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[sidgeno-ficrecs]

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sidgeno (2018, explicit, 7.9k)

Bears are solitary creatures.

Zhenya decides what he’s really feeling toward the end of the summer isn’t loneliness, or heartbreak, or other several other intangible feelings he’s heard in passing but never known; it’s disappointment.

It’s disappointment.

god, do i ever love shifter fics. i think i've read every single one in this pairing, and i'm still absolutely greedy for more (and yes this is a hint to all you authors out there). just like a/b/o, shifter fics give us the ability to take these two people that we know in our current world and move them into a society that's just a bit to one side, just a little different, and see how things play out with those small differences.

this fic stands alone, though, with how it deals with the changes.

a lot of times, the focus is on the physical—heat cycles and hormones, pregnancies, and the social differences that arise from anatomical ones. this fic, though, gives us a close-up look at something else: the mental differences, the way a shifter might have been raised to be more like an animal in their mindset and world view, and how that might clash with the more human world they interact with.

and the results are a lovely, aching, restless fic that ends so satisfactorily that you'll feel just as full-up as sid after his BIG cheat day in italy.

the close POV we get of zhenya's off-season is perfectly melancholy, and i got a lump in my throat reading more of his solitary summer, and how it's been fine—until something changes, something's different, and suddenly it's not. it's so clear to the reader that this isn't a new change, it's something that zhenya could have wanted sooner, but he didn't let himself until he couldn't avoid it any longer. the conflict between what a proper bear shifter would be feeling and doing vs what he wants for himself and sid is excellently portrayed.

@dadvans has a real gift for writing the physical, too. the real, gritty, sometimes gross reality of human bodies and how they intersect and interlock are in full display here, and it's amazing. the description of sid during his heat, sid's body once he and zhenya are back in pittsburgh—it all feels real in a way that can be very challenging to pull off.

and the ending? oh gosh. tender and sweet and the perfect ending for zhenya, and sid, and their family. you'll want to go back and immediately re-read this fic as soon as you're done, it's that good and that satisfying of an ending.

read it here on ao3!

and don't forget to kudos and comment!

[dadvans]

…what is the matthew sister field hockey bushes story????

from this New York Times piece on Taryn Tkachuk, which I think paints a nice picture of who the Tkachuk family is overall (super supportive of each other, close, ride-or-die):

The family wished her both a happy birthday and good luck. She got to the game an hour early and was in the middle of warmups when she saw them pull into the parking lot. The truth is, she couldn’t help but notice. “Matthew, Brady and my uncle (Kevin) were standing through the sunroof in the car screaming as they passed the field,” Taryn said. “Everyone, my whole team just looked over, and I was like, ‘Oh no!'” They were loud, but nervous. “I don’t know that it’s that much different than going to the boys’ games,” Chantal said. “I get just as nervous for her high school field hockey game as I do them playing.” “I was so nervous, I couldn’t watch with everybody,” Matthew said. “I went over and stood in these bushes with a couple of other people I didn’t know. I just couldn’t watch it.” (...) Villa Duchesne’s Suzanne Keefer moved the ball ahead, then teammate Georgia Leary made the play to Taryn, who backhanded it past the goalie for the game-winning goal. “I have no idea how it happened,” Taryn said. “It was just a blur.” (...) Matthew and Brady rushed the field. “I saw it go in and I just ran out of the trees,” Matthew said. “I saw Matthew going over the fence,” Brady said. “Matthew hopped the fence and he’s getting yelled at, then Brady hops the fence,” Taryn said. “The same ref we were giving it to all game told me to get off the field,” Matthew said. In Toronto, Thomas was watching on his phone. “I was scrolling Instagram, and either Matthew or Brady put the link to the live stream of the game on there, and I just so happened to pull it up,” he said. “It was in OT and literally within two minutes, I saw the goal, so it was pretty crazy timing. So I actually got to see the celebration of Matthew and Brady when they jumped over the fence. The camera panned right to them and they were right in the middle of the team celebration, so it was pretty funny.”

[rcmclachlan]

Chimney's "inside man" must be an absolute maniac. Who gets a phone call out of the blue, is asked to commandeer a LAFD helicopter and fly it into a Cat-5 hurricane, and says, yeah, sure?

Or, Buck meets their rescue mission's would-be pilot and is extremely normal about it.

Buck looks down and—they're still shaking hands. Jesus fucking Christ. If he thought he had the time, he'd crawl into the 480-gallon tank on the airbus and drown himself, but instead he wheezes out a laugh and lets go. "You know, I was reading up about rotorcraft flight mechanics on the way here, and throttling is… important. Throttling maintains engine power to keep the rotor speed within limits. Throttling is good." "Throttling is what I'm gonna do to you if you don't shut up and let the nice man steal a helicopter for us," Chim adds.

