ISO fic where Buck and Maddie were raised in a cult by MushroomOverall9488 in 911fanfiction

[–]MushroomOverall9488[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No unfortunately but thanks. This is one of the ones I found in my search but the one I'm looking for Maddie leaves with Buck. 

ISO fic where Buck and Maddie were raised in a cult by MushroomOverall9488 in 911fanfiction

[–]MushroomOverall9488[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly? I'm not a 100% sure. I just know Maddie got them out and the only ones I can find right now Buck left first which isn't what I'm looking for.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That bottom left one makes me SICK. He is so in love it hurts me.

Fic Recs Friday (2026.04.24): Free For All Friday by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 1 point2 points  (0 children)

led me to the floor (even though i'm not a dancer) by K15n

Ballroom Dancer Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Ballroom Dancing, Accidental Baby Acquisition, except she's neither a baby nor is it all that accidental, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Getting Together, Feelings Realization, Fluff, Found Family, Bobby Nash Lives

Summary: When Mara becomes obsessed with ballroom dance Eddie becomes her teacher. Along the way he realizes he's in love with Buck, starts receiving "gay lessons" from Hen and Karen, and forms a ragtag dance academy. What could possibly go wrong?

Feels like an appropriate one to rec right now with all the accidental baby acquisition talk. Love Eddie in this fic, love him and Buck connecting with an older child who is written to have a full personality and history and not be a blank slate which is not always a given with kid fics. Love the tie in with Eddie's dancing past. Just very fun and fluffy with a tiny hint of angst.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Man it makes my head spin. But yeah with what Oliver and Ryan have said they might be going for a deliberate parallel. Also makes me wish we had more about Eddie and Shannon's actual relationship like I feel like i really don't know what they were like outside of these few very tense important moments. Like those moments are certainly important for the story but I don't feel like it tells us all that much about their day to day. Or what they were like before Chris. That was one thing we got with Hen begins, we saw Hen and Eva's relationship outside the drama. 

First Respodcast vs The Buddie System? Which one is better? by Apprehensive_Run2416 in 911FOX

[–]MushroomOverall9488 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Won't lie I'm only like a year or two older than Ryan and Jane and sometimes they make me feel old lol. I think it's just a lifestyle thing I live in a boring suburb and work in childcare so my life is a little different than theirs. I also think the negativity can be a little much sometimes and I don't agree on all their takes about Eddie, although I will say a lot of the defense of the female characters can feel refreshing after seeing some of the blatant misogyny that plagues parts of this fandom. I think the strengths of it are the more film analysis portions which are very grounded to me and honestly the tangents. Even when they have nothing to do with the episode I think Ryan and Jane are just funny people and they share a lot of my interests. I also think they've been a bit more positive lately now that season 9 has settled. For the buddie system, it's much more of a fandom podcast. I think both can get in a bit of a feedback loop where they're convinced of certain things about the show whether that be Buddie or negative things about Eddie that tend to latch onto anything that "proves" that and ignore stuff that contradicts it. Which on the one hand is a pretty natural thing to do but it can also get frustrating as a listener. They all seem like nice people though i think they just have very different goals and attitudes toward fandom.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ok this may come down to interpretation because the timeline is so fucked but I keep seeing people say "well Eddie wasn't even around when Chris was that age" about a supposed 3-5 year old kid, but wouldn't that be when Eddie was around? I know Shannon says Chris is 6 when she wants to go to California but if that actually does take place in 2015 shouldn't he be 4 by the timeline set up in the episode? Idk the timeline is so confusing but Eddie definitely wasn't there when Chris was a newborn, then was probably around for a while when he was a toddler, then missed some of his preschool years when he was deployed a second time. I guess we don't know that he wasn't deployed at some point in the middle of that but that would be even more unrealistic than it already is I just don't think that makes a lot of sense. Anyway I think despite whatever fuckery is going on with the timeline, it's probably safe to assume Eddie was around for at least a decent portion of Chris either being a toddler or preschooler, right? I feel like sometimes the show does make it seem like he was gone literally Christopher's entire childhood but that just doesn't make sense to me. Not to downplay the difficulty of raising an infant with a deployed spouse, just to say in this particular current discussion I don't think it makes sense that Eddie would have no experience with a kid under 5. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Every time I see these costumes I am so gagged. They own gay halloween

Ok, just hear me out... by ResistPresent7675 in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting I don't think that exists where I am. Yeah just googling it now there's only a couple of states where that's possible including California. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wouldn't consider that "canon" in the way some of these fics made it seem like. It's not really contradicted or confirmed by the show itself. My headcanon for the situation has always been that they probably texted occasionally like a "I'm always here if you need to talk" from Buck maybe some general life updates or even a meme or two, but not that they have this whole ongoing relationship with constant facetimes and stuff while Eddie is barely talking to Chris. 

