#literally I write fic for this fandom back in the day

[wikiangela]

Hi, a bit late but joining in on the @alliwantforchristmasislou project 🫶

I decided to donate to a polish organisation called the stonewall group (which is why the pic is in polish lol)

chose this one just because im the most familiar with this one, and they do amazing work in support of lgbt+ people and fighting for our rights in this... not so queer-friendly country 🫶

now, ive been in the 911 fandom for almost 4 years now (gonna be 4 in i think February), and i only started after the episode Buck actually bc it was allll over my dash. i binged the whole show in a week, before the next episode is even aired, I loved it SO much.

as most of y'all know, I initially shipped buddie - it was the big ship, ofc i did, i wrote so much fic for them and i had so much fun and met so many moots i still love seeing on my dash 🫶❤️ but it might've been obvious (or not, idk) i was kinda getting bored and losing enjoyment, more and more of my fics and snippets were focusing on other characters with buck or eddie, i wasnt really as into it anymore - but i still loved it and wanted to enjoy it (which ironically was killed dead later on by the buddie fandom itself lmao)

and then came bucktommy and everything changed. initially i tried not to give in but within a few days i had two fics and more ideas lol they completely took over my thoughts. ive never been this inspired to write, to create, I even learned how to make gifs for them (with lots of help from amazing talented friends 🫶🤣) during fall and winter I always get so depressed and sad and having very dark and depressing thoughts (last year my buck driving fic was a result of that lol), and its so hard to find motivation to do anything, even write. but this year, even tho I had a lil crisis moment, i wrote through it and im as inspired as always - i havent stopped writing since april. they're literally the most inspiring ship ever - and fun fact, usually i prefer writing about fanon ships, so this was a huge change and surprise

I always related to buck a lot, and especially once we got his bisexuality canon - checking out and appreciating hot people of the same sex and not realizing what it means is too real lol - and Tommy is so compelling and theres so much potential for so many stories there, I wish the show would do something interesting with him 😭 despite being so confident and cool, he feels like he's holding back some sad, maybe (probably) traumatic backstory that could be so good and interesting - and lou is such a good actor and itd be amazing to see more from him in this role

they wrote tommy as the perfect love interest for buck, and it was amazing to see it on screen, it was such a breath of fresh air to see this kind of queer representation on a network show, it was so gentle and adorable, and they initially handled it with so much care, and id love to see where they'd go from there 😭 the break up broke my heart not only because it happened, but because it felt ooc and abrupt and not at all like that's where the story was going. wish they'd fix it and give us tommy back 😭🙏

and lastly but most importantly - thanks to bucktommy, i met so many amazing friends ❤️😭 even when I was writing fics and interacting with mutuals on here, i was never really talking to a lot of mutuals, not for longer than a few messages, and now i got this wonderful community that i feel so comfortable in, everyone is so nice and friendly, and I love y'all so much, this is the best fandom experience ive ever had ❤️

thank you all, ive been having so much fun since april, i love y'all. here's to more bucktommy in 2025 ❤️

[edgeisallelite]

I don’t even write fic for this fandom either but goddamn seeming Will carrying Darby out like he couldn’t bare to see him struggle is lowkey giving me some thoughts.

[skitskatdacat63]

This is my personal crossover event of the century

[rainofthetwilight]

have been seeing this going around so i decided to make my own!!

(just a disclaimer i havent rewatched some of the seasons in a while so i did this according to what i remember)

[evil-mcytblrconfessions]

sobbing rn thinking of the friends ive made through mcyts.....i love you all whether we're talking right now or havent talked in years.....you all have a special place in my heart......we may have met through liking cubitos but we grew well beyond that....sorry im having thoughts

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[crehador]

This might be a dumb question, but how do you decide which pov to write in? Is it predetermined, or it happens as you write? Is there a pov you default to, or is it s conscious decision?

