#but honestly more like lou rants

[azaharinflames]

Will you share your theory on what you think is happening behind the scenes of 911?

Hi, Nonnie!

Sure! As long as everyone is aware this is purely speculation, and nothing I say should be taken as proof of anything, I have no problem.

I've gone over a few things in my head, to be honest. I thought that JLH having filming conflicts could've been a major factor, and I still don't exactly disagree with that initial idea, but overall I think it was one of the things that threw TM for a loop.

Now, I've seen a lot of people theorize that perhaps Angela is leaving and that is what is causing so much chaos in BTS, but I am on the fence about this. I do think she might've asked to not have such a big role moving forward, especially if they get a season 9 (which I am also on the fence about ngl), like perhaps retiring, or just having a more laidback position training new recruits. The seeds are planted for that, not so much for her fully leaving. And it would give Angela more free time to dedicate to other projects (which, yes please. I need her in new projects ASAP).

So... (and please don't kill me for this, it's just a theory).

I think it all comes back to Ryan. And that he perhaps is leaving, or actively wants to leave. I will try to explain myself as concise as possible:

A couple of months ago there was already speculation about this. In all of his individual interviews (which were a lot, to be honest), Ryan made a point of talking about his work beyond 911 and talking about what he would like to do after 911.

On top of the individual promo, there was an uncharacteristically high amount of BTS dedicated to him and the godforsaken mustache. To the point where they threw a mustache party. And in the pics of that party, the vibes were that it was a party for Ryan, not in general.

Small thing, but Josh randomly dressing up as Eddie for Halloween. Perhaps unrelated, but I wanted to add it.

The 911 account reposting and celebrating Ryan's 100th ep, when 1. it wasn't his 100th (if we count the eps he was actually in) and 2. it was also JLH's, and yet they didn't say a thing about it. Ryan reposted that as well and the message he reposted it with was more nostalgic than anything else. Very much giving 'it was an honor to work with you, what a journey'.

I could be wrong, but I do think his contract ends this season. So, that just adds to it.

The timeline of the move to Texas. By the reactions alone I was fully expecting Eddie to leave for Texas at the end of 808, and then to be back with Chris (in a lazy way of solving their conflict off-screen) by 809-810. But the way he's currently thinking about it makes it very sus for me. As in, it can be a thing for the end of the season, and an actual goodbye for Eddie.

Of course, nothing of this has to actually happen, and it's quite possible it just exists in my brain. But this makes sense in my funny brain because then it explains why BT had to break up so soon... because they wanted Buck to feel completely isolated.

We know 809-10 will deal with Maddie being kidnapped. That alone will make Buck spiral. But if on top of that his best friend is also leaving... well, being alone just adds to the isolation and the angst. Because if Tommy was still around he'd be able to lean on him, and have him help him through this. But it seems like the writers wanted Buck fully alone for this, because sure, seeing a character never learning and being completely isolated is so much fun.

If this ends with BT getting back together, I honestly don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if Tim doesn't know. But, all in all, I wouldn't be surprised if RG deciding he's done is the thing that kinda created the domino effect.

(Also: I do not believe Oliver was telling Tim to fire Lou and end BT. Sorry. I just don't really see it. Nor do I think there were actual conflicts between actors BTS, as much as everything they're doing right now does feel a bit weird)

Anyway, thanks for letting me rant, Nonnie! My inbox is always open for ranting, venting, or discussing

Take care <3

[thestrangestthlng]

Thoughts and prayers rants...

So, now that I've had almost 48 hours to marinate on this and cycled through my emotions, I am in a much better headspace to talk on the whole 9-1-1 of it all.

But this bears repeating: We fell in love with Tommy because he made Buck fall in love with Evan.

So, first and foremost, I've decided that canon stopped for me at 8x05. lol. I am going to continue with my BT train like that shit show didn't happen. And for me, for a while, I am going to let the show end there. I will go back, probably after the hiatus, but not how I was. I do love all the characters on this show (some more than others) and I still want to be able to see their journey, but I need a break from that manipulation stunt. I'm still going to share all the positive BT stuff I see and all the beautiful Lou content I see.

Secondly, now that I am over the initial hurt of the breakup, I'm just mad. We were manipulated intentionally with 8x05 for us to feel worse when the break up happened. That was unnecessary. And that was cruel. And I know that a lot of this is because it was the icing on a shit week. Emotions were already raw due to the election and it was reallllllyyyy bad timing for this, but that doesn't make the way they did it okay, just that it can explain why there was such a strong reaction for many of us, on top of the completely justified anger.

Breakups happen, and that's okay. If it was the end of Tommy's time on the show, that's okay. I am a Buck girlie and I always will be. But... the breakup was reductive, stereotypical, and just poor storytelling. I get they want to leave doors open a crack, because you never truly know, but turning him into an OOC stereotypical biphobic gay man is disgusting. You had this beautiful thing and you shat on it. I am going to do another post about my personal relationship with groundbreaking storylines next.

That was a miscommunication. That was a breakup where someone chases after you and is like wtf actually just happened. It felt like whiplash, because that is not how breakups are formulated in media. You know how else you could have written him out of the story?

At the date (and the basketball tickets are actually a really sweet touch when you think about it) Tommy could have told Buck that he got a job offer in another city or state or that his parents are ill and he has to go home to take care of them and asked Buck to go with him. At the apartment, it could have been buck telling him that as much as he could see a future with him, he can't go with him.

Would it have sucked? Yes. But it wouldn't have induced this amount of rage.

For over six months Lou and BTs have been at the receiving amount of a ton of vitriol. And that's not to say that there weren't antagonizers on this side of the fence or that BTs never did anything wrong, but this isn't a both sides bullshit piece. People can suck everywhere, but only one "side" harassed an actor and his family with death threats, he read about the "stoning" calls, used slurs on a regular basis. All of this persisted for months for it to turn out that he was the only one who seemed to give a shit about the story and it's representation. There honestly doesn't seem like there would have been anyone better for it.

