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It’s a victory lap. That’s all it is.
“You and Sora,” Mulan says.
“Sora and I,” Riku replies.
“I looked into it, for I wanted to be respectful of your warrior’s culture,” Mulan continues. “After their journey is over, a Keyblade Master bringing his consort to explore the wor—”
“Excuse me,” Riku interrupts. “What did you say just now?”
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01 Jun 2026
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In Which, After Everything, Riku Still Feels Undeserving by orphan_account
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts
28 Mar 2017
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There's not a whole lot in this world that can convince Riku he's not still a villain somehow.
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31 May 2026
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almas que jamás se soltarán by Lire_Casander for brillemos
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Dec 2025
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seven years ago, edwin payne disappeared, leaving behind unanswered questions and an afterlife unfinished, and the world closed over the space he left behind. charles rowland never learned how to live with the silence. when his search leads him somewhere unexpected, thanks to the help of a surprising ally, charles begins to realize that edwin’s disappearance was not an ending—but a carefully hidden beginning, shaped by secrets, sacrifice, and a love that refuses to stay buried.
some absences are not empty.
some loves just linger like souls that will never let go.
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01 Jan 2026
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The particular feel of the Texas heat was beginning to feel familiar again, and Eddie was finally beginning to… not settle, exactly, but he could at least believe the ground he was standing on wasn't about to be pulled from beneath him any moment. The house—he couldn't think of it as home, none of this felt like home anymore—was taking shape, becoming somewhere he wouldn't be ashamed to say Chris lived in, and he was getting the hang of this Uber thing.
His relationship with Chris was far from where it had been, but it was improving—little by little, day by day.
All in all, things were—if not good—then at least better than they had been in quite a while.Or: Eddie tries to find his feet in Texas. Even from states away, Buck has his back. Eddie's not the only one who notices it.
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01 Jan 2026
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[Fandom Stats] Open Doors & FictionAlley by toastystats (destinationtoast)
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
23 Jul 2025
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A look at the Open Doors project, which (among other efforts) imports some digital fanwork archives as collections on AO3 -- and at its largest import so far, FictionAlley.
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- Part 131 of Fandom Stats
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25 Jul 2025
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The first time Buck tries to sleep in the main bedroom of 4995 South Bedford Street, he can’t.
He turns off the lights, double-checks that the oven is off even though he didn’t turn it on, and triple-checks he locked the front and back doors. The house falls silent except for the creak of floorboards underneath his feet. Buck has never thought about the floor so much as he does in that moment; the old, loved wooden slats - sanded and refinished over the decades. An oak tree somewhere in the country cut down so a family would have a place to stand, to sit, to sleep. To live.
This house is not his. It’s not his home. Not yet. But he hopes it could be.
or: Eddie leaves for El Paso to get Christopher back and Buck doesn’t even try to be normal about it
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12 Jun 2025
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to have and to hold (platonically and heterosexually) by teenytinytomlinson
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
12 Apr 2025
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So in the middle of Eddie’s dining room, with his brain to mouth filter non-existent (as per usual), Buck blurts out, “Marry me.”
Eddie sits straight up, looking at him with eyes wide as saucers.
“Excuse me?”
“W-well, just think about it. If we get married I can add you and Chris to my insurance policy and that solves your problem.”
Eddie’s mouth forms a perfect little ‘o’. Buck waits patiently for the floor to open up and swallow him whole.
When the ground doesn’t do as he’d hoped he realizes he has to say something else. “Obviously, w-we don’t have to,” he’s quick to assure. “But if we did it would be platonic, of course, because you’re straight and–” he pauses, praying for another rogue stroke of lightning. Anything to put him out of his misery right now. “-and like I know that I’m bi now, but this wouldn’t be like that y’know? It would just be two friends helping each other out.” He’s rambling, the words won’t stop tumbling out. “Like a friends with benefits type situation! E-except you know not those kinds of benefits! Like actual benefits! Health and dental.”
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Eddie is moving to Texas, losing his insurance, and marrying Buck all very heterosexually and platonically.
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- Part 1 of platonic marriage
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13 May 2025
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drown in good intentions (never quench the fire) by windmillsofmymind
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
20 Apr 2025
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“I thought you were ready to start dating,” Bobby says, which. Eddie doesn’t think that’s remotely close to the point.
