#911 for example

[louferrignojrofficial]

ngl when people say they watch tv shows because of the famous people that are in it, i genuinely don’t understand how. i have to be very interested in the plot and the genre to even think about it. and sometimes the celebrities people mention watching certain shows for… i could swear i’ve never heard of them.

[buddieroommates]

the thing about buddie is that they're genuinely just so? cute?? like. they're best friends who never fight unless they're missing each other. they tried out hating each other for two shifts before they unequivocally settled on adoring each other every day for the rest of their lives instead. first order of business in their friendship was both asking 'please take care of me' and then they both said Okay ❤️ yay ❤️. buck pulls sick pranks on eddie by buying him expensive things he'd never get for himself. eddie physically can't look at buck without his whole face lighting up. buck is comfortable enough in eddie's house to never feel like a guest. eddie still deserves pretty things though so he's gonna decorate a whole basket of pastries especially for him. eddie learns to cook and the first person he wants to show off to after his son is buck. they get excited about wearing matching outfits. if buck wants to do something stupid eddies obviously gonna do it with him but he's gonna bitch about it. they work 60 hours a week then take turns spending the day at each other's house during their days off and just to be safe when they do have to be somewhere alone they facetime. they'll get wasted at a party with twenty other people including drag queens and they'll still only hang out with each other. if someone invites them somewhere they can expect the other person to come too. they make me SICK

[wanderingcas]

eddie saying "heard some dick was being mean to you" to buck feels equivalent to when partners Specifically Don't Talk About Our Fight in front of their kid but in so many coded terms

[sasanka-27]

30 days left! 🧮🚒

[housewifebuck]

anonymous requested: buck + stubble

[epiphainie]

honestly every time i remember buck is canonically bi and is dating a man now i get so 😳😳😳 about it. like in our fandom sphere it's easy to say he's been bi-coded for years and joke with all the "wbk"s but i genuinely think people are missing what a gamble it was for ABC to pick up a show from another network and go this route with a main character that the majority of the audiences wasn't as percipient about.

buck's case is so singular imo because there are still certain - silent - rules to queer rep in mainstream media. the audiences are almost always clued-in on a character being queer early, for example. it's either shown immediately or mentioned in conversation in those first few scenes/eps the characters are established. if a character is not out, then they are not out to the rest of the characters, not the audience. if a character doesn't know they're queer yet - or ready to accept it - again, the audience knows, the story/foreshadowing is clear about it.

i can't think of a single other example where a main character - who's been nominally straight for multiple seasons - realizes they're queer later in life like this. where it wasn't planned beforehand, wasn't an explicitly or intentionally threaded storyline, wasn't just a one-liner saying "oh yeah ofc he kissed men before" ofc i didn't watch all television ever created in the history of television but i genuinely think this was such a pioneering writing choice mainstream tv hasn't done before. i wish we could all have been more happy with it instead of *gestures* all this.

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star -> 5.05 tarlos counseling scene pt. 3

[mythtakens]

so here's a scenario if a character was, completely random example, shot by a sniper in the street and they had one singular coherent thing they said in between getting hit and waking up in the hospital days later. what do you think is the most absolutely sickening heartwrenching line you could have that character say. like for instance to their closest friend. who is let's say idk covered in the blood that just sprayed out of them straight into said friend's face. a best friend who is actively trying to stop them from continuing to bleed out in that moment because they were just SHOT by a SNIPER and they're DYING. let's chew on this hypothetical situation for a minute or five. what is the most insane yet still fully in character thing a person could use the last of their energy to say in the chaos of everything that's happening before passing out. they're in pain, they're in shock, hell they're not even fully aware at this point right and this is something that could easily easily be the last words they ever speak. what do you think would be the version of those words that would clock me in the face the hardest and why did Eddie Diaz from 9-1-1 say it on network television in 2021

[mazzystar24]

Just saying if they wanted us to believe Bobby was dead they should’ve gone the traumatising buffy “the body” route 🙄🤚

[thisshitisridiculous]

things i desperately want from buck's single era

1. hen and buck queer talk scene, they could go out together or just be talking at the station whatever because while the talk with josh was great and all hen and buck are our two queer main characters and they haven't talked about it at all yet

2. buck to say he's bisexual

[bi-chimneyy]

"it's common to be uncomfortable with a daddy kink-" you are missing the fucking point, blacklist the tags (even for that specific ship) if you have to, skip that scene if you're streaming it, whatever, but for fucks sake do not imply that a gay man is predatory or perverse for making a fucking joke - with his boyfriend who initiated it - that's the homophobic bit

