☪︎ moon! قمر

eddie has more skill lore than any other character on this show. perfect firefighter and paramedic staff sergeant in the army with a silver star mma fighter car guy who can illegally change a tire in less than 5 minutes champion ballroom dancer who was so good he could have gone to college on that talent poker nights with his bosses basketball every other thursday baseball pitcher at some point he loves going to the beach with chris and watching telenovelas. he is the best dad in the world. not perfect just the best. and by the way he can cook now. Who is doing it like this

Sooooo because I’ve been seeing connections to Bobbys arc in all the Halloween episodes it got me thinking about the costumes from this seasons Halloween episode and how I thought at the time they were meant to be relevant to each characters arc for the season because it’s something the show likes to play on - giving hints through the set and costumes - I just hadn’t figured it out and then didn’t really think on it more because we got Eddie dancing and Buck escaped his dull, uninspiring relationship and I got distracted like the audhder I am!!

Then I saw something on twitter and Bluesky earlier and all the dots connected and I was right - the costumes are all about each characters arc for the season.

Mad scientist Hen - upcoming biohazard arc

Chim as Jason - a serial killer - Maddie getting kidnapped and nearly killed by one! (Which was also why Doug used the name Jason back in s2 - it was a play on the same thing!)

Vampire Bobby - vampires are undead and lore says they sleep in coffins - Bobby is about to be buried alive in a coffin - it’s a play on death and resurrection both catholic and vampiric (proof he won’t die!!)

Werewolf Eddie - transformation and identity - in modern literature and tv/film the werewolf has become connected to the idea of hiding who you are and being othered - and that has been taken up by the queer community because it is something they identify with - so Eddie’s arc about his identity and who he is, is clearly a queer one.

Cowboy Buck - hiding behind a giant stache - it’s about Texas but also about recklessness and impulsivity - which are considered cowboy traits, and in the uk a cowboy is someone who is false or dishonest - which with the theme of the season being lying and fakeness - would fit with the idea that Buck is hiding his true feelings (behind a moustache too big for his face!), that he’s not being honest about them - and that is connected to Texas because we’ve started to address that concept now that Eddie is there - because that’s where his heart is. Even Tommy is part of this costume led arc nod - Buck finds a corpse (which he thinks is fake but turns out to be real - which is a subversion of the real/fake thing and is also why in part it is dressed in something similar to Eddie’s bachelor party outfit - because it’s all about subversion and Buck having things the wrong way around) which is a representation of Tommy and why he sleeps on the couch like a corpse - which was clearly a direction and not his bad acting!! Billy was already a Tommy metaphor - losing his posse etc in the same way Tommy is feeling the loss of not being a part of the 118!!

I really do love the costume team so very much - they just keep on knocking it out of the park at every opportunity!

"Wuh luh wuh?" I am a dyke. A butch. A lesbian.

#Thinking about Eddie being put first by his two favorite people...

the difference between this eddie and the eddie from buck's perspective last episode. and they're both real. eddie IS so cool and so funny and so good and he has a silver star and he's a loser and a yapper and a liar and the best dad in the world. he is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie.

S0510&E11 vrs S08E09&E11 9-1-1

8.11 Holy Mother of God + Callbacks

Did someone already talk about HOW PRESENT Buck 1.0 was in this ep?

"just grab my hand" the lady on the cross -> Devon

Bobby stopping Buck from smashing something : pipe baby's wall -> Elmer's door

No Eddie

Sleeping with people without having feelings for them

Living in someone he loves' house

Buck definitely doesn't know how good Eddie was at illegal street fighting or that conversation would have been like "he wasn't just a street fighter he was a champion street fighter. he was the best at it. he made a ton of money."

I've known that since the first day I worked with him. Of course you want to hang out with Eddie.

genuinely I can't stop laughing at the fact that it's a canon buddie dynamic that eddie just goes around doing vaguely evil and illegal shit and buck follows him going surely this is all perfectly legally sound because eddie - my eddie, the paragon of goodness with a silver star - would never do anything illegal. but then again what else could I have expected from buck 'follows eddie diaz into what he suspects is a mob establishment with zero questions' buckley

buck: i'm not in love with eddie it's just that i dream of holding his hand and i miss him constantly and my life is incomplete without him

9-1-1 | Season 8, Episode 11, ‘Holy Mother of God’

chim and hen's goodbye vs. whatever the fuck they've got going on

"which could mean nothing" well my good friend eddie diaz said "it's not nothing" so maybe you should reconsider actually

BUDDIE + text posts/tweets (5/∞)