discourse time baby.
can we look closely at the amount of people who only like tommy bc they've been explicitly clued into the idea of him as a love interest vs buddie being implicit.
wdym you were invested in ted and robin for 9 whole seasons despite the very fleshed out and long lasting love interests that you hated bc you knew in your heart of hearts that they were endgame but you're clinging to a character whose backstory is 'love interest of previous love interest' bc 'noOOoOoOo bUcK aND edDIe aRe plAtONIc'. why don't you cling to taylor like that she was a fantastic character and she loved buck even if they weren't a good romantic match, the same arguments that apply to tommy should hold for her...
like truthfully what is the reason you're so opposed to two men having a friends to lovers situation. i've read this book before and the answer is usually a construction of queerness rooted in a deep seated form of misogyny that skews people's perceptions of how gay people romance. pls take a moment to reflect on the idea of coupledom you're building there for buck and for the queer people in your lives. gay people can have relationships that are not purely sex driven. friends to lovers is universally the single most common way for people to bond and partner up romantically.
if buck and eddie were a straight couple no one would question that a slow burn friends to lovers is on the cards and i think that's telling. you're entitled to dislike eddie as a character or as a love interest for buck but can we please stop acting like interpreting last week's episode as the high point of a friends to lovers feelings realisation is some outlandish shit we're making up. even if the conclusion isn't buddie. we've seen this before for straight couples. and no one heard "i'm not in love with him/her" and immediately decided that this is the showrunners shutting it down. c'mon we all watched bones & booth break up and nobody thought "well yeah that's it for them".
pls don't be that person, and if you absolutely have to, like, don't be nasty about it? it's not a good look.
