On our merry way down the cabbage patch

Welcome all! Born an Amber, Nicknamed an Ambie, Role-played (and still addressed) an April. Although, Like Julia Roberts a-la Pretty Woman- I can be anything you want me to be. 36 years old/ Multifandom blog. She/Her

[accaeria]

He was like a father to me. First person who saw me as more than just a screw up.

[wild-aloof-rebel]

[russianblush]

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series is....Hudson Williams!

[academicblorbo]

Give him another award for best way to acknowledge and honour your co-star because holy shit

[mikhailomick]

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[rozanovs]

What is it about Shane that you love and were drawn to? He is hyper competent at this one thing. He’s stereotypically masculine in a lot of regards. He’s a kind person, and he’s so overtly Canadian. He’s harboring something that he thinks is a career-ending secret because he just doesn’t have the emotional maturity or societal maturity to sort of understand what his own queerness means. To him, it’s most likely detrimental, which is the wrong assumption to some degree, but it shatters his own idea of what his masculinity is, or at least it cripples it. And yet, he still never harms a fly. (Hudson Williams via The Hollywood Reporter)

↳ hudcon week 2026, day four: favourite quote

[ottawacentaurshq]

#hudconweek2026 ↳  Favorite non-Heated Rivalry Work

[inacatastrophicmind]

Dean knew. Dean noticed.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[spicyvampire]

Wishing Shane Hollander a very slutty 35th birthday

HEATED RIVALRY (2025−)

[buckbisexually]

is anyone else so insanely sad that harry without a trace of irony said ‘why would they go to buck for something important?’ when, just earlier this season, we saw him go to buck and say ‘i need your help’. and it’s because of buck’s help and pep-talks and determination that he got into the fire academy and is where he is now. and that kid that immediately sought buck’s help because he trusted him now cracks a ‘joke’ about not being able to imagine someone trusting buck or seeing potential in him. that’s so incredibly sad to me.

like, i’ve seen so many people make the case that chimney making all those slights against buck isn’t an issue because buck isn’t bothered by it (which is debatable), but even if that were true, it’s now clear that this behaviour is having effects on their work environment. the way people speak about buck is actively affecting the way other people - who have happily relied on buck in the past - see him. that’s the point it has gotten to now, and that shouldn’t have happened.

[katiagrim]

Listen. I didn’t actually want them to do a storyline where Buck has trouble adopting Theo because of his addiction. But. It really is some wild ass writing choices to have a character go through a DOCUMENTED addiction arc in episode 15. And then adopt a child in episode 18.

[ineffabledandelions-deactivated]

People keep saying this and it keeps being wrong. And frankly? Harmful to actual real life people, not just the woobies you're fixated on on screen.

Buck is in recovery. His addiction is not standing in the way He is actively working, has love for the kid and can support it. That is literally all the social worker is going to care about.

Posts like this one are why I wrote about my experience with the foster care/adoption system. Because many of you have no idea what you are talking about.

And frankly, the entire way that this fandom talks about Buck's addiction is terrible. The man did not become unfit to raise a kid or do literally anything else because he is in RECOVERY for addiction. Y'all understood this shit just fine when it was Bobby. Maybe have the same standards, because constantly harping about how recovering addictings art fit to do basic ass life experiences is pretty awful.

[ambernotember]

Yes, but this is the same show and same social worker that had Nia’s mom work for a year to get custody of her back. (And it was explicitly stated that the goal was always family reunification)

The issue is the timeline, not the addiction — it has only been a few weeks that’s Buck’s been in recovery.

The show stated that gathering around the fire pit was Bobby’s death anniversary, in season 8 we know Bobby’s funeral was about 2-3 weeks after that and then Baby Nash was born the next episode/not long after that.

Frankly, that’s probably not a great time to be making huge life choices either.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but that’s where my issues with the storyline lie.

[ambie720]

Ok so as someone who works in a pharmacy, I’ve had some serious issues with the addiction storyline. Mostly because the symptoms and the severity do not add up.

Buck stated that he was taking the oxycodone for 5 weeks, but not on the actual job. Figuring that he probably was off of work maybe…. 3 ish weeks??? Since firefighters work 24-48 hour shifts at a time, and we can assume that Buck is working a full 40 hours, the likely hood of his metabolism not burning through the meds is highly unlikely. Addiction and dependency come from continuous daily use. Yes, 3ish weeks is enough time to become dependent on opioids. BUT. Therein lies the issue. We also need to take into consideration all of the previous injuries that Buck has had. If it was a body dependency, one could argue that Buck would have been dependent during the crush injury timeline. But he obviously wasn’t. He had significantly more severe injuries at that point and would have been on a more prolonged dosing. Not really knowing what his regimen was we can assume he was weaned off of the meds at some point. However, he has previously had no lasting effects from opioids.

