Please write a rant about how Buck is the smartest boy cos I wanna hear
....You asked for this Haley.... You shall receive.
This may not make a whole lot of sense, but oh well.
If anyone’s been following my blog, you probably know by now that I get really salty about the fact people refer to Evan Buckley as dumb.
Buck is impulsive, yes, but that doesn’t mean he’s stupid. I’ve seen people say, ‘but he did this thing that endangered himself !! It was dumb!!’ - Buck is canonically someone who wears his heart on his sleeve and is definitely fulled by his emotions and his need to help people. He knows the risks, but he desperately needs to help these people, and sometimes, he’ll ignore the risks for that reason. I’ve seen other characters from other fandoms do this all the time, no one calls them dumb ( or maybe they do, but not to the extent of buck).
He goes out of his way to research things and memorise it. I personally, suck at retaining information, but if there’s a topic Buck needs to know, he’ll research the shit out of it to use it in conversations. Like when he was concerned about Bobby, or when he was talking to Eddie about the skateboard incident. In my personal opinion, the boy craves knowledge. He actively seeks it out. Most of the smart people I know are the ones that’ll randomly tell you facts on a subject that you’ve never thought to think about.
Also, just because Buck doesn’t know pop culture that doesn’t make him dumb. He’s allowed to not get references. I actually know a girl that was constantly called dumb because she didn’t get pop culture references but she was pretty sheltered when she was younger. Her parents didn’t let her. For all we know, that could be the same. Maddie doesn’t get pop culture references either (...don’t see anyone acting like she’s less intelligent bc of it) so they could have been fairly sheltered when they were younger. A lot of the pop culture I know came from my parents interests. It’s possible their parents didn’t have time for that, or didn’t pay too much attention to their kids for them to pick up their interests.
It also annoys me when the team acts as if he’s stupid (not all of them do, though) . Like when he was talking about college and Chim joked about Maddie writing his essay for him. Like??? It grinds my gears, because you could see he was frustrated by it, but he didn’t say anything. He just took in his stride.
Also, I personally do not like the phrase Himbo, especially as when you look up the definition (which i had too, lmao) google literally says “ a good-looking but unintelligent young man”.
EVAN. BUCKLEY. IS. NOT. UNINTELLIGENT.
He things outside the box, constantly, to fix problems. In pinned, he was the only one that came out with the idea to make the splint. Maybe the others might have come up with it later, but he did it quickly enough that it didn’t further harm the woman.
Calling him a himbo, is ignoring how intelligent he is.
It just frustrates me. I could literally link to several different gifsets (and from now on, i’m gonna tag them all as smart buck for my reference) where he’s being intelligent and people just??? ignore it???
Evan Buckley is such a intelligent, complex character, stop acting like he’s just some dumb pretty boy.
