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i'll stand by this: ever since the move to abc, buddie has been on the table. maybe it will happen in season 9, maybe it won't.

but i'll also stand by this: 9-1-1 is blatantly queerbaiting. and at this point, tim, his writers room, pr, marketing, and social at abc and hulu are complicit and should be held accountable.

maybe production ran behind schedule. scripts were sent late, cast and crew rolled with the punches, episodes were edited until the last minute, marketing didn't receive them until the eleventh hour, social engaged too much with fandom because they had nothing else to work with—maybe it was the perfect storm. except it was a storm of their team's own making, 8 seasons in the making. frankly, the audience and media backlash they're receiving in return is warranted.

whether or not buddie will happen is besides the point. it is not okay to pander to a years-long, fan-favorite romantic queer relationship on screen for the first time, completely drop that plot thread, then use the stars of said relationship to promote the finale knowing it's been dropped. especially by setting up interviews meant specifically to farm engagement from the buddie community. don't get me wrong, i loved the etea, buddie rankings, and thirst tweets. oliver and ryan were great, but c'mon. knowing the episode those were used in promotion of? that's textbook queerbaiting. keep it to the "we're brothers" segments and move on. now their ill-considered pr strategy is making talent a target for backlash they don't deserve.

to anyone at 9-1-1 who may stumble upon this post: whether buddie is in the works for season 9, or the intent is to keep fans strung along for perpetuity—you are queerbaiting. don't rely on buddie fans as damage control to drive engagement, conversation, and viewership when you sure as hell know you can't deliver anything in return. that's literally the definition of queerbaiting.

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Can some write a buddie fic for me? I need some angst comfort after the season finale.

Maybe a canon-divergence where Buck actually goes through the transfer but Eddie does end up staying in Texas. I want it to hit even more that Buck still chooses to transfer fully knowing that Eddie’s coming back.

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Legit kind of uncomfortable right now with 9-1-1 cause I think they’re like for sure Queerbaiting Buddie at this point.

This isn’t a rant about implications, or making it make narrative sense, cause not putting to characters together who have good chemistry and comparable arcs is just in general bad writing. Not exactly Queerbaiting.

What’s happening right now though feels like actual queerbaiting, like the textbook definition, like “teasing about two characters getting into a queer relationship for marketing purposes.”

The ryliver interview, Tommy thinking Buck has feelings for Eddie is 8x11, and the marketing team pushing more questions about buddie (like having Oliver rank best Buck and Eddie moments).

There’s things make it seem like Buddie is happening but with the current trajectory of the narrative it’s clearly not. Like they resolved the Eddie-Texas plot thread so off-handedly.

No buddie roommates era (they had to include a scene of Buck explicitly moving out). Ryan confirming Buck&Eddie bros in a recent interview so they can say the fans are making it up (choosing right now to ignore what Oliver said in another interview cause that could another part of the marketing team fanning the flames). Them not really getting a scene in the freakin season finale. The shows goes to great lengths to not narratively support Buddie but also marketing buddie like crazy.

All that stuff in the show plus all the marketing around it makes me feel uneasy and to be honest uncomfortable. I show never made me feel this ashamed to be a fan of ship since Sterek and Destiel.

To give them a bit of a break I’d like to think that killing Bobby off put them in a narrative hole that they spent the rest of the season crawling out off and that’s why the other storylines got dropped. But honestly that might be giving the show too much credit.

Sorry for the rant but I just had to get that out there.

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I love Buddie I really do and I’m not that much of a BuckTommy shipper but I’m getting really tired of episodes that don’t feature Eddie get so much vitriol (like this was a big episode for all the other characters, no spoilers but one in particular, just because Eddie isn’t here doesn’t mean it’s not a good episode).

Also the Tommy hate is getting on my nerves. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea that’s okay. What he did to Hen and Chimney was bad. But could the fans stop acting like he didn’t make up with Hen and Chimney. Like he hasn’t disobeyed his captain and FBI for them. Or that he doesn’t like Buck or using him for whatever reason. I know Buddies feel threatened but there’s character assassination is very unnecessary.

Just for this week, in light of what had happened, tone it down please.

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I like the gradual drift to Fiddlestan (from Fiddleauthor and Billford) is mostly due to the lack of toxic yaoi canon without the drawback of losing angst potential.

