Please stop putting "buck x tommy" in your tags if you're talking about them breaking up or about Tommy being a stepping stone to Buddie or if you're talking primarily about Buddie.
You have your own ship tag, so use it and leave the other ships alone.
It's fucking annoying to having to ignore every other post in the buck x tommy tag because y'all keep putting it in your buddie posts. Stay in your own lane, and let us BuckTommy shippers enjoy our space.
If you're a multishipper, create your own fucking tag for both ships because y'all do this ignorant shit too. If this is your first fandom on Tumblr, this is a good time to learn fandom tagging etiquette.
Same goes for y'all on AO3 writing fanfiction for BuckTommy. Stop putting in a pining and jealous Eddie with no Buddie tag in BuckTommy fics.
Learn how to tag properly, please! Or else I'm going to really fucking petty and start doing the same shit to y'all, and I will not apologize for it.
Tommy Kinard is only so smooth and suave with Buck because he knows the effect he has on him. I think Buck going from passively flirting with him to being shy and stuttering after Tommy kissed him gave Tommy a huge ego boost.
Buck went from "I want to get to know you" and "Trying to get your attention has been exhausting" to repeating everything Tommy said because he was in such shock. I'd be confident too after that.
There's TikTok of a woman accidentally buying glow-in-the-dark nail polish
And I have a mighty need for Buck to do this to experiment with his self-expression, and then forget about it...until he and Tommy decided to fool around in the dark for the first time, and they can't stop laughing, but eventually get creative with it.
Was it Buck walking closer to him? Or maybe when Buck said that he liked Tommy and lied his way into getting to know him? Or even when Buck liked the idea of spending two separate days with Tommy and even told him he had been trying to get his attention?
I need other people's opinions! I can't figure out what the catalyst was.
9-1-1 Season 7 Episode 4: Was Buck lying when he said he was trying to get Tommy's attention?
I'm a little frustrated about the people who said that Buck was lying when he said he was trying to get Tommy's attention because according to them, he was trying to get Eddie's attention not Tommy's, and the argument they use is the gym scene...
I'm frustrated because I want to ask them: "Have you guys never watched a TV show, ever?"
TV showrunners have different way of structuring their episodes, some episodes are set up to be emotionnal, some are set up to be dramatic or romantic, some are heavy on the action scenes and some are meant to get a surprised reaction by introducing a plot twist the audience didn't see coming. It can be a big plot twist like the finale of the 1st season of the Good Place or it can be a smaller one like in this episode of 911.
And whenever they want to set up a plot twist, the writers will put small hints along the way, that are not obvious right away but will contribute to the "ah" moment when everything clicks into place after the plot twist is finally revealed.
The whole point of the episode was for people to think Buck was trying to get Eddie's attention because he was jealous of his best friend spending time with someone else and BAM, it's revealed that in fact it was the "someone else" Buck had been interested in all along.
And if you look closely, there are clues throughout the episode showing that it was about Tommy all along.
1. Buck asking Tommy for a tour.
At first we think that Buck was just testing the waters and thinking about switching jobs but at the end of the episode Buck reveals it's because he was trying to get Tommy's attention.
Moreover, a lot of people assume Buck was disappointed because Tommy left with Eddie and he was jealous about Eddie. But if you pay attention, Buck's smile drops the moment Tommy turns him down for drinks, and that was even before he saw Eddie in the car.
2. Buck's rant to Maddie
Buck was complaining about Eddie spending time with Tommy and even going to a basketball game with him.
And later when he talked to Maddie after accident accidentally injuring Eddie, he admitted he did it because he felt left out and was trying to get "his" attention.
But in retrospective, he never specified who he was trying to get attention from. He could have meant Eddie or Tommy.
And it's confirmed that he was indeed talking about Tommy when he says this.
3. The gym scene
We all assumed Buck was trying to get Eddie's attention when he was at the gym because he wanted to spend more time with him. But if Buck had wanted to hang out with Eddie, he would have just asked, they're best friends. Buck ordered the basket Ball because he wanted to be invited to the basketball game because Tommy would be there. Same for the karaoke. Buck never had a problem with asking Eddie to hang out, the only differentiating factor here is Tommy.
Why would Buck suddenly be so awkward around Eddie? He was trying to get an invite so he could see and when it didn't work he asked Chimney.
4. The basketball game
Buck admitted that he accidentally hurt Eddie because he was trying to get Tommy's attention.
5. The "big reveal"
Up until the very end of the episode we were made to believe Buck was being jealous of his best friend having a new best friend.
Even Tommy thought so.
It's not until Buck reveals he wanted to get to know Tommy and was trying to get his attention that everything clicks into place for the audience and we understand why Buck was acting like that.
We weren't watching someone being jealous over his best friend spending time with someone else but someone acting like a fool because he had a crush.
TL:DR: Buck was trying to get Tommy's attention all along. The show just set up the episode in a way that would lead to a plot twist, a "big" reveal and a romantic kiss.
What do you guys think? Was Buck trying to get Eddie's attention as well?
Favourite Bucktommy headcanons that have kept me going in these terrible 9 days without an episode
Buck is Tommy's first serious relationship after a bad breakup he had a few years ago and he's just as nervous about all this as Buck is
Buck really likes the scar over Tommy's ribs. He kisses it when they cuddle at night, he traces his fingertips over it and loves that he can feel it through Tommy's shirts
Tommy always lets Buck know when he's landed safely and Buck always lets Tommy know when they've gotten back to the station safely. They both know the danger of their jobs and check in regularly with one another
Tommy cannot believe how little Buck knows about pop culture and the first few times he stays over at Buck's place he brings DVDs of his favourite movies. Buck watches them because Tommy plays with his hair while they watch and he'll do anything to have Tommy's arms around him. When Buck starts quoting the movies at work, Tommy gets a barrage of texts from Chimney asking him what his secret is (Tommy does not mention there's often oral sex involved)
They got 5 minutes into Muay Thai lessons before they realised it was never going to work because Buck kept kissing Tommy to distract him and Tommy kept letting him
The first night they spend together, Buck spends most of the night awake because he's not used to someone in his bed, and he realises that he really fucking loves how Tommy twitches in his sleep and makes small noises when he's having a nightmare (he has those fairly regularly)
Tommy tried calling him "Buck" once and they both cringed and have never tried it again since
Buck loves calling Tommy pet names and he tries them all out. Most are met with a smirk or a laugh but there are a few that Tommy's eyes soften at. Buck is also the only person that's allowed to call him "Tom", or "Thomas" when he's being a little shit
Buck sends Tommy instagram reels and tiktoks all the time. Tommy didn't have either app until they started dating and downloaded them specifically for Buck. Now he's more addicted to them than Buck is
Buck never realised how easy a relationship could be until he met Tommy
hi love you guys do me a favor. big big big BIG breath in right now all the way all the way breathe in feel your belly expanding hold hold hold.. hold.. now everything out like ur a deflating balloon. whoosh. whooooooooosh. imagine water streaming from the top of your head down your shoulders off the ends of your fingertips and toes. u are a reed in a river a beam of pure light a steady anvil solid and heavy. ok that was all thank u
For the wedding episode. Who wants to bet that he'll lose all composure and just kiss him in front of everyone because I mean, Tommy in a tux is going to make him forget everything else.
And I wonder how Tommy will react to seeing Buck in a tux?
I can see them fooling around after the wedding in either Tommy's chopper, one of their cars, or maybe at one of their homes.