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Boutta watch the new episode guys wish me luck!!
This is what happens when I read too many girldad!Buck fics. And this isn't even all.
I DONT LIKE THIS I REALLY DONT LIKE THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
No because I think this is the exact reason I fell in love with 9-1-1 so much. Season one, Bathena got together, and I was so dissapointed, because if you've watched more than two tv shows in your life, you know what happenes to couples who get together in the first season. They get used for drama, they are thrust into repeating storylines, they either aren't endgame, or they break up and make up all the time, over and over, and are horrible to each other bur still stay together. (Cough cough Ross and Rachel from Friends.) It kills the characters instantly, and it kills their storylines. I was so mad.
But then I kept watching, bc it's not like this was a new feeling - this happens all the time. Disappointing, but whatever. So I kept waiting for the inevitable fallout and breakup and unnecessary drama between Bathena, and it just... didn't happen. They just... moved foreward in their relationship, and the showrunners made them interesting as fuck - without breaking them up unnecessarily!! Fucking bonkers to me, especially how Henren started out in season one. But Bathena had fights, and drama, and happy moments, and they defied what I thought a season-one-couple was.
And then it just kept on going. Bathena, Madney, Henren - they all found their special person and they didn't have to give that up to remain interesting or original. I've never seen anything like it before. It was magical. Still is.
I think that's why I'm not terrified that they are going to fuck up Buddie. If any other show decided to get the two popular and constantly shipped male leads together, I KNOW they couldn't do them justice, especially in the long run. But 911 can. Because they've already done it. Multiple times. And that just makes me so freaking happy.
domestic buddie being imminent is also fun bc this show does a good job at keeping a relationship dynamic interesting after getting characters together. henren is established from day one and while karen isn’t around as much as the mains their presence/drama is still there. bathena got more interesting once they started blending their family. madney went thru sooo much up and down and now they’re happily married and maddie’s still getting serial killer kidnapped and saving chim’s life w hammers. domestic buddie are gonna keep having insane things happen bc that’s the show but now they will get to react to it as romantic partners and (eventual) husbands. :)
This is what I’m SAYING. It’s history happening right before our eyes, and for once, that is a good thing.
like obviously i am emotionally invested in buddie going canon from like, a character/story perspective but from a 'got a degree in sociology, has been on tumblr since 2012, was once a superwholocker' perspective, i am FAR more invested this shit is delightful and fASCINATING. despite all the shit in the world, despite the backlash towards LGBTQ people happening right now, there is a major network television show that already made one half of a m/m fan ship canonically bi, had him fuck a (different) man, and is now poised to make the pairing canon after more than SEVEN SEASONS OF SLOWBURN. like: they are a pairing that started as a classic wink-nudge jokey queerbait, possibly nearly went canon years ago before that was shutdown, but now it is HAPPENING. and no, i'm not here for arguments that it isn't. i know better than is good for me, what queerbaiting looks like, and it DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THIS. i have been in like 15 different shipwars for queerbaited pairings. I am that fan who once went up to the showrunner of OUAT in a restaurant to tell him, personally, to his face, that queer fans like me deserved better. and now, eight years after that incident, the queer fans of an ABC tv show might just be getting that 'better'. like. what the fuck. how did we get here?
this is a phenomenon that has literally never happened once on live action american television, and we are all watching it unfold, whether actively or via the persistent ubiquity of fandom osmosis and i am studying this show and TPTB and the actors and the fans like BUGS
With a Little Help from My Friends
Eddie's in El Paso trying to rekindle old friendships along with his relationship with Christopher. Some things may, or may not, be better left in the past.
Or; Eddie meets up with a friend from high school who provides him with some helpful insight into their past friendship as well as a new lens to view his current ones through.
Word count - 1.4k
Read on Ao3.
Bobby Nash dad through and through. only a dad repeatedly drops a bizarre piece of self lore that has somehow never come up in years and walks away. oh you were a childhood figure skating champion? oh your mom is a televangelist? and also not dead? your wife just found this out too? this is the guy whose known lore has a body count in the triple digits btw. I love Bobby so bad
Chim, struggling with a recipe: Eddie, can you Google how many ounces are in a cup? My hands are covered in flour.
Eddie: Sure, one sec. Buck!
Buck: Yeah?
Eddie: How many ounces are in a cup?
Buck: Eight.
Eddie: Thank you.
Chim: Now, what the hell was that?
Eddie: Six years, Chim. Haven't had to Google a thing.
Chim: Mmhm, why don't you ask Buck what the definition of codependency is next?
