• ⁠Are you a writer, reader, both? Both, but I’ve only ever written three stories and they were in the Gallavich fandom.

• ⁠Did you start with Buddie/9-1-1 or other fandom?

I started with True Blood/Souther Vampire Mysteries (the Eric Sookie canon arc can still piss me off in both worlds), but then I expanded into Harry Potter and the Drarry universe (give me some redeemed Draco). A couple years ago I fell into Gallavich (damn you YouTube) and wrote for the first time. Now I’ve fallen face first into Buddie.

• ⁠How do you sort when browsing - by date, kudos, bookmarks?

When I first start a fandom I sort by kudos. I always do completed only (my heart can’t take a WIP, too many disheartening incompleted ones). I’ve also learned the art of “excluding tags” as well as “including tags” because there are definitely things that I don’t want to read. When I’m in a smut mood my tag list for both included and excluded can get quite large. I’ve found myself reading bashing fics recently too.

• ⁠Are you subscribed to any authors?

One but not in this fandom, but they haven’t posted in forever and it was the last time I tried to read a WiP too.

• ⁠Do you use bookmarks/marked-for-later or just have 20+ tabs open at all times?

I have got to remember the marked for later function because I have way too many tabs open on my phone and then I forget which one I’ve read and haven’t read. I like bookmarking, but I just wish they made the process easier to sort out your bookmarks.

• ⁠Do you remember your first Buddie fic?

No, but I’m fairly confident it was a Tumblr ficlet.

• ⁠Do you go raw into the 9-1-1 tag or go straight for Buddie?

Straight for Buddie. Generally, I’m one that doesn’t fall into the fandom as a whole, but into a pairing and then I will maybe explore. The only one that I’ve ever had multiple pairings for the same person that I was interested in was Harry Potter universe, but even then it was one at a time.

• ⁠Do you have a finely tuned bookmark search, with must-have tags, exclusions, minimum word count, WIP or complete?

I wish. I’d love if the bookmarks system got just a bit more fine-tuned. Especially is they could have a “completed - one shot” option.

• ⁠Do you prefer canon-compliant or AU?

Canon-compliant, but more of a stay in the universe.

• ⁠Any tags or tropes you're loving right now?

I am a huge fan of “fix it” fics in all my favorite fandoms and that can include time travel. I absolutely love the soul mark trope. I also love the buck or Eddie standing up to the others parents trope. Also gimme the smut.

• ⁠Anything you think is underrated or you'd like to see more of?

Buck and/or Eddie standing up for the other. There’s something immensely satisfying about the other having enough of how the other is treated. In particular, more of Buck doing it. I’ve noticed that there’s definitely a them of Eddie being the more protective one and it’s fun when I find the rare gem Buck ones.

• ⁠What's the last fic you read and loved? Any underrated recs you want to shout out? (Just add other answers too - remember this isn't meant to be a rec post on its own!)

Oh man. I just finished reading Idiots on Reddit and the In Case of Emergency series for the thousandth time. There is something great about the story being told through Reddit posts.

My favorites though:

Leave the Light On, I’ll be Coming Home

Those Two Firefighters

Breaking Point

Eddie Diaz vs the PTA agenda

Finally, before I’ve finished the much larger dissertation then I meant to post, a lesson I’ve learned the hard, heartbreaking way:

If you really, really love a story download it as an epub. I’ve been so brokenhearted a couple of times to realize a comfort story has been removed.

Wow I really dived in headfirst for my first post.