#i'm trying to pretend this is some meta commentary on free will or some shit to justify the money i spent DISCOUNTED BTW

[heretical-final-boss]

I'm getting real fuckin' tired of jrpgs pretending I can shape my protagonist's personality over the course of the game. "Hey, here are these cool psychology tests to boost some as of yet pointless stats. Wow, you're really fucking selfish! Have fun only being nice or lukewarm "joke" interactions while you save the world!" To be fair, saving the world comes at the risk of some individuals, but they spend so much time basically telling you the silent protagonist is altruistic while hinting that you don't actually have to sacrifice anyone! But due to plot, you don't have the dialogue options to investigate into that. So you're just stupidly trundling along until someone else spells it out for you while swinging wildly between being lawful stupid and edgy stupid.

[pleasestopdeletingmyaccount]

Yeah I see both of your points

But

Have you considered

✨Delulu✨

Sorry being ✨delusional✨ is my coping mechanism

What ? You see proof that points to Buddie not becoming canon?

No you don't ✨

On a separate note, I honestly think this is just a preference in methodology of media consumption.

Buddie fans have been waiting for close to 6 years for this ship, and sadly, truthfully, as a Buddie fan, most of the canon fuel burned out after season 4, and from there it's less canonical materials and more, this is how we've chose to consume this content so this is how we'll interpret the material.

There's a time and place for serious TV analysis and metas, holding shows accountable for stringing viewers along, being lazy and repetitive with storylines and character arcs. And Buddie fans do make these, they're fans of Buck and Eddie, sure, but they're a fan of the show first and foremost.

We love this show, with all our hearts, it means something to us, it makes us go crazy but we love it anyway. That's why we want it to do well too, we want the character arcs and storylines to progress in a logical sense, to tie neatly into the narratives, to be coherent and thematically appropriate. We love this show just as much as the general audience do (if not a little more, I swear, some of the posts I see on the 9-1-1 tag), so we're also the most likely to see its flaws and criticise it (look at the season 6 finale, I was on both Tumblr and Reddit at the time and let me tell you the number of essays I read)

We're not trying to make it seems like anything they put out is great as long as we can spin it to become Buddie. Some of us just try to have faith in the show and believe it will find a way to improve (and we'll be here to shit on it if it doesn't)

On the other hand, there's definitely a time and place for fun, light hearted jokes and commentaries about the direction the show's going in and how much we don't like it, so we pretend to not see it :)))

I absolutely understand how it can seem annoying and childish the way we approach Buddie content, literally scouring the floor for CRUMBS of a HINT of Buddie. But it's fun, it's not fun because it's lowkey a little pathetic looking, it's fun because there's a sense of community in it.

Somehow, the show being a little queerbaity and us getting next to nothing for our ship becomes a bit less shitty when you log on to your account and there are some 90 thousands people collectively losing their shit with you.

That's just how fandom spaces have always been, like-minded people with similar interests coming together to both celebrate and commemorate this piece of content that they love. I'll be sad if Buddie doesn't become canon, but honestly I don't care, I don't need it to live, I have more than enough fics and delusional friends to help me scratch that itch.

And right now, that's what I'm here for, not just for the show, or the characters and actors, but also for my incredibly talented mutuals, writers and bloggers that I look up to, new interesting free content from people who love the same thing I do.

In short, I think we all know that reality is not fanfiction, we've been burned by too many shows too many times to not take that to heart. But we get our hopes up anyway and live in this fictional land anyway because we find this way of consuming content way more fun.

And that's okay, neither way is wrong, and neither way should be shit on. We all love this weird wee woo show in our own ways, and I love that ^^

So, I lost the fucking point on this, this went from a simple reply of a post to a love letter to the Buddie fandom, the 9-1-1 fandom, and fandom as a whole.

Just in a really positive mood today, so wish everyone a happy day ^^

I’m loving how everyone is changing their tune to “oh hey now we can get a double date! We’re still wining!”

Like…do they think what that they will go on a double date and suddenly dump both girls in the middle of it to go make out in a corner…? The problem a lot of fans seem to have is they have it in their mind the show runs like fan fictions do and it does not.

💯 Headcanons are great, but some of the scenarios people throw out make it sound like Tim is just waiting for the right moment rather than writing scenes the networks will approve of.

Double date awkwardness would have already happened if this were a m/f ship.

What do we get?

Subtext.