It’s Either That Or Nothing

dear god they look terrible this is great

hen looks so cute too

I admit I like BL but that's not the reason why I ship Buddie! I have a lot of good reasons why I think they are perfect for each other... Btw, I took inspiration on THIS lovely post from Fedzz_z on twitter, go check them out, their artwork is amazing :D

people talk about how jason must’ve been the biggest menace in the batfam as a street kid

but at the age of 9 dick was literally planning a revenge murder and had No regard for bruce’s orders or authority as a parent

tim was a rich kid that wouldn’t know adult supervision if it was murdered by a boomerang, who stalked the bats across gotham, discovered their identities, and strong-armed bruce into giving him robin at 13

steph was fighting crime before bruce even got to her and she proceeded to never once listen to him in her life

cass and damian, i love them, but they were Feral. absolute Gremlin children

then there was jason who liked going to school and was just happy to be there

there is actually nothing more iconic than abc snatching up 911 after fox cancelled it, only for them to immediately have buck dump his girlfriend and then give him a bisexual arc. ✨

Thinking about how Eddie is a deeply silly man who has been forced into always being the responsible one. Thinking about How Buck is someone who longs to be taken seriously but is always treated like he's immature or irresponsible. Thinking about how Buck gives Eddie the freedom to be his most ridiculous and how Eddie trusts Buck with his most serious responsibilities and problems.

Es muy random las cuentas que sigo aca

Igual me tienen aca una genz que no sabe como usar tumblr 🥴

I feel like initially most people were on the same page about Tommy Kinnard, they were like ok let's see where it goes and we got Bi Buck!! Like, in April, I was on top of the world bc of Bi Buck, and I was so excited for him and eager to see where it goes, even the ones who didn't want him for Buck from the start were indifferent to him.

But I feel like the divide and the ship wars intensified was when people started using the "healthy male friendship" and "why can't two men just be friends" argument against Buddie, we have hundreds, if not thousands of those in pop culture and homophobes often use this argument against lgbt rep, so to see a group, some if not most of which are queer themselves use the same argument is off putting.

Then, whether you're his fan or a hater, you gotta agree that Tommy's character is a blank slate, he's not been given much to do, besides a few moments, and a significant part of that is him being racist and sexist to two fan favourite characters: Chim and Hen respectively (similarly people disliked Taylor for what she did to Bobby, the redemption and forgiveness before she started dating Buck was implied but it's not enough). Other than that he doesn't have a lot of qualities. And what happens is fans project a lot of things on him. What made me abandon the Tevan ship was people "stealing" Eddie's character traits and projecting it onto Tommy, while labelling him a terrible mentally insane father who uses Buck for his own gain, yada yada yada. And I love Buck and Eddie equally, so to me that was irritating.

Also, since he doesn't have many character traits, his lines, which are intended as sassy can come off as him being a dismissive and condescending dick.

Then for the off screen side of things, we were constantly told Buck is straight, by the actors and the showrunner but everyone was like eh whatever, and then our headcannons were proven right, but suddenly theorising about Eddie and that a lot of queer people including myself identify with him is looked down on if not straight up mocked, and that the canon storylines are the only ones that matter have made the fandom a bit toxic.

Buddies are often accused of blindly hating on Tommy, so I feel like I should lay it out as to why a lot of us went from being indifferent or open to the guy to straight up hating him.

Pretty sure you don't get to call our entire fandom homophobic or a cult when it's become a battle cry for your fandom to scream out canon anytime anyone so much as hints at Eddie being anything but straight. Also let's not forget that multiple people in your fandom attacked anyone who tried to celebrate Eddie and Buddie for pride month including journalists who review the show and the 911news account. Oh and as for being a cult. You can call Buddie a cult when we all all start posting pictures of ourselves dressed in a shirt we bought that we saw Ryan wear one time in a video we paid $200 for.

“You know I wouldn’t”

“I know you wouldn’t”

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“I had to do it”

“I know you did”

There was a Hillerska conspiracy to get Wilmon back together, right? Cuz like…

It was obvious they cheated on the run. No one said a word.

It was obvious Simon’s song was about Wille. No one said a word.

Simon used Wilhelm’s phone at that first party to talk to Sara. No one said a word.

They talked to each other at that party, and talked to people together. No one said a word.

The girls kept trying to figure out the nature of their relationship “was it a one night stand or…?”

They ended up having the last two seat next to each other in class like 4 times. Once makes sense, but FOUR TIMES? People are actively doing that at this point.

Wilhelm på bordet happened, and everyone watched Simon leave upset. No one said a word.

Simon very angrily pelted Wille with a dodge ball after said på bordet scene. No one said a word.

Wilhelm started to come out, and the professional cameras stopped rolling, so every single student pulled out their cellphone to film it instead.

There was a conspiracy there. The Hillerska student body wanted them together.