#you don't know Buck

[meep-meep-richie]

´´ You already know that i´m interested. ´´

[lover-of-mine]

Buddie Countdown to Season 7:

16 days.

[theresoneicouldcallking]

ABC reading ryan's interview and understanding why Fox put him in press jail these past few years.

[mythtakens]

"We tried." "Not hard enough."

9-1-1 (2018-)

[buckttommy]

this isn't a horny post but. has buck even... seen a hard penis before that was not his own? like yeah yeah porn but. that's not really the same is it. not when you're not even looking. not when you don't even know that you want to look. like for all intents and purposes buck is completely virginal here and that's. ummm. that's a lot.

[tommykinrd]

Hen having Buck's back vs. Buck not having hers ↳ For @alkaysani, my partner in nuance ♥︎

[lambentplume]

Maui Fires & How to Support Relief Efforts

(Posted on 8/10/23) Hi, I'm Jae and my family is from Lāhainā. I watched my hometown burn down this week. The fires caused immeasurable loss in my community so I'd like to spread awareness of the situation as well as provide links to support local organizations directly assisting survivors. I'm pretty sure most of my following is Not local so I'm writing with intent to inform people outside the situation, but if you're reading this and happen to have family in the affected area that isn't accounted for, message me and I can send you the links to the missing persons tracking docs + more localized info!! If you'd like to skip down to how to help and follow community organizations, scroll to the bottom of the post after the image.

Earlier this week, Hurricane Dora passed south of the Hawaiian Islands, bringing strong wind gusts that caused property damage across the islands. On Tuesday August 8, high winds caused sparks to fly in the middle of Lāhainā town, knocking out power lines and immediately igniting drought-ridden grasses. The fire spread quickly and destroyed the entire center of town, the harbor, and multiple neighborhoods including Hawaiian Homes (housing specifically for Native Hawaiians), parts of Lahainaluna, basically all of Front Street, and low-income housing units. There is only one public road in and out of town, and after a very hectic evacuation period that road has been mostly closed off except to emergency responders, thus it is extremely difficult for anyone to leave town to get help. The nearest hospital is 20 miles away in Wailuku, and most grocery stores in town have burnt down.

As of Thursday, August 10, over 1,000 acres have been burned and 271 structures (including homes, schools, and other community gathering places) have been destroyed. Cell service is still extremely spotty, many of the surrounding neighborhoods deemed safe for evacuees are still without utilities. There are currently confirmed 53 deaths but that number is expected to increase as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Countless families have been displaced and many have lost the homes they lived in for generations. Places of deep historical significance have been reduced to ash, including the gravesites of Hawaiian royalty, the old Lāhainā courthouse where items of cultural significance were stored, and Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center. To add further context: Lāhainā has a population of about 13,000 residents. EVERYONE I know has been impacted in some way--at best forced to evacuate, at worst their house was burnt to the foundation, they cannot find a loved one, etc. I'm still trying to track down family members and it's been over two days. My neighbors down the street had homes last week and now many don't have ANYTHING. The hotels are taking in residents (tourists are also being STRONGLY urged to leave so that locals can recover). Without open access to the rest of the island, Lāhainā residents are now dependent on whatever people had in their homes already as well as disaster relief efforts coming in, but it's been difficult to organize and mobilize due to the location + conditions. People who have made it out are in shelters where no blankets or medicine were provided. Friends and acquaintances from neighbor islands are preparing aid to send over. Community response has been incredible, but the toll on the town has been immeasurable. My parents were desperately walking through town yesterday, my mom sounded absolutely hollow talking about it on the phone with me. It's horrifying. Below is a satellite map with data from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System showing the impacted areas from the past week; all of the red blotches were on fire at some point in the last three days.

Here are ways you can help:

If you have the means to donate:

Here are three donation sites verified by Maui Rapid Response, which also lists FAQs for people who are wondering about next steps.

Hawaiʻi Community Foundation - Maui Strong Fund accepts international credit cards. Maui United Way

Maui Mutual Aid Non-monetary ways to support:

If you know anyone who is planning to travel to ANY Hawaiian island, not just Maui, tell them to cancel their trip. Resources are extremely limited as is. Advocate for climate change mitigation efforts locally, wherever that is for you. The fire was exacerbated by drought conditions that have worsened due to climate change.

Lastly, remember that these are people's HOMES that burned, and Native Hawaiian cultural artifacts that have been lost. Stop thinking of Hawaiʻi (or any "tourist destination" location, really) as an "escape" or a "paradise." If that's the only way you recognized my home... I'm glad I got your attention somehow, but I would ask that you challenge that perspective and prioritize local and native voices. For transparency, I don't currently live in Lāhainā, I've been following efforts from Honolulu. My parents and brother have been updating me and I've been following friends and family who are doing immediate response work. I'm doing my best to find reliable and current sources, but if I need to update something, please let me know. If you're going to try to convince me that tourism is necessary for our recovery, news flash ***IT'S NOT***!

Thanks for reading.

