#anti-kinkley

[can-i-get-a-yippee]

I guess my whole beef with the whole buckt*mmy convo is that they could’ve easily built up their relationship in that moment and made it a scene where Buck leaned on T*mmy emotionally and grown more emotionally intimate.

Bc Bobby is one of the most important people in Buck’s life, and he mentions that Bobby is like a father to him.

And like instead of adding emotionally depth to their relationship with the convo, it just became joking convo about daddy issues that ended in asex joke one liner that just really didn’t fit the tone of the episode overall :/

[starstruckbyacomet]

The Underdog

They thought he was a himbo. A pretty face on a great body, with decent acting skills. Good enough to be the love interest of the main character for several episodes.

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It was a surprise when he rejected a full make out session. He opted for a gentle first kiss instead. It should be their first clue.

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He added a thoughtful detail to the scene. People noticed and loved it. The kiss went viral.

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At first, it was his good look which caught our eyes...

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Soon enough, his nuanced acting and thoughtful subtleties kept our attention.

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Within the limited dialogues and screen time he was given, he told the story through his soulful eyes and his micro expressions. We got the messages and we adored him.

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But they never wanted him to stay long. His time was measured. He had to say goodbye and walked away. And he took our hearts with him.

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So, when he turned his back on the door, we also turned our backs on the show.

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[aaronsinferno]

Bucktommy is some good ass fucking food when you don’t have non gay/bi men in your ear, projecting, telling you how mlm relationships should be, and using themselves as stand-ins for either character. Like, when people aren’t pulling out their hair, foaming at the mouth while intentionally mischaracterizing or purposely misinterpreting everything that’s happening on screen because it doesn’t fit their narrative, BuckTommy as a whole really really is some good fucking food.

I love it here 🙂‍↔️

[kinardsheart]

just buck who spent the better half of the show with his self sacrificing behaviours and not letting people help letting tommy help him without even so much as a thank you becayse he KNOWS he deserves it now

[kinardsboy]

I’m just so tired of the homophobia in this fandom, it’s so obviously clear that bobs do not give a shit about representation or real life queer men. Infact is go as far to say that if they ever actually met irl queer men they wouldnt like us. To them we are just there for their enjoyment and we have to stick within rigid guidelines of how to act and how to treat our partners.

They get deeply uncomfortable with any real visual expression of gay sex or even sexual innuendos. I wouldnt be surprised IF there ever was a buddie “sex scene” theyd call it out of character because its not the heteronormative sex they think of when they see buddie lol

I’ve truly never experienced such outright blatant homophobia before from people who claim to love queer men and want representation. first off Tevan IS representation, and there has been representation since the show began. Just because you are pushing for a ship between two men doesnt mean you cannot be homophobic. Especially when you ignore queer men repeatedly telling you that YOU are being homophobic. Its not about “disliking” Tommy. You can dislike him without being homophobic. Its about calling a gay man a PREDATOR for showing desire to his adult boyfriend. Its about calling a canon ship between two men a derogatory term just because you dont like it, then laughing at it. Its about wanting a gay man to DIE because he gets in the way of your ship between a bi man and a straight man. So please, quit acting like you care about queer men or our representation. Because you dont. You care about this ship and thats it.

[bidisasterevankinard]

I need Tommy who already showed how bitchy he can be, be bitchy to Buckleys. Please, abc 🥺 I get that Chim needed to make good impression in 4s, yet he still was quick to protect Maddie. But now I need partner who like "you might forgave, but I hate them till they die". Or at least eventually something like when Karen got angry on Tony in 5s because she was protective over past Hen who was heartbroken that her mother never was on her wedding

[eddiediazismyhusband]

i need there to be more rat-man bashing fics out there bc im tired of reading post-breakup fics that paint that relationship as some beautiful dreamlike thing that happened to Buck before he got to Eddie, when it’s like A) that’s not what has been shown in the show at all…. B) yall love to write taylor bashing fics (no judgement i love a good taylor/ana bashing fic but lets keep the same energy people)… C) some of yall make it seem like Buck was in some kind of perfect relationship that just ‘wasn’t meant to be’ and im like do yall even ship buddie atp????

