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this is how i grieve

I love that everyone in Cobra Kai is in a different genre.

Daniel and Johnny are in a homoerotic buddy-cop comedy, Tory is in a Saw trap, Miguel is in a coming-of-age movie, Kenny is in a coming-of-rage movie, Hawk and Demetri are in a BL sports anime, Sam is in a teen drama, Robby's in a reboot of a hit movie from the 80's, Chozen is literally just there, Kreese and Silver are in a psychosexual thriller, Amanda is in a sitcom, Kyler-

chimney once watched his own brother die doing a job that he followed him into. now he has to grapple with the fact that one of his closest friends is dead from the same virus that he was cured from. buck once told bobby that he couldn’t handle seeing the people he loved hurt and he hated to be the guy standing there doing nothing about it. and he had to watch from the other end of a sealed glass door as bobby said goodbye, knowing in his heart that this time there was nothing he could do. hen became a paramedic to help people, to save people. but this time, she didn’t even know that bobby needed saving. eddie wasn’t even there. he joined the fire department because he missed the camaraderie of the army. that team became his family. but in the end, he wasn’t even there. no one’s beating them in the survivor’s guilt department. the only man who probably could is dead so…

*shakes fictional character* where is the rest of your information I want to know more about you

Captain Bobby Nash + Comforting his team aka Bobby & hugs with the 118

had to draw that one gif that’s all over 911twt as post “confessions” buddie😌

EDDIE DIAZ 8.13 | Invisible

Why does he need a- … oh

Sooooo because I’ve been seeing connections to Bobbys arc in all the Halloween episodes it got me thinking about the costumes from this seasons Halloween episode and how I thought at the time they were meant to be relevant to each characters arc for the season because it’s something the show likes to play on - giving hints through the set and costumes - I just hadn’t figured it out and then didn’t really think on it more because we got Eddie dancing and Buck escaped his dull, uninspiring relationship and I got distracted like the audhder I am!!

Then I saw something on twitter and Bluesky earlier and all the dots connected and I was right - the costumes are all about each characters arc for the season.

Mad scientist Hen - upcoming biohazard arc

Chim as Jason - a serial killer - Maddie getting kidnapped and nearly killed by one! (Which was also why Doug used the name Jason back in s2 - it was a play on the same thing!)

Vampire Bobby - vampires are undead and lore says they sleep in coffins - Bobby is about to be buried alive in a coffin - it’s a play on death and resurrection both catholic and vampiric (proof he won’t die!!)

Werewolf Eddie - transformation and identity - in modern literature and tv/film the werewolf has become connected to the idea of hiding who you are and being othered - and that has been taken up by the queer community because it is something they identify with - so Eddie’s arc about his identity and who he is, is clearly a queer one.

Cowboy Buck - hiding behind a giant stache - it’s about Texas but also about recklessness and impulsivity - which are considered cowboy traits, and in the uk a cowboy is someone who is false or dishonest - which with the theme of the season being lying and fakeness - would fit with the idea that Buck is hiding his true feelings (behind a moustache too big for his face!), that he’s not being honest about them - and that is connected to Texas because we’ve started to address that concept now that Eddie is there - because that’s where his heart is. Even Tommy is part of this costume led arc nod - Buck finds a corpse (which he thinks is fake but turns out to be real - which is a subversion of the real/fake thing and is also why in part it is dressed in something similar to Eddie’s bachelor party outfit - because it’s all about subversion and Buck having things the wrong way around) which is a representation of Tommy and why he sleeps on the couch like a corpse - which was clearly a direction and not his bad acting!! Billy was already a Tommy metaphor - losing his posse etc in the same way Tommy is feeling the loss of not being a part of the 118!!

I really do love the costume team so very much - they just keep on knocking it out of the park at every opportunity!

