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omg becca i can promise you that i'll make it my personal mission to get you into 911 asfdkdld 😌 so, here's why you should absolutely binge 911, coming from a completely unbiased, objective perspective, of course 😌😌

an amazing ensemble cast with really, really talented actors

a group of characters who slowly come together to find their family in each other and they love each other so so much. also the very first episode starts off with the hilariously ironic line—"this is not a family." to really hammer in the famous last words of it all :) now let's get into the characters.

howard "chimney" han — amazing paramedic, manages to be the funniest character on the show while having deep-rooted abandonment issues and trauma, is probably immortal because he has survived things that should have killed any other person

bobby nash — Dad™. the daddest of all dads. best redemption arc ever; has a beautiful journey of realizing that he wants to live. he was born to be a husband and a father :) amateur detective. looks like the sensible one, but he can be just as dumb as the rest. he loves his wife <33

hen wilson — probably the smartest character on the show, and knows everything about everything. she's married to a rocket scientist :)) she is an incredible firefigher paramedic, best friends with chimney (they're platonic soulmates fr) and she looks like she holds the braincell but she will join in on the shenanigans with the rest of the characters in a heartbeat (see: season 6 where she went dumpster diving with chimney to look for a lost ring).

evan buckley — the little brother of the group. he's an ass in the beginning but he gets better i promise. himbo with a heart of gold, he loves kids. he uses recklessness as a means of coping with his deep-rooted childhood trauma. nearly dies every single season. he looks at bobby as a surrogate father. he loves his sister so much. he's in love with his best friend but shhh he's still figuring that out. he loves his best friend's child like his own :)

maddie buckley — give her a break™ she's been through SO much, but came out kind and compassionate and stronger than ever. she's a 911 dispatcher and she's amazing at it. she loves her little brother and basically raised him when they were kids. she's an amazing mom, even if it takes her a while to accept that, and she loves chimney han with all her heart.

athena grant — angela basset does an amazing job with her character; she has some of the best emotional and action moments on the show. she's a cop, unfortunately :( she's best friends with hen, she's a great mom to her two kids and has a really compelling friendship with her ex-husband. she is definitely the one who holds the braincell while everyone else gets up to their dumb shenanigans.

eddie diaz — the love of my life he's an ex-army medic, now a firefighter and above all, a father. he loves his son, christopher, so much. he has also nearly died on multiple occasions, and in season 5, has one of the most beautiful arcs i've ever seen working through his trauma. he had an extremely complex relationship with his wife, shannon. he's come so far in terms of character development. and he's deeply in love with his best friend but by god he will not admit it :)

and as for the other reasons why you should binge the show? the emergencies are absolutely insane and entertainingly unrealistic (there was a tsunami in los angeles). the show knows how to intermix comedy and tragedy in a way that will give you whiplash and have you sobbing. it deals with some very adult, realistic conflicts. it loves to emphasize on the innate goodness of human nature. none of the characters are perfect and have all fucked up badly at some point, but they keep trying. it's a show about second chances :)

OH and since you asked about buddie, well. if you like: a) co-workers who started off disliking each other falling into a deep friendship b) two characters who are partners in every sense of the word, who practically share the same mind c) a ship that has multiple break-up scenes without even getting together d) two characters who are practically co-parenting a child but can't see it e) two characters who go absolutely berserk when the other is in danger f) two characters who act more married than most married couples — then buddie is the ship for you! and honestly, if you like chenford, then you will definitely like buddie sjdkdkd there's a reason i've done at least 4-5 gifsets paralleling them

anyway, this is my official pitch! if you ever actually decide to watch the show, my humble request is that you let me know what you think afterwards 😌

HI HELLO I LOVE YOU I had to really think on this because you know we have manifestation powers but my brain is also not working properly so here's the word vomit version

pining pining pining pining pining + the sad type of jealousy like the way ricky's crying over gina in private but would do anything to make her happy (I slipped rina in here my kids are thriving)

rosalind get a move on throw on some shoes grab a bag and take tim in order to hurt lucy. kidnap him, bury him, put him in a corn maze idc but give me a reverse day of death

i want one of those love rosie hugs except an angsty version. like a "lucy's trapped in a building that's about to explode and tim can't get to her and they finally reunite" hug. i've been mapping it out in my head for years and even wrote a fic for myself and i will not give up on this dream!!1!! [I have provided the following image for daydreaming purposes]

OHHHH MY GOD. ITS HAPPENING??? ITS HAPPENING!!!

5x03 Promo - Dye Hard

isn’t that something - ray toro

folly - sea power

until it kicks - okkervil river

adeline - electric century

star witness - neko case

song for myla goldberg - the decemberists

we save - ray toro

all the old showstoppers - the new pornographers

baby you’re a haunted house - gerard way

alive - the fratellis

Lucy tries to catch her breath as Tim’s arms (they’re Tim’s arms, she checked before she settled into them, counted the five prominent freckles on his skin as a fail safe) circle tighter around her. His face is pressed half into her hair and half against her cheek as he murmurs words she can’t string together, because her mind is still racing, her ears are still rushing, her lungs are still burning. She can still smell the metal of the barrel, still taste the stale air surrounding her, still hear the clumps of dirt shifting around the container – it’s not as fresh as it’s been before, not as visceral, but it’s there, and it aches.

“Tim,” she breathes, pressing her face into his bicep, her fingers shaking as she curls them into his shirt.

Tim nods, leaning his face down into her hair and taking a slow, deep breath, one she knows she’s supposed to emulate. “Nightmare, baby. Just a nightmare,” he murmurs. “You’re fine, Lucy. We’re in bed, you’re with me, I’ve got you.”

Lucy whimpers softly, forcing herself to open her eyes and look up at him as she tries to follow along with his breathing. “I’m sorry,” she whispers, ignoring the way Tim immediately shakes his head, “I am, Tim.”

“Nothing to be sorry about,” he says, his voice firm. “I’m here, okay?” Lucy nods, curling herself into him and letting her ear press to his chest, listening to the steady beating of his heart.

Lucy didn’t know where those words had come from. 

Yeah, sure, she may be riding the adrenaline high of an epic mission involving rival gangs and an assload of cocaine, culminating in a near death experience, but it wasn’t like she had a real death wish.

At least, not when it came to spontaneously telling Tim Bradford, her former TO and all around hardass, that she could kiss him. 

As they stood there, caked in blood, riddled with cuts and bruises, helicopters whirring over their heads -- just a veritable scene from either Bad Boys movie -- it seemed like a good idea to say it. 

Because indeed, she’d been wanting to kiss Tim Bradford. For a long time. 

They’d had the closest brush with death either had had since the last times they’d had a brush with death, and that whole carpe diem thing seemed relevant. A bell ringing its truth. 

“Oh yeah?” Tim asked, glancing at her with the most panty dropping of smirks, dirt smudged across his cheek and a cut weeping blood above his eyebrow. His uniform was ripped and filthy, like John damn McClane. “Why don’t ya?” 

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