#BuckTommy Nation

[calinaannehart]

Dear BuckTommy Nation!

This is a love letter to you all.

We have suffered this year.

We have been bullied, ridiculed, sent hate mail, abuse, and some of us even received death threats from the toxic Buddie fans.

But we are THRIVING!

We are strong.

We haven’t let them diminish our love for either Tommy or Lou.

We are still standing. We are united.

Whether you have managed to keep hope that Tommy will return, or whether you have accepted his loss from the show, we haven’t turned our backs on him.

We are the BuckTommy nation.

From me and cardboard Lou to all of you, Merry Lou-mas, Happy Holidays, keep thriving!

[30somethingautisticteacher]

I am so thankful that 2024 brought me to the Bucktommy fandom. I was initially a Lonestar fan who found their way over to the OG. I binge-watched the first 6 seasons over a few short weeks and started season 7 live. I had already fallen in love with the show by that point, but the Bucktommy relationship took that to a whole new level. The relationship inspired me to write for the first time in over 15 years. It brought me wonderful new friends who have supported me and mean more to me than they know. Love my Golden Girls with my hole heart @sunnywithachanceofbi @judymarch15 @typicalopposite @nine-one-wanton and @herrmannhalsteadproduction.

This fandom is so special, and I feel so lucky to be a part of it. I am so hopeful that we will have more BT in 2025!

@alliwantforchristmasislou

[silversky9]

such beautiful souls in this bucktommy fandom and bringing such a boost to faith in humanity

[chaoticpositvty]

Just happy to be a part of the wonderful community that is bucktommy nation 🫶🏼

[poobur79]

Done and done.

Dear ABC,

The (BuckTommy) attachment says it all. The Buck & Tommy relationship has so much unrealized potential and deserves so much better than what we got. The character of Tommy Kinard has so much unrealized potential and deserves to be happy. That breakup was out of character, came out of nowhere and was poorly written. I haven’t been able to watch the show since. Please give them another chance. Give us fans who love them another chance. Give Lou Ferrigno Jr, who put his heart and soul into this role, another chance. All we want for Christmas is Lou!

[demonvampire180writes]

Thank you to @alliwantforchristmasislou for setting up this amazing thing! <3

Warning: I don't know how not to ramble, or make sense.

I don't work during the winter, and I'm trying to pay down debts so I can buy a house in 2025, so I unfortunately don't have any money to spare, but I wanted to express my gratitude to the BuckTommy nation for the joy they've brought me.

I started this silly little show last winter on a total whim. Ms. Angela Basset was always there on the title card whenever I opened Hulu so, bored with my endless amounts of reading, I decided to give it a go. Immediately I was drawn in. I loved their dynamics. The stories. Peter Krause's acting, especially in the scene where he breaks down on the couch with Hen and Buck? Yeah, my overly empathetic self was like, this show is mine now.

Mind you, I didn't binge watch it all at once. I took short little breaks, never feeling the need to power through them all. And then, BuckTommy happened. All of a sudden, I had a reason to catch up and catch up I did. I can't tell you precisely why I was so drawn to them, but I have some ideas.

For once, we had a pair of equally masculine men showing affection towards each other. Neither of them could be relegated to the "woman" role. They weren't stereotypically effeminate, but they went against the alpha male stereotypes. You had two men who had been mentally neglected all their lives, into adulthood, who came out the other side being people that wanted to serve and protect for all they were worth. They had trauma, but outside of Buck's sex addiction - Buck 1.0 - they didn't let their trauma define them. They showed affection, not just to the women around them, but to their friends and chosen family. They said "I love you" with their actions. Buck was allowed to have "feminine" hobbies without being effeminate, and maybe to some that's not a big deal but to me that is. Tommy, who could be questionably called more effeminate, was allowed to have more stereotypically "masculine" hobbies despite being a Kinsey 6.

That's a huge deal on broadcast TV. The general audience has certain expectations, as much as they sometimes suck - they're not known for being the most progressive folks in the world - so the fact that the show was allowed to stick it to them was just... an amazing experience. As someone who's only other experience with masculine GAY men on TV was Ian and Mickey, whom I love dearly, it was such a nice change of pace. Also, the fact that they're both mature men? Also a huge deal. I love Alec, from Shadowhunter's, but he's still pretty young, and he's known he was gay for a very long time. Patrick and David from Schitt's Creek? They knew, and David(?) still has a very effeminate air about him, despite being confirmed pansexual.

