Today, March 1st is Disability Day of Mourning. We take this time to remember the disabled people who have been murdered by their parents or caregivers. Too often their lives are seen as the tragedy, not their deaths.
Disabled people are looked upon, not as human, but as burdens, and leeches on society. But we ARE human, and we deserve the right to live with dignity and respect as much as anyone else. Those murdered didn't deserve to die. What was their crime? Being an inconvenience?
One thing that needs to be addressed is the lack of support given to disabled people, including their caregivers. While not justified, some of these murders were committed by those who had been pushed to their breaking point, without any help of any kind. More and more, government support is being stripped away, if it was even there to begin with. We need to hold politicians accountable for how little they care about us. You may not like me bringing politics into this, but being disabled is political. How many of us are on disability? How many of us rely on government supports?
We need to fight. We need to speak up. Make our voices heard over the swaths of non-disabled voices that speak over us. But for today, let us be silent, just for a moment, to mourn those we've lost.
Hey, no homo, but I am sitting on the broken swing set out back in the perfect, quiet, 2:00am blackness and picturing the softness of your voice and the darkness of your eyes with such perfect and terrible clarity that it feels like I'm choking on my own heartbeat.
Fun facts about immigration in the US you might want to share with friends and relatives for no particular reason
The United States actually had open borders until 1924. There was no cap on immigration, and people were only denied access based on race and disability. (x)
The Immigration Act of 1924 had an overall negative impact on the economy (x) (x) and foreign relations with Asia, but Hitler praised it (x), because it was just blatant eugenics (x).
ICE didn't exist until 2003 (x)
Being undocumented is not actually classified as a crime (x). If it was, cases would be handled by the judicial branch, and defendants would receive the benefits of due process. But because it isn't, it is handled by the executive branch, and defendants do not get due process, in clear violation of their rights. That means no lawyers, no jury, and no real judge.
Immigration "judges," who are not required to have nearly as much experience or education in law as real judges (x), face no consequences for wrongful deportation, they are only really evaluated based on how many people they process.
While it's difficult to pin down an exact number, there have been an estimated 4,000 wrongful detention/deportations by 2010 alone (x - this one suggests a possible 20,000) (x - this one confirms over a thousand), with several reported on in mainstream media (Mark Lyttle, Pedro Guzman, Roberto Dominquez, Andres Gonzalez, Esteban Tiznado-Reyna).
In April 2025, there were several more confirmed wrongful deportations, including a 2-year-old citizen deported to Honduras (x) (x), a 10-year-old with brain cancer on her way to a medical appointment (x), and a 7-year-old and her 4-year-old brother with stage 4 cancer (x).
There were more deaths in ICE concentration camps in 2025 than almost any year prior, tying for first place with 2003 (x). If nothing is done about it, that number will increase in 2026.
what nonphannies don’t understand is that it isn’t about “knowing” it’s about dnp’s queer joy and comfort level. we’re not happy bc they told us, we’re happy bc they felt comfortable and joyful enough to tell us. “knowing” has a weird power connotation. If you “knew” all along you’re trying to establish power over information that you don’t have authority on, and it takes power away from the people (dnp) telling you the information.
I'm not hopping on the doom train or anything - I'm still holding out hope Tommy returns regardless of what Oliver says in interviews (he said something in a similar vein post 8x06 that sent people spiralling and we all know how that eventually turned out). But I have to say, IF Buck ends up with another love interest, I can honestly say that I just won't give a shit about them.
Is that because I want him to be with Tommy? Of course, partially - I love their chemistry, I personally think the show has accidentally stumbled across the love interest that fits best both with Buck personally and those in his life and I think it would be a waste to throw two seasons worth of development away, especially when things were left open-ended at the end of last season.
But the other reason I won't care is because how are we going to see anything new in regards to Buck's storylines? We are onto the 9th season, and he has had multiple love interests up to this point - what could the show give us that we haven't already seen? We've seen him sleep around and enjoy casual sex; we've seen a friends with benefits situation (that eventually turned to a relationship); we've seen him learn what it's like to be in a serious relationship, and what it is to be heartbroken. We've seen relationships fall apart because, even though they had chemistry, they didn't really mesh; we've seen them fall apart because they're at completely different stages of their lives; where the risks of his job has come between them; hell even where his close relationship with his friends has come between them. What more can the show give us? Not to mention the fact that if they introduce a new love interest, it means we've got to start all over again the process of the audience learning about this new character, of BUCK learning about this new character, building that relationship from the ground up - we're not going to see anything we haven't already seen before. Just like with Tommy, this character would be a recurring so they wouldn't get a hell of a lot of screentime, and it will take time for anyone to warm up to them; any further progressions into some new experience for Buck, like moving in together or getting engaged, wouldn't happen for another one to two seasons - if the show even lasts that long.
And quite frankly, I am tired of show writers (not just in 911 to be fair, but 911 is particularly bad for it) who don't seem to have any imagination when it comes to writing relationships. Who seem to think that the only way to make a relationship interesting is to create internal conflict that drives them apart (they have done this with all of the major couples in the show at one point or another). What about external conflict? Things that can create drama that can create a bit of friction but ultimately the couple can work through together? Why does everything have to be cheating or break-up/make-ups for it to be "interesting"?
