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could you explain to me why you think bucktommy forever would be narratively satisfying but there's no possibility of them introducing a love interest for eddie that would be satisfying? i don't understand

I DON'T think bucktommy would be narratively satisfying.

I DO think there is more potential in the current narrative structure for them to make bucktommy endgame work in a reasonably narratively satisfying way (IF Eddie's story wasn't a factor, which it is).

I also don't necessarily think it would be impossible for them to bring in someone for Eddie if I'm imagining they have all the time in the world to make that work. But the reality of the current narrative is that I don't think they have all the time in the world. And as talented as these writers are, I don't see any way they could introduce someone entirely new, with no connection to the current narrative, and make me buy that person as Eddie's endgame. There just isn't time. A couple of years ago, I would have said that I thought Eddie could have an interesting and satisfying ending to his story if he learned that he didn't need romantic fulfillment to be happy. Since then, however, they've really doubled down on Eddie's loneliness and desire for a romantic partner AND they went for the queer Buck storyline. When you add to that all of Eddie's history with Buck and the way he's welcomed Buck into his life and embraced him as a partner both in his own life and in Christopher's, I don't see any way for them to disentangle that story and introduce someone else (unless it was Tommy, maybe, but nobody's going to want to hear that).

It would just take SO much work and time that I'm not sure they have because it would take several seasons, I think, for it to really reach any level of satisfying.

The difference with bucktommy is simply that it would take very slightly less work (though still a TON of work) for a few reasons.

First, Buck is just Buck. With Eddie, there's also the Christopher of it all to contend with, which adds a complicating layer that extends the work that needs to be done in Eddie's story in a way that doesn't exist for Buck's story (as important as Christopher is for Buck, it's very different from what would need to happen for Eddie who is literally Christopher's parent). So Buck's story has fewer complications to contend with, especially since they've already gotten it off the ground with Buck's queer awakening and introducing his relationship with Tommy already at this point in canon. So there would literally just be less time involved.

Beyond that, Tommy is already an established character in universe. They don't need to do quite as much work to help us get to know him, because we already do, even if only peripherally. But he is established as significant to the stories of other characters beyond Buck. He had a role to play in Chimney's, Hen's, and Bobby's (and hell, even Eddie's!) stories long before he ever became significant to Buck's. So, developing his place among the team and their extended family is not nearly as complicated as it would be with someone entirely new—and even someone from Eddie's past wouldn't have the history with the team, so still, more complications there.

So, yes, I think bucktommy has more potential in the current narrative structure (if—and ONLY if—completely divorced from Eddie's storyline, which it can never be).

But not only do I not actually think either could be a satisfying ending for either Buck or Eddie in the current narrative, there actually isn't anything to suggest that the show is doing the work it needs to to make that potential a reality, either. Because they are not separating out Eddie and Buck (frankly, they're entwining them further). And they aren't even doing any work to flesh out Tommy’s character. I know fandom has grown really attached to him, but the reality is that the character is currently just being used as a pawn to move Buck's story forward. Tommy has a past with the 118 that creates a lot of potential, but that potential is not being used. The character is, frankly, pretty flat at the current moment. They haven't even tried to bring him back into the 118 fold—the only people he's really interacted with since his reintroduction are Eddie and Buck, when there has been plenty of opportunity to fold him back into the team in ways that would at least have him vaguely interacting with the others (like, I don't know, Chimney actually inviting him to the wedding or Hen even acknowledging him at the bachelor party). Their relationship is cute and sweet, but there's nothing that indicates it's any deeper than any of the other relationships Buck has had thus far, and they are actively juxtaposing the bucktommy relationship with the buddie relationship in a way that makes very clear just how surface level that relationship really is when compared to the depth of Buck and Eddie's relationship with one another.

So, no, I don't think bucktommy are going to be endgame, nor do I have any interest in them being endgame. But I recognize that there is currently—literally, in the canon narrative—more potential for bucktommy to work if the show really wanted to make it happen and put in the work, mostly because of Tommy’s history with the rest of the 118.

