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I think the major mistake some are making is thinking of Buck & Eddie as a “slow-burn” that the show has been intentionally building for years, and therefore seeing bucktommy (both its existence and it’s relative popularity as a ship) as a betrayal. But there’s really little evidence of that. When you take a step back and try to view it objectively, try to take things at mostly face value… there’s a reason the larger general audience didn’t catch on. There’s a reason that Bi Buck came as a surprise to so many.

Watch the show with just some average person who doesn’t spend a lot of time online in predominantly fandom based spaces, who hasn’t trained themselves to look for “subtext” and “parallels” in everything. Don’t influence them first. Chances are, they’re not going to see it. And that’s because it was never really intentional. They wrote and acted this knowing some people might read it a certain way, and that’s okay, but it wasn’t the message they were actively trying to send to the average viewer.

It’s not a secret code that only the very smart and attentive will crack. It’s a network procedural that regularly forgets the passage of time and is always scrambling to figure out the story details and swapping out scenes because they’re short on one and not the other. They regularly write backwards from the conclusion because they’re disorganized and not great at time management. It’s actually the perfect set of circumstances to create a large active online fanbase, because of emotional stories and the human nature drive to correct for logical inconsistencies.

Fandom tends to extend credit where not due in some areas, and then exact payment they were never promised in others. It’s a bit like winning the jackpot- it’s a nice idea but you have to know the odds are against you, so pinning all your hopes on the Powerball is probably not a great idea. Someone else winning doesn’t mean anything was taken from you. No one made you buy that ticket or promised you a thing. You can’t be mad at the guy on the news calling out the numbers, or the cashier who sold you a ticket because they said “good luck!” to be nice.

#evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 abc #i keep seeing the slow burn take being thrown around a lot #and it's as op said #it cant be a slow burn if there was no intention in the first place #do ya'll remember when arya killed the night king? #in the moment it was a great scene #but conaider it in the context of the rest of the show #it doesnt make sense slash it came out of nowhere because it was a retcon #they try to tie it back to a season 2 scene where the red lady mentions the blue eyes to arya #but it ultimately doesnt work because none of the scenes in between those moments were working toward her killing the night king #on the surface it looks intentional #but if you pay attention to the stories surrounding it and that span all those seasons in between #it was not the original plan #so it comes across as hollow #a perfect example of why showrunners should not listen to fan expectation and then course correct

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can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?

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1×05

#😍😍😍

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I have to talk about this scene once again because I feel like there is so much to say.

What Buck meant when he said it was "exhausting":

First he asked Tommy for a tour because he wanted to get to know him better (his words, not mine).

At the end of the tour Buck asked Tommy out but it didn't work out ( Eddie arrived and Tommy left with him).

Instead of asking him out on another day or calling him, Buck did the most Buck thing ever by trying to find roundabout ways of seeing him again.

First, he tried the easy way, by trying to join Trivia night when Eddie mentionned he was seeing Tommy again, but Eddie asked him to babysit Chris instead.

So he went for a different approach by trying to get Eddie to invite him to the basketball game.

When that didn't work out, he got Chimney to invite him.

That's why Buck said that trying to get Tommy's was "exhausting", because it was. He set up so many ploys to get to spend time with Tommy and none of them worked.

That's also why Tommy is surprised, because he didn't see all the nonsense Buck was pulling to get to see him. Tommy really thought this was about Eddie and Buck being afraid of losing his friend.

But if Buck had been trying to spend time with Eddie, all he had to do was ask.... they hang out all the time. The only times Buck is actively trying to join Eddie's plans is when he know Tommy will be joining.

Buck never behaved like he did when Eddie had plans with other people than Tommy.

I can't even blame Buck because this is exactly how I act when I have a crush😂

#100 percent correct! #the other funny part of this is how it does turn into him being annoyed with tommy and how everyone thinks hes cool #because he also thought tommy was cool but now everyones hanging out with tommy except him 😭

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near death experience club!

#omg that last one killed me 😭😭😭

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There’s a way that panic can make you feel nauseous, and he has to swallow hard before he can get the words out.  “Tell me what you need me to do.”

Trudie gives him an approving smile, like a teacher with a student who’s given the right answer.  “You’re going to help me steal a statue.”

The Knave of Clubs . . . swears he'll take her part

liner notes below the cut

First things first.  Yes, Iris is in this alot.  No, there is no secret marriage. This is not a spoiler, this was referenced in the previous story in this series. The Carlos in this universe is a step to the left of the Carlos in canon, and he has different experiences.  Also, this is my unhinged AU, which means I get to pick and choose which bits of canon I work with.   I did not vibe with that one.