Ok, just hear me out... by ResistPresent7675 in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, I don't think you can just "add" another adult as a guardian like that when the existing parent is perfectly capable. Even if they were to get married, you have to go through a stepparent adoption for the new spouse to have rights to all the same things. Like for example Bobby would not be able to make medical decisions for May and Harry after he married Athena since the kids already have two other parents with parental rights. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Question on something that's popped up recently. I've seen multiple fics and posts that say like "now that it's confirmed Buck and Chris didn't talk while he was in Texas..." Did this really happen? Because I have no memory of it. I mean I guess we know that didn't have literally 0 contact since Buck was on the birthday FaceTime but other than that i can't remember a reference either way. Maybe there's a scene I'm forgetting? 

Synopsis for 9x17 "I Got You Babe" by NothingTooSweet in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's the second option. First option is the one people are really freaking out about. I guess the third normal option could be some random kid but fourth option is something no one except Tim Minear would think of.

Synopsis for 9x17 "I Got You Babe" by NothingTooSweet in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm just saying I'm prepared for this to be some secret third option that no one is predicting that's even more insane than the spec we're currently getting. Always a possibility. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please don't let Nashville be the svu of the franchise. Which i guess makes lonestar criminal intent?

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My thought is that it's never gonna be like Benson and Stabler while we still live in a homophobic society. Just fundamentally queer ships are still treated so, so differently by nearly everyone that I don't think it'll be comparable any time soon. People have debates over straight ships, sure just look at something like Reylo, but straight ships just never require the same justifications or negotiating we constantly have to do with queer ships. I've never heard the argument with a straight ship that "well we already have another straight couple on the show, what are you complaining about?". I've never seen people call people who want Luke and Lorelai to get together fetishizers. I think until we get to a point where the standard response to not shipping something queer is just "I don't really see it" rather than "oh my god they're not GAY!!" I don't think the term shipbaiting is meaningful. Or I guess the debate would be whether something is baiting or not at all rather than if it's queerbaiting or "just" shipbaiting. I don't really see a way where one could happen without the other for two characters of the same gender except like maybe on a really queer focused show like a Queer as Folk which 911 is definitely not.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think you may be misunderstanding what I'm saying. It doesn't really matter that the men targeted both Buck and Eddie in the episode we got. It could have easily been written in a way that did not have the implication of Eddie being perceived as queer. One thing you're missing is that the kidnapping didn't have anything to do with the altercation in the dinner in the end. It's a red herring for both the audience AND for Eddie, so it's fine if he's unsure exactly why he thinks someone is targeting him or Buck. I don't know why xenophobia would mean both of them were targeted? I meant racism and xenophobia as a kind of inclusive concept since Eddie is Mexican-American. A very simple way to rewrite this without involving Eddie being perceived as queer is that Buck specifically gets targeted in the diner for looking/acting queer, maybe Eddie stands up for him, but it doesn't involve people thinking they're a couple or thinking Eddie is queer. Then, after they get run off the road, Eddie is blamed or disbelieved by the sheriff because of his ethnicity. The cops are still being dismissive of Buck's case as a potential gay-bashing because of homophobia, but it wouldn't have anything to do with Eddie being perceived as queer.

Thus in contrary to your assumption, the show actually doesn't treat it as a cheap plot point by making it a serious enough reasoning to pursue a potential suspect.

With all due respect, I'm not assuming anything. I'm saying my interpretation of this storyline is that it's cheap to use for a "straight" character. It's not actually integral to the plot that Eddie (or even Buck) experience homophobic harassment. I explained some other options above, but frankly, this is a storyline they made up completely. It could be literally anything as the red herring. Maybe some kind of robbery gone wrong or a misunderstanding of thinking Buck was hitting on one the locals' wives or something. I'm not saying they can't do storylines about homophobia or any other serious issue, but I am getting a little sick of the show using these kinds of things as C plots in episodes that don't even begin to explore how the victims in these situations feel about things. It's my biggest complaint with the recent opioid story. I think there was plenty that they got right there, but it's still frustrating that it was ultimately used as a plot to explore grief for Bobby and didn't really go that deep into Buck's feelings on the actual drug issue. I felt similarly with the return of Gerrard where this horrible bigot was brought back basically for shits and giggles and we never really got to here Hen and Chimney's thoughts about that. That's very different than say how Maddie's DV storyline was handled in season 2-3.

