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F and y for the ask meme!
thank u for enabling one of my favorite pastimes (bribing myself into doing the things i have to do)
F - Whatās the longest youāve ever been in a fandom?
ooh tbh I'm not sure. The obvious answer is Assassin's Creed since it's been uh. 16 (?) years of making fanart and fanfic for it and loving the (first four) games but I also have just literally never been involved in the fandom as a community so I'm not sure that counts. As far as like...active involvement in the fandom community, I think it would be between Voltron and MDZS and both stand at about 3 years. oh wait I forgot Marvel LMFAO yeah Stucky had me in a vice grip for like. 5-7 years
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you arenāt in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
so many lmao. Black Sails, Critical Role (I think? it is. possible i am combining multiple DND podcasts), Star Wars, DC, Spider-man, Always Sunny in Philadelphia... the list is as long as the tumblr dashboard
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#asked & answered#sassybluee#fandom abc asks#okay now off to do at least 1 more task before answering the next one
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#š©·šš#bi evan buck buckley#bisexuality#bi buck#bi evan buckley#911 abc#911 fandom#evan buck buckley#911 spoilers#purple drawing#911 edit#911 fanart#911 gif#bucktommy#tevan#tommy kinard#bi Buck is everything to me. I hope he gets to have a happy relationship with tommy for a while because he deserves it#donāt ask how long this took to make the answer is very#911 season 7#Q: āhow many times have I watched the kissing scene? A: yes#BUCK KISSED A BOY AND HE LIKED IT#still giggle everytime I think of them#anyway this is basically a better version of the last thing i posted#i wanted to show buck finally seeing the world in colour#or something more poetic than that#purple draws
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I feel like atp even if there were plans to make bvddie canon theyre gone now. if tim minear is even half as petty as I am he would see that reaction and go u know what fuck you u actually don't get what you want now cause ur acting so goddamn entitled. like when tarlos fans got mad about the deleted scenes instead of appreciating them being released and his reaction was to say "okay fine then I just won't release deleted scenes anymore" (like I'm sure it was mostly a marketing decision but part of me thinks they intentionally released a scene about bucktommy just to prove a point.) idk man it's just really upsetting as a bi man to see the absolutely vile shit bvddie stans are saying and even tho I love the ship I now never want it to go canon cause they've fuckin ruined it
hey anon, at first let me agree with the fact that i do in fact also love bvddie a lot and i still love reading fics for them, the edits of them are fantastic and the fanart is S tier. itās a great pairing with a lot of potential there IF the writers decided to ever go there butā¦
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yeah, i agree. i honestly think before tommy was introduced again in 7x03 and the kiss in 7x04 that in my brain, bvddie was the most logical endgame for buck until it wasnāt.
i came into the show shipping bvddie much like a lot of new fans to the show but instead of hopping onto the tommy anti express hate train i found myself falling in love with buck and tommy together. at first i was still on board with bvddie still being endgame but as each episode aired after 7x04 i became faced with the reality of the situation (at least the way i see it) that bvddie might always be fanon and thatās ok because fandom keeps ships alive whether theyāre canon or not. some of the biggest ships EVER are non-canon (i mean, cmon spirk? one of the OG MM ships?) so it didnāt really deter me from enjoying bvddie to this day. what HAS deterred me from interacting with bvddie content is toxic bvddies. i donāt like using the lil nicknames, idc if other ppl do, whatever, but i prefer just referring to certain kinds as just toxic plain and simple.
toxic shippers have made it difficult for anyone who multiships to interact with bvddie content. while there are incredibly nice & welcoming bvddie endgamers out there, it doesnāt overshadow the hateful ones in my online experience at least. iāve blocked so many ppl over this ship discourse, which ive never had to do with any other fandom before the extent i have with 911. everyday i still find new ppl to block, you go under almost any comment section on the 911 insta and its filled with nasty comments abt tommy and only caring abt whether bvddie will be canon in s8. people projecting their hatred of tommy/lou onto the cast/crew of the show when itās be said and proven time and time again that itās quite the opposite. now im certain thereās bad apples in the bucktommy side as well, but from what ive seen online so far it is not nearly to the caliber of the bvddie side. ive blocked maybe a handful of bucktommyās for being hateful towards eddie or being toxic overall, but ive probably blocked over 100+ toxic bvddies. i can only imagine itād be worse if i was active on 911 twt which iām not (thank god) but i have ventured into the tags before on there and let me tell you, itās fucking horrifying how gross ppl are over there. twt is a cesspool for fandom anyways tho, the fucking asshole of fandom, itās a septic tank really.
now im my own opinion which could be completely untrue of course, but just basing my thoughts on what iāve seen online and interviews and such, tim seems to be really happy about bucktommy and idk how ppl believe otherwise. tim has expressed he loves LFJ and wanted him back on the show. tim showed up on set for the kiss scene. tim posting an entire youtube vibe abt bucktommy being soulmates that touches on the invisible string theory and explains how they accidentally found buckās perfect match. tim sharing the deleted tommy scene is also huge but im waiting to see if he releases more (because i remember seen somewhere that he said thereād be more?) and if he does then great but itās also still pretty telling to me after the whole karaoke fiasco.
oliver has said nothing but praises towards buckās queer storyline. he quite literally said if you dont like it then watch something else. despite ppl saying heās never interacted with bucktommy content online, thatās a lie because he has liked fanart of them.
aisha, kenneth & tracie have all expressed how they like tommy/lou and love working with him.
jlh said she loved bvddie before but is excited to see where buck and tommy go and then on an insta live said she doesnāt think bvddie is happening and was bombarded by toxic fans to the point of ending the live early.
ppl think itās all some ruse to make it seem like bvddie is never happening so when it does happen itās a āsurpriseā ā¦ā¦..