On Eddie's end, there is no current canon potential. There's no current love interest they could turn around (especially because Edy is a shit human being and people would riot if they actually made Marisol Eddie's endgame). There's no past love interest they could bring back that wouldn't somehow have to be worked into the rest of the team. There's the additional complication of the Christopher of it all and how much that changes where Eddie's story can go and how quickly it can be developed.

It's quite literally just the difference in time. If Buck's relationship with Eddie wasn't a factor, I think they could do it in two seasons for bucktommy. For Eddie and this currently non-existent love interest, I think it'd take a good three or more, and even then, I think it would have to be someone they introduce as a part of the team (Lucy? Ravi? Tommy?) because anyone separate wouldn't have any room to develop sufficiently.

But the reality is that, frankly, the ONLY narratively satisfying ending for Eddie and Buck is one another. Any other option would require dismantling so much beautiful storytelling that I cannot see how it would ever be worth it.

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*resists urge to make joke about swallowing*

Oh ok another sexual innuendo 👀

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Kinda going crazy that Tommy made a reference to The Wedding Singer and asked if that’s who they were dressed up as because the movie is about the two main characters being engaged but to the wrong people..this episode is gonna be GOOD

No no you’re absolutely right!!! They’re both engaged to other people and they befriend each other and get closer. And as they get closer their feelings deepen for each other. Is that not what is kinda happening with Buck and Eddie? I mean they already know each other BUT they are both in relationships with other people who are clearly the wrong people. Oh I’m screaming. I need at least Tommy to clock their matching husband like behavior and say something.

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...so does Eddie just progressively lose more and more of his shirt as the night goes on?

I need ANSWERS ABC

New-ish Promo for 7x06. New Buddie scenes.

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I can’t believe here in the year of our lord 2024 we are getting articles like this.

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Howling at the fact that if Buck and Eddie do ever get married the first time the Buckley parents met Eddie he was probably really passive aggressive about how great Buck is while they waited for Buck at the station and the second time they met him he looks like this.

Way to make a good first and second impression on the future in-laws Diaz.

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OH LOVABLE HUNGOVER IDIOTS 🥰

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Honestly before this season this was how I felt. But now?? It's going to happen. I'm more sure of it than ever.

Like honestly as a Buddie shipper, what the fuck are we supposed to focus on??? What does all of this mean if not Buddie canon???

We get closer than ever this season. There’s a lot of changes in the relationship and how we interact. We’re trying to give the audience what they want.

Well, there’s something brand new for both of us. I can only say that much.

Outside of Christopher, Buck would be the second closest thing that he can have as a relationship.

And then go to Buck and say, 'I trust you with my child, and I see how much you put in for my son; this goes beyond friendship, and I love you to the core. To have that sense of vulnerability is a sense of strength that has been shown.

And the way Eddie navigates that is just kind of a no, that's just who he is. And nothing ruffles my feathers. Even if you break my ankle or maim me, it's fine. That's who he is, and I love him either way. And there's no competition for Eddie.

I don't think that the Buddie fans are wrong.

There is a chemistry there that exists just naturally, so we don't have to try and lean into that or lean away from that. We just let it flow.

Oh, 100%. 100%. I watch certain edits and I think 'Am I Team Buddie?' because there are really talented editors out there. And you know how it is.

Obviously Eddie and Ryan who plays him is obviously an attractive man.

I think with this season 7, we got a lot in store for the audience. You give them what they’ve known and a lot of what they don’t.

There’s a scene in the first episode, where Eddie reveals that he's going — or he mentions a first date, and it in fact ends up being Christopher's first date. And Buck has this moment of "Oh. I thought things were going great with Marisol...' So little moments where I felt like, 'Is there scope to play with Buck?'

They've both become quite embedded in each other's lives. "I think they've kind of bonded and connected on so many levels, whether it be work, their personal lives and then add in that kind of fun dynamic where they clearly do just get on well. I think it's just a nice recipe for a good relationship, however you choose to see it.

There's some really beautiful stuff between him and Eddie and kind of them being open and sharing things with each other that they may have been reluctant to share with—I know how that's going to be taken. But it's true. [They're] there for each other in a very kind of open and nonjudgmental way.

