#mcdanno are soulmates

[sunnoah]

THEY ARE SO FUNNY ICBBBBBB JSJSJSDJ "you neanderthal animal" lmaooo

[teruel-a-witch]

they really are *that* couple, the one whose flame never burns out, bubble never bursts, honeymoon period never ends, warmth shining through the years, only growing closer and fonder. As crazy about each other as when they met but somehow more in love.

[bringbackavac]

lowkey want to bury myself in plushies and blankets bcs i accidentally thought about how steve’s house was the first feel of home danny’s ever had in hawaii —and speedrun to s10 ep22 where it finally becomes his, but the person who helped him made it his home isn’t here, so it’s just a house now. a haunted house.

exactly like how steve felt in the first season (haunted by memories of his mother, his childhood and then his dead father’s murder) before danno walked into his life and helped him built that house back into a home again

[erandri]

Steve glances at his arm again, the fifth time in as many minutes, and is dismayed to see that the only thing written there is his own scrawling 'Hi'. It's not the most elegant way to introduce yourself to your soulmate but 'Do you prefer spring or summer weddings?' seemed like a bit much. His friends suggestions hadn't been much better, all of them younger than him and not able to communicate through their soul connection yet.

It had taken him weeks to muster up the courage to do it and still after an hour there was no response, but Steve wasn't going to let it get to him. His soulmate could live on the other side of the world and be asleep. Or maybe they just didn't know what to say. Or maybe they don't speak English.

Or maybe they were ignoring him.

There were a lot of people who ignored their connection, buying arm bands or getting tattoos to cover any writing from their soulmate. There was a small, but growing, movement of people who believed that the idea of soulmates was an antiquated idea. That some mysterious, cosmic link between two people should not automatically mean that they are the only ones for each other.

Steve had always been the opposite. When he was young and they were first learning about connection in school he had gone home and asked him mom question after question about soulmates. He loved the idea that somewhere out there in the world there was one person that would be perfect for him. He wants that, to have someone that he could know so intimately, to have someone he could share every part of himself with. Soulmates always seemed to happy together that even at his young age he envied their connection.

It seems that his soulmate doesn’t feel the same way. At the end of the day, after waiting seven hours and still no response from his soulmate, Steve washes the ink off of his arm.

---

It was another month before he dared to write to his soulmate again. He had thought about doing it dozens of times, making up reasons as to why his soulmate didn't reply last time and why they would have to respond this time, until finally he mustered up the courage to do it again.

Steve left the message on his arm for two days. Still, there was no response.

---

Despite the fact that his soulmate doesn't want to talk with him, it doesn't stop Steve from writing. It's just little things, like the fact that he made captain of the football team, or what movie he happened to be watching. Sometimes he just draws pictures of what he's looking at. There's never a response but by now he's accepted that there never will be. He still likes the possibility that somewhere out there in the world, his soulmate is reading what he writes.

---

A few days after his mother dies Steve can't stop writing. He writes a novel on his arm of everything that he can't say out loud. Memories of his mother, things that she used to say, how they don't seem like a family with her gone. He writes until his pen runs out of ink, until there's so much of it on him that it will take weeks for it all to wash off of his skin. When he's done he sits on his bedroom floor exhausted.

He's almost fallen asleep when there's a warmth on his arm, like the sun is shining on it even though it's past 9pm. The warmth disappears almost as soon as it starts and he immediately misses the sensation. When he looks down, for the first time there's writing on his arm that isn't his own. Scrawled messily in blue ink is 'I'm sorry' and for the first time since the funeral he cries for what’s he’s lost.

---

When he joins the Naval Academy they give him a standard issue arm band and tell him, as a security measure for both him and his soulmate, that he needs to cease all contact. That if he's in contact with his soulmate that this is his last chance to say goodbye because as soon as he walks out of the room he is officially a naval cadet.

He doesn't write anything.

---

Years go by and Steve almost forgets about his soulmate. The black sleeve around his arm becomes so familiar to him that he no longer sees it, just like he no longer sees the matching sleeves on the twenty-four men that he's stationed with. They're in the middle of the desert, sweating their ass off for weeks on end waiting for intelligence to come through on a terrorist cell hiding out in the mountains somewhere, and the only thing reminding him that the sleeve is there is the pesky sand that always seems to find a way underneath it.