the nasty hate comments are doing nothing but exposing these types of ppl for who they are and that honestly to them, 911 is just the bvddie show to them. the people who run these social media accs for 911 are looking at these comments and cringing, they arenāt running to tim and abc being like āwe must give these crazies what they want!ā theyāre mostly likely being ignored or honestly, as you said, being looked at and just reinforcing their decision to most likely make tommy buckās endgame so as long as his schedule is open for filming.
what gets me the most about the hate these types of shippers spew online is how they arenāt embarrassed because they are so sooo convinced they will be right one day and therefore their insane, nasty behavior online will be justified. oliver stark literally left twt because of fans like this, people act like he was joking around, that he was shooting the shit probably because āheās british and british people just have that kind of humorā which yes to a certain extent but let me just add these posts to set an example to why if oliver were still on twt he absolutely would not be happy with the way toxic bvddies are acting right now.
oliver (and ryan&other cast too) being positive abt bvddie never meant it was going to be canon of become canon one day. they do not decide these things, whether they believe it should or not. a lot of bvddie shippers come from previous fandoms where queerbaiting was there, where they were made fun of by actors of their ships, by the creators of the show! so i understand the frustration but oliver is not queerbaiting and buck is not a queerbait character when he quite literally is now confirmed bisexual and in a relationship with a man.
heās just not the ācorrectā queer to these people. despite headcanons (hell even i hc eddie as queer!!) eddie so far, in canon, is not queer. by the end s7 he is still shown to not be over shannon and ruins his relationship with his son over this. ryan has stated in interviews he sees eddie as heterosexual, possibly pushing this because of the influx of ship discourse, and heās glad to see a vulnerable and deep friendship that buck and eddie can have as a straight man and a queer man and how important he thinks it is.
every single thing that points to bvddie never going canon is like theyāre being shot point blank in the chest. i get it, your ship not becoming canon sucks, but again, that is what fandom is for! shipping has never been about how canon smth is, there is 20k fics out there for bvddie and they arenāt canon. they can turn that into 40k, 100k, 1M if they really wanted to! instead they use their time and energy posting death threats, wishing death upon a gay character, bullying ppl online for enjoying a ship.
meanwhile from what ive seen bucktommys are rolling with goofy ass spy tommy theories created by antis and making jokes for our own fun.
so yes, i agree overall. they truly donāt deserve what they think they do. we didnāt whine and scream for a deleted scene. they did. we got ours without even expecting it and are having fun.
maybe if they behaved better i wouldnāt be so petty abt it. itās a shame because of how much potential it has, unfortunately it is just not going that way atm. and even if it does one day, it is not because they paraded online with hate, it is because thatās the story tim and the others wanted to write and abc approved it.
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I hope I can ask you this because I don't want to ask in the tags, I'm scared š„¹ but I've seen a lot of discourse about why tommy isn't good for buck, he's cold, the relationship is toxic etc and I was wondering why people think that? Is there anything specific that started it?
I fully believe eddie is buck's true love, endgame, whatever we want to call it and I'm sad we don't have that (yet) but I thought bucktommy was kinda fun in the meantime. I just want to understand š«¶š»
Oh hey darling! you were so sweet and genuine in your response so please know Iām just answering what Iām asked and if you wanna enjoy and have fun with bt that is completely your prerogative but Iām just offering my perspective on it
And i am warning you this is gonna be long because I feel a constant need to go really in depth in my thoughts
Okay so idk how Iām gonna break this down but maybe Iāll do it in like main points?
Also if youāre new here whenever I use bullet points Iām just doing it cos I find it easier to chunk up my thoughts not cos Iām being curt or anything with you
1. The chimney and hen begins episodes
He wasnt just passive in the episodes and letting Gerard get away with his racist and misogynistic behaviour he ACTIVELY participated in it
This includes:
ā¢ Asking if they forgot to tip the delivery guy WHILE THEY WERE EATING CHINESE FOOD when chimney first comes up despite the fact that 1. Chimney had a big ass lafd bag 2. They were probably already told a probie would be coming 3. Probably wouldāve seen the actual delivery guy 4. I would bet my absolute life that question would not have been asked if buck or bobby had walked up those stairs this wasnāt an innocent comment it WAS RACIST intentionally like the entire point of the episode was to show how bad they had it
ā¢ the New York bitchiness comment
ā¢ throwing his tools down along for hen to clean up
ā¢ going out of his way to treat them like outcasts and hating chimney before he even knew him despite chimneys efforts
ā¢ the way each of them had to āearn his respectā in some way before he acted like a normal coworker to them and this was never in the typical āoh itās a new personā type of way it always had to do with their race or in henās case her gender too
A defence I see a lot for this is āoh he was closetedā and honestly to me that is such bullshit because 1. Eli was perfectly capable of not participating in the racism and taking chimney under his wing without getting any shit for it and chimney is quite literally a Korean man (something he literally canāt hide) and he had just got his head above water with Gerardās racism when hen came and he STILL was a friend to her 2. Again tommy wasnāt passive in it and just letting Gerrard be racist (which wouldāve been one thing) no he actively participated in it to be part of the boys club 3. Letās say that somehow not being a dick wouldāve meant that that was a threat to the closet he was in- that is still in my opinion a fucked up sense of preservation if you spare yourself the possibility of bigotry (despite having inherent social capital by being a white man in that job) by inflicting others to bigotry
Now when Tommy was first reintroduced I was like keeping an open mind and saying okay itās been a lot of time and maybe he has genuinely made amends because I do believe in redemption but imo they have made no attempt to show us that and had him honestly put more of the blame on Gerrard for his behaviour or the writers flat out avoiding mentioning it to retcon tommy a little and hope we forget
