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satellite-evans · 2 years

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Family

Pairing: Chris Evans x reader

Summary: Chris and his family :)

Word count: 1.2k words

Warnings: fluff, rushed ending

A/N: I don't know what it is with me and dad!chris, but I wrote another one lmao. The ending is rushed and kinda sucks but I hope y'all enjoy it xxx

English is not my first language, So I apologize if I made any (grammar) mistakes. Feedback, requests, questions or just vents are always welcome.

love you all, happy reading <3

I do NOT give permission for my work to be translated or reposted on here or any other site.

Many people have different answers to the question, 'what is the most important thing in your life?'

The reason is simple; not everyone is the same. People had different lifestyles, different tastes, different religions, and different friends. It would be impossible for them to give the same answer. And sometimes, people change, so their answers change. The important thing in a person's life could be a dog at first, but can switch to their career once they work.

Chris changed as all humankind did, but his answer never did. It was always the same. Maybe it was because he didn't get it until he was 38. Perhaps it is because that is all he knew in life.

One thing he knew for sure: the essential thing in his life was his family—especially the one he created with you.

It was like one of those fairytales in Disney movies he used to watch when he was little. Everything about you was surreal. You were a princess who couldn't be more beautiful: your eyes, hair, and smile. The cure to his problem was you. But he knew that if he drank you in too much, it would become poison, like all things do when you do it too much. He didn't care. It would be an honor for him to die because of you.

His family. He still couldn't wrap his head around it. Chris' family was his whole life, and everything else came around second regarding what was important to him. His wife, the Dinsey princess, his dog dodger, his wife's best friend, and his son, the little troublemaker.

"He is a troublemaker because he is just like his dada." That is what you kept responding to Chris every time he called Ry that. It was true. Rayan was exactly like his father, not only in his looks but also in his character, which scared Chris a little. He didn't want his son to become an anxious person who was too stubborn for his own good.

Hopefully, he wouldn't be.

Because the more little Ry grew, the more he showed he was the perfect mixture between his parents. Sure, he was a troublemaker like Chris. That made you pull your hair a couple of things for the things he did, but he was more than that.

Rayan was patient. He could accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. If Chris was a little later, he just sat on the couch, watched his show quietly without fuss, and hugged his dad when he arrived.

The quality that you liked the most about him is honesty. He never lied about if he accidentally spilled something or did something he shouldn't do.

"Mommy, my apple juice spilled all over the carpet, but I promise I didn't do it on purpose. Dodge came into my room and wanted to hug me. I think he got too excited, and I spilled mommy. Please don't be mad at him; he also didn't mean it."

You cleaned his carpet and gave him and Dodger both a treat. The fact that he explained to you what happened and protected dodger made you proud of being his parent.

When you told the accident to Chris while you were both in bed, he couldn't hold his tears at how good of a person his son was. At that age, he thought about even Dodger's feelings and how he was innocent. That was all you. It couldn't be him. Chris wasn't even considering his brother's feelings, pulling pranks all the time and making him cry when they were little. He was immensely grateful that he was becoming more and more like you. God knows how Lisa was tortured by Chris, sneaking out of school and doing stuff he shouldn't be doing.

Your daughter Hira was a whole other story.

When she was born, everyone complimented her, saying how much she looked like you. Chris couldn't be more proud. The more he looked at his daughter, the more he fell in love with you.

When Rayan was born, that was the first time Chris cried from happiness. His first child. He had so many priorities, but maintaining his son was first.

But when his arms held his daughter after she was born, It felt more miraculous than Chris could have imagined. He was beyond happy that he had a daughter.

And that daughter may look like you, but she was Chris' twin. Rayan was a mommy's boy, and Hira was a daddy's girl. They were inseparable. She was a little monkey, trying to climb places, always making a mess in the house and painting the walls with her favorite marker.

And she loves to tease her big brother—a lot.

Rayan was the happiest boy on earth when his parents brought his little sister back home. He went into her room at night when she was crying to calm her down, he was quieter around the house so she could sleep better, and he made sure to help you out by cleaning his room by himself.

But now she was growing up, and he didn't like her as much.

"Mommy, Hira ruined my painting again!"

The only sounds from your son's room were his cry for help and your daughter's mischievous laugh. There was also coming laughter from your husband, who acted like his two-year-old daughter.

"You know, instead of laughing and cheering her on, go there and tell her it's not okay to bother her brother like that."

Chris was Hira's biggest supporter. She couldn't do anything wrong with his eyes. Even when she posted herself on Instagram with a weird caption, he laughed it off and tickled her.

"Ah, come on, it's a little funny. It toughens you up. Besides, every person needs an annoying person while growing up. I always thought Rayan would be that sibling, but it's Hira. It's not a big deal."

This whole banter between the two siblings continued for a while. The only reason was that Rayan was so patient with Hira. He never pushed her, never pranked her back, or never said something hurtful. But she saw this as an opportunity to bother him even more.

Deep down, you wished he did something back, teased her a little too. It felt like you were the worst mother, but you hated seeing your son crying about the paintings he loved to draw for you getting destroyed by a little monkey.

You asked him one day. Why was he so patient with his sister? Why he did nothing back?

"Because, mommy, if I do something back, she will stop. I don't want that. I love spending time with her, even if she teases me."

Right there, at that exact moment, you saw Chris in your boy. His love for his family was immense, and he wouldn't change it for the world, just like Chris.

He listened to the whole conversation right after he put Hira into bed. You were kneeling in front of Rayan with your back to Chris. He didn't see it, but Chris knew your eyes were probably full of tears and your heart was full of love. He felt so proud of his son.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

And Rayan knew this because he had the best role model, his dad.

You couldn't be happier about it.

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canonicallyobserving911 · 2 months

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Hello again! Thank you for the detailed and thorough response!! Love it!

Also, I was just thinking about two other moments - Tommy's audacity in fondly saying to BUCK about EDDIE "this guy", like, how dare he lol, followed by Tommy referring to Buck as EVAN to EDDIE???

It really feels like small "subtle" ways to signal to the audience that Tommy is a presumptuous outsider taking liberties. And it seems designed to make the audience go uh excuse me? You don't get to call him Evan? Etc.

If they're really trying to set up tommy as a love interest for BUCK, who'll be well-received by the audience...it doesn't feel like a good start...🤔

Otoh, if they're trying to set up tommy as someone who at first seems like an ok guy...but who turns out to be a jerk later...i can see that.

Hi @blutterlie thank you for the ask and I have to say, the two things you mentioned above made me cringe when Tommy said them.

I believe you're right, Tommy's taking liberties and overstepping the boundaries between Buck and Eddie and after carefully analyzing the things he said and did, I think his actions are being done on purpose.

First, I'll start with Tommy's "This guy" comment because that was just weird and tainted especially when it's defined in the context he used it in. Before I include the definition, I have to say, 9-1-1 is keen on using specific words for specific reasons in their scripts and I've posted about use of the word "nice" before (linked here). The context it was used in when Eddie said it about Ana in season 4 and when Vanessa said it directly to Eddie in season 6 wasn't pleasant. Most people hear the word and think it's harmless but when its origin is identified, they soon find out it wasn't always viewed to be a compliment.

Now here's the thing with Tommy's use of the phrase "This guy". Even though he was looking at Eddie when he said it, after the words left his lips, he immediately touched Buck's arm and back. While the verbiage may sound like another harmless phrase, the truth is, it isn't and here's the proof.

According to Dictionary.com, the slang definition of "This guy is an expression used to highlight when someone has done something stupid or unbelievable". It appears he was being derogatory and the further proof of it is the way he described Eddie as a "SOMETHING" instead of a "someone" or even by his name. When Buck suggested he let him buy him a beer, Tommy replied, "I'd love that but I have to take a raincheck because I should have SOMETHING that should be arriving right now" 🙄. Based on when he said, "This guy", who he said it to and what he said next, it appears he was referencing something Buck did that was stupid or unbelievable. Please note, Tommy NEVER CALLED "EDDIE" BY HIS NAME. He never said the name "Eddie" but Buck did.

I mean like WTF is Tommy trying to do here because not only does he have a hero complex, he spoke to Buck like he has access to something (Eddie) that Buck wants and Buck is being stupid or unbelievable for not realizing it 👀.

Second, Tommy's use of Buck's legal/government name was not only peculiar; it was NOTICEABLE and JARRING. I thought it was interesting that Buck didn't respond the way he usually does when someone other than Maddie or Eddie calls him Evan. He corrected Bobby when he first arrived at the 118 and he wouldn't even let his parents call him Evan in 4x5 because he told them to call him Buck because people who know him call him that which is a bunch of BS since Buck is a persona, it's not his name. He hides behind it because that's who he wants people to see, Buck the firefighter instead of Evan the emotionally abandoned child who grew into an emotionally starved and scared to be left behind man.

When Tommy said, "I was giving Evan a tour", he said it like he's familiar with who Buck is and it was suspicious. But the kicker was neither Buck nor Eddie called him out on it even though Buck should have. Eddie called him Buck so it made me wonder why neither of them corrected Tommy. Also, how long have they really known Tommy because the familiarity with someone they just met last week is interesting?

I think Buck's going to tell Tommy "You don't know me" in 7x5 and Tommy's use of Buck's legal name could be the reason for it.

I've never considered Bommy as a ship and I believe Tommy's use of Buck's legal name was a red flag and it was done on purpose so viewers would question it. The ones who watched 4x5 and 4x14 know Buck doesn't like people calling him that and it probably made them cringe. I sure did and from the comments I've seen on reblogs, many others did too.

Finally, IMO, Chimney, Hen and Bobby probably told Buck about Tommy after he arrived at the 118 since he took Tommy's place. If they did then Buck should know Tommy's not a good guy and hopefully he'll remember that.

Their interactions were weird and kind of cringey so it'll be interesting to see how they act when the three of them are on the basketball court.

Thanks again for the ask and Tommy's actions in that sneak peek further prove why I don't like him.

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moonsharky · 1 year

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comalandia ∘⁠˚⁠˳⁠° 911 fox + not so obvious nods to buck's memories

only the not really obvious ones, and i'm sure theres probably some i missed but oh well. image descriptions have explanations too. see the end for honourable mentions

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10 gifs of Evan "Buck" Buckley (and others) from 9-1-1, during his coma dream in season 6 episode 11, with older episodes too.

Gif 1: Buck - in his coma dream - sits on the couch between his brother and their father, beer in hand for all three of them. To the left of the couch is a shelf that holds a lamp, and in front of the lamp is a framed picture of the bar Buck tended in Peru. The picture contains the dark wood bar top encircled by a bunch of colourful barstools.

Gif 2: In Peru, season 4 episode 5, we see Connor talking to an off-screen Buck. Connor leans his elbows on the bar top. Next to him we can slightly see the same bright barstools as in the photo. In the background are tables and chairs that match the vibe. It's not a glaringly obvious nod, but it's definite.

Gif 3: In the lobby of the hospital within the coma dream Buck stands with Hen and Chimney as they try to figure out why it feels like Buck is dying and how he can get back to his life outside. Behind Buck walks two people in traditional South Asian attire; one in a dark blue and silver detailed sari, and the other wearing a head covering, but with an indiscernible outfit because Buck's body stands in the way of view.

Gif 4: In season 1 episode 5, a bride-to-be stands in front of a tall mirror, wearing a bright red sari with gold details, as her friend/bridesmaid helps her prepare for the wedding. We know the last gif is a nod to this specific moment (and not just people in the background) for two reasons; one, because it's an important part of Bobby's story in season 1, and two, because we have never seen Indian people in traditional clothing before or since.

Gif 5: The camera focus is mainly on Bobby, following him as his quickly rushes past Buck in the coma dream, so the background is a blink and miss it situation. A doctor tends to a patient with a high heel shoe embed in their left cheek.

Gif 6: Season 2 episode 6, has Chimney talking to one of the parents of the child beauty queens, who has a high heel shoe stabbed into the left cheek.

Gif 7: In the background of a few shots within Buck's coma journey throughout the hospital, you can see two people in khaki/beige ensembles. They stand as if they're guarding whatever is on the other side of the glass doors behind them. At first inspection, they could easily be passed off as nurses. But looking closer, it seems like no other nurses have worn this colour of scrubs before in the show. Mostly it's blue, sometimes maroon or even pink. But never khaki. This combined with the way they hold themselves, makes me think of the two prisoners that pretend to be guards.

Gif 8: In season 5 episode 6, two prisoners have taken the uniforms of guards in order to blend in and escape. They rummage through the personal belongings of said guards, seeing what they can take. The colour is the exact same as the two from the hospital in Buck's coma dream. And again, the way they stand brings me to think of these two.

