#slow burn means sloooowwwe burn

[bucksboobs]

I do think certain Buddie shippers need to slow the fuck down and enjoy the ride. Buck hasn’t even said the word “boyfriend” yet and there are people that want him to break up with his boyfriend by the end of the season. I’m not going to claim to be an expert in reading the show’s intention but it does seem like Buck and Tommy will last at least until midway through season 8 now that season 8 is confirmed. Just narratively, this relationship is about Buck discovering a side of himself he didn’t know and rushing that is not healthy for the story or for his character.

You should want to see Buck happy with Tommy for a while because his story about gay joy is just as important as Eddie’s theoretical gay breakdown. It’s two sides of the same coin. That journey of Eddie suffering through breaking out of the box he and society and his parents put him in is better if in contrast to Buck continuing to have a boyfriend and being happy. It’s a light for the end of Eddie’s tunnel. Because Eddie will see 1) that it’s possible to be a firefighter and date other men and 2) to be a firefighter and date another firefighter 3) be a firefighter and date BUCK all while denying all those things to himself. BuckTommy only enriches the drama of Buddie especially if Eddie realizes everything while they’re still together.

[waitmyturtles]

AAAHHH, KABE KOJI, I LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH! 

Thank you, episode six, for giving us so much more context than we’ve had the past few episodes! Man, when I say slow burn on this show, it is really a sloooowww burn, but waiting for six episodes to get more insight into Mamocchi was worth it. 

First off, inspired by @respectthepetty‘s posts on colors in Big Dragon and Between Us: I am now paying attention to when Mamocchi is wearing black vs. white, and what his moods are when he’s wearing white. And it was interesting to see the mind image of Issei coming out in his white suit when Mamocchi was imagining the wall of the manga convention moving farther and farther away from him. 

But now I’m also connecting this color comparison to a few other moments in the show:

1) Moments when Mamocchi is wearing black vs. white during the intro song, but more importantly,

2) The fact that (SPOILERS!) the first scene of episode six was in dimmed black and white while Mamocchi reveals that he’s gay.

Oh goddamn. To be able to plunge so deeply into Mamocchi’s mood and heart so almost openly in this episode felt like a bit of a relief. And to see his friends, his small community, KNOWING that he’d be depressed because he’s not on the wall. Come thru, homies! I love the nurturing meaning of food given to Mamocchi -- just the simple message that this human being is wonderful and worth taking care of. 

And when Mamocchi gets the little lift from Issei! Gah. “He gave me the little push on the back.” Issei’s seeing all sorts of ways to be motivated to work in Shiny Smile, from Tsubasa’s almost-bullying, to Issei’s own inner drive to succeed for Mamocchi’s sake. I think Issei’s trying to give unto Mamocchi the kind of motivation that he (Issei) would actually like to get from those that surround him. 

Let’s see where this paparazzi storyline goes, but I love how Issei is so weird and positive about it. I LOVE food bribes, they make so much sense.

And Yamada = real MVP. 

I might have to re-watch this episode this week -- I feel like I missed a bunch, but I’m just in a rush to get words down because this show is so freaking well done.

[shirks-all-responsibilities]

Oooooh we're past the first step and onto the second now, these two! I love the slow sloooowww burn of the start of this chapter, where they are literally just getting used to being in close proximity to each other, having comfortable conversations, the only physical touch being brief moments in passing, Din's well-honed restraint slowing the pace even further...love thinking about the quiet comfort of them learning to exist in the same space together with the gentle hum of the craft in the background.

They are just so...innocent isn't the right word, rather that life hasn't been kind to them and let them experience anything resembling normalcy, so they are so...unpracticed? It's just so darn SWEET watching their small incremental growth unfold, how it all has such meaning for them, how they are slowly revealing a little more about themselves, step by step...yes pls give these bbys all the good things in the world. 🥰

And her teasing him about the HoloNet dramas, the way he playfully manhandles her and gets her to sit on his lap and covers her mouth is such an adorable EXCUSE (I seeeeee you Mando) and IT'S SO HIM I can't even, these two! Yes freeeee the Din giggles!!

And because these two are so sweet, what follows this scene is just all that much more hot? He softly initiates first with that suggestive touch of her bottom lip, and then the way she ramps it up YES GIRL. And OH MANDO BBY, how he's trying to exercise so much restraint and warring with himself, and when she asks him to give her what he can, he flexes those thicc thighs and grinds up onto her? SO HOT, as equally hot as anything more explicit at this point because of where these two are at, I can't get enough.

So you should've heard the way I shouted "FUCKKKKKKKKK" at that cockblocking ship, nooooooo! 😆

This was such an eerie way of describing the change in the space around them, loved it: "Pressure cracks along your skin and in your eardrums, the very air itself shuddering with the weight of it, an all-encompassing silence muting everything so completely it’s as if sound never existed."

Junkfort Station, dun dun dun! Sounds like more drama drama drama for our poor girl who just can't escape her past.

Looking forward to seeing what's next for these two. 😊

The Second Step - Chapter Eight

Part of The World Is Light, Embodied.

Pairing: Din Djarin x F!Reader

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 4400

Warnings etc: Reader insert, female reader, anxiety, dangerous situations, disgusting amount of fluff, a lil bit of smutty smut

Notes: Ok look. I know. I KNOW. But I promise we’re getting close. I can’t help it that these two are walking, talking advertisements for why people need therapy. They’re doing things on their own time. Also I’m making up some more stuff about SW lore here, once again if it’s not on the wiki it’s mine.

Oh and can we please have some more Fluffy Din? This man has been through so much, just let him giggle once in a while.

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