You know what's ironic? It was the Buddie's hate and vitriol that pulled me into fandom and made me love Tommy and then Lou. When they would run their mouths, I would look into it and I found a man who genuinely seems like (he is still someone we don't know) a wonderfully kind, sweethearted, genuine man. He looks like a bundle of light and his smile can warm even the coldest hearts. So their vitriol made me a fan. So thanks BoBs.

Buck and Tommy wasn't just about Buck's queerness and definitely not about "wanting to see two white men kiss". It was about our love for Buck. We saw him happier and more fulfilled than he's ever been. We see his life being lived and full of love and stuff and joy.

Again:

We fell in love with Tommy because he made Buck fall in love with Evan.

And you know what, not matter how reductive and all the phobics that breakup was, they can never take that away from us.

[cjlouwho]

Every time the conversation about OS weird behavior comes out, there's ppl claiming we're fomenting harassment and weird behavior and that lfj is a grown man and could've said something and yes I agree and who's to say he didn't anyways.

But most importantly, guess what OS is too?? Oh yeah... A grown ass man who has said he's not even sure if his female costars deserved or not harassment???? That he liked the bi-icon title but then when criticism of his take on it came he got butthurt and couldn't even man up and let the half ass apology up in his stories.

Like at what point are we going to admit he has said weird shit and it's clear, yeah because if there's no words, there's actions, until he says something which we know he won't, he actively does not want to piss off that side that already bully him off of a lot of things, which lol again the grown ass man in question, like sorry if he hasn't shown some basic respect to coworkers why is suddenly a problem to talk about him in our spaces? It's okay still liking him for whatever reason and it's okay to criticize his actions when it prints his character in a weird light, parasocial in what way exactly? If we can only base off what he offers and what he does makes him look like an asshole, I have no problem in thinking that and move on with my day.

Anyways I needed to rant, again thank you for allowing this space for it to happen! Have a lovely day.

Calling out cringe behavior is not harassment, and the fact that it's mostly people who have actively harassed either Lou, or one of Buck or Eddie's previous LI's that say these things speaks volumes.

I agree, Lou is a grown man, and when asked about the harassment he received he shrugged it off and basically said, "comes with the territory." Even saying that got him more harassment and being actively made fun of- even by the writer who interviewed him! I will forever believe that the issue of LI's within the show being harassed could have been stopped years ago by one stern post by either Oliver, Ryan, or Tim. A definitive "Buck and Eddie are friends, will always be friends, but will never be more than friends. We appreciate our fans, but will not stand for the harassment of our costars who have been hired to do a job. Be respectful, enjoy the show!"

To Ryan's credit, he has tried in multiple recent interviews to set the record (and Eddie lmao) straight. But at this point no one is listening to him. They feel he's lying to make the "slow burn" relationship hit harder. They love Oliver when he's all "idk what's gonna happen there we'll have to wait and see" but the second he makes it clear he's not fucking Ryan, they hate him again. Tim's just full of shit altogether. They've honestly created an unsafe work environment for anyone who comes in as a potential love interest. Not even fans can enjoy these relationships without being sent death threats and CSA fics.

You can always rant to me, and I will most likely rant right back at you, so thanks for listening to all the nonsense I just typed up 😂

[jackwhiteprophetic]

Okay so I don't usually go into asks, so l'm sorry if this isn't the correct etiquette (its not rlly an ask, more of a anti-bt rant), BUT the amount of bt truthers on my feed recently have been pissing me off, and then I saw this one post that said,

"honestly i love tommy not entertaining their shovel talk with any serious answers, he's like yeah this is my relationship with my adult bf who wants me so im gonna go eat my cake now (double entendre)"

Which??? I don't even know what to say.

honestly i love Tommy not entertaining their shovel talk with any serious answers

Shovel talk?? You mean them asking legitimate questions on his intentions with their friend, who they care about??? who they're protective over??? who's dating a guy that in the past was both racist and misogynistic??? Who treated hen terribly when she joined the 118???

Idk about some people but I'd def hold a grudge 💀??

And it's the way he's not even TRYING. Like they said, not entertaining their questions with any serious answers. he's just making poorly landing jokes (that apparently his cult following chalks up as sass????) and being so dismissive of everything they say.

"I'm wearing a medal" dear god I hated him before that clip but the way he was acting made me hate him even more and gave me SO MUCH of an ick.

It's the way his following are following him so blindly? That they can't see that he wasn't being sassy he was being a sarcastic little shit who doesn't know how to read the room. Henren are trying to look out for their friend who this asshat is dating and he can't even bring himself to try to assure them that he's good for buck.

Idk I think I might've gotten a bit off topic but bt stans are so aggravating???? I've been called 'delusional' by so many people in this fandom who used to be buddie shippers but converted as soon as Buck was kissed by another guy.... And I've seen so many bt shippers be like 'Oh, yeah, I used to be in that sub fandom, I know how annoying and pushy they are'. I'm SO tired of the infighting, and the sudden shitting on Eddie that's going on ever since Tommy reentered the picture. And I'm so tired of THEM thinking that bt will be endgame because it's Buck's first relationship with a man and Bobby gave his approval. They don't care about Buck. I saw another post the other day talking about how 'Evan Buckley better not break Tommy Kinard's soft gentle heart or they're gonna have words'. Atp all they care about is Lou/Tommy. 

Hello!!! Anyone is always welcome to send me asks especially just to rant, I don't end up responding to all of them because I don't want to only focus on Tommy or BT shippers because there are lots of other less aggravating things to talk about, but I saw the same post and I had the same thoughts and I will say I find it incredibly frustrating how some people have praised Tommy for that scene.