Ok I need everyone to understand that Buck and Eddie are both products of their upbringing. Buck was a child of neglect, which led to him having abandonment issues. While Eddie was a child forced to grow up too fast, which led to him having hyper-independence. Two different kind of traumas. Two different kinds of trauma response. Which would require two different kinds of help.
Buck and Eddie help each other overcome these things and because they are two different kinds of problems, the way they help will ALSO be different. Ever since they met, Eddie has always been there for Buck (don't even fight me on this) and Buck has always given Eddie what he needs. It will look imbalanced, but it's really not. They both need SOMEONE in their lives, just in different ways.
Buck doesn't need someone to take over his lease, or to take care of his son, or to help him figure out childcare, he needs someone to Not Leave Him Alone. Eddie doesn't need someone to tell him he's not expendable, or to be reassured he's trustworthy, or to be promised he's not going to be abandoned, he needs someone to Give Him a Helping Hand. And the moment they became friends they have been those SOMEONES to each other.
They are each other's persons. Equally.
walk with me here…… eddie is fighting with his mother and she says “and that man you let hang around our grandson! he is clearly in love with you!” “buck is not in love with me mom” *scoffs* “okay”
please
Actually OBSESSED and i usually don’t even like edits!! I actively avoid them most of the time!!! BUT THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!
buddie | call me when you break up
(watch in 4k)
oh hey by the way watching tonight's episode was wild and reminded me that i wrote a fic where tommy taylor accused buck of being in love with eddie so he went to talk to maddie about it and kept talking about how he'd never allowed himself to think about it bc eddie is Straight™
anyway this is just me saying if you'd like to read a fic with that plot you could read finding our way (back home)
which was literally written in the middle of s5 in 2022 lol
Boutta‘ hop on ao3 and just keep refreshing the page like a madman
i’m sooo excited for the fics that are gonna come from that episode
"So, Eddie pays the tab, we both run out to the parking lot, and there's a boot on my front tire". Thanks for including the detail that Eddie paid for their food or drinks. Oh this was a date. Wish we could've seen it. "We're not gonna make the game". That was the Lakers' game by the way. A gift from Buck's ex-boyfriend for their 6 months anniversary. They're crazy for this.
literally any time Eddie does something that turns out to be illegal
I am so fucking STOKED
coming here to say things about 911 buddie but i cant. one because im speechless two because its all been said already
you don't need me to say 'ive read this in a fic' you know you read it too you don't need me to say this is insane you know you don't need me to say what does 'eddies straight' imply what does 'i don't need to sleep with everyone i have feelings with' mean you KNOW WE ALL KNOW THERES ONLY ONE ANSWER
The way Buck is still trying to cling for relationships that are not right for him, while basically admitting that he tries to force his way into feelings, though. Like, this episode, he considers rekindling a relationship that is six feet in the ground before immediately pulling the line "and I don't have to have feelings for everyone I sleep with" the moment his relationship with Eddie is challenged, making it abundantly clear that he he does NOT have feelings for Tommy, even though he was thinking about trying again.
Feels a lot like "But I am ready for something, and I think that something could be with you."
Buck is searching for something. He always has been. He's pretty sure that something is love.
But he keeps trying to force himself to fall in love with any partner willing to stay, instead of trying to make a relationship work with the person he's already in love with.
Had no idea what a booted tire was. Thought it was maybe just a broken tire. Googled it just now and... "isn't that illegal?" sure fucking looks like it to me :D
I cannot believe that Evan „Buck“ Buckley just uttered the words „I‘m not in love with Eddie“ on NATIONAL FUCKING TELEVISION
The fact that there are only 10 fics on ao3 whit the tag „Bobby Nash adopts Evan „Buck“ Buckley“ is actually criminal
Bobby: Today I realised I'm old.
Athena: What happened?
Bobby: I fell in the hall and instead of laughing, Buck came running to see if I was ok.
Athena:
Bobby: I saw fear in his eyes.
(x)
Actually wait I’m so excited for Bobby’s cult leader mom. I hope we never stop learning absolutely bizarre facts about this man. Child alcoholic figure skater with magic blood that saves infants from a rare disease i love you forever
9-1-1 like most queerbaits make me feel like im insane, because its so obvious but if i mention it to people who don’t watch the show they have no idea.
Like how can these people possibly the couch theory or that Buck and Eddie are actually coparenting Chris.
But like I swear this time it will make history, this time they are going canon… both of them. (Destiel flashbacks)
Why haven’t I seen a single post about this
This is insane
bold lettering, unignorable
HOLDS QUEEN SIZED BED
WHAT IS THIS DEVILRY FORESHADOWING I SEE
Buck and Eddie are so gonna share a queen sized bed at some point I can’t
Literally between them the whole time like what