Sorry in advance for the lengthâ
Itâs not lost on me that a lot of those complaining about Buck & Tommyâs relationship, their dynamic, and the way they communicateâ like Buck flirting about daddy issues instead of having a serious conversation about Tommyâs poor relationship with his father or Tommy returning that energy in kindâ are not queer men or men-aligned or adjacent. And many of them areâ I dunnoâ projecting, I guess, what they would want from a man in a relationship, if they were in this relationship.
This is why so many of their analyses include comments about whatâd be a dealbreaker for them or what theyâd rather see in a partner for them or how they, as a non-man, are turned off by X-Y-Z things men do or say, but in a relationship with a non-man. It all completely ignores that 1.) neither man is a self-insert, and 2.) these complainers would never be a party in this relationship because they arenât men or men-aligned or adjacent. They arenât just forgetting that Buck isnât a self-insert, but that he is a man, Tommy is also a man, and they are into each other because theyâre both men. Their dynamic and their relationship is different than the dynamic and relationship between a man and a non-man.
Not being queer men (or men aligned or adjacent) is coloring their interpretation of Buck & Tommyâs relationship, leading to criticalâ and homophobicâ misinterpretations of their dynamic. For example, I bet NONE of them understand that, anymore, âdaddyâ is so wide spread, it isnât inherently a sexual term or inherently related to kink. Among a lot of queer men today, a âdaddyâ generally or usually just refers to an attractive older gay man. Yes, it commonly is used to refer to an older gay man who might support, mentor and/or sleep with younger or newer men entering the community, but, anymore, that is not inherently or always so. The term âdaddyâ and the use of âdaddyâ is also not inherently used to refer to kink as theyâve all assumed (not to mention kink is not inherently or always sexual). Yes, it may be used to refer to one half of a BDSM daddy/boy dynamic, butâ againâ that is not inherently or always so. Fuckâ there are guys who use it as a term of endearment and that alone. Like⊠the term as itâs used in popular vernacular today made the jump over from leather subculture, but its use also no longer inherently refers to leather daddies. Before its use in leather subculture, the word and similar words as a term for a man in a romantic partnership was a feature of AAVE. It then made the jump into queer vernacular through black queer men, and was used to challenge prominent ideas of masculinity by appropriating symbols of masculinity as aspects of gay sexuality.
âDaddyâ does not mean the same thing to queer men as it does to them, but they are interpreting the word as if it does.
Tommyâs line did not inherently mean he hopes Buck wants to call him âdaddyâ during sex. It absolutely did not mean that he hopes Buckâs trauma gave him a daddy kink. There are so many interpretations of this scene, but none of the complainerâs interpretations are queer-competent interpretations because they arenât queer men (or man aligned or adjacent). 1.) Tommy is an âolderâ gay man. Thatâs it. 2.) Buck wants to call Tommy daddyâ maybe sexually (related to kink or not) or maybe just for shits and gigs or maybe as a form of endearmentâ and Tommy expressed he is on board. 3.) Buck has a daddy kink (sexual or not), was expressing this to his boyfriend, and his boyfriend expressed that heâd be into it. 4.) Tommy is continuing to deflect from discussing his own daddy issues. 5.) Tommy was expressing that he hopes that Buck, a man new(er) to the community, wants to romantically and sexually be with a man who is older than him. 6.) Tommy was turning Buckâs banter about daddy issues into one about age. 7.) The conversation was simply setting up Buck & Tommyâs season 8 arc. 8.) All of the above.
âI donât like itââ âI think itâs grossââ Well, congrats! Itâs not for yâall! Now stop judging a romantic and sexual relationship between two fictional men by what yâall personally would want irl and how yâall personally would feel as a non man in a irl relationship with one of these fictional men. This isnât yâallâs fave fanfiction trope or AU or self-insert; itâs not gonna cater to yâallâs tastes and preferences. If yâall donât like the characters and yâall donât like the character-driven plot because yâall are not seeing two men kiss in the way yâall prefer, then stop watching. Please. Stick to AO3 and fanfiction and your non-canon ship if yâall are so miserable.
