Invisible string tying you to me

say what you will about buddie fandom but at least we didn't pay like 300 dollars for ryan to tell us that our ship is "flourishing" yay 💖 because he told us that for free 💖

if you say that what tommy did was keeping his head down you are either stupid beyond belief or unflinchingly racist. which one is it

fans who've latched on to a blank slate irrelevant white male character will project all kinds of headcanons, lore, backstory etc. onto said character with no canon basis for it and then will not only treat it as fact but then yell at everyone else and treat them like idiots for not being interested in the character they've made up in their heads. yay 💖

and the thing that gets me is. it's never speculation like "oh, this white character has been accustomed to privilege all their life, so they might not react to or handle the situation with gerrard in the best way" or "there was a literal out of context bts pic of this white character playing golf with gerrard, that could mean something bad". no! because the benefit of the doubt is always given to buck! and yet. there was a single picture of ryan with a mustache. and fandom exploded with speculation that he was growing it in order to "assimilate" with a bigot and become his good little soldier and betray his friends. this fandom is just full of people salivating over their fantasies of white people being oppressed and poc doing the oppressing and it's. really sickening.

actually, beauty is in the eye of oliver stark when he takes grainy black and white photographs of ryan guzman