He’s on the night watch, hunkered down behind a rock outcrop for cover and watching the moon slowly rise above the sand dunes. It’s nearing midnight and he’s waiting for Martinez to relieve him when he feels it. His arm feels warm under the band, like someone’s holding onto him and he knows that if he looks down he’ll see words appearing on his skin. He knows that it’s against regulation, but he’s all alone in the middle of the desert and the temptation is too much.

Slowly, he peels of the band, revealing pale skin and three words written in blue pen. He holds his arm in the moonlight and his stomach drops when he reads I’m getting married. He should have followed protocol.

He slides the band back into place, covering his skin once again, but the words feel like a brand on his arm. His soulmate is getting married. His stomach twists, an acidic feeling churning in him quickly before he tamps it down, shoves that feeling into a neat little box. He had assumed that whoever was on the other end of his soul connection didn’t want to be soulmates. That they were one of the ones who wanted to find a love connection regardless of the universe or some higher power had is mind. The idea still hurts though. The person that the universe selected as perfect for him doesn’t want him.

---

His fathers house is unnaturally quiet. It had never been a lively home, at least not since his mothers death, but to see if so utterly devoid of life feels wrong. the remains of the crime scene don’t do anything to help lighten the atmosphere. Still, he has a job to focus on and he can’t do anything mourning over the emptiness of his fathers- his- home. Every moment he wastes is another opportunity for Victor Hesse to get away.

He treats the house like he would any other op, detaching himself from the personal aspect of the case as he examines the spot where his father was shot. It’s easy to tell that Victor didn’t work alone, the foot print, the space for the laptop start to tell him what happened here before he got that phone call.

There’s no evidence of Victor going upstairs so the next place for him to inspect is the garage. It looks the same as it did the last time he was here. Cluttered, smelling of motor oil and must. His fathers old Marquis is still stored under the tarp, looking exactly the same as it did the last time Steve saw it. Then the toolbox catches his eye.

It looks innocuous, which is exactly what Steve would want if he were looking to hide something. When he sees the end of the label is destroyed, leaving just Champ, he knows that this is important. His father calling him Champ probably wasn’t enough to alert Hesse but it set off alarm bells in his head. Sure enough, it’s not just tools inside the toolbox. The photos and pieces inside don’t mean anything to him, another mystery for him to solve.

“Freeze,“ a voice calls out and Steve pulls his gun without thinking, turning to stare down a blond cop with a gun pointed at him.

---

There’s something about Danny that Steve can’t put his finger on. He’s only known him a couple of hours now but he can tell that Danny is a competent detective. He can also tell that Danny is a giant pain in the ass. Still, there’s something else there, something that Steve finds himself drawn to, and the more time that they spend together the more Danny feels like a puzzle that Steve wants to solve.

There’s the obvious things that Steve could find in Danny’s file. He’s a main-lander from New Jersey, he rose quickly through the ranks there until he became a detective, and then he moved to Hawaii where his career has been stagnating. Steve is not overly familiar with the inner workings of HPD, or any police department, but with Danny's record and accolades it seems like he should be doing more than babysitting cases the HPD could never solve.

Then there’s the less obvious things like his love for his daughter, his determination to do the right thing, and his arm band. When they first met Steve has just assumed Danny was wearing the arm band as part of his uniform, but as they spend more and more time together outside of work Steve realizes that he never sees Danny take the band off.

The question starts to burn in him, why? Does Danny not believe in soulmates? Was Rachel his soulmate? Does Danny know who his soulmate is? For some reason the last question feels important. It runs through his mind on the nights that he can’t sleep. Who is Danny’s soulmate?

---

It doesn’t take long for Steve to realize what his feelings towards Danny are. It’s an unfamiliar feeling to know that he likes Danny but can’t do anything about it. He’d only ever felt this way before about Freddie but even that had been different. Freddie has already been in a relationship so there would have no point in telling him how he felt.

