#if Buck was older that would've been addressed i think

[lover-of-mine]

I refuse to believe eddie is younger than buck though because as chim said "you're not his elder". buck was 26 in s1 and 29 in s4 and so to me, eddie has to be at least a year older? but you're right about them being around the same age and yet at such different stages. buck craves that family and I wish he could have it 💔 that baby duck could cling a little harder for once (to eddie, not a stranger..)

Well, considering season 6, Eddie can't be more than a few months older than Buck. I don't think they would actually make Buck older than him, but the thing is, we know Eddie has to be born in 1992 given the date on Shannon's grave and the way they didn't imply that Eddie is older than her, but Buck can be from 1991 or 1992 considering all the times they stated his age, 26 in s1, 28 right before the tsunami, 29 before he finds out about Daniel, 30 when he gets struck by lightning, and the very confusing way the time passes on the show. I guess you could push it a little, say Eddie is from late 91, since Shannon is from October 92, he could be anywhere from November 91 to September 93 and still be the "same age" as her in between birthdays but I refuse to believe they would put him as being born in 93, so our best guess is somewhere in 92, but our best guess with Buck is also somewhere in 92. So they can't be more than a few months apart from each other. But I also think everyone latched onto the way Eddie acts older (and the way Ryan is older) to put him as older than he is when his whole thing is that he was forced to grow up too fast, by the pressure to be the "man of the house" and the way that he had to learn be a father before he got to be a kid and the way that war changes someone in ways other experience won't. Buck has a boyish energy to him because he was left alone, because he was invisible. Maddie left for college then she left because of Doug, so the only person that could've pushed him to get his shit together wasn't around, so he lived life the way he did because he didn't have anyone else to care about besides himself and he never cared about himself very much to begin with. Because the way he settles into himself is not just Abby in the way he likes to say, it's Bobby, Hen, and Chim letting him care about them too. And the way he really settles once he gets Maddie back and meets Eddie and Chris shows the way he just didn't have a reason before them. But they do balance each other off in a beautiful way because Eddie needed to loosen up a little, and Buck not only shows him a different perspective, he also gives Eddie means to care about himself while making sure Chris is also always taken care of, and Eddie gives Buck a reason to not be a reckless idiot just because he wants to feel something.

#i was always a eddie is no more than a year older believer because i always got i got my highschool girlfriend pregnant vibes from him #and for that to be true with Chris age he would have to be closer in age with Buck t #like not gonna lie the old man jokes are my biggest pet peeve in the fandom #like will tap out with the overuse of them without a second thought #and i always liked the way it made Eddie's character that more interesting to me the idea of him also being in his late 20s #so I'm perfectly fine with them being closer in age to each other #but honestly #if Buck was older that would've been addressed i think #so im a eddie is from early 92 buck is from mid 92 truther #just a few months apart because they have always been chasing each other #and that includes being born around the same time because they couldn't let the other exist in a world without them #but that's just me #911 #buddie thoughts #anon 😌 #i really need a tag for asks #911 meta

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okay so my family isn't religious or anything, never has been never will be, if anyone in my family is religious it's by their own choice. so it doesn't really make too much sense why we celebrate christmas, but at this point christmas is more of a commercial holiday than a religious one. anyway, every year the rule is everyone gets $20 per person to buy gifts with, and it's more of an unspoken rule but definitely understood that you have to get at least one thing for each person. anyways, my mom's already broken the $20 rule, which like whatever ig, she's dropped like 80 bucks on just shit for my older two siblings. so like with her spending problem i was like 'ooh she's going all out for them, i wonder what crappy excuse for a gift she's gonna get me' and also a little bit like 'ooh maybe she'll get me something good to pretend she loves me' y'know? and like i'm not spoiled, i grew up lower middle class, christmas isn't always like "spectacular" but i'm thankful for what i get, i'm not expecting people to like drop $60 to get me a new game or anything, like i'd be fine with just some cheap stuffed animal or something y'know? this isn't about money at all. but my mom finally wrapped all her gifts for people and me and my sister sorted them under the tree and y'know what she got me? me neither because there isn't a single present under the tree addressed to me from her. everyone has six or seven gifts to their name because she splurged on people, but i have 4 gifts to me and one of them is for both me and my sister. and like i'm not trying to be greedy or anything, i could have like 2 gifts address to me and i'd still be happy, as long as those two gifts were from everyone. like one christmas i think my brother got like 3 things cause everyone chipped in to one of his gifts cause it was expensive and he really wanted it. but there's not a single gift to me from her. and i think it hurts more because she splurged on everyone else. she really shows her love through gifts this time of year and i got nothing. nada zip zilch zero. and i'm not upset because of the missed out potential for what she could've gotten me. i'm not like 'oh man i could've had more stuff but now i have less!' i'm upset because she couldn't even bother to fish something out of a dollar bin for me. she couldn't even be bothered to haul her ass down to the dollar store and pick something at random. and it's not like she didn't know what to get me. i gave a very long list because in the past people haven't known what to get me so i've been writing stuff down for months, and half of the stuff on there are categories, not even specific things. like one of things i put on there was sanrio stuff, she couldn't even be bothered to buy some random shitty hello kitty thing and wrap it? and she spews shit about how she doesn't know what happened between us, where she went wrong, she spews shit about how she doesn't understand why i don't talk to her, how she still loves me, how she wishes we could have a relationship together. but then she does shit like this! and christmas eve is tomorrow, if theres a present it would've already been wrapped. and i can't even pretend that whatever she got me is still shipping or something because we have a tradition with that where we print out a picture of it and wrap it because then it still looks like you have stuff under the tree. and my dad and sister are mad about this, and so tomorrow they're going to target to buy me a couple gifts. and like i appreciate the thought, i really do, but i don't want my dad to have to spend more money on me, i was raised a penny pincher y'know? and i don't really even deserve more gifts. it doesn't matter, i shouldn't even be upset about it. i feel like an idiot. idk idk. and like i held my tears in front of my dad and sister when they were getting mad about it, because it's really not a big deal. but now i'm sitting in my room writing this and i'm tearing up. idk idk. this was a really long way to explain that my mom doesn't love me. who cares? not me, it whatever, rant over

