B had 5,000. Both ships have 3,000 new works published in 2023. However, 4% of the older works in each fandom were either privated or deleted during that same time (this percentage is was just chosen to make the math easy but it’s close to reality).

Ship A: 50,000 x 4% = 2,000 removed works Ship B: 5,000 x 4% = 200 removed works

Ship A: 3,000 - 2,000 = 1,000 "new" works Ship B: 3,000 - 200 = 2,800 "new" works

This gives Ship A a net gain of 1,000 and Ship B a net gain of 2,800 despite both fandoms producing the exact same number of new works that year. And neither one of these reported counts are the actual new works count (3,000). THIS explains the drastic difference in ranking between a ship like Steve/Bucky and Nick/Charlie.

How is this a useful measure of anything? You can't draw any conclusions about the current size and popularity of a fandom based on this data.

With this system, not only is the reported "new works" count incorrect, the older, larger fandom will always be punished and it’s count disproportionately reduced simply for the sin of being an older, larger fandom. This example doesn’t even take into account that people are going to be way more likely to delete an old fic they're no longer proud of in a fandom they no longer care about than a fic that was just written, so the deletion percentage for the older fandom should theoretically be even larger in comparison.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the author of this "study" KNEW the data was tainted and chose to present it as meaningful anyway. You will only find this if you click through to the FAQ and read about the author’s methodology, something 99.99% of people will NOT do (and even those who do may not understand the true significance of this problem):

The author may try to argue their post states that the tags "which had the greatest gain in total public fanworks” are shown on the chart, which makes it not a lie, but a error on the viewer’s part in not interpreting their data correctly. This is bullshit. Their chart CLEARLY titles the fic count column “New Works” which it explicitly is NOT, by their own admission! It should be titled “Net Gain in Works” or something similar.

Even if it were correctly titled though, the general public would not understand the difference, would interpret the numbers as new works anyway (because net gain is functionally meaningless as we've just discovered), and would base conclusions on their incorrect assumptions. There’s no getting around that… other than doing the counts correctly in the first place. This would be a much larger task but I strongly believe you shouldn’t take on a project like this if you can’t do it right.

To sum up, just because someone put a lot of work into gathering data and making a nice color-coded chart, doesn’t mean the data is GOOD or VALUABLE.

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tmi stands for tell me immediately

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Something I really love about the ABD (after bobbys death) era of the 911 fandom is how fic authors always tag that Bobbys alive in their fic, no matter how irrelevent he is to the fic. Like yeah this story IS about Buck and Eddie hitting it raw on the kitchen counter but dont worry ✋️ Bobby is somewhere in the backround making lasagna. Trust 🤞

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Fuck It Friday!

Here’s another section of my Fem!Buddie fic for the @buddie-big-bang !

It was at that moment Eddie felt like she had been hit by a train. Shaun, whose skills, in Eddie’s opinion, were perfectly adequate for what she could tolerate, started practicing in case she wanted more. 

She could cry. 

And, she did.

Eddie dove into her husband’s arms with tears in her eyes. As she made contact, Eddie could feel Shaun tense. 

“Are you okay, Eddie?” He asked tentatively. 

Eddie unclenched her hands from where they found purchase in his shirt and stepped back. Hastily rubbing her eyes, she responded with a quick, “Nope, I’m fine. All good here.”

Clearly she didn’t fool him, because the next thing she knew, Shaun’s large hands were around hers, slowly bringing them away from her eyes. 

“No, baby. You’re not,” he said, adjusting Eddie’s face so he could look her in the eye. “Talk to me. What’s going on?”

Eddie looked down and wrung her hands together, a nervous tick she’d developed. She took a deep breath. 

“It’s just, nobody has ever done something like that before,” she quietly explained. Shaun’s face morphed into that of confusion. “Sure, Soph and Adri did a lot to my hair in school, but that was because they wanted to; mom wanted them to. But you?” 

Eddie hyped herself up, and resumed her place in Shaun’s orbit, taking his hands in her own. “You decided to teach yourself, in case I wanted something. You did something for me.”

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