#Only Buck can bully Ravi

[bidisasterevankinard]

if Gerrard will actually be captain next episode, the very least, and as we saw picture with guest actor and Anirudh, I guess it's possible Ravi will have to work with Gerrard. And as Buck was ready to fight Gerrard for Tommy before Chim step up, I can see him fight Gerrard for Ravi in 7x10 because no one makes racist comments about his family, especially his little brother

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Hi!!!

Here are some fresh sentences for ya.

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Eddie laughs fondly at this one. That had been kind of a crazy, exciting call. And he had thought of Chris the whole time, wanting to tell him about it. He still could, he supposes. But he’s glad to know Buck did, when it happened. Eddie doesn’t know why he hasn’t tried to tell him about it. Maybe he’s been scared to make it sound like he had any fun at all while Chris was away. 

The thing is, he did, though. Not that it wouldn’t have been better if Chris was there. It would have been. But the call was crazy and kind of fun in its uniqueness. The hike at Salton Sea that Buck had arranged was fun, too. And there were more days where Buck dragged him to something to get his mind of Chris and Kim and Marisol and every other fucked up thing going through his head, only for him to come away feeling something resembling happiness. 

Take, for example, the next post card. Eddie knows why Buck picked it the moment he sees the sunset and palm trees front and the font reading Malibu, California, in the top corner. Buck had dragged him to Malibu during a four-off, made them stay in an AirBNB, despite how close it was to home, and somehow convinced him to spend a weekend falling off a surfboard, drinking beer, and getting badly sunburnt on his shoulders. It was a fantastic weekend. Eddie can’t even feel guilty about how much he’d enjoyed it. 

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Like life, sometimes it makes it easier if Ravi reflects back on cancer with a textbook view of his experience. When people ask him how he can be so optimistic or easygoing about the whole thing, he doesn’t tell them this is the trick. He always gives a lame excuse about the power of a good attitude.

The real power is in shutting the cover on it.

He wrote about it in his college entrance essays with this same scholarly detachment. It wasn’t hard. He has always been a strong writer. A symptom of so many years without much else to do than read, write, and listen to others talk, whether in person or on TV. 

Neuroblastoma - a type of cancer that forms in certain types of nerve tissue. It is the third most common type of cancer in children, presenting in about one in seven thousand. Estimates say it is responsible for about fifteen percent of cancer related deaths in children. 

It’s usually detected before kids turn five, especially when it's on the spine or in the stomach. Ravi’s was in his chest. When he had difficulty breathing, he was diagnosed with asthma. He was almost eight by the time they figured it out. 

When Ravi wrote about that part of it all in his college essay, he turned it into a commentary piece on the dangers of misdiagnosis. After all, it’s what led his tumor to grow to a point that made surgery and treatment more complicated, where he might have had a far easier go of it at four or five. He wrote about that and it made him seem wise and reflective, someone whose personal experiences as a child might make him a vigilant adult. He didn’t whine and complain about how years of frailty dismissed as something that shouldn’t require more than a puffer earned him a reputation for weakness, how he was excluded and smaller than the other boys his age, including his little brother. He didn’t recount being bullied, and he certainly never named the ringleader of those bullies. Anil. 

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“I can order something for myself,” Buck tells him. “Maybe you could go home for a while.”

“Go home?” Tommy asks. “Is someone else stopping by to make sure you’re okay?”

“I’m okay.” Buck says. 

Tommy furrows his brows. “I’m not sure that you are.”

“Listen, I-I just need to be alone for a while.” Buck explains. “I need to call Christopher.”

“You can’t call Christopher with someone in the apartment to keep an eye on you?” Tommy asks skeptically. 

“No.” Buck replies.

“Well, why not?”

“Because it’s a family thing!” Buck snaps.  Tommy’s expression stiffens. Buck immediately feels like an ass.

[chronicowboy]

fuck it friday!

too impatient to wait to be tagged (but i was tagged by @try-set-me-on-fire and @alyxmastershipper for the poll thing but seen as this is my one and only wip at the moment i won't be doing that) and it's literally been friday for twenty minutes but i don't care because i finally got chim involved in the heartbreaking conversations and it might be the best one yet so....

