#hes buddies with chim AND hen

[mintedwitcher]

People acting as if Tommy never evolved or changed since his first appearance on the show, I'm blocking you on sight :) sorry you don't believe in character growth I guess :)

[chronicowboy]

bobby walking onto the set of hotshots and watching one scene with the main duo and going "woah hey now cut!! never EVER in my long career as a firefighter have i seen two partners be that normal about each other. where's the devotion to the point of derangement? where's the crippling willingness to follow each other to the ends of the earth? where's the line between professional and personal that has blurred to a point of wondering if there was ever a line at all? FIX IT!"

[buddiebitch]

saw someone on tiktok say that they “love that the fandom has come to a general consensus that tommy needs to stay” …

retake the consensus now because idk where you got those results

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie diaz isn’t going to actually move to Texas - oh he’ll probably get close - but he won’t actually go - because it’s running away again - which is what Eddie does when he’s faced with something life changing.

He ran to Shannon to escape his parents (especially his mom)

Then he ran to the army when Shannon got pregnant

Then he ran to the army once again when Chris was diagnosed

Then he ran to LA to escape his parents once more

Then he ran back to Shannon

Then he ran from his grief

He ran from his trauma

Ran from the 118

Ran from his feelings

And now he’s running again - he thinks he’s running towards Chris but he’s actually running away from himself - from joy and freedom - because he thinks it’s the only way to get Chris back - to go back to living under the toxic cloud that is his parents - to go back to being made to feel like a failure (because Helena is going to say I told you so at the first opportunity!)

Eddie is watching Chris and seeing him get the childhood with his parents he never had - one where he was loved and supported and allowed to be a child. Only that’s Eddie’s perspective and Eddie (like Buck) is a flawed narrator of his own life - Chris isn’t actually happy he’s basically getting the same treatment Eddie got from Helen and Ramon - he’s being stiffled - suffocated and he is not being given the right support - the support to work through his trauma and not let it fester.

But Eddie only sees Chris being taught chess by the man who was absent from Eddie’s own childhood, Chris being able to be involved in clubs and tournaments and getting to make friends and be a child.

Eddie doesn’t see that he was already providing all of that for Chris am more - providing him with the love and support and tools to deal with what life throws at him.

Eddie wants in on what he was already doing and doing much better so he’s going to probably go to Texas for a bit and open the dialoge and then reload moving back to Texas just keeps the cycle going (Eddie’s own version of the hamster wheel) and it would reinforce to Chris that running is the answer. That being unhappy is the answer

Ultimately Eddie needs to realise that he can fight to get Chris back without sacrificing all he has been working towards - without sacrificing all the progress he has made. That actually making the first move doesn’t mean abandoning the life he has been building for himself and his son.

Because Chris isn’t actually happy - he’s miserable and he wants his dad - he just isn’t able to admit that yet but they’re going to get to a point where he is - because Eddie has been doing the right things and they will have a conversation in Texas that will bring them both home to LA ;and Buck) and the family they have built.

[suhlinah]

eddie's really taking bestie notes from hen with the “I’m your friend (s)he’s your ex, you get to forgive and move on, I get to hold a grudge till I die” vibes and im so here for it

[watchyourbuck]

I don’t ever wanna hear anybody say that Firefighter Buckley doesn’t have leadership skills,,, that man single-handedly saved the entire 118 then went home and delivered a baby ???????

[pansysgothgf]

Consider,,, the 118 is working on the plane crash, Eddie and Chim are teamed up together. The 133 comes to help, Captain Mehta sees Eddie and comes up to say hi.

Mehta: hey, Diaz! Where’s your partner?

Eddie: ah, he’s working with someone else today, he should be on the southwest side

Mehta: well, if you ever want to bring him on another poker date he’s more than welcome,,, just so long as he doesn’t gain anymore math superpowers

Chim drops whatever he’s holding and whips around to look at Eddie who looks like he’s just been struck dumb. Internally, Eddie is combing through all of his memories of Buck, realizing that maybe their relationship has never been quite as platonic as he thought. That maybe his feelings for Buck have never been platonic.

They’re at a disaster, though, and they can’t talk about it. They don’t say anything until they get back to the station, where Chim drags Eddie outside to talk.

Chim: Eddie…

Eddie: you can’t tell anyone, Chimney. I can’t… I won’t put Buck through any sort of conversation about all of *gestures at himself* this unless I know for sure what I want. Who I want.

Cue Chimney trying to keep a secret, Eddie being so, so fucking weird, and Buck being in his own personal hell because suddenly Eddie is avoiding him and spending all of his time with Chim of all people.

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Buddie confession scene but it’s just Buck telling Eddie how “Whatta Man” started playing in his head the day they met and Eddie was shirtless

[warpedpuppeteer]

Buddie headcanon: when Eddie has a nightmare about Buck getting struck by lightning, the only way he'll calm down is if he's lying down on Buck's chest to hear his heartbeat and feel his chest move because Eddie is haunted by the remnants of doing cpr on Buck's corpse on his fingertips. He'll only be able to go to sleep with Buck constantly talking to him, his words washing over him in soothing waves, because the worse part of it all was the silence there had been when he lost Buck. He couldn't hear Buck anymore; couldn't hear his heart or his voice or his bright laugh or his "Eddie". So he presses close to Buck's chest, and let's Buck's arms and words wrap around him comfortingly and lull him back to sleep.