Danny though, is different. On paper there’s nothing holding Steve back from telling him how he feels but still he can’t bring himself to actually say anything.

A voice in the back of him mind tells him that the issue is the arm bands. It’s been a long time since Steve has thought about his soulmate, but he does still believe in them. Still wants to have that perfect love that so many soulmates talk about. The understanding an acceptance for every facet of himself. When he was younger it felt like a craving, desperately gnawing away at his insides. Now it’s just an ache, a pang of hurt inside him knowing that something is missing. Something he can’t quite put his finger on. Something that he’s never been able to find with anyone else.

But when he’s with Danny that pang dulls.

He’s gotten used to Danny’s touches, the taps on his chest to get his attention, the steady hand on his shoulder as they head into combat, the hugs that last just a moment too long. He savors every one, promising himself that he won’t ask for more but still he wonders, what if he did ask?

The band around his arm starts to feel like a weight he’s dragging around as the months go on. Instead of a means of protection, it starts to feel like a barrier. What is Danny is his soulmate? What if he’ll never know because of these damned sleeves? 

---

Breaking into the governors mansion, his arrest, and escape, all feel like a background noise as Danny tells him about his relationship with Rachel. That they’ve been having an affair for weeks, that she’s pregnant again and it’s Danny’s, that they were going to run away together. Blood rushes through Steve’s head as he tries to shut it all down, the emotions bubbling up within him at the news. Anger, confusion, doubt. Jealousy.

He knows he says something to Danny, hopefully something comforting, but he doesn’t know what. His body is working on autopilot while his mind tries to seal shut all of the compartments inside of him that are threatening to burst open. It feels like too much. Too much to know all of this and know, finally, that Danny is not his. Danny has never been his.

---

Weeks later, Danny is knocking on his door saying Rachel has gone back to Stan, her soulmate, and that the baby isn’t his. Rachel got her math wrong and they’re going to fix their relationship for the sake of the baby.

“I’m so sorry Danny,“ he says because what else can he say? He knew exactly how excited Danny was to have Rachel back, to have his family back, and a baby on the way. Now he has none of that.

“Don’t be,“ Danny says, his voice raw, and Steve pauses, “the entire time, from the moment the affair started. No, from the moment i met Rachel, i always felt like there was something missing.“

Danny’s gaze is piercing, holding him to the spot he stands.

“I never believed in soulmates. My parents aren’t soulmates, i know that it can work. I always told myself that I was going to marry someone that i chose to love, not someone that the universe told me to love. But,“ Danny pauses and takes a deep, bracing breath before continuing, “but there was always something that felt off. I told myself that it was okay, that it wasn’t a big deal. Then i met you, and every time that i’m with you things just feel right.“

Steve can’t breathe. He’s pretty sure he hasn’t breathed since Danny first started talking. The air fills filled with anticipation, his skin feel tight, like he’s bracing on a knife’s edge wondering which way he’s going to fall.

“I just need to try something,“ Danny says when Steve fails to fill the silence.

Danny raises his arm and it’s only now that he realizes that Danny is not wearing his arm band. Seeing the exposed skin of Danny’s arm almost feels wrong, wicked even, to look at this part of Danny that he’s kept hidden for so long. In his other hand Danny hold a pen and Steve watches Danny writes something on his arm.

No sooner has Danny finished than Steve’s arm starts to feel warm under his band. The same kind of warmth like when Danny touches him. His eyes shoot down to his covered arm and finally, he remembers to breathe. It’s been so long since he felt that warmth that he had forgotten how it felt.

“Take your band off,“ Danny says and it almost sounds pleading.

Steve does what Danny says, hooking his thumb under the fabric and pushing it down to his wrist. On the exposed skin ‘Is it you?’ is written in Danny’s handwriting.

“I knew it had to be you,“ Danny says, holding out his own arm with the exact same writing on it. Steve can see tears in his eyes, he knows that his own eyes are misty, but he doesn’t know what to do next. He’d thought about this moment a thousand times, wondering how it would go, but now that it’s here. Now that it’s Danny standing in front of him. He doesn’t know what to do.

