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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

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In my mind I can see the northern lights in the sky every night bc I have a vivid imagination I’m not jealous of anyone it’s impossible for me to be jealous really I’ve seen it all

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hey followers. have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be inside a bag of cornflakes

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𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 | 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 (𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫)

for @chronicowboy - happy birthday to my wife of ten years, 3 dogs, and 4 cats (who also found this song and planned out like half this edit but is too lazy to learn to edit herself so I had to realize the vision for her. Sad!) love you soooooooo much sami have the best day

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oh. bobby doesn’t just see a son in buck. he sees himself. loyal to a fault who just wanted to be seen by people who were never even looking. just wanted to be good for something. for someone. to be wanted. okay.

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idk. i'm annoyed.

i realise i am a fandom old at this point

and i have seen some shit in this fandom; witnessed the discourse.

and i don't post meta or spec or much of that stuff; i usually put all my ideas into fics.

but guys seriously. seriously.

eddie's current arc is not about buck.

buck and eddie are not currently dating.

buck is eddie's best friend and vice versa.

eddie is not cheating on buck.

eddie is lying to buck by omission, yes, but that is not a friendship ending offence.

eddie is on the very cusp of cheating right now. he went on a date with another woman, yes. he has not kissed her or slept with her. we are at a tipping point. we do not know what is going to happen next.

he only went on a date with another woman because she reminded him of shannon, who he is not over, who he has spent seasons trying to replace.

the point of this show is that none of the characters are perfect - and especially not buck and eddie. they all make mistakes. they have all made mistakes and will continue to do so because in real life, people don't always make the right decisions 100% of the time.

this black-and-white, morally righteous way of thinking, like eddie is suddenly evil now because he's on the cusp of cheating; that it's going to end his friendship, that buck is going to be angry at him for lying - do you have friends in real life? like, i am genuinely asking.

because if my best friend suddenly started cheating on her husband, i wouldn't be mad at her - i would be worried. am i alone in this? like i would be genuinely concerned and trying to help figure out what's going on.

all the shit i'm seeing in the fandom today, all of the spec posts and commentary about the episode and what might potentially happen, just feels like, once again, an attempt to paint eddie as the villain in the story to prop up buck. let's make eddie so terrible that buck has to have custody of christopher, right?

clearly none of you understand how a will works. it's for after you're dead. not for when you're alive.

but the main issue is this - now that buck has tommy, the people who tolerated eddie can stop pretending to like him. there's another option for buck now, so you guys don't need eddie anymore. right? am i fucking right??

i love drama as much as the next person, but in what world would buck turn on eddie because of this? in what world would the 118 shun him? he is their friend! they love him! they care about him! they are a family!

my god, nobody shunned hen when she cheated on karen. nobody shuns bobby and he indirectly killed 140 people!

eddie is a good person who makes mistakes, just like every single other character on the show.

that is the fucking point.

and the way ryan was talking in the interviews - isolation could mean any number of things. we know eddie has a tendency to isolate himself when he's feeling stressed out - does anyone remember season 3? season 5? buck literally broke down his door!

i'm just fucking tired of this bullshit.

eddie's not a bad guy because of this. he has done shitty things, yes. they all have. that's the fucking point of the show, and if you can't understand that or appreciate adult story-telling, then fuck off and watch riverdale.

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Buddie Moodboard - Enchanted AU

Another AU that lives in my head rent-free and has no intention to ever pay taxes. Anyway. I just dig exasperated Eddie and overly enthusiastic Buck, crucify me! Also, they make for perfect Disney princes, both of them! That's a science fact!

Eddie Diaz honestly just tries to make the new life in L.A. work ever since he moved away from El Paso. He wants a fresh start for his son and for himself, but managing as a single dad, working as a firefighter in a new city, it is quite the challenge. Though Christopher is worth it, that's out of question. Eddie just hopes that he can live up to what his son deserves.

