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I kinda can't stop thinking about him.

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IF IT WORKS IT WORKS

Petition to give Buck all the children

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#buckleysiblings 9-1-1, S07E05 & S08E06

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He looks so excited!!

Presto! It’s the best magical cat!!

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the way he's breaking his own heart saying this 😭😭

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no one haunts the narrative like they do they've got the narrative in a chokehold 7 years later

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Please tag me if you do

Ok I’m brewing a little BuddieTommy Fixit fic I’m going to tentatively call “kiss and make up” where Eddie will get these idiots back together if it means he has to inadvertently have a threesome with them.

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#although i DO have thoughts about WHY he didnt go to frank #one thought being: frank was ALSO too close — eddie had gone to him before so frank knew some of eddies story #which directly leads into my Biggest Thought: eddie was trying to punish himself with THIS too #hes been in therapy (with frank!!) before and that did help!! so he knows it works!! #but he knows that a therapist is going to empathize with him in a way that someone else wont #and eddie doesnt WANT that empathy he doesnt WANT to be treated gently or to be told hes not broken hes not awful he just needs help #he WANTS to be told hes a terrible person he WANTS his actions to be seen as these awful traumatizing things #he WANTS someone to hear him explain and agree that he is a bad man deserving of punishment and no forgvieness #which is EXACTLY why he goes to CHURCH — the place he has not believed in in YEARS in DECADES #because in eddies experience church has been that place #he expects to go to confession and for the priest to be like here punish yourself further for these terrible things youve done #TLDR; a therapist will look at eddie and not see a bad broken man but thats what eddie wants bc thats what HE sees #so he goes to church instead. as another form of self punishment.

Dude, your tags deserve to be up on the wall, why are you hiding them??

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It will be a very non-gay relationship!!! They just happen to be two men! Nothing to do with being gay!

#I can't wait for them to date, it's gonna be hilarious

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6x18 / 7x06

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the way buck still credits abby with changing him even though he was the one who put in active effort to change his life :( he was the one who initially asked to keep it to phone calls so he wouldn’t let sex take over :( he’s the one who saw that he had a problem and decided to try to change :( he’s the one who was there for her and made the decision to help her with her mom :( it’s not that she wasn’t impactful but that he ALSO made the choices that led him to where he is today and he can’t see that bc only knows how to define himself by his relationships and doesn’t give himself credit for how hard he works and how he keeps trying :( after all this time he think it was all her and that he was a passive figure in his own growth :(

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#it was gut-wrenching #but it wan't bad writing #Buck is doing what he always does and jumps in head first without getting on thr same page as his partner #Tommy has been apprehensive about the relationship from the beginning #He has been constantly asking himself “Is this real?” and wanting it to be so badly but not believing it #My attention? #Was that okay? #i think you're adorable but I don't think you're ready #enjoy it while it lasts #i'm just trying to keep up #it's a beautiful thing having a crew like this behind you even when things go wrong #i know we're mostly getting Tommy through Buck's eyes #buck who repeatedly says Tommy“ #confident #but being confident in your sexuality and your job does not mean being confident in yourself or your relationships #people alwsys talk about how well they communicate but it's easy to communicate about the things you feel alright about #it's a lot harder to communicate about your insecurities #So Tommy is dating this great guy but he isn't sure how serious he is and he knows that he has just uncovered a part of himself #and Tommy is probably thinking about how he had to leave the 118 to recreate himself and he thinks Buck will to #but Buck is so earnest but he's moving way too fast for tommy and it's their 6th month anniversary and Tommy is getting excited #he's buying them lakers tickets and he's not thinking about a breakup but Buck is acting weird about taking some womens pictures #and they've been dating 6 months and Buck doesn't know he's gay not bi #and you haven't talked about exes yet but maybe it's just because he's being cautious since this is his first queer relationship #so you let it go and you let him pick up the check #and then you're going to a movie and you get a great parking spot #and you suggest an uber so you don't have to trek out to your car tomorrow morning for your shift #but suddenly he's acting weird and you think this is it he's breaking up with me #but he's showing you pictures of Abby #and oh. he's the himbo. you didn't mean to offend him but you didn't and now he's complmenting you #and this situation did a quick 180 because now he's asking you to move in

okay maybe controversial but i’m personally not surprised buck didn’t fight back on tommy breaking up with him and I don’t think it specifically is bad writing. i think it’s exactly who he is as a character. buck and tommy were good together and in a better world could have been (could still be, maybe) each other’s forevers. but ultimately neither of them were able to confront their own flaws. buck still refuses to take any agency once a romantic relationship hits a point of conflict and tommy refuses to imagine anything good for himself that isn’t temporary. this might put me in opposition to a lot of common thought in the fandom but i don’t think over the course of their relationship buck and tommy ever truly changed each other or changed for each other. and i think that’s why at the first crack they fell apart so quickly. i don’t think tommy ever even considered that whatever buck might’ve been ready for would be something lasting, and i don’t think buck ever quite saw far past enough tommy’s coolness and confidence to consider that setting the pace might’ve been more for tommy than for him. all of this to say, to me this wasn’t a breakup between the shadow selves of characters i love. it was two characters i love breaking up for being exactly the people i love them for being. and yeah, it’s a tragedy. but i fucking love tragedies, so

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chimney han + making dinner for his partner how it started vs. how it's going -> 9-1-1: 1x03 vs. 8x06

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3x18 // 8x06

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I don't think I've ever felt so alienated by a fandom than I feel about people's reaction to the BuckTommy breakup in the last episode of 911. Between the BuckTommy shippers who are crying about how badly Tommy was treated, and the Buddie shippers crowing about how this is one less obstacle to their ship...

Here's the thing. I don't think this breakup was badly handled, or made no sense. Or even that it's reversible. I don't have a very strong opinion about whether Buck is in love with Eddie (I have my theories, but they're not set in stone), but I do think that Tommy believes him to be. Between the extremely baffled "My attention??" on the episode they first kiss and the "you can take Eddie if you want" in this episode, and the way he always seems to keep himself a tiny bit at a distance (even though he clearly really likes Buck), I always got the impression that Tommy came into this terribly aware that Buck would never be his. But he thought he could enjoy it nonetheless, spend some time with this gorgeous, cute, sweet, earnest man while he discovered himself.

And then Buck asked him to move in. And that is way too much even in a normal relationship, but if he's falling for Buck, that has to feel like a death sentence. Because he can't pretend it's not serious anymore. And in his head, at least (again, I'm talking about Tommy, not about where I think the show will go), this can only end with Buck leaving him and breaking his heart.

He is preemptively breaking his own heart. And for me, that's the most tragic thing about this breakup. And I wish the fandom would talk about that more.

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"Tommy calling Buck a himbo half Abby's age is crazy because he was half of Abby's age too"

(I know that is not exact, but it's closer)

Tommy calling Buck a himbo half Abby’s age is crazy because he’s half of Tommy’s age too

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LITERALLY CRYING, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

How are we doing bucktommy nation?