“Yeah, Eddie,” Buck echoes, all narrowed eyes and petulance, aggressively attempting to spear a tomato on his plate while maintaining eye contact.
“I…I don’t think the blind dates were really working out.”
“So you’re trying to get out of your aunt’s setups, again. And this is what you’re going with?” Hen says, eyebrows raised.
“I did not say that. I hadn’t even thought about telling Pepa I’m seeing Felisa, to be honest.” But isn’t that a thought. “I just thought a break would be nice, you know? I can find someone at my own pace, organically.”
A chorus of protests and objections, to the tune of “how are you going to meet someone organically when everybody thinks you’re dating someone else," breaks out across the table.
“Oh, he’s gonna find someone organically, alright,” Chimney interrupts. “Obviously, he’s gonna fall in love with Felisa.”
Buck promptly begins to choke on his salad.
Or: Eddie pretends to date Felisa Valdez, a normal thing to do, for normal reasons. Buck acts normal about it.
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26 Apr 2025
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“Do you guys think I’m in love with Eddie?”
Hen and Chim froze—Hen’s hand tightened around the pack of gauze she held, crinkling the plastic, and the syringe Chim had been holding slipped from his fingers and rolled across the floor.
There was a moment of stunned silence between the three of them, before Hen broke it with an amused, “Good morning to you too, Buck.”or, a 5+1 fic of post-"Holy Mother of God" conversations, because it’s way more fun to imagine Buck not letting this go.
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29 Mar 2025
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Buck keeps him everywhere. He’s smuggling him into every inch left vacant, because like this, he doesn’t lose him, won’t lose him. Like this, he gets to keep Eddie forever, even if it’s just the pieces and the memories attached. The reminder of him will haunt him and this apartment like a ghost. Because Buck can’t trap him in his apartment and force him to stay, he’d never ask that, couldn’t ask that, but he’s going to damn well do his best to salvage it in some form. He’s kidnapping Eddie’s shadow, no matter how much it hurts, and there’s no choice about it.
Eddie announces he’s leaving. Buck, naturally, begins a slow descent to madness.
[ALT. summary: Buck has resolved to be the greatest friend ever. He’s handling this move so well. And not at all being abnormal about Eddie’s house. Or Eddie’s belongings. Or, well. Eddie.]
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09 Mar 2025
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He and Chris, and Buck. They work, they’re a unit. Why should it matter that he’s single?
Buck is watching him, like he’s reading every thought on his face.
“You’re already planning to lie about the date. Why don’t you just tell her you met someone yourself?”
Eddie shrugs and tilts his head to the side, squinting in thought. “She won’t set me up on dates if she thinks I’ve got someone,” he muses. “But she’ll want to meet whoever it is.”
“So... Introduce them?”
Or: Buck offers to fake-date Eddie so Pepa will stop setting him up on dates.
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22 Feb 2025
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And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
“On Friendship,” Kahlil Gibran (From “The Prophet)“Uhm, do you have a preferred side?” Eddie asks. His tongue is so dry in his mouth. He should have had more water at the bar.
Buck shrugs, glancing at the neat stack of pillows against the headboard. “This side is good.” He licks his lips. His broad frame somehow looks small, like he’s pulled himself inwards.“Do you -” Buck starts to say, then pauses, rubs his palms against his thighs. “Do you want to, like, build a pillow wall down the middle?”
Or: Buck and Eddie attend a Firefighter Convention in Indianapolis. And wouldn't you know it, there's only one bed. You know how this goes.
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22 Feb 2025
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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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22 Feb 2025
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“Eddie,” Buck breathes, laughing humorlessly, his voice wet and thick. “If we sat here and-- and went through the list of things I want…” his hands gesture aimlessly. “We’d-- be here all night.”
Eddie nods, catching Buck’s eyes again. “Maybe-- we start with mine, then.”
The space between them feels charged with static, like the second before the thunder finally rumbles.
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Eddie’s finally choosing to be better-- finally choosing joy. He just needs a push or two in the right direction, first.
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- Part 1 of seabird 'verse
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22 Feb 2025
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“Well.” Eddie hums. “I want to talk to you.”
