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“..and it’s because I love you.”

Tommy goes rigid, eyes wide and disbelieving. And, okay, they’ve been apart way longer than they were together, but— “Evan, come on..”

If it’s a self worth thing, Buck gets that. They have common ground in that and they can work through it together. But if Tommy just doesn’t believe him, doesn’t believe that Buck knows his own heart? That’s insulting.

“I love you, you asshole.” Buck’s eyes are hot. His heart thumps hard in his chest, a good hurt. “I know I love you because I miss you so much. Because i-it hurts to think about my life without you– and I think about you every day.” Sometimes it’s straight up wanting Tommy back, sometimes it’s frustration that Tommy gave up on them before they had a chance to really try. He’s not just lonely, he’s missing part of himself, a whole half of himself he went a lifetime without and when he finally found it - found his person - there’s just no way he can keep pretending like everything is fine being only half of himself.

But it’s not just about him. He knows that, he’s not an idiot. Tommy needs to hear that Buck isn’t just being selfish, that the reason he wants to be together isn’t just because Buck doesn’t want to be alone and because Tommy treats him so well.

It’s so much more than that.

His flare of anger burns up quick, gives way to sparks of longing.

“I love you because I know you, Tommy.” And Tommy is worth loving. “I know you get up at dawn because you like watching the sunrise.” Even if it meant leaving Buck alone in bed for twenty minutes. He’s pretty sure Tommy always whispered for him to stay, sleep, warm hands stroking his bare arms and the softest kiss pressed to his temple, his curls, the back of his neck.

Buck doesn’t know the exact reason why Tommy does it. He could guess, but he’d rather Tommy trust him enough, trust them enough, to share that part of himself. He knows some things about Tommy, but he’s greedy. Buck wants to know the why behind everything.

“And on cloudy mornings it always takes a couple cups of coffee until you’re not so grumbly.”

Buck secretly loved those mornings. The few times where he was out of bed before Tommy and got to make him coffee. Tommy’s arm would curl around him in the kitchen, a kiss pressed to his cheek, chin resting on his shoulder as he patiently waited for the coffee to brew.

“And you have reading glasses you don’t wear.” Tommy looks startled at that, like it was some well-kept secret Buck couldn’t and shouldn’t have known. “You never wore them when you were with me, and I don’t know if you wear them now, but I saw you squinting at your books sometimes and I wanted to take them out of their hiding place and fit them on your nose and hook them behind your ears so you wouldn’t be straining for something you enjoy. I want that— to take care of you.”

It strikes a chord with Tommy, Buck can see it. The shift behind his eyes: the longing. Tommy wants that, too. He wants to let someone in.

“You don’t like olives. But you won’t change your order, you’ll just eat them and not make a fuss,” when we were together, Buck thinks. Because he’s come to realise the ways Tommy folded himself up to not make a fuss, not matter how many times his bitchy attitude made an appearance he still didn’t let his wants make things more complicated. “You’re not as slick as you think you are. I see the face you make.”

“I don’t make a face,” Tommy insists, a hint of that beautiful bitchiness coming through. But he doesn’t deny it.

“There’s a face. It’s like—” he does his best impression of a subtly displeased Tommy, which earns him a scoff that’s more humour than annoyance. It eases some of the tension and makes Buck smile. “You like old-timey music. Find it romantic.” They danced to it in Buck’s kitchen. Tommy mouthed the words, hummed the melody in his ear. “But you also love Bruce Springsteen,” and Buck swallows down the memory of attending that concert with Bobby years ago; he’ll share it - he wants to share, too - but not right now. “And that witchy woman with the blonde hair—”

“Stevie Nicks.”

“Yeah, and your workout playlist is full of pop music,” he says, like a gotcha! moment but not a bad one. It’s an: I do know you, one. “And you don’t think I know.”