Because I think he should be a lot more ashamed of how he treated Hen, and I think if he understood the weight of his ignorance/outright bigotry on her in the past, he would be a lot more receptive of the fact that obviously she feels protective over her friend in this situation. The fact is, the characters of Gerrard and Tommy were written in S2 to show how fucking dangerous workplace bigotry is. They're firefighters. Try telling me that Tommy would have fought as hard to get Hen from a burning building than a white male teammate. Do we think that this extended to the public? When Gerrard was probably evacuating crew members from burning houses earlier than he would for white neighbourhoods, do we think Tommy stood up and said "no, I'm an ally and I say this is wrong, we should fight just as hard for every life". Or did he sit there like a fucking coward and think about cars or boxing or something? I don't have much more to add because I fucking hate the character so much and I am quite disgusted by the white people who excuse this or look past it. You should feel more shame and Tommy should show he is fucking ashamed of his actions and at least show Hen some fucking respect. Tommy should take Hen seriously because his actions had fucking serious real life consequences.

Anyway thank you for the ask!!! My ask box is always open for people to rant and I will always read them!! I'm very much limiting how much I talk about that character BC I am trying to focus more on positive stuff, but if anyone would like to message me ranting about him or any 911 thing I am always available!!!

[lover-of-mine]

This is gonna be a little long but here we go.

Not one of the regular spies but I’ve been keeping my eyes on things the last few days and I can tell you in the discord group I’m in, it’s mixed between buddie fans and BT fans. There are a couple…loud (nice word for it) ones especially who are very much trying to push hard core right now that between the messed up fics and that tumblr account the other day, Buddie fans are “out right declaring war” against gay men specifically due to their “homophobic attitude” toward Tommy. Like the amount of times in of them said “against gay men” in their latest rant in discord, if it was a drinking game we’d all be hammered.

If someone asks questions because they aren’t familiar with what’s going on because they have things blocked or filtered then it’s immediately on the defense of “you need to clam down” and “maybe if you didn’t burry your head in the sand over buddie you’d see how this is affecting real life gay men” or the fan favorite rhetoric of “if your a woman then you don’t need to speak on the matters and you should be supportive of Tommy right now”

It’s honestly getting really wild how much they are losing it. And even when myself and other queer have said something we just get ignored and accused of being “self hating homophobic”

Then on the TikTok and Twitter side, they seem to have launched this rhetoric that kinda goes along with what LW was saying about changing the narrative about Lou/Tommy and mental health. One of the louder BT fan TikTokers even made this wild video today about how people need to really try and step back from their hate and understand that when we saw Tommy in the begins episodes

“it was 2005 and that kind of stuff was just the normal hazing and stop reading into it.”

So pushing the racism/misogyny as just normal hazing now instead of what it is.

There has been some push back against that video by both POC creators and white creators being like uh no that’s definitely not hazing and it’s definitely not your place to dismiss it as such etc. but the comment section is unfortunately mostly with people agreeing with the BT creator and that people need to “let it go and try and understand Tommy better”

Twitter they are trying to push hard on the narrative that they know they aren’t going to see Lou until either 8.01 or after 8.01 “but it’s for his mental health to not be seen so it’s for the best”. And it’s of course the buddie fandoms fault he needs to take such actions and can’t be seen until then. But very big push right now on trying to get them all on board with the “it’s for his own good and we should be proud of him for standing up for himself and staying where he needs to be so he can be safe and happy”

That’s all I got for now

🅰️

Hello darling ❤️

This was a lot. Be supportive of Tommy? When he's a canonically bigoted character and people keep saying gay excuses racist while attacking real life queer women and poc people for having opinions on a fictional character? I'll pass. When the show gives me real proof he evolved as a human, maybe, until then ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I did see the calling the comments he makes "normal hazing" which is out of touch to say the least and considering tiktoks algorithm, unfortunately, that only gonna show up for people who agree.

And, look, I think he's gonna be in the season too, but this narrative that we are so bad for Lou's mental health is... Tommy and Lou are not the same, so like, opinions on Tommy are not attacks on Lou as a person and I'm still waiting to see proof of this awful bullying we are doing to Lou that leads to this. Even more when we've seen multiple of them attack Ryan very explicitly.

[bomber-grl]

if it's cool with u, make more nico di angelo x son of hecate reader stuff, pleaseee

just like one-shots with any kind of plots, honestly

going on quests, angst, fluff—anything, reallyy

When Trying Something New Goes Totally Wrong

- not proofread, might not be good.

-

Today was a new day and especially one you looked forward to. Someway, somehow, you had managed to convince Nico to try out new things.

He groaned and grumbled all throughout your 20 slide PowerPoint presentation but it was all worth it in the end once you heard the words “fine” uttered from his mouth.

You dragged his usually tired self through a random library in New York and sat him down at a table.

He sighed and looked at you, “so I’m learning to read? Unfortunate for you since I already know how.”

You tutted at him and shook your head, “Nope, good guess though” you could’ve sworn you saw his soul leave his already withered self. “I’ll be giving you books based on history, math, science. You tried your best to make it look appealing.

Nico sighed, “yay.” You stifled a laugh and commented, “I love how happy you are to be here.” And went on your merry way to search for some interesting books.

Despite his less than enthusiastic self, Nico still chose to read what you brought him. For the next 4 hours. He’d never say it out loud but at that point he’d just pick Tartarus over whatever torture that was.

From then on, whenever you two weren’t being completely and utterly jumped by random monsters, you’d introduce him to doing something new. You didn’t need to but you figured you might as well since boredom was rather common amongst you two.

To your surprise, he actually did quite well in a handful of these skills or hobbies- whatever they’re called. He enjoyed reading but then deemed it time wasting, did okay-ish in learning to sew, same with when you showed him to paint, sculpt, and play the kalimba.

Honestly became a game of you trying to see if he could fail at something, as terrible as that sounded.

You were laying down in the strawberry fields, ranting to a friend, a Demeter kid, about how you’ve ran out of ideas. I mean these little days of showing Nico new and outlandish things became your thing and now you were ran through.

Your friend sighed as she plucked a strawberry into her basket, “why haven’t you tried showing Nico how to do magic? I mean it’s kind of your thing, right?

You abruptly sit up and turned to her, “you think so?! Really?” She seemed mildly taken aback by your enthusiasm but shook her head and chuckled as she gave her basket off to a passing saytr.

“Well yea, could be a bonding experience don’t you think?” Your heart was pumping and you began trying to come up with where Nico could be right about now.