Danny reads him like a book, he’s always been able to read Steve so well, and he takes the first step forward instead. “Come here,“ Danny tells him and they fall into each other, lips crashing together in a kiss. It’s not perfect but Steve never wants it to end.

He’s found his soulmate. He’s found Danny. And finally everything feels right.

[writtenbygracewilliams]

Alignment (McDanno fic)

The Steve/Danny soulmate fic only I wanted, because I refuse to let y’all perpetuate the myth that Steve McGarrett wouldn’t love being a submissive. I have a submissive Steve and dominant Danny agenda that I won’t apologise for and I’m making it everyone’s problem.

Whole thing is 6 chapters and already written, I imagine I’ll post 1–2 times a week for the next month or so until it’s all live.

[ellena-asg]

#uniromantic!Steve and uniromantic!Danny

[lolli-says-stuff]

Good soulmate au fic Recs?

[itsallpanicnodisco]

This is one of the things that made me a McDanno crazy bitch in the first place.

The way Steve is instantly fond of the parental side of Danny is so cute but also so sad (like everything involving Steve lmao) and also one of the first things that made Steve actually trust and respect Danno.

Love them so much ugh

Wait I just realised Danny moving to Hawaii to be with Grace is literally the polar opposite of what John did to Steve and Mary. Like no wonder Danny’s parenting is one of the things Steve instantly latches onto as ‘I am going to love you forever for this specifically’ - John sent his kids an ocean away from him while Danny moved himself across an ocean so that his kid wouldn’t be taken away from him

[teruel-a-witch]

danny: your head must be a miserable place.

steve: *grins quietly to himself* (not since you've moved in)

because danny sure got his number. because he's kind of adorable when he's all exasperated. but also because he's wrong. because for the first time in a while steve isn't just thinking about ~the mission~, he's living. he's enjoying himself. he's looking forward to what life will bring with danny by his side. danny really saved his life in more ways than he'll ever know in that garage.

[tvfangirladdict]

McDanno, out here, just walking around at the beach shirtless, with their matching scars on display. To be a stranger on that beach and have these two men walk past you. I can only wonder what would go through your head when you saw them and realized they shared the same exact surgical scar.

I'm such a sucker for soulmate mark stories and there's an plenty written for McDanno but now I really need a matching tattoo story, because it's just so not Danny.

Apparently I like matching marks in general...

[ellena-asg]

♥️♥️♥️

A McDanno drabble #1

It's not about the way Danny's fingers feel on his skin, rather the way the sensation lingers even when the touch has ended. In fact, the tingling warmth left behind after a feather-light touch to his elbow can get him through several hours, especially if he presses his own fingers to the same spot much later. But those moments when Danny's attention is undivided, is solely on Steve as he lies still and patient, those sensations ripple through Steve with such intensity he can't stop them and so they overwhelm him. And, he's finally come to realise, he deserves it.

[ellena-asg]

[ellena-asg]

And I bet that Danny heard such names for the first time in his life (of course f.e. his mum was super lovely to him but I mean different kind of human relationship 😉). From Steve.

Not from ex "girlfriends" (they're nice and friendly but we all know how those relationships looked). And for sure not from ex "wife" (when she pretended she's nice to him she rather just called him Danny instead of Daniel; sunshine? darling? sweetheart? baby? he wasn't them in her eyes).

To Steve he is everything. Everything good. Everything best. And everything sweet ♥️

When your boyfriend calls you 'sunshine'.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (29 Dec 2024-4 Jan 2025)

this show is so good y'all

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😐 A Right To Die (Nero Wolfe #40) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator)

😐 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) (Agatha Christie, adapted by Anna Lea; full voice cast) - this interpolation certainly made some choices (they really leaned in to Hastings as a tormented Sad War Boy™) but short & entertaining enough to finish, largely due to the cast which features: Peter Dinklage as Poirot, Himesh Patel as Hastings, plus Jessica Gunning, Harriet Walter, Rob Delaney, Phil Dunster, Patsy Ferran, John Bradley, Vivian Oparah with a score composed by Johnny Flynn in collaboration with cellist and composer Joe Zeitlin

😍 if I'm gonna get back to you someday (napricot) - 46K, forever fave post-Endgame fix-it with "a clusterfuck of Steves" from different multiverses - reread before starting mistaken for strangers, a new side story following modern Steve's return to his timeline and his quest to find his own Bucky

😍 And like the cat I have nine times to die (treefrogie84) - really fantastic TOG/Leverage fusion

💖💖 +224K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Small Talk (GoldStarGrl) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 16K - fantastic AU where Boyd escapes Harlan & works for NASA but ends up tangled up in Raylan's shit anyway. Fantastic characterizations!!!