Being a firefighter, he got used to the unexpected happening on every call. He has seen some things he'd rather unsee, honestly. Yet, nothing prepared him for the strangest encounter of his life thus far: In the middle of the streets, a guy dressed in what looks like a cosplay costume, is freaking out over the cars nearly running him over. Eddie gets the man out of immediate danger.

The stranger introduces himself as Buck, as he hates to be called Evan, and wants to know desperately what strange country he must be in, if it has horse carriages entirely without horses!

So yeah, hospital it is.

Yet, all scans come back clear. Buck is perfectly healthy. He is just convinced that he comes from a parallel universe that sounds more like a Disney movie than anything else. The fact that Christopher loves Disney is not at all helping the matter, as Eddie's son instantly dotes on Buck and wants to take him home.

Eventually, Eddie agrees to host Buck until his head cleared, and he can figure out where he is actually from. Eddie hopes that he can track down his sister Maddie, whom Buck is very worried about.

"I left her at our cottage in the woods to talk to the new lord of the province, but I promised to return by dawn. It was a pinky promise, which mean a lot where I come from, you must know."

Buck apparently hoped to find both his sister's and his own "happily ever after" by leaving the cottage in favor of taking up service to the new lord. His dream is to serve the people, to protect lives. And as a loyal member of the lord's guard, he'd hoped to find his happily ever after, alongside his sister.

But the lord acted strangely towards him, seemingly not at all interested in Buck's request but far more in his past and upbringing. Buck wanted to leave, dissatisfied with the new lord, but then he was pushed down a well in the gardens of the palace and found himself in the middle of the square where Eddie saved him from the cars "most gallantly".

While Eddie knows that magic doesn't exist, he has no doubt that Buck is telling the truth. Maybe he is messed-up in his head after all, but Buck is not a bad person. Eddie has to realize that quickly as Buck takes upon running the household the very next day, charming even the toughest cookies into a smile, and starting musical numbers at random.

And honestly? Eddie has to admit that it's nice, to finally have someone to rely on. To have someone who is there, no questions asked. Someone who is so very committed, even to a stranger and his son.

In the grand country of Andalasia, meanwhile, Maddie is worried sick about her brother. He didn't return for days. Thus, she sets out to the palace on her own to see about him. She overhears a conversation between the new lord of the province and his men.

Apparently, they got rid of the former lord to seize power over Andalasia. Upon her brother's request to join the royal guard, the new lord looked into the matter. As it turns out, the two are next in line to the throne. To secure his claim to the castle and the portal inside it, the lord sought to kill the two.

"But the bastard somehow found a way to use the portal, not knowing that this is what it is!"

The lord of the province seeks to expand his powers to another dominion Maddie never heard of. He exploits the riches of the castle and the magic of Andalasia to bring it to this other world to gain more and more influence in a world otherwise devoid of all magic.

"That’s the trouble with the fairy tale world. Here, we can’t win – because the bad never wins. But we can gather spoils and take them to the world where we most certainly can win."

Determined to get her brother back and uncover the lord's evil machinations, Maddie dives through the portal in the well, too. After all, they promised to keep each other safe.

At another place in Los Angeles, Eddie is just as determined to help Buck reunite with his sister. Though he still has no clue where to look. Buck can tell him all about her looks and how lovely her singing voice is, but without a last name or a working address, they are not getting anywhere. Though Christopher seems oddly enthusiastic about the unexpected roommate currently staying at their house.

While Buck is worried sick about his sister, he must admit that this strange place has many charms to it. Above all, Eddie and Christopher are pure delight, a kind of warmth he's only ever felt with his sister. A feeling of belonging. A feeling of being needed.

But ever since Eddie took him to the fire station one day, Buck has been enchanted by this purpose, too: Being a firefighter. Oh, how wonderful it would be, if only they had something of the sort in Andalasia. But there, most fires are blown out by the most favorable winds.

Maddie, meanwhile, ends up running into a man who calls himself Chimney or Chim. A most charming character, she finds. Desperate to find her brother, she dares to trust this stranger offering her a helping hand. Though sadly, he doesn't seem to know Evan, or anyone who comes from Andalasia. What a pity!

