ballroom dance, and other things eddie used to love

This is an idea I'd already had before 8x13 and then really committed after Eddie told off his mom. I liked the idea of Eddie having a childhood lesbian best friend, and more than that I liked the idea of Eddie having a little bit of in-person support in El Paso and at least one Normal Friend lol

also, naturally, featuring the canonical fact that eddie and buck can NOT get off the phone with each other

no but can you imagine what buck and eddie’s text thread looks like right now. even with them constantly facetime calling each other- they feel off if they’re not also keeping a constant stream of texts going between them like they would when they were both in los angeles. except for, every message that they send now is like a loaded mini confession disguised in everyday minutiae; the lady from the grocery store by your house just asked where you have been (please come home), got a lasagna that sounded like it would taste just like yours from this restaurant today. it didn’t. (i miss your cooking), the beer you love was finally on sale for once so i got us a couple of packs, just to be safe. then i remembered that you’re not actually here to drink them with me... more for me! haha (seriously, please come home).

Thinking about Buck at like 19? 20? 21? out on the road on his own and one day his debit card stops working. It was an account he set up with his parents and they had control over it and they've apparently shut it down. Okay, whatever, he didn't have that much in it anyway, shitty that he lost a few hundred dollars from some of the odd jobs he's picked up but whatever, he gets paid in cash mostly anyway and he can just keep asking for that. But then he gets hurt (I have like a reoccurring injury I give him where the first time he went surfing he got thrown and sliced his back open pretty bad on a rock, let's say this is that) and like. He just has some cash on hand he doesn't have enough to pay for the emergency room visit. Okay they can put him on a payment plan. Do you have a bank account we can set that up with sir? No, no he does not. So he has to go and set up a bank account. Well they want two forms of ID and he left town with his wallet and has his driver's license but like he doesn't have anything else, no residence to get mail sent to as proof, no birth certificate or passport or social security card, and he's down in North Carolina so he can't get that fixed easily or quickly. Having to like steal back into Pennsylvania to get some government documents to prove he exists to set up a bank account to start paying hospital bills with money he doesn't have because he spent his last cash on doing all the previous steps. Anyway. I can easily imagine why this man has bad credit.

I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"

eddie's emotional intelligence is probably one of my favorite things about him. he sees the people he loves. he knows them intrinsically, and it's how he is able to anticipate their needs (sometimes to his own detriment)

he knew that buck needed to release his guilt after the tsunami, so eddie did it for him. 'i lost him, eddie'/'you saved him. that's how he remembers it' 'there's nobody in this world i trust with my son more than you.' he knew buck needed to release the guilt of eddie being the one who got shot, so he gave them the ability to do that too. 'you think you are expendable, but you are wrong.'

he does the same to bobby with jonah. he hears what happened and shows up to bobby's house. 'you aren't all knowing or all seeing, bobby, you are just a good man.' eddie didn't know bobby had bought alcohol that night, but he knew how much bobby would blame himself

when chimney left to follow maddie, eddie was the only person who got through to buck to explain chimney's actions. 'he doesn't know maddie the way i do.'/'or you don't know her the way he does. when you think of your sister, you think of this person you always looked up to. the woman who's taken care you. but maybe that's not who she is right now. maybe she needs to be taken care of.' maddie and eddie have barely interacted on screen, and he still is able to see this and communicate it to buck

again and again, eddie proves how much he knows the people he loves. to be loved is to be known. and eddie knows them. even in buck begins... 'i had to do it'/'i know you did'. he may not prioritize his own feelings, but when it comes to christopher, buck, or the 118 extended family.... eddie gets it.

Buddie + yearning

it’s just that the first time we see maddie and chimney together, he’s helping her install security cameras around her home. he’s helping to make home feel safe. and they don’t even know that one day, he’s going to be the home she feels safe with. it’s been them since day one. they make me so emotional ah.

im still thinking about how i was like no actually why the FUCK did Tommy randomly bring Eddie up during his and Buck's 6-month anniversary dinner. there was no reason to do that.

and then 5 episodes later they did in fact answer that question

one of the best parts about both 7x05 and 8x11 is that Maddie doesn't question Buck's understanding of Eddie, she's only steady in her understanding of Buck. whatever Buck knows about Eddie, that's between Eddie and Buck. she's working with her own knowledge of Buck, and his happiness is predominant to her. if he would be truly happier with someone, she wants that for him. if he's unhappy in a specific place, she wants better for him. she wants him to have friends and sleep in a home he's moved into and not feel lonely. she won't claim to know Eddie better than Buck or make assumptions, but she will ask if Buck is disregarding his own feelings. she'll ask if it's crazy that Buck could feel love.

9-1-1 SEASON FOUR Peter Krause as Bobby Nash

do you think prev is older or younger than you?

i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful

@holyknuckled like that?

oh? my god???

yeah, Exactly like that

I'm sorry about the mess. But I guess it's your mess now, right?

"This is not his house, he was a renter. And he's straight."

I was asking myself, how many times can you pull off the same trick using the same couple of camera shots in two consecutive episodes? Y'know, ye olde "character reaction while the other doesn't notice"? And y'all, apparently it's a lot. In fact it was so many, I left out some 5 or so of them because sometimes there were multiple per scene and they were so similar to each other. Shoutout to gif no. 3, where the camera lingers so long on Buck, and Oliver keeps going so long, I was forced to cut the gif short by a good chunk.

Bonus: Buck realizing Hen and Chim are going to have a completely different reaction to Eddie leaving

Eddie said "man, I do not know what I'm gonna do without you" and proceeded to Not Do Anything without his man. And I for one think we should respect that.

after rewatching it like a million times in a row just now, i think the argument in 8x09 might be one of my favorite buddie scenes, actually. it just displays so blatantly how well eddie knows buck, the good and the bad, and how much he loves him even through hurt and anger.

eddie is mad, he is so mad, and he lays out some of buck's biggest character flaws, not to hurt buck, but to get them communicating. he doesn't want buck not to be pissed at him or suppress how he feels, he just wants buck to be honest about it. and then buck admits he's having trouble with eddie leaving and eddie no hesitation confirms he feels the same, and accidentally exposes what's been in his head, that he's choosing between buck and chris, that this is a choice that hurts him to make. because he loves buck.

and eddie is still mad but here buck makes his sweeping gesture, you don't have to choose, he is your son and you need to be with him. and eddie's emotions are all over the place he doesn't have time to process a thing he's just slapped in the face with how much buck loves him, how much buck loves chris.

the whole scene illustrates so clearly, through it all eddie sees buck, loves him to his core, no matter how frustrating he gets the love and knowing doesn't waver. and, of course, buck doesn't let him forget, he loves him right back.

proof of my statement