i'm trying not to be Mean but also i don't care i don't CAAAAARE anymore like. why is eddie returning to LA solely for buck. why is this the narrative people are going with. WHY EXACTLY is eddiebobby being downplayed as like, nothing more than a professional relationship. as if to eddie losing bobby would be like losing an acquaintance and he's more there for buck than anything else. why is this a thing. that i am seeing. like, eddiebobby has been one of THEEEE 118 relationships. they understand each other. bobby's always been there as a steady hand for eddie. eddie LOVES AND RESPECTS HIM a great deal. he has his OWN feelings about bobby that aren't related to buck’s relationship with bobby. like, why is it EDDIE being there for buck. when it should be them being there for EACH OTHER. all of the 118 btw. because they each have their own relationship with bobby. like, yes buck and bobby have a father-son relationship that is super important. and this is going to KILL buck. and yeah, i do think eddie is very conscious of that. and he WILL be there. but can we stop framing this as if his sole purpose is to be there for buck. he's allowed his own grief too. they all are. THEY'RE A FAMILY!!!!!!
so much more interesting for his character. to ME. to have had eddie in texas for this arc. cause I genuinely do believe there's such a thing as too many character NDEs at once (like while I loved the bridge collapse none of the NDEs meant much to me cause there was just too much to focus on and not enough time to give it the proper emotional punch. eddie's ribs got crushed. did I give a shit. did it do anything for his character. no) but this absence is Everything for his character. because eddies been so focused on losing christopher and getting him back that he's almost convinced himself he can be fine in Texas. and maybe when it was a competition between Chris and Everyone/Anyone else that could be true but he has chris back in his corner now and he has to choose between continuing this lie to himself that he and chris can be happy in texas or he has to come face to face with the fact that this life he built in los angeles could never be a transient moment in his life. not only has he been immeasurably changed by these people he met at the 118 but he is still and forever bound to them and that's Not Nothing. we saw him acknowledge it but at that point he didn't think he had a choice. now he does and he will be confronted with that in the most devastating way and the impact of his absence will be so much more defining and monumental for him than being just another trapped 118 member
hot priest aka father brian has been elected as the new pope
what if something happens tomorrow
Being a 911 fan is crazy because we could be getting buddie roommates and Bobby calling 911 from his coffin and even a buddie almost kiss tonight and the celebrations would be absolutely wild OR Bobby could just be dead dead and Eddie has two lines and we get no good buddie content and we crash out and fall into a pit of despair and some of us decide to give up on the show... Like that stuff isn't for the weak. And it really feels like both options exist right now. Schrodinger's 8x16.
Also, if your reaction to Buck and Eddie's fight last night is to label Eddie an "angry man" but you put no such label on Buck after he purposefully slammed Eddie to the ground and then laughed about it with Tommy afterwards in 7x04, then you really need to think about why your read on both characters is so different. And I need you to really, really think about it if your reaction to Chim in 8x16 was also to think that he was suddenly this violent and scary person (which I saw).
Eddie did not hit or hurt Buck physically last night. But Buck literally sent Eddie to the hospital in 7x04. Eddie is currently grieving his father figure and mentor. In s7, Buck was jealous of Eddie and Tommy's friendship but was otherwise emotionally stable. And yet...Buck is still just a playful puppy who gets frustrated sometimes. But Eddie is an angry, abusive man who needs to get beaten up because he dared to put his hand on Buck's lily-white shoulder in anger.
You have to allow characters of color to experience and express the same dark emotions that you accept from white characters. When you say that Chim's outburst in 8x16 makes him unqualified to be captain while ignoring that Bobby has punched perpetrators and destroyed property at scenes in anger, you're creating a double standard. When you see Eddie get angry in one scene and write him off as an abuser but treat Buck's actual violent outbursts as understandable frustration, you are perpetuating harmful racist stereotypes that hold men of color to vastly different standards than white men. And you need to stop.
bobby of nashareth will rise. bobby canon and buddie alive. manifestation circle good night
i actually don’t give a fuck that transvestigation laws “will end up impacting cis women too” it should be enough that they impact trans women. you should care about that on its own actually.
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Okay but why did they name the baby Robert NASH Han 😭😭😭😭
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