Like, yeah, I bet yâall wouldnât interact with a man that way, yâall wouldnât converse with a man that way, yâall wouldnât want a man to talk to yâall that way, yâall wouldnât banter with a man that way, yâall wouldnât be attracted to a man that way, yâall wouldnât want a man to like yâall that way, yâall wouldnât flirt with a man that way, yâall wouldnât want a man to flirt with yâall that way, yâall wouldnât date a man that way, yâall wouldnât have dinner with a man that way, yâall wouldnât want a man that way, and yâall wouldnât fuck a man that way because yâall arenât queer men (or man aligned or adjacent), yâall arenât Evan Buckley, andâ whether yâall want to believe it or notâ an mlm relationship ainât about yâall.
âsincerely, a queer man who saw a post where the OP said theyâd STONE (âpelt him with rocks until he diesâ) Tommy if he ever made a daddy issues joke on a date with them because they donât like when men view womenâs trauma as something they can exploit for sexâŠ
Iâm also convinced none of these individuals have ever been in an adult relationship, because how is that a proportional response? And the homophobia of stoning a gay man? You cannot separate this from the characterâs context: heâs a gay man. Like hello??? Also, what a terrible way to bring up a very real and serious issue for women just to try and invalidate two fictional menâs attraction to each other. Plus⊠neither Buck or Tommy were exploiting one another; you are inadvertently suggesting queer men prey on men.
Uhm... don't ever fucking apologize for this!
I'm honored that you shared this with me, and now everyone can read this and hopefully take something away from it đ
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ok i need everyone to read these tags by @chiaroscuroverspn under this post i made complaining ab how they dressed tommy in those colors in the finale and he looks like he's gonna blend into the background
HE BELONGS THERE.... HE BELONGS THERE
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DAY 1: DATE NIGHT
Welcome to Date Night, everyone! If you're participating in the date night prompt here is a lovely badge for you to keep made by the oh so wonderful @thatmexisaurusrex who has been such a light for us here on this event.
There will be one for each day to let you know how much we genuinely appreciate you all.
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very true lol the timeline is a mess and trying to make sense brings me to the verge of a headache every time đ«
in this case idk. seeing the passage of time mentioned 3 times in the same episode and the one that doesn't add up is when tommy is faced with gerrard, at least to me it just feels intentional
i know we've been theorizing all day about the 5 years tommy mentioned especially since we have bobby and eddie also mention how long ago something happened - which we think based on seasons to be true
so i think (headcanon) that maybe it was supposed to show us that gerrard rattled tommy and he mixed it up OR simply just approximated, but since we have the other two scenes idk i think it's supposed to show that having gerrard there affected him
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Tommy strikes me as the kind of guy thatâs expected to top in the casual scene but does actually enjoy getting to bottom. Thatâs why the first time Buck turns him around in the middle of making out, shoves him down and bends him over the bed, Tommy lets out a reckless moan so loud Buck has to cover his mouth. (that doesnât stop Buck from moaning just as loud though because he loves when his partners come apart like that) It leads to a long stretch of Tommy being the one that gets stretched iykwm đ
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i think the one thing i will never understand about online fandom culture is that personally, once i start really hating things, tv show-wise, i just... stop watching? and a lot of people just don't. they still sit through things that make them miserable, angry and sad. they sit through things they see as offensive and stupid and low-quality. and they still dedicate hours of their time and energy to the things they don't enjoy one bit. like why
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tommy, breathless, staring at buck and bucks's lil excited smile when tommy's attention is on him đ„°
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so is evan 'ring cutter in the kitchen supplies' buckley and tommy 'so you think I do [have daddy issues] god I hope so' kinard in the room with us right now
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