Eddie Diaz - Blog Posts
eddie in el paso right now: so the bill is taking forever and the game starts in like 45 minutes and buck knows nothing so he keeps getting distracted asking all these questions - we're running out of time. i slam down some cash and we run outside and boom: boot. he's totally clueless. like what the hell man, LA parking is four dollars to even consider parking somewhere, you thought you could park on the corner of a 4 way lane? haha yeah he's crazy. but we were already crunched for time, and he's starting to call his captain for advice, so i just changed the tire and left the boot there! haha. what if they had his info? what does it matter, they wouldn't say anything. he has a medal of valor
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.
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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
8x11 is the buddiest episode we've ever gotten and one of them isn't even in it
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
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
Dont make me laugh im on school DONT MAKE ME SNORT PLEASE
I don't know if my favourite part of the episode was Buck saying he has feelings for Eddie or him saying that he does not have feeling for Tommy
I cannot believe that Evan „Buck“ Buckley just uttered the words „I‘m not in love with Eddie“ on NATIONAL FUCKING TELEVISION
rwrb x buddie WHOS WITH ME (I made Buck Alex cuz I wanted to draw his boobies thanks)
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
Woo hoo! I’m still so excited from last night. People dooming and criticizing RG for his acting? WTH? I thought he was great. I thought the car scene and goodbye scenes were awesome. And to see people who ship Buddie glooming? As someone who hasn’t been in this fandom that long, I don’t even know why some people watch? Do they like being miserable? I see people complaining that they have been burned before and that’s understandable. But then why do they have such an investment in it? And now the slow burn/will they, won’t they people wanted I guess isn’t what they really wanted.
The biggest question is if you hate Eddie, why do you ship Buddie? Crazy.
Listen, I loved this episode so much. It was great entertainment from beginning to end. I was glued to my screen.
But people are allowed to have a different opinion about the episode. That's how life works. You can't always love the same things as everyone else. So I don't really mind that. It's simply a human experience.
But the Ryan hate is crazy. I'm sorry. But it is. The man was so good in last night's episode. He has been consistently great in his acting over the last couple of seasons and some people still feel the need to rag on him. I'm so tired of it.
I said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not a Ryan stan. I like Ryan and he seems like a nice guy, but I'm not a stan. I'm simply an Eddie fan. I don't know too much about Ryan. I don't need to know too much about Ryan. But I do know he is good at what he does. He is a really good solid actor. And his interpretation of Eddie Diaz? Perfection.
As for the Buddie dooming and glooming. I don't know anymore Nonny. I don't understand what people want to happen here? For years we got small scenes between them and then nothing to follow it up anymore. For once we are getting, not only tons of scenes between them, but actual follow up and continuation of their narrative together.
We are living through a real 'will they won't they' slowburn situation where everything is clearly leading somewhere big for Buddie. I don't know what to say to these people anymore, other than 'Buddie is happening'. I'm at a loss at this point. 🤷♀️
I think the biggest question here Nonny, is: How could anyone ever hate Eddie Diaz? One of the greatest characters that has ever graced our TV-screens? Incomprehensible. 🧐
okay, so it's bothering me a little how a lot of people are talking about ryan's acting, and i wanted to give my two cents on it.
for me, it's pretty clear where ryan is going with his acting choices, especially after what he said on the podcast. but for some reason, people are acting as if eddie's lack of emotion is just ryan being a bad actor. i might agree with that in other scenarios, but this time? no. i’d say that even though his performance isn’t oscar-worthy, he's still doing a great job portraying what’s happening with eddie.
which is: he's repressing the hell out of his feelings.
and we can see that—there are a few instances where his mask slips.
when he learns that buck is going to sublet his house, he can't keep his emotions at bay. in my opinion, he realizes in that moment that he has someone who genuinely loves him and would do anything for him, which just makes things even harder. so, he tries to repress his feelings even more.
when buck brings up the subject of him moving again while they’re searching for maddie, his façade almost slips when he says, "it isn't nothing." but again, he pushes his feelings down. it’s obvious he’s exhausted from thinking about it and fighting about it with buck.
and finally, when they say goodbye, ryan does something so subtle that if you blink, you’d miss it—eddie’s smile falters just a little, and his eyebrow twitches while they’re hugging.
so yeah, it’s obvious that eddie is going through it and trying his hardest to keep his feelings locked away. to really understand eddie right now, it's important to keep in mind what ryan said in that podcast about reading between the lines—and also remember that while buck is really expressive with his feelings, eddie is the complete opposite.