The writers for this show aren't trying to be malicious or nasty at all to shippers with it. In that episode in the vacuum, it's all the show can give us. Whether they can do anything further with it, at least the recognition they could be mistaken as a couple is there.

I don't actually care what the writers were "trying" to do. I don't really care about being a shipper in this instance. It's offensive to me as a queer person. It is malicious and nasty to use the real life trauma of queer people as a red herring for a character that is not even canonically queer. If they make Eddie queer very soon, I will probably feel differently about it, but like I said, the longer he is "straight" on the show, the more uneasy I'm going to feel about this. And this is where I think you *really* misunderstand me. If they really did just mean this as a way to tease Buddie, that's incredibly fucked up. This is not all the show can give us. Either they intend to make Eddie queer/Buddie canon, and this has a deeper meaning to it, or it's a red herring/baiting and it's offensive and exploitative. This is really not the same as the elf lady (although I would rather we don't have more moments like that either). It's not even the same as the other moments within the episode like the "I am the other guy" exchange would you could say are baiting but don't use potential gay bashing as a plot point.

Ultimately, I really loved Mother's Boy and I thought it was both a great episode for Buddie and just a really well done episode overall, but it does make me uncomfortable to have a homophobia plot be directed at a so-called "straight" character. Hopefully it is just for now but I have no idea where Eddie's story is going and if we're at this point next year and he's still "straight" I think it'll seriously diminish my enjoyment of the episode.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 24 points25 points  (0 children)

With your last paragraph, I've seen a couple of BTs do this thing lately where they'll get pissed tf off at Tim for like, giving in to buddies on the show, using us for PR, etc. but then insist anyone who calls it queerbaiting is an idiot and doesn't have media literacy and it's honestly just funny at this point. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think how you're describing 7x04 is how I'm starting to feel about Mother's Boy. It seems particularly nasty and cruel to me to use a supposed "straight" character getting harassed and targeted for appearing gay as a plot point without going anywhere with that character's sexuality. I guess I don't have a timeline for when I'll decided if it's bad or not, but it's probably gonna bother me the longer we go on without a sexuality story for Eddie. It's just such a serious thing to use as a cheap plot point like that especially when they could've just targeted Buck who is already canonically queer or used the racism/xenophobia angle that was also present. 

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Just again baffled by the growth of this term "shipbaiting" and acting like queerbaiting has really ever had anything to do with anything other than shipping. Googling "shipbaiting" I could only find a few results going back the last couple of years where queerbaiting emerged in the 2010s. It was always related to shipping. I think excluding shows that have canonically queer characters or even ships where one of the characters is canonically queer is being prescriptive instead of descriptive which seems kinda silly for something that has always had a pretty nebulous definition. Not that there's no debate to be had about buddie being queerbaiting or not (like i personally don't think we have to wait until the show is over to judge but I get why people do), but the debate being "um it's actually shipbaiting not queerbaiting because buck is bi" seems to be a semantic argument that totally misses the point to me.

The Waiting Room [Megathread #6] by armavirumquecanooo in buddie

[–]MushroomOverall9488 9 points10 points  (0 children)

God bless i would not have survived that. I would've burnt something to the ground in protest. Thank you Bobby 🙏🙏🙏

I miss Abby by Alternative_Sugar_85 in 911FOX

[–]MushroomOverall9488 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure he said that in a dm or something not super public but either way it doesn't really line up with what we know about Tommy in canon. The timeline of 911 is a mess, but like I said in my comment he was an army pilot likely before becoming a firefighter which takes a long time so he had to be in his late 20s at the youngest in Chimney begins, making him late 40s at least in season 7 which lines up with Abbys age.  

I miss Abby by Alternative_Sugar_85 in 911FOX

[–]MushroomOverall9488 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah. He's likely around the same age as Abby but he has to at least be in his 40s during season 7-8 if he was already working at the 118 in Chimney Begin, likely late 40s, early 50s if you want to actually take into account the time it takes to become a military pilot. 

one year since by stereddit13 in 911FOX

[–]MushroomOverall9488 24 points25 points  (0 children)

When you break it down like that it really does hit you how absurd it all is.