#the gay Eddie arc is coming

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Still trying to figure out the wild orange packet so I’ve been playing with the contrast etc! I’m not CCC sure it’s actually helped 🤣 but I can see more words!

There’s a word at the top that is too warped to read but my brain is trying to make it say either biological or something ending in either ‘nio’ or ‘nic’

Under wild orange is a word that again I can’t fully make out but again my brain wants it to say sanitiser or disinfecter (which I know is not the correct spelling of disinfecter, but I’m sure that’s an e not an o)

I’ve got the word fruit from the bottom and what appears to be an TAT But the first letter of that word is too crumpled to be 100% a T.

So I’m going on the theory it’s a single packet disinfectant wipe type thing with wild orange scent - possibly claiming it’s using real fruit.

The idea that the known to be a hideous homophobe Gerrard is waving around a fruity disinfectant wipe in Eddie’s face has me cackling! The implication that Eddie is gay and Gerrard is trying to ‘cleanse’ and ‘sanitise’ the 118 of being fruity…

[sluttybibuck]

ok that was thee opening emergency of all time but let’s get down to business. did anyone else notice that every time eddie and buck are in a scene together we are SPECIFICALLY shown eddie’s reaction to everything buck does. not saying it’s on purpose BUT nothing on television is an accident im just saying

[buddiesmutslut]

I know I've said it before, but I think this upcoming episode is going to be so interesting, even if we don't get Queer Eddie OR BT Bones (neither of which I'm fully convinced are going to happen on Thursday), & it's really for this one interesting phrase that Ryan & Oliver have both used.

They have both mentioned "rose-colored glasses" when it comes to Tommy & Shannon, and I would argue that they each have to reckon with these relationships before we can have any movement towards Buddie.

Eddie thinks that Shannon was the love of his life, that he failed her and has to carry that guilt with him for the rest of his life. I believe that Eddie placing Shannon on a pedestal is partially what's stopping him from realizing his queerness (along with the catholic guilt and repression, but a lot of that is also tied up in Shannon & their failed marriage.)

Buck's convinced that his big feelings last season were all about Tommy, and I'm not saying that some of them weren't, but I don't think it'd be too far of a stretch to say that he figures that he's in this relationship now and that obviously everything is fine now. He figured out this part of himself and he's dating a man and that means everything is Fine and he absolutely does not need to do any further digging or searching or learning, despite the fact that he and Tommy don't really seem to like each other all that much, nor do they seem to be all that compatible.

Buck has to reckon with the fact that realizing his bisexuality and immediately jumping into a relationship with a man that he wasn't even sure he wanted (his speech at the coffee date) might not be the solution to all the problems he's had, and Eddie has to deal with the fact that Shannon was not perfect, that what she did was not the same as what he did, that she's responsible for her own actions and that this romanticized vision he has clung to of their lives is not real and is not consistent with the actual relationship that they had.

There's a Divorce Arc this episode - which I'm begging does something with Eddie - and an uncomfortable truth learned about Tommy's past; it's not completely out of left field to assume that the Rose-Colored Glasses come off this episode.

And the fact that it's happening for them BOTH, at the same time? In the relationships that I think are the biggest obstacles to them realizing/accepting their feelings for each other???

I'm never fully convinced they're actually going to go there with these 2, but it will be SO interesting to see how this episode plays out, regardless.

[blessyouhawkeye]

nothing hits harder than an eddie diaz pushing his girlfriend away due to reasons that can truly only be described as homosexuality arc

[mischiefbuckley]

SEASON 8 ALL ABOUT MY MAN EDDIE I AM SO READY

[deadnatura11]

This explains so much:

Firstly, why her name is Kim. Secondly, the ultimate result of this storyline - which is Eddie working through the blame and guilt he feels for Shannon's death using Kim (because she ultimately is a plot device) but not before he ultimately tries turning her into Shannon (actively symbolized by him holding the 'S' key chain) which I think the people in his life (Chris, Buck, his parents) will realize and call him out for. But unlike in Vertigo, it may perhaps be Kim who confronts Eddie rather than the other way around especially after she learns he was seeing her behind another woman's back.

Eddie ultimately has to confront the "type" of women he is interested in, "why" he's interested in them, and if it is not only psychologically healthy (spoiler: it's not) but also if it is truly what he wants and, if not, what does he want?