#journalofsorts rants

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Kym thank you for your wonderful answer to anon. I think a part of fadom freaks out easily because the reporter scared everyone for a lifetime. Last year we were all here celebrating how good for buck would have been having a friend outside of the 118, and we got a terrible friend then and an horrible gf now that basically monopolized 2 entire episodes of 5a, probably she'll be gone soon but her presence is still to much compared to others So yeah I don't think lucy will be a LI but who knows

Awww Nonnie 🥺🥺🥺 tysm

Tay Kay is definitely scarring!! I'm gonna be upfront - I have never ever liked Taylor and I never saw her as a friend to Buck (idk how anyone could tbh but maybe thats just me!!), so I never joined in the celebrations of Buck having a friend outside of the 118 - I've only ever viewed her as a narrative device- her character has always been selfish and self serving and if the writers wanted me to feel differently about her they would have invested the time and effort into showing character growth - addressing all the bad choices she made previously. The fact that they didn't, and actually went the other way - showing how much of a hypocrite she is on top of everything else - spoke so loudly to me.

If, like me, you've spent years working in the industry, and studying how film and television is created and developed, I guess you spot things a mile off. I do think they wasted a lot of time and energy on giving her a back story and using it to fill time that could've been better spent elsewhere, but I'm also of the view that theres a very good chance that we'll see what we learnt coming back into play in the first part of 5b.

I think the writers have spent time creating that backstory for a reason - because it's what they've done historically and if it wasn't important they would've used the time elsewhere - showing us more of other characters and doing further world building. The entire season is planned out at the beginning - the arcs will have been decided- even beyond just the season - and they will have spent a lot of time figuring out how to get the characters from a to b - what needs to happen, what road blocks to put in their way etc.

That is why I'm sure that there are plans to make further use of what they have chosen to give us (and why ghost stories got such a drastic rewrite) and I expect it all to come into play in 5x11 and 13 with repercussions further into the season as well. Im actually looking forward to the summer hiatus so I can really look at how it all plays out in more detail - when we know where it all leads to - only then will we truly know if they short changed us and put in a load of unnecessary filler we could've done without!

For the most part the section of fandom that freaks out over this kind of thing tend to be young with little experience of the real world who will (hopefully) learn as they get older - I don't tend to see to much of it in my little corner of the internet as I curate my experience - I'm here for a good time, to have fun and for healthy debate, Im not here to stress myself out or make myself miserable. Its also easy to forget that many of these people freaking out have grown up in a world which has always had internet and so they are not used to being made to wait for things in the same way as those o us who existed before the world was at our fingertips - when binge watching was only possible if you recorded each episode every week or bought the vhs/dvd box sets!

Sorry Nonnie - i've got up on my soap box again 🤣🤣🤣 I've never bee none for brevity!!! As always great to have you appearing in my inbox!

#kym answers things #nonnie asks #kym rambles #have soap box will stand on it! #911 on fox #911 fox #911 #911onfox #911 spoilers #911 fandom discourse #anti taylor kelly #anti buck taylor

[lovecolibri]

As always ai agree with you, people have this head canon that lucy is this mystical foil for buck and bad for him, but maybe they should tell the writers too, cause from the interviews she's BaDasS, but very centered too, and oliver said buck enjoys having her around so what kind of foil she's going to be? Another LI foil, if oliver had said "well lucy's influece is not so good for buck" would've been a different story

I think people are still hoping she will be the Lena for Buck. Lena wasn't *bad* for Eddie, she was far enough removed from the Buck situation that Eddie could talk to her a bit, and she tried to help, but Eddie took that outlet and used it in an unhealthy way. And then Buck came back and she left forever because while Eddie might have leaned on her a bit, he never bothered to learn anything about her or be there for her. It wasn't a friendship, she was a coping mechanism, and a narrative tool for us to see what was going on with Eddie.