[foodnetwork-fandom]

tumblr user foodnetwork-fandom my beloved it is so good to see you posting again, what are your thoughts and feelings on tournament of champions

tumblr user dadvans MY beloved, thank you for this question. I admit I haven’t watched TOC in some time but I did love it and think it’s a really cool and satisfying format. love the blind judging. guy needs to chill with the nicknames but he never will and I still love him so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[newtkelly]

for art prompts: bucktommy waking up together!!

ohhhh this might be getting posted today :3 (it is)

[garmanarnarr]

I wanted to drop in and let you know I've been reading your fics and love what I've read so far. I've never reached out to another blog before, I felt like I could here.

I'm not sure where else to ask this but I'm looking for a specific fic that I've read before and can't seem to find. The brain rot demands it 😅. If you'd be interested in helping I'd be very grateful.

Morty has graduated high school, now in college, and has had his growth spurt, now looking pretty attractive. He brings home hookups to try and get Rick's attention. One of the hookups is a guy with a similar name to Rick's. As morty is showing this guy the business he makes eye contact with rick but doesn't look away. He has this whole cocky attitude about it. I remember it being a little humorous.

Thank you!!

Firstly, that makes me so happy anon! I appreciate you reading my stuff AND love the idea that people feel comfortable sending asks :D in case it wasn't clear, i am all ears for rickorty/rick and morty ideas/prompts/whatever and enjoy folks popping into my inbox!!

Secondly, I don't think I know this specific fic, sorry anon :( The closest one I can think of is the VERY talented @dadvans brilliant college morty AU, though I'd definitely say,,, those stories aren't humorous in tone, at least to me haha.

Has anyone read a fic like this to help anon find it?? Thanks!

[samgirard]

Tumblr user samgirard we may be suffering right now as a community but at least we have you. Always lovely to see you back here in the tumblr trenches. I think my immediate reaction to the loss last night was “well at least we have tumblr user samgirard.” May I cry on your shoulder and may you cry on mine.

thank you so much my friend i try to do my part even though the avs insist on hurting me like this we get through it together may our boys be hot through this summer and always

[drunktuesdays]

"#me about s2 of good omens" biggest it's like we're sharing the same heart moment of my life bc i wouldn't say i necessarily ENJOYED it but i sure did consume it! anyway between dustin and jim, who is the angel in love with the demon and who is the demon in love with the angel

i watched all of good omens in a fugue state yesterday, just one after another until i surfaced, blinking, horny and confused. hand to god i could not have explained the plot of this season if you paid me but yes i was incredibly aroused by the ending and will be visiting good omens dot ao3 dot org slash sort by bookmarks slash published summer 2023.

i feel like this season was one of those things where when you're writing a fic and you know you have a KILLER will-they-or-won't-they plot but you try to give your characters something to do in between thinking about kissing but you really don't care THAT much about what they're doing. so instead you invent a jon hamm to hang the whole plot on. no regrets, no notes. i really did not follow a lot of it but i'm RAGINGLY horny about the end, and who needs anything else?

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

HUH???? what. WHAT. screams clutches chest falls over

[epiphainie]

i really enjoy your writing and i was curious about what your favourite bucktommy fics are 👀👀

(only if you feel like answering!)

thank you! i feel like i keep reccing the same fics but i adore them a lot sooo... i'll try to mention more this time:

(edit: putting it under read more bc it got really long)

one way trip to the sun by @newtkelly i've read this twice, i adore the writing, the film homages, the nonlinear format. it's made for me

what the agony had been for by @alchemistc honestly, anything by catie but this is one of my fav tommy focused fics and it being by buck's pov is a feature

a promise of forever by @firehose118 i love the flavor of domesticity bucktommy have in this one, it's so comforting

identify me by @kinaaaard i dont know how to explain it but this fic ruined me for some reason

histocompatibility by @rcmclachlan loved it on tumblr, loved it on ao3 again

five ways to fall in love with the man in the mirror by @userautumn i've just read this this morning and it managed to make me cry with its less than 2k words, it's gorgeous

baby, if you think you're able (you need to take this rough medicine) by @dadbodbuck best smut muah

rule four (you were only waiting for this moment to arise) by daisyblaine (idk if they're here) anything with these vibes is made for me honestly, just this liminal piece of character study

an outlier that should not be counted by @dadvans this is a classic to me

old dog new tricks by @watchyourbuck this one makes my brain go brrrrrr age gap smut you will always be famous

mr july by @lazybakerart this is how i aspire to write in buck's pov honestly, his voice is so good here, so buck

jealousy doesn't always come with green eyes by elizabethgee my fav jealousy fic

Versatile by cjr2 (please tag the writers if you know theyre here) i remember this making me laugh out loud

like sun on my skin (so this is love, i know it is) by @buckera im a slut for these types of flash moments on a theme fics and this is so sweet