Second things second.  This was going to be a caper, y'all.  It was going to be a short caper.  Carlos and TK were going to go to NOLA and help the Leverage crew take care of some business , and, I don't know, eat beignets and popsicles.  Why popsicles and not po'boys?  Because the last time I was in NOLA I had the best popsicles of my life - they sadly no longer exist, but I can resurrect them for fic.  I also had excellent po'boys, but the popsicles were better.

[eyes fic] I don't know what happened?  Okay, I do know.  One of the weird upsides to writing a series is that you get to deal in consequences and messy afters, and the way that making a decision isn't the end to that decision, and what you did last time around keeps echoing in what you do this time.  Nothing exists in isolation.  And, I love love a story about what happens after - after the war, after the quest, after the reveal.  How do you rebuild, what happens next.  That is my die-hard kink.  Also, there was S4 of Lonestar and I had . . . thoughts, questions, concerns, reactions.  I worked them out in fic.

Third things third.  My characterization of Trudie in this fic owes a debt to Mags Bennett in S2 of Justified.  She was terrifying, and ruthless, and totally in control, and one of the most interesting characters - she's why that season was so good.  Also, go watch Justified, it's fantastic.

Fourth things last.  As ever, don't try this at home y'all, this is not how any of this works.

Reference links in final chapter, because see previous notes about being too much of a geek not to footnote.

And finally, the chapters aren't for @rmd-writes, but they're not not for her either (sorry @freneticfloetry- but this time, the structure did actually lend itself to chapters).

#omgggg lim im so excited #fic rec!

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camaraderie >> a 9-1-1 fic

tommy & chimney; minor bucktommy G, 1.4k summary: After Evan invites Tommy to the wedding, Chimney calls Tommy up to go out for a drink and conversation.

When Tommy retrieved his phone from his locker, there was a text from Howie waiting. Hey Tommy! Heard you're coming to my wedding. Well, that answered the question of whether Tommy would be a surprise addition or not. Who had told Howie - Evan or his sister? Evan's little smile as he texted his sister - Maddie - that he'd be using his plus one had stuck in Tommy's brain for the past twenty-four hours. He'd been so bright, Tommy couldn't help but smile back. The part of him that wondered what he'd agreed to was eclipsed by the sincerity of Evan’s invitation. He hadn't expected Howie to reach out. Maybe wedding details? Evan had been a little light in the dress code.

Read on Ao3

#fic rec! #bucktommy

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Lou: Hello?

Tim: It’s the firefighter show. We need you back real quick to kiss one of them.

Lou: One of them? Which one?

Tim: Yeah. It’s Eddie. But it might also be Buck. Or maybe Eddie.

Lou: ……

Tim: We’ll figure it out.

#not the haiku bot finding the 911 fandom 😭

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oh hell, I'll just come out and say it: I REALLY REALLY LIKE TOMMY AND I NEED HIM TO STAY

#Tommy Kinard #honestly same #911 abc

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gay people in my phone we have to live forever. We have to

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Random thoughts on Bucktommy and Buddie

Please bare in mind that I'm only sharing my personal opinion and that I'm always open to discuss.

The discussions I've had over the past couples of weeks have been very interesting and I wanted to add my 2 cents.

Before season 7 episode:

I'm a causal viewer of 911 and I'm also on Tumblr so of course, I know Buddie, but I've never really shipped it... I can understand the appeal and I think the ship has potential but I never felt like the writers ever intended to go there. And I'm not a big fan of non-canon ships.

If they had gotten together, however, I think that I would have enjoyed it.

What has always bothered me was the behavior of some Buddie shippers who would complain about queerbaiting on the show, when there were already several Queers characters in it and one character (Hen), who's part of the main cast. I always got a weird feeling that those shippers didn't care about Queer characters if they weren't White. There is also a spinoff of the show, 911 Lone star with Queer characters who are also part of the main cast.

To me, the fact that Buck and Eddie never got together was a writing decision, not queerbaiting or anything like that... the writers had decided this wasn't the way to go for Buck and Eddie's chatacters, because if they had wanted to write a storyline between them, they could have.

I've seen a lot of people being happy about Buck being confirmed as Bi, and I get it. But to me, it was confirmed he was bi in the 911/911 Lone Star crossover when TK told Buck he had a boyfriend after Buck asked him out. I was just waiting for a storyline to confirm it. Obviously, I always thought the storyline would involve Eddie, but I was wrong.

