Eddie Diaz - drawn in procreate

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am i ever going to get over this scene? probably not!

athena in this dress. that’s all that needs to be said 🥵

I'm not in the fandom, but I see a lot of stuff about it by virtue of the people I follow, and just... All of the content (from the og show, from gifset makers and writers and artists in the fandom, etc) seems truly lovely. Also, I think the gratitude ask thing is a lovely idea, and thanks to y'all for starting it.

(Hope it's okay to have an outsiders POV; I don't have specific thanks beyond this; it's just a neat way of counteracting the negativity, so I wanted to say as much)

❤️

Maybe it’s just me but I’ve never really had hope for buddie to be confirmed in the first place. Like I do ship them and if they did I would be happily surprised but really it’s just never something I’ve entertained as a possibility and I don’t know where the people who believe it will happen have been but we just don’t get ships like this imo.Maybe there’s a few exceptions even if I can’t think about this right now but when a character’s introduced as straight or nothing has been said so we assume straight and then fandom ships them with an equally assumed straight person the show and networks and all that don’t want them together because they’re ‘normal straight people’. Like in LS from the beginning TK’s introduced with a bf he wants to propose to, they don’t lose their normal character since that was him from the start. Also if it’s acknowledged that all the buddie moments were building up to a romantic relationship then it sheds light on other similar relationships in other shows or films that we were ridiculed for shipping when really it’s not so different. I really don’t know if I got my point across here and I’m sorry this got so long winded, maybe I’m just a cynic but I think my buddie dreams will have to be contented with fanart and fic.

It's definitely not just you who has felt that way, lol. We hear it all the time, just more aggressively. To expand on what you said, the biggest piece of "evidence" in favor of this argument is that it's been six seasons and neither one's sexuality has been altered or allowed to evolve in the slightest. And it's not the opportunity wasn't there, right? Maddie and her "boy crush on Eddie" remark or saying she wouldn't want Josh to date her little brother. Then TK (falsely) assuming Buck was being flirtatious. Tim (he was the main show runner those years) could have said any of that meant something moving forward (maybe a "Buck is canonically bi, but we haven't explored that part of his story...we're waiting 'til it feels appropriate"), but the only part he addressed was the TK thing, and he connected to Tarlos since Carlos wasn't physically present. Compare that to Nancy becoming the first bi character of the 911verse. She came out while in a relationship with Mateo. She is still in that same relationship now. The show isn't trying to "prove" she's bisexual by having her hook up with or date a woman. It's just a part of who she is. And then there's the fact that all four (technically five, with David) queer men of the 911 verse (Michael, Josh, TK, Carlos) are written as gay, not bi. Tim & co. appear to have some *opinions* (thus far) about bi men, it seems. If they date a woman? Straight. Date a man? Not into women (never were). I will continue to say, though, that people are giving the network too much grief. The canon couples very rarely do anything intimate as the seasons progress, with Henren as the outlier because 6x06 was a flashback, so *if* anyone with influence was concerned about the optics, Tim has an "excuse" not to push things too far - that's not what the focus is anymore. And even *if* someone at the network was all "idk about this :/" that's still on Tim for dodging the discussion six years in. Get out ahead of it and the message would have been received much sooner - if you're against even one of these guys getting with a dude...this ain't the show you should be watching. Move along. (Tim has no problem putting LS fandom down, so I don't see why he'd act different with OG. TBH, it's either his own biases about Buck and Eddie as men that is keeping him from making them canon or it's similar to his reaction when the Tarlos fandom "complains" - he knows what's gonna happen if Buddie goes canon; they will dominate the discussion - he doesn't want the fandom giving their opinions or asking for content more than they do already.)

Here are some of the awesome sets/fanart that have crossed my dash in April of 2022. Will be setting up my queue to give all these sets some more love that they deserve. Thank you for continuing to share your gifts with the fandom! 💛

911/911 Lone Star

tk stands for & carlos’ case files by @nelsonnicks​

when i found you by @rafael-silva

tarlos + is it any wonder by @roseapothecary

tarlos + building a life together by @danieljradcliffe

moms of 911verse by @tarlosbuddie

madney + this love by @diazchristopher

Heartstopper

charlie x nick + what sort of boy by @marcspectors

nick nelson + yellow & blue by @kieumy

charlie x nick + season 1 by @charles-spring

tao x elle + best friend by @yasmin-finney

charlie x nick + sparks fly by @darcyolsson

nick nelson + bisexual crisis by @jennaortegas

tao x elle + dadelions by @milesgmorales

tara x darcy by @calicoture

Misc

andrew’s peter parker by @steveharringttons

jake peralta by @jakeyp

eleanor x chidi + soulmates by @katherineebishop​

mj x peter + just wait by @sashafierce

nick miller + freeze frame & tomatoes by @diaaz

stranger things season 4 by @lucascsinclairs

rebecca welton by @rachelschu

kanej + he’d never let you go back by @jamesvaldez

pat x pran + soulmates by @mirroroferisedx

melissa x barbara + work wives by @lizmitches

jesper fahey by @nicholas-nelsons

btvs + purple & pink by @naiey

gap mini teasers by @nellsdani

ikaris by @magnusedom

mcu + magazine covers by @shegos

spiderman nwh + brutal by @onlyhereforangst

bbc merlin + songs by @thebookluvrr1816

abbott elementary + superlatives by @selinakyle

viola willoughby + concerning a drowned girl by @aanathemaa

"I was just the guy standing there when it happened, who couldn't do anything to protect him"

Because we didn’t get to see the moment the adrenaline wore off, and he looked in the mirror and noticed all the bruising-HE WAS LAUNCHED AND RAN STRAIGHT FOR BUCK AND ILL NEVER GET OVER THAT. Tries to compose himself to talk to Christopher, barely succeeding.

If this drawing feels familiar, thank you for having followed my art for a little while! Kicking off 2023 with a Buddie redraw! Last January (2022) I drew these two for the first time. From that piece I’ve grown significantly as an artist. At the time I was more versed in traditional art, specifically portraits, and I’m super happy with where I am a year later. Buck and Eddie have stolen my heart as well as my apple pencil. This show is everything to me, these characters are everything to me, and I can’t wait to see where their story goes. Thank you to everyone who has supported my art over the past year-I genuinely appreciate all of you. I look forward to another year of clowning over these guys and drawing more fan art across the many fandoms I love!

Events of 5x14

Did they travel to the sixties? What is going on? Here ya go Tumblr Buddies have some stuff♥️

“Did you just flirt with me?”

…

“Have been for the past year”

“But thanks for noticing🥰”

“Gahhhh”

- Based on an audio and inspired by the events of 3x09