Not Now Tobey

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oh this is interesting! i had to dig into my headcanon(s) tag to remember because my brain is mush, but here's a few headcanons i like and wish i could write:

buck's years on the road loneliness contrasting to his current canon loneliness. i wrote the road trip fic but i would have liked to write some explicit exploration of buck's time on the road. i think it would be so interesting to do like a real breakdown of that time on the road when he was young and defiant and (deep deep down, past the 22-year-old bravado) probably terrified that he was literally lost in the world and had no idea how to find his way out, or if maybe that's just how life is and he's always going to feel like that because settling down means turning into his cold, distant, screaming parents.

ANYTHING with early s8 tommy and gerrard, and buck trapped in the middle. fuck!!!!!!! i wrote a spec fic right before the s8 premiere that hinted at what this might look like, but i was so lost in the s8 pre-breakup sauce/finishing "what are your intentions" that i didn't have the bandwidth for it.

older bi buck meeting closeted army tommy 1.0. someone just drop this 90-minute episode in my mind

any morning after the hookup fic. idk why i haven't written about it? mostly because it's so self contained and so fucking stupid and a perfect setup for a misunderstanding resolution that has yet to come. but i really like this idea from @notnowtobey: Rewatched The Morning After scene and I wonder if, while unpacking the coffee maker, Tommy looked around at all the boxes and briefly fantasized that he was moving in with Buck. And when Buck walked in, all he saw was his future about to begin.

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buck transforming his impersonal loft into a place to live/a home when he started dating tommy. not sure why i haven't written this?? idea good to a good home please let me read this

Buck: Ooh you're gonna make him cry.

Eddie, tearing up: Theo gave them to me.

Hen: Rocks are cool I guess.

Harry: I remember that phase.

Ravi: Yeah because it was like a couple of weeks ago for you.

Harry: Can we get rid of Ravi, please?

Chim: Don't make me put you in the get along shirt again. Buck explain the rocks.

Buck: We took Theo to the zoo to see the otters, and he's been obsessed with giving us cool rocks to show how much he loves us ever since.