Gif 9: Buck and Bobby walk through the hospital, past some open curtains where beds are. They pass a few pregnant people, all in varying degrees of athleisure wear. It appears that they may all be in labour.

Gif 10: Buck and Bobby respond to a call where pregnant parents begin to go into labour one after the other. All wearing clothing comfortable enough to do yoga in.

honourable mentions:

When Buck first awakens within his coma, he looks up at Daniel as Daniel talks, giving the rundown of what happened. In the top left corner, the television is on, a news segment playing. The headline reads "VA HOSPITAL WAIT TIMES." The second line is hard to read, but this is going on the same time that Buck has his first memory, which just so happens to be of Eddie. Eddie, who is an Army Vet. Whom in comalandia fights to keep his son, but doesn't have the right support systems. It feels like this is somehow a little hint to that storyline.

When Buck arrives home in his voma dream to his parents waiting for him, he wears a white shirt with wide spaced grey pinstripe. Much like the one he was wearing when Eddie got shot. It's not the same shirt I don't think, but hugely similar. Also there's a photo on his computer desk, but the image is too pixelated and far away for me to figure out what it is, though it may be another nod to something.

In the hospital waiting room of comalandia, another TV is turned on to the news, black smoke billowing on the footage on screen. I can't make out what the headline says. But it can definitely hint at many different things in the show, as Buck is a firefighter after all.

Christopher shows up in Buck's coma dream, and he wears a three toned horizontally striped tee under a hoodie. The stripes alternate between an almost green shade of blue, a dark blue, and white. Not sure where from, but I swear Chris has worn this shirt before, or even something similar.

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puhpandas · 8 months

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You Stress Me Out

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Gregory shows up at Evan's house during a storm with a wood carving knife stuck in his stomach. It may not be that bad of a wound, but that doesn't mean having a knife sticking out of you is any less scary. Or that Evan will freak out any less.

warnings: blood, mentions of a fistfight, an unsafe home environment, stitches, and of course, a blade being stuck inside flesh

Evans incredibly on edge right now. Which, nothing new here. But this time, it's less of his normal state and more of a genuine, rational kind of edge.

First off; a storm is on it's way. Not only does a storm mean that outside is a no-go, meaning that Evan is trapped inside his house with no way to leave, but hes absolutely terrified of thunder.

Which is why as soon as he'd heard about the bad weather, when his fathers back was turned and Michael had been focusing on something other than messing with him, he'd snuck to the kitchen, grabbed all the snacks and water he could need, and took them to his hidden stash in his bedroom.

This way, he didnt have to leave his room. And he could do his old trick of blocking the door leading from the shortest route to his room with his dresser, which could give him enough time to shut Michael out if he decides to persist on the other side.

Unlockable doors. The bane of Evan's existence.

The other reason hes on edge isnt because of himself, even though his body is locked up and sense, waiting for the thunder to start booming outside and send him flying off of his bed from how hard he flinches. Its because of Gregory.

Evan's brows furrow from his place on his bed, curtains drawn, but just open enough to see the rain start so he can brace himself. He takes one look at the gray clouds and white sky and frowns deeply.

Evan knows all about his friends... situation. Honestly, after being friends for almost a year, you'd think he would have known sooner, but nope. Evan had just been giving Gregory the benefit of the doubt too much. when Gregory'd refuse to let Evan go to his house, he'd assume he had parents like his, who he didnt want Gregory to have to see either, which was why he had been asking. When Gregory would have new bruises and cuts and rips in his clothing the next time Evan would see him, he would deliberately choose not to pry, or wonder, because he would think maybe it was worse than he thought.

But Evan had figured it out eventually, and he'd understood why Gregory kept it from him so long. Evan wouldnt want Gregory to see him differently for being a certain way.

But like Gregory, Evan had made it clear he didnt. He understands, really. Like he understands that with the knowledge comes the worry.

Evan knows Gregory doesnt always have stable shelter. The city and it's people arent so kind to homeless people like Gregory, even when hes outside and theres about to be a hurricane. Which is why Evan is hoping, wishing, praying that Gregory will come to Evan, this time.

It's why he's reading a book, sitting on his bed next to his window instead of on his phone like usual. Evan's on edge because he cant stop thinking about what would happen to Gregory if he didn't come, and if he does, will Evan hear him to let him in.

Evans room is on the ground floor, which makes it very easy for Gregory to come and go as he pleases (also for Evan to make an escape when he needs to. It's not rare for Evan to ditch his room to flee to the city with Cassidy, sometimes).

Evan's eyes trail over the words on the pages, but he isnt taking them in. He huffs, letting the book drop to his lap, and tries to ignore how cold-but-on-fire his stomach feels. He can't focus. Not when Gregory's supposed to trust Evan enough to come to him when he needs help and he hasnt yet.

Evan only waits a while longer, foot tapping on the side of his comforter and fingers drumming. When the first few thick drops of water land on his window, he goes for his phone.

Gregory said to never call him unless it's important. But right now, with how much Evan's stomach swims with nausea over uncertainty about Gregory's safety, Evan thinks this is important enough.

Evan only has enough time to enter his fifteen digit pin and tap the phone app before the sound hes been waiting for rings out by his window.

Evan can feel his shoulders drop when the familiar jingle of a Fazbear song is knocked on his window. He smiles, hurrying over to his window and almost ripping the curtains off the wall with how fast he opens them.

When Evan reaches to open the window, Gregory's there, if not a bit weary, if his half lidded eyes and the cut on his cheekbone are any indication, but Evan doesnt worry too much. Just unclicking the locks on his window and helping Gregory step inside when its apparent he needs help.

He has a hand clutching at his stomach, which is worrying, but Gregory looks like hes okay. Not about to die, which is what Evan's thoughts always end up going to, so he thinks that's a good thing.

Evan shuts the window and locks it just as the rain starts to drop harder, and he shuts the curtains, sending a glance at his door (the one not covered up with a dresser) out of paranoia. When his father doesnt burst in and send Gregory away like Evan's imagining, he turns his attention back to Gregory.

Hes huffing, like he cant catch his breath, which makes Evan furrow his brows. Gregory's bent over, like when you have a stomach cramp and try to curl in on yourself as much as possible. If Evan looks hard enough, he can see the inklings of bruises on Gregory's knuckles.

Evan frowns. Okay, probably a fight, but it wouldnt be the first time he would have to pull out the first aid kit.

"Gregory." Evan catches his attention. Gregory's eyes dart up to him, and he offers a shaky smile. "Hey. You had me worried sick."

"Me too." Gregory says, but it sounds strained. He still has that hand pressed firmly over a spot on his stomach, and when he looks pained, Evan guides him over to his bed, letting him sit down. "I know you don't like thunder and stuff. A-And you'd be stuck with Michael.

Evan crosses his arms, trying to look stern but coming off as incredibly worried instead. "Gregory. You're acting weird." He points out. "Listen, I know you're hurt. You know I've seen you get into fights before. Can you just tell me what's wrong?"

Gregory, suspiciously, looks away, focused on one of Evan's toys hes had since he was younger that he never bothered to put away. "Um. I-I dont think this is like those times, though."

Well. If Gregory can be this difficult, he cant be feeling too bad. Doesnt do anything for the anxiety digging a hole in Evan's stomach, though. "No matter what it is, you need help, okay? I wont judge. Just let me patch you up."

Gregory doesnt respond for a moment, then, "Promise not to freak out."

"What?"

"Promise not to wig out." Gregory meets his eyes, looking pained. "This is gonna make you freak. I know it. Just... try to stay calm. It's not that bad, I swear."

"Just show me already!" Evan presses, getting jittery from nerves. "You saying that is already making me freak out!"

"Okay! Jeez." Gregory huffs, and takes a deep breath. "Just dont look at it too hard."

"Gregory!" Evan yells.

"Okay, okay!" Gregory says placatingly. He doesnt say anything else, just takes his hand off of his stomach like ripping off a bandaid.

Evan's eyes blow wide, and his legs turn cold. "Oh my god."

"There it is." Gregory sighs.

"Gregory." Evan says, just above a whisper, because he cant manage anything louder at that moment. He stares at Gregory's stomach, feeling a pit in his own stomach when he cant tear his eyes away. "Gregory!"

"I told you you'd freak out." Gregory mutters, like he doesnt have a literal knife sticking out of his flesh.

"Why would I not freak out?!" Evan whisper yells, because wow he does not need his father or Michael to walk in right now. He gestures wildly, trying to put all of his emotions I into the single movement. "You have a knife in you!"

Despite what Gregory said not to do, Evan looks hard at it anyway. It isnt super deep; it's one of those really tiny pocket knives, like what you would use to carve wood with. He can still see some of the blade sticking out, which means the inch and a half long blade isnt plundged very deep.

"I know." Gregory says. "Can you help me get it out?"

Evan gapes. "Help you--" He giggles maniacally. "Gregory, if I pull it out, I'll have no clue how to make it so you wont bleed out."

"Well," Gregory glances away. "I cant really go to the hospital, and I cant just leave it in." He says. "You're my best bet. Besides, I promise it isnt that bad. It could have been way worse. I dont need a hospital."

Wow. No pressure, or anything. Evan implodes, shaking his hands out and doing laps around the room. "I'm gonna have to pull a knife out of you."

"Okay. Stay calm, remember?" Gregory repeats, and when Evan's facing Gregory's direction again after another lap, he can see him wincing. "Look, I know you're wigging out, but I really dont want this knife to me stuck inside me anymore."

"I would assume so!" Evan hisses, coming to a stop in the middle of his room and wringing his hands through his sweater sleeves. "Gregory--"

"Okay, listen." Gregory sounds strained, and Evan takes a moment to pause, worry taking ahold of his stomach like a giant hand and squeezing. "You have a phone, don't you? I need you to Google what to do, and pull this stupid knife out of my stomach."

Evan gets queasy just thinking about it. "Gregory."

"I know." He says. "But, look. I'm not gonna be awake much longer, since I pretty much ran from the city to here while I was bleeding, and the guy who attacked me had already beat me up a bit before stabbing me."

Evan's heart seizes at that. He returns to Gregory's side, sitting down with him. "But, isnt it not good if you're unconscious--"

"I dont know." He interrupts, eyes squeezed shut. "Look, I'm feeling kinda woozy, so I dont know how much longer I have left, but I'll try to stay awake."

Evan frowns. "You're acting like you're gonna die or something." He jokes, but his hand shake at the thought. "...Okay. Come here."

Gregory perks up, sitting up with great effort and putting an arm around Evan's neck when he gestures to. "We're doing this?"

"Yeah." Evan says shakily. He supports Gregory as he leads him lay down, pressed up against the wall, where if the door opened, hed be hidden behind it. Evan grabs a few of the towels he hides in his room to always have a clean one, -since he can never rely on laundry being done in his house-, and lays them under Gregory to soak up any blood. His father would kill Evan if he got the carpet stained with blood.

Evan grabs the first aid kit he always has hidden under his bed, and clicks it open, settling on his knees in front of Gregory's slack form on the floor with hovering hands as he glances at each of the kits contends uncertainly.

He grabs his phone, fingers trembling and pressing all the wrong buttons. Gregorys harsh breathing doesnt help.

"How did this even happen?" Evan asks as he desperately types in 'how to pull a wood carving knife out of your stomach at home' into the search bar. "Like-- I know you get into fights sometimes, but this?"

"Okay okay." Gregory coughs a bit. "Ill tell you. So, you know how it's about to storm?"

Evan glances at the crack through the curtains just enough to see the dark gray clouds swirling. "Yeah."

"So, I wasnt at my usual spot, but it was really close to starting to pour. And getting sick is like, the worst case scenario." Gregory says while Evan reads the random article he found at the speed of light. "So, I had to find some other place closer to where I was to wait out the storm, because I couldnt travel that far in the rain."

Evan pauses in reading, frowning and looking at Gregory's face. "You know you can always come here, right?"

Gregory frowns, looking away. "Yeah, but..." He trails off. "Its not fair to dump my problems on you like that."

Evan scoffs, breathing out a light chuckle. "Like you didnt dump your problems on me right now. And even then, I dont mind. I would much rather you come to me then be in pain somewhere else. Okay?"

Evan doesnt look at Gregory's face, too busy looking down at the article he has pulled up on his phone in his trembling hand, but he can tell hes smiling.

"Also, don't act like you don't make my problems your own, too. Im allowed to do the same as well, you know."

"Okay, okay." Gregory huffs. "I get it. I'll come to you right away next time. Happy?"