Unknown to all of them, the lord of the province has returned to Los Angeles, determined to find both heirs to the throne and... get rid of them like he did with the lord before them. Sometimes, all it takes is a bite from an apple, after all.

Unaware of the evil machinations, Buck and Eddie wrestle with their growing feelings for one another. Both thought they had a very clear idea of what they wanted in life, what was supposed to be their happily after. But now that they met, it seems to have shifted.

A ball hosted for all firefighters of L.A. may first feel like a distraction from those dilemmas, but with the night drawing near, Eddie and Buck have to realize that the ball may actually be more of a magnifying glass.

Elsewhere, Maddie is reluctant to accompany Chimney to the ball, but she agrees to meet his friends. Maybe they can help her find her brother.

"After all, we save lives for a living."

And so, a ball, as it so often is in the fairy tales, may prove to be the turning point in a story that may or may not get a happy ending...

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wait oh my god someone saying this is eddie's lawsuit era and the fact that during the lawsuit eddie was so hurt by what buck did even when it really had nothing to do with him so getting the reverse of that with this storyline which would also mean a reverse parallel with buck being the one to say "do you even know what this is doing to christopher" and "did you ever stop to think what that could do to us" but also. "I forgive you." the isolation ending with another hug because forgiveness was always guaranteed the first place.

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you're laughing. beloved network tv show 911's resident single dad with repressed homosexuality is dating three people at once and you're laughing.

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Eddie: cheating on his girlfriend with his dead wife’s doppelgänger and lying to Buck about it

Bobby: meeting a man who also lost his wife in the fire he caused

HenRen: fighting for their traumatized daughter to get visitation with her brother

Maddie: retraumatizing herself by chasing leads on a woman that was abducted

Buck: in his lane, flourishing, moisturized, getting dicked down, making lasagna

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how do you think will chris react when his buck actually turns into his second dad

i think it's very possible that he won't react well. idk how far they'd take it in canon but yeah. chris is growing up so fast. this would be just another terrifying change. and extra terrifying with all of christopher's abandonment issues. and it's buck. buck who's been a fixture of his life longer than shannon was now. buck who has been there throug thick and thin. buck who has been his safe place to land always. it's buck. it's his best friend but also kind of more than a best friend. it's buck. and this somehow changes nothing and everything all at once. i think he'd be absolutely petrified. and i think it could very likely manifest as anger. and i think it's a very likely conflict to give buddie once they're together. and i think it'd be super interesting to see how they handle it because obviously both buck and eddie would be immediately ready to bow out for christopher's sake, they'd do anything for him, but they just finally got this so there would be hesitance. i think buck would probably try to break up with eddie through his own heartbreak and i think maybe eddie would be like. we're not breaking up without talking to christopher. and maybe christopher refuses to speak to them. and they have a terrifying few days where they're hesitant to get any closer in case they just. can't do this. but also they need each other so badly right now because this is horrible. not knowing how to help your kid is horrible. and then maybe chris comes to buck on his own terms, brings up the two conversations they've had about eddie's relationships. and buck gets to remind chris that he loves him more than he loves eddie, that what they have will always exist outside of eddie as well as with him, gets to promise that he'll be there as long as he's alive to make that choice.

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Clearly Ryan, Oliver, and Jennifer all sat down and had a conversation like this over the years.

And clearly the end result of that conversation was this

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no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

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can i say something controversial that shouldn’t be controversial at all?

some of you really need to check your ableism regarding how you write chris.

you either write him like he’s 7 (he’s like. 13. maybe even close to 14 if you’re writing him like 6-12 ish months in the future from where we are in canon rn) or you write him like an adult and his disability is like rarely if ever mentioned at all whatsoever or taken into account when you write dialogue for him.

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I’m sorry, but if you think Eddie Diaz’s—a single dad, a Catholic, Hispanic war vet from Texas, who has an already complicated relationship with unsupportive parents—coming out story only matters in the context of Buddie, you don’t really care about Eddie.

That story has potential to be incredibly complex and moving on its OWN. And it deserves to be told on its OWN, agnostic of a ship.