No more bad dreams. 9-1-1 | 7.07 Ghost of a Second Chance

How many times a day do you think chimney manages to casually say wife husband spouse etc

Eddie: cheating on his girlfriend with his dead wife’s doppelgänger and lying to Buck about it

Bobby: meeting a man who also lost his wife in the fire he caused

HenRen: fighting for their traumatized daughter to get visitation with her brother

Maddie: retraumatizing herself by chasing leads on a woman that was abducted

Buck: in his lane, flourishing, moisturized, getting dicked down, making lasagna

things you will see on a road trip across america

-so much desert that you will get scared 

-seriously from california to new mexico is terrifying like it’s eight straight hours of pale red desert and the sky is so large that everything, even your car, even your hands, looks like a tenuously small and fragile diorama placed on an endless pale red table and left there to dissolve. 

-a gas station that for some reason has large dinosaurs made out of scrap metal. they are 1000% awesome. sometimes they move. take a million pictures.

-a fruit stand that sells the best fruit you have ever eaten. later you won’t quite remember which fruit. strawberries, maybe? peaches?

-small black birds, subtly different in every state. some have gold eyes and some are a little iridescent and some are black from beak to toes. the sparrows they compete with for crumbs look exactly the same wherever you go. 

-a completely empty rest stop. no one eats at the concrete tables. no one plays in the tiny strip of grass or gravel. you will find a small and beautiful stone. 

-a hawaii license plate, somewhere around ohio. i still don’t know how they get the cars across the ocean. i don’t know why anyone would leave hawaii for ohio. i don’t know why anyone lives in ohio. 

-an incredibly weird duck. you had no idea ducks could look so incredibly weird, and you wish you were still ignorant of how incredibly weird ducks can, apparently, look. 

-a small folksy roadside waystation that sells fudge and incredibly tacky statues of eagles and wolves and cowboys. if you like fudge, eat the fudge from here. 

-a lizard doing pushups. if you are particularly fortunate: many lizards doing pushups.

-approximately one gajillion starbucks shops. don’t bother counting them. it will make you angry. 

-a storm somewhere around oklahoma, if you’re lucky. the clouds tower up in fantastic fluffy castles miles and miles into the air and are painted pink and gold and purple and the sky turns a dozen impossible shades of blue and when the rain comes down over your car it sounds like the world is ending. 

-weird burrs will stick to your legs. you’ll flick them out of the car eighty or eight hundred miles from where their parent plant was grown, and not be sure whether you should wish the little hitchikers well or not. 

-a dog wearing sunglasses with his head hanging out of a car window. this will be the high point of the trip. 

-the world’s most depressing restaurant. you will know it when you wind up there and have to eat the terrible food, and listen to the terrible music, and look at all the listless waiters and want to tell them get in my car, for god’s sake get in, i’ll take you out of whatever crapsack little town this is that you can’t get out of on your own. but you won’t say that because it’s rude. maybe they have family here. maybe they even like it here.

-a painting of a sailboat in a motel located at least a hundred miles from any significant body of water. 

-several genuinely hilarious postcards. buy them.

-a cat that will not let you pet it. this will be the low point of the trip. 

-corn. so much corn you will get scared. who the fuck is going to eat all this corn? 

-a small stream in some small woods and the light will come down perfectly and the water will be beautiful and the grass will be beautiful and there will be flowers maybe or the leaves of the trees are starting to turn gold and there are birds chirping and it will be so perfect you will want to stand there and stay forever and live in this little magical painting off the side of the highway and be some kind of highway druid. but instead, you’ll get bored after a while, and get back in the car. 

All I want is for someone to go on a road trip like this with me. We could do all this and then go to House on the Rock and if they weren’t sick of me by then I’d marry them. I can’t drive, though :(

I’ll go with you!! I fucking love road trips and American Gods is my favorite book. I’ve always wanted to go to House on the Rock.

All of this is true, but you left out:

- the mountains rising up in the distance that look so close but it takes you five hours to reach them.

- the small town you will inevitably drive through because there was supposed to be a gas station at this exit but it’s not. there. and the old men stand or sit on their porches and stare at you and your obviously not-local car as you use the empty parking lot across the road from them to turn around.

- the fact that some states go on forever. forever. forever. didn’t you pass mile marker 31 three hours ago? how are you only just now to mile marker 32? how is this possible?

- when you reach the ocean, no matter which side of the country you are on, it is always sunset. always. this is inevitable.

9-1-1 (2018 –) | 7.07 'Ghost of a Second Chance'

what do you mean “what’s wrong with him”? he’s mentally ill. he’s catholic. he’s even gay

"who cares" new fandom motto bc we sorely need it around these parts. Time to embrace the Who Cares energy bc like fr actually. who cares

Maybe I just engage with fandom differently than a lot of folks do these days, but the idea of "endgame" isn't all that interesting to me.

I want to watch/read a story with compelling characters and interesting character dynamics. I want characters who are complicated and flawed and who continue to evolve as the story progresses.

I don't always ship character because I think they'll actually end up together, I ship characters because I saw them interact and something in my brain latched on. Because I like their dynamic and want to dig into it. Because the characters have chemistry that I want to explore.

A ship I like going canon is a bonus, not a requirement. Most of the ships I have won't ever be canon and I'm okay with that because for me it's about finding characters that speak to me and creating stories about them.

Honestly , when ships are canon I find it harder to engage with them in fandom spaces. It becomes less interesting to me.

Again, maybe I'm just engage with fandom differently than a lot of people, but I'm not going to stop shipping something because in canon they're with other people. They're fictional, I can do what I want with them because they aren't real.

I think you could write a good queer storyline for Eddie, actually. He's been formally diagnosed as a repressed Catholic. His most fulfilling relationships are his son, his queer best friend, and his Carla. Every romantic arc he's had since Shannon has been a passionless calculation. He left Shannon and Chris for long periods for years because he felt trapped, scared, and misunderstood. He had a panic attack at the thought of being seen as serious about Ana but wrote Buck into his will. It feels like he's only ever performing sex and romance to appease a heteronormative ideal about family and parenthood, so I definitely get it.

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