"Yes." Evan says, and he really is. Knowing that Gregory is sure to come to Evan when the weather gets bad, or something happens that makes the city unsafe, Evan will be able to sleep soundly knowing Gregory will either be safe with him, or he will be if need be. "You never finished telling me how you ended up with a pocket knife stuck in you, though."

"Right." Gregory chuckles. "So, I find this kind of hidden away spot, right? And I'm thinking I got really lucky, and set my stuff down. But then this other older kid shows up, and its obvious hes like me. But he gets really mad that I'm in his spot and starts yelling at me to get out."

"Jerk." Evan says, pulling the things he needs out of the first aid kit. "You should help eachother out, not fight. I'm sure he could have lended you some space."

"I'm sure you would have." Gregory chuckles. "But anyway, I'm packing up my stuff to leave, because this guy hurting me is a bigger concern than the weather at this point, and I dont want to mess with him."

Evan nods along, and goes to begin, but pauses when the first step is to take out the knife. Nausea curls in his gut, and he winces, glancing at Gregory.

"Hey." He cuts Gregory off in his story, and tries to look as apologetic as possible. "I, um. Have to take the knife out."

Gregory's eyes blow wide, and he frowns. "Oh."

Evan fidgets, having no idea how to make this better for Gregory. "Do you want me to count to three, or...?"

"Just do it." Gregory puts that steely exterior on. "I can handle it. Just do what you need to do."

Evan feels awful; this must suck for Gregory. Even if the knife is small and not very deep, having something sharp ripped out of your flesh cant be fun. "If you're sure."

He props himself on his knees, getting as close to Gregory as possible, and wraps a hand firmly around the small handle of the wood carving knife.

He can see it in Gregory's eyes. Neither of them want to do this.

"Keep telling your story." Evan says softly. Maybe itll distract Gregory from it, even a little bit. And Evan, as well. He can already feel bile working it's way up his throat at the thought.

Gregory nods minutely, jaw locked and tense. He breathes out a bit. "...Kay. So, I'm trying to tell him that I'll leave if he let's me get my stuff, but hes really impatient, and when I dont leave right away, he tries to scare me away faster by beating me."

Evan winces, pointedly twisting his neck away from the knife, as he tightens his grip, anticipation sending lightning through his veins. "That explains the bruises." He says shakily.

Gregory pauses, waiting for something that doesn't come. "...Yeah. He uh, he got me pretty good... but he didnt leave unscathed either. But, I think I got it worse."

"Definitely." Evan agrees ghastily, his stomach rolling when he feels the cold handle of the knife pressing idents in his skin. "Keep going."

Gregory gives him a look, but continues. "...So when I start fighting back, even though I'm smaller, he took that as a bad thing, apparently, and wanted me gone so he didnt get hurt. So what does he do?"

Evan doesn't respond, just squeezing his eyes shut, biting his tongue, and ripping off the bandaid.

Evan rips the knife out with a quick flick of his shoulder, and gags when it makes a fleeting metal-on-flesh sound as its removed. Gregory lurches lightly next to him, making a garbled, suprised sound, and when it's over, just lays flat on the floor.

"G-God." Gregory coughs, stuttering. "Okay, that wasnt that bad. I guess."

"I'm sorry." Evan frets, flinching and dropping the knife on the towel when some of Gregory's blood drips down his fingers. "I'm sorry, Gregory."

"You didnt do it." Gregory chuckles, his face white as a sheet. He brings up an arm to clutch at a spot just above the wound on his chest. "Jesus."

"I'll fix you up." Evan says softly, setting a hand on Gregory's own and taking it away just as quickly when he rushes to go wash his hands. "Okay? It might hurt, but you'll be okay. I'll make sure of it."

"...Kay." Is all Gregory says, and Evan rushes faster when he just let's his head fall against the floor.

When Evan comes back, he all but dives onto the floor, grabbing the things he layed out on the carpet and beginning. "Gregory, hey!"

"What?" Gregory asks, and Evan sinks in relief when hes still awake. He rolls up Gregory's shirt, inspecting the wound, and he finds it looks more like just a deep cut than anything. "I know you're trying to stay awake, but I'm probably gonna have to find a way to close this cut, so you might want to go ahead and go to sleep."

Gregory pales. "Like, stitches?"

"Probably." Evan shudders. A wave of sickness washes over his body when he realizes hes probably gonna have to find a needle and thread, and stitch Gregory's flesh closed, even if the cut is only an inch or so long. "Better safe than sorry. And I really dont think having a wood carving knife stabbed into you, even if it wasnt that deep, is okay to just put a bandaid over."

"...Alright." Gregory sighs, and his head rolls against the floor, his body relaxing. "I don't want to be awake for that."

"Me neither." Evan huffs, and Gregory breathes the air of a laugh through his nose. "But I think you'll be okay. Just sleep, and you'll be patched up when you wake up."

Gregory sighs a deep sigh, and Evan thinks it sounds like deep relief just settled. "Okay. Thank you, Evan."

"Of course." Evan replies, and when Gregory shuts his eyes and no doubt falls asleep pretty quick, Evan glances around his room, and realizes hes gonna have to go on a scavenger hunt for a needle and thread.

He sighs, hoping and wishing that he wont run into his father or Michael when he has to venture out of the safety of his room, but he relaxes at the moment, taking in a deep breath and reaching for some supplies.

First, he has to clean the wound.

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When Gregory creaks his eyes open, it's not to Evan's carpeted floor like he had expected. Well, he is on the floor, he finds when he finally takes in his surroundings. But he isnt laying down completely. Some pillows and blankets have been posed and laid around him, like a nest, and Evan is sitting next to him in the middle, scrolling and watching something on his phone.

Gregory twists his neck and puts pressure in his arm, trying to prop himself up. He yawns, and Evan startles, taking out the crappy Walmart earbuds he'd bought. "Gregory!"

"Hi." Gregory groans, feeling the effects of his fistfight and intense sprint take hold, his body groaning and aching with soreness at his movement. He feels warm; which is something he wasnt expecting when he'd initially thought he'd spend the span of the storm outside in it. "Ugh."

Evan shuts his phone off lays it and his earbuds on the blanket, twisting his torso and shimmying in his spot laying against a pillow against the wall and legs covered with a throw blanket to face him. "You probably dont feel too good."

"Like crap." Gregory agrees. When he shifts again, back and head cushioned against two pillows without cases on them, he can feel the sore sort of throbbing pain of whatever stitches Evan had sewn in him. He wrinkles his nose at the thought, feeling guilty on Evan's behalf. "But... the stitches feel secure. I'm sorry you had to do that, it must have sucked really hard."

"It did." Evan shudders, but chuckles at the same time. "You know, I had to go in my Moms room to get the needle and thread and steal the pills from my Dad."

Gregory quirks a brow. "What pills?" He asks at the same time Evan hands him a small bottle of Advil. "Oh."

Evan hands him some snacks, too. A water bottle and some crackers. He smiles softly and takes them, taking two Advil with a swig of the water bottle. "You did all that for me?" Gregory asks, voice small. "...I know you hate your Dad, and your parents would get mad at you if they saw you snooping."

"I know." Evan says, fidgeting with one of the blankets and laying his head on the pillow propped against the wall. "But I wanted you to feel better more than I was scared of my parents."

Theres a short stretch of silence after that, only the harsh rain and wind against the house being heard. Gregory stays silent, turning over Evan's words in his head.

His eyes burn slightly, but he pushes it down with precise practice. "Thank you" Is all he can find in him to say. Theres too many feelings, too many emotions he has to put them into words.

But Evan knows him, and Gregory knows he understands when he nods, and smiles that small, kind smile that just screams 'and I'd do it again'. "Of course." Evan insists, and looks away for a moment. "I want you to trust me, okay? I want to show you that if you come to me because you need help, I'll be here, and I wont discount you, or-- or shrug you off."

Gregory doesn't smile, but he feels warmth spread through his chest at that. Gregory knows Evan, so he knows exactly why he would want Gregory to feel that way. He knows exactly why Evan holds himself to that, even though Gregorys confident a lot of it has to do with just the kindness in Evan's own heart.

"I-I know." Gregory whispers. "I came here because I do trust you. I came here because I know that."

It's really hard for Gregory to say that, and he knows Evan understands, because he doesnt comment, just nods, relief sagging his shoulders.

Theres a short burst of silence for a moment, the two of them just soaking up the atmosphere of being warm and comfortable, despite the circumstances.

"You're staying here, by the way." Evan's voice rips him out of his thoughts suddenly, and Gregory snaps to attention to see Evan looking at him sternly, but worriedly. "I know you're gonna try to say something stupid about how you're fine to go back into the rain. You arent going anywhere near the city, alright? I don't care if the storm lasts a week. I'll find a way to hide you so Michael or my father dont find you, okay?"

Gregory snorts at Evan's intense voice, but his heart bursts all the same. "Okay, Evan. I promise."

"Good." Evan sounds appeased. He twists his body, reaching for something, and grabs his phone, putting one earbud in and giving Gregory the other. He opens YouTube, handing the phone to Gregory. "You can pick. Honor of the patient."

Gregory grins, giggling. "Thanks, Doctor Evan."

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#it was less that the wound was actually bad #and more that theyre 13 and the wound in question is technically a stab wound and that sounds super bad on paper #so theyre seeing it worse than it may be because its scary #lso having something stabbed in you that isnt supposed to be there #will make you woozy and almost pass out so that just adds to the scary factor for them #i hope some of the details i put in hammered in how uncomfortable evan is in his own home. but since becoming friends with gregory #(lets say a year so theyre both 13 here)#hes grown a bit more of a backbone alongside just getting older #so hes actually doing things that might get him in trouble #like hiding food and towels in his room and blocking the door with furniture #when before he would be too scared to do any of that and just let the torment happen #written with medical inaccuracies (probably) tagged #pandas writes #oneshot #ficlet #flashlight duo #gregory and evan #the aftons #evan #gregory #fnaf gregory #evan afton #flashlight duo modern au #au #blood warning #stabbing mention #blood and injury #mention of child neglect #vomit mention #flashlight duo oneshots

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Michael Sheen: ‘I find it very hard to accept actors playing Welsh characters when they aren’t Welsh’

Has he taken the concept of authentic casting to a whole new level? Ahead of his latest BBC drama Best Interests, the star explains all

Michael Sheen has had it with the Prince of Wales. Not the man, but the title. “I think it’s ridiculous,” he says. “It’s just silly. I see no reason why the title should continue. Certainly not with someone who’s not Welsh.”

“That’s not the majority view,” he adds, with resignation. “So, whatever the majority of people want, I’m sure will continue.”

The star of Frost/Nixon and proud son of Port Talbot is chatting via video from a bucolic spot close to his hometown (a deer has just wandered into view), but even at a distance, it’s not hard to see that Sheen is a man ofstrong convictions.

He has spoken in the past about the opportunity to retire the title after the death of Elizabeth II, as a gesture to “put some of the wrongs of the past right”. In 2020, he returned the OBE he was “honoured” to have received in 2009 when he felt it would make him a hypocrite to give a lecture about how the English king Edward I “put a stranglehold on Wales” at the turn of the 14th century.

When we chat, he’s about to begin shooting his TV directing debut The Way – co-created with playwright James Graham and documentary-maker Adam Curtis, about a family caught in a civil uprising, set in and around Port Talbot. The BBC project is the first from the production company that he set up with Sherlock producer Bethan Jones to focus on telling Welsh stories because, “You can shout about how bad it is, but if you want to see something be different then do it, you know?”

The 54-year-old is one of the actors of his generation, a stage star in his twenties (The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer called him “outrageously charismatic”) who went on to create unforgettable screen portraits of Tony Blair (The Queen, The Deal), Chris Tarrant (Quiz) and Brian Clough (The Damned United), alongside his David Frost in Peter Morgan’s play and film about the 1977 interviews that brought down the US president. Recently, Sheen has gained a whole new tranche of fans playing a very arch angel opposite David Tennant’s insouciant demon in Amazon’s Good Omens – not technically gay characters according to the Terry Pratchett-Neil Gaiman source novel, but seemingly in love.

Tennant and he have a natural chemistry on and off screen, Sheen says, adding that “he stops me being too grumpy”. He is a little on the grumpy side. In one exchange, in which I suggest he is a supporter of Welsh independence, he responds hotly: “Show me where it says that. I don’t believe I’ve ever said that.” Sam Mendes compared Sheen to fellow Welsh stars Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton – “fiery, mercurial, unpredictable”.