Your excitement died down almost immediately, you sagged and laid back down. Your friend turned to you, “what’s the issue now? I thought I gave you a pretty good solution.”

“Well.. yea! You did but what if..” you could already feel her judgmental stare before you spoke your feelings.

You continued, “what if he doesn’t need me, I mean he’s been pretty good at everything- or atleast decent- with what I’ve presented him.”

She spoke up, “that all? I can sense you aren’t telling me everything.”

You laid there silently before speaking up again, “is it bad that I want to see him fail at something?”

She looked taken aback and then sighed, “Go show him magic before I ban you from coming to the fields again.” You were about to say something nasty but you knew not to test her.

Off you went.

You found Nico being held hostage by your sister, Lou Ellen, near the arts and crafts and luckily for him, came to his rescue.

The two of you walked hand in hand towards the forest, he bumped your side and spoke in a sarcastic tone, “what can I do for my savior?” You smirked, “I have a thing or two in mind… that involves something you’ve never tried before-“

Nico groaned and raised an eyebrow, “really?” You raised your eyebrow in much the same way, and mockingly stuck your hip out, “really”

Nico just laughed exasperatingly and followed you, not like he had anything else to do but brood, brood, and did I mention brood? Yea.

You brought him to the part of the forest where most capture the flag games took place and sat down alongside him on a rock.

“So? What’s the lesson today?” You stood up in front of him and happily exclaimed, “magic!”

He looked taken aback, and then the skepticisim settled in,”magic?” You confirmed, “magic!”

His demeanor was very much not enthused, “ok…”

“What? What’s so bad about magic?” You raised an eyebrow.

“Nothing, I just haven’t considered it.” Nico shrugged. “Well you will now! Cmon let me show you some basics.”

You spoke, drew and did your best to channel the magicalness that comes naturally to you into Nico, but to no avail.

It’s not like spells that delt with elements other than death weren’t working- it just wasn’t working point blank and you needed to find something that’d make it easier.

Nico lounged against the rock while absentmindedly playing with the dirt with his sword until you spoke up.

“Maybe we should focus on necromancy- I mean it is your specialty.” Nico perked up, “necromancy?”

You nodded excitedly, “yup! I mean it’s similar but not exactly.. this one I’m gonna show you is just controlling a corpse.”

Mostly since actually reviving someone would bring trouble with a god you’re both more than familiar with.

Nico spoke up, “how’s that any different than when I control bones?” His question was genuine.

You were about to speak about how they’re different then paused, yup he’s actually right. “Well it’ll be a way to do it without using your natural born power?”

He wondered for a minute, “why’d you recommend it? You’re acting like it’s all I know.”

You paused and looked away, “I mean… is it not?”

“Ha ha, very funny,” Nico deadpanned. One might’ve thought you offended him but there was a flicker of amusement in his eyes.

“You know there’s a lot more to you than necromancy. I know there is” there was sincerity poured into the last bit and Nicos demeanor relaxed. “You could also try a bit of light magic in hopes of making this work if you’re insistent. Not to mention that It might do wonders for your mood.”

Nico groaned, rolling his eyes. “You just want to see me fail at something new, don’t you?”

“No,” you said with a laugh, “I just want to see you smile. Seriously, Nico. You’re too good at being miserable.”

“Not like this attempt at teaching you magic needs my interference for it to be a failure anyway..”

Nico perked up, “what’d you say?”

You dismissed his suspicion with your hand “Oh nothing, let’s focus back on this.”

You honestly don’t know how long it was before the spell you had been attempting with Nico finally worked, just.. that there was a catch.

“We’re so dead” you looked towards the patch of trees that your spell had totally and utterly destroyed.

Nico shrugged and turned your way, “could’ve been worse.”

-

Luckily none of those trees were dryads and you managed to regrow the trees (albeit more shriveled up and getting some laughter out of Nico) before you went back to camp.

It was a secret for just you two, and whatever unfortunate soul would wander into the place of the crime scene.

[ranbling]

https://www.tumblr.com/ranbling/753965376874954752/im-sorry-but-fuck-everyone-who-says-buddie

No because this is so valid beyond belief. The behavior they have had has been atrocious. The insults, the toxicity, the death threats, the slurs, xenophobia, racism they have all increasingly started engaging in more and more openly. I mean just look at how one of their biggest supporters just got called out over it a few days ago, gave a half ass apology and then immediately got caught doing it again. And then instead of taking ownership of her behavior, she deactivated her twitter, ran back to tumblr, made another half ass apology blaming buddie fans for her actions, said both sides need to stop attacking each other and has then spent the last two days doing nothing but attacking buddie fans and trying to invalidate anyone’s ability to relate to queer Eddie.

You have people like this https://x.com/lexorcised/status/1804331875336364526 literally inventing new slurs to insult buddie fans,

People like this https://x.com/vampirebuckley/status/1804291388000932296 misgendering and assuming people’s sexuality and then literally calling someone the R word after they get called out for doing so.

They have attacked journalists, run people off social media, threatened to dox people. All over Lou/Tommy. A guest star who had barely 10 minutes of screen time the entire season and could honestly care less about the show or fans except for how much money he can get through cameos.

They want to try and say buddie shouldn’t happen because it would reward bad fan behavior? They need to take a hard long look in the mirror and think if that’s the philosophy they want to live by, what do they think should happen to them for theirs.

😤😤😤sorry to add to your rant with my own mini rant 😂

Modifying the "r" slur to refer to Buddie fans is wild and given that so many people are actually neurodivergent is certainly a choice

I'm not saying that all Buddie fans are saints, I'm sure that there are unhinged ones too, and I'm sure there are nice Bucktommy fans, but people who make the "this behaviour shouldn't be rewarded" are not the ones

[jennylaufeyson]

Fuck. One Directions official account posted and signed off with Zayn included. Lou , Z and H posted. Nialls missing and honestly im not ready cause he was the last one to see him and I know he's going fucking through it. Their posts were so beautiful. Lou and Z's were heartbreaking. Lou talking to Bear and him just fucking ended me. And you can feel Zs regret and thats so sad. H of course being simple but effective showing love to their brother. I can't imagine what Ni's gonna say.

