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if we're gonna talk, can we talk about Eddie?
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Eddie Diaz + Face Scrunch 9-1-1, S03, S04 & S08
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"Hey, Buck, guess you're out on a call. Should've known. Bell probably rang the moment I dropped my last fare off. Anyway, just calling to check in. Hope it's an easy one! Call me back when you get a chance."
"Hey, Buck. You would not believe the ride I just had. Had to take them all the way up to Mesquite. Dead silence the whole time. And they weren't even on their phone! Whatever. It was an extortionate fee, thank God. And they tipped pretty well, but I was bored out of my mind. Hope you're having more fun than me. Call me back."
"Goddamn, you're busy today. Ravi say quiet again? Go easy on the kid. He can't be blamed for your crazy superstitions. Be safe. And call me!"
"Hey, Buck, hope you're doing okay. You've been MIA for hours, and I'm not above admitting I'm a little worried. Got my fingers crossed it's a bunch of fender benders. Nothing big. Just let me know you're good, okay? Even if it's just texting me an emoji from the back of the truck."
"Buck, come on, man. Jesus, I feel crazy. I don't think we've gone this long without speaking since I got out here. Chris has been making fun of me all night for being glued to my phone. Says I'm worse than his friend Jason waiting for Miley to text him back. Like I'm some lovesick teenager. Um. Anyway... Please just let me know you're okay. I'm worried sick over here."
"So many fucking voicemails and I just realised you won't even be able to listen to them if you're that busy. I feel like an idiot. I'm gonna hang up and text you. Please ignore my spiralling when you get home. God, you probably think something's wrong. Fuck. Idiot. We're fine. Everything's fine. I just miss you. Anyway."
Hey, Buck, ignore my voicemails. Nothing's wrong! Everything's fine, I'm just worried about you.
Send me some proof of life?
And call me back when you get the chance.
Be safe out there :)
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EDDIE DIAZ 9-1-1 S08E12 for @bark-barkley >:)
Okay but actually I want to talk about this trend of Eddie’s, now that I’ve watched this episode three times (sorry, @heartbreakfeelsogood, for jumping on your post, and lemme know if this is bad tumblr decorum cause I’m not very savvy, but I think this gifset so perfectly encapsulates what has been sticking in my mind).
Eddie KEEPS keeps keeps calling Buck to talk to him, but he cannot bring himself to look at him. Every time a FT call topic gets more serious, Eddie looks away more. And not just because he’s busy—when Buck calls, for example, and he’s fixing the drawer, he keeps looking back up at Buck from what he’s doing. When the topic is about something important to him, and, crucially, when he’s being vulnerable or asking Buck for something, he does way more of this looking away/looking at the ceiling. It’s like he can’t bear to look at Buck.
This contrasts 1) with Buck’s FT behavior, which is to be looking at Eddie as much as possible, even when he’s in the middle of something else, and 2) what’s given me even more brain worms, the way Eddie is when HE is trying to share something with someone who is feeling vulnerable. When he is affirming or comforting Buck or Chris or even his mom, Eddie borderline insists on eye contact. He does a reassuring touch and gets up in someone’s face, tries to communicate his sincerity with his expression. The fact that he’s hiding his eyes at these moment of vulnerability with Buck—over FACETIME, not even in person!!—makes me crazy.
The man of few words who uses eye contact to supplement his meaning when he wants other people to feel what he has to say is intentionally hiding that avenue of communication while being arguably his most vulnerable. I— [the meme of the stick figure chewing biting shaking climbing the walls]
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i'm almost me again, she's almost you...
with so much love for @livingincolorsagain for helping me figure this one out
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you aren't alone
you aren't alone
you aren't alone
you aren't alone
you aren't alone
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I truly love that at the beginning of Madney’s relationship, Buck was the one to say, “Hey?? You’re a couple, you like each other???” while both Chim & Maddie laughed it off and denied it
And six years later, Maddie is the one that gets to turn the tables and say, “Are you? In love with Eddie? […] It wouldn’t be so crazy.” And it’s Buck’s turn to scoff and laugh and deny
Maddie has really been waiting YEARS to get him back for that moment, I just know she was so happy when she finally got to do it
Okay okay one more reflection from 8x13 cause it’s Friday night and what else am I doing: Eddie’s absolution of his mom and damnation of his dad—and the way that parallels his absolution of Shannon and damnation of himself—brings up reallllllly interesting questions for me about Eddie’s social scripts about masculinity and femininity, and heterosexual couple dynamics.