After Season 7 Episode 4:

I follow some 911 accounts so I knew something was happening before the episode aired and I saw a preview of Buck seemingly being jealous of Eddie leaving with Tommy and I thought... this is it, this is where the writers are going to confirm Buddie. Buck will realize his jealous and realize he has feeling for Eddie or something like that.

I was very curious so I tuned in for that episode and imagine my surprise when I realized at the end, that the jealousy wasn't about who we thought and all this time the writers had been planning a storyline with Tommy.

So to me, it doesn't look like the writers are planning a Buddie storyline. Otherwise they would have prepared it gradually after the Buck and TK's discussion.

That doesn't mean it won't change in the future, writers and showrunners can change but I have never noticed them introducing a storyline that could lead to a Buddie relationship.

Everytime I see a post "proving" Buddie, it's always showing something friends or best friends do (hugging, being affectionnate), even Eddie making Buck Chris' legal guardian is something a best friend could do.

I'm not saying that they couldn't be romantic in another context, but there hasn't been any indication that the writers are planning a romantic plot for Buck and Eddie.

The writers decided to go there with Buck and Tommy. They're treating their story like a romcom, with the kiss, the hearteyes and everything. Buck is obviously into Tommy and being ready to tell the world about him.

That's the storyline the writers have decided to give us and it's a very nice one.

I know a lot of people are expecting Tommy and Buck to be temporary but to me that's wishful thinking. It wouldn't make sense to have Buck invite Tommy to his sister's wedding just for them to break up a few episodes later. If a breakup is what the writers had in mind, they would just set up another normal date.

Shipping goggles are ok, I have other ships for which I have shipping goggles on and for which I'm not very objective.

What's not ok is trying to ruin the fun of Bucktommy shippers who are trying to enjoy this beautiful storyline but can't go in the tags without seeing a post about the ship's impeding break up.

#bucktommy #evan buckley #tommy kinard

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#palestine

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I'm surprised how many people think that Tommy not appearing in 7x07 or 7x08 means the story is over? Recurring love interests for the main cast are never in every episode, and I think it's pretty clear that these are Bobby-centric episodes. I would love it if Buck mentions Tommy in them (maybe a small discussion with Bobby or Hen or Chim? Or Buck mentioning Tommy on a call? Fingers crossed), and I'm certainly hoping Tommy is back for 7x09 and/or 7x10 - but nothing in the press that's been released makes me think that 7x06 is the end of Buck and Tommy's relationship, even if the initial arc is over.

#theres no way 7x06 is the end of buck/tommy #despite how loud buddie shippers can be theres been a really positive reaction buck and tommy #and i dont think they would end it so abruptly after three episodes #and every indication in olivers interview says to me that tommy is sticking around for now #bucktommy #tommy kinard #evan buckley

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Not wanting Tommy to tell Buck he’s in love with Eddie isn’t just about me shipping bucktommy, btw. It’s mostly about the fact that nobody can know that for Buck. If that ever turns out to be the case, it’s something he has to understand for himself. Nobody should be telling him how he feels and I’ll always be against infantilizing him that way 😚✌️.

But also bucktommy all the way!

#one of the worst tropes to exist #bucktommy

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#Buck is really fighting for every kid he will ever see because it's everything he wanted as a kid but didn't get from his parents

#this fucks me up!!!

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I’m rewatching 9-1-1 rn, and in season 5 Buck gets Taylor a bracelet with an emergency GPS beacon in it for Christmas and says no matter what if she presses that button he’ll come to her rescue or something. They never revisit it or really explain how that works, but I want an episode where Buck and Tommy are on a date and Buck gets an alert on his phone that Taylor has pressed the button. He calls her but she doesn’t pick up and they go and reduce her. She was investigating a story or something and got into trouble. I want a fun episode like the treasure hunt one and I think a Buck-Taylor-Tommy trio would work really well, maybe with her camera guy in the shenanigans as well. There would be a little awkwardness at first but then Buck tells her he and Tommy are dating and she makes a joke and then he makes a jome about "be carefull what you say around Taylor, nothing's off the record around her" or something. i think while that was a huge problem in their relationship, it wouldnt be as big a deal in their friendship and i liked their mystery solving.

#oh fuck yeah give me this #as the resident taylor fan i need this so badly

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#lemon's enlightenment hour