Tommy gathers himself for a moment, then purses his lips. “I didn’t choose that playlist, it was premade. I just searched for ‘workout songs'—”

Buck’s laugh bubbles out of him as he removes some more of the distance between them. “You run cold, even in L.A. And I loved cuddling with you because I run hot, and I liked being able to warm you up, just a little.” He never really thought about it at the time. Probably because most of their cuddling led to sex which was a very efficient warming method. But he’s been thinking back over their time together, going over every memory - because he didn’t want to forget; because he wanted to know where he went wrong; because it comforted him even through his heartbreak. He remembers finding comfort in Tommy’s embrace, in their shared warmth, and the goosebumps on Tommy’s forearms when they left a restaurant in the night air, or when they sat together on the couch.

“I liked cuddling with you, too,” Tommy shares. It bolsters Buck further.

“I loved wearing your clothes,” Buck confesses, achingly fond and aching in the empty part of him where there’s been a Tommy shaped cavern for too damn long. “Felt like you were with me, even when you weren’t.” Not having any of Tommy’s hoodies to wear after the breakup was a double-edged sword; he probably wouldn’t have taken them off. But he wore one of the sleep shirts he stole (Tommy let him steal) for weeks before he threw it into the wash after he ran out of sugar and almost wore it to the store.

“You looked good in my clothes,” Tommy says, quiet, like it’s only meant for his own ears. He looks like he wants to say more about it but sobers and changes tact. Tries to put back the distance Buck has been gaining. “You don’t know everything—”

“I want to know,” Buck cuts off Tommy’s attempt to push him away, refuses to let him retreat, give up, think so lowly of himself. Buck wants to know all of him, wants to be let inside Tommy’s walls and prove he’s not a threat. “And whatever it is won’t change the way I feel about you, I promise.”

“Evan,” Tommy pleads. “You can’t promise that.”

“I can and I do. That’s what love is, right? Loving someone anyway.” It’s what Buck’s wanted his whole life, and now he has the chance to love someone that way.

But Tommy still won’t let himself have this. Buck can see the fear holding him back.

“I’m not him.” Buck won’t say his name, doesn’t want to trigger Tommy in this moment that should be theirs. This moment belongs to them. “You’re not not enough for me, Tommy.” You’re everything, he doesn’t say, doesn’t want to get the wrong message across like last time. “I love you for you, not some idolised version of you. And I’m sorry I didn’t find the right words the first time around.” Tommy’s smile is tentative, wobbly, his eyes sad. “I want to prove that to you, if you’ll let me.” Buck reaches his hands up to cradle Tommy’s face, stubble grounding under his touch, and something in him lights up when Tommy doesn’t pull away. “Please let me.”

Tommy searches his eyes for a moment and Buck lets him see everything he’s feeling, all the love he has for him plain on his face.

“What if I’m not easy to love?” Tommy whispers, like some terrible secret.

Buck’s laugh is watery. “And I am?”

“Loving you is like breathing, Evan,” Tommy breathes, and Buck’s heart skips a beat. “How could I not?”

Tommy loves him.

Tommy loves him?!

“You love me?” Buck.. did not know that. Did he know that? He hoped Tommy would love him but it didn’t actually factor into his own confession. This wasn’t transactional, he didn’t expect anything in return except the hope that Tommy would let himself be loved. Buck does have a lot of practice loving people who don’t love him back, so it wasn't—

Tommy’s hand fits over his where he’s still holding Tommy’s cheek. He grasps it gently and turns to press a lingering kiss to his palm. “Of course I love you.”

The words don’t bowl him over. It’s not a surprise, it’s more like.. a weight off his chest and getting an unburdened lungful of air for the first time in almost a year. It’s something warm suffusing him from the inside out and lighting up where their bodies meet, where Tommy is holding him, pressing loving kisses into his skin. “You love me,” Buck says. It’s a revelation, a universal truth that he should’ve known but never thought to ask.

Tommy’s laugh is watery now, a few happy tears - Buck thinks they’re happy - dropping from his lashes. Buck’s thumbs sweep under his eyes to catch them.