Guys I feel this pain and I can't understand it. My family and even friends doesn't understand it. My fandom online does and yet I can't find solace in them. I can't believe it. I can't believe Liams gone. Like what? They were supposed to get back together and be old and tour like the rolling stones. We were supposed to have more time. To see him grow, to see how he finally grew into the music he wanted to make. To see him happy with his son, with himself ,with the boys. 'Daddy Direction' his nickname and I cant imagine the pressure he was under. I keep thinking of the young boy who only wanted to sing. To follow his dreams. I can't believe it ended this way. I'm so sad that they weren't able to really reconcile with Z. I hope this brings them together and they're able to fix whatever broke between them , I think Li would've like that. 😔😭💔 I mourn him so strongly. I read he may not have known me but I knew him. And I loved him. Those boys shaped so much of who I am and what I love. I can't fathom losing any of them. I can't believe we lost him. I dont know how they're ever gonna get on stage again and sing his songs. I dont know if they ever will. Fuck man , this sucks so much. I needed to rant about it. Rest in Peace Liam, I'll love you forever.

[wrongcaitlyn]

if nico ever got a podcast (i feel like he would just so he could yap about stuff he likes) what would it be about and would he bring any special guests to it?

oooh this is interesting. tbh i never imagined nico getting a podcast just bc it’s kinda official, and if he wants to yap abt stuff will is happy to listen and nod along (he will listen to anything nico says and vice versa)

HOWEVER someone i do think could possibly make a podcast are piper & leo or lou ellen & cecil!! i feel like youtuber to podcaster is a pretty common pipeline and let’s be real lou ellen always has stuff to talk about, but also piper and leo as a duo are one of my favorite things ever, and i just imagine them getting drunk one night and being like omg we should make a podcast and then fully commit to it

if one of those duos made a podcast, nico would 100% be featured on it!!!

however to answer your original question, in the hypothetical situation of *nico* being the one to make a podcast, i could imagine the featured people would literally just be his friend group, like every single person in his friend group several times around. OH KAYLA WOULD LOVE IT TOO she’s also a certified yapper and would love having a podcast or being featured on podcasts

and generally as a rule nico is extremely chaotic when it comes to the content he puts out, so i don’t think there’d be a specific theme - literally just whatever he feels like talking abt. he’d open his voice memos and record an hour long rant abt smth with no script and then send it to an editor who’d condense it into something kind of sensible

but mostly it wouldn’t be, bc that adhd kicks in and nico’s train of thought just goes like back and forth across his brain idk why i just imagine like a pool table and his thoughts are the ball and it just goes from one thing to the next and to the next and there’s literally no theme, no central message, it’s just thoughts

which would make a feature very fun, especially if said feature is also extremely adhd like leo, people would watch that podcast and listen to the same episode over and over again just to try and make sense of what their line of reasoning is😭😭

thank you for the ask! i honestly never considered this so a potential podcast will now be consuming my thoughts for the next few days - bc the more that i think abt it, nico WOULD just do a random side quest such as starting a podcast out of the blue. his one motto in life is just to never let anyone guess his next moveJDKDJ

[azaharinflames]

Honestly, if you check who Callum Blue is - a proud Republican Trump supporter - and look at the people who are now hyping him up as the bestest of boys...

There is nothing more to say about those people. You know, those "queer" and LGBT people who hate racism and support immigrant rights and hate Trump.

If THIS is what they are willing to tolerate to hate on a man who had the misfortune of playing a character that got in the way of their ship... No wonder Trump won

Yeah, the very public and very insistent support for a known Republican (that only stopped following (not) all the accounts after being called out) does not sit right with me.

Like obviously we don't know these people. But it's still a rather bad look on them. Then again, RG is also following rightwing accounts, and his brother has posted about his whole family voting for Trump and being proud about it, so. I think the cast chooses to ignore politics in the cast, even when supporting Trump speaks more than of your political views.

And it's oh so hypocritical of toxic buddies to now be kissing Callum's ass because RG and OS seem to be cool with him. For months they've been attacking Lou and justifying it on him being a Trumpie when all of their 'proof' was him liking a tweet previous to his first presidency and... that's it. Because since then Lou has tweeted Democrat, if at all.

And now that Callum is a proven Republican, and it's not as easy to ignore that all signs point to RG being one as well... now we don't care, do we? Because they've gone back to the cast not liking Lou just because. No longer can they claim it's because of political views because, well. Yeah.

I don't want a single BB telling me they care about queer rights and equality. They turn a blind eye to it whenever it fits them, I don't care whatever they have to say.

Anyway. Yet another (mini) rant lol. My inbox is open to rant, vent, and discuss whatever.

Take care <3

[bucksboobs]

this isn’t really a question it’s honestly more of a rant that you can give your opinion i guess? anyway i’m new to the 911 fandom i started watching after buck kissed a man on cable television(woohoo!) and one thing i’ve noticed is how like hostile this fandom is? like i’ve been in other fandoms but i don’t think i’ve ever really seen like a ‘ship war’. not that it wasn’t happening but i’ve never seen one so like going on 911 tiktok and twt is crazy because it’s very aggressive😭 like personally i’ve mainly see it come from buddie fans ( but that could be because i’m more in the buckytommy side) and they’re like dragging tommy dragging lou dragging ppl for liking bucktommy calling them delusional etc and it’s like: woah. chill out babe. like personally i ship both buddie and bucktommy and it’s just like can’t we all be friends. anyways you were one of the first ppl i followed in this fandom and it seems like you’ve been in the fandom a while so ig i’m just wondering like, have ppl always been this aggressive about ships? like i’ve seen the fics on ao3 ik ppl absolutely despise ana but did taylor get this hate when she was with buck too? like is this a new thing exclusive to tommy or has the fandom always been like this? (also i’m trying to get into lone star but holy shit what is with the coloring in the pilot? the whole thing has the flashback filter on like it’s awful😭 do you know if it gets better? srry for the long ask<3)

So to start with the big question: yes, Taylor absolutely got this much hate. In fact I’ve seen a lot of people attempting to parallel Taylor to Tommy to prove it’s all going up in flames (personally I think that if/when Tommy or Buck breaks it off, it will be amicable, because it would set that break up apart from all his previous breakups, but that’s another post). The Taylor Kelly situation has both similarities and differences but it feels as though it’s all the same players and same playbook but to a slightly more intense degree in a smaller portion of the fandom.