Another defence I see is āoh chimney and hen became friends with him so they mustāve forgave himā, hen went no contact the moment he left (something the writers went out of their way to include that line) and chimney didnāt even invite him to his wedding which was quite big after the Buckley parents got involved so itās not like it was cos it was such a small and intimate wedding and he only called him as far as we know in those years when he needed a favor, which all means that most likely they had kinda just put it behind them and kept up a coworker relationship with him, but no actual friendship or actual forgiveness or redemption had taken place
Oh wow all that was just point one and I can probably talk more on it but Iāll just leave it with saying that Louās comments about it being teasing or how Tommy genuinely didnāt know hen or chimney were capable etc just makes for a worse case than saying itās cos of being in the closet (and that is genuinely a large part of why idk much abt Lou but those comments are enough to make me hate him) and Iāll also say that poc (myself included in that) have these situations so often- situations even as specific as gay men being racist to them to fit in - and we understand the nuance and shit to it but we also understand on a deep level how it feels to be on the other side of that
And getting toxic bt fans try to come up with ways to downplay or minimise racism honestly pisses me off so much cos believe you me we have heard every excuse and downplay under the sun and I for one am sick and tired of it
2. Why heās viewed as cold and his jokes
ā¢ literally from the small parts we saw of him and Eddie hanging out we have seen the man is in fact capable of joking and being light and having fun but around buck in particular heās like š§āāļøš and the occasional š like it just feels very stiff and just plain in a way
ā¢ his humour consistently falls flat and feels passive aggressive more than anything like blunt or sardonic humour DOES work like I personally love it but itās not being written OR executed right
A. Itās always in response to genuine moments or questions such as buck talking abt the award or the daddy kink joke or henren questioning him
B. Itās the the majority of what we see from him, there is not enough balance for it
C. Lack of rapport, when friends or couples make jokes that can come off the wrong way if said to anyone else itās cos of the rapport built already, this rapport is not established with the characters OR with the audience for these jokes to come off right
D. I gotta say this one too but the execution just isnāt right from writing to acting, itās the same reason sardonic humour lines from Sandra oh as Cristina Yang or hugh Laurie as house still lets you like the characters and find them funny but Tommys lines come off as annoying to a lot of people
3. I think fandom discourse probably has something to do with it but not in the way you think
Iām not saying like oh ppl who ship buddie just hate him cos of the ship no Iām saying that like what takes him from an annoying disliked character to a hated character is most likely the fact that his role stirred so much drama and caused so much damage to how the fandom used to be that its turned the dial up
4. A lot of his development, lore or redeemable factors or cute things are just not canon
This may be blunt and I am sorry for that but I think his character has been blown up to such a degree that itās genuinely shocking
Like I look at posts or get sent hate and Iām like where did any of this happen this is just not canon this is just not a show like at times Iām genuinely convinced itās a social experiment where different ppl saw a different show like some spiderman multiverse situation
Listen Iām all for headcanons genuinely like if you wanna take extra number three and make a whole backstory and lore and cute stuff abt her Iām all for it but itās when itās said as if itās fact or canon that Iām like hold up a second rewind
I think this is kinda a result of Louās cameos (which honestly deserves its own post but you asked why the tommy hate so imma stay on topic) and also this like need to defend the character but not having much material to work with
Like if we look at canon we can literally break down the entirety of Tommys appearances this far in the show and what we learn about him:
ā¢ chimney begins- he makes a racist comment and he tries to suck up to Gerard, there is a little hint abt his gayness with the gf comment, Eli says to chimney thatās just how they are and tries to reason it could be fear of losing friends but we see tommy having friends in the firehouse while eli says this, chimney tries to make friends with him and tommy makes no attempt to get to know him and says heād hate him anyways, chimney saves Tommys life thus earning his respect
ā¢ hen begins- sheās met with the same racism chimney is but also met with misogyny (and homophobia but thatās not relevant to the tommy of it all), we find out chimney is still isolated from the rest despite having earnt that respect, chimney befriends hen and again tommy still doesnāt try anything like that until hen proves herself and earns his respect, ppl reported Gerard but itās never actually stated tommy was one of those ppl so again thatās not canon thatās speculated
ā¢ bobby begins- chimney and hen both seem to be like coworker friends with tommy and Sal, Sal throws hissy fit bobby āfiresā him tommy says itās an overreaction bobby reveals it was a transfer, they all seem to make nice, tommy leaves to 217
ā¢ chimney calls tommy for help and tommy helps
ā¢ we see nothing from tommy,then cruise ship he helps the team but also in this we find out hen cut off all contact since he left
ā¢ buck takes tour of harbour, Eddie and tommy have a friendship and we find out some of Tommys interests and that he was in the army, basketball scene and the subsequent apology and kiss
ā¢ dinner date, Tommy explains how he was in the closet, Buck has his little awkward moment (which will be elaborated on in my next point) , Tommy says nothing abt it till the Uber arrives and he leaves buck
ā¢ buck reaches out and apologises and asks for a second chance inviting tommy to the madney wedding
ā¢ bachelor party and the issue of the lack of costume and not just taking the day off for neither wedding nor bachelor party (which you can reason is reasonable but also I feel like this deserves its point for the narrative choices)
ā¢ tommy shows up straight outta work they kiss buck has the soot coming out award ceremony - buck being happy abt the reward to which tommy sardonically says enjoy it while it lasts enter bigoted cunt gerard then chimney comes and insults gerard and they walk away
ā¢ we donāt see tommy again till the dinner date after Bobby nearly died and when buck tries to explain Bobbys significance to his life tommy throws the your dad is still alive which is just honestly one of his worst moments imo and I made a whole post abt it but canāt find it and then we all know the rest of that convo and I could make a bullet point for it but actually I made a whole post before so Iāll link it: here
AND THATS IT
Like all this comes down to what maybe like 30 mins screentime? If that?
