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At first, Eddie thinks nothing of it. He lives in LA: there are plenty of ads specifically for queer people all over the place, so it’s not like he’s never seen a billboard with a rainbow on it.
Then Buck starts talking about data privacy and the ads just keep coming, so Eddie starts to wonder if the advertising companies know something about him that he doesn’t.
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23 Oct 2024
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“Everything okay?” Hen asks him when he reascends the stairs, plopping back down on his seat at the table next to Eddie.
Buck puts his head in his hands. “My mother is pimping me out to the women of Los Angeles.”
Chimney snort-coughs whatever’s in the mug he’s been sipping from.
“Come again?”
After another relationship blows up in his face, Buck does himself the generous favor of taking a vow of relationship-celibacy for the greater good of humanity. Then his parents skip back into town with a vengeance, his mother starts meddling in his love life, and Buck elects to find a fake girlfriend to get them off of his case. He's also in love with his best friend, but that's a minor detail.
Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his mind for completely separate reasons. Obviously.
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21 Oct 2024
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There's a beat of silence. A smile blossoms on Buck's face. It starts with a twitch at the corner of his mouth, then spreads inwards. He purses his lips, almost like he's trying to contain it, then gives up and lets it bloom into a brilliant smirk, crooked and devastating on his warm lips. He cracks open one eye, the left one. The smirk creases his birthmark. It's the same shade of pink as his lips, the same color as the lightning scar.
"Oh yeah?"
Eddie clears his throat and frees his own sandwich from its plastic prison. "Eat so you don't collapse. Save us both the trouble."
He can still feel Buck's eyes on him. "I don't break that easily."
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Chris is 800 miles away, and Eddie's house feels emptier than ever. As always, Buck is right there, ready to have his back, to catch him without hesitation if he falls. This is familiar, this is normal, this is the way they've always been.
This is fine, until it isn't.
Until Eddie finds himself drawn to Buck in ways he never expected—ways that might not be so new at all.- Language:
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20 Oct 2024
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August comes, and with it comes Eddie.
Eddie and that friend of his who was there back at the start of the summer, the one Christopher has talked so much about over the past few months. Buck this, and Buck that, and –
All of it. Helena takes one look at them, and she knows.
eddie and buck take christopher home to california; helena and ramon decide to follow
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- Part 1 of the love triptych
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20 Oct 2024
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Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)
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20 Oct 2024
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If he saw this profile, he’d think: closeted. Probably cheating. Kind of an asshole.
He never has trouble finding someone.
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Eddie's on grindr, and also back on his bullshit.
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18 Oct 2024
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“So where do you want to start?” asks Frank, and god, even the simplest questions are tough. How to even begin explaining the details of how you methodically destroyed every aspect of your own life. How do you explain chasing your own son out of the state? How do you explain burning your life down in pursuit of the ghost of your late wife?
“Buck got a boyfriend,” Eddie hears himself say, and then pauses, frowning in confusion at himself. “That’s not actually– I didn’t–” He lets himself take a breath under the heavy weight of Frank’s unwavering gaze, “It actually started with Pepa.”
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While Chris is in El Paso, it’s Eddie’s summer of Realizing Things, such as comphet, what Buck means to him, and how to let himself be happy.
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17 Oct 2024
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After Eddie goes through an entire box of Frank’s tissues in a week and finally manages to read through those reddit stories without flinching, he tells Frank, “I think I want to have sex. Like with a man. Gay sex.”
Frank tilts his head, pressing the tip of his middle finger against the space between his eyebrows, and sighs. He makes a note — Eddie wonders, half-hysterical, if he’s writing down the words gay sex — and then taps the end of his pen against his knee as he meets Eddie’s eyes.
“Do I have to tell you that you don’t have to?” Frank asks, mild.
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or, eddie sleeps with men that aren't buck until, well, you know.
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30 Sep 2024
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Eddie can’t move. Like this, Buck is illuminated by the sunlight streaming through the window; dust motes shimmering around his head, his hair haloed in gold. Beautiful, Eddie thinks. And to his surprise, he doesn’t feel any sort of guilt about doing so.
Except — he should. Because Buck is dating Tommy, and he’s happy, and Eddie would rather go to his grave repressed and miserable than ever take away from Buck’s happiness.
Or: Eddie starts to untangle his complicated feelings about himself, and Buck. Mainly Buck.
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18 Sep 2024
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“You okay?” Buck asks, and Eddie blinks, lets out the breath that had gotten caught in his throat.
“Yeah,” he says, even though – no, not really. “Sorry, just – a surprise, I guess. Hearing from him.”
Which is weird, come to think of it, because they used to be close. Closer than anything, as close as – well, as close as him and Buck, but in a different way. In a way that felt frantic and clinging and desperate, something to hold onto while they were being shot at.
Eddie hears from an old army buddy; it brings a few things to the surface.
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16 Sep 2024
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“I didn’t realize we needed to talk about it.”
“No, why would we? That’s what you’re good at, right? Hell, that’s what we’re good at, isn’t it? It’s just so much easier to pretend none of it ever happened. That you didn’t put me in your will, that I didn’t lose my mind when you were under that well — and I know you’ve seen the footage, Eddie, I know you saw how I handled it. How I didn’t. And I–I get it. It is easier. Until it starts catching up with you.”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
Buck groans, getting closer to him. He’s in Eddie’s space and he’s right where he wants him but his breath is warm where it fans across his skin for all the wrong reasons. God, for all the wrong reasons.
or: after kim, eddie's parents try convincing him chris should go to texas. eddie says no, chris has an extended sleepover with buck, eddie is incredibly in love with his best friend, and everything works out in the end.