Corinne posted a tik tok with Elijah on set, captioned with

How we pass time between scenes @Elijah Cooper #911 #911onabc

love languages

ok guys i need you to imagine this with me for a second:

eddie and chris are back from texas. it’s been a few weeks since their return. they’re living in their house with buck. buck has dealt with and accepted with the fact that he’s in love with and living with his straight (lol) best friend. the only person who he’s explicitly told is maddie. but apart from that, he’s taking this to his grave.

buddie are about to go for their usual grocery run together. they’re heading towards the car. buck sees that maddie’s calling him, so he falls behind and waves eddie to go ahead.

buck and maddie have their usual slightly insane buckley sibling small talk, whilst eddie starts up the car. but maddie, being the older sister that she is, needs to ask that question. “are you going to tell eddie that you’re in love with him?”

no response. “hello buck? you there?”

meanwhile buck got cut off from maddie before she even asked the question. he looks down at his phone frowning. but he sees the that it reads connected to [car]’s bluetooth.

he looks up and sees eddie staring at him from the car like: 👁️👄👁️

buck, no idea what secrets have just been spilled, but his favourite guy is staring at him: 😊👋

shannon diaz has the strength of an army the way she survived five years as a single mom with the diazes looking over her shoulders. she was 19, just had a kid, her boyfriendhusband, who she married in a shot-gun wedding just a few months ago, was on the other side of the planet getting shot at in a desert, and then her kid's diagnosed with cp and she has to figure out treatment plans all on her own, and her best friendhusband, who's home for the first time in ages, makes choices without talking to her, no one is fucking talking to her, and her in-laws keep underhandedly telling her she's doing a bad job, that she should just give her kid to them, so even relying on that bit of extra childcare feels like giving up, admitting that she's a bad mother, a bad wife, and then suddenly her mom's dying 800 miles away, and then her husband's dying in some distant desert, and she doesn't know what to do, what can she even do, she's alone with her kid and her in-laws who act like it's her fault their son got shot and there's no one to talk to about any of this, and when her partnerhusband is finally home, this place doesn't feel like home anymore to her, never really has felt like home in the first place, but when she asks him to leave with her, just their little family and the road, move to LA so she can be with her dying mother, he says no, asks for time when she's given him five long years of her life, clings to this graveyard of a house that he hasn't properly lived in for years and yet somehow never left, and they can't talk about it because they don't ever talk anymore, they only fight, and this house, this town, these people, it's all killing her inside, and she knows if she stays now, she won't just lose her mother 800 miles west, she'll lose what little is left of herself as well, and her kid's in good hands now, she was a bad mother anyway, a bad wife, everyone said so, no one will mind if she leaves, no one will care, maybe they'll be happy actually, maybe this is one last good, strong thing she can do for them, selfish and selfless in equal measure, and so she leaves in the middle of the night because she knows what she's doing is unforgiveable, knows what it's like to be left, knows the hell she's leaving them in

Buddie + Facetime 9-1-1, S08E12&13

the buckley-diaz photo in christopher's room I'm genuinely gonna start crying

it is as ever hilarious of miss ma’am “maybe daddy can go be a hero in the kitchen” to imply that eddie would have been Better or Worthier or More Successful in her eyes had he gone to college. her son is a decorated war veteran. he is a wonderful father who figured out how to do life alone with his kid and raised him to be kind and compassionate. he consciously broke away from the generational trauma inflicted on him and chose a different path. he got into an extremely competitive fire academy and graduated top of his class. he gives wonderful advice. he’s saved dozens of lives. he built a family from scratch and they would do anything for him. he unquestioningly accepts his loved ones exactly as they are. he’s charming and funny and dry and immensely likable. he made the choice to reclaim his joy. despite everything he's been through, he tries to be as good as he can be every day.

there are a million and one reasons to be so, so proud of him. none of them are enough for her, and him having a college degree wouldn’t be either, because she simply does not think of him as a whole person (nor does she like him very much). fortunately there are many people who do, and he'll be going back to where they're waiting for him so soon <3