I am simultaneously catching up with the show back in season 2 + watching current episodes, so please correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like Eddie seems to have a bit of protective/chivalry goggles on when it comes to the women in his life, in a way that also prevents him from acknowledging when they do him wrong. Continually dating only women, then, puts Eddie in this position of being unable to blame them for anything that went wrong, which allows him to constantly pile that guilt and shame back on himself (perhaps…because he already feels guilty dating people he knows he can’t love…which maybe he blames on still being hung up on Shannon…but maybe…is…NOT that…rampant speculation here).
So what does that mean for Eddie if he acknowledges any attraction to men (and Buck in particular)? It is clear that social scripts for heterosexuality have been DEEPLY ingrained for Eddie, and he tries to follow them to a T, so what does that mean when there’s not a script to follow? And what does that mean for his own self-awareness and self-forgiveness if issues come up within a queer relationship? He has never had any issue calling out men who fuck up, from what I’ve seen, and even the Buddie of it all aside, I feel like that could be sooooo liberatory for not-straight Eddie, to not always have a script to fall back on that tells him he’s in the wrong, to be able to actually appraise a situation with a significant other and be like oh I fucked up but so did you…
Whichhhhhh now brings me to the Buddie of it all which is, just, I really can’t imagine a more complementarily written couple than Buck and Eddie because—someone who Eddie can call out when he fucks up? And apologizes? And someone he can apologize to, and be forgiven? Someone who doesn’t run when he breaks down (not that it’s Shannon’s fault; it was a tough ass break on both sides)? Someone who he can authentically recognize the strengths and weaknesses of and love anyway, without any social scripts to follow? THAT would be great storytelling, aside from how much I want it 😅
Something that’s also interesting to me is the way that 8x12 and 8x13 REALLY establish Eddie as an unreliable narrator of his own internal experience/call into doubt Eddie’s own understanding of aspects of his life. He has said, point blank, that his family isn’t screwed up, just his dad, and yet we can see with our own eyes how manipulative Helena is. We can see that, at this point, tbh, Helena seems to be the most “screwed up” part of the family. But Eddie has entirely absolved her of wrongdoing because his dad’s absence, and his coldness when he WAS present, was worse, and he needed to be able to love and feel like he was loved by at least one parent to survive (okay that part is me extrapolating but like. it’s not that far a reach okay).
And I think this reasonably calls into question, narratively, other aspects of Eddie’s beliefs about his family and himself (big  @ “I’m straight”). If he can be so clearly wrong about such an important aspect of his upbringing—and current life—what else can we reasonably believe he’s wrong about?
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Wild Dogs see a Domesticated Dog
African wild dogs are one of my favorite animals. Those huge round circle ears and tricolored coats. I love you African wild dogs
HEY. HEY. HOW DID YOU GET OUT??? HEY-
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Anonymous asked:
remembering when you said eddie didnt have anger issues and people mischaracterize him when they say he does.. tonight was written to prove you right (real) he had every reason to be so angry and yell at his parents but he was calm and rational and smiling like THATS MY BOY HES KIND AND GENTLE 😭
EXACTLYYYYY the thing is eddie could have yelled and lashed out and it would have been justified actually. but that's just not his first instinct. the only times eddie has lashed out in anger is when he has been struggling with unimaginable grief. IT'S NOT HIS FIRST INSTINCT. it never has been. it's only ever been a reaction to grief. and anger is, you know, famously one of the stages of grief. it's not an uncommon reaction. the majority of the time he is perfectly capable of reacting calmly and rationally and he does exactly that. like, if you are adamantly arguing that eddie has all of these anger issues and toxic masculinity despite evidence to the contrary you might want to question those assumptions.
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8.06 | 8.13 insp ♡ @chronicowboy
