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“i never see you at the club” ok well i never see you on ao3 at 2am reading about the same two bitches falling in love for the 1000th time in the 500th way

It’s literally so sick that the first episode where Eddie won’t be with the 118 is the “Bobby’s mom is a mega-church televangelist” episode. Like. He would have so much to say… so many faces to make… Eddie…

buck is clinging on to the “straight best friend” label because if he considers eddie being not straight for even a second.. deep down he knows what it would mean

i am so serious when i say dark and quiet are both human rights.

i don't mean like absolute silence. obviously in an ideal community, there would still be sound and noise from people and music and work etc. but it haunts me that when i camp in the forest i can hear the howl of semi trucks on the interstate miles away. and the people who live beside it never know quiet. it haunts me that many people will live their whole lives never seeing the stars in the sky that were fully visible with NO electric light pollution as recently as my great-grandparents' childhoods.

so much of our lives is bright bright unnecessary noise. neon mcdonalds signs 200 feet in the air so we can see it from the road. led lights over billboards. parking lots lit up like sports stadiums at closed office buildings. advertisements playing at gasoline pumps. streets lined with led porch lights and decorative garden lights that genuinely threaten entire species of wildlife. music blaring outside pharmacies to deter homeless people. everything always shining and wailing for no purpose but profit and cruelty.

obviously not everything can be turned off or made quiet and i wouldn't want it to be anyway and there is a lot of nuance and room for "but what about" here, but MANY things HAVE to change because none of us are supposed to live like this and we shouldn't have to!!!

‘bad credit score shopaholic’ buck and ‘just let me buy this shed real quick’ eddie are made for each other, i don’t know what to tell you. i hope they make horrendous financial decisions together for the rest of their lives

i would love to know what the people complaining about their acting choices would want them to do. like do you want them to stand there and announce every emotion they're going through at any moment? it's in the look back. it's in the slight twinge to their smiles. the awkward waving of the arms. the eyelashes fluttering. the nervous scratching. the writing choices. the confusion as the distance grows. it's all there and if you can't interpret that, it's on you

I think I’ve seen this film before…

…and I didn’t like the ending

Eddie got a phone call OFF SCREEN. Eddie’s talks with Chris were OFF SCREEN. HE IS A MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER, WHY THE HELL CAN’T WE SEE HIM DO THESE THINGS ON SCREEN?! FUCKING HELL.

i need a sort of reverse 8x09 where when eddie gets back from texas, (maybe all figured out, or maybe not, but some kind of realisation happened there) buck is all ready to start searching for new apartments so he doesn’t crowd the diaz house (even though they definitely don’t see it that way) and eddie keeps finding increasingly ridiculous reasons for buck not to leave, and even starts sabotaging buck’s apartment viewing in order to get him to stay with him and chris.

I think the conversation about having stakes in the show with Bobby's death is ultimately irrelevant to the issue at hand and doesn't make sense as an argument in this case because it's not what people are actually upset about. Me personally? Love a show with stakes. I have other shows I watch where I actively root for a character death at times, even if it's a character I enjoy, because I think it would make for narratively interesting consequences. The difference with that though is those are shows where the stakes have always been there. Where they're baked into the DNA of the show and the universe it's existing in. This is not true for 911. Yeah sure there have been some minor character deaths, yeah there's a lot of dangerous situations the main characters are in, but it is a huge tonal shift to kill off one of the most central characters to the show in a very sudden way with an extremely depressing ending for him that does not match the previous themes of the show about found family and being there for each other. So I don't enjoy Bobby's death playing out the way it did even if that means the stakes are more exciting because that's not the story we've been told for 8 years now and to me is just yet another sign that the production team has lost sight of what made 911 the show it is.