"Hey, can I talk to you for a sec?" he asks quietly like somebody is going to jump out from behind a door with a hidden camera.

"Of course," Karen replies, probably already thinking about the tequila in her purse.

"Oh, uh, no." Eddie blinks. "Sorry, I was talking to Chim." He only feels a little bad about the hurt on Karen's face, more amused by the utter bemusement in her wide eyes.

"Sure, you can talk to me," Chim says slowly, squinting between them. His eyes catch on something behind Eddie. It's Maddie, Eddie knows by the way his eyes soften. It's the same thing that happens to him when he sees Buck. "Hey, Jee, look who's over there."

"Mama!" Jee squeals, wriggling all the way as Chim lowers her to the floor. She's off like a shot as soon as Chim lets her go, and Maddie crouches down to catch her in a perfectly practised move, spinning her around as she peppers her face with kisses.

"Okay, bud." Chim slaps him on the shoulder and brushes past him towards the reception. "Let's talk."

Eddie bullies him into a remote corner hidden by some large, assumably fake plant and slaps on his most threatening scowl.

"You are not to say a fucking thing about what I'm going to ask you," Eddie warns him. "No Chimney comments, no shit-eating remarks, nothing. Got it?"

"Well, hey now." Chim frowns. "I don't know what I'm agreeing to here. What if you're about to tell me you, Eddie Diaz, are cursed?"

"Mierda," Eddie hisses, backing Chim up against the wall with another step.

"Oh, my God. Eddie, are you about to tell me you've been cursed?" He grins, every bit as smug and shit-eating as Eddie had feared. "Waitwaitwait. Let me get my phone out to record—"

"I'm in love with Buck," Eddie says then. It's entirely unplanned, Eddie knows because he freezes just as much as Chimney does. It's entirely unplanned, but it's a goddamn effective way to get Chimney to shut the fuck up.

"What?" Chim chokes out, eyes wide and alarmed like he's already anticipating blurting it out to half the wedding party.

"Okay, now do I have your attention?" Eddie rolls his eyes, hopes to God it's enough to play it off. Chimney's shoulders relax a little, so he takes it as a win. "Look, I don't know what the fuck is going on with me and I hate what I'm about to bring upon myself by telling you this, but there's really no other option at this point." He sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. "I'm either psychic or trapped in a time loop."

Chimney cackles. It's a full on witch's cackle, a belly laugh that bubbles up from deep inside him like he's been waiting for Eddie to cave since Ravi had uttered the dreaded Q word—briefly, Eddie spares a solemn thought for the other, more dreaded Q word he'd caved to somewhere along the way, a word he may have acquainted himself with sooner if it weren't for a spilled coffee and an ice pack.

tagging some lovely people sooo prematurely so i guess just keep this one in the bank for friday if you've got something to share ??? @danielsousa @butchdiaz @diazass @shitouttabuck

[maygrcnt]

Let’s see the Olivia 911 song list

thank youuuuu for asking i love you!! i know i said five but i didn’t want to stop at five so i did ten. also im gonna try and refrain myself from just saying every song is a buck song but it’s hard

1. Brutal- seasons 1-3 May. I feel like we as a collective don’t talk about the early seasons of may grant enough. she was just a kid! and she was being bullied so bad she thought she didn’t have any way out of it, it’s so heartbreaking. and then she just kept going through stuff in her family life and… i just care for her so much and this is HER song fr.

2. Deja Vu- Buddie. there’s no like actual moment of buddie for deja vu but i just feel like this is what’s going through both of their heads every single time the other person has a date with someone else. like this is the one and only buddie jealousy song to me!

3. Vampire- Buck/abby. like i’m sorry you can’t convince me buck abby was an ethical relationship and im NOT talking about the age gap even though that’s the main point of this song. like she got his info in a sketchy way and then basically used him to help her heal until she was ready to move on but then didn’t even have the guts to do an actual breakup and left the kid hanging for months. call me a bitch but i feel very comfortable saying she sucked so much of his energy and life. it took two full seasons for him to fully find closure from that while she had started a whole new life! :/

4. Stranger- Buck/abby again lol. this is like the other side of that argument where it’s like, buck was totally crushed but now in season seven who the fuck cares about her! she’s just a stranger now! and the lyric “you are the best thing i keep so far out of my life” is very them. because she did change his outlook on life in MANY ways but his healing from her was the best thing he could have ever done.