But he shares a warm screen chemistry with Sharon Horgan in Jack Thorne’s moving new four-part drama Best Interests. They play the parents of a child with cerebral palsy, the adorable Marnie (played by Dublin actor Niamh Moriarty), who suffers a seizure that leaves her without brain function. The couple find themselves on opposite sides of an unbearable decision: whether or not to switch off their daughter’s life support. Very few will make it through the drama without tears, but the issues it raises will be familiar to all who have followed recent legal battles over 12-year-old Archie Battersbee and baby Alfie Evans.

Best Interests is “heartbreaking” at times, he admits, which makes the humour that he and Horgan bring to it all the more important. They hadn’t worked together before. “That relationship had to do a lot of heavy lifting. Sharon and I didn’t know each other very well … but straight from the off, we had a very similar sense of humour and made each other laugh.” Moriarty’s is a break-out performance – one scene involving make-up beautifully captures the parent-child relationship. She has cerebral palsy that affects her legs, a condition called spastic diplegia, but she’s not the only disabled actor in the piece.

Bafta-winner Lenny Rush, 14, who in real-life has a condition that affects his growth, is brilliant as George, who sets his cap at Marnie. Mat Fraser, who plays a legal advocate in Best Interests and portrayed Shakespeare’s Richard III in 2017, has a thalidomide impairment, which likely gave him an insight into Richard’s sense of “my deformity”.

Thorne, who experienced a chronic medical condition in his twenties, has said in the past that disabled people have been “utterly and totally” failed by the TV industry. In Best Interests, one parent of a child with a disability states baldly that people “hate” disabled people. “I think people can feel very uncomfortable around people with disabilities,” Sheen says. “A lot of the time it’s just to do with ignorance about, ‘Oh gosh, I don’t know, what should I do?’ It can make interaction quite awkward at times, and it can bring out people’s fears.”

The fact that there were several people with disabilities working on the project, he says, was striking because it brought home how rarely he had seen it before. It leads into a discussion of how far actors can credibly play identities they don’t personally inhabit. Sheen has thought about it: “You know, seeing people playing Welsh characters who are not Welsh, I find, it’s very hard for me to accept that. Not particularly on a point of principle, but just knowing that that’s not the case.

“That’s a very different end of the spectrum, but a part like Richard III is such a great character to play, it would be sad to think that that character, you know, is no longer available or appropriate for actors to play who don’t have disabilities, but that’s because I’m just not used to it yet, I suppose. Because I fully accept that I’m not going to be playing Othello any time soon.

“Again, it’s not particularly a point of principle, but personally, I haven’t seen many actors who have come from quite privileged backgrounds being particularly compelling as people from working-class backgrounds. If you haven’t experienced something, you know, the extreme example is, well, if you haven’t murdered someone, can you play a murderer?”

In 2021, it was reported that Sheen intended to be a “not-for-profit” actor, after selling his own properties to ensure the Homeless World Cup that he had organised in Cardiff in 2019 went ahead when funders withdrew. So, what is a not-for-profit actor?

“There’s no such thing,” he says. “In that interview, I talked about how the ideal I was aiming towards was working like a not-for-profit company. When I put the money into the Homeless World Cup, since then I only owe money, so in terms of profits, there are no profits. I put as much of the money I make as I possibly can into either funding and supporting what other people are doing that I believe in, or starting up projects myself.”

It’s a measure of Sheen’s confidence that he knows the parts will keep coming. He has become a father again in his 50s; he and his partner, 28-year-old Swedish actor Anna Lundberg, have two young daughters. “My knees creak a lot more,” he says. “It’s a lot harder to get up and down off the floor when you’re playing with the baby.”

Sheen also has a grown-up daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, 24, from an earlier relationship with British actress Kate Beckinsale. “When my eldest daughter was born, I was still trying to make my way in my career and having to make harder choices about whether to work away from home and how much time to be away and all that stuff,” he says. “This time around, that’s not as difficult as I’m more established as an actor. Physically, it’s hard. But the one thing that is always the same is, you know, poo doesn’t smell any better.”

#Michael Sheen #Interview #Best Interests #the joys of fatherhood #you can feel his enthusiasm #I'm not sure this interview will help him to promote his future projects

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writing poll game

tagged by @disasterbuckdiaz @housewifebuck @devirnis 🌙

rules: make a 24 hour poll with the names of your wips and then for whichever wins, write one sentence for every vote it gets

been trying to focus on slouching towards bethlehem, but i do have other wips floating around with sad word docs created i'd love to work on as the mood strikes or when i get sick of focusing on one thing. what are you guys interested in seeing more of during writing games?

story summaries below the cut (click read more below the poll)

operation celestial blue: date evan buckley

romcom where everyone thinks ana flores and eddie are dating but she's actually the long-suffering teacher turned friend turned life coach for one eddie diaz who is rolling her eyes and pushing and shoving him at buck. like DATE HIM ALREADY DO I HAVE TO PICK OUT YOUR OUTFITS AND HELP YOU ASK HIM for the love of godddddd

laundry and taxes with you

everything everywhere all at once inspired, buck rips apart every parallel universe he can to find one where his parents love him unconditionally the way he always wanted. he encounters different iterations of eddie along the way

break in case of emergency

buck is really trying to make it work with natalia. everything sounds so good on paper. but being a good boyfriend involves making his girlfriend a priority. which means his relationship with eddie and chris suffers a little bit. but that's normal, and eddie's got marisol, right? things come to a head when he gets a call from the hospital, because, of course, he's still eddie's primary emergency contact. makes sense with the will and all. and speaking of, he somehow needs to explain the will to natalia

hold your tonic like a crux

eddie joins station 6 instead of the 118. he keeps running into buck, who he had an ill-advised, ill-timed, and short-lived couple of hook-ups with during his LA fire academy days. he keeps running into the 118 on calls. if that wasn't awkward enough, Chris keeps talking about the really awesome volunteer aquarium tour guide he keeps wanting to see again

loose lips sink (friend)ships

chim drags buck out to the liquor festival for prospective wedding couples, since maddie can't make it that day. buck gets so drunk that he entreats poor chimney to his edmundo diaz soliloquy, or 10 reasons why he's secretly in love with eddie and can't tell him. buck doesn't remember the next day, and chim just wants to get through wedding planning in one piece. and now he has to keep his mouth shut about this disastrous big secret too. couldn't buck have told hen instead?

a home you carry with you

xmen-type alternate universe where it's not rare that some people have mutations. buck's is super strength with enhanced tracking and self-healing. he believes he can only access it through deliberately causing himself pain each time he wants to help people on a call. as a firefighter, this happens often. eddie notices immediately, and attempts different ways of preventing it. he wants to get to the bottom of buck's understanding of himself and his powers to change it

if you want, or because i'd like to know your opinion: @shitouttabuck @alyxmastershipper @diazblunt @forthewolves @giddyupbuck @transboybuckley @wildlife4life @911onabc @pirrusstuff @lesliesknopes @ice-sculptures @daffi-990 @consumedbyfeels @fcntasmas 💞

#fic ideas #wips that need to be more in progress #writing poll game #t writes #buddie fic #911 fandom

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

This "in between time" has long been one which gay people have taken on as their own holiday, reveling in masks and costumes. There are reasons Halloween is so closely associated with gay people, some of which author, Arthur Evans explained in his book, Witchcraft and The Gay Counterculture.

Here is a brief excerpt:

One Celtic male deity … is the horned god, "one of the most basic of the Celtic god types," whose worship goes back to the Stone Age. He is often associated with the Mothers, as well as with sex, animals, and nature. He also seems to have links with male shamans. His great antiquity is shown by a Stone Age painting in Ariege, France, which shows a man dancing in the hide of an animal and wearing the antlers of a stag. And in the eighteenth century, construction workers inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris uncovered a four-sided Celtic stone altar dating from Roman times and bearing the figure of a bearded male deity with antlers. The stone was inscribed with the word Cernunnos, which means "The Horned One."

The horned god was especially linked with male sexuality and often appears with an erect cock. Moreover, when erect, he is sometimes portrayed in the company of men, not women. A drawing of the horned god from Val Camonica, Italy, shows him holding a ceremonial collar ring in one hand and a horned serpent in the other. He is being worshipped by a man, and the man has an erection. This picture is reminiscent of early art scattered throughout Europe. The men often have erections and appear together in groups without women. In view of the Celts' notoriety for homosexuality, these facts suggest a Gay element in the workshop of the horned god.

The horned god was also lord of the dead and the underworld. To the Celts, who believed in reincarnation, darkness and death were parts of the cycle of life and rebirth, and death was the very place where the creative forces of nature brought about new life. Because of this connection with the underworld the horned god was often shown as black in color. But this blackness was not considered evil, as Christianity later viewed it

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The Celts dated the feast days of their religion according to the changing of the seasons, the breeding habits of animals, and the sowing and harvesting of crops.

As it happens, these dates correspond exactly with the holidays later attributed by medieval Christians to witches. The Christians called these days, respectively, Halloween, Candlemas, Walpurgisnacht, and Lammas.

Ritual transvestism associated with the old holidays continue[s] in Europe down to modern times. "May Day sports perpetuated the practices, including even transvestism. in Wales, there existed, into the nineteenth century, a peasant dance and march with a garland, led by a dancer [a horned god figure] called the "Cadi." In the Hogmanay celebration in Scotland, "the boys wore skirts and bonnets, the girls, hats and greatcoats." The feast of Fools, a remnant of the old pagan religion, has persisted into modern times with clerics "wearing masks and monstrous visages at the hours of the office. They dance in the choir dressed as women, or disreputable men, or minstrels. They sing wanton songs." Today many Gay people throughout Europe and America observe Halloween as a Gay holiday with transvestite celebrations.

1940 – Craig L. Rodwell (d.1993) was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967, the first U.S. bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors, and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City pride demonstration. Rodwell is considered by some to be the leading gay rights activist in the early homophile movement of the 1960s.

Rodwell was born in Chicago, IL. His parents divorced prior to his first birthday and for the next few years he was boarded out for day care where he was required to do kitchen labor and laundry to supplement his board and care. When he was 6 years old, Rodwell's mother, Marion Kastman, fearing that the child care set up could cause her to lose custody of her son, arranged for his admission to the Christian Scientist affiliated Chicago Junior School for "problem" boys, in Elgin, IL. Conditions and treatment at the school were described as "Dickensian" and Rodwell got a reputation for being a rebellious child, as well as a "sissy," during his seven years there. It was at Chicago Junior School that Rodwell first experienced same-sex relationships and also came to internalize the Christian Scientist notion that "truth is power and that truth is the greatest good."

At Sullivan High School in Chicago, IL. Rodwell continued his studies in Christian Science by enrolling in Sunday school at the 16th Church of Christ, Scientist. He later studied ballet in Boston before finally moving to New York City in 1958. It was in New York that he first volunteered for a gay rights organization, The Mattachine Society of New York.

In 1962, Rodwell had an affair with Harvey Milk, who went on later to become one of the first openly gay politicians elected to high office. It was Rodwell's first serious relationship. Rodwell's relationship with Milk ended in part due to Milk's conflicted reaction to Rodwell's early activism and his introduction to Milk of "strange new ideas that tied homosexuality to politics, ideas that both repelled and attracted the thirty-two-year-old Milk." Milk believed that Rodwell had been responsible for Milk contracting an STD. After Rodwell's arrest and incarceration when picked up cruising in Washington Square Park, Milk ended their romantic involvement. Shortly after, Rodwell attempted suicide.

When Rodwell opened the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in 1967, Milk dropped by frequently, and after moving to San Francisco Milk expressed his intention to Rodwell of opening a similar store "as a way of getting involved in community work." Milk eventually opened a camera store that also functioned as a community center, much like Rodwell's bookshop had as a community gathering place.

In November 1969, Rodwell proposed the first gay pride parade to be held in New York City along with his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes. The first march was organized from Rodwell's apartment on Bleecker Street.

We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration.

We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. We propose a nationwide show of support.

Rodwell is believed to have created the term heterosexism in January 1971 when he wrote:

"After a few years of this kind of 'liberated' existence such people become oblivious and completely unseeing of straight predjudice and - to coin a phrase - the 'hetero-sexism' surrounding them virtually 24 hours a day.

In 1978 Rodwell was one of the creators and organizers of Gay People in Christian Science. One reason for the creation of the group was that three of its members had been recently excommunicated from the local branch church. In 1980 the group began to demonstrate by leafletting at the church's Annual Meeting in Boston and by 1999, six years after Rodwell's death, the Christian Scientist church no longer barred openly gay or lesbian people from membership.

Rodwell died on June 18, 1993 of stomach cancer.