5. The leaving buck on their first date
The defences people use for this are:
ā¢ buck was trying to shove him back in the closet
ā¢ buck was obviously not ready
ā¢ people angry abt this are just babying buck like he can find his own way home itās not that big of a deal
ā¢ buck was at fault there and tommy wouldāve been justified in being angry and not giving him a second chance
And honestly every last one of these are bullshit imo and lemme go point by point
ā¢ buck panicked, I donāt think that what buck was feeling in that moment can be properly described because unless youāre a queer person and youāve experienced that like bone deep panic that like brain overload then you wonāt get it
Like one itās his first queer date
Two he doesnāt even understand his own sexuality atp
Three his closest friend just walked in in a situation thatās already putting him on edge
So heās not only panicking heās not understanding why heās panicking heās trying to make excuses eventhough part of him knows he doesnāt need one but also he doesnāt even understand this side of himself yet so he doesnāt want to have to potentially explain it
Like itās a million things and a million emotions and no one can claim they would behave rationally or appropriately in that situation and if you say that you would youāre lying simple as that
Also then we find out that Eddie thought tommy was straight anyways
ā¢ the reason I love the buddie coming out scene is because of Eddieās āand what do you thinkā line because itās not up to tommy or anyone else whether a person is āreadyā enough in their queerness to date. Full stop.
Also tommy knew it was Buckās first date with a man and was still down so why is he using that as some sort of out
ā¢itās not about babying buck and itās not about him finding his own way home itās the fact that Tommy couldāve done it with much more grace and he couldāve been a lot nicer with it but he wasnāt, and this is again bucks first date with a man even if it doesnāt end with a second date it should at the very least not end up with him feeling like a screw up on the side of the road
ā¢ to the ppl who say that- kindly shut up cos again see the first point but also I wanna point out that somehow the ppl saying this are also the same ones saying that Tommy was justified to be RACIST for a prolonged period of time due to being in the closet yet Buck what? Panicking for a few seconds and being a little awkward? is somehow this giant inexcusable thing
5. The narrative choices with him have been reasonably clear and tbh if they had been made with a woman it would not be up for debate:
ā¢ tommy leaves buck on their first date then he comes back and gives buck a chance- we as a fandom have been unanimous in saying for years that Buckās endgame would be the one that doesnāt leave him cos this pattern has been something we saw over and over with him
ā¢ tommy not dressing up- again you can rationalise it but itās a narrative choice and itās glaring when contrasted with Eddie suggesting the duo costume
And if we had this scene with Taylor so many ppl would be saying that itās once again showing that her and Buckās personalities donāt align
ā¢ him being on standby for the wedding and bachelor party- again you can say oh buck invited him last minute or oh he couldnāt taken the day off (which lbr he couldāve heās not the only firefighter pilot in la) - but again narrative choice
If it was Taylor everyone wouldāve been like SEE? Again theyāre showing the audience that her work is this looming presence in their relationship
Anyway Iām gonna shut up now cos this is A LOT
Iām so sorry it took me so long to respond tho and sending flowers in apologyšššššš
Love ya for being so genuine when asking and hope all this didnāt come off too strong and that it was idk helpful?š«¶š«¶
I realise my response is abt to have toxic bt fans scurry to my inbox like rats to send hate and to that I say go fuck yourselves Iām responding to a question here
#911#buddie#911 abc#evan buckley#911 fox#911onfox#eddie diaz#evan buck buckley#asks#asks open#send asks#my asks#send me asks#answered asks#anti bt#anti tommy kinard#fandom discourse#911 discourse
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A huge part of the problem in how toxic the fandom is becoming is that the online fans think they are a lot more important than they actually are. What the writers, showrunners and ABC care about is the GA. Yes they may mention the fandom and may even put in a little wink wink for the fandom but at the end of the day they care about making a story that will appeal to the 10 million people who watch this show. When you bring up issues or theories that the online fandom have about to show to members of the GA they have no idea what youāre talking about.
As far as the GA know Buck is happy and in a relationship with Tommy. Itās a nice side plot for them while they focus on the main plot which is Athena and Bobby. Despite what people think majority of viewers are tuning in to see Angela Bassett and Peter Krause on their screens. They donāt care about a supposed 7 season long slow burn. They donāt care about BuckTommy Vs Buddie. They care about seeing the action and the lives of these first responders. GA doesnāt interact with Fanon.
(My 2 cents: "As far as the GA know Buck is happy and in a relationship with Tommy." <- as far as all of us know, whether people want to admit it or not š¤)
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Imagine getting a live with JLH and you can ask her about her favourite dramatic scenes, what she wishes for madney in the future, what she thought of the wedding episode, which natural disaster she would like to see on the show etc.... and instead you ask her about a non-canon ship that she's not a part of.
#911 abc#the comments were so weird on this live#the tattoo bit was so cute.#also good reminder before either sides of the fandom try to twist things around. JLH definitely got bucktommy/buddie confused#probably since she is also confused why people were asking her about it#getting mad because she said it wouldn't happen - babes please#get some perspective#i hope you enjoy the episode tonight.#text post#she said some cute things about#bucktommy#so there's that. not that i think people should've asked#but at least it was in the context of buck being her brother and their parents#how maddie and JLH saw it all
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What do u say about these supposed hard core fans that are shipping buck Tommy? They gonna make the writers keep that homophobe around š°
I am entirely the wrong person to ask about this.
Firstly, I ship Bucktommy AND Buddie. And this is possible! You are allowed to see Buck be happy with a man for the first time (how fucking good!!) but also wish upon the nearest star that he ends up with Eddie in the end. I truly believe Buddie is endgame but at the moment, I am more delighted at the fact that Buck is happy, with a man, experiencing a positive queer relationship.