All this is to say, that BuckTommy drew me in until they had a chokehold on me. I started using Tumblr again, started diving back into fanfiction in a way I hadn't since Kuroko no Basuke. I've produced more fics for the 911 fandom in six months than for any other fandom I've ever written for. And I've been in fandoms since circa 2007? And that's insanely impressive. BuckTommy drew me back into broadcast TV. I literally yell at my brother when the show is on to not talk to me, or bother me, for the next hour. I've got like... Four shows I wait for weekly now, TV antenna and all.

BuckTommy's have also been some of the kindest, most interesting, people I've had the pleasure of "knowing." Every single day I have things to look forward to in the tag, whether it's fics, or art, or headcannons, or honestly - my favorite - complaints about how the relationship ended and how the writers done fucked up. You guys are so amazing, and I love all of you that I've ever interacted with.

I'm PRAYING to see Lou, and Tommy, again in 2025, but even if he doesn't, I'm back for the long haul. You guys dragged me back from the brink of destruction after the break-up, I've never lost it over a fictional ship like that before in my LIFE, and I've decided that I'm here for good.

Merry fucking Christmas, and Happy Holidays to you all.

[aesthetictarlos]

I'm serious when I say that bucktommy changed me as a person. I used to stay off socials the day after the episode aired because I hated spoilers (and somehow I always managed to avoid them eheh) but ever since Tommy kissed Buck... Well, I've just woken up and the first thing I did was to open Tumblr and scroll.

It's so good to wake up to a happy dash!!!

Idk when I'll manage to watch the episode but I'm so happy for our guys ❤️ and Buck called him HIS BOYFRIEND OH MY GOD IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME TO BE ALIVE

[here-there-be-fics]

I love the bucktommy fandom 😂

Just woke up to #tommybubblesbuck and laughed while I liked all the comments on the instagram post.

I hate that I miss everything fun in fandom being in the Southern Hemisphere!!!

But also I'm really proud because we're having fun, not being arseholes, having our say in a pretty much united coherant way, all while writing mpreg.

No other fandom could do it quite like us.

My heart is being held together at the seams at the moment and this is easing the pain beyond measure ❤️

[cyborgsara]

Ah how I've missed Lou's interviews where you can really see his train of thought (it's getting derailed but we love it here) 🩷😆

[ilikethe-internet]

Buck when he sees Tommy’s tiddies for the first time

[mintedwitcher]

when the ep airs if everyone could just come here and spoil it for me so I don't have to put myself through another near hour of Pain for the sake of closure that I genuinely do not believe we'll get, that'd be great, thanks bucktommy nation <3

[uraharashusband]

is anyone else getting a bunch of anti Tommy/anti BuckTommy stuff on their feed? i haven’t been interacting with stuff like that but it keeps on popping up. it’s actually really annoying😭.

[poobur79]

Ok now we know there’s a cute deleted BuckTommy scene in the truck post-cemetery. We want to see it, of course we want to see it. We’re all chewing at our bars now after that interview.

But we all know what NOT to do, right?

[tommyandrockersboy]

bucktommy nation is currently crashing out

[here-there-be-fics]

Bucktommy Nation I'm so proud of us for continuing to thrive through the absolute crap being churned out (not you Katey-Lou interview you're perfect).

I could end up being wrong because they do still surprisingly have a chance to turn things around if they are smart but that relies on them being smart about it and....anyway.

But in a way I do have to be thankful that they fumbled so damn badly because all it has done has united and fueled us to create, share and continue to trend on here with barely a wiff of our ship.

We still would have been here flying the flag but I don't think it would have been quite so visceral and motivating to keep going stronger than ever especially when noone would blame us for getting the fuck out. So at least 911 has been the basis for one good thing in these later seasons, because that train wreck of storytelling and media farce is certainly not what any of us wanted.

[starstruckbyacomet]

Happy birthday @silversky9 🎊🎂🎈🥳🍰🎉

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