North (masterassassin) - HP: Drarry, 25K - "A story about unlikely friendships, novelty mugs, expensive wood, a Vietnamese snake with an Irish name, Indian food, and things taking a turn for the better."

Unmapped (Jerakeen) - TW: Sterek, 11K - Sterek sentinel AU

Pineapples Are Not The Only Fruit (alassenya) - H50: McDanno, 28K - H50 sentinel AU

No Sign of (Goddamn, Motherfucking) Soulmates series (thisapplepielife) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 5K - short, funny soulmates series - one fic from each POV, truly charming

If our two loves be one (phoenixflight) - Wimseyverse: Harriet/Peter/Bunter V polycule, 10K - absolutely fantastic, really nailed the character voices

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Nobody Asked - s1, e3

The Sam Sanders Show - Rachel Bloom Confronts Grief with a Heckler Named Death

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #20

Handsome - Ego Nwodim asks about doing bad things

Dirty Laundry - s4, e11

Elementary - s7, e3-13

D20: Adventuring Party - s9, e5-6

D20: Coffin Run - s14, e5-6

Doctor Who: Joy To The World (2024 Christmas special)

⭐ A Man on the Inside - s1, e1-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2025 Pop Culture Predictions

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2025 Pop Culture Resolutions And What's Making Us Happy

⭐ One Song - Heart's "Barracuda"

The Curious History of Your Home - Carpets

Vibe Check - Alive in 2025

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Squid Game

It's Been a Minute - 2025 Predictions: social media is OUT & food politics are IN

It's Been a Minute - All hail the queen of rom-coms

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Hits: '50s

The Greatest Hits Album (The Best Of) [The Everly Brothers]

Ultimate Star Collection [Gene Vincent]

[nubianamy]

Writing update (Winter 2024/2025)

I didn't even write one of these in 2023 or 2024, which tells you exactly how much writing I've been doing! Thanks to @kwills91 for tagging me in this fic roundup.

Solo Writing

Most of my solo writing has halted, including the many Donutverse WIPs. It's always possible I'll pick them back up again, but for now, I've set them aside.

Here are the solo fics I published in 2023 and 2024:

1. Relevé

AU-Canon Divergence, high school friendship, redeemed!Dave

Fandom: Glee Ship: Kurtofsky with background Mike/Finn Rating: Teen Summary: Dave wants to get Kurt's attention, but figuring out how to do it without being a total asshole is going to take some work.

Oneshot, complete, 5k

Comments: I wrote this for the Hibernation Dave zine in 2022, but forgot to put it on AO3 until 2023, so I'm counting it here.

2. Our Name is Our Virtue (part 3 of Inoa'ohana / Family Name series)

soulmates, polyamory, light Dom/sub, conspiracy

Fandom: Hawaii 5-O Ships: McDanno, Steve/Danny/Dave Collins Rating: Explicit Summary: Danny and Steve might be soulmates, but there are still so many people in their lives who don't know anything about it—and there's a price to pay when people choose to keep secrets instead of telling the truth.

Series, complete, 26k words

Comments: I wrote this for the 2023 H50 Big Bang, and it got the hottest art! I absolutely love McDanno, but this series was my opportunity to explore crime drama in the context of the Donutverse soulmates/worldwide conspiracy setting, and it had to be polyam for it to work for the larger story. I have seven more stories planned in this series.

3. Laid Up

masturbation, fluff and smut, AU-Canon Divergence

Fandom: Glee Ship: Puckurt Rating: Explicit Summary: After Puck breaks his leg, the Hudson-Hummel family agree to care for him while he recovers. Kurt quickly realizes he’s in for a lot more than he bargained for.

