Dum spiro, spero.

Tommy post breakup trying to hold strong and not run back to Buck.

@thatmexisaurusrex 😭

Someone finally did an article looking at Tommy's story, why people empathised with it and the reaction people are having to the break up.

Read it, share it, read it again on a different account. Show that people will read about this story line.

Wow this feels like a direct dig at Max's tweet:

This article says pretty much everything we've been saying. It's great to see an online outlet saying the same thing.

I'm really not doing well with my usual general efforts to not fall into fan war bullshittery this week, but it's 3am, I need to get this off my chest and this time it's professional - I am so unbelievable angry with the all biased journalists reporting the bucktommy breakup.

As I've said before, I work in journalism. I know your first obligation as a journalist is to your audience. You can have your own bias, your own agenda, but your duty is to serve the audience, not yourself.

I just searched "Buck and Tommy 911 break up" and there is not one story looking into how people have reacted to the break up. At least one journalist (max gao) has said he "can't ever remember seeing such an oversized about a side character leaving" which says a) this isnt just BT fans thinking it's a bigger deal than it is and b) the journalists are aware it's happening.

If you were any kind of journalist, you'd look at that and go "there's a story there - there's an audience that wants answers".

If this was a love interest of any character other than Buck or Eddie there would be posts analysing the entire relationship, what went wrong, why so many people feel in love with Tommy with such a short time on screen, how might they find their way back to each other.

There would be articles speculating about back stage drama or trying to dig into what actually happened and why he was taken off the show when he was clearly popular with the audience.

There would be articles pulling together the most poignant posts about people being upset at the break up, with a few of the more eloquently written counter arguments for balance (to be clear - I personally think this is shitty journalism but not the point)

Instead what we have are a dozen articles all proclaiming that the relationship is over forever based on a few extremely ambiguous quotes from an interview they didn't even do themselves. Instead, half the articles are solely focussed on the fact that Buck and Eddie are now in the clear to get together.

Even if this is just about clicks because they know Buck and Eddie sells, it's obvious there are people out there desperate for more info on bucktommy. Hell, you can still write the Buck and Eddie posts as well. This isn't politics, you can totally okay both sides.

But just completely ignoring it? Fucks me right off.

[And don't even get me started on the fact that because all of the reporting is so biased I can't trust a single thing the articles are saying with regards to Tommy. I can fucking see you cherry picking quotes, removing context, trying to make Lou saying 'well I'm doing swat right now, but I hope we can make it work if they want me back' (paraphrased) into him saying he's far too busy to ever return. I know those tricks only I don't use them because I have some god damn integrity!]

Maybe I'm just to much in my anger induced insomnia right now to be thinking about this objectively. Maybe they would be doing the exact same thing if it were any other character and wouldn't waste their time on a side character they're not sure ia coming back.

But it just really digs in the professional pride, you know?

the 10 stages of grief according to bucktommyblr:

the stages of grief according to evan buckley:

Uhm. I'm sorry but... can we FUCKING TALK ABOUT THIS?!

Baked Alaska:

Spumoni:

😭😭😭😭

"I kinda can't stop thinking about him."

"Do you think about him when he's not around?"

"Anytime I get the urge to call him I just channel the impulse into something positive [baking]."

My mood today:

HE LITERALLY SAID ANY TIME HE WANTS TO CALL TOMMY HE BAKES INSTEAD AND THEN OPENS THE FRIDGE AND IT'S FULL OF BAKED GOODS. WHAT IF I KILLED MYSELF RIGHT FUCKING NOW

"wait so you think i should call tommy" eddie diaz get your tighty-whitey ASS in there and say the magic words

i am BEGGING

@unfuckablebogtroll am i right folks

the 10 stages of grief according to bucktommyblr:

Bucktommy AU where Tommy’s never been a part of the 118

Bobby has to take a medical leave so the Fire Chief appoints an interim captain from outside of the firehouse.

Buck comes to work one morning thinking it’s gonna be Hen or Chim who will replace Bobby for a bit

But it’s neither of them.

It’s Captain Kinard

#buck: i'm having buck 1.0 urges and idk why #chim: its bc you wanna fuck our new boss in the engine dumbass. dont DO IT but thats why (via @alchemistc)

There is an au fic by @inawickedlittletown

Instead of Interim Captain Han, Interim Captain Kinard takes over from Bobby in S02.

I think what really gets me is what the show is telling us through that breakup. That's what hurts the most.

It's that a queer person who's sad, who's alone, who's never had a stable family life; a queer person who's only gotten to a point where they're happy with who they are later in life; a queer person who yearns for a family, for love, for being someone's first choice but doesn't believe he can ever have those things; a queer person who has obviously been burned and believes that is the only outcome for him now; that no one would want him as family. That no one would love him enough to choose him first.

He walks out that door.

Alone. Scared. Spiraling. Reacting to trauma rather than Buck himself. It's seeing that and having the show tell us, yes, that's what he deserves. That's all he gets. He doesn't get a happy ending. He doesn't get good closure. He doesn't get to believe that someone wants him enough to fight for him.

Tommy was right all along.

All his fears were true and will be what he ends up with. Older queer people who want families and are scarred by their own past experiences don't get love or a family. They don't get a place to call home.

Then, you have Buck; Buck blindsided by the trauma; Buck seeing his entire six-month relationship fall apart and just letting it happen to himself again. Having yet another person in his life, in a moment of cowardice and pain, quietly and brokenly lash out that he couldn't believe Buck would actually take this seriously; that he couldn't believe that Buck would love him once the pedestal was gone and the shininess wore off. That, once again, Buck lets his relationship play out without any idea of how to be active in it. That someone Buck loves, that he thought about possibly marriage with one day, that he wants to live with, leaves him.

That Buck, once again, is abandoned.

That Buck can't know himself.

That the show wants to lean into lazy biphobic ideas and tell us, yes, that's what Buck deserves. The thriving relationship that he had crumbles within minutes because Buck doesn't get to be happy; how can he know what happiness is if he isn't playing the field? Because nothing he did before Tommy counted. Buck 1.0 didn't count. None of his previous relationships counted. Because they were all ladies, and how can you know if you've only been with one man?

Telling the audience that you can't be happy in a relationship if it's somehow a "first", despite everything pointing to the relationship being solid and good for Buck.

It is the worst possible scenario.

It is a nightmare for both Buck and Tommy.

Both messages are terrible for the audience.

There were so many ways they could have broken up and I would have been fine with it. I've talked about it before, but I was fine with Josh and Arnold breaking up in Please Like Me and I still love the show. I watched episodes with Josh and Arnold from Please Like Me as a comfort when I was reeling about this that first night! I was fine with Alexis and Ted breaking up on Schitt's Creek and I was still fine with the show. I was okay with Amelia and Kai breaking up and I'm still watching Grey's Anatomy. Because all of those breakups were understandable. They made sense. I can like couples and be okay with them not working out. And they're fictional. Fictional shit rarely hurts me, if ever. That's not my problem at all here.

It's how this happened. It's the message it signals to the audience. It's devastating. I'm still devastated by the choice. I've never felt this way about a breakup for two characters ever. The core of my grief and genuine hurt is what the show proves it believes in through this breakup. And that's what's hurt me.

“No matter how bad I wanted to be…”

Tommy may not be Buck’s last. (Unless the show fixes it)

But Buck is Tommy’s.

oh it's such a shame for us to part....

Chimney should pull a 2.0 and call Tommy saying, 'Buck is dead'

@a-mel0n fucking cut it out

[through tears as i look at bucktommy gifs]: better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all