We’re Not Heroes. We’re From Finchley.

“One phrase… and he managed to destroy all the problems I’ve been carrying.” 

EVAN BUCKLEY WEEK 2022 ↳ DAY TWO: FAVORITE LINES OR SCENES

So, we all know that Eddie hated Buck so easily saying he was the one who should’ve been shot.

But can we take a minute to acknowledge how much it also hurt him? He’s not just exasperated. There’s a reason he’s so emotional talking about it later.

It’s absolutely gut wrenching to hear someone you love talk about themselves like they don’t matter. Like their life doesn’t matter. And Eddie has been listening to Buck’s self-deprecation for a long time.

This was just what finally broke him.

“The hardest thing I asked her to do was something I never thought she would be able to do. She is like a human Swiss army knife who was able to flip herself backwards do this, watching this scene with her flipping backwards was just beyond incredible and I was so happy that it worked.“ “That was me, I’m very dexterous with with my toes. I could braid someone’s hair with my toes, I reckon. I could pick a lock no problem.”

James Gunn and Margot Robbie on this particular stunt

buck + anger

[Image ID: 6 GIFs of Evan Buckley from 9-1-1. GIF 1: Buck in the gym at the 118 talking to Eddie about his family in Season 4 Episode 4. GIF 2: Buck in the catfisher’s trailer looking intimidating while walking towards a coroner with Chimney talking in the background in Season 1 Episode 10. GIF 3: Buck in the kitchen at the 118 talking to Bobby about Eddie being shot in Season 4 Episode 14. GIF 4: Buck in his apartment walking down the stairs and arguing with Taylor in Season 5 Episode 18. GIF 5: Buck in Maddie and Chimney’s apartment yelling at his parents in Season 4 Episode 4. GIF 6: Buck sitting at the table in Eddie’s house talking to Carla about Eddie being shot in Season 4 Episode 14. /end ID]

How much time do we think Eddie and Shannon were actually together — under the same roof — after Christopher was born? Not much, right?

Eddie was home not even a week when Chris was born. Then he re-enlisted after Chris's diagnosis. He got shot, was honorably discharged, and it seems like Shannon left not too long after he came back home for good. Then, she came back when Eddie had moved to LA, but was in both their lives — as Chris's mother and something to Eddie — for maybe a few months (?) before she died.

Shannon raised Chris alone for much of his young life, and then she was gone. And all three of them were together for maybe a handful of months, in total. Chris never had two active parents, for any meaningful length of time.

It's just hitting me that Eddie never actually had a co-parent or a partner before Buck. A role Buck has now been playing for years.

Because this?

And this?

And fucking this?

Is goddamn profound.

I mean, we all have known the facts for a while. But it's just now hitting me how little time Shannon was in both their lives. That Eddie has never before come anywhere near to having what he now has with Buck. That the two of them really have built a family with Christopher — a family that none of them have ever had before.

What a love story.

It's about the posters. It's about pouring the two coffees into one cup. It's about the two bottles of champagne shared between the three of them. It's about comfort after an injury. It's about who you bring home. It's about who you let around your niece. It's about trying. It's about who you trust at your worst, with your worst. It's about growing and becoming better. It's about accountability. It's about learning you deserve to be better. It's about the people who will hold you. It's about love. It's about triangles being the strongest shape.

trans!peter parker

hello i have seen homecoming three times now and i’m obsessed and in love with everything about the movie and the trans!peter headcanon

The first thing i heard about trans!peter was a post talking about how being bullied for being a nerd in school really isnt a common thing anymore, at least in america, and, if anything, in my experience, it tends to be the smartest kids that are actually the most popular. And the post raised the question: So what if peter is actually bullied because he’s trans? And that makes so much sense. And being a trans boy in high school myself and absolutely on board with the headcanon i thought i’d join in and add some things. Some of these other people may have talked about also.

“I am not a GIRL. IM A BOY. I mEAN IM A MAN.” peter gets very upset when donald glover’s character calls him a girl. his voice breaks and he gets visibly flustered.

Flash calls him “Penis Parker”. speaking from experience, high school bullies are not very creative with nicknames and will always go straight for the deepest insecurity they know. I personally think this is a dig at peter being trans.

Peter has proportionally quite small hands and feet. 

He enjoys playing with things like Legos and Star Wars action figures. possibly because he didn’t get to when he was little.

He has quite a high pitched voice which he has difficulty controlling the depth of.

May’s comment about his body changing and him not feeling like he can fit in at a classmate’s party makes much more sense if you think of peter as trans.

Ned asks Peter if the spider venom gave him the ability to lay eggs, which is a bizarre question to begin with, but even stranger if being asked of an amab person. but this likely doesn’t have any substance as it was obviously just meant to be a funny moment, which it was, i laughed out loud all three times i heard it.

Peter doesn’t have much in the way of sideburns.

He’s pretty short.

The gym classes at Peter’s school are not separated by gender and they all wear the same uniform.

Most of his clothes are quite big on him. In my own experience, shopping in the men’s sections in stores doesn’t tend to go very well in terms of finding things that fit. Additionally, baggier clothes help to hide the chest and hip areas.

He doesn’t know how to tie a tie. Now this seems unimportant at first, but i actually think it could mean a lot, so hear me out. Considering how many clubs and extra curriculars he’s in (robotics, marching band, decathlon, etc.) he should have been to many recitals, concerts, competitions, etc that would require him to wear a tie throughout his intermediate and high school years. It’s weird that neither him nor may would know how to tie one. unless- he’s never done it before because he’d always worn the traditionally feminine uniform or formal wear. 

Now, there’s those two shirtless scenes that some people have been using to discredit the headcanon where he’s clearly muscular and flat chested with no visible scars. Well, my doubtful friends, there’s the possibility of a keyhole surgery which leaves minimal scarring. Also, the spider venom increases muscle growth and metabolism, and also gives peter a mild healing factor. This could have caused any scars he had to heal and fade completely. 

now obviously i realize not all of this inherently means he’s trans. cis guys can be short or have small hands and feet or high pitched voices or rounder hairlines, especially when they’re only 15 years old and everyone is growing at a different rate. These things just flesh out the headcanon a bit more. 

tl;dr: Peter Parker is an endlessly adorable trans boy and the hero we all need.

buddie scene that keeps me up at night: the hospital convo from fight or flight. we have no idea HOW eddie found out buck tried the cellphone trick with chimney, but his response was to…go directly to buck? let him know he understood the thought process and probably would’ve done the same? be a silent source of support in case athena had more to say? and can we take a moment to reflect on eddie telling buck that there’s one thing different about maddie and doug’s situation this time? that she’s not in it alone because she has buck looking for her? it’s “no matter how bad it got…i always had you” before maddie ever said it.  what the fuck, guys. what the fuck. 

EVAN BUCKLEY WEEK | DAY FOUR ↳ Buck + Favorite Arc 《 finding his real family in los angeles 》