Buck hides his smile against his shoulder, rolling his head to look up at the sky. The stars are a bit more visible tonight. He has to squint, and he’s not entirely sure what he’s looking at, but it’s nice—knowing that he and Eddie are looking up at the same sky. He can almost pretend they’re here together, sitting side by side in the camp chairs, miles of space, but still needing to press their knees into each other.
“I want to talk to you too.” Buck replies, equally as softly.
Eddie leaves for Texas. Buck sees him everywhere.
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22 Feb 2025
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“Buck? Hey! I’m stuck in the craziest traffic, just trying to get Jee from daycare!”
“Eddie’s moving,” Buck blurts out on the other end.
Maddie inches the car forward as she recalibrates — looks like it’s going to be one of those conversations. She defaults to big-sister snark. “Hello, Maddie, how are you? I’m doing great, Buck! What about you?”
He sighs gustily, making her car speakers crackle. “I just told you how I am, Maddie! Eddie’s —”
“He’s moving. I got that. How is Buck doing?”
Buck calls Maddie. Maddie calls Eddie. Eddie calls Buck. They get there.
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05 Feb 2025
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So he curls his fingers around the wood of his clipboard and clears his throat. “You have really nice hands, you know,” is what he goes with.
Eddie jerks back just a bit, dropping the halligan into the compartment with a thud as he turns shocked eyes back to Buck. “What?”
“Yeah,” god, what does he even say, “they’re uh, strong. And capable. You know, like…they can do a lot of things.”
Okay, so, maybe this whole plan needs a little bit of work.
buck is on a mission to help eddie recover his self-confidence. it goes well for exactly zero parties involved.
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18 Nov 2024
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He completely pulls the charger from the wall as he fumbles to put in his passcode. He doesn’t know who to call first. Everyone is busy, carrying on with their lives and Buck is stuck here in the loft with the terrifying ghost of his childhood like an omen. Out of the corner of his eye he catches the Crooked Smiled Man now standing in the dark entrance way to his bathroom. He swallows around the taste of blood in his mouth, hands shaking, useless as his list of contacts blur beneath the burn of tears.
Eddie Eddie Eddie
He doesn’t know where the feeling comes from, but it’s sudden and sharp and excruciating. Eddie is the first name at the top of his list, his most recent calls and texts, and he doesn’t hesitate to hit the call button.
[or buck can see ghosts au]
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18 Nov 2024
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“Victim is Charles Dumont. Three gunshot wounds to the chest. Looks like an attempted robbery. There was a case of bourbon with a bottle missing and we found Charlie’s wallet tossed a few blocks from here. And Eddie?” Athena stopped just as she got to the door and turned him with a serious expression on her face. “There’s a witness.”
Her frown dipped under the professional mask she was known for and Eddie caught the flicker of concern pulling at her composure.
“You know him?”
Athena pressed her lips into a tight line and nodded.
“Evan Buckley. He’s the bartender here. He was helping Charlie restock tonight when he heard a noise and saw it happen.”
Homicide Detective, Eddie Diaz, is called in to investigate the murder of a local shield and ladder bar owner. There he meets his only witness, Evan "Buck" Buckley.
AKA The Trashy Romance Novel Murder Mystery Buddie AUAKA Detective!Eddie Diaz and Bartender!Evan "Buck" Buckley
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01 Nov 2024
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i think i belong to you (hope you feel the same) by Ran for trinipedia
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
21 Mar 2022
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Buck’s taking him to therapy, where he knows Eddie’s therapist’s name and Eddie’s entire history with him; Buck, who let himself into Eddie’s house with food from Eddie’s favorite coffee shop with coffee crafted perfectly for Eddie’s tastes; Buck, who apparently has a book on Eddie’s coffee table with so many dog-eared pages it’s like any interruption at Eddie’s house is worth putting it down.
Buck, who touches him with a devotion as palpable as all the little pieces of himself scattered throughout Eddie's home.
Eddie thinks he might have solved his own question, but he’s afraid to look at the answer too closely—because he’s fairly certain his best friend is in love with him, and Eddie can’t remember a single thing about him.
Or, the one where Eddie wakes up from the shooting only to think he was hurt in a certain 7.1 earthquake years prior and learns to appreciate the life he's created for himself since then.
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21 Oct 2024