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For my #alliwantforchristmasislou mail to ABC, since we're gonna ask for Lou/Tommy back for 2025, I'm gonna make a list of 25 things I love about BuckTommy.

I'm super excited to send the mail, make a donation tomorrow and see our fandom spreading love for our ship and our boys 🥰

I don't know if I've already said it but thank you all for being so funny, talented and positive, it's been ages since I've been in a fandom as wonderful as this one. I love you!!!

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2024 in Review: The Most Dynamic ‘Ships From 9-1-1, Bridgerton, Traitors, Nobody Wants This, Evil and More

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Yes! And I'd add, making them suddenly break up after an episode where they show how Tommy is the perfect boyfriend for Buck not only makes it hurt more, it makes the audience want to root for a reconciliation.

What do you think are the chances of Buck and Tommy getting back together at some point??

I have answered this, here. It's long-winded with specific references as to why I feel the way I do.

If you want specific odds? I still stand by my "I don't have hope, I'm hopeful" statement. I don't trust the writers, but the part of me that understands writing a story and how television works (and hello breaking up in the middle of a season that isn't a midseason finale? pfft.), that part of me feels that we're in the middle of the ride. I also contend with the fact that if this breakup hadn't come out of left field during election week, we wouldn't have reacted as wildly as we did. we put so much weight into those interviews at the time, specifically towards the one that OS and TM did together, and then the one that LFJr did, and so much on the way Fangirlish phrased things. But as I've commented on over and over, OS and LFJr can't tell us where things are going, and TM won't. One, because it wouldn't serve the story, and two, what's the fun in that? Of course they want us guessing so we'll keep watching.

Now, so much weight gets put into Tim's words about how he doesn't know what's happening in the show more than a few weeks in advance, but we also know that they have general ~ideas of character arcs, at least for the part of the season they're working on. To that end, I maintain my contention that you're not breaking them up and telling LFJr "yeah sorry we might bring you back but maybe not, we'll see". That man broke them up knowing whether or not he wanted for him to return in the spring. He may not know how the story is going to be told quite yet, but he at least knows yes or no. Moreover, if the story was well and truly over, we're not getting mentions of Tommy in 807 and 808, and Buck still hung up on him. It doesn't feed the narrative, once again. If you want Tommy done/dead/in the past, you don't continue to suggest the characters are thinking about one another. You can do Buck being sad about the breakup without that kind of storytelling (i.e., season 2 with Abby's exit).

Once again, though, I want to reference every break up that has lasted on OG: BuckAbby-110. BuckTaylor: 518. BuckNatalia: (off screen but effectively) 618/701. EddieAna: 501. EddieMarisol & EddieKim: 710 By correlation, Madney's breakups were midseason and didn't stay broken up. Bathena never really "broke up" for any period of time, but they did have their struggles... oh when? The middle of the season. The only other "break ups" you can refer to within the context of the show is Doug and Shannon's deaths, which yes were in the middle of the seasons, but they were serving the narratives (and also TM regrets killing both off as soon as he did so....). We've also seen TM pull some of these midseason breakups on LS, only to not have them last. He did an offscreen split with Tarlos that was wrapped up by the end of that season opener.

Even without all of that evidence though (I really just piece it together so y'all can follow my line of logic), at the end of the day, what I'm looking at is a story being told and figuring out how you make the right moves. Maybe LFJr was only intended to tell a small story, but you know what you don't do when a character is embraced by the audience? Send them off into the sunset because you couldn't forge a better plot for them. You go back to the drawing board and figure out how to expand their story. Shows have done it for ages, and I refuse to believe that ABC saw the reaction of people to LFJr and said "get rid of him".

At the end of the day, I stay with the fact that they have to get back together because, narratively, it's what makes the most sense with the information we've been given. I think it's messy to ask people to wait 6 months for that payoff, but I also grew up in a time when streaming wasn't the norm and we didn't wait full calendar years for TV shows to release a new season. I don't put a lot of weight in the weekly interviews at this point because it feels like they're now using those instead of real 30sec. promos the way it used to be. Granted, you can argue that they unintentionally found Buck's endgame "too early" for their own liking.... but then why have him be with someone who calls him by his first name when most people in his life don't? Why suggest that Evan sees a future with Tommy in a way that we understand as an audience isn't starry-eyed like the breakup scene portrays, but is actually out of something real (as the dispatch scene suggests)? Why EVER have Buck suggest something like marriage (which he never has, even about Abby) if we're not circling back to it?

Many have stated that these are ways to just twist the knife, make it hurt more, and I can't negate that or tell you they're wrong. Even if everything I suggest ends up being right, I still can't make the argument that some of those storytelling choices weren't just to make the breakup hurt more. At the end of the day, though, my hope is that at least some of it was done in service of the narrative instead of just callousness.

Anyway. I've rambled again, and I'm sorta not sorry about it. I hope this at least answers your question though 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Well it’s official: our Primary Charity for #AllIWantForChristmas is Lou is The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing suicide in LGBT youth.

