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Buck and Eddie as text posts 1/?

#honestly can't get enough of these lol #text posts #buddie #911 #when y tries to do q

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Listen, I'm not the type to look for homoeroticism in every single male duo in media. Not everyone swings that way.

But those two?

I smell the fruitiest of fruit, your honor.

#lol #buddie #911 #when y tries to do q

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Lmao Eddie what do u mean you’re a nester? Oh like when you let Buck drive you to see your son the first day you met and he smiled fondly at you from the car? Oh, oh or was it when you all had fathers & son pizza videogame date nights every single weeK for like three years??? Or maybe when Buck saved ur kid from a tsunami and you decided you trusted no one else the way u did him lol so much so you added him to your will as legal guardian above any other of his blood relatives? haha. A nester u say?? Good thing u told us could not have figured it out

#lmao #tags #eddie diaz #buddie #911 #when y tries to do q

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Tommy bringing big "Pretty sure you're in love with Eddie, but who am I to turn down a pretty boy" energy to this

#lol #911 #buck #buddie #tuck #when y tries to do q #this tag tho lmaooo: #fellas is it gay to raise a child with another man #buddie in a nutshell

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Before I go to the bed for the night‼️

I better not have any Tommy hate on my dash when I wake up 😭😭

Buck as a character is still exploring his sexuality and figuring out his feelings- yes the firehouse gym scene was ??? BUT

There are still six more episodes of this season and another one to come.

As we’ve seen with their past relationships, things CHANGE, so for now, let’s enjoy a canonically bi Buck and not hate the writers OR the cast for giving us what we’ve been waiting for!

Hate on them for giving him a male love interest that’s not who you want and that’s just against everything fans have been waiting for

So ‼️

No writer hate!!

No cast hate!! ESPECIALLY not Lou Ferringno Jr!

The characters are fake they can not hear you stop hating on them for their relationships

LEAVE THE WRITERS ALONE they’ve had it for four episodes so far and given us more than fox ever did

:D

And don’t forget that before buddie would ever become canon we’d also need an Eddie sexuality realization give the people time 😭

#well that last bit is...interesting #🤔 #buddie #tuck #bisexual buck #911 #honestly i still don't have a ton of faith we'll actually get to see buddie as canon #and tommy is still just meh to me #but we'll see i guess #either way I'm still v happy about bi buck! #when y tries to do q

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Every piece of fanfic hits different now that I know what Buck looks like kissing a boy <3

#my bisexual baby #911 #buck #buddie #tuck #bisexual buck #when y tries to do q

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Eddie: Kicks the 3rd woman he’s dated out of his house because of repressed catholic guilt after avoiding having sex with her.

Buck: absolutely flailing as a baby disaster bisexual and sending his date running for the hills before they even finish their meal.

Chris, “out of town” somewhere, sitting on a curb and smoking a cigarette: Jesus Christ, these two fucking idiots…

#lmao #buck #eddie diaz #bisexual buck #christopher diaz #911 #when y tries to do q

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buddie + the sh*t buck says that sounds like it's from a romance novel

#buck #buddie #911 #when y tries to do q

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#she is me lol #zendaya #challengers #challengers movie

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#his jacket looks like a backpack lol #z #spotify #instagram

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Closeting/Bearding & Coming Out In The Entertainment Industry

(Note: I originally wrote this post in August of 2020. I significantly revised it, so I’m reposting it versus reblogging it from my old blog.)

This write-up is about entertainment industry workers in general. You can easily deduce from the post what facets would hugely impact Harry and Louis. However, this is covering the industry as a whole, so simply take the facts as you will.

The three main points I am going to address are:

How contracts can legally prevent entertainers from coming out.

The entertainment industry actively ‘encourages’ closeting/PR relationships in modern times.

Why closeted celebrities often do not come out or admit to bearding/PR relationships post-contract or post-career.

At some points, I will use A/N to denote my opinion. The rest of this is fact-based and interview-based information. I hope you find this insightful!

Fact #1: Contracts Can Legally Require Closeting In The US and UK

A. Morality clauses can be seen in talent or endorsement agreements and they give the employer the right to terminate the agreement if the employee acts in such a way that it reflects negatively on the employer or otherwise reduces the benefit of the agreement to the employer.

