#and by anyone i mean buck

[weewoo911]

You ever think about the fact that Eddie, Hen & Bobby have all canonically been shot? That’s crazy

[mazzystar24]

“We need more complex characters” y’all can’t even handle him 😔💔

[bosons]

people bitching about buck complaining to tommy about gerrard and no one else mentioned for that part

that's his boyfriend. why would he not complain to his partner?

tommy has a lot of experience with gerrard and understands what buck is going through.

buck has never had this before. he's never had someone to come home to before that he can really talk to about what has happened and is happening to him.

hen, karen, chim, maddie and eddie all have their own stuff to deal with atm.

why can you not be happy for buck that he finally has someone?

[peoplemakemesick]

I LOVE the bucktommy scene, it's so intimate...

Tommy notices how Buck seems down and asks about it. Buck opens up about trauma and Tommy reciprocates (which btw is a great set up for Gerrard being back as captain... Like the potential for Tommy season 8 stuff???)

And then when Buck decides to turn the conversation into flirting, Tommy matches his energy again.

That man's ability to read Buck is impeccable.

[lopa124]

Don't you love when a fictional (almost always) non canon couple is a blond dude (bonus point if he's taller) + a dark haired person (bonus point if they don't have a leg/harm and have scars in their face) and their adopted daughter (bonus point if she has powers)

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Obviously I’ve been queerbaited before, like, a genuinely incalculable number of times, and maybe thinking Buddie might actually go canon is a ‘fool me sixteen times, shame on me’ scenario, but I think one big thing that’s keeping my hope alive is this thought: If you genuinely believe that Buddie isn’t going to go canon, 100% zero possibility and absolutely no intention of trying... Then you also have to believe the people who create the show we’re all fans of are purposefully cruel dicks. 

Because we have SEEN what it looks like when the showrunner of 911 knows there is no possibility of it happening, has no plans of it, and is generally trying to avoid accusations of queerbaiting.

It looks like S5 & S6. Little bits here and there, the odd important scene to throw breadcrumbs… but a lot of keeping the two characters apart, being circumspect in interviews, PR shut downs on the actors, etc. The show has proven they are capable and willing to exactly that!

So indulge me, and imagine for a second. They had the conversation with the new network, and the execs told them they wanted to continue with the status quo, to write as if Buddie is never going to go canon, BUT were willing to bend so far as to make one of them queer, to keep the fans happy.

What would that look like?

I don't know, call me foolish.... But I think it would look like keeping the same dynamic from The Drought Seasons. Having them be friends and important to each other but still fairly disconnected, not having as much screen-time, etc, It would look like having Buck’s coming out arc be a SEPARATE, individual narrative. If they just wanted to write Tommy and Buck, and that's it, they could have done things differently.

There are just so many conceivable ways they could have written Buck’s coming out arc, to almost completely separate it from Eddie and have it be made clear, in no uncertain terms, that Buck is bi but that doesn’t mean he cares about Eddie like that, that Eddie is a hetero McHetero.

Buck’s coming out arc could have included him being jealous because he’s suddenly faced with Tommy in the flesh and is insecure about how he was technically ‘Tommy’s replacement’ at the 911, with Eddie not relevant to it at all, or have Maddie and Chimney be the ones to interrupt The Date, or literally any other scenario that didn’t make it all about Eddie. 

They could have had one short scene where Eddie and Buck talk about it, and then the rest would be like, Buck talking to Hen about being queer, Buck interacting just with Tommy and getting to know him, Buck doing a research binge about bisexuality and info-dumping at an inappropriate time during a call, etc etc etc.

That’s how you tell that story and only be writing it for the proverbial ‘general audience’.

But they didn't. They purposefully reversed direction. They chose for Buck’s coming out arc to... highlight his nigh-feral jealousy over Eddie forming a homosocial bond with another guy, having said guy repeat with genuine surprise and shock that it was him and not Eddie that Buck was interested in, have Eddie interrupt their date, have Buck be more worried about lying to Eddie than the fact that he’s queer at all, have Maddie say what she did to Buck about telling Eddie in specifically ambiguous terms…

In a season that also included the Fire Extinguisher Incident, and Buck saying he ‘wishes he could help’ with Eddie’s sexual frustration, and a big increase in social media engagement, and having Buck being Eddie’s rock in the last few episodes while he had a bizarrely platonic affair with his dead wife's doppleganger…

If they did that while KNOWING the plan was actually for Buck/Tommy endgame and Eddie riding off in the sunset with a hot female firefighter who has a cool motorcycle or whatever the fuck, or them both dying in a freak car-washing accident, or….

If they GENUINELY planned that? If the entire Buck jealousy plotline was intended to be nothing more than a deliberate queerbait-and-switch? Then they’re fucking assholes, sorry. They would have to know full well exactly what they were doing, how many people’s hopes and emotional investment they were toying with... If they were actually planning to keep dragging it along for seasons more of baiting and dangling things in front of us, while knowing categorically that they had no plans to deliver? That would be genuinely GOD TIER levels of specific, intentional queerbaiting.

Which could be the case! I won't deny that. Shows have done it before, plenty of times. Tim et al could be callous bastards deliberately instructing the actors to wink it up in interviews and share suggestive Tiktoks, and writing Buck’s coming out arc as being entirely focused around Eddie and throwing out hints... All while laughing behind Buddie fans' backs about our gullibility, how we’re keeping the show trending on the force of our delusions, etc. Maybe that's it! Maybe they just genuinely enjoying fucking with people. Or maybe they were just shitty enough writers that they didn't know what they were doing, and it was all a total accident, somehow, the proverbial monkeys pounding at keyboards and accidentally spelling out B U D D I...