like even the handful of fics that are tagged as tomato-bashing, it’s like…. just him being portrayed as how he is in canon??? like where is the energy of like ramping thst shit to the max like we do with every other former LI??? like just because he’s a gay man doesn’t mean he should be immune from criticism or from general fic-writing tropes???

especially w the way some of yall write eddie as this aggressive ball of anger issues as if he hasn’t progressed past that since season 3 meanwhile certain characters are still displaying that cocky, arrogant, dismissive attitude they’ve had since they started (👀👀👀) but yall don’t wanna write that yall write him to be this ultra-caring, soft, knight-in-shining armor type of guy when that’s literally not even canonical to his characterization 😭😭😭

anyway, write more t-bashing fics please bc i need it for the soul

i need 7x4 rewrites where buck gets freaked out bc he was conscious about his desire for eddie and he doesn’t know why t-rex thought it was okay to kiss him

i need 7x5 rewrites where buck comes out to eddie and tells him about that date and eddie is like “fuck him that’s bullshit how dare he”

i need 7x6 or 7x9 rewrites where buck confronts him about constantly belittling things that excite him

i need 7x10 rewrites where buck gets upset and throws him out of that dinner bc of that joke

like give me yall standing up for buck since yall love him so much don’t give me that “it was the happiest relationship he was ever in and he got treated so well” bullshit when taylor kelly of all people was a better romantic partner than Tylenol 😭💀

addendum: upon re-reading the above implies that i do not care about buck— i would like to assure you that i do in fact love buck more than my own life which is why i want better for my boy, but there are people who claim to love buck and will simultaneously deadname him and to those people im like you don’t get buck the way i get buck

[tedious-waffle]

I swear some of you dont know how tumblr works jfc. If you tag something “anti bucktommy” it WILL appear in fucking “bucktommy” searches. You put a space between the words, thats how tumblr searches workkkk. Make it one word, ie “antibucktommy” and stop clogging the tag jfc

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

"You don't ship Buddie?"

Then: Meh, don't have no dog in that fight. Just here for Firefam.

Now: Ngl, kinda rooting against it purely because of shippers. Some of y'all are cool AF and make me want to ship them, but some of y'all make me want to make a blood sacrifice to ensure it never happens.

[sterekorgtfo]

Buck: I’m bisexual, I have a boyfriend, and it’s Tommy Kinard.

Chim: Oh! Gross! That’s absolutely disgusting Buck! You should be ashamed!

Buck: ???

Buck: How are you possibly being homophobic right now? Hen is your best friend in the whole world.

Chim: Homophobic!? I would never!

Chim: It’s Tommy I’m disgusted of.

Buck: So you think I can do better than Tommy?

Chim: Good point.

Chim: No.

[illusionary6969]

Bro these buddie fans are pushing buddie so hard. the latest ep had so much bucktommy in it, strengthening their relationship and yall just turn it into buddie. These buddie fans keep on trying to find the smallest detail possible for there delusions. Even if buddie does ever happen can’t y’all wait for Eddie to reconcile with his kid. The reason he left was Because of eddies relationships. If Eddie got in a relationship now it would deteriorate Chris and Eddie relationship even more. Chris is likely not going to trust Eddie for a while. If buddie happens it happens (hopefully not) but atleast wait till Eddie is in a better mindset jeez. Also these shippers really trying to make everything bout buddie just watch the show and enjoy it don’t ruin it for other people and certainly don’t send death threats to people or actors. That is absolutely disgusting 🤮. No hate to most buddie shippers just stating my opinion

[starstruckbyacomet]

Before 8x06: Lou has been harrased, and even sent death threats (link), by toxic Buddie shippers for months. Tim and Oliver seemed to do nothing, not even asked ABC to delete hateful comments towards Lou in social media.

