"No reason you can't get certified and still stay at the 118" is a hell of a line if you take Buck learning to fly and getting certified as a metaphor for Tommy and feeling free as a queer man who gets to explore, and the 118 as a metaphor for Eddie, for home, for belonging.
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I was thinking about some people being upset that Buck’s bi awakening wasn’t with Eddie but this makes perfect sense to me. After meeting Tommy and the kiss, Buck is also discovering he’s attracted to men. While their relationship flourishes and he explores his sexuality internally, I’m thinking that this will allow him to question his feelings for Eddie. Buck and Eddie have been best friends for years and without that kiss and future relationship with Tommy, I feel like he wouldn’t think about Eddie romantically on his own.
That being said, I’m REALLY excited for this new relationship with Tommy!!!
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I’m so done with people on ao3 tagging Buck/Tommy in every single Buddie fic🧍🏻♀️sometimes my man Tommy is not even there??? Leave either ship alone ffs.
Did you all forget how to tag fics or what??
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I am so happy for episode 7x4. Why? It has already led to lines of communication about romantic and queer journeys that are not typical.
I see Team!Tuck and Team!Buddie have some members that are not happy with the other and think the other team is delusional or doesn't make sense. Only the members of that show's crew know what is going to happen. For all we know, Buck could meet a third party, fall in love, leave the 118, and go off to happily ever after.
(I so don't want that. But what can a girl do?)
I want to say that as someone who probably has just a teeny bit more of life experience than many people on here and other social media, no I am not sharing my age, I have seen, and experienced, a lot.
Remember I mentioned lines of communication opening? They are open now because people are inspired and feel empowered to share their thoughts and experiences.
To Team!Tuck, yes, Team!Buddie is still quite a possibility. How? Did you know you can be so in love with someone you have no idea you are in love with them? Sounds crazy, right? But it can happen.
It took many years for me to see that I was head over heels for my best friend. I never considered it. I never looked at him that way. We were just really close and besties.
It took someone asking me if I were stuck on a deserted island and could only have one person there with me, who I would choose. I said his name instead of my then boyfriend's name. I didn’t even think about it. It was reflexive.
The person was staring at me smiling and watching me as I realized what I’d said and then a montage of our friendship played in my mind.
“Oh my god.” That was me.
“Finally figured it out?” That was the other person.
When I thought about it, I compared men to him all the time. The qualities I was most attracted to in my partners up to that point were qualities they shared with him. But it was at that moment, many years into our friendship, that I realized that had been happening.
This leads me to Team!Buddie. Team!Tuck is valid and could very well be endgame. If the writers make Eddie a completely hetero man with no flexibility, Buddie will not happen. However, they have offered a character who is literally an amalgamation of Buck and Eddie as a possible love interest. It is funny to me, because when I look at the Tommy character I see the lovechild of Eddie Diaz and Evan Buckley. Buck picked a man who mirrors him physically but shares a lot with Eddie including military background, quick wit, snarkiness, the willingness to say screw the rules when needed, hobbies, etc.
If Buck knows with no uncertainty that Eddie is not, and will never be, an option, wouldn’t it make sense that a man who is so much like Eddie would catch Buck’s eye?
I will also say that it is not impossible for someone who truly believes they are 100% heterosexual their entire lives to realize one day that may not be the case. How do they realize it? They look at someone of the same sex and have an epiphany.
As a young one who was new to this world, I fell for the rhetoric that sexuality is static and does not change. You were either straight or gay. There was nothing else.
This older, wiser version of me knows the only things you can count on in life are change, surprise, and unpredictability. She is also grateful for those who worked hard to explain that sexuality is a spectrum and give those who never quite found a space a label that finally fit.
She is extremely grateful for the brave people who who have the courage to live out loud and raise their voices in pride so others know maybe one day they can do the same.
I will always have my fingers crossed for Buddie endgame. I’m talking big wedding, tears being shed, vows so sweet everyone requires insulin. You get the picture.
However, I also want to see the two characters who never have happiness or a partner who truly supports them find what Hen/Karen and Athena/Bobby have. If that is with other people, so be it.
One more time, I am going to say major respect for ABC and the show writers for flipping off that network that can go to hell and giving this arc life and to Oliver and Lou for doing what is bound to piss off a lot of people who won't be shy about vocalizing their narrowmindedness.
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911 7×05 content !
Like yeah it was awkward and it was bad, but I hope that everyone else also understands that Tommy did nothing wrong and in fact was probably right to break things off with Buck before they even got started, after that interaction with Eddie. They are in different places and Tommy is not going to shove himself back in the closet because Buck isn't ready, nor is he going to drag Buck out before Buck wants to be.
Even with the coffee at the end, Tommy straight up says he isn't upset with or blaming Buck. It's a complex situation, and Tommy dealt with it quite well. And so did Buck!!! He took that moment and talked to his important people and then y'know, pulled a bit of a Buck and rushed in, but a reasonable amount. Very excited to see how this all pans out <3
Edit: Tommy did nothing wrong by ending things, not just blanket statement he did nothing wrong. He did behave a bit poorly when Eddie and Marisol were there, same as Buck
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something, everything (bucktommy)
Summary:
After, when they have cleaned up and are in each other’s arms, Buck leans closer to him.
”I’m ready for everything,” he says.
(Basically, they get together, go on dates, fall in love, get in accidents, renovate their home, get cats, and eventually, they get engaged. Buck gets everything he has ever wanted.)
Link: something, everything - rosetterer - 9-1-1 (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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Looking back... The irony of Buck laughing so hard at that car wash emergency guy in 1x05??
C'mon. Tell me that scene isn't basically a parody of Buck's first kiss with Tommy 😂??
It's Buck, flirting brazenly with danger, and then to his great surprise, being promptly engulfed by this hurricane...
As he gets his bearings he finds that his head is spinning like mad, but he's fine, and finally... He's free! Though still a bit bewildered.
(Oh. And right next to that surveillance tape screen is a poster that says "Items". And a clock. Conspiracy goggles on!)
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