#tommy kinard defense club

[kinardsevan]

I have a formal complaint, as one of the chief officers of the Tommy Kinard Defense Club.

All of this rhetoric about his attitude towards Evan and the deadpanning and all, especially in relation to the medal ceremony... I feel like there isn't any kind of consideration being made for the fact that they're at work. If Tommy was any other person, these arguments would not be made in the slightest. God damn, if this was TK and Carlos it would be "oh. They're at work. They're being professional." Not to mention, this ceremony is being done in a place that very likely holds some level of trauma for Tommy. Being in that building means/used to mean pretending to be someone else. Now idk about yall, but when I had to go work in the town I moved out of that was nothing ~but trauma a few years back, I panicked about it for days. I refuse to believe that if we're talking about well-rounded characters, that Tommy didn't deal with something similar. I mean, let's examine the triggers:

-Old job location where you were expected to fake everything about your lifestyle -old boss is there who has seniority over you and is verbally abusive -your boyfriend is also there, and while he may know some things, he probably still doesn't have the full story

But I'm not finished! The deadpan attitude. The amount of shit I've read about how that makes him a crappy person/boyfriend because that's just how he is...

Except, we have multiple scenes with BuckTommy where we've seen clearly that that is in fact not his whole personality. Further, some people are just naturally sarcastic and have deadpan attitudes by nature (yours truly, for example). I also know other men personally who have very similar attitudes/personalities. And guess what? They're married. (This is not me insinuating BuckTommy endgame. Just that who Tommy is as a person and a character doesn't make him a bad mate).

[kinardsevan]

so I’ve been thinking about this for like two days now, and I’m gonna say it. 

I’m fucking bothered. The amount of crap going around right now into relation of Tommy as a character and the rhetoric it’s being equated to is infuriating. Now personally, I try not to speak on things I can’t chiefly relate to (i.e., I’m not a gay male firefighter, so I won’t speak on the reality of living that life), however, I’m highly concerned about the attitude people are giving off in relation to the way that Tommy is undeserving of a redeption arc/is an asshole because of who he was in the past. 

First of all, I want to remind those who would actually take the time to read this: he’s a television character, and in no way does that put Lou in the position of being deserving of any vitriol for the shit he’s had to put up with. Or has it already been so long that we’ve forgotten about the shit Isabel Gillies was put through when Elliot Stabler returned to L&O:SVU (a whopping 5 years ago)? To that end, these actors are just earning a paycheck. They don’t deserve the abuse spewed at them any more than any person who works in retail or food service does because someone makes a small mistake on your bad day.

Further though, I’m concerned by the attitude that there is hatred spewed towards the character of Tommy because of who he WAS. I find it highly unlikely that there’s a single person on this planet that hasn’t forgiven at least one person in their life for some shitty thing they did in the past. To that end: we clearly have seen based off the way s7 went that Hen and Chimney made that choice at some point. Does it excuse previous behavior? No. I don’t know that when you forgive someone that excusing bad behavior is the intention. However, you give them room to grow and flourish. To that end, the arc that Lou has been given for Tommy is clearly within those lines. 

None of this is to say that what the character of Tommy did was okay or acceptable. However, I’d venture to guess that if we’d never seen the recurrence of Tommy Kinard on the show in s7 (and most likely s8), no one would bat an eyelash at the mention of his character, because in terms of how his storyline was wrapped up in s2, things are left on good terms. However, because he’s now Buck’s love interest for the moment and possibly forseable future, he’s got all kinds of problems. He has all kinds of toxic behavior. Nevermind the fact that this rhetoric comes from the same people who fail to also concede that Eddie, the preferred option as a LI for Buck for a large crowd, also has his own toxic behaviors. Hell, he even has his own toxic behaviors towards Buck. But you don’t see those who appreciate Tommy as a character pointing fingers at those issues. 

If you want to call me toxic because I’m not afraid to point all of this out, so be it. It is canonically unfair to tell someone that they are a toxic person because of who they used to be, and not the person they are today. The attitude towards “Tommy blame Gerrard for his behavior”, as though the character is supposed to resolve every issue he previously created with other characters in the limited screen time he was given, given the contract extension. Although, something tells me that even if Tim & Co had put the effort into making the scenes all about that instead of devoting it to the point of his character development (Buck and Tommy’s relationship), people would still find something to complain about. 

I’m not saying you have to like Tommy with Buck. I’m not even saying you have to like Tommy, period. But it’s arguable to say that if you’re going to decide not to like him, first, Lou is not the person to blame (someone else very well could’ve played the character and yall would be doing the same thing). And second, maybe find some realistic reasoning behind not liking him other than the fact that it makes Evan unavailable to chase after Eddie (because some people clearly aren’t prepared for that discussion). 

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[kinardsevan]

Tommy is a disgusting pedo, you should be ashamed of stanning him.

I can't not 😂😂😂😂😂

EVAN BUCKLEY IS A 33 YEAR OLD MAN. Tommy Kinard is characterized as 40. As in, a whopping 7 years older. THEY ARE FULLY GROWN ADULTS.

If you think that THAT makes someone a pedophile, please refer back to source material on that word. I mean shit, if you want me to feel bad for stanning a TV character, I feel worse about Ezra Fitz than I do about Tommy Kinard, and I still managed to learn from that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I'm not here for the discourse on this characterization and I'm not feeding anymore into this discussion.

I just really needed to point out how ridiculous you sound in your hate. #nothereforit