1964 – Frank Bruni is an American journalist and long-time writer for The New York Times. In June 2011, he was named an op-ed columnist for the newspaper. His columns appear twice weekly and he also writes a weekly newsletter.

One of his many previous posts for the newspaper was as its chief restaurant critic, from 2004 to 2009. He is the author of three bestselling books: Born Round, a memoir about his family's love of food and his own struggles with overeating, Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be, about the college admissions mania, and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush. He is currently a CNN contributor.

After graduating from Columbia University in the City of New York, Bruni joined the staff of the New York Post and then moved on to the Detroit Free Press, where he did a wide range of beats, including a stint covering the Persian Gulf War. He spent more than a year as the movie critic and also wrote extensively about LGBT issues and AIDS. In 1992, he was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for his profile of a convicted child molester. In 1995, Bruni took a job with The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter and often wrote for The Times's Sunday magazine and for Sunday Arts & Leisure. In 1998, he was assigned to the Washington, D.C., bureau, where he covered Capitol Hill and Congress, before being sent on the campaign trail to follow then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. He then covered the White House for the first eight months of the Bush administration and served as the Washington-based staff writer for the Sunday magazine. In July 2002, he was promoted to Rome bureau chief. Two years later, he became The Times' restaurant critic. After more than five years in that position, he returned briefly to the magazine before becoming an op-ed columnist.

In 2016, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association gave him its Randy Shilts Award for his career-long contribution to LGBT Americans. He was previously awarded the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist in 2012 and 2013.

Bruni was born in White Plains, New York. He is openly gay. He has struggled with his eating and bulimia

1969 – On this date Time magazine ran a cover story on "The Homosexual in America" that included a report on the Stonewall Riots. It was protested by the Gay Liberation Front because the writer said homosexuals are mentally ill and immoral.

1986 – Sean Paul Lockhart, born in Lewiston, Idaho, is an American model, film actor and gay pornographic actor. For the latter, he uses his stage name Brent Corrigan and has played roles in gay porn films notably with Cobra Video and Pink Bird Media, but has also made some films with Active Duty and Jet Set Men. As for his appearances with Falcon Studios particularly in The Velvet Mafia series, he has used the stage name Fox Rider instead.

As Brent Corrigan/Fox Rider

He has also appeared in several nonpornographic films as well, using his birth name Sean Paul Lockhart trying to reposition himself as a more serious mainstream actor rather than just a porn star and has released no new pornographic films since 2010 . He has focused almost exclusively on gay-themed movies and indie films. Such gay-themed and indie films include Judas Kiss, Sister Mary, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Welcome to New York, and others.

In 2011 he starred as "Ricky" in the musical Chillerama directed by Tim Sullivan in the segment "I Was A Teenage Werebear".

In 2011 Sean Paul Lockhart won the Rising Star Award at the Philadelphia QFest Festival. In 2012, he announced his involvement in production of an indie film titled Truth to be directed by Rob Moretti. He has also recorded an album with songs by the Swedish singer-songwriter and accordionist Roland Cedermark. Lockhart heads up his own production company and enjoys writing in his spare time.

Both Lockhart and Cobra Video the gay porn company that launched him as a young porn star have created separate "official Brent Corrigan websites" promoting the performer's gay porn films creating some confusion and controversy.

Lockhart's admission of playing pornographic roles while underage created great controversy resulting in voluntary withdrawal of many of his early films from circulation.

He also appeared as a witness in the murder trial of Bryan Kocis, owner of Cobra Video for whom Lockhart worked. Prosecutors alleged the two accused suspects murdered Kocis because they wanted to get Lockhart to work for them at their porn film company. However, police investigating the murder believe Lockhart didn't know about the plot and that he fully cooperated with the police and testified for the prosecution.

1987 – On this date the Associated Press reported that several nursing homes in King County (Seattle) Washington were under investigation for refusing to accept AIDS patients or those suspected of being likely to have been exposed to HIV.

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rosekillerismylife · 10 months

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I'm a bit in a twist, because I just saw a post about how awful James Potter is (also compared to Severus Snape) and the person who wrote the post is kind of right. And now I don't know what to think.

First of all, I'd like to say that everyone in this fandom has an own opinion and is even required to have one and they really should be able to express their own opinion which means that they can like or dislike whatever character they want. I do not mean to change your opinion, it just occurred to me that the owner of the post that inspired this rant really had a point and I had to get some things of my chest, so please be aware of that. This is just me being confused. Just skip it if you want.

Now, to the rant. Severus Snape did some horrible things like insulting Lily Evans, treating Harry Potter badly (JKR explained why and it might make sense but that's also an arguable point), partly trusting in Voldemort (and in Dumbledore which both is concerning) or being fascinated with the Dark Arts (probably not really a problem if he weren't in Slytherin and if it wasn't in the middle of a war) but the Marauders harassed him and bullied him which is also horrible. And if we accept that Potter bullied Snape and encourage it, doesn't it mean that we have to accept Snape's bullying too? Because I don't think there's a difference. The Marauders harassed Snape, humiliated him and called him Sniffelus. Snape called Lily a mudblood (and I recall it being only a onetime thing? Please correct me if I'm wrong), he was a Slytherin and he supported the Dark Lord (which meant that he had to, at some point, harass other students too, due to peer pressure or free will, it had to happen eventually).

It is also questionable why they would bully him. Did they only bully Snape because he insulted Lily or was there more? Did Snape offend one of them personally or was there any specific reason other than him being a Slytherin and seen as a soon-to-be Death Eater? Was the only reason to bully him that he insulted Lily? Potter was in love with Lily, sure, but Lily could've defended herself, right? And as fellow Gryffindors and his best friends, it shows loyalty that Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black helped Potter but other than Lupin being close friends with Lily, the others hadn't had a close relationship (at least in canon) with her, so other than being loyal to their house and kicking the ass of a Slytherin (I don't really know if just metaphorically or if punching him was really a thing), there was nothing for them in it which is morally debatable.

Maybe they are equal to each other because they don't really differ from each other. I mean, objectively seen. The both of them are bullies, even if Snape's words maybe hurt more than Potter's, it makes them still a bully. And seen as they may be equal, they don't deserve a different treatment, right?

And that's exactly the point where I struggle because years ago when I read Harry Potter, I thought of Snape as a decent character (maybe younger me wanted to be different (main character) because everyone hated Snape) and then I entered the Marauders fandom and realized what Snape did (mainly he is seen as Lily's insulter, I think?). The fact that Potter made his life a living hell with the help of his friends (of whom at least two where unrelated to the actual issue) and displayed also an awful bully slipped my mind. It's just so confusing where you draw the line between good and bad or black and white, you know?

Maybe Potter and Snape are both morally grey characters because they both did good things but also bad things? Realistically, not every villain is born as a villain. There are many factors that influence the behaviour of a person for example how the person is treated in their childhood by parents or friends, how they grow up or by what people they are surrounded which makes every human being a morally grey character because no one can be only bad or only good. What I'm trying to say is that it depends on which part of a person you consult to judge them. There can never be a definite decision on a person because there's rarely someone that counts as only good or only bad because there sure are things in the past that weren't exactly good or specifically bad. Also, everyone sees a person differently because they met a different part of this certain person.

I'm not trying to find an excuse for what Voldemort or Darth Vader or Hitler or Queen Victoria or any other villain/head of state/dictator (fictional or not) did because there definitely is no excuse for any of it. But I'm only trying to explain the Potter-Snape-dynamic a little.

All I'm saying is that we can't praise the Marauders as high as we do and forget that they insulted Snape as well as Snape insulted Lily. Maybe not as hurtful but I think being called a hurtful nickname comes close to being insulted as a mudblood. Both is bullying and there is simply no excuse for a thing like that.

Anyway, I am not saying that Snape is the ultimate villain of the story and that he should go to hell or that the Marauders are all trash and should be convicted guilty for everything they did to Snape. Just remember that not all that glitters is gold. Humans have many facettes and no matter how well you know them, you probably will never see all of them. It's the same with fictional characters. Everyone is a grey zone and can't be all black or all white.

However, I am up for questions or a discussion or answers regarding this topic. Again, you can point out anything that I got wrong because maybe this helps me to resolve the confusion I'm in right now.

#CONFUSED #marauders #james potter #severus snape #anti james or anti severus?#morally grey characters #please help #rant post #hp fandom

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trashendence · 2 years

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#mitchell the antithesis of Buck's sperm donation...

this is a fairly recent hyperfixation of mine, one i’m very passionate about and that i hope makes sense.

so. a central point made in 5x06 is that mitchell doesn’t want nolan to know it’s his heart he is receiving. he wants his son to stay as far away from his life and memory as possible because nolan is a good kid and he deserves better than falling into the same patterns his father fell into. having mitchell’s dna and heart is somehow not enough to “contaminate” nolan, his choices, his future. but knowing could. knowing could drag him down with mitchell, bridge the years they spent apart in the worst of ways. and, really, this is the antithesis of why connor chose buck. connor chose buck because he is a good person who cares about others and he hopes his future kid can be a good person too, despite not having any - or very limited - direct contact with buck himself. buck’s dna somehow eases connor’s worries, makes him hope in a bright life, a good future, a biological legacy that shapes who his kid will be. but - and here’s the catch - what if buck subconsciously follows mitchell’s reasoning, instead? what if him wanting children is a dream tainted by the fear of contaminating them with what he perceives as his countless failures and his inability to be loved by someone who can simply choose not to? what if he’s mitchell and he’s giving a part of himself while trying to avoid giving all of himself? seeing himself as a sum of separate parts, once again. and still, it’s the very reason he was chosen.

and there is so much of eddie in everything here; eddie who is actively asked to be the keeper of mitchell’s secret while buck does not plan on telling him about his (at least not on purpose). it’s so fascinating that both secrets are just waiting to be revealed - nolan can literally read about the mayhem on the day of his transplant outside his hospital, about who caused it, and do simple math; connor’s child will probably know from their parents when they’re old enough; 2 seconds spent eavesdropping and buck’s secret is out too-. so is the act of donating life in semi-secret more about the fathers seeking redemption (from a cycle of absent parents they both suffered from, from other regrets) than it is about the secrecy itself?

(a redemption that, especially in buck’s case, not only asks him to remove himself from the happiness he desires in order for it to exist, but to pay even more so that someone else can be happy instead.)

@sorryalecwho’s majestic brain pointed out mitchell’s “me dying and him living maybe makes the world a better place” and called it the Evan Buckley Thesis in relation to daniel, the people he helps, eddie….eddie who’s the one to correct mitchell and ask him: “you think that’s a feel-good ending for him?” which- i’m still staring into the void thinking about that, thanks alec. trusting eddie to do the right thing for nolan was the last thing mitchell did and, under a layer of jokes about jerking off, buck thought eddie would’ve done the “right thing” for him too: trying to stop him. that, he got wrong because he didn’t factor in the importance eddie gives to choice, but buck’s premises were valid: eddie sympathizing with mitchell as a dad cannot work here because buck is not acting as a dad, he’s acting as a wounded son - and eddie will always protect the wounded son.

oh boy did i keep talking.

#this is a patchwork of past posts i made about this - enjoy #thank you for the juicy af ask as always my friend #special thanks to alec too #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #iri got asked

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majaloveschris · 1 year

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No diff from other age holes in which the younger person is young enough to be the older persona’s parent. She is easily young enough to be Lisa’s granddaughter. Now take it to it’s logical conclusion: The power imbalance that results from the age difference. I think that does matter, especially at her age when he supposedly began pursuing her. ///

He followed her when she was 23. She was still an adult at that time, so you can’t use that as a reason to call him names.

Just because there is a gap here, it doesn’t make Evans this big bad Hollywood man taking advantage of the poor little . That’s absolutely not what’s happening here and I wish people stop using that as an excuse for what garbage human she is.

There has been absolutely no show of power in play during this entire thing. He’s never once used it to make her his little play thing. In fact, he’s done the exact opposite of that. He’s done everything in his power not to be seen with her.

She, on the other hand, has done nothing but manipulate the situation. She left up comments calling her true love a pedophile and groomer. She refused to work and instead photoshopped her yoga and yoga certification. She made sure to be seen at WDW. When it came out what a shit human she really is, she released her own porn video, left it up long enough to make sure it was spread, then deactivated her account like a coward.

This is no longer about age. The issues that people have now are the fact that he’s now associated with racists, antisemitics, fatphobics. He’s now hanging around and associated with the people he spoke out against for 20+ years. That’s the reason people are pissed.

