I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either
one thing that i think really proves we only see eddie through buck's pov in this ep is that it's the first time basically ever???? we've seen eddie more or less ignore buck???? like, eddie. the same eddie who is so attentive and so attuned to buck's every goddamn micro expression that he knows what's wrong with buck even before buck does sometimes. the same eddie who has a laundry list of lines across multiple seasons that highlight the way he always know what buck is thinking and feeling. and tommy even confirms that at the end of the ep when buck asks if eddie's mad and instead he says that eddie feels bad bc he knows why buck is upset, bc he knows better than anyone about buck's abandonment issues and his possessiveness over his family. the reason it looks like eddie is ignoring buck is buck feels like eddie's ignoring him and honestly it is So Interesting to get that insight into buck's head
everyone is talking about "down bad" being buck's song and i completely agree BUT have you heard "the prophecy"?!?! I MEAN
Hand on the throttle
Thought I caught lightning in a bottle
(he thought he finally found a family that will love him and a good relationship)
Oh, but it's gone again
(but they ended up leaving like everyone else- lawsuit)
And it was written
I got cursed like Eve got bitten
(he must have thought at least once that hes cursed, he suffered so much, physically and mentally)
Oh, was it punishment?
('maybe i deserve it all? i didnt save daniel, i wasnt enough...')
Pad around when I get home
I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
(he just kept going, trying, looking for his place in the world when normally people would've just given up)
A greater woman wouldn't beg
(he begged to be loved, he begged for his job, for the team to forgive him - lawsuit)
But I looked to the sky and said
Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
('can someone finally stay?')
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
(he turned down the money that the city was offering bc he just wanted his family back)
Let it once be me
('can someone choose me? or can i be the one to leave this time?')
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo the prophecy?
Cards on thе table
Mine play out like fools in a fablе
Oh, it was sinking in (Sinking in, oh)
Slow is the quicksand
Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand
Oh, still I dream of him
("you're exousting!")
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And I sound like an infant
("two dinners and im 12 yrs old again")
Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool
But I howl like a wolf at the moon
(angry buck in 4x04 and 4x05)
And I look unstable
Gathered with a coven 'round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith
But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
No sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me it'll be okay
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eddie making buck chris’ legal guardian if he dies is still so funny to me years later because like. bro if this was for normal reasons you would have picked someone with less than a 70% chance of being taken the fuck out right there with you
"is this too cliche?" who cares? bro, write what you have fun writing. stuff your manuscript full of your favourite tropes. the same themes you love. all inspired by things you grew up with. do it all. go off. load. it. up. be freeeee
did max yelling shut up happen like. in universe. did pete just see max scream "SHUT UP!!!" into empty space at nobody and decided questioning that was the least of his worries
i love my mutuals because we never talk but we still… like… follow each other……….. and i admire that we stick together even tho there is no communication in the slightest………u kno what i mean… hello…
once buck comes out and settles into a relationship with tommy i’m sure they’re inevitably going to hang out with eddie at some point and i’m lowkey curious about which one of them will feel like the third wheel because somehow all three of them fit the bill for that