“So.. we love each other,” he says slowly, unable to keep his smile in check. “I want to be with you. Do you..” It seems silly. Is it silly? Maybe. But saying and doing are different things. There’s steps, right? Buck doesn’t want to speed ahead, not again. He wants to do this right. He needs to do this right, for Tommy. If Tommy needs time, space, he’ll give him that. He’ll give him anything—

“Why be apart when we can be together, right?”

Their smiles break free, no more fear holding them back. It’s not gone but it’s not calling the shots anymore.

They meet in a kiss. Buck pours everything he feels for Tommy into this kiss all the while hoping he gets to do it again, and again, and again. And Tommy presses the same right back - Buck can feel him breaking free of the restraints that bound him, that stopped him from being his full self with Buck, stopped himself from having something good, from letting himself love and be loved. Buck can’t wait to know all of him, and his grin grows so wide at the future unfurling between them that their lips have to part, but he doesn’t pull away. They stay close, noses brushing and hands grasping.

And Tommy stole his line so it’s only fair to steal his. He brushes the words across Tommy’s lips: “What are you doing Saturday?”

honestly, give the tumblrinas one weekend and zero money and we will fix the rest of season 9 while planning out season 10 while we’re at it.

every character will be written with their own voice and purpose in the plot. we’ll give you engaging arcs and individual stoyrlines and b-plot all with satisfactory endings and well-placed cliffhangers. characters will interact and storylines will overlap and make sense and it will feel like following their lives instead of keeping them silo’d in lonely bubbles of personal plot, and we will give you organic dialogue instead of them sounding like they’re reading lines off a fucking page. we will remember established canon and fix what never made any fucking sense (things tptb shoehorned in for whatever reason - if they can ignore important continuity we can ignore the bullshit they tried to wave off as ‘who cares just add it in no one will notice’). we will treat the audience like they have at least half a brain and we will engage them to the point they won’t touch their second screen.

we will also fix the costume and lighting departments so every scene doesn’t look like it was shot on a fucking soundstage with outfits just stolen off a fucking mannequin. the calls will be technically accurate while allowing for that special ratio of fictional magic while connecting certain elements to the lives of certain characters, beit episodal plot or arcing plot. and we will do all of this while reducing production costs instead of inflating them, because we know this show is special for its character focus not some overblown disaster budget.

tumblrinas, assemble! 🫡🫶🤸✍️😘

Unpopular Opinion? but i don’t think Athena’s kids should be getting so much plot and screentime. we should be getting more of Ravi and Buck’s stories first, but we could easily have both. here me out:

have May and Harry present but not muscling into the show’s forefront - we don’t have room for side characters sidetracking things, we need to focus up on the main characters we have and should have (*cough*tommy*cough) who are being ignored and contradictorily written. but the fix comes by weaving them into the story more naturally:

RAVI > May: we need more scenes of Ravi in and outside work, with focus on his personal life! and this is where May comes in: their paths cross and a friendship forms, with potential one-sided feelings, but we get confiding and support and blowing off steam together. shenanigans and hangouts and Ravi having a friend outside the 118. May also gets a new friend who actually feels like a friend instead of her mum and dead stepdad’s work found-family.

BUCK > Harry: instead of Buck training Harry in random places, Buck has already transferred to the training facility! Harry goes to him for help because Buck has all the gear and location access and insight. it’s organic, instead of Harry showing up in Buck’s life just because Bobby is gone and Michael is absent (and they need a father figure present because they’ve written themselves into a corner by trying to stuff as many characters into first responder roles as possible) (shoutout to our beloved resident rocket scientist for remaining the one outsider); it’s Buck helping a found family member but also doing his new job which he’s damn good at and both respected and feared. it weaves their storylines together, Buck’s new first responder adventure and the start of Harry’s first responder journey (they should’ve done this, should’ve let Buck transfer if this was what they had planned, i mean c'mon).

you see my point though? give us the character studies and life exploration and change our mains require 9 seasons in, and figure out how to believably add side characters to those storylines instead of sacrificing them. mains shouldn’t have nothing going on and be ignored or made to fit the plot of side characters like its the only way to fill their scenes outside work or give them anything to do or care about that isn’t work or partners.