It’s “healthy” enough that people wanting a break from “toxic” billford can have a bit of a reprieve. But not so wholesome, simply because of how tragic Stan and Fiddleford are as characters, that there isn’t enough drama to be inherently interesting.

Goes to show that Stan and McGucket’s lives are so fucked up that them together can compete with dramatic inter dimensional toxic yaoi.

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Is Gilear the fallen diety?

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I like damianya and your critiques are very valid. But I think there’s more nuance to their relationship.

Kids are incredibly honest, Anya interest in Damian really amounts to her having “fun” playing Save the World. (manga spoilers, kinda)

She’s also been clear about it multiple times that she wants to befriend Damian for his connections and Damian ices her out for only wanting to befriend him for his family connections.

But there’s this added layer of a genuine friendship forming. Anya does think Damian is dumb but she cares about him in a child-like way. (Manga spoilers) she calms him down when he was about to panic during the bus hijacking and comforts him about Melinda maybe mot coming to pick him up.

The thing about Anya is that if she, like a kid, really doesn’t want to do something she’ll stubbornly not to do it. In their first couple interactions (starting from the dodgeball one I think) she sees something in him and hasn’t realized it.

Damian is “fun” to Anya. He’s interesting enough to her to maybe continue with Plan B. Despite all pretenses and how much they are aware of it, there is a genuine connection forming and I just really like that,

I doubt they’ll be a couple (mostly cause their pre-schoolers) but I can see this becoming a friendly, rivalry like friendship that can culminate into a romance in the far future.

So, one bit about Damian and Anya's relationship that gets lost in the kid-shipping is that, at the moment, half of the relationship is as fake as Yor and Twilight think theirs is.

Anya doesn't really care about Damian, and thinks he's dumb; some people have interpreted this as a little girl not understanding how she feels about a boy and rationalizing them into hate, like Damian's feelings are, but there's not much textual support for it. Anya's interest in Damian begins and ends at "Papa needs to get close to Second Son's papa for world peas".

Some people have pointed out that this could be good for drama. We know Damian has been burned by at least one person faking affection for him (his dad), and it seems likely that he's either had other people fake being his friend to get close to the Desmond family or been warned about such people by his parents. Finding out that the cute ugly and stupid girl in class has only been faking interest to get close to his dad would hurt. And that's drama—especially if Damian finds out about the spy stuff after Anya starts to care about him!

But it would also be an obvious source of drama. What if, instead, Damian went along with the plan?

Yes, Damian is the son of Donovan Desmond, the most prominent pro-war politician in Ostania. But the son is not the father; in fact, the son resents the father for being so distant. Damian doesn't want what Donovan wants.

Moreover, the same mind that birthed "If I make a really cool griffin out of construction paper, my dad will praise me!" could easily come up with "If my dad's plans fail, he'll have more time to spend with his family!" Or at the very least, "If my dad's plans succeed, he'll have even less time to spend with his family..."

So if Damian somehow finds out that Anya is secretly trying to help her spy father avert a war, maybe Damian would be into that. And that would be interesting. The two of them would enter a "friendship" (to Becky's delight and Ewen & Emile's confusion), with hopes of arranging some excuse for Mr. Forger to come over to Mr. Desmond's house.

This seems like a junior version of Loid and Yor's relationship, but there are some important differences. The two most important are that Damian isn't Yor and Anya isn't Twilight. Close behind is the fact that Damian and Anya would be more or less on the same page regarding the secrecy of their relationship; both know they're in it to protect peace, they're just hiding that from everyone else. And there are smaller details, but this would be plenty for Endo to work with.

There would also be second-order effects, of course. For instance:

Anya has a chance to see what makes Damian tick—why he's an arrogant junior douchebag, why he's rude to people like her, why he gets so touchy about his family. She'd stop seeing him as an annoying brat she has to get along with For The Mission and start seeing him as a boy she might want to actually be friends with.

Damian has a chance to see Anya when she's not at school, not trying/failing to act dignified and proper around the bougie kids. This could lead to him developing more nuanced feelings for Anya, but I think it would make more sense and be funnier if he instead found Anya more annoying, his positive impression of Anya fading with her facade. (Don't flip out, Damianya shippers; it could always return later as both mature.)

I have several competing ideas for how Yuri would react to finding out Loid and his stupid daughter were going over to Donovan Desmond's house, ranging from anger to jealousy to deciding that Loid must not be as bad as he'd assumed if the National Unity Party accepts him. They all seem pretty entertaining, though.