The reason I ship Bucktommy is because look! at! how! happy! this! boy! is!!! I will ship ANY person that makes my little blorbo as happy and blushy and giggly as Evan Buckley is when he's with Tommy Kinard. He is SMITTEN. Do I think they're endgame? Not at the moment, no. Would I be upset if they were? I'd mourn the fuck out of Buddie, but I would be glad that Buck is finally happy and comfortable in a relationship. His happiness is paramount.
For the reasons why Buck's bisexual arc is more important than a ship, please read this post. It talks about the importance of representation in current media, and my own experiences of coming to terms with my bisexuality just before this arc was aired. What we're seeing with Buck's story is revolutionary, really. We haven't seen this kind of thing happen in media much at all and it is so important to show.
For any issues regarding Tommy, please read this post by the lovely @slightlyobsessedwitheverything. They beautifully go through all his appearances and break them down for us and I would urge you to read it with an open mind.
Now, about Eddie. I am an Eddie girlie (gn) through and through. That is my babygirl and I adore him with every fibre of my being. I would love nothing more than to see him go through a queer arc. However, right now, Eddie is not in the place to do so. We saw from the last episode that he's an untapped reservoir of Catholic guilt, and it's gonna take a lot to work through that, before he can have any kind of realisation re: Buck. He's very much in his comphet days but is starting to take some steps towards undoing some of his old habits, like getting Marisol to move out when he realises they're moving too fast.
With this in mind, I think it would be too rushed and too early for Buddie to get together right now. Yeah they've had many seasons of being married and living out of one another's pockets but given the stages of life they are both in, I feel it wouldn't end as well as we'd like it to. Eddie isn't in the right place for it. Buck is exploring his sexuality. They need time to learn and grow and do some serious thinking and realising before they can even begin to contemplate a relationship together.
Regarding the "homophobe", I am assuming this is referring to Edy Ganem and not Lou Ferrigno Jr. I would like it noted for the record that I cannot stand Edy and therefore cannot stand Marisol. If Meddie were to be endgame, I'd fume. They have no chemistry. They do not suit one another. And I don't believe Edy should be given a platform to spread her hateful rhetoric, and I hope the last we see of her is 7x07. I'm a little mad it wasn't 7x05 but there we go.
However, Tommy and Buck's storyline and Eddie and Marisol's storyline are entirely separate. The only thing that links them are Buck and Eddie, and their friendship. I don't believe that Tommy's existence means Marisol is going to stick around and I find it a little odd that you do. Buck can and has had relationships that aren't Eddie. Eddie can and has had relationships that aren't Buck. Buck being in a relationship does not mean Eddie will also be in one. Tommy's existence does not confirm Marisol's continued existence.
My current best case scenario is Eddie being single by the end of 7x07 (please god), and Buck and Tommy continuing their relationship, so Buck has the opportunity to learn and experience same-sex relationships while Eddie has the time to deconstruct his true feelings, get therapy, work through 30+ years of repression, and then they'll be ready.
ALSO I DO NOT WANT BUCK TO CHEAT ON TOMMY WITH EDDIE. WE ARE NOT HERE FOR THAT.
Best case scenario, sometime towards the end of s7 or beginning of s8, Buck and Tommy decide that they both want different things out of life, have an amicable split that doesn't leave either of them hurt, Tommy sticks around as a recurring character because he's ingrained in the 118 again, Eddie's doing his therapy thing and then maybe mid s8 him and Buck can start coming to some realisations with a potential for Buddie moments towards the end of s8. Honestly anything else would seem too rushed.
The final point I'd like to make is that I find it extremely odd that you call people who ship Bucktommy "supposed hardcore fans". Shipping anything other than Buddie doesn't make you any less of a fan. Actually, I'd argue it shows a bit more commitment to the characters as you're willing to be open to them growing as humans and expanding on the personalities that we love. If Buddie is the only reason you watch the show, I feel you should re-evaluate your motivation. This show has so many great ships, such as Bathena, Henren and Madney, as well as Buddie and Bucktommy, and considering this is an ensemble show, we should show all of them as much love as the other. These characters are so intertwined with one another and that's what makes this show so worth watching. Watching for 2 characters and 2 characters only is not getting the full enjoyment out of it.
I hope this answered your questions and gave you something to reflect on. As I say, I'm not the right person to ask about this as I too ship Bucktommy, currently have 2 Bucktommy fics in my drafts and watch them kiss at least 10 times a day. And for future reference, I will be unfollowing/blocking people who throw tantrums about not getting Buddie so far, or who believe you can only ship Buddie and feel superior for doing so. Have a good rest of your day.
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I think thereās a gay Hollywood ghost that possesses middle aged male actors and makes their characters super mega queer cause the amount of times where an actor is just like ānah I didnāt play him gay.ā and then later theyāre like āyea I rewatched this and itās somehow gay, idk what happened guys.ā is astronomical??? Like fym you didnāt intend for him to be queer yet you stared longingly into your male costars eyes for an unreasonable amount of time and every time you touched the contact between you lingered unnecessarily??? what do you mean you stared your male costar in the face and flirted, like straight up insinuated you wanted to do the nasty with him (maybe not in so many words, but the insinuation was THERE and CLEAR), without even a hint of a joking tone in your voice????
W H A T ??????
