#long winded as per usualllll

[walkinginland]

For the ao3 wrap: 6, 16, 29?

HALLLOOOOOO

6. Favorite title you used

oooooo this is an interesting one! all my titles for the last few years have been song lyrics. I think I like "when my time comes around" just because it fits JC so well. The song as a whole yes, but that like specifically, the "time" of it all, the peaceful acceptance of "yes my time is going to come, but that's alright, because I have you." soulmatism etc

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

I think it's "Canon Compliant"! I tend to write nearly entirely canon compliant/missing moment type fics, especially in the last year or so. Also a lot of "inspired by music" tags, because of my song drabbles and the Hozier fic.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

oh this is difficult 😬 despite the fact that I haven't posted all that much this year, full fics at least, I'm really proud of the stuff I wrote, and there's a few lines that I hold really close to my heart. this one from when my time comes around means a lot to me, and I think was a really important moment for Jamie.

It was here, in this holy place, that she showed her mettle. It was here, with tears in her eyes and hands steady and shaking, with her voice breaking and desperate and dark shadows under her eyes, that she pulled him back from that abyss with teeth bared. She had looked him in the eye and pulled down both their walls, and brought him home. He had tried to beg for her forgiveness, had tried to explain to her why she must leave, how he was not and could not be the man that she married. Claire had just looked him in the eyes, had held him and made him look back, and told him with every bit of cold determination in her voice that she would not. She would not forgive him, because there was not a single thing to forgive.

I also really really liked this one from later in the same fic. I feel like it's really important to Jamie that he faces things head on, that he's seen as having courage and strength. But at his core he does have some very very profound fears, and those come into play when he's at death's door. BUT there was something so different in that moment in Bees, and the stage that he's in in his life. He's afraid but found a different type of peace.

He had looked death in the face so many times in his life. He had told himself all those other times that he wasn’t afraid. This is the first time he is telling the truth.

also i'm gonna be selfish and post a third one. this is technically not posted yet, but I did write it in 2023, so it counts. pre-canon buck my beloved lil sad dude.

Buck doesn’t have much. A worn-down Jeep that has seen more miles than it was ever meant to, a worn-out bag of clothes in the back seat, a dry pack of pens to sign one-way postcards, and a heart that he never quite seems to put in the right place. He’s always had something in him pushing him to go, find a place a people a home. Buck climbs out of his beat-up Jeep, and hopes that this time, this time, he’s found it. He pulls his brand-new LAFD issued cap firmer on his head, and steps into the 118.

#tag games #long winded as per usualllll #anna watch my firefighter shows challenge #you would like buck he's a dumbass heart of gold #he is also Sad there is a lot of content to dig around in his weird lil brain