It is most likely a mental issue given everything he’s been thrown lately. Which is why the detox severity in the show was quite surprising to me. It was way more intense of a bodily reaction that it would have been if all the facts that were given were accurate. Also, if you honestly think Buck would have been back to work in like two seconds and not had to run through hoops and met requirements handed down from his superiors… yeah. I’m sure that detox at his home with the 118 wouldn’t have been enough. They would have made him go into a program. 30-90 days. Probably randomized drug tests. He would have had to be clean longer than the show actually might state. (But we don’t actually know how long he was out.)

So if we are talking about stressors and not being able to take care of a child so soon after detoxing, I don’t think y’all understand. Theo is GOOD for Buck’s recovery. It gives him a focus. And just like his job- which Buck stated he would NEVER take drugs on the clock and I believe him- he wouldn’t endanger a child either. I fully believe Buck needs to go back to therapy to work through Bobby and honestly the treatment he receives at the 118. But nothing about his current mental state tells me he’s unfit. And he has stated he wanted a family in the past. I don’t love how this came about, but I think it’s a good thing. A healing thing.

I agree with @ineffablecabbage. Let’s just stop the stigma that addicts CAN’T be parents or Foster if they have been vetted. Someone like Buck who had a brief- VERY brief- dependence and sought help in a timeframe that didn’t allow him to fully become reliant? If he was honest about the timeline and exactly what happened. I doubt they would have had issues. He still has to go through plenty of visits and checkups to get Theo permanently. They will probably monitor Buck more than a normal case- but one could say that could be because of the mental health of Theo and his circumstances more than anything.

If we bring up the mother in Hen and Karen’s case- she didn’t have a support system and needed to get back on her feet. THATS why it took so long. She didn’t have a home. Steady employment. Or family to lean on. (From what I remember) Buck’s case is different.

I think a lot of you are judgmental about addicts in general and that’s sad. I see it every day- the way addicts are treated. People on pain meds- or recovering addicts deserve lives too. They have the same damn rights and are not second class citizens just because y’all think on e you’re an addict you can never be trusted to live again. No one sets out to become dependent on opioids or drugs.

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Teen Wolf 3.24 "The Divine Move"

[ematin]

He gave a truly splendid performance.

[paladinofvengeance]

The fact that Mickey is happier than ANYONE has ever seen him on his wedding day. Like ANYONE. It’s almost out of character how happy he is. He has that smile for the whole world to see when his smiles are mostly reserved for Ian. He dances in front of everyone-not just the slow sway in the spot but actual proper dancing, happy, goofy, drunk dancing with the Gallaghers and Sandy, he’d never let people see that any other day. He’s laughing so open, so free. He lets Ian take his hand and raise it above their heads like a victory lap. He accepts Tami’s hug when he normally hates people touching him. He laughs when people throw rice in his hair and he WAVES at everyone as Ian drives them away. And that jump over the car door!

He’s never that carefree, ever. He’s mostly only happy like that when he and Ian are alone. But this? This was almost crazy joy, not giving a fuck who saw it, because everything he ever wanted was right there and so what if he was happy about it? Who cares? It’s his wedding day to the man he’s been in love with for a decade. They made it, against all odds. So what if he doesn’t push Tami away when she hugs him, or he tears up the dance floor with his family? It’s all about him and Ian, it’s a fucking shrine to their love. And he’s fucking loving it.

[apollabarnes]

i just saw another post about how it sucks (and they suck) that connor and kameron are blaming buck[’s ADHD] for theo’s hyperactivity and destructiveness etc etc and you know what! it does suck! they shouldn’t be blaming him for the way their kid is acting. i hope that if they’d been allowed to be on screen for more than five minutes it would have just that they were stressed out, but that’s impossible to know.

here’s the thing. buck’s ADHD is fanon. we can imply and infer this from a lot of writing decisions that have been made over the last nine years, but no one has ever said that’s what it was on screen.

but it’s been CANONICALLY shown on screen (though of course what does canon even mean in the minds of the writers? ever since bobby has died we’ve been lucky to have a storyline carry across two episodes — I don’t count the opening disaster in this as it is the same call) that the ONLY reason buck ever acted out/was hyperactive/got injured as a kid was because that was the only time his parents paid attention to him. he was not a destructive kid. the one reckless thing that happened on screen was that buck blew his tuition on a keg party and a motorcycle. plenty of college kids blow their tuition on booze.