In essence i think there are some people who ship Buddie that have gotten tired of waiting and are taking it out on Tommy/Lou even though like… Buck dating men should be an obvious positive to anyone that wants Buddie�� but honestly it’s just a small subset that have gone a little off the deep end and started acting like people shipping Buck with a different man somehow means Buddie shippers (aka 90% of the fandom) are being oppressed, and I think if the fandom at large rolls our eyes and ignore them, they’ll stop being an issue. Remember that the block button is free!

[figleythesimp]

This has been bothering me for a while. But Lou is actually such a well-thought-out character I need to rant about him. Honestly, at times, he reminds me of myself, not in the way we act. Nowhere are complete polar opposites. But in the way how he struggles with emotions. With feeling like a person. For me, the whole point of his character is to show how much an environment with no one there for you can impact you. This can be shown with some of the other characters in CoD as well, but I'm biased.

Both in the prince's path and in his consort's path we can see his own struggle. More so in his consort's path than in the prince's path but my point remains the same. What really hits hard for me is the fact that at times throughout the story you can see him express his own genuine emotions. Not as much as a normal person would but it's still there. Yet he doesn't notice this himself half the time. And continuously tells himself he truly is just a husk of a being. He was raised to be a disposable tool just like all the other Vanans in Sekitopia. From what we saw in his consorts path chapter 17, he truly was raised without anyone there for him emotionally and physically. It seems that without someone there he didn't know how to feel. And was either secluded from the rest or an even sadder prospect excluded himself feeling as though he didn't belong. While still just a small child. That doesn't work in favor of anyone's development and all in all, just made things worse. As we see from the Lou we meet at the begging of his consort path and the beginning of the prince's path. What we do know is that he was alone while not being alone. And that's one of the worst feelings you could ever feel, coming from someone who knows it quite well. Eventually, he was given a chance to be free of that awful environment, sure he'd still be a pawn but it would be some semblance of freedom no other Vanan people could get. So of course when he got the chance he became the Headmaster/Governor and a more useful pawn for Iritium.

So of course when the proposed 'descendant' of Vane shows up. He will immediately tell the organization. If I was in his shoes, devoid of most emotions from a cold uprising. But given some freedom to be a loyal dog that could be taken away easily, I'd be a loyal dog too. As his route progress, voltage does a decent job of portraying the inward struggle of actually trying to figure out your own emotions. Especially ones that are prompted that you've never felt or rarely felt until someone in your life begins to show them to you. On purpose or accidentally. Now that I'm re-reading his path after just completing his romantic route and now attempting his mischief route. I feel like I'm appreciating the little details in the way his consort perspectives our written more and more. He's such a sad character to me because as much of an asshole as he is. There's a reason he's like that. He's truly an example of villains that are that way because they were the victim. He isn't heartless and manipulative without a reason, while he doesn't have a purpose for himself or a reason for himself. There's reasoning as to his character. It doesn't at all excuse what he did and if given the chance id strangle him while aggressively shaking him. But at the same time, I just want to hug him and tell him it's all okay now. Just like how MC is portrayed to have wished to be there for him in his childhood in Lou's consort path, I hold the same sentiments. Because if things were different so many things could have changed.

His character arc throughout his own route is well done from feeling devoid to having more and more emotions. While still struggling to give them a name, because that's just how it works. You struggle with trying to grasp your own emotions and name them when you finally start a journey to self-betterment from something like that. It's something I'm still struggling with myself. But not as extreme as he is. Like most otome games it is a bit too fast-paced for what would happen in reality. But it's a dating sim, they have to pack it all in there quickly to provide for the consumers. But it's still well done considering that. They also handled the reincarnated lovers trope fairly well. Since the flashback he has isn't what changes him. No in both the prince's path and his consort's path you see him slowly changing. The flashback is what helps him finally realize. Like when you finally get a reality check after so long. Or when you have a depressive episode for weeks on end and someone finally points out how far you've come. In his consort path, it helped him realize his built-up feelings for the mc, which helped him also realize some of his other feelings. And while he wasn't able to just suddenly understand them all he was able to get a gist of it. And that's one of the biggest steps to improvement you can take. When you start to understand the gist of it but still struggle you truly feel more like a person than just an empty shell. And this helped him realize some of the bare minimum of his own morals of right and wrong. Allowing him to take action to save the Vanans on his own accord and then go to MC. Because of course, that's something you'd realize was wrong immediately after gaining some semblance of morals. Since that's something to such an extreme point.

Lou's character is honestly beautifully written, and I really hope that in his BK 2, we get to see him still struggling. But trying his damned hardest with MC by his side. Near the end of his path, we get to see more and more of the man he can be. Mischievous, honest, thoughtful, and kind to extremes for the people he cares for; (looking at the summer event where he fucking changed the weather to unbearable heat just for MC) As well as him begging completely open about his feelings even if he doesn't quite know what they are or what spurred them on. Just that he knows he feels this to a degree/or wants to do this. I can't help but love this man for who he can become. He's done dreadful things but if I was in MC's place. I would somewhat hate him if it was the prince's path but be willing to give him a chance. He did quite literally kidnap and use MC in the prince's path so there not be me falling ln love. But I'd be willing to not forgive but try and make a better relationship from that point onward. And if it was the consort's path I'd see what he had gone through and help him every step of the way. In this path since he didn't kidnap us and when he finally began to see his own emotions and immediately acted on that. Yeah no he has my heart. I'll be there to support that funky little evil man turned good all the way. He may be a snow white rip off but he'd be my snow white rip off.