Beyond the Waterfalls (The Storyteller finds the Mage) (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/406132179-beyond-the-waterfalls-the-storyteller-finds-the?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=DeLoreanFlight After more than five long years, Mike Wheeler decides to follow his gut and find Eleven. After five more than five long years, the Storyteller gets to reunite with the Mage.

Lockontimeandsoaceasoredeturmedbyself.12/26/25.

If I ever say some shit like I want to buy a truck again, send me this picture.

I am done with The Rohan Secret Santa!

SOMEBODY fixed Love, Actually now too.

Fixit: Asswipe- Cartwright- Sideswipe! I Fixed your decepticon hunter !

Sideswipe: WHAT did you just say?

Fixit: I fixed your decepticon hunter!

Sideswipe: nevermind.

thank you @twinkyaoilord for giving me this idea

My daughter, horrified that you haven’t loved yourself today.

Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia’s ‘fix-it’ president

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Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has come out fighting after a bruising month that saw him come under attack by stone throwers as he was trying to make a speech.
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Yay! I fixed my weather station

Last year I bought this really cool weather station and it worked great. However, this year, I noticed that it was no longer registering any rainfall. Of course, there hasn’t been much this year. Not even enough to be sure whether it was working or not. After a few questionable “rain” events, I decided that it was definitely not working anymore.

I had a theory, that the mechanism was stuck.…

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As far as my plans for AoS, I’m going to finish reading the text by making my feedback notes on paper, moving forward. It’s going to be interesting to try this method with a text I haven’t read to rags dozens of times.

When I’m done reading, I’m going to try to go back and re-explore my first chapters, before moving forward with my notes. We’ll see how it goes. As an older writer with a different lifestyle than I understand Winter has, I’m not making any promises about continued updates, even though I probably have the time for it. With the switch to paper, I’m obviously not going to be able to write as fast, and there’s going to be more of a process to get the writing back into the computer.

I am doing this for myself.

As someone who lost every last scrap of my childhood writing, it’s kind of cathartic to rescue things like Henry Darger’s project and Age of Scorpius. It’s kind of similar to my childhood writing, where it’s unskilled and strange to me, and I don’t know where the writer was coming from or wants to take the story, and it’s interesting to test my self-editing skills.

Also, I want to finally finish the projects that I start. I haven’t finished a large project since high school.

My Age of Scorpius fixit, chapter 6-2 now live.

I may or may not be appearing to take a hiatus as I retool my process on this project.

Eclipse does not make good decisions…

he could’ve just landed on the Master Emerald and teleported and been done with it

but he just had to play with Shadow

I’m cursed with the love of having other characters react to my favorite ship, so here’s Team Bee’s reaction to Bumbleblades

(I’m still early into RID15, so my readings on the characters might not be fully accurate).

• Bumblebee kept the Rescue Bots mostly hidden bcuz anyone outside of Griffin Rock knowing could lead Decepticons there, which is bad since the Rescue Bots are built for rescuing, not fighting. Still, team Bee met Blades after he somehow ended up on the mainland after an accident (Nothing serious + I’m outlining a fic on it)

Sideswipe

• Sideswipe clocked his crush on Blades first. He noticed Bee’s excitement towards Blades and how affectionate he was with him. Sideswipe was asking a lot of questions about their friendship bcuz he was surprised that he’s never heard a mention of thr Rescue Bots, but Bee has heard all about them. Eventually, Bee gets annoyed bcuz Sideswipe is pestering him, and Sideswipe jokingly asked if Bee liked Blades and Bee was just like, “Sideswipe, drop it!” and Sideswipe was like, “Wait, do you???” and Bee just gave an annoyed sigh an left
• I don’t think Bee is the type to be SUPER embarrassed and blushy if someone finds out he has a crush on someone. I think he’s just the type to be a bit embarrassed about it bcuz he grew up in war and doesn’t know how to deal with emotions so at most, he becomes embarrassed which he disguises as annoyance whenever someone points out his emotions.
• Sideswipe teased him for it because he likes getting on people’s nerves and he has found a weakness he can exploit.
• He didn’t tell anyone because, other than teasing Bee, he didn’t really see it as a big deal. BUT, he would publicly tease him about it and then laugh about it, which would embarrass him.