5. logical & enough for you- maddie. my heart breaks listening to these songs from a maddie perspective. thinking about how long she suffered and dealt with so much she didn’t deserve,,, these are the best songs for her imo especially the lyric “one day i’ll be everything for somebody else” because she is she really is! and she’s getting married to the person who looks at her like she hung the moon and i love her!!!

6. Making the bed- eddie, specifically pre canon eddie. idk how to explain this one but it’s very much just the idea of him getting back to his son realizing how shit things are and being like … i had a part in making this problem and now i need to fix my shit. and then he did!

7. 1sf3sb- henren in the early seasons/precanon. the cheating storyline is one of my least favs but i love how they showed them rebuilding from it and coming back even stronger. but in the midst of it all this song is truly very them from karen’s perspective. she was valid for everything during that time btw karen is a literal saint for her patience.

8. boahsg- ravi, our little clumsy socially awkward darling

9. Love is embarrassing- Bisexual buck!!!!!! this is my fav liv song and it’s so buck it’s not even funny. the anthem for the give more than they get hopeless romantics oh god i love him and it became way way more buck when he kissed a man who’s kind of a loser. i bet he’s planning out his wedding with a guy he’s never marrying right now!

10. finally, the newest addition to my list and the most important in my mind: Scared of my guitar the most buddie song to ever buddie (other than good luck babe). I love this song so much coming from the perspective of them literally not being able to lie to each other but they can lie to significant others like it’s nothing. oh there’s so much good stuff in there it’s amazing.

thank you for letting me do this anon ily

[alchemistc]

Please be aware I am two screening this bitch, I haven't pulled out my second screen since I quit my desk job.

"He's like a one-man Suicide Squad."

When I tell you I've never heard a more accurate description of Evan Buckley IN MY LIFE.

they watch as Vincent Gerrard uses the distraction of B Shift heading home to duck behind one of the engines a grinning demon rounds the corner and makes a bee-line for him

This is what I'm picturing in this moment:

"So, which one of you said 'spreadsheet' three times in a mirror?"

WHY IS RAVI THE FUNNIEST PERSON ALIVE

"He's everywhere, always, just waiting for you to slip up."

Eddie your latent Catholicism is showing

It's the only clipboard that has ever fucked.

Yeah actually YOU are the funniest person who has ever existed I cannot describe the wheeze I wheezed but both of my tiny dogs and my very large boyfriend were legitimately concerned I was going to stop breathing when I read this.

Tommy had pulled it out of a bag and presented it on one knee like he was proposing, or bestowing a sword to a king. The entire brewery was then given front-row seats to an intense game of tonsil hockey that nearly went into overtime until Eddie threatened to call Athena because Bobby looked like he was seriously reconsidering sobriety

The freak4freak agenda is real

T.K. 07:27am: I'm offering 3 nights of free babysitting to the first person who delivers

Not Tommy offering up free babysitting KNOWING that what Clipboard Buck does for him, "Uncle Tommy" does for Buck, OH YOU NASTY THOMAS KINARD

Tommy's typing indicator appears, then disappears. Then appears and disappears again. Then appears—

Me: Oh they're perfect for each other. Chim, .5 seconds later:

"Those two were made in a lab for each other, I swear to god."

And now I'm emotional and also losing my shit with laughter.

"Don't worry, Melanie! This is something to bring up during Thursday's workplace conflict seminar."

Evan Buckley no one is doing it like you.

"[...]Just need you to sign off on everything. Sir."

Yeah Tommy isn't the only one getting something out of this. Hot damn Buckley.

If he sees his shadow on the firehouse wall, it's 6 more hours of bullshit.

STFU I'm so obsessed with your turns of phrase and the complete irreverence of your humor, I want to shove you into a wall and gently forehead kiss you. Consensually.

"Three nights of free babysitting? I'm not proud."

Lies, Hen, you know this is gonna get Buck laid, and then Tommy laid, this is mutually beneficial for ALL THREE OF YOU.