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29 May 2024
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“No, why would we? That’s what you’re good at, right? Hell, that’s what we’re good at, isn’t it? It’s just so much easier to pretend none of it ever happened. That you didn’t put me in your will, that I didn’t lose my mind when you were under that well — and I know you’ve seen the footage, Eddie, I know you saw how I handled it. How I didn’t. And I–I get it. It is easier. Until it starts catching up with you.”
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When the 118 find out about Buck’s secret thirst account on Instagram – to raise fire safety awareness, obviously – they make fun of him the appropriate amount and move on. Eddie, who has had some recent and birthmark-shaped revelations about his feelings, finds it a little harder to do the same.
Of course, Eddie would never invade Buck’s privacy by searching for and finding the anonymous account. Or looking at all the uploaded photos late at night. Or even directly messaging Buck’s secret account. That would be weird, because he’s certainly not planning on doing anything about his newfound attraction.
However, anonymous account @elbombero118 has no such limitations.
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13 May 2024
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It feels new, and good, and not just because it’s been so damn long since anyone has touched Eddie like this. It’s just—it’s Buck. Of course this is something they know how to do together. They’ve done just about everything else two people can do together; maybe this was always inevitable.
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Or: Eddie and Buck start sleeping together when they're all stuck at Buck's place during lockdown. It still takes them almost three years to notice that they're in love.
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21 Mar 2024
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"Though—and I know you probably don't want to talk about it, but since you and Natalia are over with now, I've been wondering…" Maddie pauses, watches Buck make a face like he's bracing to be smacked. "What happened with Eddie?"
Buck stops wincing and just blinks at her for a second. Then he says, "What?"
"You two were dancing around it for so long, and then… what, it just didn't work out? Was the date really that bad?"
She's expecting another wince, or even for him to duck out of the conversation entirely, but instead Buck is staring at her like she's grown a second head. "Maddie. I've never been on a date with Eddie."
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Or: the poker game was a date. It takes Buck a while to catch on, though.
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18 Mar 2024
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What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym for shecrows
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Feb 2017
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Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought.
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08 Feb 2024
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Two years after the war, and Harry’s content with his life. OK, so it’s a little annoying that he keeps winning Witch Weekly’s Most Eligible Bachelor award, and he’s really not looking forward to the unveiling of an enormous gold statue of himself, but he loves his friends, and he loves being an Auror. And if he yearns for something more, something he can barely bring himself to think about, well, he’ll probably get over it. No one’s happy all the time, are they?
But then everything changes, and Harry’s thrown into a new and dazzling world he’s not sure he can actually escape from. And as time goes on, he starts to wonder: does he actually want to?
AKA the one where Draco is a - sort of - Muggle pop star (it's complicated)
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31 Jan 2024
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i had all and then most of you (some and now none of you) by revengeparty
Fandoms: Mean Girls - Richmond/Benjamin/Fey, Mean Girls (2004), Mean Girls (2024)
24 Dec 2020
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“You always said when we were kids that you were going to move to New York when you grew up and work in fashion.” Janis shrugs. “And here you are.”
“You said you wanted to move to New York, too,” Regina points out. “I guess we can check that off both our bucket lists.”
Regina doesn’t bring up the part where they were supposed to live together. To be best friends taking on the big city.
She meets Janis’s eyes, and knows she remembers that, too.
“Yeah,” Janis says. “I guess we can.”
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Janis and Regina find themselves living in the same city and decide to try again.
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29 Jan 2024
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The Nightmare Club by Elle Gray (Elle_Gray) for RuArcher (Coriesocks)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Dec 2018
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Hermione and Ron are going back to Hogwarts to do N.E.W.T.s, Ginny isn't. Harry hasn't decided, until he has, in front of the Wizengamot and now he's responsible for Malfoy as well. A tale of enemies who learn to get along, get it wrong and get it on. Everything is purple, some things are on fire and no-one is sleeping properly. But don't worry, there's tea!
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12 Jan 2024
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These are the things you hide, when you’re John Winchester’s oldest son:
A feather Sammy found and gave you.
A piece of satin you cut from a nightgown you swiped from the thrift store. You like to keep it in your pocket and rub it between your fingers.
A romance novel left behind in a motel. You tape the cover of a Stephen King novel on the front.
A picture of Robert Plant hidden under the fabric on the bottom of your toiletry bag.
A cassette of Queen, a cassette of The Beatles.
You like to draw. Knights and dragons and cowboys. A mockingbird. A lily. A boy in your class.
You rip that one up and burn it.We follow Dean through important times in his life as he slowly learns to accept who he is and figures out what a happy ending means for him.
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14 Mar 2023
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The Empty waves an idle hand in the air. “I’ll give you a test of sorts. I’ll wake up Castiel for you. More Castiels than you know what to do with. At the end, you have to tell me which one is real.”
Dean’s mouth falls open in horror. “But you can read his mind and look like him –”
“That’s why this is a test,” the Empty says, its voice clipped, “and not a charitable giveaway.”
Dean bites back a growl of frustration. It’s not like he can thoroughly search a whole-ass dimension for Cas, and none of his weapons work on the Empty. “Fine,” he says. “Open Door Number One, Monty Hall.”
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Bookmarked by redbrickrose
13 Mar 2023