Grimlock

• Grimlock has the vibes of someone who isn’t super into romance, but he thinks it’s cute when it happens. At most, I think he’d just go “Aww!” or look like this when Bee and Blades do anything cute

• He and fixit would try giving Blades advice. He finds it harder to read Bee’s emotions, but it’s easier to notice Blades’s feelings for Bee because he is incredibly obvious. Is it good advice? Eh… it depends.
• They tell Sideswipe what they’re doing and Sideswipe is like, “You know Bee has a crush on Blades too, right?” which causes Grimlock to go full wingman mode

Strongarm

• Strongarm is smart, but I don’t think that she’s smart when it comes to reading other’s emotions.
• She found out Bee had a crush on Blades after asking Fixit what him and Grim were doing and Fixit was like, “We’re helping Blades and Bumblebee realize they’re romantic feelings for each other” and Strongarm is like, “?!?!” because she never considered Bee having a crush on anyone
• “Bumblebee, sir, as your loyal cadet, it is my duty and honor to help you try and whoo Blades” “FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMUS, PLEASE *DO NOT!*”

Alright. That’s it, I give up. I quit.

I have a theory that the reason this necessary back/in filling is taking so goddamn long to write, is that I’m fucking confused.

Ever since I started writing, in middle school, I have always drafted by hand. The challenge was not to take any notes on paper, but I’m starting to think that it’s literally impossible for me to come up with wholecloth on a screen. I need paper, I need to be able to move physical notes around, circle things, draw lines. I need to have a tactile sense for where my writing is in literal, physical space.

Like.

Y'all.

I am so. Goddamn. Fucking CONFUSED. I have no idea what I’m trying to write, what I’ve already written. I’m so fucking confused. This whole thing is a mess. I can’t do this.

So I need to further adjust my personal goalposts for this project, because I literally did not realize, going into this project, that there would be so many goddamn gaping gaps. So obviously, I’m not restarting this bit tonight, because I need a goddamn shower and some sleep, but tomorrow, this is where I’m starting. I’m honestly not sure whether I should try to go through, like, every single last thing that I’ve got floating around for this project, and then just kind of pin it onto the stuff that I’ve got finalized? I’ll probably end up, just for this proof of concept project, working what I come with out of my notes, back into what I have written down and finished already.

I’m so tired. I’m so many tired. I’m tired of fighting this project, I’m tired of my SAD, I’m tired of my sleep cycle being beyond fucked up. I’m physically tired, because, for once, I got a respectable amount of sleep, got up at a respectable time, and went about my day like a respectable adult–my sister asked me to do a little more work in the bathroom, so at the expense of all else, I fully groomed ONE of the longhairs, then worked on the bathroom for about an hour, and that was it for me. I actually kept checking the time on my phone because I really didn’t even want to be doing that much. I really would have rather put on a load of dishes and like, taken the garbage out, idk. I’m going to try to bathe another long-hair tomorrow, probably the other Maine, and get a load of dishes into the dishwasher. Then, depending on whether or not we go hiking tomorrow, which, idk….like, on the one hand, it would definitely be good for my mental health to literally, physically get Out of the House No Like For Real; on the other hand, my asthma has just been in a heightened state. For some reason, maybe because we’ve been trying so hard to get it clean??? But it’s just insanely dusty???

Anyway, idk I want to keep picking at this, but it’s super, super late and it really would be best to just put it down for a moment, get some sleep, and come at this fresh. But I want to keep picking at it. But I know I won’t make it any better if I’m tired…….

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