One-shot, work in progress, 13k so far

Comments: This was my avoiding-writing-my-Big-Bang story.

4. Guilty Pleasure

AU-Coffeehouse, teacher!Buck, friends to lovers

Fandom: 9-1-1 Ship: Buddie Rating: Teen Summary: Buck especially loves it when Eddie's kid Christopher comes into his sister's coffee shop.

One-shot, complete, 9k

Comments: My first Buddie story! I wrote this for the 2024 9-1-1 Fanworks Festival.

Cowriting

Even though work and my life have been busy, writing with my cowriter @beshrew-my-very-heart has continued. I'm so grateful for his patience with all the changes and stressful event of the last two years.

My cowriter introduced me to a new fandom this year, 9-1-1. We wrote a handful of smutty stories for the Five Alarm Fest this summer, and several of them have prompted series, in particular the Time Off crossover series. It's been so much fun to get to know all the characters by writing about them.

Here are the fics we've published together in 2023 and 2024:

1. Auld Acquaintance

Puck is a bi stereotype, secret relationship

Fandom: Glee Ship: Puck/everyone (but secretly kinky Puckurt) Rating: Mature Summary: On New Year’s Eve, Noah Puckerman is embroiled in a little game. From the moment the ball drops, he is on a quest: to collect kisses from as many of the New Direction alumni before time runs out.

First in unpublished series but can be read as a oneshot, complete, 10k

Comments: This is my favorite story-that-nobody-read, probably because we didn't tag the secret relationship. We challenged ourselves to write a oneshot. It was plotted, written, and published in 24 hours—but we couldn't stop there! We wrote several thousand words of a sequel, but set it aside in favor of writing other things.

2. Waited on a Line of Greens and Blues (part 3 of To Be With You series)

AU-Canon Divergence, football, teen drama, romance

Fandom: Glee Ship: Sam/Finn, Puckurt, Finn/Kurt friendship, Puck/Finn frenemies Rating: Explicit Summary: Sam and Finn’s second summer at football camp is complicated by Puck’s involvement, Kurt’s presence at the cheerleading camp across the lake, the new direction of the camp’s management, and Sean’s painful absence. The most challenging thing about being together again, however, is their own confusing feelings for one another.

Series, work in process (finished but we are posting it very slowly), 179k so far

Comments: We wrote this a while back (and also wrote a good bunch of the next one), and I'm still so proud of it. We commissioned some amazing art for it from @starpawedart that we adore.

3. Knockout

missing scene, first time

Fandom: 9-1-1 Ship: EddieTommy Rating: Explicit Summary: After a fire at the airport grounds Eddie and Tommy in Las Vegas, they’re forced to spend the night in a hotel room together. Misunderstandings lead to Eddie getting a much clearer understanding about his relationship with Tommy.

first in series, complete, 13k

Comments: We love this ship (and it felt so obvious that this was the way the story would have gone if the writers had decided to go with EddieTommy instead of BuckTommy). There's a sequel in the works.

4. Parched

pwp, shower kink

Fandom: 9-1-1 Ship: Tarlos Rating: Explicit Summary: When a drought hits Austin, TK has an idea for how to get his time in the shower.

oneshot, complete, 5k

Comments: Learning to write TK/Carlos...

5. Biggest Fan (Part 1 of Crossing State Lines series)

first time, Buck has a big dick, intercrural

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ship: Buck/Mateo Rating: Explicit Summary: Sparks fly when Evan Buckley and Mateo Chavez meet in a bar in LA, but are their eyes too big for their stomachs?

first in series, complete, 12k

Comments: I had no idea how much I would enjoy this ship before we wrote this story, but Buck and Mateo are adorable together.

6. Force of Nature (Part 2 of Crossing State Lines series)

coming out, relationship drama, foursome

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: Buck/Mateo, Buck/Mateo/Carlos/TK Rating: Explicit Summary: In the midst of wildfire disaster relief in Texas, Buck plans a surprise visit to Mateo, but he doesn’t think through all the ramifications of his arrival.

second in series, complete, 47k

Comments: Mateo and Buck have to do some relationship mending at the beginning, but all ends well.

