I saw your post where you spoke about the 911's cast and writers being aware of Buddie, and the explicit support from some of the cast for Canon!Buddie.
I am quite new to the fandom and so I was wondering if there were any links you could source for this? I am genuinely curious :)
Funnily enough, I started 911 after loving LS, and saw a lot of buddie content on 911 blogs. I figured it was typical queerbaiting (tumblr 2012 era was ✨️ traumatising ✨️ and so resolved not to ship them.
But then I watched the show and yeah…there were definitely interesting choices made that make Buddie such an intricately beautiful ship. It's a slow burn to rival all slow burns :fire:
Needless to say, I'm now 100% on board!
Hi lovely Nonnie and welcome to the fandom! :D I hope you enjoy everything about it and I am so glad to hear you're on board! *hugs*
Okay, for links... TBH I mostly remember things as they happen, I'm less into saving links, but for you I made the effort, I traced my own steps (who knew I actually remembered where I yelled about certain things two and a half years ago? The power of Buddie), and found the source to the stuff I had in mind when I said Ryan, Oliver, JLH and Gavin have all shown support for Buddie. Her we go...
Let's start with Gavin! Obviously it was explained to him in age-appropriate terms, so take that into account, but still, look at how pure his response is (interview from Oct 2021):
And then they went and they filmed the lasagna scene in 601. You can't tell me that doesn't mean anything!
Now Oliver and Ryan have both expressed support for Buddie more than once, for example you can find my post showing how they were the ones who named our ship! In terms of official interviews, they've mostly given answers that are noncommittal but supportive, stuff along the lines of making sure they don't raise fans' expectations (in case it doesn't happen), but also letting us know they do like the enthusiasm for Buddie, and would be cool if 911 went that way. So most are kind of... let's say diplomatic. I will, however, throw in this live that Ryan did where at first, he had a few answers of that vanilla sort (encouraging the shippers, not promising anything, leaving room for Buddie to happen, but also leaving room for fans who don't want Buddie, and sort off summarizing with, "We'll see what Tim writes"). But then he got a question about Abby and I don't think he could help it, the Buddie shipper just jumped out of him, which I love. I edited and uploaded it to YouTube for you, since stupid Tumblr only allows me to directly upload one vid a post here:
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Lastly, but maybe my personal fave, in May 2020, a gay fan of JLH uploaded to his personal IG account a video that he asked her to film with a message for his husband's bday. Here's the relevant part of the vid which I've edited and uploaded for you, where JLH is basically being all of us:
BTW, this is also a reply to the Nonnie who sent this ask:
I know about Ryan, Oliver and JLH but when did Gavin say anything about that?
I hope I managed to answer both of you! Have a great day, and as always, here's my ask tag.
Hiii. I started to watch 911 recently and searched about Buck and Eddie here because their chemistry is amazing. So I'm wondering if Oliver and Ryan still are friends? I've seen something about them unfollowing and following each other again
Eh, I'm not the most expert source to ask this, lol. I believe @loveyourownsmiilee has collected more on it (if I'm not confusing them with someone else right now), but they definitely are still friends.
Oliver unfollowed a lot of people and withdrew from social media several times; or maybe they had a bit of a rift at some point, I don't know. They definitely are following each other now and have since sometime last year, and have interacted with each other both on social media but much more prominently on set. They seem pretty close and very good colleagues.
You can also check out @911bts and @911cast for more material, videos and pics from behind the scenes etc.