All in all, I think Lou is a beautifully written character. There's more I would like to say but it's hard for me to put to words. And it's nice to see someone that is going through a similar struggle as me, in media. One that is actually well done and not just yeah he doesn't feel jack shit. But I have a sad backstory so you should feel bad for me. He's actually well thought out and it's great. I love him and he's so interesting.

Also, someone actually asked me to write something. I didn't think this through oh god. Anon asker I will write your thing after I post something I've been wanting to write for a bit.

[miyamoratsumuu]

I giggled 🤭 what if I started hyperventilating kinikilig kasi ako hegiegehjw but that image is so relatable though like that's me everytime you post or me when kinikilig

ano ba kasing english ng kinikilig

anyways small rant I have so many fic ideas and all of them are for Sero... the obsession is getting out of hand I fear 🤕 I have 2 of them drafted already, but I can't work on them cause of school ughwhhhf we're having our diagnostic exam tomorrow and on tuesday so that means more time to procrastinate!!! (submissions of all major projects is in 2 weeks and so are our exams)

can't wait to actually post a fic and to figure out who S is 😓 I'll start listing all characters that has an S as their first initial at this point, but all I can think of is Sero my bad

THAT'S LITERALLY ME WHEN I SEE YOU IN MY NOTIFS LOU WDYM 🫵🏼 me na kinikilig every time nagsesend ka ng ask ugh

AND NO CUS I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE ENGLISH OF KINIKILIG IS?? like I can't express what I'm feeling any other way, unfortunately 😞

don't worry, babe. I get you</3 honestly, if I could make all my posts about sero, I 100% would 🤷🏻‍♀️ + school literally hindering our sero agenda ouch 🤕 GOODLUCK ON YOU DIAGNOSTIC EXAM THO!! remember na wag masyadong taasan yung score para pagdating ng achievement test siguradong mas mataas score mo kaysa sa diagnostic 🥰🥰 huhu major projects are the worst, goodluck lou!! my inbox and messages are always open for you if you need a hand or to talk about them hihi 🫶🏻

I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO POST A FIC TOO!! guaranteed I'm instantly your #1 fan 💋 and idk, ever since I started the series, I wanted to keep S a secret, but I'm dropping all these major clues and disappointing myself bc I can't keep S' identity to myself either lmao

[find-y0ur-j0y]

I decided to rank the seven seasons of Bunk’d and wanted to share my reasoning with you all. Enjoy :)  

#7: Season 5 - Ok first what I do like about season 5: Noah and Ava’s friendship, the introduction of Parker, Kikiwaka Lore, Environmentalist Destiny. The rest is pretty firmly in the “leave it” category. For crying out loud there were three episodes where Lou, Noah and Matteo aren’t even at camp! Sadly I can’t say that I enjoyed any of the episodes. Sure there were pieces of most of them I liked (mainly Lou), but I wasn’t walking out of this season with any episodes I want to rewatch. 

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#6: Season 4 - Lou as head of the camp is great, and I liked how they showed her struggles to switch from a counselor to owner mindset, I wish it was for more than just the first episode. I like Gwen, I think as the writers figured out her character more, the better she got. The birth of Environmentalist Destiny is great this season, and made me start to like her character. Camp Champion and Barb are just not interesting to me so I disliked that there were FIVE episodes dedicated to them. The two part Ravens Home episode was SO weird. The romance between Ava’s brother and Lou was cute and I wish it was maintained off screen for more than one episode. Lou deserves love, I hate how the running joke all seven seasons is that she is unloveable (but that is a rant for another time). The Renaissance episode was quirky and actually kinda fun. The MAYOR arc was GOAT (literally 🤣). Lou joining a Coven of witches obsessed with humus was hilarious.  And I loved that this season really focused on Moose Rump and the great Moosetropolotin area. It set up Dusty Tush in seasons 6/7 rather well. 

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#5: Season 3 - Love the Rosses, did not love them running the camp. Glad we only got one season of it. Obviously I miss having the Ross kids around (I miss Karan’s performance the most), but the writers did an ok job writing their exit. Glad we got the opportunity to see Lou grow and all that Miranda brought to the character. If I had to sum up this season in one word it would be "meh".

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#4: Season 7 - Honestly I am tempted to tie this with season 2, but will put it the tiniest bit below because of how much of a let down the final episodes are. With the finale coming up this week I have to say that over all I am a bit let down. I was really looking forward to this season given how much I loved season 6 and the new characters… but this one just wasn’t it. I think what helped season 6 play so well was the structure of the treasure hunt, without it we lacked continuity and a sense of urgency. The wedding plot honestly felt forced and rushed to me. While I do agree that Victoria and Parker make each other better they’re still  not my favorite couple so having the last several episodes be centered fully on them is a let down to say the least. It’s also important to take into account the writers strike that happened halfway through production, splitting the season into 2. Still I want to give props to Shiloh, Alfred and Luke as they did a great job joining the established cast and making the audience fall in love them. Mallory, Israel and Trevor continued to do an awesome job this season and of course my girl Miranda knocked it out of the park with every performance. 

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#3: Season 2 - Ranked this high because of how much I love the original cast. Though honestly I only really liked 14 out of the 21 episodes. Still I have a lot of nostalgia for this season and the episodes I did like I REALLY enjoyed! Plus it introduced us to Griff and developed more of the camp lore. The Kiki-Slasher episode in particular was hilarious and I loved the running Timmy bit through the first two seasons. 

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#2: Season 1 - The Nostalgia!!! I love every episode this season. The character growth is top tier and humor is great! The writers were excited to create this new world for the actors to play in and I just really enjoyed early days Camp Kikiwaka. I will watch this season all the way through with no skips unlike all the others (excluding season 6). It is great to see Payton, Skai and Karan reprise their characters and launch this show. I love Miranda and Kevin’s characters. This season really is a sturdy and solid foundation for the rest of the show. 