Finally, to take a look at Vertigo on its head - it is the condition in which a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. I think Eddie has this, emotionally speaking. He believes he is moving on from Shannon's death because he is dating again not realizing he is searching for another Shannon showing that he has not moved on he is STUCK.

[runninglikeabuckley]

i was in the middle of making a post about my predictions for the finale when i realised my buddie stuff could take up a whole other post so here ya go:

this is a bit of an out there theory and i don't necessarily think it will happen, but it's something i'd do if i were the writers. eddie makes a move on buck. i don't mean 'yay buddie goes canon in the last 10 mins of s7', i mean 'eddie fucks up so monumentally they don't know if they can come back from it.' i think he'll try to kiss buck and buck will push him away.

eddie's confused and lonely and heartbroken (not to mention desperate) and he turns to the one person who has unfalteringly been by his side the whole time, the guy who likes to fix things. it's not that he doesn't have genuine feelings for buck, because he really does, but he's not thinking about it AT ALL. he just wants buck (to his core) and is maybe letting himself feel that for the first time.

but it's like a slap in the face to buck. buck, who's in a happy, stable relationship for the first time in years. buck, who eddie told his bisexuality wouldn't change anything between them. buck, who's been used for his body for his entire life. he would be absolutely crushed if eddie did this. and he's matured to the point that i think he might not let it slide. he wouldn't cut eddie out of his life, but i think he'd need space and for once he might respect his own needs over his wants. especially since i don't think he's considered his feelings for eddie and definitely doesn't think eddie's acting out of love/desire

so we get to the end of s7/start of s8 and eddie has fucked up his relationships beyond belief. chris, marisol, even his parents and shannon's memory. buck is still there, because he's always there but things are different. and i think that it could be a great set up to explore who eddie really is and what he wants, especially if/when the 118 get split up. as ryan keeps saying, he'll be isolated. neither buck or eddie will tell the others what happened between them, but that doesn't mean that eddie won't finally look into his sexuality by and for himself.

when i say i want a divorce era 2.0, i don't mean screaming at each other in a grocery store bc to a certain extent that was almost funny - they were coworkers of less than 2 years and it was wildly overdramatic. now they're partners and best friends and co-parents and they've suffered blow after blow, and their kid's gone and eddie betrayed buck and they don't know how to be anymore but they love each other too much to let go

[biconbuckley]

thinking about michael saying that he married a woman to fix something inside of him that he felt was broken and then how eddie said he was broken and couldn't fix it

[cloudyclovers]

THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL 8x06 IS LITERALLY TITLED CONFESSIONS

I just woke up and blearily looked at my phone opened up twitter and let’s just say i have never properly woken up in this amount of precision and speed — ITS CALLED WHAT? WHATTTTT

[wibble-wobbegong]

just so we’re clear if lucas ends up unhappy at the end of s5 or has to go through an unequivocal amount of grief while the rest of the cast thrives i will personally hunt the duffers down for the rest of their lives

[rosstrytobe]

I don't want to say Gay Catholic guilt Eddie Diaz arc is coming out but...

BUT FUCK IT WE ARE WINNING GAY EDDIE IS COMING HOME HE WILL HAVE HIS CATHOLIC GUILT ARC WE ARE FUCKING WON

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Interviewer: Are BT still together?

Tim: Well they are but let me talk about Eddie and then tell you that Eddie will be hanging out with them but also being left out…

It will never not be funny to me.

Petty jealous Eddie working out Tommy is Eddie lite - but also gay and dating Buck - means an Eddie spiral into realising he’s gay and in love with his best friend arc and I am preparing to hurl myself into the sun

[the-lark-ascending69]

If Robin were a boy she'd be everyone's favorite character but since she's a girl she only gets to be Steve's gay best friend.

[can-i-get-a-yippee]

So, what I’m hearing is that if Buddie becomes canon, Eddie should be the one to make the first move?? 🤔🤔

[seddair]

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[subtlehaz]

I’ve seen people saying that the cheerleader convo with the kid’s dad is a one way ticket to gay Eddie

And while I don’t disagree because it needs to happen and I love how they’re planting enough seeds that even if people don’t get it NOW, they’ll get it when they look back, I have another thought

Eddie said something to the other dad that was like “maybe he’s not reaching out because he’s waiting for you to come” and I’m like. Edmundo Diaz do you hear yourself. Go pick up your teenager baby right tf now. He does not need space he needs his dad.