And if you’re going to sit here and accuse Evans of a power imbalance and age gap grossness, make sure you include Lucas Bravo in that. He was the one she was associated with all the way up until NYE 1.0

Agree! Let's be honest: She doesn't seem like an innocent 25-year-old who can be easily manipulated into things. Obviously, we don't know her, but if we take a look at her projects and the nude video she posted on IG, she seems the exact opposite to me. Alba and her whole brunch seem like worse people to me in this situation than Chris.

And I just realized that Lucas is like 34 years old.

#majaloveschris #chris and alba pr #lucas and alba #cevans-love

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and-stir-the-stars · 1 year

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When he starts volunteering at an animal shelter (at Mike's insistence), Evan does end up making a friend there. His first friend post-Capture is a girl his age named Valerie, though she also goes by Val and Valley.

Evan likely spent several weeks not saying much at the shelter; he would only answer direct questions about the animals there and how to take care of them, if he knew what he was doing, etc etc. Social anxiety and the belief that they would eventually throw him out kept him from saying too much about himself, and that plus his scars made everyone think of him as a bit of an oddball.

Valerie lives on a farm of some kind, and even if he never said much, he liked listening to her talk about farming stuff, especially about the animals she and her family takes care of, whether she was talking directly to him or he was just eavesdropping on her talking to other people (Ev does a lot of eavesdropping. not that he thinks of it as eavesdropping when people are talking nearby where he just happens to be able to hear them; call that quiet kid syndrome).

After a few weeks, Evan works up the courage and curiosity to ask her a bit about the Farming Life. After that, their topics of conversation slowly branch out and get more and more personal. Ev practically loses his mind the first time she says he's free to come take a tour of the farm any time he wants (both from excitement and from the utter terror of how REAL this is now; gaining a friend also means gaining the ability to LOSE said friend, which is scarier to Ev than just never having a friend in the first place).

When Ev goes to Valerie's for the first time, he finds that Valerie, a handful of older siblings and niblings in their late 20s and early thirties, her grandparents, her parents, a couple aunts and uncles, and her younger brother all live there. Evan's a bit awestruck at that; he never realized that a family could be so big. Val's family also think that Evan is an oddball, for similar reasons that the other workers at the shelter think he is.

Valerie has at least one little sibling: a brother named Lucas. If Ev and Val are both 16/17 when they meet, then Lucas is ~12.

As a little brother himself, Evan goes out of way to tell Val that he doesn't mind when Val apologizes for Lucas getting curious and trying to tag along in everything Val and Evan do. Evan probably specifically asks Val if it's okay if they do things that Lucas can tag along in, because Evan doesn't want to put any kind of rift between Lucas and Val, and he definitely doesn't want to come between them.

(Valerie ofc doesn't hate Lucas, but getting embarrassed when your several-years-younger sibling keeps butting in between you and your friend is just Standard Older Sibling behaviour; Val stops getting embarrassed when she realizes Evan isn't annoyed by Lucas at all).

If Val ever found out about Evan's past, she'd be disturbed, yeah, but she'd also have a hard time reconciling the atrocities she hears about with the shy kid who went so far out of his way to treat her younger bro with such kindness, not to mention how gentle he is at the shelter and with the farm animals.

I'm debating whether Val might have any other younger siblings, but I think having a sibling younger than 12 around would be too big of a trigger for Evan tbh.

#valerie doesn't have like. an actual personality yet. but here's some backstory #also yes ik my colored pencils are ass. let's not talk about my coloring job lmao #oc: valerie reyes #saffron pawn au #debating whether or not val would be successful in trying to teach evan how to ride a horse #i think evan would be scared of any animal that's bigger than himself tho #but how fun would it be if evan got thrown off and almost trampled under a horse's hooves #and was so scared after that mike has to come and calm evan down and take him back home #assuming evan didn't get hurt

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matan4il · 2 years

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Is it me or does it feel like Buck and Eddie were each other's first best friend? Like they've had casual and childhood friends but it feels different with them. They are so devoted and open with each other that it makes them unable to be soft and vulnerable with other people even though they try to. And like the instant they met, they knew their trust would be well placed.

This makes me wonder if they're aware, even partially, that they're friendship is certainly deeper than most, and that there is a possibility for them to become more somewhere down the line.

Dayna, it’s so good to hear from you, lovely! :D *HUGS*

Oh, I full on believe that they’re each other’s first best friend. I think it’s completely supported by everything we know about their history in canon.

For Buck, we see him in ep 405 at the age of 20, a football star, and yet who does he go to when he’s in need? His sister. When he wants to leave, who does he want with him? His sister. Not for a second do we see him being sad about leaving anyone else behind, or feeling like there’s a best friend he has to at least say goodbye to. Then after he leaves, we see him bouncing around between places, never mentioning any significant friend to Maddie in his postcards. Nor do we see anyone like that featured in any of the flashbacks to the key moments of his journey. The one other person we see is some guy who's ready to ditch Buck for a hookup, and who’s only featured in this trip down memory lane because he unintentionally put Buck on the right path to find the 118, his first real family outside of Maddie. But does Buck have a best friend there? In s1, we don’t really see that. He has a dad figure in Bobby, a great friendship with Hen and Chim, but best friend? No. We never see him choosing to hang out outside of work with any of them one on one, just to hang out and fill each other on stuff. Not like we see Hen with Athena, or Chim and Bobby during that season, or Hen and Chim in later seasons. Edmundo Diaz, Buck’s first ever best friend, confirmed.

In 315, we don’t get to see Eddie before Christopher’s birth, but we still can deduce a few things. We know that he’s becoming a father, but no best friend is in sight at the hospital, nor is one even mentioned. Since Eddie at that point still lives where he grew up, that would imply he doesn’t have a best friend from high school he still hangs out with. And again, one isn’t mentioned either, not even when Eddie decides to leave. We also don’t see Eddie, while he’s serving, talking to a best friend about his issues in his home life, not in a phone call to a friend in the States, and not to another soldier in his unit. We know from his interview in 206 that he did enjoy the camaraderie he had in the army, but it seems like that didn’t develop into having an actual best friend at any point. We don’t see one from the army when Eddie is lying there, injured, after he saved the other soldiers from the helicopter, and we also don’t see a best friend when he returns home. Again, not even a mention of one. Evan Buckley, Eddie’s first ever best friend, also confirmed.

So yes, I have no doubt that a part of the reason they’re so oblivious isn’t just that they’re morons, it’s also that they sincerely don’t get how special what they have is. They cared about and trusted each other almost immediately, which is a profound kind of connection. Then they form this beautiful friendship where they’re there for each other right away, and it’s especially lovely since neither one of them has any experience with being another person’s best friend. But you can see how naturally they fit into that role for each other. But then they become fully partners, they share with each other everything, including a kid! They do that in a way none of the other good friends on the show do. Think of Athena going through her divorce from Michael in s1 and becoming a single mom. Hen’s there for her, but at no point does she become May and Harry’s other parent, or Athena’s partner in raising them, unlike what Buck becomes to Chris and Eddie. They’re fully a family. And they don’t even realize that their bond is so much more intense than a normal friendship. I just love them and I can’t wait for them to realize what they have isn’t simply friendship, and what more they can have as official boyfriends...

Thank you for this ask, I adored it! I hope you’re having a great day, hon! xoxox

(If you're looking for my ask replies, here is my ask tag! xoxox)

#buddie #911meta #buddie meta #911 meta #9-1-1 #evan buckley #eddie diaz #edmundo diaz #evan buck buckley #christopher diaz #ask #brokenrobe #911onabc #911 on abc #911abc #911 abc

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canonicallyobserving911 · 9 months

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9-1-1 Season 6 - Constructive Criticisms #13

Evan “Buck” Buckley

DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE THREE SEPARATE POSTS ABOUT BUCK, EDDIE, CHRIS AND BUDDIE. The reason for this is because there was a lot of information to cover and the attempt to combine it into a single post, like those completed for the other main characters and ‘ships’, wasn’t feasible since one post for them and their family would’ve been too long. Therefore, their posts are numbered as follows: Evan “Buck” Buckley - #13, Edmundo “Eddie” Diaz and Christopher “Chris” Diaz - #14 and “Buddie” - #15. Each of these posts are identically tagged because they include information that’s related to all of them.

This is a LONG POST.

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Evan “Buck” Buckley is a main character and he’s been part of the main cast since 9-1-1 began in 2018. His legal name is Evan but he started asking people to call him Buck after he graduated from the LAFD Academy. He said he changed it because there were other candidates named "Evan" in his class.

He started out as a reckless 25-year-old who stole firetrucks to have sex in them and so he could have sexcapades on rooftops but overtime, he learned how to be ‘somewhat’ better. The word somewhat is being used to describe his character because for every one step his character is allowed to take forward, the show drags him back 500. He had a difficult childhood because his parents were emotionally absent (they still are), his sister Maddie raised him and she was the mother figure Margaret wouldn’t be (she could have but she chose not to).

In season 6, he had more than quadruple the amount of storylines (discussed here) than the other main characters and they were the most detailed of all those included. Even though he had more than everyone else, the truth is most of them weren’t GOOD because they didn’t follow the previously established narrative and they were frustratingly off which made him appear to be out of character for 95% of the season. It seemed like the show purposefully regressed him and for whatever reason they kept doing it until he was back to being Buck 1.0. The only difference in Buck 1.0 from 1A and the one from season 5 and 6B is he stopped sleeping with random women and started having sex with the same random woman over and over again (Taylor in season 5 and a replica of her at the end of 6x18, Natalia).

By the end of season 6, he entered another doomed relationship with someone who’s only interested in one thing, “his death” and it appears he’ll be entombed in his loft again if that raggedy relationship is allowed to continue. There were a lot of unanswered questions regarding his character after the finale and none of the things that happened prior to 6x18 made any sense at all because he still didn’t make a decision for himself.

My thirteenth set of “constructive criticisms” regarding the character Evan “Buck” Buckley in season 6 are included below the cut. Please note criticizing a TV show is NOT a bad thing especially since TV critics have been doing it for decades. Constructive criticisms are designed to help make something better and they are VERY different from negativity. A person can offer criticisms about a form of entertainment they spend their time watching and not be negative about it the same way two people can agree to disagree on a topic. Just because one person liked the season, they shouldn’t expect others to feel the way they do because everyone has their own opinions. Simply put, two people can have different opinions about 9-1-1 and those opinions can COEXIST since they are not mutually exclusive.

If reading criticisms about the TV show 9-1-1 upsets you, then don’t read below the cut.

Warning! ⚠️“Constructive Criticisms” Ahead!⚠️

Disclaimer: This post is NOT about the actor OS who plays the character of Buck. OS is an excellent actor who has a lot of range and experience and he plays the character effortlessly. The issues with Buck and all the flaws included in season 6 as well as other seasons, are not reflective of OS as a person, so please don’t confuse the information included in this post with the actor. These criticisms ARE NOT about the actor, they’re about the character (not a real person) and the way the show portrays him.

Evan “Buck” Buckley

Buck is no longer the reckless firefighter he was at the beginning of season 1 because after Bobby fired then rehired him in 1x1, he began a journey of self-discovery. Bobby is his captain and mentor because for the entirety of the first season, Buck was his mentee and they went on calls together since Buck didn’t have a partner. Bobby taught him how to respect his elders and he also learned how to be part of a family during that season. At the time viewers didn’t know much about Buck’s background, his childhood or how he traveled the Americas in search of a family but when it was finally revealed in 4x5, everything about his previous behaviors made sense.

Due to his recklessness and HIMBO tendencies, initially, he was an unlikeable character but as he started to grow and mature, his likeability changed. For several seasons, Buck was shown to be moving forward but that all changed after season 4 ended. In season 5, his storylines took a nosedive and he began to run in circles because he was stagnate and he started making poor decisions. It was kind of like all the growth he experienced from his self-sought therapy had been thrown out of the window. He dated THE WORST CHARACTER to ever appear on the show for the entirety of the season and he became a cheater in 5x11. It was a forced narrative since Buck waited around for a woman who CLEARLY ABANDONED him at the end of season 1 and he didn’t like being catfished by a man who used his profile to meet women.

Then in season 6 he was given more storylines than any other main character and there were more recurring characters included in them than for the other main characters' storylines/arcs (there was a total of 7 people included in Buck's storylines during season 6, i.e., Margaret, Phillip, Connor, Kameron, Lucy, Taylor and Natalia). Almost every episode (except for 6x3 and 6x6) focused on Buck and his journey to do something but whatever he was attempting to accomplish was never made clear and he ended the season right back in a redux version of his life that mimicked the way he ended season 4.

