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and I thought, this is it, this is the last moment of my life

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Can we talk about how Buck is from Eddie’s perspective? He’s not silly or dumb or a himbo or any of the other things I actually love about Buck but make him a less serious character.

In each FaceTime Buck is competent, smart and reassuring. He’s making dinner at the station which means multitasking and good cooking skills. He’s available when Eddie calls which is reliable. He listens and offers good advice. He’s selfless and doesn’t take the opportunity to encourage Eddie home when we know he feels like he’s missing a limb without him. I’m not sure, but I think Buck even stutters less? He’s calm and confident, more sure of his advice and obviously doubts himself less.

Buck from Eddie’s perspective is everything Buck wants to be for the people he loves. Yes, Buck and Eddie also get to be silly together and we see that in Buck’s view, but how beautiful is it that he’s also this mature and stable partner?

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AO3: post lawsuit, Buck is still on the outs with the team and-

Me:

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is fandom seriously back on this???

Can’t believe this is something I’m actually saying but fantasizing about a character’s best friend abusing him in favor of your ship is not a good look.

Please step away from the internet and go to therapy to unpack that.

Also like… his sister is canonically a DV survivor and he was instrumental in helping her get out… so let’s not. 🙃

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personally I think Mr. "I rush into relationships too fast" and Mr. "How would you like our second date to be my SISTERS wedding" are perfect for each other

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Ok because I’m STILL thinking abt that one person saying Eddie is verbally abusive, I wanna talk abt why those of us who are Hispanic/latinx are reading that as a racist statement.

In this scene, Eddie gets upset with Buck, and yells at him. He’s been shown several times during the episode missing Buck and struggling to process the feeling of “this person is my partner in every way that matters and now they’re suddenly not around”, which is compounded by him still not having processed his grief over Shannon’s death and his grief over her abandoning him again (by asking for a divorce).

While his expression of those emotions did hit directly on some of Bucks insecurities, they were not abusive in nature. He didn’t say “you’re selfish” he said “you aren’t looking at both sides of this and I miss you”. Expressed angrily, yes, but valid sentiments he needed to express in order to set a boundary between him and Buck re: their communication or lack thereof.

This is the only instance in which he gets angry at Buck. He does not threaten him, or belittle him, his statements are all centered around how he feels about what buck did. To call this verbal abuse would be a gross over exaggeration.

Then we have this scene (lightened so you can actually see wtf is going on):

After buck looks in bobby’s book, bobby slams him against a wall and says “don’t ever do that again”. This was a clear threat, this was physically violent, and a response to Buck breaking a boundary that bobby had. And yet I have not seen ONE person call bobby abusive or claim he has anger issues.

Why might that be? Perhaps because you are predisposed to seeing all white men as benevolent and all moc as violent, especially in regards to white people.

To be clear: neither of these men are abusive. But to say Eddie is, when you’ve never thought of bobby that way? That’s racism.

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I don’t usually participate in 9-1-1 fandom discourse, like ever, but there’s a first time for everything. Read below the cut if you dare and care.

TLDR: The “Eddie alone gets the shovel talk” trope is tired and cringey. Let’s please be realistic and original

Good god. The amount of Shovel Talk fics and discourse in which somehow everyone is warning/threatening Eddie, even Christopher himself in a recent summary I saw on ao3?

First: There are only two characters that would be realistic and appropriate for this, and that’s Maddie for Buck and Chris for Eddie. Although there would be some seriousness (Maddie understandably doesn’t want her younger brother to get hurt, no matter who it is, and Chris sees how much his dad has been through, with Shannon and in general), I think both of these characters know Buck and Eddie well enough to not have any real concerns. If it were in canon, I see it having an undercurrent of playfulness.

Second: Bobby cares for both Buck and Eddie like surrogate sons, so I think they both would get a Serious Talk (more reminders than warnings), which Athena may or may not be present for. For anyone who cries “But Buck is Bobby’s only son”, I urge you to remember the heart-to-hearts Bobby and Eddie have had, and not just about them both losing a spouse. If it needs to happen at all (they are grown men, after all), there’s no way Bobby’s not going to look out for Eddie too and make sure Buck is seriously committed to this man and his child.

Third: As for for Hen, Chim and Ravi etc., I really can’t see any of them doing it! Buck and Eddie are adults fairly close in age to all of them, and as much as they’re like family, it just seems like overkill that any of them would worry enough to dispense threats. I think they’d only come into play if there was an actual incident in which they have to take sides. Purely circumstantial, not just because Buck is Buck and Eddie is Eddie.

In closing, I have to point out that there are just as many reasons for all of these characters to be stern with Buck and protective of Eddie. Eddie is a single father to a child with special needs, a widower who’s spouse died right in front of him of very unnatural causes after telling him she wanted a divorce (sorry for the run on, I just had to get it all in there), and a veteran with serious PTSD not just related to being in the army. Let’s face it, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Buck could hurt him just as easily. If I were Eddie’s family member or close friend who didn’t know Buck and learned that the guy used to sleep his way across both American continents, steal fire trucks to hook up with people he met on the job, AND cheated in at least one past relationship, my eyebrows would be raised and I’d want to see hard proof of maturity and stability. This is not to say that Eddie has not made his mistakes, he has, but they are not reason enough for him to be the only one of the two that would theoretically need a talking-to by EVERYONE. I say theoretically, because in actual reality, I don’t think Shovel Talk so much as Serious Reminders is necessary nor would I want to see it on my screen, unless, like mentioned earlier, it’s light-hearted and only from Maddie and Chris, for EACH of them.

I’m done. Idk how many people will read this, but thanks for letting me share. Gonna go play with my adorable nephews now

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No, no, no. You guys are reading it wrong! It says, “Adult swim? No, kids allowed!”

2 year gif-iversary → 🎁 for @lizzie-mcguires

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Random guy: omg, you are fucking Kendall Knight!

James: yes, I am

Kendall: uh, I think he was talking to me

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Kendall: love is dead

Logan: you’re literally making a valentine’s day card for James right now

Kendall, pointing a glue gun at him: you’re on thin fucking ice

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a list of canon things from the btr showverse that I love to remember:

kendall sings to katie when she cant sleep

logan tutored carlos in algebra when he was struggling in it

carlos's dream before coming to la was to be a space rock themed superhero 💀

kendall talked his mom out of naming katie apple

the guys were in show choir together

kendall was team captain of their hockey team

carlos was a goalkeeper

logan can beatbox

logan's first name is hortense

the guys came up with/wrote the song btr in the pilot

kendall and carlos got ejected from a game for unsportsmanlike mooning

kendall's middle name is donald

the boys used to catch animals all the time in minnesota

carlos likes origami and cooking

kendall and katie have a handshake with each other

kendall goes to the ice rink to clear his head

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Kendall: We had fun didn't we?

Gustavo: I have never been more stressed out in my entire life.