And I was looking forward to see the mirror image with Buck, but a) the cheating thing is gross, b) we might find out differently but right now we have not been told that this is about Buck spiraling because of everything else ONLY that he's not getting what he needs out of his romantic relationship and that's what brought the cheating on. Which is gross. And c) this isn't the beginning of these character's stories anymore! Shannon was around for most of season 2, and while we know Buck and Eddie are close, it's still barely been a year since they met and since Eddie joined the team. Now? Buck has been with Bobby and Hen for 5.5 years at this point! We JUST went through the Buck Beings arc where everyone found out more of the heart of the reason Buck is Like That. Him and Eddie are so much more immersed in each other's lives, and are still making the effort to spend time together now that Eddie's working a different job. IF we see Buck spiraling (which has context clues but is still not particularly being directly addressed because KR is allergic to deep conversion moments or the mains talking to each other about anything so who knows), he's perfectly capable of doing it on his own, he doesn't need the same kind of "push" Eddie did, so there's not really a reason to have the same kind of storyline for him. And with Lena, their meeting made sense, they hadn't replaced Buck, and her firehouse was damaged. But now Ravi is already replacing Eddie, had been for quite some time, and there was no need for L on the initial rescue call or for her to be on the team!

It's just a reason for KR to throw another (older self-insert) woman at Buck for no reason, trying to make one of them stick. But this one is already hated by nearly everyone, I doubt the ga will ever come back around, and KR doesn't get the final say, Tim does and even he has people to answer to if their numbers drop too much. So let's all hang on, pray that they cut as much as possible, and hope that those interviews were an exaggeration. Because if I have to sit through 6 episodes of them "poking" at each other and het pulling the same shit as Buck but for personal kicks and glory while getting praised and respected for it, when Buck has always just been yelled at, I'm gonna riot.

#my sweet nonnie friends #911 #911 spoilers #anti lucy donato #anti bucklucy #anti bluck #i'm so sick of her already just because of what those interviews told us we had to 'look forward to' #HARD PASS #anyway i am super out of it this evening so if this make no sense or didn't actually have to do with the ask then i'm sorry #but i'm too tired to proofread 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[tenacityreturns]

" I never would've thought they wouldnt end up together. " / aomine, OUR future verse talking about nijihimu.

prompted // @peachmuses

          from their position at the back of the venue, half-hiding from company they had specifically invited, the two have a great view of tatsuya on one side of the room, and nijimura on the other. both have dates, but every so often, taiga would see them look over. never in sync. every time tatsuya glanced around and settled, taiga thought, on nijimura, the target was talking to someone or looking at his phone. the same could be said in reverse. tatsuya smiles more, but nijimura is all warmth when addressing the happy couple.

    “i never would’ve thought they wouldn’t end up together,” daiki murmurs, lips almost hidden behind the rim of his wine glass. no one was around to hear their discussion, either, and who would dream of interrupting a newly married couple’s private conversation! they’ll use this to their advantage.

    “yeah,” taiga hums. “there’s still time.”

    “you think?”

    the redhead sends his husband ( is he ever going to get over saying that?! ) a knowing look. if there’s anyone who understands nijimura’s psyche, it’s him. “i don’t know who their dates are, really, but they haven’t given up on each other yet.”

daiki is quiet for a minute. is he thinking about how difficult their own relationship had been? how they had been so wonderful until leaving japan to join the nba, only to fall apart once distance became an issue. it doesn’t matter now, but he’s always regretted not giving that more of a try. being in the nba was too frantic, though, there was almost no time for anyone. they spent five or six years seeing other people, seeing each other on an irregular basis and spending the next few months trying to forget about it. when pale blue eyes meet his own, they share a smile. oh. so daiki had been thinking about all of that.

    “tatsuya’s gonna have a meltdown by the time he hits thirty and panic propose to old nijimura,” he decides, fingers lacing taiga’s in a relaxed hold.

    “ha! tatsuya’s not gonna have a meltdown,” taiga laughs, “that’s not his style.”

    “fifty bucks.”

    “don’t we kind of... share money now?”

    daiki shrugs. “i’ll do all the chores for a month.”

    a grin spreads at the sheer domesticity of that arrangement. “for real?”

    “yeah, i’m pretty confident after you said all that just now. don’t you think so?”

    taiga mulls it over for a moment before responding. “oh, they’ll end up together alright. thirty just seems real soon.”

    “don’t say that, dude,” daiki grimaces. “they’re only a year older, after all.”

    “oh, sure, then we’re halfway to sixty.”

    “grey hair,”

    “wrinkles,”

    “pensions,”

    “dentures,” 

     “stop,” daiki shivers.

    “i’d still love you even if you had no teeth,” taiga only says it for the reaction, but he does mean it. he’s never really thought that far ahead into the future, not properly, but now? they’ve got all the time in the world.

    “man,” there’s that smile! “shut the hell up, that’s so cheesy.”

     “sho sheeshy?” taiga repeats in an impression of someone who doesn’t have any teeth, like the mature adult that he is. daiki laughs, taiga laughs, everything is good. and he really isn’t worried about his old flatmate’s romantic future, either. tatsuya is the inevitable that nijimura has never made much of an attempt to fight. it’s fate, isn’t that what taiga’s new husband would say?

#answered. #aonon. #future verse. #peachmuses #drabbles. #hehe >:)