Confessedly Fannish

Danny's obsessed with protection (the one that started it all), Part Two

Danny knows Catwoman

Danny & Clark talk clones

Quick JL ficlet

Danny is alive, Part 2 (prequel)

Phantom has a package for Batman

Damian has a new stepdad

Jason is kidnapped (also known as the beginning of undead cram school) , My Part Two, My Quick Addition

Bruce visits Sam

Jon Kent has amnesia, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five

Jazz does a crime or two

TikTok bro

Clockwork asks Bruce for a favor that's demand coded.

shh! Bruce is sleeping.

In which Bruce sues the Fentons

Once upon a time a little show called Teen Wolf had a moment where a character was outrightly asked if he liked boys, and he paused, almost consideringly...

I think queer men can be dating.

I think costars can date.

I think disliking costars who date because it goes against a fictional pairing is silly at best and damaging at worst.

I think if a straight couple were dating at 25 and 40 I would be uncomfortable with the age gap and I am genuinely conflicted on that point and that alone.

Now I'm just...disappointed. You can claim there's a lot of visual metaphor in the recent episode but when your two "best friends" aren't talking to each other, presumably have lived together for the past 7 months yet make no mention of it—

(I mean c'mon, Chris doesn't give us a single "I miss Buck" throwaway line? Buck has to ask incredibly politely what they're doing for Halloween instead of knowing already?)

—and this episode's complicated entangling with religion as a way to feel closer to the people we love? This felt more like an examination of grief (you know, that thing we do with Eddie every season because lest we forget his character is mainly Single Father with Dead Wife?) than a nudge forward towards Buck.

I'm being uncharitable but also I'm a bit tired of being charitable. I'm tired of "trusting in the writers" when the writers are not proving they are trustworthy. At the end of this episode Eddie ultimately returns to faith as a way forward, not necessarily by way of the church but by way of tradition and family. It does skew religious, which to me skews away from queer.

Instead of Buck touring new homes, we cut to Buck & Maddie. Same setup as that last kitchen scene. And Buck says, wringing his hands, "remember when we talked a while back?"

"Yeah...?"

"I think...maybe it wasn't as crazy...as I thought." He's worried, he's shy, he's scared. Maddie smiles gently, unsurprised.