Buck’s past

Buck has a lot of things in his past he hasn’t dealt with and for some reason the show won’t allow him to. He has all sorts of issues that stem from his birth and the way his parents treated him and they’ve continued to perpetuate throughout his life. He still struggles with his identity, decision making and he continues to make mistakes.

Identity

Buck’s always struggled with who he is and he constantly tries to differentiate between Evan and Buck but he still hasn’t realized they’re the same person, i.e., him. He wouldn’t be Buck if he wasn’t Evan first but the issue is he left home to find happiness and instead of dealing with his past, he ran away the same way his sister did and she was the one who taught him how to run. Maddie didn’t stop running until season 5 but even though Buck physically stopped running when he moved to L.A., he’s still mentally running from a life he doesn’t want to remember, hence all the running he did in his coma dream.

He wants everyone to SEE him as “Buck the firefighter” but the people who know him, Maddie, Eddie, Bobby, Hen and Chimney, all fully understand Buck and Evan are the same person. They also know Evan’s insecure and afraid while Buck puts on his firefighter persona to make people believe he’s a fearless man who will walk into a dangerous situation without giving a second thought to his own safety. It’s an ACT and Eddie called him on it in 4x14 when he said, “You act like you’re expendable… but you’re wrong”.

Buck thinks his uniform is the thing that makes him matter but he’s wrong because the people who TRULY care about him, aren’t concerned with his uniform, they’re concerned with him as a person. Buck said it himself twice in CANON. The first time was in 2x18 when he told Maddie being a firefighter was his life and it was the only thing that he’s done that matters and without it, he trailed off. The second time was in 3x6 after Bobby met him at the hospital and he said when he puts on the uniform, he feels important and like he matters. But the issue is, he hasn’t realized that EVERY TIME HE’S SAVED SOMEONE (Maddie, Chris and Eddie) he wasn’t wearing his uniform. Also, Buck has to learn the difference between rescuing and saving someone (related post linked here). He rescues people for his job but he saves the people he loves and he’s only saved three people (his family, i.e., his sister, his future husband and his future son).

In addition to the struggles that he’s currently experiencing with his legal (Evan) and pseudonym (Buck) names, he’s struggling to figure out who he is within the Buckley family too. The name plate on his equipment locker has the ‘ley’ covered with a red X because it’s possible Buck will either change his last name or he’s going to figure out he’s not biologically related to Phillip in the near future.

Future captain of the 118

Since Buck’s always been shown to be Bobby’s mentee, the foreshadowing that’s been done over the last six years illustrates how he will become the next captain of the 118 but after he mentioned his desire to become interim captain in 6x1, he hasn’t mentioned anything about it since. It seemed like the show was trying to divert attention away from him becoming captain someday (not today but some day) for the remainder of the season when they focused more on Chimney and Hen. They’re certainly both qualified but based on Hen’s comments of "Don't call me that" whenever one of them tried to call her "Cap" in 6x2, it’s possible she may not want it and Chimney said he didn’t want it twice; once in 6x1 and again in 6x14. Even though they’re qualified, Buck’s shown an interest in it and even though he’s not ready now, he could be one day but Bobby should work with him.

At the end of the season, after the bridge collapse, Buck was in the leadership role since he was alert and cognizant while everyone else wasn’t. But 6x18 was rushed and none of it made any narrative sense so WTF is the show doing? It’s like they’re trying to throw the audience off track but they’re failing miserably. Did Buck finally get the life experience Bobby said he needed in 6x1 or not? Who knows because once again he was regressed and he passively fell into another relationship that wasn’t good for him.

Decisions

It’s possible Buck’s upbringing still affects the way he makes decisions but the truth is he’s rarely made them. He’s very PASSIVE with the way he ends up in relationships and situations and it almost seems like he allows life to just happen to him. Other than becoming a firefighter, hiring Dr. Copeland and breaking up with Taylor (he did end it but he didn’t do it for the right reasons), Buck has barely made any decisions for himself. It started when he left Hershey because Maddie told him to go and be happy and then he left Peru because Connor said he should move to L.A. with them because they were “kind of like a family”.

Buck’s previous relationships

All the women Buck’s ever dated used him until they got what they wanted. Let’s be clear, these weren’t romantic love stories that foreshadowed Buck’s endgame so don’t get confused by it simply because they were having sex. He dated Abby in season 1 because she called him after she illegally obtained his phone number and she coerced him into dating her only for her to abandon him in 1x10. Dr. Wells abused her authority in 1x2 as the departmental therapist and she had sex with him instead of helping him deal with losing Devon. Ali called him several weeks after the earthquake in 2x8 but she broke up with him in 2x18 when he wouldn’t agree to stop being a firefighter. Taylor bought him a drink in 2x8, they had sex in the restroom of that bar and when she reappeared in season 4, they were friends (NOT REALLY but that’s what he called it) but every time he pursued her, she friend zoned him. Then after Eddie got shot, she kissed him and said she wanted to be with him. She was the worst of all his exes because she constantly belittled and demeaned him and her actions were reminiscent of his mother Margaret. At the end of 6x18, he ended up in another passively intertwined mess of a relationship because he couldn’t stand the fact that Natalia left after he told her he was Connor’s sperm donor so he did what he always does and tried to fix it to make her like him.

Others who’ve manipulated Buck

Buck’s passivity with regards to situations don’t stop with the people he’s dated. In 3x4, Chase MacKey manipulated him into filing a lawsuit when he told him he did research on him and he knew why Buck was off the job. Connor manipulated him too in 6x4 (exactly three years later) so Buck would agree to be his sperm donor and even though Buck agreed, he wasn’t doing it for the right reasons (see Sperm Donor section below). It would have been better if Buck had actually PROGRESSED and learned something from all the attention that he received in season 6 instead of him REGRESSING. By the end of 6x18, it seemed like all the progress he made was null and void since he repeated his previous mistakes.

Mistakes

Buck’s still making the same mistakes he’s made every year even though at the end of season 5, he said he didn’t want to keep making them. He’ll experience a situation that he should learn from and it seems like he understands but once it’s over, he regresses again. There have been at least four old men who’ve given him advice over the years but he’s continuing to misunderstand the assignment. Five years ago, Thomas told him “You don’t find it son… you make it” but at the end of season 6 he was still trying to find it with some random woman who’s only interested in the fact that he died. Red told him he could be the hero firefighter but he shouldn’t neglect having a life of his own and it’s been more than three years since he told Buck that but Buck still doesn’t get it. Lev described in 6x2 how he lived his life the way everyone thought he should only for it to end up being a blur and when he finally figured out what it took for him to be happy, he died and Buck thought he didn’t share it with him but he did.

Bobby’s not dead in CANON but he was in Buck’s coma dream and he told him “Aww kid, if what matters to you most is how other people see you… then you haven’t learned a DAMN thing” and true to form, Buck woke up from his coma and he still hadn’t learned ANYTHING! He’s 31 years old now (not 30 like the show had Bobby say in 6x11 because Buck was 29 in season 4 and since math is a universal language, he’s 31 or 29 +2 = 31 not 30) and he shouldn’t still be making the same mistakes. He’ll never learn anything if the show won’t allow him to.

In addition to the mistakes he keeps making, he’s also the king of AVOIDANCE and he does it, so he won’t have to deal with difficult situations. He faced his parents once in 4x4 but he hasn’t told them how much they hurt him and in season 6 they were still hiding something from him. He wants people to SEE the new and improved version of Buck which he hasn’t realized is the same old Buck in new clothes who continues to avoid his death. Until he accepts the fact that Evan and Buck are the same person and that he died doing the one thing he identifies himself as, he’ll keep making the same decisions that are filled with nothing but mistakes and he won’t grow as a person.

While it may be unintentional, Buck hurts the people who love him and he continuously places those one-dimensional love interests he ends up falling into bed with or the people who don't care about him like Chase MacKey over them. He did it in 3x4 - 3x5 when he told Chase all of the 118's personal business so he could get his job back. He was so focused on going back to work (to his family) that he didn't realize he hurt them and he said it during his argument with Eddie while they were in the supermarket. (Please note this observation is NOT about who was right or wrong during the lawsuit; it's included to illustrate how Buck hurt his found family.) And by the end of 6x18, he still hadn’t talked with any of his found family about his death and in CANON, he was only shown talking to Hen about the sperm donation. He completely ignored talking to anyone else about it and it was RUDE the way Connor and Kameron showed up at the firehouse to harass him about it.

He hurt Eddie in 6x15 when he said Natalia sees him which EVERYBODY KNOWS WAS A BUNCH OF BS. He hurt Maddie when he told her to stop trying to fix him in 6x12 and he hurt Hen in 6x16 when he accused her of hiding Maddie’s engagement ring from Chimney. For the entirety of season 6, Buck spent the majority of his time listening to people who don’t mean him any good, i.e., Connor and Natalia. He omits talking to his found family in favor of the recurring characters who’ll only be around for a hot minute. It’s a pattern he’s continued to follow for years but he’s so afraid the people he loves will leave that he keeps them at arm’s length while he clings to the people who treat him poorly. Sounds familiar doesn't it? It should because that’s how his parents treated him and he’ll remain in that cycle until he goes back to therapy.

Buck still makes everything about himself

In Buck’s coma dream, everything was all about him and rightfully so since it was his dream but the show has shown many times over the past six years that Buck makes things about himself so what was the goal of the dream? He didn’t make different choices after he woke up so it kind of seemed pointless to spend an entire episode on the things that he should have learned only for him to regress in the end. Was the purpose of it to show the way things are jumbled in his mind? If so, then the audience may never know since he ended the season still making the same mistakes.

If 6x11 was supposed to show the audience things in Buck’s mind, they didn’t do a good job of it because it took several rewatches to figure out the background images were all things he’s seen before along with things he wished would have happened. It wasn’t executed in a way that made sense for everyone in the audience to understand. Whatever point they were trying to make got lost in translation and the majority of viewers didn’t like it. Therefore, if his coma dream was an experiment, they SHOULD NEVER DO THAT AGAIN because Buck made EVERYTHING about himself including things that weren't about him, i.e., he didn't save Bobby in season 1.

He literally thought he saved Bobby when that was CANONICALLY INACCURATE since Chimney was the one who saved him. Also, in his mind he believed he was the reason Eddie was able to keep Chris which is BS! Did Buck introduce Eddie to Carla, Yes! BUT HE IS NOT THE REASON WHY EDDIE WAS ABLE TO KEEP CHRIS! Eddie was a GREAT DAD before he met Buck and Buck said it himself in 2x4 while he was talking to Maddie. Please be aware, if Helena would have tried to take Chris away from Eddie, EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT EDDIE WOULD HAVE QUIT BEING A FIREFIGHTER (more on this in Eddie’s post). (I’m still pissed about this reference because it was a LIE!)

Buck only mentioned his dream three times, (to Bobby in 6x11, to Maddie in 6x12 and to Natalia in 6x15) but he was never shown explaining the full dream to any of them. Therefore it made the rest of the season even more confusing because hardly anything made sense for the remaining seven episodes. The interactions with his parents remained WEIRDLY OFF and he didn’t talk to them again after they left in 6x11. With everything that happened, DID BUCK EVER WAKE UP FROM HIS COMA DREAM AT THE END OF 6X11 OR WAS HE STILL SLEEPING FROM 6X11 – 6X18? It’s a valid question since everything that happened during and after 6x11 didn’t make any sense at all.

He ended the season still not knowing anything. Bobby told him during his coma dream “Aww kid, if you’re still worried about the way people see you then you haven’t learned a damn thing” and it appears Buck’s still living in a world where he CARES ABOUT THE WAY PEOPLE SEE HIM, hence the foolery that was 6x18. He’s still worried about it and that’s why he’s still making the same mistakes.

Therapy

WHEN IS BUCK GOING BACK TO THERAPY? The show spent WAY TOO MUCH time focusing on Buck trying to figure things out by himself when he already knows he CAN’T. His 4x5 “Buck Begins” episode did a great job of illustrating why he is the way that he is but after that season ended, his character development was FILLED WITH NOTHING BUT REGRESSION. Instead of the show allowing him to keep growing the way he had been at the beginning of season 4, they kept him stuck in a relationship for all of season 5, he wasn’t happy and he only broke up with her due to something he already knew, her piss poor journalistic ethics. He had a therapist before 4x5, he was shown having a session with Dr. Copeland in 4x2 and in 4x3 he told Maddie the reason he went was because he wanted to be “finer”. Well, he’s not fine and all he’s doing is treading water. This was the most frustrating part about his character in season 6 because he’s not being allowed to grow.

Throughout the season, he tried all sorts of things to answer the questions he had but it ended without him finding any solutions.