In 8x06: Tim made Tommy broke Buck's heart, made him the bad guy in the story (link). In an interview, Lou said he has expected backlash from fans (link).

After 8x06 aired: The General Audience is angry at Tim for bad writing, and at Oliver for perpetuating a negative bisexual stereotype (link). The only one who doesn't look bad in the fall out is Lou.

It is ironic how things turn out. I believe it's Karma at work.

(IMPORTANT)

[shadows-and-starlight]

For those who didn't hear it the first time, I'll say it again. Sexualizing the trauma brought on by neglectful fathers is gross. Combining sex and a pseudo-father relationship is also messed up. The age gap becomes a bit questionable when they put this into the relationship.

For real, go back and watch season 4 and all the pain that Buck went through when his parents showed back up. Now tell me that it's cool if an older man comes along and sexualizes that hurt. That's not a thing to portray as sexy, it's twisted.

Buck may not be real, but if you weren't born yesterday, you know that media does not exist in a vacuum. What these stories portray and promote affect people.

So Ryan Murphy and the others are not off the hook. They're gonna have to answer to every young woman and man who is tired of seeing their pain and family trauma played off as "kinky" or desirable by older men.

[starstruckbyacomet]

🔥THIS! ALL OF THIS !!!🔥

They made us care about Tommy because they aimed for the maximum emotional impact on us. It feels like their way to say, "Surprise! You didn't see it coming, did you? Haha! Look how smart we are."

Yes, they are smart. And I'm done with them. I'm not rewarding the people who broke my heart just to show that they were smarter than me. I'm done with this little show. Unless they bring Tommy back on screen, I'm not watching. Because it is the only way to fix this mess, after they let him being harrased for months, only to make him the bad guy in the end (link). And for what??? So they can shoot #LetBuckF–k scenes ala Wedding Crashers as suggested oh-so-eagerly by their golden boy (link)???

@loulovingho Thank you for writing this down and sharing it to us. We feel seen 🙏🙏🙏.

Fell asleep then woke back up still pissed, because:

Tim was clear when he decided on bi buck, Tommy was chosen on purpose. Someone who fit in with the team already and could fit in Buck’s life. It solved the outsider problem.

They wrote Chimney talking about how cool he was, made him and Eddie friends, had Eddie invite him to a virtual bday party, had Bobby give a huge stamp of approval saying Tommy was good for Buck, that he was good people. Made a big deal of the wedding/coming out scene.

They could have made this an off screen breakup at the beginning of season 8. Honestly, I would have accepted it better. But they brought Tommy back, showed again how he fit with Buck’s world. Showed there was no hostility between him and Eddie. They showed Tommy going above and beyond for Buck, sleeping on a couch with too small of a blanket, doting on him, staring at him with so much love, “breaking the curse,” etc.

I don’t buy Tommy’s lame excuse for breaking it off. That’s such crappy, high school writing. This man is 40 fucking years old, he’s six months into this relationship, and I’m supposed to believe he just suddenly decides he and Buck aren’t made to last? That Buck needs other partners? Please!

It also pisses me off that they had him get Buck basketball game tickets for their anniversary. He has got to know by now that Buck doesn’t actually like basketball. And why even have Abby be part of it at all? That was all part of the red string of fate theory, so it felt like an extra slap in the face to include it in their breakup.

The whole thing was so poorly executed, and it seems wrong that they had Oliver and Lou do a whole ass interview at the end of 7 to just… go nowhere in 8. Then have Lou do two exit interviews when he’s not a main anyway, so it feels worse to actually hear from him (especially when he seems as genuinely confused as we do).

They should have had it be some random guy. They shouldn’t have made the effort to include Tommy as much as they did. They shouldn’t have mentioned wanting bucktommy to be like tarlos. Shouldn’t have mentioned getting Buck off his hamster wheel. They gave fucking Taylor more time than this, and she spent the majority of her screen time using Buck to further her career.