Awful quiet here since love fell asleep by @cecilyv @liminalmemories21 one thing about me: the first thing i read when i get into a ship is the breakup fics and this is so beautiful my absolute fav

display me by WallabyWhump i think about this all the time, fav smut oneshots top contender

get undressed, leave a mess (worry 'bout it after) by @prettyboybuckley i read this before i watched the show and it changed my brain chemistry, it's so filthy (positive)

[crosbyism]

i made this joke to @dadvans and he said he wanted to see that powerpoint so i present to you: KyloMcRen.pptx

[fifthrideroftheapocalypse]

BuckTommy fic recs

because i want to spread the love

anything and everythng by @cecilyv and @liminalmemories21, but especially Awful quiet here since love fell asleep. a break up/make up fic with the vibe i wanted in canon, if we only the bothered to go as in depth as cecily and lim do.

Want series by Mellow_Yellow ( @ohjafeeljadefinitelyfeel). Season 1 Buck meets Season 2 Tommy and they fuck a lot. lol. one of my fav Gallavich authors too

Histocompatibility by @rcmclachlan. a really great alternate meeting where tommy meets a drunk buck after he just found out about daniel.

love seems to stick in his veins by athenaeums. a break up make up fic where they get hitched in vegas!!! my kinda angst!!!

lover to burn by alchemystique. a down low bucktommy both working at the 118 when the car bomb goes off.

You Can Love Anyone (You Will Believe Me When I'm Gone) by @dharmaavocado. the only way Abby should ever had been brought up again, LOL. such a great reunion fic though, with tommy there as well NOT knowing who abby is haha

an outlier that should not be counted by @dadvans, featuring my favorite kind of buck: trivia buck!

i sing of bitter earth by @middyblue. one of my faves. buck and tommy run into taylor. the vibe of this one is great, and an inspiration for one of my fics.

and, speaking of, i'll rec my own:

Staring at ghosts - wip. buck starts thinking about his coma dream and struggles to open up to tommy about his near death experience.

[dadvans]

thinking about pregnant tommy is rewiring my brain. thinking about him isolating himself and feeling guilty and horrible while desperately clinging to the fact that at least he still has part of evan with him.

Five months after they break up, Buck gets the courage to ask the guy from Air Ops supporting their hillside extraction if Tommy is the one flying the chopper. It doesn't hurt to be nice. The guy looks him up and down twice, eyes only, and says, "Buckley? No, man, he's been with the rehab unit for a month," before securing their guy and then he's going, going, gone.

Buck texts Lucy afterwards about it, curious. She doesn't respond.

"You hear Tommy's working rehab unit?" He asks Eddie when they're dressing down into their civvies later. "Did he get injured or something?"

"No clue, that guy stopped responding to my texts a few weeks after you two broke up," Eddie replies.

Buck's fingers slip buttoning up his own shirt. "What? Why didn't you tell me?"

Eddie shrugs. "You guys broke up. Tommy's cool and all, but I would get why he needs space. If he's been working rehab though, I wonder if something happened." Pauses, looks at Buck. "I'll text him for you."

He doesn't bring it up again. If Eddie texts, Buck never knows the response.

Buck drops it.

x

Two years after Tommy breaks up with him, Bobby pushes him out of the nest. Buck's spent the time leaning into Bobby's mentorship and when it becomes available, Bobby submits him as a candidate with full confidence for battalion chief up in Mendocino.

His career grows from there. He's not thrilled with working rural, but he learns to love his new team, and continues the traditions of his first house. He learns how to earn their respect.

There are a number of hook ups, men and women. It's a two hour drive to the bay, but that's not an impossible ask for him when he wants a little something more with no recognition.

His job is his love first.

x

"I saw your panel, uh," Buck says, starts, fumbles, "on Helitack. Sounds like you've really changed that program."

It's been almost a decade, but Buck could still recognize the slope of Tommy's broad shoulders, the tired, smile-driven drive of his cheek up to his eyes, the cliff-side cut of his chin, anywhere. Even with grays at Tommy's temples. It's a lifetime later, it feels like, but considering both of their ambition it would be a shock they wouldn't rub shoulders at the annual CFCA.