Buck looks up, flashes a grin, and the second he clocks the phone he salutes it with the clipboard.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall the day Buck realizes his completely uncontrollable Control Freak double identity is a turn on for his boyfriend and he realizes he can weaponize it for good AND evil.

"I'm not a probie anymore," Ravi whines. "You can't haze me like this."

Baby boy you signed on to work with the biggest team of gentle bullies this side of the Rockies, you'd better get used to this shit.

"You do this and I'll make sure you're not sitting anywhere near Buck and Tommy when Taylor drops the bomb about Gerrard and Ortiz."

Absolutely fucking obsessed with how every single one of them has come to accept that their two weirdo friends are just so DOWN BAD for each other that they will inevitably horn it up in public for increasingly batshit reasons.

'Oh, Buck's ex who they enlisted in secret and who probably spent a month in Buck's kitchen red-stringing tentative leads while they eye-fucked each other is about to get their hateful boss fired? Yeah they're gonna make out about it shamelessly in the middle of Hen's kitchen.'

(Karen has a spray bottle labelled "Improbable Kink Stopper" literally just for Buck and Tommy)

I swear to fucking god I want to make out with your brain.

I'm also gonna blame you for my cough acting up again but it's possible I laughed so hard I actually dislodged some stubborn mucus so thank you, maybe?

Return of the Mack

For @alchemistc. Hope you feel better soon!

At the fire academy, three things are beaten out of every trainee: fear, a normal sleep schedule, and the social influences that prevent one from intervening in the event of an emergency. Some have jokingly called the third one the Anti-Bystander Effect, because if someone needs assistance—whether it's to stop an assault, run into a burning building, or help a little old lady find a quarter she dropped—a firefighter will immediately rush in to save the day. It's a special brand of classical conditioning that instills an elevated sense of responsibility in every trainee, and it's paid in full by the state of California.

Which is why it's so odd for there to be three capable firefighters standing around doing nothing while there's an old man clearly in need of dire assistance. If the LAFD higher-ups knew they were actively choosing to watch the carnage unfold instead of lifting a finger to help, they'd all be shitcanned. 

Luckily, there's a fourth firefighter on the scene doing the absolute most. 

"I thought we made a pact to keep him from using his powers for evil," Eddie says, taking a dispassionate sip of his coffee. 

"Is it evil if he's actually using them in service of a greater good?" Hen's attention is half on what's going down and half on the Notes app on her phone, where she's typing out the week's grocery list. "You know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend?"

Draped over the railing like his bones have melted, Chimney gives a sage nod. "He's like a one-man Suicide Squad." 

In the apparatus bay, they watch as Vincent Gerrard uses the distraction of B Shift heading home to duck behind one of the engines, most likely to regroup after being thoroughly ambushed the second he stepped into the station five minutes ago. He slumps back and breathes. The moment of weakness costs him: a grinning demon rounds the corner and makes a bee-line for him as though he can taste blood in the air.

"So, which one of you said 'spreadsheet' three times in a mirror?" Ravi sidles up next to Chimney and unwraps a breakfast burrito from Delia's. 

Chimney gives him the stink-eye. "I hope you brought enough for the whole class."

"Nope," Ravi says, taking a cheerful bite.

"None of us summoned him," Eddie says. He leans down to try and catch the conversation being had, but he's too high up. For a second, he thinks he hears the words 'crack whore' but it's probably a trick of the bay's acoustics. "He's everywhere, always, just waiting for you to slip up."

"Like the Devil," Hen says in agreement.

"Or Santa," Chimney adds.

Ravi chews thoughtfully. "I thought we threw out all the clipboards. Who gave him that one?"

"Tommy," Eddie, Hen, and Chimney say through a simultaneous, long-suffering sigh. 

It's not just any clipboard. It's the king of clipboards. It's the only clipboard that has ever fucked. The thing is a navy blue polycarbonate beast with "Buckley 118" embossed in fire engine red on the back, and the clip looks like it was forged in the fires of Staples HQ. 

At the bi-weekly Beer and Bitch Night last Friday at Golden Road Pub, Tommy had pulled it out of a bag and presented it on one knee like he was proposing, or bestowing a sword to a king. The entire brewery was then given front-row seats to an intense game of tonsil hockey that nearly went into overtime until Eddie threatened to call Athena because Bobby looked like he was seriously reconsidering sobriety.