BUT YOU STILL SAY ITS NOT GAY???? BRO IM PRETTY SURE GAY PORN ISN'T EVEN THIS GAY??? YOUR CHARACTERS CONSTANTLY RISK THEIR LIVES FOR EACH OTHER, THEY'RE DEVASTATED BY THE IDEA THAT THE OTHER MIGHT BE DEAD, ALL OF THEIR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS CRUMBLE TO PIECES BUT THEY ALWAYS STICK WITH EACH OTHER, THEY COPARENT TOGETHER, OTHER CHARACTERS MAKE REMARKS/ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THEM BEING IN LOVE/TOGETHER, THEY WORE MATCHING COSTUMES TOGETHER, THEY'RE GLUED TO THE HIP BUT WHEN THEY ARGUE ITS TO A DEVASTATING DEGREE - LIKE FULL ON NASTY, MAKING THEIR FRIENDS CHOOSE SIDES DIVORCE TYPE SHIT - AND ONE OF THEM HAS FUCKING RELIGIOUS TRAUMA???? LIKE DO NOT PLAY WITH ME SIR THEY ARE GAY FOR EACH OTHER, THEY WERE WRITTEN THAT WAY AND YOU SURE AS HELL PLAYED IT THAT WAY OTHERWISE SOMETHING ELSE DID (THE GAY GHOST).
(Sorry I lost control of this post the queer gods possessed me for a second to express their outrage.)
But yea so a gay ghost might be possessing these guys cause idk why else they wouldn't remember playing their super mega queer character as queer.
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so likeā¦ are you actually anti-buddie completely?
Tbh nonnie I'm.... on the verge of it. Mostly due to the behaviour of the fandom, specifically the side that insist buddie is happening no matter what canon or the writers or the actors have to say about it.
I still love buddie as a platonic dynamic in canon. I think their relationship is so important. I think the buckley-diaz family unit is SO important, and I will always love seeing more of it.
But with the rapid rise in toxicity in this fandom I just cannot bring myself to enjoy buddie as a romantic ship right now. Maybe that'll change again over the hiatus, I'm not sure.
I'm not normally one to take the word of a writer as gospel, I've been in fandom spaces for so long that shipping fanon couples is second nature to me. But hearing what Ryan, Oliver, Lou and Tim have been saying about this storyline, and about the storylines of the respective characters and their journeys... it's obvious, to me at least, that buddie is not going to happen in canon.
I'm not going to go out of my way to shoot down buddie, I'm not about to become a buddie hate blog or anything. I'm just tired of seeing the same baseless arguments and irritating sentiments being passed around. I'm tired of hearing about Oliver and Lou getting hate mail, I'm tired of hearing about Tom Minear getting death threats, I'm tired of people ignoring what Ryan has said about playing this storyline, how it's so close to his heart because he's basing his acting choices on his real life relationship with a queer friend.
I just wish that certain people in this fandom would relax, take a breather, and remember that all of this is supposed to be fun. And it's just not fun for me anymore. So I'm stepping back.
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I've read so much bucktommy tumblr posts and ao3 fics that I'm done with buddie. Maybe you should read some and be done with it too. It's ok to admit when you're wrong.
I don't ship buddie because Buck and Eddie are hot together. I ship them because they complement each other.
Buck has always been searching for a family, for stability, for someone to love, for someone to stay, for someone to love him completely and for someone to accept his love.
Eddie, has been stuck trying to take care of everybody, carry out their plans for him, always sacrificing himself for others, never allowing himself to get what he wants without feeling guilty, unable to express his emotions freely, reluctant to ask for help.
You know whatās the beauty of buddie, even as just friends? That in the first 3 episodes of season 2, the buddie dynamic was already stablished and it gave us so much characterization. Buck, wanting to be supportive, helped Eddie out by introducing him to Carla, checking in with Bobby so that Chris could stay at the station, driving Eddie to pick up Chris after the earthquake. And Eddie, who wouldnāt normally ask for help, not only accepts it but allows Buck to continue to take care of him and Chris.
Now compare all that characterization across 7 seasons, 7 years that we got to know these characters vs 5 scenes with Tommy... You can't tell me you give up on buddie after 4 episodes with a new character whose storyline could barely fill a paragraph and be taken seriously.
Like it's ok to admit you only wanted to see Oliver kiss a man and that's it. That's fine, but miss me with all this superiority complex with shipping bucktommy.
Yeah, you guys wrote 3000 fics and innumerable posts on tumblr filled to the brim with *check notes* tropey headcanon on top of horny headcanons, gender roles, and once again buck getting female coded with stereotypical bottom tropes. Fanon buddie bore me before, and Iām already done with fanon bucktommy aka Tommy āmight as well be an OCā Kinard and Evan āself insertā Buckley.
Ā Every single previous female love interest of Buck had more characterization than Tommy, but somehow *cough* misogyny *cough* Tommy has this insane fan support behind him by his 4th appearance. I wonder why?
I don't hate Tommy or the ship, but I'm sorry, he is not a fleshed out character, you guys just love how plain he is (so the headcanons are easier to apply) and how hot Lou is, because where was all this energy and push for a love interest to stay in the show, for any of the previous female love interests???Ā
All this talk about how perfect the relationship is but when Natalia and Buck, who also had the same amount of scenes and development by her 3rd/4th episode, no one was rooting for her to stay.
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Fandom asks: M, P, Q, U, and X
M - Name a character that youād like to have for a friend.
oh gosh. going to go with....His Radiancy from HOTE/whatever the series is called except that there's a 90% chance i'd get fried bc i am a pretty big hugger with my friends
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
hmmm okay who rules the world scifi AU where hei fengxi & bai fengxi are both assigned, randomly, to the same off-world internship around...*rolls dice* interplanetary regulations on the seizure and restriction of fresh water sources in newly discovered planets (Lanxi is probably doing this as part of his plan to become Space Emperor and Bai Fengxi is doing this to help maintain public access to vital resources)
Q - A fandom youāve abandoned and why.
There are a few of these but we'll go with Marvel for the simple reason that I think I less abandoned Voltron and it more imploded. anyway marvel mostly, for me, sort of curdled thru the source material and as that eroded (corroded? bloated?), so did the delight i originally got from it.