[rockspider556]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot more since the 8b of 911 premiered, but its honestly so frustrating how queerbaiting has conditioned us to believe that if two queer characters have a quiet, subtle moment, it doesn’t mean anything. Meanwhile, if it was a straight couple having the exact same moment, we’d be calling it canon without hesitation. We’ve been gaslit into thinking that subtlety in queer relationships isn’t enough, that it has to be loud and in your face, or it’s just not real. And it’s honestly so exhausting, because it means queer love stories get stripped of the complexity and depth that we get to see in straight couples. We can apply this to so many couples, but for the sake of argument let’s use Buck and Eddie from 9-1-1 and early Jake and Amy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine—both have these subtle moments that could’ve been treated as romantic, but one gets to be labeled as canon while the other is constantly written off as queerbaiting.

From Season 2 of 9-1-1, Buck and Eddie have this bond that’s built on shared trauma, vulnerability, and understanding. They have these quiet, emotionally charged moments—like when Eddie confesses his fears to Buck, or when Buck rushes to Eddie’s side in moments of crisis—that scream romantic tension but are always kind of brushed aside as “just friendship.” If it was a straight couple, we would’ve had no problem calling it chemistry. But because it’s two men, it’s somehow dismissed. These moments are treated like nothing even though they’ve got all the depth and emotional weight of any romantic interaction we’d get with a straight couple.

Now, let’s look at Peraltiago in the earlier seasons. Their connection, especially in Season 1 and 2, had that same kind of slow burn. They shared subtle moments, too—like when Jake has Amy’s back, or when Amy sees Jake in a new light—but no one ever questioned whether those moments were romantic. They were just treated as chemistry, and we accepted it as part of the slow build to their eventual relationship. But Buddie gets no such luxury. Those same subtle moments, those shared glances, those intense, vulnerable moments between Buck and Eddie are left in limbo, constantly ignored or written off as “just queerbaiting.”

This is the heart of the issue. Queer couples have to fight for every moment to be validated, while straight couples get the benefit of the doubt. These subtle exchanges—where love can be felt through small touches, shared looks, and unspoken words—are treated as legitimate romantic tension when they happen between straight characters, but are seen as “nothing” or “too subtle” when they happen between queer ones.

And that’s what’s so draining about this whole system. The constant pressure for overtness makes queer relationships feel shallow, forced, or like they came out of nowhere when they’re finally allowed to be canon. And worse, if a show is canceled or a relationship isn’t explored enough, that same ambiguity leaves us in a space where we’re denied even the potential for recognition. Meanwhile, straight couples with the same kind of tension—those little moments—are just automatically treated as “canon,” even when the relationship never fully develops.

We deserve more than just “okay, fine, you can be gay if you must, but don’t make it too real.” Let us have those subtle moments, let queer love stories be allowed to grow in their own way without the constant demand for them to be louder or more explicit. Not every romantic relationship needs to be announced with fireworks. Sometimes, love is just there,quietly, in the moments that we don’t need to explain. It’s frustrating to see subtle, emotional connections between queer characters treated as nothing, while the same moments between straight couples are celebrated as tension or chemistry.

Just let us have our quiet love, too.

[wenellyb]

Do you guys ever think about Buck sometimes hiding the truth, talking in riddles, whether he's lying to himself or to someone else... he'll stay stuff he doesn't mean, like we're supposed to understand it on our own...

So we all know that Buck was playing the pronoun game in episode 5, when talking about his date and accidentally came out to Maddie, but did you guys notice that he was already playing the pronoun game in episode 4, when Maddie asked if he hurt Eddie on purpose and Buck explained that he felt left out when Tommy and Eddie started hanging out and he wanted to get his attention.

He never clarified who he was referring to and let Maddie and the audience believe he was talking about Eddie, but it's then revealed he was talking about Tommy at the end of the episode when he tells Tommy:

"My sister says there are better ways to get someone's attention"

and then when Tommy's surprised Buck explained that he did "maim his best friend" confirming that he was indeed talking about Tommy during his talk with Maddie, not Eddie.

[littlespoonevan]

i think the thing for me and the thing that's actually bothering me the most in general is that i don't think any show in 911's category that i've ever watched (that is: network tv shows that run on a weekly basis for most of the year with no definitive or planned ending until cancellation) has gotten better after killing off a main character

[buckleyreid]

To anyone who’s a little discouraged about Tommy not being in episode 7 or 8 , Tracie is also not present in many episodes and Henren still has a beautiful relationship so I wouldn’t be too sad about that, specially since this is a shortened season.

[peggingeddiediaz]

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