"Does he know what he's unleashed?" Ravi sounds genuinely curious. 

As if on cue, Chimney's, Eddie's, and Hen's phones chime with three incoming messages. 

T.K. 07:26am: Has it started? T.K. 07:26am: Remember: you promised one of you would film it T.K. 07:27am: I'm offering 3 nights of free babysitting to the first person who delivers

That last one is followed by a gif of J. Jonah Jameson shouting "Bring me Spiderman!"

Hen frowns down at her phone. "Who the hell is that?"

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," Chimney mutters.

H.W. 07:28am: Why are you so desperate for video?  E.D. 07:28am: What 40-something year old still uses pinky swears? H.H. 07:28am: Clipboard Buck better not be a weird sex thing for you, Kinard

Tommy's typing indicator appears, then disappears. Then appears and disappears again. Then appears—

"Yeah, no." Chimney hastily pockets his phone. "Those two were made in a lab for each other, I swear to god."

Down in the bay, Gerrard has moved to stand almost directly underneath them. While they can't hear what Gerrard says to Melanie Wu, an electrician so talented she could probably take down the entire grid with her eyes closed, that puts such a dour expression on her face, they can hear it when Buck, popping up behind Gerrard like an insane Jack-in-the-box, and says, "Don't worry, Melanie! This is something to bring up during Thursday's workplace conflict seminar."

"What seminar?!"

Buck isn't cowed. He taps his clipboard and says, "The one I scheduled with Chief Alonso. You know, the mandatory one we all need to do in order to keep our certification—well, we'll keep it as long as nothing comes up during the seminar that might call into question our ability to do the job."

There's a charged moment where it almost looks like Gerrard might take a swing at Buck, but then he notices the audience hanging above him like a Greek chorus and shouts, "Someone'd better top off the fuel and DEF or—"

"Already done, Cap." Buck makes a show of turning to the second page on his clipboard and lists off, "All fuel, DEF, oil, and coolant are set. Tires have been aired up. Hoses have been drained and cleaned, and re-rolled. Engines were all waxed yesterday, all medical supplies have been inventoried and stocked, and I've made a list of the harnesses and cutting torches that need replacing. Just need you to sign off on everything. Sir."

The ingratiating smile on Buck's face would fool even the wiliest of senior officers, and Gerrard himself looks like even he's not sure if what just happened was disrespectful, but they know better. 

"Diabolical," Ravi whispers, awed. 

Hissing through his teeth, Gerrard spins on his heel and storms away in the direction of the little office in the administrative section of the firehouse where he's taken to holing up like a miserable groundhog until they get a call that forces him back out. If he sees his shadow on the firehouse wall, it's 6 more hours of bullshit.

As soon as he's gone, all the firefighters that had stopped to watch the show burst into laughter and applause, and Buck cracks up, taking sweeping bows and blowing kisses to his adoring fans. 

Chimney rolls his eyes and looks to see what Hen's expression is doing, because no one gives good face like she does, but she's holding her phone in a way that clearly means—

"You're filming this?" Chimney demands, betrayed.

She gives an unrepentant shrug. "Three nights of free babysitting? I'm not proud."

Buck looks up, flashes a grin, and the second he clocks the phone he salutes it with the clipboard. Then he struts after Gerrard, calling almost lazily, "Cap, wait up! I wanted to talk about setting up a mock exam for everyone who's planning on taking the TCFP D/O!"

They all watch him go. Silently, Hen sends off the video with the air of someone about to make a drug drop. 

"So, when does Taylor Kelly's exposé come out again?" Eddie makes a dubious face in the direction of the administrative offices. "Because I don't know that Gerrard won't off himself before it does."

"We win either way," Chimney points out. 

"It comes out next Monday," Hen says, slipping her phone into her pocket and elbowing Chimney in the arm on her way to the stairs. "Karen and I are hosting a watch party that night and you're all invited."

Ravi beams. "Thanks, Hen. I'll definitely be there."

"And you'll be bringing dinner from Taco Azteca—for everybody. Make sure you get enough carne," Chimney calls over his shoulder as he follows Hen. 