Did he decide if he wants to become a captain? NO!

Did he find happiness? NO!

Did him saying Yes to the possibilities work? NO!

Did he figure out what he wants? NO!

Did he deal with his death? NO!

Did he keep making mistakes? YES!

While it’s true that healing is not linear, it’s also true healing doesn’t go in different directions, i.e., north, south, east and west, all at the same time either. Therefore, Buck should have exhibited some growth instead of him constantly being regressed back to square one like he has been for the past two seasons (related post here). Since the answers to most of the questions above is no, then there’s clearly a problem with Buck’s development.

Buck’s HIMBO tendencies

The tired trope of Buck being a HIMBO that every woman no matter her age, race, ethnicity or background wants to date has gotten extremely OLD and TIRED, therefore it needs to END! Contrary to popular belief, every woman doesn’t want him because some women prefer Eddie, Bobby, Chimney or Ravi. (I like Eddie!) Buck is so much more than a man who falls into another lackluster relationship of convenience to make himself feel better but that’s how they keep portraying him. In season 6, he WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES but obviously someone forgot he said those words in CANON at the end of season 5.

He’s smart and he does research to figure things out so the whole sperm donor debacle was a mess especially since THERE’S NO WAY BUCK WOULDN’T HAVE RESEARCHED THE HELL OUT OF IVF TREATMENTS AND SPERM DONATIONS. He would have known him not ejaculating for four weeks was a MISTAKE and he also would have learned about all the SPERM DONOR MIX-UPS that have happened. But once again, he was made to look like a HIMBO who doesn’t make good decisions.

Buck and his parents???

After everything Margaret and Phillip did to him while he was growing up, he still wishes they would treat him the way he’s always wanted them to instead of him doing the easiest thing and simply cut them off. They’re toxic and they continued to do what they’ve always done when they bought him a couch. He got hurt and they rewarded him for it. They emotionally abandoned him and Maddie when they were kids and their actions in 6x10 were WEIRD because they’re still hiding something. They treated him like he was of no consequence his whole life and they weren’t in the room with the 118 after he woke up so WTF was that? Does Buck still not understand his found family is the family he should be clinging to? Also, what other secret is Margaret and Phillip hiding? The framing of the shot in 6x10 proves they know something about Buck’s conception that Maddie and Buck don’t know. Since they didn’t return in season 6, maybe the secret will be revealed in season 7.

Buck’s death

When the season ended, Buck still hadn’t dealt with the fact that he died. His found family was worried sick about him but he wouldn’t talk to them about it. So, the question is, is he over his death? The answer is NO! Will he be allowed to deal with it? Who knows.

Themes

FAMILY AND FATHERHOOD (discussed more in BUDDIE #15)

The overall themes for season 6 were family and fatherhood and both of them revolved around Buck’s found father/son relationship with Bobby and his own father/son relationship with Chris. Eddie is Chris’ father and Buck has been shown to be Chris second parent for years (more on this in the Buddie post).

If Bobby and Buck’s father/son relationship isn’t important, why did May acknowledge and validate the fact that Bobby is Buck’s found dad in 6x11 when she told Bobby he brought one child into his marriage with Athena? Even though it was finally CANONIZED that Bobby is like a father to him, they spent the remainder of the season not talking to each other. They only had one conversation after 6x11 and it happened in 6x14. It was a professional conversation about Buck’s job performance, so what was the purpose of May saying that if the show planned to ignore their relationship for the rest of the season?

Also, the whole biological vs. found vs. own family dynamic was in play too. In Buck’s mind, his biological family is what he wants because his parents finally treated him like he’s always wanted to be treated but he negated his found family in the process even though THEY’RE THE ONES WHO’VE BEEN THERE FOR HIM FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS. Buck’s literally trying to hold onto his bio family instead of clinging to his found family and it’s ridiculous.

Buck also wants to be a dad. He’s never said it in CANON but his actions and comments regarding kids proves he does. In 2x2, after Eddie showed him a picture of Chris, he told him that he loves kids and he spent the rest of the day telling Eddie that Chris was safe at school. Then he took the initiative to help Eddie find childcare in 2x4 when Eddie didn’t ask him to. Also, to further prove this FACT, in 3x18, he was adamant about helping Sam (Abby’s fiancé) get back to his two daughters and he argued with Bobby and Eddie about it while they were inside of the train car. He didn’t save Sam just because he promised Abby he would, he became determined to save him after Sam explained he had two kids at home. Reminder, Buck knew who Sam was but Sam didn’t know who Buck was until after they got off the train. He saw a father in need and he wanted to help him get back to his kids.

In 6x8, Buck told Maddie and Chimney that he was living the dream when he was preparing to babysit Jee-Yun which answered the question of whether he wants to a dad or an uncle. Even though he never explicitly stated which one he wants to be, it’s clear he wants to be a dad otherwise the scene with him and Chris baking cookies in 6x13 wouldn’t have been included. Reminder, Eddie wasn’t at the loft with them and his and Buck’s conversation wasn’t shown. Therefore, viewers were left still trying to determine if Buck wants to be a dad when the show did a 180 degree turn at the end of the season. The callbacks, foreshadowing and hindsight to previous episodes illustrated Buck wants to be a dad even though he didn’t verbally say it.

It appears, Buck gave away his sperm because he thought he’d never be able to have a child of his own but the truth is he already has a child, his name is Christopher Diaz and he’s been co-parenting him with Eddie for years. When Buck told Connor and Kameron in 6x4, he didn’t know what he wanted, that was a LIE because he did know and still does but he wasn’t allowed to say it.

Sperm donation

By the end of the season, the sperm donor debacle left the audience with a lot more questions than answers.

Why wasn’t Buck allowed to talk to anyone other than Hen about it in 6x4? He told her that he didn’t want to turn down Connor and Kameron but he NEVER explained why.

Why didn’t Maddie and Buck have a CANON conversation about it especially since she knew the reason why Buck didn’t have a couch? She literally told their parents it was a whole story but every time the sperm donation was mentioned in 6x10, she left the room. Does she even know about it?

Why was Eddie frustrated after Buck made his announcement in 6x9 about being the official creator of new life?

Why was Eddie shown backtracking his disdain for the sperm donation in 6x10? Was it done to make it seem like he was supportive of Buck’s decision? He clearly wasn’t in 6x9 since he was on the verge of having a panic attack when he dropped off the call.

Did the sperm donor storyline change after 6x9? It must have because Buck bought an LAFD onesie for the baby (Reminder Buck identifies himself as a firefighter so the fact that it had an LAFD logo on it meant something to him).

What happened to the onesie? And if he UNDERSTANDS he’s the donor not the dad, why didn’t he give it to Kameron while she was staying with him from 6x17-6x18?

Make no mistake, before the hiatus Buck was under the illusion the baby was going to be his since they used his sperm, hence the reason he bought the LAFD onesie. If that wasn't the case, he could have bought a regular onesie instead.

By the end of the season, the ultimate question was, is Connor and Kameron’s baby biologically related to Buck? If the NARRATIVE is followed, the answer to that question is NO!

I’ve already completed several blog posts and fanfics about this topic but I don’t believe Connor and Kameron’s baby is biologically related to Buck for several reasons. I’ve already posted my disdain about this storyline and the details of why I don’t like it (linked here). Also, the post I completed about the possibility of Buck not being biologically related to Phillip Buckley is linked here).

Everything that happened after 6x6 proved it’s not Buck’s baby but the question is, will the show follow through with the narrative or will it change once again?

First, in 6x7, Buck stop masturbating for four weeks before he went to donate. That’s an issue because medical research states men who don’t masturbate for an extended period of time have a lot of dead sperm.

Buck was scheduled to donate in an episode titled “Cursed” but every time he went to donate, there was a problem. Even on the last day when he finally did donate his sperm, the lady at the front desk didn’t check him in. Also, he touched the cursed bracelet and so did Eddie.

In 6x10, Bobby told Buck the secret ingredient for the chili was “Cocoa Powder” (foreshadowing that the baby is Connor’s not Buck’s).

Buck said his parents thought his decision was idiotic but they didn’t want Sang Han to have the last word. The truth is Margaret and Phillip’s reactions to his announcement happened BEFORE Sang objected to it but in Buck’s mind, he wanted his parents' approval so badly that he missed it just like he missed everything else.

In his coma dream in 6x11, Buck was searching for something but he KEPT LOOKING PAST CHRISTOPHER. He thought Eddie lost Chris because he wasn’t a firefighter but that was ridiculous (see above). Chris was actually looking for Buck when he asked him to help him find his dad.

In 6x12, it’s possible Dr. Salazar’s reference to Italy might be connected to Buck’s sperm donation because there was a “sperm donor mix up” that happened in Italy but the couple didn’t find out until the baby was born. It was a Caucasian couple but they found out the sperm of the donor they chose got mixed up with an African American man’s sperm donation.

In 6x13, Buck was LITERALLY BAKING COOKIES with Chris while Eddie wasn’t there, like WTF? If that wasn’t LOUD enough for those who didn’t understand before that Buck’s already a dad then, what else is going on here?

When Kameron gave birth, the baby WAS TOO BIG TO BE A PREEMIE which means she was a lot farther along than she thought. She had a full-term baby which means she was already pregnant with Connor’s baby when the IVF treatment took place. Instances like these have happened in real life.

The end of 6x18

If Buck would have ended the season single, it would have shown he actually grew instead of him regressing. The way his introduction to Natalia happened in 6x15 for him to end up having sex with her made the whole situation seem like something he did in season 1. She was supposed to be there to help him with his OWN DEATH the same way Dr. Wells in 1x2 was supposed to help Buck deal with DEVON’S DEATH but the same way Buck ended up having sex with Dr. Wells to avoid talking about the way he felt is the same way he ended season 6. He had sex with Natalia to avoid talking about his own death therefore, he’ll end up spinning the bowl once again.

They won’t be long term because she said it herself in 6x15. She told him “Well, if your job is to help prevent death, my job is to help people accept it.” She literally helps people accept death while he’s tries to help people prevent it. So, Buck’s clinging to yet another person and that relationship will meet the same fate as all the others because he’s trying to make something work instead of dealing with the fact that he died. Not only is he clinging to that mess; he’s also clinging to the “IDEA” of a relationship. Be clear, all she saw was a firefighter who could give her what she wanted for a time the same way Taylor, Ali and Abby did. She doesn’t know EVAN and when she finally meets the insecure man who can’t take it when people leave, she’ll run for the exit too. Buck will never learn who and what he wants if they won’t stop throwing people at him.

Natalia told Buck “I like you” and he said, “I like you too” and all their comments did was VALIDATE Taylor’s comment to him in 4x8. Taylor told Buck, “You can’t stand it when someone doesn’t like you” and she was right. Buck was frustrated with the fact that Natalia left and instead of just letting her stay gone, when she showed up at his loft, while he was helping Kameron give birth, he misunderstood why she was there. He didn’t like the fact that she left but when she came back, he thought it was a good thing, IT WASN’T. If the show really wanted him to GROW AND MATURE, he would have told her to keep it moving because he wasn’t going to make the same mistakes but once again, he did exactly that.

Finally, what was the purpose of “highlighting” him being bad in bed with women in 6x13, only for him to fall back into bed with Natalia at the end of the season? Buck not being able to satisfy women was an unnecessary addition to the season if it didn’t mean anything. The show contradicted itself on that front and who knows if they’ll spend an entire season trying to fix it.

By the end of season 6, there was NO CLOSURE for Buck and if the show really wanted to convince the audience into believing it was supposed to be the series finale, THEY FAILED AT IT because it was RUSHED and none of the things that happened with Buck’s character made any sense. He ended the season the same way he started it DAZED, LOST AND CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT AND WHO HE WANTS out of life and until they let him go back to therapy, he’ll remain like that, regressed and ridiculously oblivious.

Will he spend another season entombed in his loft with another one-dimensional girlfriend? If so, then the show should expect to lose even more viewers because a lot of the audience was and still is TIRED of the way Buck’s not being allowed to grow and mature. Hopefully, he’ll return to therapy with Dr. Copeland so he can continue to work through his issues. Otherwise, it’ll be wash, rinse and repeat on the Evan “Buck” Buckley home front and that will not be exciting to watch.

These are my criticisms regarding the character of Evan “Buck” Buckley for season 6.

I have a total of 15 CANON “Constructive Criticisms” and as of Wednesday, August 30, 2023, they’ve all been posted. The topics were posted in a specific order that begins with the overall issues for season 6 so they can be referenced within the posts about individual characters and ships that followed them.

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