[jazajas]

bucks gonna be so supportive of Eddie thinking about moving back to Texas that the minute Eddie goes to the 118 to let them know what his plans are they're going to lock him in the station and refuse to let him leave bc they do NOT want a repeat of post-abby leaving buck AND post-eddie's no longera firefighter buck at the SAME TIME

and bobby's gonna have to talk eddie out of spontaneous, drastic, life-altering changes AGAIN and that he really needs to think things through and TALK TO CHRIS before making said changes

[thetangycheesemanwithaplan]

911 + Text Posts pt111/?

[grapejuicegay]

Sometimes I just start thinking about this moment - paired with Maddie's "I just think that maybe you're not sure of your own feelings yet. And if there's something that you need to tell Eddie, you will. Just, in your own time" - and then don't stop thinking about it.

Maybe I'm just reading into it but the way this moment moves. Eddie steps forward, Tommy steps up to exactly where Eddie was, Buck turns to look where Eddie was, doesn't find what he was looking for but still finds something good. It's not just ep 4 and 5 where the focus on Eddie blows me away, it's also this.

[chronicowboy]

just cannot stop thinking about masks... episode 705 you don't know me, buck's first episode knowing and embracing his queerness, all of it completely wrapped up in eddie, every single moment of it just eddie, eddie, eddie but still called you don't know me. episode 805 masks, a whole season later, when there should be absolutely nothing between them left unsaid at all but maybe, maybe there's even more now than there was before, maybe they just swapped one mask for another....

[ithilien-writes]

oh no wait. did we consider maybe they're doubling down on dopplegangers and mustache!eddie is actually some random dude buck picks up at a bar??

[dandelioncasey]

Just came across a post which mentioned this concept and now I'm wondering - has anyone found any fics where the shooting was about Hen and Chim, not Buck and Eddie? Or where the tsunami was Chim and Denny not Buck and Chris? Because I am DOWN to read those if anybody has written them, that would change the plots so much and I'm so curious 👀

[canichangemyblogname]

Look. This is probably an unpopular 911 opinion...

In regards to season three and the lawsuit plot, it seems to me like most of the fandom thinks Buck was out of line and that it was egregious how the lawyer brought up relevant-- and, yes, personal-- aspects of Hen, Bobby, Chim, and Eddie's past during arbitration. Workplace exclusion can constitute a form of discrimination, so the lawyer laid the foundations for a history of disparate treatment at the 118 by bringing up things like Chim getting stabbed.

I don't personally think the things that the lawyer brings up are particularly tasteless. They're not even previously unknown. Hen had a different career before becoming a paramedic. Bobby is a recovering alcoholic (the fire service and the 118 know this). Chim was stabbed, and he also suffered a major brain injury (and was back to work w/in a month of both injuries, even though he hadn't yet received his final brain scans or a clean bill of health when he returned the first time). The only thing that I can see as potentially irrelevant and a low blow was bringing up Shannon's death.

I feel like some at the 118 (Eddie and Bobby) give Buck too much grief for who he turned to and why. Buck needed someone to acknowledge how he felt and just listen without judgment and without shutting his concerns and desires down. He wasn't getting that from his friends and family. He felt isolated and like the treatment he was receiving was unfair (because he was being iced out), so he turned to that lawyer, who, yes, clearly cared more about his paycheck than his clients. But rather than understand this, many at the 118 took Buck's actions as a personal and petty attack and continued to get more passive-aggressive with him, further icing him out. And that doesn't help their case, imho.

Narratively-- because I, as an audience member, know that Bobbby doesn't think Buck is ready because Buck reminds Bobby of himself and because I know how Bobby has always been too lenient on Buck-- it seems like Bobby pushes all the other characters in a way he doesn't push Buck. In giving Buck more leniency and more time away to properly heal (despite Buck-- I'm pretty sure-- being cleared for work), he inadvertently discriminated against him for a chronic illness.

Like... if Buck's medical team and the LA fire admin cleared Buck for firehouse duty/work (and I'm writing this under the assumption that they did, but maybe I'm wrong [you can correct me if I'm wrong]), then the only thing keeping Buck from firehouse duty and the only reason he has been iced out of firehouse duties is because of how Bobby views his chronic illness and views Buck differently from the rest of the team.

There's good reason the city decides to settle. (Also probably because the writers didn't want to turn the show into a courtroom procedural.)

Do I think Buck had other options? Absolutely. Do I think this was the best course of action? No, this gets worse for him. Do I think the show would have been better had the writing acknowledged the time it should take for a person to heal with other characters-- like Chim-- instead of just Buck? Yes. Chim should have had more time. Bobby should have had more time. Even Eddie should have had family leave after Shannon died. Could all of this been avoided had the characters actually communicated? Also yes.

The show is wildly fiction, and that fiction has led to a somewhat uneven representation of severe and disabling injuries. Ultimately, it seems to me more like a writing inconsistency they tried to rectify with more in-show drama.