Damian is eventually going to wonder why Anya knows about her papa's mission, but neither of them can discuss it with him. Plus, being her "friend" means spending a lot of time around her, noticing when the things she says don't quite add up. Even if Damian doesn't find out about Anya's telepathic powers alongside her dad's mission, he's going to find out eventually. Angry shippers, wouldn't it be neat if Damian was he first person to find out Anya's tragic backstory? Go write about that.

We might finally see Demetrius.

And so on.

I'm not saying this is definitely gonna happen...but it could, and it would be pretty neat!

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Jesus, I thought it was just me. He had like 5 lines but every time he was on screen I couldn’t help but only focus on him.

I just came from watching Barbie, and it was amazing!

And out of all the characters in that movie, it's Scott Evans' Ken that I ended up crushing on.

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I dunno if this has been posted yet, but.....

Keep this shit off AO3

We don't want that kind of pearl clutching 'christian' conservative sitting on the AO3 board. Keep Moms For Liberty out of our fanfiction.

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this is not a human man this is a muppet

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Endless Neverafter

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Reblog if you want this show renewed

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What is your opinion on "Inside Job" Getting canceled

I’m not caught up but I LOVE the show. Netflix makes the worst decisions ever.

They’re starting to feel like Nickelodeon when a new animated show doesn’t get SpongeBob numbers on the first week, so they instantly can it. It’s so sad. Shows really don’t get ANY time to find an audience anymore… and even when it has an audience, studio execs will consider it a failure because it isn’t Stranger Things.

I am so tired. Animated shows deserve better. Someone please make a streaming service like how Shutter is for Horror, but with Animated shows pls.

I changed the font for ✨emphasis✨

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I want this show renewed so they can have their happy ending

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Inside Job didn’t just get canceled.

It had its first season split in two, a tactic animators said was used for Cuphead to let them pay staff less. Then, the show was renewed for a real second season.

And then the show was canceled before that second season anyway.

Final Space didn’t just get canceled on the most depressing cliffhanger ever. It was removed from all platforms before becoming a tax write-off, essentially meaning the only ways of really watching the show is through DVD or pirating.

The Owl House wasn’t just given a shortened third season. Disney, a company already known for a, let’s say, complicated relationship with its LGBT+ history, took a show created by a bisexual woman, filled with beloved LGBT+ characters, some of which were teenagers just like the audience, and told said creator to destroy her shows pacing so she could finish her story in just 3 45 minute specials.

I can go on about how Hollywood and television don’t respect animation and the like but this is endemic of a larger problem:

Capitalism destroys art.

The constant need for shows to be either the biggest thing in history or a complete failure, the constant need for a cash cow, leads to any show that doesn’t immediately become Squid Game or Stranger Things levels of popular, especially animated shows, getting scrapped for no reason other then it doesn’t make them enough money.

In our hyper capitalist hellscape, I worry we’re going to see more Inside Jobs, Final Spaces, and Owl Houses: shows made with love, that showcase potential, and dedicated fanbases, having a renewal reversed, or becoming a tax write off, or having its story rushed, so that the executives can save a few cents, while also fucking over employees.

I think that’s the part that always needs to be remembered too; the people behind these shows. Not just the creators or voice actors or well known animators, but everybody. As NewDeal4Animation illustrated, staffs on these shows are often underpaid and overworked. And to then, to not just lose a show you spent months, years of your life on out of nowhere, but to essentially lose a job… it’s terrifying. And every staff member, from the creators to the unpaid interns, deserves better.

So yea. That’s just my thoughts on the matter I guess.

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Goddamn it

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Oh I never thought of it like that. I’m so use to shows being episodic and non-linear that I forgot Inside Job wasn’t one.

Looking back we really do get to see Brett’s character change remain consistent. He learns to stand up for himself and his own feelings.

That makes it more in character for him to not only allow himself to not like someone, like Ron. But also take command like he did in the finale. He didn’t immediately back down when everyone was telling him to shoot AirBud and he found his own way around that.

Really goes to show how much the creators put effort into their shows.

So, some people have been saying that it seemed out of character for Brett to not like Ron considering he's a golden retriever in human form, but considering that the episode takes place after Brett learns to stand up for himself and voice his own opinions, it's not totally out of left field.