[bucksdaffy]

coming out as a firm 'oliver is a bucktommy endgame truther' believer like oh the way he speaks about them in his interviews? i just know he wants them to be long-term bad and i hope all his wishes come true

[chaosandwolves]

But what if

Eddie tells Buck not to pull back from him, that he's not angry with him for the basketball court and how could he ever think anyone could ever replace him

And then Buck tells him that he's bi and that he's dating Tommy

and Eddie, of course, is the best and so heartfelt and accepts him without hesitating for even a millisecond and pulls him into a hug

But what if

What if we then get a shot of Eddie closing the door and his smile falls

WHAT THEN!???

[bellabrady]

olivia rodrigo | the grudge

[aladygrieve]

So we all know Buck hasn't officially come out yet, right? He told two of the most important people in his life that he is dating a man (and it was wonderful), but he never used the word "bisexual." And as much as this seems to have disappointed some people, it was very much the right narrative choice.

Buck has only just started coming to terms with kissing and dating and being attracted to men as something he DOES. He may have told Maddie and Eddie that he went on a date with a man, but he's still in the process of coming out to himself and wrapping his head around a fundamental shift in what he's always thought of as his identity.

That's why Buck, a Certified Mankisser who was CURRENTLY ON A DATE WITH A DUDE, kept referring to himself as an ally. He told Maddie he feels like a fraud. On the surface that's in reference to his lying to Eddie, but what's really going on is that Buck has impostor syndrome about his own queerness - which, by the way, comes with the Bi ExperienceTM starter pack.

Of course Buck hasn't internalized "bisexual" as something he IS yet. He has always struggled with issues of belonging, something he wants desperately but has never really felt like he deserved. Finding his place with the 118 was the first step on the road to associating the broader queer community with "me" instead of just "people I care about." He feels all the warmth and compassion in the world for his queer friends, and for queer people in general, but he won't be able to claim bisexuality as his own identity until he comes to grips with the fact that he deserves that same warmth and compassion for himself.

He's getting there though. We see great progress even in this one episode, where Buck goes from looking over his shoulder afraid that someone is watching his and Tommy's date to initiating a public handhold with him. He goes from letting Tommy walk away and blaming their brief break-up on his own mistakes and insecurities, to identifying a relationship with Tommy as something he wants and then actively pursuing it.

I'm so excited to see where this arc goes. Because it's not resolved. It's barely begun.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Favorite Buddie Moments Per Episode: 7x5 You Don't Know Me (Part 1)

[lover-of-mine]

Buck, Eddie and The lightning mirroring the well.

[buckleydiazmp4]

not to get all "actually☝️" about it but. the whole point of this is the fact that it isn't at all eddie's fault and buck just doesn't know how to properly process or recognize his feelings and know what he's missing *until* he gets presented with a specific situation. in truth buck has no right to be mad at eddie for building bonds with other ppl and it's why he has to do some introspection. this is not a "oh no poor buck eddie apologize to him!!!" thing, it's about buck getting, for lack of a better term, a good emotional humbling. eddie deserves good friendships and relationships, full stop. and if he likes the way he feels when he hangs out with tommy then great!! he's his own person and not a tool to further buck's character. but you also can't expect buck to immediately recognize that because, again, and for the millionth time, the whole POINT is that he doesn't. so if it has to get ugly and uncomfortable and embarrassing for him to do so then that is what will happen and that doesn't make either of them bad people. this is not a blame to be passing around. it's just them being human beings

[averydistinctivestyle]

I'm sorry, was I supposed to watch that over-the-shoulder pan and slo-mo reverse strip tease from Buck's point of view of Eddie Diaz while Whatta Man plays and not make the obvious "oh he thinks this man is sexy in a non-straight way" connection?

It took seven seasons for this man to realize he's bisexual. I love and appreciate his journey from clips and gifs I've seen and want to squeeze him in a big welcome hug at all times, but also. My god.

[buckttommy]

One thing that was very interesting to me in this episode is the way Eddie was just... not joking about Buck's love interests.

That stuck out.

Usually when Eddie talks to Buck about his love interests, it's with an edge of fond exasperation, teasing laced around his gently delivered truths, but there was none of that this episode. Buck told Eddie he went to see Natalia and it was like something switched. Eddie's entire affect changed when Buck started talking about Natalia. He went from being loose and easy (as loose and easy as one can get when standing at a grave) to being... not combative, necessarily, but visibly actively not wanting to engage in conversation about her either, and it's not...

It's not even jealousy!! We joke a lot about Eddie and jealousy, but it wasn't that at all. It was a fatigue that comes with silence, that comes with holding your tongue, that comes with keeping secrets. Especially when Buck said that he feels like Natalia sees him. That look Eddie gave him immediately after? That was pure hurt. That was him saying I see you too, I've always seen you. But he can't say that. He can't say that, because to say that would be to say so many other things about the way he sees Buck, and to say so many other things would mean to have to unstick his tongue from the roof of his mouth about the ONE thing he's been holding onto ever since he was shot.

I don't know. I don't know, but I think Eddie taking Buck on a date and I think about how Eddie left his son—his heart—in Buck's care so they could bake cookies together (which becomes profoundly more significant in an episode where Christopher was talking about baking smores with his mom), and I think about Kenny saying Ryan has been doing some very nuanced work in the back half of this season, I'm like

Oh. Oh. I see it, thank you. Loud and clear.