"Buck," Tommy says. He traces the rim of his shot glass with two fingers, and he doesn't look unhappy when he shifts up. He smiles, even. "Hey."

"Is uh, this seat taken?" Buck asks. Ten years erased. Tongue-tied and twisted guts all over again.

Tommy does pause for a second. But then he nods at the stool next to him at the hotel bar. "All yours, if you want it."

They catch up, a little. It's mostly Buck telling Tommy about working in rural NorCal, his team, and the strange, strange reality of operating in weed country.

"Who's that?" He asks, when Tommy's phone face-side up gets a text, then another. "Niece? Nephew?"

"Well," Tommy says, and he's quick with his phone but not quick enough for Buck not to notice the little girl posing with him on his lock screen photo, them jumping on a beach together-- his background looks like another picture with the girl, this time on a beach. "Daughter, actually."

A tumor borne of desire, of never being enough, gains weight in Buck's gut. After all this time, and yet. Tommy hadn't really seemed open to any kind of future with him, but this girl looks, she's old enough to be, probably right after--

"Cute," he says, softly. She looks ten years old. Her hair curls wispy and wild out of her braids and bangs, and Buck swallows back the bait instead of spitting it out. Maybe. "Takes after her dad."

Tommy nods. His smile has grown tight. "Actually, Evan."

[rcmclachlan]

According to a Wikipedia rabbit hole he went down a few years ago, this is a textbook case of displacement: an object being immersed in something and taking its place by pushing it out.

In this case, Tommy's dick is going to soon be completely immersed in his body and it's going to force everything else—the smell of cooked flesh, the memory of how a once-white sandal was so small that it fit perfectly into the palm of his hand, the feeling of a little body in his arms finally giving up the fight—out of his head like toothpaste squeezed from the tube.

[str4wb3rry-fire]

whats the best bucktommy fic youve ever read ?? ill go first: "an outlier that should not be counted" by dadvans on ao3

[laundryandtaxesworld]

this post is inspired by this one by @dadvans

tommy finds out he’s pregnant after the break up.

Pregnant, Tommy rested on the edge of his sink as he looked down at the test.

Fuck. Tommy let out a harsh breath as the blue capped stick stared back at him along with the other ones, all positive.

He couldn’t do this. Not when he broke Evan’s heart and his heart because he was scared. He gathered up the tests, threw them in the trash and washed his hands. He’d figure out what to do later. Now he needed to make dinner.

The doorbell rang and Tommy shuffled towards the door. He thank the delivery person and closed the door. The Chinese food smelled amazing. He opened the bag on the coffee table and opened up his bowl of egg drop soup. He opened the lid to let the soup cool down as he grabbed a bowl from the kitchen. He opens the cabinet and tears started to well. Baby Blue bowls, the one’s Evan had brought over. Guess he needs to give that back now.

——

“I’m going to need a letter from your medical provider to confirm the pregnancy Kinard.”

“No problem, Cap.”

“Right now, you’ll be the man behind. Just to make sure that everything is in order.” Tommy nodded, he figured.

“Also, congratulations.”

“Thank you,” Tommy whispered. He left the office and went down to the locker room. It was going to be okay, he was going to get through this. He looked at his phone and the draft to Evan was sitting on his phone.

Tommy: Hey can we talk? [Send].

He closed his phone and threw it on his duffel bag before putting his head in his hands. He had no right to reach out, not with the way he acted. But Evan deserved to know of the pregnancy, so he was going to send the text later.

The twenty-four hours flew by fast, as Tommy’s head was completely preoccupied with plans. What was he going to do? Was he going to keep it? Of course, he always wanted to be a father. Now was his chance. Okay, if he was going to keep it, was he going to be a good father? He didn’t have an example to lead from, as his father was not a kind man-

“Tommy!” Tommy startled and turned around to see Lucy with her arms crossed and eyebrow raised.

“W-what?”

“Did you hear what I say?”

“No, sorry. I was… spaced out.”

“I’ll say, what’s going on?” Tommy turned to face Lucy, and took a deep breath.

“I’m pregnant.”

“Congratulations!” Lucy smiled but soon the silence fell over them. “Not congratulations?”

“It’s Evan’s.” Tommy whispered.

“No shit. So what’s the problem? He doesn’t want kids?”

“No, he wants kids. It’s just-“ Tommy hesitated. He hadn’t exactly told his co-workers that he and Evan had broke up yet.

“We broke up.”

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