-  (A) ‘Morality Clauses - who sets the standards?’ a blog post by UK-based solicitors (lawyers) Hughes-Paddington  

B. While employers may not be able to wield such control over full-time employees, movie studios are considered independent contractors, and they could argue that portraying a hetero image is crucial to a successful business transaction.

- (B) Queerty - How Hollywood Can Keep Gay Actors in the Closet: Contracts

C. Someone is probably self-employed and doesn’t have the rights of an employee if they’re exempt from PAYE and most of the following are also true:

they put in bids or give quotes to get work

they’re not under direct supervision when working

they submit invoices for the work they’ve done

they’re responsible for paying their own National Insurance and tax

they don’t get holiday or sick pay when they’re not working

they operate under a contract (sometimes known as a ‘contract for services’ or ‘consultancy agreement’) that uses terms like ‘self-employed’, ‘consultant’ or an ‘independent contractor’

- © GOV.UK - Employment Status: Self-employed and contractor

(A/N: From what I have gathered, the term ‘independent contractor’ is also used in the United Kingdom. I work as an independent contractor and have for almost 10 years. This means that I:

Can legally be denied the protections that regular employees have.

Frequently sign contracts and NDAs in order to obtain work.

These documents can and do contain stipulations that would not be legal in traditional employee/employer situations.

Indefinite NDAs are fairly common in my experience; this will be touched in in section four.

Within reason, I will answer questions about my career.)

Additional Reading:

FindLaw - What Is A ‘Morality Clause? Is It Legal?

Wikipedia - Morals Clause

Fox Rothschild - Entertainers Face New Morals Clause Issues in the Age of Social Media

The Need for Strict Morality Clauses in Endorsement Contracts

Fact #2: The Entertainment Industry Actively ‘Encourages’ Closeting: Firsthand Accounts

A. “I was distinctly told, by people in the industry, when I started to become known: ‘People cannot know you’re gay,’”.

B. “I was told to stay in the closet, not talk about my sexuality, to be on every red carpet with a girl on my arms because you could not be successful if you were openly gay in the entertainment industry, at least in front of the camera,” he said.

- Elliot Page (A) and Matt Dallas (B) in Entertainment Weekly - Elliot Page says Hollywood pressured them into the closet: ‘People cannot know you’re gay’

C. “Onstage, I felt like I was just playing a character, but offstage, unfortunately, I didn’t get to have my real life.”

“I felt like if anyone found out that I was gay, the record label would immediately drop us and the fans would hate us ― these were all the crazy things that went through my head as a teenager.”

- © Lance Bass in Huffpost - Lance Bass On Being A Closeted Gay Teen In One Of The World’s Biggest Boy Bands

D. “But celebrities end up in fake relationships (if it indeed is a fake relationship) all the time, for many reasons. Usually, it’s just good old-fashioned, dead-eyed cynical ambition.

Then there are bearding PROmances where one or more celebrity in the pairing is concealing their sexuality in order to maintain desirability within the industry and to the public.”

- (D) Why Celebrities Fake Relationships To Help Their Careers by Vice

E. “A lot of people advise you not to do it. They tell you flat out —  ‘Don’t do it,’” said “Westworld” actress Evan Rachel Wood, who came out publicly as bisexual in 2011. “They don’t want you to be less desirable to men. Because that sells tickets and that helps your career.”

F. A top-level talent manager who spoke on condition of anonymity put it in blunter terms. “It’s all about perception. They want to believe that the lead guy is fucking the lead woman,” he said.

- Evan Rachel Wood (E) and anonymous talent manager (F) in Indie Wire - Why Are So Many Gay Actors Still In The Closet?

(A/N: Overall, the section above is to show that a contract is not always the reason that a celebrity stays closeted. Celebrities are often pressured, given ‘advice’, and/or are explicitly told not to come out.)

Fact #3: Celebrities Don’t Always Come Out After Contracts End

A. It wasn’t until years after the group announced their hiatus that he decided to come out to his loved ones and eventually share his story in People magazine in 2006.

B. “The older you get, you’re supposed to be dating people and it doesn’t happen, you have more excuses you have to figure out. It just becomes a lie on top of a lie with your best friends, and it’s a horrible situation to be in,” he said. “After I did come out, I lost a lot of friends because they couldn’t get over how I could lie to them for that long.”