„Hive him a gun“ okay Maddie
god i loved bucks little crash out in the car. his boyfriend broke up with him. his other boyfriend is leaving him. his sister is missing. give him a gun
Okay, but
The way Bucks face fits perfectly between Eddies neck and shoulder
God tier canon detail, honestly.
The fact that theres ALREADY FANART
My heart broke a little
No watermarks on patreon
Not to be unhinged, but has anyone made a "I know" parallels gifset between buddie and Leia/Han Solo?
Yeah same, this is exactly why i think they might make us wait until next season to actually get them together: there’s just (possibly) too much buildup to do in just half a season. But hey, if we get canon buddie im really not that picky about when :)
ok so not really criticism but a bit of concern: how will the show make it obvious to the audience that Eddie has feelings, is queer and this has been going on for a bit? Or how will they show it believably that he just realized all of that in his 30s?
Like to me it is so obvious, and they have been setting it up for at least half a season now. There are hints in the show (him being ultra monogamous & catholic about relationships and not having true chemistry/romantic feelings for most of his female partners, they're more of an obligation) and it makes so much sense to me that he's a repressed gay man, and the acting supports that. But it's harder to see/believe if you contrast that with Buck's realization who has been making googly eyes at everything and everyone, and is an open book, wears his heart on his sleeve. A casual audience will be able to go back and see it. They won't immediately see it when they look at Eddie, because the acting is way subtler and the queercoding more subtextual as of now, the queerness is in the narrative and possible feelings are explicitly labelled as a deep platonic bond between friends.
Which, in and of itself, no problem! There have been wilder revelations in film and tv with no textual buildup that have been very believable. It all hinges on how the show explains and shows it to the audience. I just don't know if I can trust this show to do a storyline like this justice? Like having someone have a multi-layered revelation and solve some of their emotional struggles within the span of a few episodes. Am I making sense? I love the characters and how they've been portrayed, but I might have grown overprotective of them. I just don't see yet how the show will do it in a believable way. It's one of the reasons I hope they let us steam a bit longer and go for it in the next season
Eddie posts this on reddit and doesn’t understabd why people keep telling him his beyt friend is in love woth him
My name is Eddie Diaz and last week, my best friend who I adore and who's been my rock and my lifeline for seven years, who offered me more love and unconditional support than anyone sabotaged me because he had big feelings about my move and I said something to strangers I was trying to sell my house to that set him spiraling. I didn't even know he was listening.
He retracted his support and replaced me with a dog. Me. And okay, I already think I'm a horrible person and I'm literally battling with myself right now because I am a horrible father and I can't let my son, my world, grow up without me so I'm going back to the worse city on earth and leaving behind my life and any sense of identity I found for myself in seven years.
I leave him behind. My best friend who's literally been the other half of me since the day we pulled a grenade out of a guy (super badass).
BUT HE REPLACED ME WITH A DOG. And he was so distant. He didn't even tell me about the dog and whoo? We say everything to each other.
He outed me (not like that)
But he wouldn't yell at me. And okay, if he wants to be hurt, and ruin the last good days we got together. I am all for it. It hurt less to choose my son if I can push him away. So I pushed him away.
I tried. For like 5 min.
But he didn't yell back. And then all our friends were there.
He's subletting my house now. Because he's choosing my son too, he knows that I'll always choose my kid, and he's happy I finally take it upon myself to mandle things with my baby.
He did that for me.
He did that for me.
What am I going to do without him?
I’ll be living here until Eddie is back
we actually have to defeat the loft before we get buddie canon cus wdym allie found it for him, taylor moved into it, natalia delivered a baby with him in it, and he asked tommy to move into it…. like that fucking loft is public enemy number ONE