how do you explain to an alloromantic person the desire to have an intense emotional connection with someone, but not romantically?
Like, you're my soulmate, but not in the way where we're lovers. You're my soulmate as in you're like an extension of myself, the person I can't imagine living without. The air in my lungs, the ground beneath my feet. The eye of my storm.
You're my best friend in the greatest definition of the word. My love, but not my lover.
When you're so devoted to someone that the lines of platonic and romantic become completely irrelevant.
A sweet moment of weakness helps Buck and Eddie get together. While Eddie doesn’t expect much to change about their relationship, Buck slips back into old patterns.
or: eddie notices all the ways buck tries to make himself smaller
this fic means a lot to me and I'm actually proud of how it turned out (what a feeling!). thank you to everyone who reads it and supports me 🥰
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tagging @djdangerlove and @cryscabbage because you were so excited for the premise of this fic, it made me want to finish it 💛 I hope you'll like it *shaking like a leaf*
Alternatively, Tommy keeps hanging out with Eddie and realizes how Eddie is absolutely ass over teakettle in love with Buck and he goes to Buck and says something like "I think you should take a chance with him, maybe it's not so one-sided after all" because Eddie has decided he's not gonna be the one to break whatever it is they have between them and wants Buck to make the move
Just here to hype up @morganbritton132 's Eddie Munson tiktok saga. It's just so ... *mwuah*!
Seriously, I'm so enamoured with it it's almost embarrassing (especially for someone who's never used tiktok a single time in their life). Each new post, no matter how short, instantly makes me want to write an entire episode's worth of script around it and make it an actual sitcom.
Also I'm obsessed with Steve and Diane's dynamic and whenever it's mentioned my brain autoplays this video, so naturally I have to inflict this curse upon you lot as well:
So yeah this series is amazing and everyone needs to go check it out. Thanks again to @morganbritton132 for blessing this here hellsite with it!
okay steddie nation™️, i need assistance! do any of y’all have fic recs where steve comes out/is aware of his fruitiness first? i’m trying to deep dive into the fandom and i just can’t conceive eddie being more experienced than steve in that manner, like robin would’ve pulled the truth out of stevie long before eddie would’ve figured his own shit out lmao. any assistance will be rewarded with my everlasting adoration 🫶🏽
I always make a point to listen very closely to what the lyrics are saying in the music over certain scenes because 911 is ANYTHING but subtle when it comes to their music choices.
The song that's playing during the montage of Eddie trying and failing to make a connection with women while golfing/hiking is interesting.
"I got High hopes, high hopes , That tomorrow's where it all begins , I'll be somebody's daughter , I'll be somebody's friend , I'll be somebody's part-time lover again , Chased by the devil down a one-way street , Made it out alive , Now I'm back on my feet , I got high hopes"
These lyrics are so interesting to me because it's once again placing Eddie only in relation to who he can be to other people. A son, a friend, a father. Never just him.
But what also stood out to me was the lines "somebody's part-time lover again" and "chased by the devil down a one-way street".
I googled both these phrases and didn't really find much "official" meaning.
But to me "somebody's part-time lover" really does encapsulate how all of Eddie's romantic relationships on the show have been. You see bits and pieces of it, flashes, like his romantic relationships are a sideplot in his own life. I also took it to mean feeling half-hearted about a relationship you're in too. Like how with Ana he was going through the motions, like how in this very montage he's forcing himself once again to go through the motions of trying to force a meet-cute, like he will once again with Marisol by the end of the season. Marisol once again feels like something shoehorned, something forced, someone for Eddie to be another "part-time lover" to.
The other line "chased by the devil down a one-way street" to me, indicates running from a supposed "devil" (ie. something you believe to be 'bad'), repressing something 'wrong' about yourself that you refuse to acknowledge. And the "one way street" to me indicates an illusion of only being able to go in one direction, feeling like you can only be able to take one path, and why does he run as fast as he can down this one-way street? Because's he running from the "devil", the thing he's repressing, the thing he won't let himself acknowledge. Because, Eddie, you're running. You're not in a car. You can choose to turn around and walk in the other direction, you just refuse to face this illusionary "devil".
Even the portion of the song that we're supposed to be paying attention to, the "high hopes" part, feels off. Because high hopes usually lead to what? Disappointment. "High Hopes" are expectations, literally. By the end of this montage every one of his "hopes" are dashed. Eddie has these expectations for himself that he wants to live up to, but when he can't, he'll just feel more disappointed. He'll have these high hopes about a relationship with Marisol only to be let down because he thinks he'll develop this deep, amazing connection with her but more than likely he just won't because those kinds of relationships DO NOT (I emphasize again they DO NOT) happen that quickly looking at you Evan "she sees me better than anyone after 1 date" Buckley.
It's just interesting that the song that's supposed to represent Eddie really moving on and being open to love and putting himself out there centers on only who the person is in relation to others, half-hearted romantic relationships, and running from something repressed.