"I'm not a probie anymore," Ravi whines. "You can't haze me like this."

Snickering, Eddie pats him on the shoulder and says, "You do this and I'll make sure you're not sitting anywhere near Buck and Tommy when Taylor drops the bomb about Gerrard and Ortiz."

"Extra al pastor and buche it is!"

[archerincombat]

ok but for ravi's graduation ceremony at the 118 they all pitch in and buy him a blåhaj

please i'm going to burst into tears

"Ravi," Buck hisses, "Just—just come over here for a second."

Ravi's long since given up on trying to understand his coworkers-that-border-on-family. Buck is hiding behind the locker room; the small hallway that leads to the bunks, and Eddie's poking his head out over his shoulder.

It's pretty quiet around the station—Ravi's graduation ceremony was earlier, but everyone's left now so all that remains are pink and blue ribbons and half a cake that reads "You Panikkan!"—and even though he's no longer a probie as of four hours ago, Buck is making him sweep the floor for confetti anyway.

"What?" Ravi asks, brandishing his broom like a weapon. Buck's holding something behind his back. "That'd better not be a chainsaw."

"It's not!" Buck protests, and behind him, there are several muffled sounds of protest, "Ow, Hen, that was my foot!". "It's better!"

"Buck," Eddie says placatingly, patting his...whatever's shoulder. "Maybe, don't talk about the chainsaw as better...or good."

Behind Ravi, there are footsteps. Immediately, Ravi knows they're Bobby's, and then he kind of hates that he knows that, because he still gets Marcus and Avi mixed up sometimes, and he'd like to think he spends more time at home than with the 118.

(Obviously, he doesn't. But he'd like to think so.)

"What's going on?" Bobby asks, and in tandem, they walk over to the hidden corner. Buck, Eddie, Chimney, and Hen are all gathered looking pleased with themselves, though they're all squished together...definitely hiding something.

In Ravi's experience, that usually means he's about to get bullied (affectionate, but also a little derogatory). "What is it?" he asks. "Are you going to confess to switching up the graduation song to Party in the U.S.A.?"

"It's a gay anthem."

"It's literally not, Buck." Ravi shakes his head, mystified. "How do you—"

"Anyway," Hen interrupts—that grin with teeth that screams I am the only woman in this friend group and I can't escape. "We have something for you, Ravi." She pushes Buck forward and he stumbles a little.

"We got you a stuffed shark," Buck announces, pulling out a two-foot-long stuffed animal out from behind him. "Because you're j—"

"Oh my god!" Ravi exclaims. "Is that a Blåhaj?"

"—awsome," Buck finishes, frowning. "What's a Blåhaj?"

"He's a Blåhaj," Ravi says, waving his hands to emphasize his point. Eddie looks vaguely amused, Hen looks proud but also like she'd like to go back to studying for Med School, and Chim smacks his gum. "I'm naming him Sharky."

"You're not fucking naming him—"

"I am," Ravi declares, because it's incredibly fun to annoy Buck. "He's perfect."

"You're welcome," the 118 declares all together—Ravi really does not need that to become part of his personality, thank you. Bobby shakes his head, mystified, and Eddie takes the broom from him with a smile, prodding Buck as he goes.

Sharky doesn't fit in Ravi's locker, so he sticks him in his duffle bag and leaves the zipper open so that he can breathe, snapping a picture and sending it to Sebastian: look!

Nice! comes the response. You named him sharky?

just like we talked about, lol. worked perfectly. Because the two foot long thing has been sticking out the window of Buck's jeep for the last week, and even though he parks in the back, it's less than inconspicuous.

He hangs it up in his room, right next to his shield.

[sunflowerdigs]

Abbreviated Race Rant

I want to say that I'm surprised that fandom is being way less understanding of Chim and Athena acting out because of stress and trauma than it is of Buck, but I'm not.

If I see one more post that goes on and on about poor Buck's trauma and low self-esteem and how those were the things that drove him to "playfully" bully Ravi, only to ask at the end "but what's up with Athena? Why are they making her so unlikable? I just don't get it", I will scream.

(Guess what? "Strong" black women can also deal with trauma poorly).

