#i‘m not here to police anyone but i wish the more diehard parts of the fandom would let the rest of us enjoy the show

[cowboylikesel]

i’m sorry but the narrative this fandom has created around buck and eddie in the last few years that there’s no way they could ever truly be happy if they don’t end up in a romantic relationship with each other and that they’re otherwise doomed to a life of misery is so…sad to me?

like obviously everybody is entitled to their own interpretation of the show but it’s just such a limited view of what love and family can look like. buck and eddie (& chris) will always be family and they’ll always be in each other’s lives, no matter who they are with. maybe they will end up together but if they don’t that doesn’t mean that what they have with each other is somehow less meaningful. seeing their current relationship simply as a stepping stone for a possible romance feels to me like a betrayal to both of them and what they’ve build with each other.

i get that everybody enjoys things in their own way but condemning my favourite characters to an eternity of misery instead of opening myself up to different possibilities is just not something i’m willing to do again and i honestly think this way of thinking is a big reason why a large part of the fandom just seems miserable engaging with the canon material of the show post s4 but especially s7 — at least when it comes to buck and eddie and every storyline related to them that can’t be interpreted as some kind of build up to buddie.