#sintari

❓ - what even is this? Tell me about it

Well I'm glad you asked, Sin, who has not heard anything about this at all anywhere ever.

The general premise is, Buck keeps running into his exes out and about in the world and gets to hear all about how they're happy now and have started their own families or are engaged to some famous tech bro and are just doing so so so so good, how have you been Buck? And then there's a crash and a scream from just off camera and we cut to Eddie sheepishly apologizing to whoever's car is now on fire while struggling to stop Theo from making an escape so he can make him apologize too (and if Chris isn't too cool for them that day, he'll be sitting back enjoying the carnage.) And everyone's reactions is, oh, about damn time, amiright? as Buck struggles not to launch himself into the sun, because, no, that's not my... and we're not... wait, what do all of you mean by about time???

Basically I have a handy numbered list of characters to use as an outline to talk about platonic (pfft) child raising while also making Buck want to launch himself into the sun. All of my favorite things in one place!

five sentences for buck in time! sorry if this makes no sense this scene is fighting me tooth and nail

Whether this new mania would affect his work remains to be seen, but that could be immaterial; despite himself, Bobby trusts Buck. He knows he's a good firefighter, has watched him prove himself time and time again for over a year now. What's more, he has faith in the team to catch Buck should he falter. But if Bobby trusts Buck with his life, the same can't be said for trusting him with himself. Not since his own youth has Bobby met anyone so reckless with their inner world.

Eddie exhales noisily over his flatware, somehow managing to pout reproachfully at him while still chewing. “You’re seriously going to make me— Buck, it’s awkward, okay?” “More awkward than the fact that I literally bought a date with you?” Buck says, gesturing pointedly at the unbearably, undeniably romantic trappings of literally everything that surrounds them.

Girl you know it's just a monkey clashing cymbals up there.

The full title is "Eleven Dollars For A Pack of Marlboros in Los Angeles" something that was vitally important for me to look up at the time. I then immediately switched it to Morleys, because how could I not?

Previous bit here:

more of the episode 9x11 leaks spec fic i posted earlier this week!

the bts to this part is that I spent a lot of time the last few days going, "what the hell could possibly possess eddie to go along with a bachelor auction farce after the utter failure of the club?" and the answer was obviously: yay guilt!!!

“What charity anyway?” Eddie grumbles, and then goes to answer his own question by skimming through the packet. “Oh.” The inflection of his voice gives all of them pause. Chimney is the closet; he's quick to lean in and see what the deal is.  “The fund is designed to offer support for widows, orphans, and disabled firefighters affected by losses and injuries sustained in the line of duty,” he reads. A hush falls over all of them, the reminder of their own still too-recent loss throbbing like a bruise. Buck kind of wants to curl in on himself, awkward and embarrassed. Chim looks directly at Buck like he’s happy to drive the discomfort home. “Well that’s not heavy at all.” “I didn’t— actually check that part, before I signed you up,” Buck ventures into the raw silence that follows. He steps forward, a hand lifted toward Eddie; it stalls midair between them. “Eddie, man. I didn’t– you don’t have to.” Eddie’s gaze flickers up toward him, light swimming in his eyes. They look a little wetter than usual, but then he blinks it away, and the look is gone by the time he’s staring back down at the papers in his hand. “No. It’s a good cause,” Eddie says, a little thickly. “It’s fine.” “So you’re going to do it?” Ravi clarifies, skepticism evident in his voice. Buck frowns at him, still caught between finding the foot in his mouth and the strange reckless urgency that had possessed him to push Eddie into this to start with.  Eddie’s mouth twists up like a knot of all the things he isn't letting himself say, then he shrugs it off just as quickly. “Sure,” he sighs. “Why not?”

I'll Pyroclastic Your Flow

911, Buck/Eddie, T, 5.6k

The floor is made of lava. Which is, like, a metaphor, or something. Who knows? Not Buck and Eddie, they're drunk.

6. a moment you think does not get talked about enough?

my immediate cop-out answer is 'the fact that ghosts are real' which isn't a moment so much as a genuine thing about this universe we all fail to utilize on the reg.

So I paused and scrolled and thought and ate dinner and... yeah I feel we picked apart all the best bits that come to mind, but that's probably why those bits are coming to mind?