he survived years on the road without injury — the village people montage in buck begins never once mentions any injuries to buck, and you’d think that many postcards would have contained that information if it had happened.

and buck’s recklessness in the early seasons is really only recklessness in comparison to the other characters, who have been firefighters longer and know how to assess scenes better and make choices faster, because they’ve had at least a decade more experience than buck.

buck’s risk taking has always been a trauma response. there is no reason for theo’s behaviour and genetic predisposition to be influenced by something that was obviously a ‘nurture’ (and not nature) influence of buck’s.

if the writers wanted something to be wrong with theo that could be blamed on buck, as the biological sperm donor… well, the leukemia is right there. imagine with me, if you will.

theo chases his balloon. the 118 rescues him. connor and kameron show up. they go to dinner. they talk to buck about how theo has been getting injured a lot recently — bruises, scrapes, always tired — and buck just has a sinking feeling in his stomach. he knows he told connor and kameron about this. there are screenings that are supposed to be done with embryos. connor and kameron take theo to the doctor. they call to tell buck that he has leukemia and can buck please see if he’s a good match for a bone marrow transplant. on the way home from the hospital, they get in the car accident. buck suddenly has to deal with the fact that his friends were only on that road in that place because of him, that their son is sick because of him, and that he might not be able to help this little boy just like he couldn’t help daniel.

[hisbucky]

for all the things that happened in the episode, I'm still stuck on why would the writers have harry of all people question why connor and kam would ask buck to be a donor

buck has been a pseudo brother to him all season and is practically half the reason why harry still has a good relationship with his own mother, it just makes no sense why'd they have harry cast the first doubts

even ravi would have been a better mouthpiece if the writers wanted to "tease" buck with the subtlety of a wrecking ball to teeth

it doesn't even come across as a "joke" with how they had harry phrase it, like he genuinely wondered why they asked buck of all people to be donor and ooooh I fear I am getting heated wtf

[ambie720]

Ooo yeah. I don’t even want to get started with the way this show infantilizes Buck. It’s absolutely abhorrent. He will never be able to grow if he sticks around with the 118. They will always see him as the probie that stole the fire truck in season one. Oh- the team will dress it up as a funny joke at Buck’s suspense…. But we all know what it is. They have their set ideas about him and the box is closed. Even Chimney says it- “I can’t believe I’m saying this but you’re not a bad person Buck. You’re just dumb and impulsive! But it’s ok that I think those things because you have a good heart. ” like… what? Buck is NOT dumb. He’s actually quite intelligent. He’s just passionate and silly. But that is portrayed as dumb.

It doesn’t matter how many times Buck saves the day, or comes up with a plan on the fly- he’s still just stupid old Buck! It’s not joking and all in good fun when it’s actively tearing someone down.

Also. I HATE with all of my being the term- “Bucking it up.” The idea that screwing up is an inherently Buck trait. Give me a break. It’s constant. When was the last time someone else’s past mistakes were brought up?

The whole situation with Dr.Wells in season one leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn’t handled right by anyone on the team. The joking about a literal sexual assault. Like because Buck sleeps around it was ok??!not only is that slut shaming behavior, it’s blaming the victim 101. Buck doesn’t even seem to realize it- but that doesn’t make it not an assault.

Also, Did we all forget that Hen legit CHEATED on her wife in season 1? Hid an illness this season and played victim like people didn’t actually ask about what was wrong and check in? ( when they did. Buck especially. Several times.)

Or Chimney used to lie to the women he dated to make himself look better? How about how he punched Buck in the face and then ran off with an INFANT? (I still believe to this day that no one actually told Maddie he did that. I can’t imagine she’d want to be with someone who showed violence like that towards her brother after everything with Doug. Even if it was a one off event. No excuse. It would spook the fuck out of her.)

Or Bobby’s actions during the lawsuit era? And don’t get me started on Eddie’s whole… everything. I’d need a whole separate post for the hypocrisy of his character. Why is it these character traits aren’t brought up?

I’ll tell you why. Because people grow and change. And those characters get the luxury. Buck does not.

This is nothing against the other characters- people make mistakes. As long as you apologize and have accountability, people grow and change. And Buck has had such an amazing character arc in this show. So it bothers me when he isn’t given the same credit as the others. There’s only so many little “jabs/jokes” you can take without it being internalized.

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Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley 9-1-1, S09E17 - I Got You, Babe