#strickwani

Thank you to @annoyingcloudearthquake for the tag! I won't overwhelm y'all with the sheer volume of everything I wrote or created in 2025 but I will share a highlights real.

Starting off strong, the thing that feels the most significant to me is partnering up with my friend @thepinkcrayon to start @pb-zines and putting out the fan zines @bucktommyzine2025 and 911: Holiday Edition ( @911holidayzine ) between both zines we were able to donate $948.50 to different charities. I can't wait to see what 2026 will bring for PB Zines.

These are some of my favorite stories I've written and/or moodboards I have made.

My Heart Will Go On

This is possibly my favorite story I wrote this year. It is an Athena Grant centeric fic that I wrote in the wake of 8.15 before 8.16 aired that duves deep into her grief but also allowed Michael to be there for her even though I knew he wouldn't actually be able to return to the show. Even though it is one of the angstiest fics I wrote this year it is still one of my favorites.

Not So Happy Holidays

Even though this is the last fic I wrote in 2025 it is still one of my favorites and will always hold a special place in my heart because it marked my entry into the Heated Rivalry fandom as an author. It is silly and light hearted and it was just so much fun to write this little holiday sick fick about Shane and Ilya.

Class Rings and Wedding Bands

This was such a fun rare pair fic that I wrote early last year and made this moodboard for a few months ago. I loved writing this sort of what if story to fill in parts of Tommy and David's back stories. This story is also the fic that kicked off my series Love Like A Country song which is a series of one shots all inspired by country songs.

First Fruits

I will always love any story I write about Paul and Marjan, strickwani my beloved. But I loved getting to write this Kwanzaa fic for 911: Holiday Edition, and loved all the research I put into this story. I honestly didn't have a lot of knowledge about Kwanzaa before deciding to write this story and getting to learn about the holiday so that I could write this fic was wonderful.

(If anyone is interested in learning more please let me know and I will gladly share the articles and websites I read as well as the podcasts I listened to)

Hurry Down My Chimney Tonight

This was another story I loved writing because it gave me the chance to (finally) collaborate on a fun, smutty fic with thepinkcrayon who is insanely talented. Plus I love Tarlos, they are my OG 911 ship.

Daddy Issues

This bucksal fic started out as what was supposed so be a smutty one shot prompt fill for @thecarrott and spun into a multichapter fic, a companion story, as well as a whole universe for me to explore. It is fun and sexy and I love it so much.

The Hurricane Is All We Know

Going Down Fighting

I'm grouping these two fics together because I love them but also because they were both stories I wrote for @bt-novempreg they are right up there with My Heart Will Go On for the angstiest stories I wrote this year. They deal with the topics of infertility and abortion, but they really gave me a chance to explore different stories and stretch my muscles as an angst fic writer. They feel so special to me because they are so different from what I normally write and they really allowed me to grow as a writer.

The Bridgerton AU

These are my three favorite moodboards I made as part of a moodboard series of an AU Bridgerton 911 series they were just a lot of fun for meand I may eventually go back and write full stories for these three moodboards.

Father of The Bride

This bobbymichael and mayravi moodboard was inspired by the movie Father of the Bride was one of favorite movies growing h up and I still love it today. I made this moodboard as part of a series of fun, lighthearted movie inspired moodboards and I just really love it.

Bangpop91

As you guys may have seen I recently taught myself how to make fan edits, it's something I've always wanted to learn how to do and I am having a lot of fun with learning a new creative skill and making edits. I did wind up setting up an Instagram account specifically for posting them. So feel free to go follow me on Instagram where I'm also Bangpop91

Thank you for the tags @nine-one-wanton and @reluctantwerewolfbuckley this should be fun and I have a minute.

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Next Paul takes Marjan to his favorite pizza place. They make the best deep dish in the city. He takes her to the music festival at Malcom X College.

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Happy Kwanzaa everyone!

After breakfast is finished when the left overs are tucked away in the fridge and the dishes have been washed, left to dry in the rack, the four of them begin decorating the kitchen table for Kwanzaa. His mom spreads out the table cloth she had sewn herself over the kitchen and with Marjan's help she arranges it just so, so that the colors of the pan-African flag laid just right. Paul and Naomi set up the mkeka and kinara, working together to place the new candles in their correct places. The Black candle in the center, three red on the left, and three green on the right.

There are so many things Paul wants to do, to show Marjan while she is home with him in Chicago. But Naomi MS had flared up over Christmas and she isn't quite up to exploring the city with them just yet. Paul tells himself that there is plenty of time to get out and explore the city, to Marjan where he grew up and introduce her to city that had made Paul who he is. But they have a full week for that, and more than anything Paul wants to spend his first day home with his family, his entire family.

Paul spends the earliest part of the afternoon recreating a memory from when Naomi was little, maybe four or five. She had come down with the stomach flue the first day of Kwanzaa and their parents had transformed their living room into the biggest, coziest blanket fort imaginable. Paul uses every blanket, sheet, pillow, and cushion in the Strickland apartment to duplicate the memory while Mama, Naomi, and Marjan make hot chocolate and assemble plates of left over Christmas cookies and snacks.

Thank you for the tag @annoyingcloudearthquake I hope you enjoy this little sneak peak from one if my stories for the @911holidayzine

Over breakfast they catch up. Paul and Marjan sharing stories from the 126, their life in Austin, the few wedding plans they have made, and that they had finally settled on a wedding date. His mom shares all the good family gossip as well as stories from her job at the Children's library. Naomi goes on a long winded rant about her hatred of group projects and how it isn't fair she still had to endure them in her Masters program. After breakfast is finished when the left overs tucked away in the fridge and the dishes have been washed, left to dry in the rack, the four of them begin decorating the kitchen table for Kwanzaa.

NP🏷 @kinardsevan @sxbstantialfxndom @thepinkcrayon @scuderiadebauchery @theotherbuckley

Hehe hehe hello friend!!!!! I hope you are prepared for me to rant about the fic I am writing for the @911holidayzine

Fun fact. Strickwani is my 911 lone star crackship. I love them together. They fill my friends to lovers, soul mates loving heart in a very special way. Would i have wanted them together in canon? No. But in fanon. They just hit a special sort of way.