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The Third Tuesday of Every Month

Buck doesn’t know much about Eddie — just that he shows up once a month for a haircut, sits still, smells like cedar, and never once asks for anything different. They don’t talk much. But over time, something settles between them anyway — a quiet kind of trust, built in forty-five-minute intervals under fluorescent lights. Then Buck finds out Eddie’s a barber too. And suddenly, he has to wonder what, exactly, he’s been giving — and what Eddie’s been letting him believe.

It's me, hi. I wrote another Barber!Buddie fic.

I have a problem.

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they start arguing about wedding venues and catering and and and no, we are not wearing full-body lime green suits thats insane. the groomsmen however-

someone tells eddie that he has to go check on his husband (buck) and buck hears and asks why eddie didn’t correct them and eddie thinks about it for a sec and then goes what? you don’t wanna be my husband? and buck, visibly ????, goes what? of course!, so eddie shrugs and then starts blabbering about wedding plans

they are not even dating ofc

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terfs would lose their minds if they were exposed to 2000s-2010s "a girl can do anything a boy can do, including beating them at sports" messaging like why are you all acting like nobody has ever said this and that it's radical to think that women aren't inherently worse at things. open your mind. read some feminist theory. touch some grass. the most basic banal middle-class white woman feminism of the 2010s looks fucking radical and visionary compared to the misogynistic victimization complex y'all are peddling

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I remember when people pretended to care about bees for a few years because they were an indicator species and now I’m getting replies to that post like “idc if all bugs die as long as we get rid of mosquitos and flies and cockroaches” YOURE GONNA FUCKING DIE!!!!! WE WILL DIE TOO!!!!! WE WILL ALL DIE WITHOUT BUGS!!!! IM NOT KIDDING!!!!

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"I've got you, okay? everything's going to be fine." WITH THE BARBER!AU

Eddie sat down in Buck's chair, like he did every 6 weeks for the last 3 years — in desperate need of a haircut.

He was running late today, being forced by Hen to stay after shift so she could stitch up a small cut over his eyebrow after their last call.

"Eddie, sit your butt down, or I will force you to," she'd threatened. Eddie did as he was told.

And now he had been running late, apologising profusely to Buck, who was standing behind the chair.

"Eddie," he said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "shut up. You made it. It's fine. You're my last client today anyway."

Eddie nodded, finally settling back in the chair as Buck threw a cape over him.

"Just your usual?" he asked. Eddie nodded again.

Buck got to work, snapping the guard on his clippers and starting at the back of Eddie's head.

He made 3 passes before Eddie raised his hand signalling for Buck to stop. Buck did and Eddie leaned forward to sneeze.

As he sat back up, he felt something warm trickle into his eyebrow.

"Oh shit," he said as he caught sight of his reflection, he'd popped a stitch and the wound had re-opened.

He started to worry, he couldn't stay, he needed to get it restitched, but he couldn't leave with a shaved patch on the back of his head.

Just as he was really beginning to panic, Buck handed him a tissue and said, "Wait there," before returning with a first aid kit.

"I've got you, okay? Everything's going to be fine." Buck said as he laid the kit out on the counter, searching through until he found what he needed.

Eddie's eyes widened. Buck was holding a suture kit.

"Do you trust me?" Buck asked, gloves now on and needle threaded.

"Honestly, I don't know?" Eddie replied with concern. Was he really about to let his barber stitch up his eyebrow?

"Don't worry, I used to be a Seal. I've done this hundreds of times," Buck answered with a grin, stepping forward to remove the tissue that was now soaked in blood.

"You could have fucking led with that before you came at my face with a needle," Eddie said, closing his eyes as Buck made the first stitch.

It stung. A lot.

Eddie hissed.

"I'm sorry, I don't have anything to numb you, but this will only take a second."

"Mm-hmm," Eddie mumbled, breathing heavily through his nose as he felt the thread pull through his skin.

"Actually, it kind of makes sense, me being able to do this. Barbers were originally also the town surgeons, way back when. It's why there's a red stripe in the poles we use outside the shop. So really, I'm just following tradition," Buck continued as he tugged again at Eddie's skin.

Eddie's hands were now holding on like a vice at the armrests of the chair, all while doing his best to keep his head still.

"There we go," Buck said, stepping back to grab a piece of tape to cover the stitches, "Good as new."

Eddie looked at his reflection and huffed out a laugh. His face was bright red, sweat beading at his upper lip, and his right eye looked like he'd been crying blood. He looked anything but good or new.

Buck pulled off his gloves, and packed up the first aid kit, picking up his clippers again and going back to stand behind Eddie.

"Right, where were we?" he said, running them up the back of Eddie's head again, as if he hadn't just preformed minor surgery in his barbershop.

"When the fuck were you a Seal?!"

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Y'all remember minecraft smps? That shit was good or bad, depending 🔥

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who are your top three favorite characters of all time

in no particular order:

Big Z from Surf's Up

Ben from The Intern

House from House MD

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illegal immigration is swag and epic and i salute everyone who does it. personally i think if you can afford to move somewhere you should be allowed to live there no questions asked. actually even if you cant afford it, it's not like i can afford to live here either. who give a shit.

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chris martin accidentally exposing a CEO for cheating with his employee via a kiss cam at a coldplay concert is the funniest thing i’ve heard in a while

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Begging people to understand Netflix did NOT produce Kpop Demon Hunters, that was all Sony Pictures Animation. Netflix DISTRIBUTED the film. It's like how Steam didn’t make Deltarune, they just distribute it.

While Netflix does produce films and shows, in some cases “Netflix Original” just means it's Netflix exclusive, as in you can’t legally watch it anywhere else.

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Something that comes up often in art that's about artists is that you'll be told that this character made an amazing, record-shattering, highly acclaimed book or movie or song or whatever and then you'll see the piece of art they made and it's painfully mid. Like, you have to accept that within the world of the story being told, that's the most amazing piece of art ever but you're sitting there like, "There's no way that would ever catch on like that IRL."

Anyway, shout out to KPop Demon Hunters for sidestepping that problem entirely by having the in universe songs chart so high IRL that they beat out actual established KPop groups, proving definitively that those songs WOULD have set the charts on fire and beat out their competition even as the new kids on the block.

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there's something to be said about movies like kpop demon hunters, turning red, encanto, over the moon, and sinners, which combine music and cultural specificity into engaging storytelling. you don't need to just take "inspiration" from a culture. you can tell a specific story about it that everyone will be able to relate to even if they are unfamiliar with the specifics, because there are human elements we can all relate to in well-told stories.

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Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.

Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.

In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.

But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.

Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!

But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.

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unhealthy codependency is really a top tier dynamic. like they need each other to survive but god. should they.