Bia 𓇼⭒ . ⋆ ⭑

on my byler shit rn but i bounce around fandoms 𓇼 worlds sparkliest loser / 𓇼 warning i will be cringe

[judectionary]

I’m very fond of that part of Will Byers that refuses to be normal

[zombiegrains]

still thinking about how funny this line is

like, this legitimately sounds like some shit he’d say 😭

[griefbespoke]

also big big fan of buck hearing eddie's voice and it immediately hitting the 'christopher's safety above all else' override in his brain. eddie walked into his lawyer's office that one time knowing one thing above all else and by god was he correct

[miminwords]

thought about s1 of 911 and we used to have lesbian sex on this show. we used to have women talking about and having and liking sex on this show in general but also there was lesbian sex

[phoebebyers]

not liking mike wheeler does not you the morally righteous savior of will byers and liking mike wheeler does not make you some enlightened empath that understands "complex" characters. both takes make u an annoying person who argues about stranger things on the internet welcome to the club x

[highlyincorrect]

Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.

[the-muppet-joker]

Heh. I'm in the Bug Leagues, Kid. No, not the Big Leagues. The Bug Leagues. I'm kind of a Bug Deal, you could say. I'm covered in bugs. I'm covered in bugs

[half-desertedstreets]

They did NOT just dress him in a mini Buck outfit I die.

[aduckwithears]

If we're gonna get random human AU of the ineffables as the epilogue, then I'm going to believe that a version of them exists at every time point in history. Bildad is out there. As is Regency Aziraphale. Otherwise what's the point.

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[ramigir]

DON'T WANNA WAIT ANYMORE

[glorious-spoon]

actually, tbh, eddie making a point of insisting on buck's chosen name is the real thing there. 'i didn't kill him'? normal thing to insist on when your friend is missing and this fucking sheriff won't do anything about it because for some reason he thinks you did it. 'we call him buck'? why does he need to know that. why is that relevant, except that this is who he is and it's important to you that he be known.

and particularly in an episode where buck's identity is being forcibly erased and overwritten, eddie not just insisting that buck be found but insisting that buck is buck feels like a lot.

anyway, to be loved is to be known or something like that.

[brittany-murphy]

Buck and his friend's son, Theo

9-1-1, I Got You Babe (S09E17)

[lover-of-mine]

Okay, it's that time of the year when I talk buddie screentime.

As a reminder, my numbers come from my scenepack cut, not the watchable one I've been making available (you can find those here). The rules for this one are if they are directly interacting for most of the scene, the scene stays in full, if not, I cut around the relevant parts. If they are just in frame at the same time, I cut around them to keep just the times where they are in frame. For 913 specifically, I cut the opening scene since Buck isn't there, the police and dispatch scenes that didn't include Eddie, and the Buck scenes that didn't mention Eddie. I kept all of Eddie's scenes since his plot revolved around finding Buck.

Season 9 is complicated. Not counting the crossover, it had the first episode in the ABC run to have under a minute (904 with 30s) and 3 episodes with over 10 minutes, when 12 episodes on the show go over that mark (of 122). And obviously, we have the first episode to go over 20 minutes. And the crossover, that broke all my records, just for 913 to break them all again the following week.

Counting 9a as 901-910, we have a total of 1h07m07s, and 9b as 911-918 + crossover, we have a total of 1h30m.

With 10 episodes, 9a has a 6m42s episode average.

Realistically, 913 fucks up my math. Crossover + 913 makes it insane. As in 9b's an hour and a half for 9 episodes gives us an insane 10 minutes per episode average lol. Removing both gives us a 4m55s average, which is the lowest from the ABC run, but still higher than the fox run average since that one is 4m23s. And the reduction is understandable when we consider both the crossover and 913 were basically about buddie. I mean, that combo is longer than all of s5. And longer than any half-season, besides 2a, 8a, 9a and b.

9a is the longest half-season ever if we don't count the crossover, detroning 8a, which had 1h01m36s. With the crossover, 9b is the longest.

Overall, s9 is the longest full season, with 2h10m38 seconds without the crossover. With the crossover, it has 2h37m08s. Dethroning s8 that had 1h51m26s. Before that, it was s3 with 1h24m38s.

S9 is also one of 2 seasons where they at least stand next to each other at some point in every episode of the season, the other being s4.

My conclusion in all this is that it feels disconnected since the pacing was weird and the airing schedule was all over the place, but we still got a lot of quality buddie.

Other posts I made on the screentime can be found here. I also have a breakdown of the screentime of all of Buck's love interests up until 811.

[lover-of-mine]

Okay, here's an addendum since @theyre-buddies asked for the numbers if we consider the split we have been working with, so 9a being 901-906, 9b being 907-910, and then 9c being what I originally considered 9b. I made the choice to split the season in 2 because of the consistency of the data, but I have the numbers, so lol.

9a had a total screentime of 29m11 seconds in 6 episodes, giving us a 4m51s episode average. 9b had a total screentime of 37m41s, with an average of 9m25 seconds for 4 episodes. Which is quite insane now that I did the math (lowkey went to check the videos to make sure things are right, but yep, they are).

The thing is, 904 really lowers the numbers since it virtually has no buddie, and 907-08 really up those numbers because there are a lot of buddie in 907, and the work to create the parallels for the intervention adds a lot here. Also, 908 has them partnered in the field in a way that doesn't happen in 9a, which also raised the numbers. Both episodes add to 27 minutes, so it offsets the average in a similar way 809's 17m23s did with s8.

So we had a slightly lower average for the first 6 episodes, and then buddie really picked up speed between 907 and 913, then we were back to the 5ish minutes average.

And like @freespirit-2115 pointed out in another reblog, Tim did point out that originally, we were supposed to have Eddie be more involved with Theo already, but there was a change to add Eddie into the ICE plotline, so that lowered their interaction in the finale, 918 being one of of 4 episodes from the abc run (43 episodes) to have 2 minutes or less, having exactly 2 minutes, which did lower the numbers significantly, since it was the only episode of the season, bar 904, to have under 4 minutes. So that lowered the numbers on the season post 913.

[ryliversbuddie]

theo being 4 makes buddie a 9 year in universe slowburn just fyi

[yourlocalchronicdaydreamer]

Nothing dates a buddie fic more than a casual mention of Eddie owning his house

[jxonthewindow]

theo's perfect 6.18: Pay It Forward 9.17: I Got You Babe