too Gay for this

BUDDIE COOKING TOGETHER OVER FACETIME

literally you don't find it, you make it. and brother, they are making it

I love Eddie DIAZ best dad in the world best ballroom dancer in the world best firefighter in the world best army medic in the world best cagefighter in the world!!!!! friend to all lesbians on planet earth!!!! the only person on the 118 who remembered beautiful henrietta wilson’s birthday!!!! la’s princess and el paso’s prodigal son!!!!! people’s sexiest man 10 years in a row and counting!!!! everyone cheer and clap for him and give him a million dollars!!!!!!!!!

buck has a packed schedule these days

vaginal infections, utis, and extreme ph imbalances are no fucking joke. please wash your goddamn hands before you stick your fingers in someone

if i pick up the vibe that i’m gonna fuck someone, i’m like “be right back :)” and i go and i wash my hands. if i can’t do it at that moment, then i’m not putting my fingers in them because i have no fucking idea what their body may or may not be sensitive to and i certainly would not have been keeping track of everything i have or haven’t touched since the last time i washed them.

just because your hands aren’t visibly dirty doesn’t mean the bacteria you carry around from touching your phone, random objects, other people, and yourself won’t be 100% passed to that other person and upset their reproductive ecosystem of bacteria. be conscious of others. wash your fucking hands

living happily in my world where maddie had to listen to her brother meltdown about the implication of being in love with his straight best friend and just. took a picture of him. in his adorable little housewife apron. and went. hmm i wonder who would enjoy this. and sent it to eddie. who she never speaks to. and eddie seeing a text from maddie and freaking out. lunging for his phone only to see a beautiful picture of buck practically glowing. and he's like :) thank you maddie :). and then he sets it as his little contact picture for buck. and he's just smiling to himself for the rest of the day.

buck saying recipes are just a guideline and eddie replying that to helena diaz they're gospel....something something eddie always trying to follow the recipe of the kind of man he should be and the kind of life he should have that his parents have laid out for him and buck being the one to encourage him to deviate from it. that he's not wrong just because he's not perfect.

MY kid.

thinking about how they’re just incapable of being apart. anything happens and they’re on the phone, facetiming. nothing is happening and they’re still on the phone, facetiming. because just hearing his voice isn’t enough. you gotta see his face. up close or with the phone propped up on whatever while he’s moving around. they can’t be apart. they’re not letting 800 miles get in the way. if i can’t sit next to you on the couch, i will call you and i will talk to you and i will share all of my life with you. i will joke with you. i will cook while you talk. i will listen to everything you have to say. i will say everything you need to hear. and it doesn’t matter that you’re 800 miles away, you’re right here with me and im right there with you. god.

I have so much to say about today's episode, but I can't get over the fact that Eddie loved ballroom dancing—until his parents ruined it for him. They turned it into something competitive, something he had to prove himself in, with trophies to win and a scholarship to earn, when all he ever wanted to do was just dance. And then, years later, when the priest told him to find his joy, the very first thing he did was dance freely, without all the pressure his parents had put on his shoulders

Cooking FaceTime Date ❤️

the facetime call at the firehouse really confirmed to me that buck walks around on the phone with eddie nonstop and everyone at the 118 knows all of their business

This episode really was even more evidence that Eddie might be a single dad, but he hasn't been parenting Christopher by himself for a long time.

They set the stage for Buck as Eddie's co-parent in 7x01 when Eddie asked Buck to talk to Chris about girls. They've intentionally been laying the foundation for Buck as Eddie's co-parent since they moved networks. I'd argue they've been doing it for much longer, but I think they've been much more explicit about it since they moved to ABC.

Eddie called Buck when Christopher wouldn't open the door. He said, "What you always do, talk to him."

The four FaceTime calls have all had at least one moment where Buck either reaffirmed Eddie's choices or reminded him about his priorities or helped him work through a situation about parenting.

They've really set them up as partners in and out of the field and it's just getting more obvious with every episode. The episodes in El Paso have been the most obvious in the shift because it isn't just a conversation on a shift, it's Eddie and Buck intentionally calling each other to talk and for advice.