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My #1 Pick: Season 6 - Ok, I LOVE Winnie, Jake and Bill, they are my favorite of all the kids in every season. I adore seeing Destiny all grown up and her friendship with Noah is top tier. I love the new location. This is the season I have on repeat the most. The treasure hunt was a cute running plot. Lou is great this season and it is good to see Parker stepping up. I cannot speak highly enough of Shiloh, Alfred and Luke. They really stepped up to the plate and delivered great performances. All three of them are in my top eight Bunk’d characters (ranking coming soon).

[aggold15hi01]

My personal thoughts on the micromanagement treatment between Logan & Williams

⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is a very long post.

⚠️ Trigger warning: Mentions of "C-19" and mentions of micromanagement with Dallas Wings on former head coach Vicky Johnson plus ex Dallas Wings Player Allisha Gray plus Williams Racing Team on current Team principle James Vowles and Logan Sargeant in addition to how author did felt as if she did hit her lowest point of her very own life (A.k.a Rock bottom for real) due to countless events which did happened in her in her very own real life.

The way the Williams Racing Team treated Logan Sargeant does reminds me dejectedly and traumatically does reminds me of how Allisha had been treated by a former head coach of the Dallas Wings Vicky Johnson had treated Allisha so badly by having to truthfully bad-mouthed her and putting the blame on Allisha for a poor performance on the game of Las Vegas Aces vs Dallas Wings back in June 2021 on a five game road trip; it's like they think Allisha was responsible for the loss because of how she had been feeling drained from the 3x3 Basketball qualification event at Austria where she was playing with the 3x3 USA Team alongside Kelsey Plum; Stefanie Dolson and *Katie Lou Samuelson (*Whom she had contributed her part with the team on the qualification event way before sitting on the Tokyo Olympics due to "tested +" for C-19 so Jackie Young who is a team mate of Kelsey Plum with the Las Vegas Aces had to truly take place of KLS) and was also named as a "MVP" of the 3x3 USA Basketball Team during her time with the USA 3x3 Basketball at the Qualifying event in Europe and then meanwhile, Vicky Johnson had placed the blame on Allisha for the poor performance she had placed her during the time of the LV Aces vs the Dallas Wings Team back in June 2021 on the 5 Game Road Trip and already this does reminds me of how the Williams Racing Team unfortunately treated Logan in such a bad manner which does really makes my heart felt sad for him--especially with all of the comments which are deeply hurtful, nasty and downright insulting towards Logan and already do we need anymore insults for that?? No, I don't think we needed it anymore.

Plus also sorry if I did have to write this post because these days I did felt as if I am feeling as if I am at my lowest point these days as honestly, it does saddens my heart to hear what Logan had to truthfully went through in his very own life not just only as a professional F1 Driver but also both as a person and as a human being as well.

Anyway, in other words; thank you for reading this long and lengthy post about the rant that I did truthfully have to truthfully say about what Logan had to went through with the Williams Racing Team just the same as how Allisha went through with the Dallas Wings Team and a former head coach on Vicky Johnson back in 2021 and 2022 way before the changes on how Allisha got a request to be traded to her home team of the Atlanta Dream. (Plus yes, I am still in a full-on level of denial of how Allisha got traded away to a team like the Atlanta Dream and yet Dallas tried to rebuild themselves by fulfilling the void with Maddy Siergrist; Ashley Joens [Whom IDK what had happened to her after they waived her off from the Wings Team]: and so many draft picks whom there is no way they can fulfill the void of Allisha Gray, Kayla Thornton or Marina Mabrey as this does makes the team looks way too different more so than how they are with players like Lish, Kayla: Marina; the seldom utilized Chelsea; Jasmine, Bella and also the waived off Jazz Bond; Destinee Walker and Unique Thompson. Sheesh.

Also, sorry if the post is truthfully long and rant(y) ever since I got so much to say to be honest at this point; everyone.

Anyway; let's all be kind and be respectful to each other and thank you again, for reading this post.

[lover-of-mine]

I think part of the problem is the actor creating headcanon and if it were just that I would ignore it but no, he already said that we should leave Buddie aside and apparently what he says everyone should follow, he said this after 7x04 and I thought it was very wrong, he's just a guest, he doesn't have to say anything, everyone does that about the headcanons and it's fun, but as soon as someone tries to force that headcanon on you, the fun is lost. We're not making it up, we're not haters, but the show showed that Tommy abandoned Buck, made a joke, manipulated him a little to come out of the closet, it's not an invention, it's canon, it happened, it's more important than an actor's headcanon. I'm honestly muting everything on this subject because it's exhausting, it's horrible to hear that you're homophobic, it's horrible to doubt yourself, I'm a part of the community just because an actor decided to make up a story and say what people should do and create an army of people who bully virtually, No wonder Oliver doesn't participate in anything, it's a lack of respect for the fans who have been here for years and for his co-workers.

Sorry for my little rant but yeah

No, seriously, people are taking what Lou is saying too seriously. And the dude said T is someone for Buck to work out the kinks when it comes to liking men to get ready for Eddie too. Completely unprompted. Like? Of course the guy is gonna go nuts with the way people are reacting to bt, if bt is popular he might get to stay in the role longer, that means exposure, money, and the way he's doing the cameos, the guy is literally getting paid to feed into this madness, he's gonna say anything, but that doesn't mean it's what the show planned for him. The writers could wake up and decide to do anything with any character and to expect me to take what an actor is saying as canon is absolutely insane. T is a plot device. That's a fact. And I gotta be honest, dude is kinda mean to Buck and I don't see the effort people keep saying he's putting? He flew Eddie to Vegas for ringside seats for a sold out fight but he couldn't be bothered to put on a colorful shirt to pretend he was on the 80s theme for Buck. That's an actual thing that happened in canon. Like? Hello? Are we watching the same relationship unfold? Like, seriously, ship what you ship, write what you want, fanfic away, but people seriously need to stop trying to force people to accept this stuff as canon. Because the only thing that actually counts is what's happening on the show. And honestly, I have so many tags filtered but I am still getting the madness, and there's also the shit people send to me directly. It's hard to get away because the fandom went crazy.