7. Wholly Convinced

first time threesome, public sex

Fandom: 9-1-1 Ship: BuckTommy Rating: Explicit Summary: Tommy Kinard always seems to know exactly what his partners want. He always takes it as his personal mission to help them get what they want. Tommy Kinard thinks he knows how this chapter ends.

oneshot, complete, 11k

Comments: Never thought writing a glory hole could be so romantic.

8. Bonfire

not actually unrequited love, established threesome

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: Buck/Carlos/TK, Buddie Rating: Explicit Summary: Even after years of TK and Carlos feeding the flame of their long-distance relationship with Buck, they know he’s carrying a torch for someone else, too. Can they find a way to kindle this slow burn into a steady fire?

oneshot, complete, 10k

Comments: I think this is the best-written of all our 9-1-1 fics.

9. Monday is Blue (Part 1 of Time Off series)

Daddy kink, sex toys, polyamory

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: Buck/Owen, Owen/Mateo, Tarlos Rating: Explicit Summary: When Buck needs a place to crash in Austin, he stays at Owen’s place, and winds up with more than he bargained for.

first in series, complete, 30k

Comments: I know I'm the only one in the fandom who likes Owen, but I 100% fell in love with this pairing... and it just gets sweeter from here.

10. Tuesday is Gray (Part 2 of Time Off)

kitchen table polyam, D/s, public scene, family feels

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: Buck/Owen, Owen/Mateo, Buck/Owen/Mateo, Tarlos Rating: Explicit Summary: On the second day of Buck’s trip to Texas, he only finds himself drawn deeper into the myriad dynamics and relationships in Owen Strand’s home. Everyone seems to have plans and ideas for what to do next, as Buck tries to work out his place amongst them.

second in series, complete, 78k

Comments: Power dynamics aren't easy to negotiate, but we managed to get through it without destroying the relationshp!

11. Wednesday Too (Part 3 of Time Off)

kink checklists, kitchen table polyam, coming out

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: Buck/Owen, Owen/Mateo, Buck/Owen/Mateo, Buck/Carlos, Tarlos Rating: Explicit Summary: Time doesn’t stop for anyone, and even though it’s the third day of Buck’s Texas Vacation, Owen and Mateo have to return to work. Luckily, they’ve found the perfect person to keep Buck company, teach him some new things about himself, and run him through his paces. Twenty-four hours doesn’t sound like a long time, but it’s plenty of opportunity to break some rules, confess some secrets, and perhaps have a few surprise visitors.

third in series, complete, 58k

Comments: We thought we were being so sneaky about the actual main pairing of this story, but every comment makes it obvious that we were mistaken.

12. Life Jacket (set in the Time Off series)

5+1, kitchen table polyam, D/s

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star Ships: BuckTommy, BuddieTommy, Buddie, Buck/Owen, Owen/Mateo, Buck/Owen/Mateo, Buck/Carlos, Tarlos Rating: Mature Summary: Five times members of the polycule mislaid their clothing, and one time they didn’t have to.

futurefic in series with spoilers, complete, 15k

Comments: I promise this is not a crackship!

Total words in 2023: 688,835

Total words in 2024: 482,167

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My fics!

New Year, belated new status post

I am tentatively going to try to make 2025 the year where I finish some old fics. I'm slowly working on finishing Ice Queen and just posted the new chapter for that!

I am also working on a lot of new soulmate HP crossover fics.

Owen Grady(Jurassic Park)

Tony DiNozzo(NCIS)

Homelander(The Boys) -- this is still cooking; haven't picked out the soulmate trope yet

Acheron(Dark Hunter series)

McDanno+Harry(Hawaii 5-0)

Murtagh Morzanson(Eragon)

Thranduil(Hobbit)

I'll finish Kinktober 2024 before too long. That's been fun to write!

I'll work on and finish Harry/Daemon "Playing with Fire"!

I've got a Harry reborn as Rhaenyra being written.

I might even write a Harry/Daemon/Rhaenyra fic somewhere along the way.

I've got a HP/Torchwood on the way, possibly with a little mpreg on Jack's side.

Anyway, that's the plan for 2025.