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everyday i debate whether or not to quit my job UGH

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Oliver and Ryan on set yesterday ✨

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getting queerbaited in the year 2025 is like losing chess to a toddler

Times Eddie has been outed:

Lou Ferrigno Jr saying it was supposed to be Eddie

Lesbian, lesbian, gay, bi, Eddie Family Feud episode

Bryan Safi confirming Josh was dressed as Eddie for Halloween

Dr Odyssey talking about mustaches being gay during gay week right after

Pop culture jeopardy

*scoff* okay

Deadline article being edited

Water used as a metaphor for Eddie denying himself joy, joy being established to include Buck, episode named don't drink the water being announced

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“bobby died because we wanted to honour the firefighters who lose their lives” ah yes the hundreds of local heroes we lose each year to super-ebola 😔

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“I love you kid”

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theyre going to be sitting in eddies bucks kitchen. and eddies going to say well you really set up shop in here huh :) and bucks going to say haha i barely did anything really. all quiet and smiley like he's got a little secret. and eddie says well it was kind of yours before it was...yours, anyway. hm. buck says yes yeah they laugh about it then buck says ok? you sure you dont want something to drink? ive got this fancy juice from the fresh market, it's got a bunch of berries and sugarcane in it. sugarcane has a bunch of antioxidants in it or something. idk. i watched them make it on the juicer and it looked badass. eddies got his pinky cheek in his hand like mmhm :) buck says or just some water? eddie goes noooo :) i'll get some juice please :) and buck's going to pour it like wine at a restaurant and say your drink, sir. and eddies going to drink his juice

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👀👀👀👀

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Hulu get out of here 😂

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i think we have to come back to this

imagine if buck spoke like a normal person so instead he told tommy "i don't have to want to sleep with everyone i care about, and i don't have to care about everyone i sleep with"

(because genuinely the "everyone i have feelings for" absolutely murdered any plausible deniability he could've had, not that i'm complaining. but this phrasing would've been even more mean and i do love that)

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Using baking as a distraction 🙅

Getting distracted from baking 🕺

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I’m just going to vent about the Eddie and Chris storyline real quick:

So the show’s kind of treating it as if Eddie was a neglectful parent and his parents had to take his son away until he could prove he could be a father. But to make that happen they’re writing Chris as if he’s an oblivious seven year old who just wanted to be with his dad all along and didn’t understand why he was gone??

The whole reason they're in Texas is because Chris took off and iced Eddie out for months, and we still don’t know why he stayed away! Or why he let his dad completely uproot his life to follow him when he apparently wasn't having that great a time anyway. Eddie told him he was giving up his job and their home to buy a house and move to Texas, and Chris presumably said, “Yeah, cool, see you when you get here.”

Chris is old enough to know that’s a huge deal!

So does he genuinely like living in Texas? Does he want to be close to his grandparents, and his dad being there now is the cherry on top of his ideal life? Is he avoiding their house in LA because of Kim? Did he just not know how to admit that he wanted to come home and now it’s all snowballed so much that he doesn’t know how to bring it up? 

Like where is he at right now? Why don’t we know what’s going on in his head? Why is the fact that he hates chess the only thing he’s said for himself?

The way they’ve written this storyline, I don’t think a single line of dialogue would have to change if he were still seven because he barely got a say in anything. It was all handled between the adults and he was just along for the ride.

I know it was a different showrunner, and Maddie and Chimney were gone so they had more time to fill, but we got to see so much of what Harry went through after he was kidnapped in 5a. We got to see the messy emotions and the confusion and internal conflicts about who to be mad at and who to blame. And we got to see it through Harry's eyes and in his own words, not Athena’s. 

Gavin's availability is different, yeah, but I feel like we could've gotten a scene or two of him alone or with his grandparents where we see what he’s actually feeling about everything. If there’s friction, then show the friction. Show him backing down because he doesn’t want to upset them, or show him wanting to call his dad to leave but he can’t quite do it. Show whatever his grandparents said to him to make him believe his dad—who’s always loved him and made sure Chris knew that—suddenly doesn’t want to be his dad anymore?? In just a few months??

Like…I know Chris is fourteen, and the responsibility for all of this lands on Eddie as the adult and the parent. But he’s been reading cues from Chris that he doesn’t want his dad there. And Chris didn’t decide to come home, Eddie had to uproot his entire life to go get him. So why won’t they show us what’s going on in Chris’ head? Is he going to learn anything through this experience, or does this whole saga only exist for Eddie to relearn everything he already knew before Kim showed up?

And for fuck’s sake, even if Tim absolutely cannot bring himself to acknowledge the existence of Kim, at least acknowledge Shannon!

Since they started s7 with Chris talking about how much it hurt that she left them, I was hoping they’d bring that back and he’d say something like he didn’t know how to admit he wanted to come home—just like his mom. Really lean into that very obvious parallel that’s just sitting there. Have Eddie explain more of what happened back then so Chris can understand that she didn’t leave because she didn’t love him, because he still loves his dad even though he needed space, but because she had her own messy emotional shit going on just like he does. And maybe Eddie could realize that too through talking to Chris about it.

Maybe they could have a conversation about how neither of them handled the situation very well, and they need to always be talking to each other because they’re a team and they always have been. Talking openly has always been one of their strengths. Because this wasn’t just Eddie’s actions driving this storyline, Chris was half of it. Chris is a main character and should be getting some development out of this too, but right now he’s more like a trophy Eddie wins back through completing tasks than a full character with thoughts and feelings of his own.

Anyway, I’m annoyed that this has dragged on for a year and has only managed to superficially fix problems that didn’t exist before this long-ass storyline started.

Yeah, I know they could address any of this before the season's over, but it's been a fucking year. Look alive, Tim!

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rick hatchett having sex with a woman who conceptualizes herself as his mother and killing his father, welcome back oedipus!

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THE TATS THE ARMS THE MUG IM GONNA BE ILL

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🚘 connecting you to a driver... 🚘

MacksDramaticShenanigans

The flight from Los Angeles, California to El Paso, Texas is one hour and fifty-five minutes long. Buck spends one hour and fifteen minutes after he lands in the El Paso International Airport pick-up zone, waiting for his ride. He also racks up one hell of a debt in Uber cancellation fees. The two are very much connected.

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for @firetruckfolks - ty for always encouraging my silly little ideas!!! 🫶

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No, because here's the thing. People don't die on this show. Sure Abby's mom died but that was always gonna happen. Shannon might be the only character that wasn't dying when introduced and actually died. They had an actor giving them trouble who played a character who had literal brain cancer and they didn't kill him off. They just don't kill characters. Maddie just had her throat slashed and survived. And I'm supposed to believe that they just let the death of someone who shares the main character spot with Angela Bassett leak like it's nothing? They were signing autographs and taking pictures. Someone was livestreaming the filming for hours. They weren't even trying to hide what was happening. And I'm supposed to believe that death is actually real???