U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why theyāre your favorites.
trying to pick different ones from usual and also. make some actual words here
Bucky Barnes (Marvel)
i am trying to limit myself to one (1) Human Weapon character here and i am being. So Brave about it
I know that my love of him is Heavily influenced by the Stucky Fandom That Was but like! sunshine dapper lady's man baby boy turned into haunted, ragged ghost turned into a weapon with no name no memory no self!!! breaking out of that!!! choosing to forge a life of his own choice!!! hnnnn
also. i can't not say it. The Arm is one of the sexiest pieces of costume design the MCU has ever done. the shifty shifty plates. the noises. excellent 12/10 i still love it
Miranda (Station Eleven [the book])
I read Station Eleven at an admittedly weird and tender time of my life but my god!! that book Read Me and Miranda was a significant part of that
her thoughts on being a creative, her end scene! I!!!!
Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
i have an unfortunate abiding love for action movies and if MMFR had come out when i was 8-13 i would have been, Insufferable
i love competence! and trauma!!! and wrath!!!! i love a character thinking they will finally Escape only to realize that they must turn back and make that new world with their own bloodied hands!!
im realizing that 2/3 of these are not actually fandoms im in but they're characters i love so anyway. a fandom can be urself and ur many many many emotions
X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
i maintain that h/c is a genre but hurt/comfort. otherwise, glass canon characters. i love to see competence AND whump. āØdualityāØ
fandom ABCs
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incorrect tweets pt 20/?
#also for anyone who sent in asks for my 1k celebration I will do them! I just have exams at the moment#911 fandom#911 abc#bucktommy#evan buck buckley#evan buckley#tommy kinard#eddie diaz#hen wilson#chimney han#christopher diaz#911 meme#purple edit#incorrect tweets#911 incorrect quotes#incorrect 911 quotes#911#911 show#911 on abc
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Please watch
https://x.com/bucksdaylight/status/1800876967061008885?s=46
Okay this damn video. A couple of things.
It's canon that Buck baked cookies for Christopher's class?? Buck has gotten Chris ready for school. Buck has cooked meals for both Eddie and Chris multiple times. Buck has helped Chris with his homework. Buck takes Chris out all the time. Buck has given him life advice. We don't see Henren or Athena and Michael doing those things daily either does that mean they're not the parents? š§š½
I don't know why they think Chris calling Buck 'dad' would in any way or form take away the importance of Eddie being his biological dad. This person seems to think someone can only have one dad in their lives. Step-parents exist? Queer parents?? Foster parents?? They're not any less because they're not your biological father? Some biological fathers don't even deserve to be a father.
They also seem to think you're only a parent if you both do the exact same things for a kid, which is not true at all. Parents have different roles they play and different sets of responsibilities. One parent will be more into the emotional aspect and the other might handle day-to-day things. One parent might have a career that doesn't allow them to spend as much time with their kids as the other. Yeah, some parents might share all the same responsibilities but mostly they don't! This is so common in ANY family. You're not less of a parent if you don't make breakfast for your kid to school lol.
When you tell someone "there's nobody in this world I trust with my son more than you", in this world, that is beyond any fun uncle territory. That is a co-parent.
Chris ran to Buck first when he was mad at his own dad. Chris most likely has Buck's address memorized because he called Uber. Chris didn't want to talk to Eddie but was willing to talk to Buck.
I'm convinced people like these watch a completely different show than the rest of us because Buck's involvement in the Diaz family is NOT just as a fun uncle. The Will itself is the biggest proof (despite their clown ass dismissing it). You don't name the 'fun uncle' as a legal guardian. You will choose someone who you know will step into the role of a parent for your child; someone who will take over all of your responsibilities as a parent in case something happens to you. If you wanna' see what a fun uncle looks like then look at Chim with Denny. Look at Buck with Jee-Yun. That's fun uncle.
You don't have to be romantically involved to be a co-parent but the fact that they're saying even if they date he won't ever be Chris' dad?? Reeks of homophobia and hetero normative bs if you ask me.
Also I hope the last episode was a slap to their face because 'fun uncles' don't get that involved in family matters. Eddie's parents didn't even ask why Buck was there š¤·š½
They can say whatever they want but it doesn't negate canon. Buck is co-parenting with Eddie. Buck will never be the dad that is Eddie because that belongs to Eddie, true. But he can be another dad to Chris and it doesn't make him any less of a parent for that.