But you know what? Call it naive, but I prefer to think they’re not huge assholes, or hugely incompetent.

That there might actually be a point to all this, somewhere down the line.

I guess we'll find out.

[thefirstflowers]

one thing I'm sure of is that the writers wouldn't be putting such an emphasis on tommy always calling buck 'evan' if they aren't planning on adressing it in s8

and the other thing I'm sure of is that when that moment comes I'll surpass the levels of pettiness previously known to man

[mustasekittens]

congratulations christopher!

self indulgent near-future in which when christopher graduates high school buck n eddie take hiim to hawaii to celebrate and they all have a nice vacation over here. friend n i were brainrotting it a bit and we decided buck definitely hyperfixated on hawaii and stuff (history, nature, geography, mythology, etc)

[jojo-schmo]

I made myself a personal playlist with the fnaf songs I like (because wow I’ve missed out on like five years of bangers and need to catch up!!). I thought I would make myself a playlist cover with my precious Helpy bear to inspire even more joy from it!! He stole/borrowed DJ Music Man’s headphones. :3

[rel312]

Saw a post that started off with something like “what if Eddie and Tommy were friends first” and I was like okay this is about 911 and then all of a sudden it started talking about Steve and I was like……… it’s a steddie post, like all the Steves/Stedes and Eddies and Bucks have been confusing enough but now Tommy is in the mix???? I’m out I can’t do this anymore

[lover-of-mine]

Hot take: those soot marks on Buck's face are the result of another firefighter--with sooty, gloved hands--holding Buck's face, their thumbs coming up just under his eyes 👀

ANON I LOVE YOU HOW YOU THINK

I will accept this as reality until proven wrong, thank you.

[buckera]

I said before that I fully expect a buddie divorce era 2.0 in season 7, but what if it's all gonna be Eddie bitching about Natalia and Buck getting annoyed to the point where Eddie has no choice but to confess to Buck

[hippolotamus]

Tease Tidbit Tuesday ✨

tagged by the super talented @ladydorian05 @wikiangela @disasterbuckdiaz @daffi-990 Thank you loves 💖

My brain is still braining all over the place but I’m leaning into the tease with a lil bit I was able to add to honey, when you call my name. (Search the fic tag for previous snippets) *waves hand* Kinda NSFW. Below the cut just in case.

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He’s never felt a desire — a need — to mark or claim. Not like this. Not ever, really. Even when he and Shannon were young, and he could sense other men looking at her.

The idea always struck him as something people do when they’re possessive assholes with overinflated egos. He doesn’t look too closely at what that might mean for him at the moment.

Dragging his gaze over Buck’s naked body, he understands now. He gets it. Every inch of golden skin, the pink birthmark, the dusting of hair on Buck’s arms and legs, the nest of curls framing his flushed, leaking cock. None of it belongs to Eddie, exactly, but he can no longer fathom a world where it doesn’t either.

The very thought of another living being having access to Buck — to his kisses, his pleasure, the sounds that pour out uninhibited — makes Eddie’s jaw tick. It stirs up a territorial streak matched only in intensity by the need to protect his son. He wants to leave bruises, scratches and bite marks where others can see. He needs the world to know that Buck is his.

[dragonsongmakhali]

shhhh secret arcadion fighter makhali sneak preview since i finally settled on her glam (top secret) (classifed) (screenshot will detonate after viewing)

[odysseys-blood]

no actually it is kind of a wonder to me how pb is operating with whb like it is bc. arent yall also hosted (i believe anyways im not sure if their partnership w/ erolabs goes beyond that) by another company w/ SEVERAL gachas under its belt. so whats goin on here. nobody taking notes? are we doing market research? is anyone even play testing. hello. its so dark in here

[twocutlines]

this may be an unpopular opinion but personally i think the thing i struggle with regarding the idea of buck and eddie having satisfying romantic arcs apart from each other is that it is possible for sure, but i don't really. see a way for it to happen without some kind of a shift in the relationship they have each other that moves away from the level of intimacy and closeness they have developed over the past six (6!) years.

because, like, obviously you can have meaningful platonic relationships outside of your romantic partner, but even though buck and eddie are not in a romantic relationship their whole deal is also... not platonic. the space that they occupy in each other's lives is. well. it goes beyond friendship (sorry). and as others have pointed out, part of the reason buck and eddie's past relationships (taylor, ana, etc) have felt so lackluster in comparison to their relationship with each other is simply because they just do not have the kind of emotional intimacy with anyone else that they have with each other – and i don't really think you can have it both ways. the relationship buck and eddie have on the show right now can't continue as it is if the goal is to have them both in well-developed, believable romantic relationships apart from each other; something would need to change.

and i mean. they could do this; it's not impossible. but i think would be a mistake, and not just because i think they have a good foundation for a romantic relationship (though i do) – so much of the story they've told with buck and eddie is about two people who were both very alone in different ways meeting and becoming an integral part of each other's lives, and the relationship they have with each other is a really compelling part of the show. so while having them grow apart from that relationship is technically possible, i don't think it would be a good or satisfying choice narratively