#Buck started it

[elvensorceress]

It’s almost Christmas so shout out to that time where

Buck: hmm idk what to get my girlfriend for Christmas 🫤

Bobby: you know what I got my girlfriend who I’d been with about as long as you have been with yours for our first Christmas? An engagement ring. We’re married. She’s my wife 🥰

Buck (who desperately wants to be loved and kept and married and probably pregnant like yesterday): Eww! Not doing that ever! Thanks for nothing! 😖🤨 Ewwwww

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[unpretty]

"i need to stop spending so much money on lunch" ➡ "maybe i could just buy some nice canned soups for easy lunches that don't make me sad" ➡ "why is canned soup so expensive" ➡ "i can just make some fucking soup" ➡ i don't actually feel like making soup ➡ i order a calzone ➡ "i need to stop spending so much money on lunch"

[feelsforsterek]

╰┈➤ buck's gaze lingering on tommy's lips after their kiss ✧*。

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Obessed with this quote from Oliver - he was planning on leaning into queer buck regardless - scream

[sonofatoasterwaffle]

I know there's a lot of people in the fandom now who didn't watch from the beginning/don't watch s1, but I just can't express to you how important it is to me. For every character.

Hen cheating on Karen is a stupid, stupid thing but it tells us so much about who she is and who she wants to be and it makes HenRen so much better because you know they FOUGHT to get there. Hen saying she's scared she isn't the woman she wants to be, and then still choosing to chase after that??? To confront Eva and to tell her that it was never Hen who tore them apart. That woman is made of iron and soft edges and love.

And Chimney? Man, Chimney is such an incredible character for so many reasons, and Madney is one of my favorite TV pairings ever, but watching that man live through being single. Trying to teach himself that being himself isn't a bad thing. That he really will find someone who loves HIM and not whatever version of himself he's created for the Girl of the Week.

Bobby is so fucking suicidal in s1 it's not even funny. That man is nothing but a ball of regret and shame and yet he STILL BUILDS A FAMILY AND HE ASKS FOR HELP AND HE MEETS ATHENA AND LOVES HER SO GODDAMN MUCH EVEN THOUGH NEITHER OF THEM IS EVEN REMOTELY HEALED. Goofy Bobby who wants to shoot the Roomba with Athena's gun and goes on shenanigans with Michael doesn't EXIST without s1 relapsing raging Bobby. Without Bobby asking Hen and Buck for help and them immediately pulling him into their arms and promising that they will.

And Buck?!?!?! That boy is such A Mess. He's an absolute Mess who doesn't really stop to think a single thought for most of the season. But when he does?? He works hard to become a person who can be relied upon. He builds empathy not only for the people around him but for himself. You start to love him when he's trying so hard to become a better person, but 1x10?? Finding the man who's been using Buck's face to catfish women-- in such a spectacular way that it very nearly blows up Buck's life--dead, and having so much compassion and empathy for him that he stabs a bloated corpse to make sure that man has dignity in his own death??????? Are you serious????

S1 is worth it man. If you haven't seen it, you should.

[hurtingbuck]

"I'm just saying maybe you don't understand. You're always the one who leaves."

3x16 / 8x08

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

2x14 | 7x6

[macaronimars]

last night some ppl in the kinley discord were talking about how tommy would probably find taking intentionally bad pictures of buck really funny and then. this happened. i just think buck's love language is going my boyfriend is a god and tommy's love language is going you're an absolute mess but i love you anyway

[sasanka-27]

Hello, I’m new here may I offer a meme for starters?

[vanmarkus]

just here to reiterate that Buck isn't dumb btw like... he isn't stupid or "not the sharpest tool in the shed" or anything along those lines... he can be silly and he tends to let his mouth run away from him, but he is actually, pretty smart. both lexically and logical-thinking-wise; as he has proved many times on and off the job. just feels like it bears repeating.

[sophsun1]

Buck + Reacting to Tommy flirting with him

7.05 | 8.01

[alrightbuckaroo]

me personally, i love that tommy calls buck "evan" because you can't convince me that hearing "you have nothing to apologize for, evan." didn't heal something inside of him.

[oneofthedrunksattheoverpass]

every single tommy scene showed how he is constantly on the outside of everything in bucks life

eddie finishes buck’s sentences and fills in the gaps in information that tommy somehow is missing

tommy doesn’t indulge buck’s research binge and doesn’t sleep in the same bed as him

tommy is again taking the back seat and watching eddie fix buck up and try and reassure him

tommy’s not in the group chat and we can see the longing to be included on his face

even in his last scene in the cemetery he is standing so far away from buck when they could have easily had them holding hands or even just standing right next to each other

there were so many opportunities to assert tommy as a long term love interest but both the dialogue and the physicality of each scene showed just how much tommy is consistently on the edge, this episode made it a point to show us that

[mattzerella-sticks]

You know when Buck gets married he's going to be an absolute groomzilla. Imagine this but in a tuxedo:

[lotus-pear]

yeah sure therapy is nice but teen soukoku is faster and a lot cheaper