And someone, somewhere down the line could have made a statement to stop fucking harassing Lou, seeing as they’ve known for at least a few months that he was no “threat” to anyone or anything.

[starstruckbyacomet]

On the Break-Up

Oliver vs. Lou

The break-up scene (8x06) was filmed in September. It was aired in November, and caught us by surprised. To say that we are sad is an understatement. We are traumatized. Some of us have spent days mourning, yet still couldn't get over it.

Right after the episode was aired, separate interviews with Oliver & Lou were published. In those interviews, they talked about the break-up. If both actors have ever felt shocked or sad about it, they probably have gotten over it by then.

In his interview, Lou said that like Tommy, he was "heartbroken by the twist".

But apparently things were different for Oliver. In his interview, Oliver was seemingly excited for Buck to move on to the next step, fucking around with men and women alike.

The impact of the interviews on us are a world difference. We felt that Lou loved the ship. He loved Tommy. We felt understood by him. We felt like he was mourning with us.

With Oliver, we saw that he was already moved on to the next step.

And it made us angry. Yes, Oliver has also perpetuated a negative bisexual stereotype in the same interview, followed by giving an unapologetic apology. But beyond that, we are angry because he wasn't mourning with us.

Does he have to, though? Technically, logically, legally, he doesn't. Oliver is not Buck, he is an actor playing Buck. And he was about to do parts of his job that interest him more. It's natural that he was excited.

Yet, we are angry because Buck is half of the ship. We love Buck too. It's disappointing that the actor who played him doesn't love the ship like we do.

Oliver's flippant attitude feels like adding salt to the wound. It's like when you're just break up with your SO, they are engaged with someone else the next day.

[starstruckbyacomet]

Choices Are Made on TV Shows...

BoBs often say choices are made on TV shows. It's basically their reason to justify their insistence that there are romantic meanings in a lot of Buck and Eddie scenes, which are often missed by casual viewers. They've been abusing this reason for a very long time...

Now, let me show you some examples of choices which were obviously made on this TV show:

1)) Eddie was reading a swimsuit magazine in a hospital setting.

Hospitals usually avoid having suggestive materials on their premises. They often have minors' presence, especially in the patient rooms. They don't want to get sued by helicopter parents. It means Eddie most likely brought the magazine himself. But, why bother? Why don't simply make Eddie scrolled his phone while he was talking to Buck and Tommy, a safer and more practical option?

Because they want to show that Eddie is interested in women, and not into the half-naked man who was laying on a bed in front of him.

2)) Buck and Eddie's hand shake was left in the cutting room.

There had been a BTS still of Buck and Eddie's handshake going around the internet before episode 8x05 was on air. The still prompted BoBs to make assumptions about the birth of canon Buddie romance.

The handshake actually signified a bet between Buck and Eddie. It was a cute moment, should be less than 1 second long, and emphasized the playful nature of Buck and Eddie's friendship. So, why did it get cut? The people in charge of the show have included Tommy's 'Oh, shit' moment, which was obviously just an undeliberate mistake (Lou slipped off), in episode 8x01. Why did they cut this handshake?

Probably because their social media team have seen the Buddie romance assumption made based on the handshake still. They didn't want to feed the beast. This cut is inline with their decision to make Eddie read a swimsuit magazine in a hospital room (as if Eddie couldn't browse pictures of naked women on his phone 🙄).

3)) There are other interesting choices made on this episode, which I've mentioned in my previous post (link).

For once, BoBs are right. Choices are made on this TV show. And this particular episode indeed has double meanings:

Tommy is Buck's chosen boyfriend (doting partner, besties with Eddie, welcomed by the 118 family).

The show is done with the Buddie bullshit.

These messages will probably fall into the deaf ears of BoBs, but at least the people in charge of the show have tried. They can't be accused of baiting, if their messages are well received by the general audience. It's not their fault that BoBs have media lliteracy issues.