#and then the boss started making out in the loft and his mantra failed him

[milenadaniels]

Okay so this the second part of my over-analyzing 2x01. 

Big disclaimer: This is not a buddie scene, these gifs are from an amazing Hen & Chim scene about the importance of representation for Asian-Americans. This is actually the scene that made me go “oh wow, they’ve levelled up the writing in season 2″ because not only does Chim get to be the face of the 118 and be the role model for generations of Asian-Americans like he never had growing up, but Hen reinforces the fact that he IS that role model he wants to be, not because he’s showing pecs and holding a kitty but because he legitimately is a hero who saves lives, who gets little girls back to their families on the worst of days of their lives, and I fucking had tears y’all. It was extremely important and I’m really grateful they did such a good job portraying that narrative beat.

That all said, I was in clown makeup at the time of watching and could not help but notice the absolute bullshit happening in the background and so I’ve giffed it to share my misery. Because for some reason, I had this impression the Evan “Love Me Anyway” Buckley was the one who couldn’t keep from touching Eddie and being in his space and Eddie just got roped into it and I’ll say again, I was bamboozled! 

Look at this shit

1. First of all, Eddie why the fuck are you dancing, you absolute dork? 

2. Then the camera turns around again to show us Eddie head-to-head leaning into Buck’s airspace. Literally his shirt logo disappears is how leaned in he is. Then he leans away, only to scooch his ass closer to him. Big smiles all around. So that’s all just fine.

3. And only then does Buck lean in, prompting Eddie to lean back in himself.

In conclusion, I submit that Evan “Intimacy-Starved” Buckley did indeed try to respect normal boundaries for 5 minutes and one Eddie Diaz went “nope, you smiled at me, no take-backs, all bets are off” and set the precedent to there being absolutely no standing room space between them every again. 

#buddie #buddie meta #this is such a small nothing but it's also a gamechanger in my head #because I really thought Buck was the one just throwing out his intimacy needs #but no here's eddie #reserved mr zen edmundo diaz going 'oh sorry too close? no? sorry I'll get closer' on day goddamn 1 at this new firehouse #and I didn't want to ruin dashboards so I didn't even talk about how gym scene-onward eddie is constantly looking to buck's face for reactio #like not just when he's talking #when other people are talking #he looks to buck #when chim wins and athena shows up he looks at buck like 4 times #and then looks SUPER uncomfortable when athena and bobby makeout #almost like he had a mantra of 'yes he's pretty but this is a professional setting you cannot' going #and then the boss started making out in the loft and his mantra failed him #but that's neither here nor there I'm sure #I'm sure this was done at some point in the last 3 years because I'm very late #but I didn't come across it (I don't think...) and I needed to share with people who would understand my pain #my posts #my meta