911 + Text Posts pt29/?

(after Buck has introduced his parents to Tommy at the wedding) Buck(with a mischievous grin):...Hey, would you be down for me telling them we're engaged too, after only dating for a few weeks? Tommy: Evan, don't be mean!...It's your sister's wedding day, don't take this away from her! Tell them tomorrow.

I hope the Buckley parents hear about Buck’s coma and are like: “We want to see our son”

And Bobby is just like: “No, my son.”

… and Eddie’s like: “Y’all mean my husband??”

The full body physical visceral emotional metamorphic unhinged reaction I have to seeing Margaret and Phillip Buckley in 9-1-1 What’s Your Grievance…….

guys you literally don’t understand like you don’t understand. i had someone tell me they’re done with the 911 shows i can’t remember who while im literally over here crying every other day because of cases and genuinely cheering when something good happens, at the edge of my seat when a horrific case happens. don’t even get me started on how i react to buddie and just the characters on there in general. if i hear hate on 911 shows again it’s on sight.

maddie trying to process buck coming out to her while also trying to process that buck is stressing over coming out to eddie but doesn’t really get that that’s what he’s stressing out about has me rolling

Buck and Maddie as Philadelphia Flyers fans, Buck absolutely getting Jee-Yun a round as hell stuffed Gritty plush when she's a baby that is bigger than she is

They're also Hershey Bears fans, so Jee-Yun absolutely had a little baby Hershey Bears jersey

The Buckley Baton: Death By One Thousand Papercuts (Heirloom Edition)

[I really hope this doesn’t flop, I actually like this one]

❛ 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜. 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙬𝙣.❜

Seeing bunch of Maddie and Buck moments on my dash, and my favorite is when Maddie tell Buck that she keep the postcards. I was ugly sobbing while watching that scene. Maddie might not be a perfect sister, but for Buck she is the best sister ever. I love their relationship so much.

so if this is gonna be a continuing storyline and they don’t mention Daniel Buckley I will throw hands

911 + Text Posts pt2/?

Hen:...So how did the meeting the parents go? Buck: Tommy called my parents "Mom" and "Dad" after they introduced themselves. They looked like they were both gonna have heart attacks. [sniffs and his eyes go glassy]...I was so happy, I almost proposed on the spot.

i always thought daniel was the eldest and maddie is a middle child, but all the fic i read says differently. and now i’m like wait did i miss this in the show?

I imagine Margaret Buckley to be like Lucille bluth, which is both amusing and extremely depressing.

I think part of why I don't like the Buckley parents getting a redemption arc is because yes, part of why they're shitty parents is Daniel's death, and how they weren't able to deal with that, but they didn't have to be. You can go through traumatic events and not put it on your kids. You can have a medically complex child, need another child to help, and not make the other child's life about being the helper or savior of their sibling, or point out the ways in which they failed.You can lose a child to an illness and not forget about the ones who are still breathing.

I know this, because my parents were them, and they managed to not emotionally torture me my entire life. I grew up with a high support needs disabled sister who had frequent hospital visits, especially when we were younger, and who died this past summer. She needed help and care her entire life, and while my parents had me help out, they also did what they could to make sure I existed outside my sister. I grew up knowing that if Catherine outlived our parents, which, until about a month before she died, seemed perfectly likely, I'd be the one to take care of her, because she was my sister.

And I saw how they handled her final hospital visit, which was 2 months long, and stayed with her 24/7, sleeping in a recliner. They accepted my offers to stay with her on the weekends and days I wasn't working, but always made it clear I didn't have to stay there, or prep meals for them, or drive my grandma to visit. They always gave me an out, and never guilted me for taking it.

When she died, they didn't pretend she never existed, or make everything about her. We were able to grieve her as a family in a way that I don't think the Buckleys have ever been able to grieve Daniel. In 4x05, I think it's Margaret who says they moved because everyone judged them for having Evan to save Daniel. So yes, I think part of why they're like this is grief, but so much of it is shame too. That shame caused them to demolish whatever support network they had, and from what we saw in canon, they don't seem interested in rebuilding it.

I don't know how much of this is me getting too personally involved, but I don't think they're redeemable because I've seen the Buckley's lives up close in a way that most people haven't, and I hope most people never will. I know this grief intimately, and know it did not need to manifest in such a way. Grief and loss and death will come for us all. We all have to bury people we love at some point in our lives. But we'll never be alone in that grief, and there seems to be a line drawn in that family, and it all starts with Daniel, and Phillip and Margaret shutting their living children out when they buried their brother. Maddie and Buck seem to have reckoned with the ghost of Daniel, but he's still silently haunting his parents.