So with that decided we can now move on to our next step: the event. From now until Christmas Eve all participants are encouraged to donated to The Trevor Project or a local charity of their choice and post the proof of donation on Christmas Eve with the hashtag #AllIWantForChristmasIsLou and a brief message about how Buck and Tommy or the community around them inspired you to donate. People not in the position to donate that wish to participate are asked to post their messages with the hashtag and encouragements to donate instead.

In addition, we have our second part of the event where we tell ABC about our love for Buck and Tommy and encourage them to bring Tommy back in the new year. If you send a message we’d like you to attach the photo above to draw the networks attention to the tag and the testimonials to our love of the ship. We don’t expect to see any acknowledgement from ABC for this but we can hope that keeping BuckTommy alive in the minds of the fandom, the network, and the writing team over at 911 will increase the likelihood that we get our Christmas wish to see Tommy Kinard and Lou Ferrigno Jr return to the show: hence, the event name of All I Want for Christmas is Lou.

Thank you to everyone who chooses to donate! Much love for the holiday season! #alliwantforchristmasislou

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Do you ever think about the fact that the first time Bobby truly laughed after losing his family was when he watched Tommy trying to catch Maurice? (And that partly drove him to relapse because he felt guilty for feeling some happiness)?

I want to believe that is part of the reason he told Buck Tommy was good people and good for him.

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Blog still under construction but hi this is the official Tumblr for #AllIWantForChristmasIsLou a BuckTommy Positivity project inspired by the #ThankfulForTommyKinard hashtag that popped up for American Thanksgiving. This is kind of last minute for anything drastic but I’d like to try to get this trending for Christmas Eve (24th December, 2024) as a tribute to the joy Buck and Tommy brought into our lives this year.

Goals include:

Getting #AllIWantForChristmasIsLou trending on social media Tuesday, December 24th, 2024, with messages about how 911, BuckTommy, Tommy Kinard, and Lou Ferrigno Jr have enriched our lives this year.

Submitting ABC feedback appreciating BuckTommy to let the network know how much we enjoyed them.

Donating to a LGBT Charity or Fund chosen by an upcoming poll. Goal amount to be set based on interest.

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We should do a BuckTommy hashtag for Christmas called #AllIWantForChristmasIsLou and coordinate it with a bunch of feedback to ABC’s Prgramming Feedback inbox reminding them there’s still support for the ship

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prompt from anon ↪ How about,,,, Tommy pinning Buck to a wall while he's also carrying him 🤭🫣

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7x04 ✦ 7x06 ✦ 8x06

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Isn't it wild that James Blunt wrote a bucktommy song twenty years ago???

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Yeah, okay, forget that word. We don't need to go that far.

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They are both fine at the end of the season in all these scenarios, we are not manifesting death here!

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This is me being way too generous to the writers, but the more I think about the break-up, the more I convince myself that there was never the intention of making it permanent, and that's because of the Abby thing.

Because sure, probably the "hehe, wouldn't it be funny if Buck's Tommy was Abby's Tommy too" was the main force to make that stupid connection, but it also serves a purpose, I think. So until now, Abby was the one for Buck. The woman who changed his life, who made him mature and the first partner he ever loved. She was also the one who got away, and none of his next relationships have compared to what he felt about her. Until Tommy. Buck says as much: Abby was his most transformative relationship until Tommy came along. So by making the connection, the show is establishing that Tommy is now the one. Buck saw a future with him, was even thinking about marrying him one day, so now the viewer knows that Tommy is possibly the love of Buck's life, that's not Abby anymore.

Could they be making Tommy the male Abby, make him be influential in Buck's life and with time become just a fond memory, a transformative experience for Buck and just that? Yeah, of course. Maybe that was the real intention all along. But what gives me pause is that the episode makes the point of establishing that, unlike Abby, Tommy does love Buck. He breaks things up because he already loves him too much. They love each other, and they both want a future with the other. And two episodes later, they are still pining for each other.

And knowing now that the break-up was just a way to have Buck isolated to deal with whatever's happening with Eddie and Maddie in the next few episodes, the more reason to think that it's just temporary.

Abby ran away and Buck never fought for her, because deep down he probably knew she never loved him the way he loved her. Now, Tommy has run away too, and when Buck figures out what he really told him that night, he has the chance to fight for him and convince him that yes, he can be the last. I think that would be a very beautiful way to close that circle.

IDK, I'm just hoping for the best because the alternative is too depressing, lol.

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Ok but listen! He's lost weight and his hair is longer since we last saw him in 806... I've decided he is gonna film a Tommy begins episode soon and idc about reality.

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@ Tim

@ 911onabc

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These people wouldn't have survived McDanno! If you think Buddie has romantic undertones, what the fuck was this?

Because Lizzie, you professional unprofessional, those shows are viewed by the correct age demographic who understand what they see on screen and also understand that the relationship between first responders will always be more meaningful and reliant on 100% trust than a High School Musical-esque ensemble.

Meanwhile, 90% of the buddie shipper population are all 15 to 26 years of ignorance, and think anyone over 30 is a "hag" and that Angela Bassett gets too much screen time.

There's a reason why you "cover" these other procedurals yet never post about them on your profiles.

I imagine your dying brain cells are screaming to be utilized.