- (A, B) Lance Bass In HuffPost - Lance Bass On Being A Closeted Gay Teen In One Of The World’s Biggest Boy Bands

C. “Because of the advice that was given to me to stay in the closet,” he added, “I became very disconnected from who I was, and there’s a lot of residual [stuff] that to this day I still deal with where I find myself [thinking] ‘oh, I sound too gay’ or ‘I’m acting too gay’ because it was so drilled into my brain.”

- © Matt Dallas in a video Q&A with fans, cited in Entertainment Weekly - Ellen Page says Hollywood pressured her into the closet: 'People cannot know you’re gay’

D. But does bearding in Hollywood continue in this decade? Yes, although the participants are unlikely to admit it until years later at best.

The drivers behind an individual choosing to beard (avoiding public scrutiny that would result in blackballing/loss of income, fear of rejection by family and friends, etc.) remain.

- (D) Bearding is Still a Thing in Hollywood from AfterEllen

(A/N: Lance Bass was in the closet for six years while in NSYNC and the band broke up in 2002. He didn’t come out until 2006.)

Fact #4: Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) Can Be Enforced After Other Contracts/Obligations End

The information here applies to both celebrities, beards, and other involved parties. Involved parties can include:

Family members.

Personal assistants.

Stylists.

Tattoo artists.

Former romantic partners.

Friends.

Photographers.

A. Another very important consideration for non-disclosure agreements is the time period for which it is meant to be enforceable.

There are generally two kinds of time periods for these agreements: perpetual or with a stated time limit.

A perpetual non-disclosure agreement never expires whilst a non-disclosure agreement with a stated time limitation ceases to be active past the time period.

- (A) Duration Clauses in Non-Disclosure Agreements by EveryNDA.com

B. “There’s no boilerplate timeframe for how long a non-disclosure can or should last and the specific timeframe will depend entirely upon the details of the agreement, the preferences of the parties involves, the relationship between the parties, and a number of other factors.”

- (B) Typical duration of a non-disclosure by EveryNDA.com

C. “If a term clause is not included in an NDA, the parties can imply that the NDA will be in effect indefinitely. An NDA with no term clause is more common in an agreement where an ongoing relationship is taking place.” (A/N: i.e. ongoing relationships such as 10-year contracts)

- © What is the Maximum Term of an NDA if it is Not Mentioned in the Contract? by ClauseHound

More Information: Opinion Pieces And Individual Experiences

Lastly, I’ve rounded up some opinion pieces from Twitter, Tumblr, and media outlets. I believe they are important to include for consideration and perspective. Feel free to check them out for more insight.

Twitter Thread - Homophobia in the entertainment industry / PRrelationships

Tumblr post by @nerdsforlife discussing closeting

Reddit - I’m a singer and just figured out I was gay. Manager and PR says I have to stay in the closet forever, or it will mess up my career. Fuck show biz.

Quora - Do celebrities really have fake relationships for publicity purposes?

Final Thoughts

Drawing conclusions from these facts is pretty straightforward. In my opinion, we can see that:

Closeting and bearding are very real obstacles in the entertainment industry.

‘It’s 2020/2021, this doesn’t happen anymore’ is simply not a valid argument regarding the topic.

‘If the contract is over, they’d come out by now’ is also not a valid argument. Aside from legalities, the immense pressure of being called a liar - and all of one’s friends and friends being labeled liars by proxy - seems impossibly difficult.

Facts and personal experiences from LGBTQ celebrities should not be ignored. Maybe you don’t agree with a ship, or maybe you don’t think a celebrity is gay/closeted. That’s fine - you still cannot discount the truth presented as it stands.

I’m open to opinions and thoughts about this (and anything else I post). Please keep things civil and kind; that’s all I ask if your opinion differs from mine.

Lastly, any mistakes above are my own. If you notice an error or want to contribute something, please feel free to do so!

#contracts #closeting #bearding #pr #pr images #someone in that quora post said they knew of a situation where a pr gf made 5k a month and that is very interesting info to know #really puts things into perspective #esp considering that was very likely for someone not as big or internationally known as the 1d boys #also i highly recommend giving that reddit thread a read b/c it is very interesting and very telling

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UPDATE [*spongebob narrator voice* 2 Months Later...]

so i was wrong about it being a 25 (by itself anyway), as a super helpful lovely commenter kindly referenced me to an account that posted the deets on the whole outfit [ljpfashionarchive on ig] and it is apparently a comme des garcons' number patch shirt with a 3 & 5 in the place where i originally thought i might be seeing a 2 & 5

how-EVER! another super lovely helpful commenter pointed out that the full shirt has the numbers 3, 5, 7, 9, 0, 1 on it

which.

when you do the math 

just so happens to very conveniently and very not at all coincidentally add up to...