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ā¦ā¦ i canāt wait until these people are gone
This is in fact the ask that the draft didnāt save for so if my answer is worse than the original I will cry
My eye is legit twitching
So we all know this is bs but letās go through point by point for why this is bs
āEddie hasnāt done anything like that for himā (dropped everything and helped him) - this is honestly down to how they act with their emotions, Eddie bottles things until they turn into an emergency drop everything and deal with it situation but buck will have ongoing issues that heāll need help with and heāll seek it as it happens (e.g his parents or his injuries etc) and when he does Eddie IS there and shows up for him and helps him but we havenāt had him be in sort of a drop everything scenario (except the Buckley family dinner scene and we donāt know where he went after but the scene we see after that is buck talking to who? Eddie)
āConstantly makes jokes about bucks traumaā - as someone with ptsd and my own fair share of trauma and with traumatised friends I feel like once a certain level of rapport is reached you can joke with eachother about traumas 1. They both do it (e.g bucks ādidnāt you just have one of those?ā) 2. Itās never in emotional or vulnerable moments 3. It never crosses a line 4. Bold criticism considering Tommy made a daddy kink joke and a comment abt how bucks dad is still alive when buck was opening up abt why Bobby matters sm to him 5. Itās received and delivered well 6. Itās not actually constantly itās a handful at most and the most outright one is abt the tsunami and that was HIS trauma too dont yāall forget my dude thought his son was dead for a hot minute
Told his team buck needed to get over being crushed by a fire truck- in that scene the writers did everything but flat out say he was projecting, when heās talking abt bottling things up and his dads advice and all that stuff and the audience KNOWS that heās just been through a bunch of traumas that heās bottling up and āgetting overā for the sake of Chris, theyāre basically flat out telling you heās projecting, now the minute that hen and bobby point out that buck feels alone what does Eddie do? He drags him out of bed and attempts to motivate him launching āoperation buck up buckā in chimneys words, now mind the fact that he doesnāt do this for himself or give himself the same kindness because he genuinely believes you deal with things by ignoring them (reminder this is untherapised Eddie two eps away from fight club) but despite believing that he knows itās what buck needs so he does it for him
Heās never once apologised for buck and made buck apologise to him- Iām assuming this is abt lawsuit era, Iāve said it once and Iāll say it again no one in the lawsuit era was perfect thatās the whole point, either theyāre all in the wrong or theyāre all excused because they all had their reasons, Bobby kept buck behind and lied but he was scared to lose him, Buck sued and didnāt tell anyone and went no contact and shared personal shit but heās just been through a bunch of trauma and his father figure and the man who was by his side the whole time through rehab basically said it isnāt good enough (in bucks brain) and that all that work still means he canāt get back to doing his lifeās purpose, Eddie has had hit after hit trauma after trauma with no time to breathe in between AND THEN HIS BEST FRIEND GOES NO CONTACT BECAUSE OF WHAT BOBBY DID AND HE SUES BOBBY AND THE DEPARTMENT WITHOUT TALKING IT OUT WITH ANYONE AND SHARES PERSONAL INFO THAT HIS LAWYER THROWS IN HIS FACE, and while dealing with all the aforementioned trauma Eddie has to deal with Chrisā trauma and Chris missing buck and Eddie not being able to do anything abt it, so yeah honestly he WAS owed an apology (but again imo all sides have justification) and itās not like he was a dick to buck for an extended period of time, he lasted one shift being bitchy and giving silent treatment and then buck had one emotional talk with puppy eyes and an apology and Eddie instantly was like ofc I forgive youšjust donāt do it againāļøš¤Ø and again bold criticism when buck apologised to Tommy for what? Not being ready to come out to his friend in public after exactly one queer kiss and mid first queer date?? And then got ditched on the side of the road by Tommy???
He never once acted like a good friend outside of the will and the hospitals- āyou donāt have to be anything for anyone, no one is the same from one day to the next and things like this change us so what changed in you?ā āDid you say anything that wasnāt true? Well look maybe you couldāve come at it a little differently but if thatās how you feel, how they made you feel you have every right to say soā āthatās not your faultāāI had to do it- I know you didā āand what you think you failed? I failed that kid more times than I care to count and Iām his father but I love him enough to keep trying and I know that you do tooā āthere is no one in this world I trust with my son more than youāāyou saved him, thatās how he remembers it and now its his turn to do the same to youā ānow am I allowed to ask how you are?ā ā you died buck youāre gonna feel a lot of different ways about thatā¦I found the best way is to let yourself feel itā - and thatās not even all of them just a few favourites but my thumbs are sore
Eddie has left buck out from so many things and never realised it was wrong- 7x04 is literally the only time weāve seen that and remember Tim said the whole episode is bucks perspective and I said this before the ep even aired in this ask but itās still true that for Eddie I think he just genuinely is so secure in their friendship that he didnāt think buck would be insecure abt it and when he does he is actually the one who puts it together and sends Tommy to buck - I go a little more in depth in this post that turned out to be a draft that I freed from my drafts just for this ask also what did we see him exclude buck from? Basketball that he doesnāt like and that heās asked him to join in multiple times? Watching a fight that he had no previous interest in? Muay Thai that he doesnāt know how to do and again showed no previous interest in? Like when buck and Eddie are close yāall say theyāre codependent and unhealthy and when Eddie has other friends yāall say heās a bad friend?
Tommy was the one who apologised to him - at EDDIES URGING BECAUSE BRO WAS LAID UP AFTER BUCK SPRAINED HIS ANKLE???šš
āTommy has been doing all the things Eddie hasnātā - youre so right actually like putting a damper on bucks mood or having a racist past or having like 10 lines and the majority of them being sardonic and kinda insensitive, making an emotional moment into a sexual one and having like 5 minutes of screentime š¤©š
Wow babe I have a degree in yappology and a minor in ranting for real sorry for the long response ššš
#anti bucktommy#anti tommy kinard#listen I donāt think that the bucktommy fans as a whole are bad but there is just a lot of bad ones and a lot of LOUD bad ones#so yeah canāt wait to get rid of Tommy and bucktommy atp#like I was so down at first for them to stretch it out and play with the storyline and stuff#but now Iām like put me out of my misery of seeing abhorrent takes#buddie#evan buckley#911 abc#911 fox#911onfox#eddie diaz#evan buck buckley#buckley diaz family#911#asks open#send asks#my asks#send me asks#answered asks#asks#fandom discourse#911 discourse
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Having a bones deep feeling that lou's bts pic is coming
Everyone manifest it, wish upon a star, blow out some birthday candles, throw a coin into a wishing well, whatever you do... do it with me and anon!
Adding some Lou pics as sacrifice.
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If Buck and Tommy ever move in together I NEED for a box of Tommy's to fall open when they're trying to make room for Buck's stuff in his closet and for an old LAFD Charity Calendar to fall out and Buck sees Tommy in it from when he was at the 118!!!!!
yessss! absolutely!! that'd be fantastic lol
what month do we think he was? š¤
#sorry bb just getting to answering this bc my other fandom caused me chaos this morning lmao#tommy kinard#bucktommy#911 abc#meg tag#sterekzankiefeels#asks#thisisme
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