If I see one more post call for an apology to Buck from Chim while at the same time ignoring that Buck never apologized to Ravi (AND didn't even get called out for his wrongdoing - instead, he had his self-esteem boosted by an understanding team), I will scream.

(Buck isn't the only one who deserves to be handled with kid gloves when he's being an ass because he's upset about something. He is not the only one who deserves gentleness when he's hurting, even when that hurt is expressed through lashing out. Minority characters, too, deserve these things).

This is how racism in fandom tends to show itself. It's which characters are assumed to be basically good ones who sometimes go through rough patches and which characters are immediately assumed to be malicious as soon as they step a toe out of line. It's which characters are instantly forgiven for harassment and intimidation and which get called abusers and bullies. It's which ones are offered understanding and which ones are just written off as bad.

Just...think about it.

[ickletheficklepickle]

Things I failed to noticed the first go around because I was to caught up in the moment:  Also cause I watch it with other people in the house and we chatter like there’s no tomorrow.  Also- I need to do something to get me out of my funk. 

-THE PROBIE! Ravi! I hope we get to see him more. The scenes he had in Season 4 were gold. Especially the Treasure Hunt episode. How he was like, “Oh I don’t know these guys”. But now it’ll be nice to see him in action too. So when he popped up, I’m like “YAY!” It is important to note-he did help Buck when Athena persuaded him to get her into the burning building to help Bobby.  -Toni outta the cuts, “Anybody up for whiskey?” Let us be friends haha. Cept you can have Whiskey, I’ll have Vodka haha.  - Karen wrote an algorithm, she knows a guy. Is she secretly a spy in her spare time? But she’s right, with what she said about our lives with the automotive system. I talked to my dad about it all the time. How we are so dependent now on these electronics and all that, and when it doesn’t work-it just like the world has gone to shit.  -Also why do these kids LOOK ALL GROWN UP! - I squealed when Jee-Yun was on screen. She is do damn cute. I just can’t.  - Totally forgot about Athena and that thing she did in Season 1. With May’s Bully and the incident at the house with the drugs. That was not her finer moments-the Mama Bear Instinct to Protect my Child took over and the rational thinking went out the window. So when he brought that up, I was like, “Oh yeah..that happened.” I mainly forgot everything that happened in Season 1 because it was just angst and everything the characters did made me sooo mad or like get second hand embarrassment. Also when I re-watching episodes I only focus on seasons 2 or 3 and some episodes from Season 4. Then I go, “Wait...didn’t Chim have an accident somewhere?” Then remember it was in Season 1 haha.  Also  I’ll see a gif and I’ll go “When did that happen?”  Oh yeah in Season 1. It’s almost as if everything that happened in Season 1 has been buried deep in my memories until someone brings it up and I’ll be like, “Wait what?” give me a second to catch back up. (When I got my friend into it and she was watching Season 1, I had to like dive into my memories and go-oh yeah...Chimney really did have a rebar go through his head)  Anyways- so when she went to that other house the first thing I said was like, “Camera on please?!” I mean come on.  There’s going to be some things going on with Athena this season. I don’t think they’ll drag the Harry being kidnapped storyline-least that is my hope. Anything with kids- I can’t do. Like I’ll watch it but I will probably be sick to my stomach until they find him.    She also almost shoots her Ex-Husband in one of the promos. I bet you she will go off the rails to find her son. And that is going to bite her in the butt.  Athena as well hasn’t processed what happened to her when she was attacked. That nightmare she had proves that.   -May, I found out and more of her being a dispatcher think that is so awesome, to see her more as a dispatcher and her role into that.  That doctor saying Hi to Eddie, while he was on duty, that is a major Hippa violation. The man is on duty and now you distracted him and his co-worker. Like, she shouldn’t have done that. Right?!  I get why the writers went that way because then we wouldn’t have that Buck and Eddie argument. BUT if they wanted them to do that- they could’ve gone another way without the doctor calling Eddie out.  He was already acting off at the Airplane tower which Chimney noticed. He could’ve just as well asked and then, bring in Buck.  And- sooo if 4 months have passed is Hen getting anywhere near being a doctor? Like hello? Where are we going with that story line? Did we forget that? Or? They did such a good job with the episode with Hen being the one to stand up for HER mom and getting her what she needed.  So, where is that?