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Fangirl and Proud!

@leandra-winchester / leandra-winchester.tumblr.com

fangirl, feminist, 40+ multi-fandom blog (usually), current biggest fandom obsession: Buddie (9-1-1)
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so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it's unintentionally the funniest shit I've seen today. why? well.

now important context here: in German, die (pronounced 'dee') is just a feminine article, it literally means "the".

but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn't use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think "they want me to die how?" it keeps getting funnier.

I mean, holy shit

i will use these as reaction images until i die

Only irregular stressed homos allowed to live.

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Oooo. What if we get to Eddie's guilt by way of Shannon? What if, sure, his childhood and the church are all wrapped up in there in that they define how he thinks and how he processes events and emotion. But the event that's on his mind is still Shannon. And how he failed her so badly that God took her away from him and from her baby.

We're going back to the start with Bobby. To the people he killed and couldn't bring back. What if every failed love attempt from Eddie has been an attempt to resurrect Shannon's ghost and make it right? And that's why he can't let himself get to know these women - they're supposed to be Shannon, and if he gets to know them, they won't be her, they'll be themselves. If Eddie can find the perfect woman to be the perfect mom for Christopher, the mom that Shannon didn't get the chance to be because she was trying to raise him all alone - if he gives another woman that chance because now Eddie is here, now they can be that family, now he can fix what he broke.

In Eddie's mind, Eddie saw and loved the best parts of Shannon and Christopher never got to because Eddie failed her and drove her away. And now Chris is almost a man and he can't even remember how her voices sounds.

In step 9, we make amends. And Eddie cannot leave that step until he fixes what he broke. Until he marries Shannon and raises Chris with her in perfect happiness he cannot leave.

But the Buck of it all is that...his heart wants to leave, so badly.

(more under the cut)

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A thought just crashed against my skull so I'm sharing it.

I know that a certain group of fans really want Eddie to realize he's gay and that he's in love with Buck.

And like, what if that DOES happen.

BUT... what if the "Love, actually" of it all came out to play?

Remember the guy who's in love with his best friend's wife? And he does the cue cards???

It's unrequited, but he's at peace with that because she's happy.

I just think some people should be careful what they hope for because damn, that would hurt.

Well, as long as Buck doesn't gift Eddie a Joni Mitchell CD for Christmas, I'd be okay with that. 😂

Funnily, I had the same thought the other day, but in that exact scenario, Eddie would have to confess his love to Tommy instead of Buck (wife of the bestie), and yeah, it wouldn't end well for Buddie. But who knows where this is going, and IF and then how closely they would do any Love Actually nods/parallels.

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Buck bringing Tommy to a 118 barbecue and the team all doing the older sibling thing of telling embarrassing stories about buck and buck is sulking but secretly having the best time bc his team is his family and Tommy has his arm around buck the whole time so who cares really, that Tommy is hearing the story of that time he couldn't stand on the ice rink for the fourth time?

And then Bobby gets this smile on his face, and Buck wonders what he's going to bring up, what embarrassing story he's going to have to sit through next

Except Bobby doesn't start telling a buck story.

Bobby asks Tommy if he's seen any chickens lately, and Tommy is burying his face in the hand that isn't on Buck's waist, and oh

This isn't an embarrassing buck story, it's an embarrassing Tommy story.

And buck listens with glee to the whole thing, as Tommy feebly argues that the chicken was armed, and had genuinely proven itself dangerous before giving in and muffling an embarrassed little laugh into Buck's shoulder

And yeah, buck thinks, he could get used to this

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