I am not a professional writer by a looong stretch. But off the top of my head, I can come up with about half a dozen scenarios for Buck and Tommy together as a couple that could create drama/conflict and help Buck grow as a character:
Buck could meet Tommy's father, and not only could we learn more about Tommy, but Buck could experience his first bit of homophobia, and have to learn how to deal with that, especially coming from family of the one he loves.
He could clash with his parents as they try to understand his bisexuality - not that they aren't supportive, but they're just confused and don't know how to understand this new version of their son, so Buck has to sit down with them and explain what it was like for him, realising his sexuality so late, giving not only conflict but a chance for Buck on screen to really delve into what it means for him to be bisexual.
His parents could end up loving Tommy and actually bonding with him, triggering jealousy in Buck because he fought for so long to get his parent's attention and love, yet Tommy got it so easily? And he feels horrible for feeling this way, because of COURSE he wants them to accept Tommy.
We've seen Buck get injured and be cared for by Tommy - now it's time for the reverse. Buck has had partners experience what it's like for him to be in the hospital, and now the shoe is on the other foot and someone he loves is in there, he can finally understand why Ali couldn't handle his job.
The two of them end up having a conversation about kids - one wants them, the other isn't sure and is not sure if his mind will change. Buck has to decide if this is a deal breaker for him and what he wants his future to look like.
Buck and Tommy decide to move in together, but here's the dilemma - who moves where? Buck finally has something that he bought for himself; he doesn't want to give it up already. Tommy has been living there for years, and his place holds sentimental value - how can he give that up?
And what about some light-hearted shenanigans? Tommy's neighbourhood decided to hold some sort of neighbourhood bake-off and Buck ends up feuding with the lady who lives next door over who can make the best Victorian Sponge and meanwhile poor Tommy is trying to keep the peace because "I have to live next door to her Evan!"
That's just a few off the top of my head and there are sooooo many other fantastic fic writers out there who I'm sure can come up with so much more. And we do this for fun - we're not paid to produce these stories, yet somehow we have more imagination than these paid writers, where the best they can come up with is "break-up/make-up".
And at the end of the day, I want to see the characters I love be happy. I'm not saying they can't have their angst and drama - who doesn't love a good bit of whump or near death experience? But it needs to be in reasonable doses. I've said it before, but the writers were straight up CRUEL to Buck in season 8. It seemed they found a way to keep kicking him while he was down at every turn from the very beginning - Gerrard was targeting him, Tommy broke up with him, he wanted to adopt and then lost a dog, his sister was kidnapped, his best friend left, he screwed up a chance of getting back together with Tommy, his father-figure died, he felt isolated from the 118 to the point he put in for a transfer. (And all the while, they kept making out like Buck was being the unreasonable one, the immature one.) It was not a fun season to watch if you are a Buck fan.
We want to see our favourite characters happy; not only work their way towards that happiness but actually experience said happiness. Not just constant drama and then throw someone at them in the final episodes so they can end on a "happily ever after" a la Natalia when they thought season 6 would be their last. We want to SEE Buck ACTUALLY have a chance of happiness - to move in with someone he loves (and not out of guilt that he kissed someone else), to get married, maybe end with a kid if that's what he wants. To experience some domestic bliss that Maddie and Chim, Hen and Karen and Bobby and Athena do/did, something he has been wanting since he realised that a steady, monogamous relationship was what he wanted in life.
So yeah, that's my rant. I don't want to see Buck get "kinky" with some randoms - we've seen it before. I don't want yet ANOTHER dropped storyline with either no or an unsatisfying resolution. I understand Oliver wants Buck's bisexuality to be acknowledged more (he's not wrong, I have also seen plenty of people assume that "Buck is gay now"), but as I saw someone else point out, you don't need to have Buck go around sleeping with a bunch of women to remind the audience that Buck is not gay and still interested in women. Besides the fact that hes been doing it for the first 6 seasons, you know what they could do? Actually SAY that he's bisexual! Acknowledge that he's still attracted to both. I know some people don't mind if Buck dates around a bit before going back to Tommy, but personally, IF they're getting back together, I don't - while I don't mind a slow burn in fic, I need things a little more fast paced on screen - I can read a fic in a few hours, but I don't want to be waiting for months. I'm sick of this storyline being dragged out to the point that it's barely got life left in it, and as I saw someone else say a long time ago, it feels like it makes Tommy Buck's last resort rather than his first choice, that he couldn't find anyone better so he went "oh well, I'll just go back to Tommy" (all the while, what, expecting Tommy to still be there waiting and pining for him?). The Buck and Tommy relationship already hasn't had a proper chance to flourish, with us being given only snippets over the last two seasons (some GREAT snippets, but snippets nonetheless) and the longer they drag it out, the less chance we'll have to see something actually satisfying.
And damn it, I want to finally have some satisfaction.
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at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry that’s like “august has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sun” and every time I’m like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.
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