not a dumb question at all! but question for your question: do you mean pov as in first, second, or third person or as in ichiro pov vs samatoki pov? (i'm assuming you're here for the smic anon because what else do i even write these days lol)

if it's the former, i pretty much exclusively write in close third for fanfic (and in general)

nothing against first person at all, it's just not my bag. i did write quite a lot of original fiction in first person back in the day, and maybe it's something i'll explore again one day, but right now i'm pretty solidly attached to third

as for how i decided, i suspect it had a lot to do with the simple fact that i mostly write fanfiction these days and fanfiction is generally in third. not a very deep answer lol, but that and i simply find i prefer it are probably the main reasons

if it's the latter! i think i write ichiro pov a lot more than samatoki pov, and it's really not deliberate. it's more a matter of habit than anything, i think. like for dailies specifically, these shorter fics, i think i'm so used to writing ichiro pov sometimes that i just default to it

but i really enjoy writing samatoki pov too! would love to do it more. should really do it more lmao

of course it also depends on the fic in question, like sometimes there is very much a reason to go one way or another. if the plot hinges on one character not knowing something that the other does know, then which of them is the pov character changes the story greatly

outsider pov is also something i find really fun! like sometimes it's not just ichiro pov or samatoki pov. sometimes it's inexplicably hitoya pov lol

ahem long rambling aside!

tl;dr between first, second, and third person i don't generally need to decide which to write in because these days i write pretty much exclusively in third; between ichiro and samatoki, i default to ichiro pov a lot but would love to write samatoki pov more and in some cases it definitely depends on what the story actually is

[silentwalrus1]

did somebody watch advent children

when i was 11 my father brought home a family movie.

[marimbles]

i miss being in my tmsidk era. what was i on back then. where did that girl go. come back ho why would you abandon me like this

[apricusapollo]

I just reread Mr and Mrs Smiths au of a ship from a fandom I left in 2022 spring– apparently, I've missed them more than I thought

[renegadeknight]

if you don't water your favorite Fandom creators regularly, we will shrivel up and die of thirst

Had to share this here because you're right and you should say it. It's incredible how many people came out of the woodwork as soon as AO3 was down and suddenly had no compunctions at all about screaming how much they love and need fanfic--on the AO3 twitter. Is it so much harder to do in the comment section?

At this point I don't care anymore if people call me entitled or think I'm out of line. If fanfic is so meaningful to you that you cannot go half an hour without, let alone 24h, then you can get over yourself long enough to write a fucking comment. No excuses.

"writing comments is hard and scary" yeah well GUESS WHAT so is writing fanfics. fandom as a community is dying, because it is instead treated as a COMMODITY, a CONSUMER PRODUCT. We're not asking for much. We're asking for a CONNECTION. We don't want to sell, we want to share.

You've shown your hand. You've admitted you cannot live without us. Now ACT LIKE IT. Go write a fucking comment.

[setevulpo]

finished writing a fic and found out the ao3 tags don't work on mobile? so i can only post when i get back home in a few hours, but it will come out tonight

[forcebookish]

i have a lot of fics in the works that are either one shots or are kind of short WIPs (20-25k) and if i were a different person they'd be perfect candidates for slow burn but i just can't fucking do it. not only does it annoy me to write, but it means i'd have to come up with a bunch of unnecessary scenes i just don't want

[queenerdloser]

re-reading a dai time travel fic and by god it really makes me want to write my own bc the Implications of a time-travel in dai is so full of crunchy, crunchy angst. but every time i try to write an inquisitor who is not my beloved kai lavellan my brain blanks out.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

the worst part about watching tokyo ghoul rn is that i really want to finish it today because if i dont ill probably never get around to finishing it again but also every psrt of my brain is going "i could be watching prime defenders right now"

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

As I'm winding down with my OFMD series (and possibly breaking 300k in two and a half months, HOLY FUCKING SHIT), anyone want to suggest a new show that I can watch that will air live over a few weeks, get me greatly invested in characters while leaving enough holes/questionable writing decisions for me to be inspired to write fanfic, then have an absolutely devastating finale that will necessitate fix-it fic?

Asking for a friend!