They get to show up for each other in different ways. Moving forward there’s almost like potential for things to come up in a not so great light. But we get to see their friendship persevering, and them being there in ways they didn’t necessarily expect for each other. And I just, it’s a really lovely journey for them this season.

Eddie doesn't really have a sense of direction, so he reaches out for the closest person, and that closest person is Buck.

And Eddie was a mess. I think at that moment, the friendship had a turning point and now has allowed Buck and Eddie to really share as much or whatever they'd want, the scariest things in the world they could share with each other. And we're going to be seeing more of that this season.

As far as [Eddie's] sexuality, I think it's pretty clear that he's tried to fill in this motherly, this wife type role—that's all he knows…"And he's a man [that] first off, he's Catholic. Second off, he's from the military. So those are very straight-edge kind of lifestyles that don't offer too much of exploring. But through the 118, he's had this epiphany each year, like, 'Well, maybe I don't know as much as I thought I did. And maybe I should be exploring a little bit more and maybe I should understand myself a little bit more and even seek a therapist, which is something new for Eddie.

He is actually starting to figure out who he is outside of 'I am an Army man who has a silver badge! ... He's way more than that. He's starting to live in that [feeling] a little bit more, and I think that's freeing to him.

At this point we can’t be reading between the lines or coming to random conclusions when every thing said is so blatantly obvious.

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I keep reminding myself that Ryan said they'd get closer than ever this season. And how that hasn't happened yet 👀👀👀👀

DO THEY WANNA TELL US WHAT THEY KNOW?!? 👀

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DPxDC Prompt where Danny is caught stealing some food in Gotham and when asked where his legal guardian is, he panics and points to the nearest stranger, hoping against hope that they might lie for him long enough to keep him out of the foster system (and the inevitable escape he'd have to stage from it).

He honestly doesn't expect it to work. It's a stupid plan that has him cringing, blushing red as he expects the stranger to call his bluff and walk away--

But Danny is shocked when the stranger immediately rolls with the plan, no questions asked. They are… Surprisingly convincing. Enough so that for a second Danny wonders if he really is their kid now.

Well, that might wind up being true, in any case, seeing as the stranger refuses to leave him alone after the incident.

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Short DPXDC Prompts #974

The Green Lantern Corps. All know of the Notes. Only before moments of great moments and tragedy do the notes appear to warn the lanterns of the oncoming doom. Hal Jordan’s blood turns to ice in his veins when he sees a glowing green note on a wall that definitely hadn’t been there before. With shaky hands he picks up the note and reads it.

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That Frenchie looks like they want to throw down lol

Oliver and Bear, 4.19.24

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The only man who can look good in a fanny pack. lol

PROUD DOG DAD 🥰🥰

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YES PLEASE

I really hope that if we get an Eddie pov episode, we get some confirmation just how soft he is for Buck. Almost an internal longing of some sort that he somewhat subconsciously knows about. Him looking at Buck as he always does and clearly having the whole “why don’t you see me?” debate going on in his head. I think it’ll be lovely to see how Eddie really does think of Buck and how he really views who he is to him. I hope we get to see it too 🥹

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*SWOONS*

I AM SCREAMING!!!!

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Fair enough! Your breakdowns of key scenes are more than enough without the massive compilation (and you've been right on so much this season!!)

Question: are you still doing the "talking buddie language" metas? Was reminded of the ones you did last season, and they were so amazing.

Hello! Oh thank you for taking the time to read them. I really thought about whether or not to do them. I really didn’t know if anyone was going to actually read them bc it would take a lot of time and energy to do them and I felt like no one would actually read them. So it didn’t feel like it was something I should’ve spent energy on! But it’s so sweet that you have read them and I appreciate you so much for it. I also think we’re halfway done so there’s no purpose in doing them now lol. But I’m always breaking down certain scenes so if you want a take on something I’m more than happy to do it for you! 🥰

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*resists urge to delete all my fanfics*

Ryan on Eddie and Buck (x)