YOU GUESSED IT! 25!!!!!

so technically i was still RIGHT lmao

and in conclusion as i always say ziams stay winning so get with the winning team hoe 

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thank you so much to the amazing @lovetilltheam and @hissunshine for bringing these lovely little gems of info to my attention!

ok I know I haven't made a single peep on here in like 87 years 6 months and I have reasons for that (which I will get to in another post cause I don't wanna kill the mood here) but but BUT. am I the ONLY ONE THAT NOTICED THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A MOTHERFUICKGIN RED 25 ON LIAM'S SHIRT YES MY SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS FFS WTFFF RED ALERT PEOPLE 🚨🚨😱🚨🚨

#ziam #ziam fam #the ziam fam really came through on this one! #liam #ziam february #2 months too late but oh well lol #ziam coincidences #25 #shade game strong #shady bean #i love my shady boys

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ok but this fic version from the comments was actually so good!

everyone should go read it!

If the writers miss out on the opportunity to have date-crasher Eddie say "I'm so glad you guys kissed and made up" while Buck chokes on water and Tommy just smirks, I will actually never forgive them

#ao3 #buddie #fic #fic rec

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I just came on here to share something of note related to my job that I felt was somewhat relavent to fandom. I don't tend to like to reveal too much about my personal life on here especially as it relates to my job since I don't necessarily want anything irl connecting back to me on here so I'll keep this very, very general but I currently work for a nonprofit that centers around a very specific subfield within an acronym of the STEM umbrella. Most of what we do involves public outreach and education on that specific field through online articles, videos, magazines/journals, and events, etc. (as well as helping fund research, grants, and mentorships/job opportunities for people in the field, particularly of underrepresented groups).

Anyways I'm saying all this to say that today I saw we'd made arrangements to pay for media training for a few of our more higher up volunteers to help prep them for media interviews and to be good brand ambassadors for our org. The training includes things like reviewing talking points and going over sample interviews and interview tips and is expected to encompass at least a couple of hours per person. We dropped well over 10k on this expense. And this is all just for a few VOLUNTEERS for a relatively small nonprofit org in a very specific subfield/subject. Like I said we're a non-profit so we're obviously not just in this for the money or the good PR it may bring, even if we do still realize that those things are integral to our success as an org. And yet we still dedicated a sizable chunk of money and time to this endeavor for people who are not even technically employed by us. I just want y'all to let that sink in for a second and think about how much the scale of that extrapolates to ppl like celebrities doing what they do on the world stage.

Imagine how much more intense and in-depth something like media training gets when you/your image is literally the brand you're acting as ambassador for, and a shit ton of ppl behind the scenes all have their own stake in your success as a brand in the particular image/version of you (accurate or not) they want portrayed. now imagine you're a young impressionable child being made to sit through potential hours of mock interviews, being drilled with questions and "appropriate" talking points and the like until the ppl in charge of you are satisfied (tbh it's not hard to see how/why rebecca ferguson described it as akin to being brainwashed), and being foisted with all that responsibility/pressure in every single thing you do or say in front of a camera. Is it any wonder that you might eventually get to a point where you just paste on a smile and say/do whatever you're told to like a wind-up robot playing along with the role you've been given even to your own detriment (liam)? Or that you might get to a point where you just stop wanting to do almost any interviews at all cause you're sick of being party to all the fakery and bullshit (z@yn)? It's two sides of the same coin but both could very much be read as a trauma response

Anyway I just needed to rant a bit cause the stuff with work brought all this to the forefront of my mind and it forever infuriates me to no end that people still don't see (or don't want to see) how much of what we're shown and/or told is fabricated in the name of staying on brand for whatever version of their image a celebrity may be trying to sell in that moment

#media training #ziam #i have more thoughts on this re z's current image that I may or may not get to today #but I wanted this to be a stunts free post #so if I do get around to it any other further discourse (i.e. rants) will be addressed in another post #thx for coming to my tedtalk lol #✌🏾

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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

#lmao #me

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#911 #bisexual buck #tuck #when y tries to do q

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#ugh the intensity on buck's face #help #911 #bisexual buck #tuck #when y tries to do q