Buck's Own Insecurities And Not The Actuall Narrative Truth ) - Tumblr Posts

blockadebilly
3 years ago

Okay, so, it took me a while to gather my thoughts but uhh, here they are.

The 9-1-1 fandom has a very big.... victim Buck circle in which they villainize every other character if they so much as make one mistake/joke towards Buck and I hate that. (ESPECIALLY during the lawsuit drama in which people honest to god said with their whole chest Buck was bullied and harrassed like Hen and Chim were when they first joined.)

However, these past two weeks really has been feeding us with Buck angst and every one of his feelings are valid. His anger, his exhaustion, his disappointment. I feel for him. I loved every minute of the episode, actually.

I did have to unfollow someone today who legit posted "more content of Maddie being the worst sister" and holy shit, please.

Maddie is not a bad sister. She was forced to take on a parent-type role for her younger brother after the other brother died. She kept secrets in a household where love and affection suddenly stopped being given and then ended up in an abusive relationship in which she had to keep that a secret as well and I'll be damned if the fact she wasn't being forced to keep secrets already didn't contribute to that.

Buck's anger at her is valid, she lied to him and abandoned him at one point in his life. She had her own circumstances and reasons for doing so and if people don't stop ignoring she was in an abusive fucking relationship and got beaten almost to death and regularly abused by this guy, mentally and physically.

Maddie did her best for Buck. Her best wasn't always what Buck needed. Those two sentences can exist without canceling the other out and without turning Maddie into some terrible person who was never there for her brother. She was, as best as she could be.

Sometimes, your best isn't enough for the other person involved. That's the honest truth of things. What Buck needed when he left was her but that was not something she could give him at that point in time and it's not her fucking fault.

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like tbh. this fandom has a very hard time wrt narrative perspective and that. by nature of feelings people tend to be unreliable narrarators. that just bc someone percieves events a certain way doesnt make them the absolute truth even if it is thw truth to what theyre feeling you saw it ALOT with lawsuit fics like regarding the fandom's perception of the team and also how they displayed bosko ( e.g that whole. she was his replacent even though we're given a legit in narrative explaination and the feelings of replacement were buck's own insecurities and not the actuall narrative truth ) there's just a whole subset that for some reason wants to honestly infantalize evam buckley and like. remove the character complexities and depth of story in order to do so while throwing every other chatacter & their thoughts & motivations in the trash to serve that purpose and it's wild bc like. instead doing so you're...............also polluting buck's narrative like....................... t: text t: 911 there are a lot of typos in these and no i will not be fixing them RIP
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