(ok nevermind the fact that i ONLY have 5 edits made but) ✨ + griff edits?
hi griffin! 🥰🥰since you only have 5 i will simply appreciate them all
1. this chris set omfg i love him so much and this set is so adorable!! the quote is really cute and the font you chose is so nice!! i also like that ‘sunshine’ is yellow it’s a nice touch 💛and stuck is one of my favourite episodes!! so bonus points there
2. this madney set. i love this set!! the layout is really unique and I love that the quote is separated into gifs as well (and the quote is so good for them). i also just really like how they all sync up with the switch to the black and white scene?? very cool. 10/10.
3. this buddie set !! I LOVE THIS. the quote is so so wonderful and soft and omg the scenes you chose are perfect. i’m also just a hoe for gifs that are several scenes overlaid on each other like that? like with the gradient. idk what it’s called but i love it, it’s sexy.
4. this eddie set, this is great lmao. i love these text post sets. also the colouring on this is just really soft and pretty!!!
5. this. I don’t really know what this is bc i’ve never seen the show but i respect u and i still think it’s great. gold star. a+.
honourable mentions: u have no more edits so i will honourably mention u. big fan. 💖
creators: send me ✨ + your creations tag & I’ll answer with my top five favorite edits of yours!
Buck is jealous of a dead boy. It’s ridiculous and unfair, but it’s like he’s twelve years old again, and the feeling coils tight and hot in his chest. His hands tremble where he grips the photograph, and he tries his best not to crease it, doesn’t want to ruin this precious thing that somehow meant more to his parents than the children they still had.
The thing is, Buck has spent his whole life feeling like he’s a step behind, living in the shadow of someone he could never name. He’d done everything he could think of to break down the barrier between him and his parents, but he never could. Never knew why. Now he’s got a name for that shadow, a face, but it doesn’t feel any better.
“Daniel,” he says. He hates that it comes out bitter, because the boy in this photo—his brother—doesn’t deserve it. He hadn’t done anything wrong. He’d simply had the audacity to live just long enough for his parents to pour their love into him, and then take it with him to the grave.
He looks happy, in the photo. Smiling at the camera from astride his bike, crooked teeth and all, like he’s having the time of his life. Maybe he was. Buck doesn’t think he’d ever find a picture of himself that looked like this—doesn’t think he’d ever smiled this wide with his parents behind the camera.
Love me anyway, he had begged, but what he didn’t know then was that they couldn’t, because his parents had buried their love when they buried this kid.
“I never knew,” Buck tries, grasping at straws for an explanation. “They—they didn’t tell me. They never talk about him.”
“I don’t think they knew how,” Maddie says. Daniel stares out at them from the photograph, grinning like he’s got his whole life ahead of him, and Buck doesn’t know how to feel. Doesn’t know how to grieve someone he never even had the chance to know.
“We had a brother,” Buck repeats, still trying to wrap his mind around it. “And I’ve been...trying to live up to him, for so long, and I never even knew.”
“You were so young,” Maddie says, and her voice shakes, “and you didn’t remember, and then they just—we just—”
“Why are you still defending them?” Buck asks, so quietly. He still can’t find it in himself to tear his eyes from the photo. “They hurt you too, Mads. You can’t pretend they didn’t.”
“They were grieving,” Maddie tries again, but it’s half-hearted. “Losing a child is awful. And with Daniel gone, they just...didn’t know what to do with all that empty space.”
And Buck can understand, really, he can. Loneliness and grief crowd into the empty spaces in your life and smother you, suffocate you. Sometimes it feels like there’s no escape. Except his parents' life wasn’t empty, not really—they just refused to really look at what was left behind.
“But they had us, Maddie!” Buck says, almost desperately, “And we’re still here!”
The photo creases where Buck’s thumb presses in a bit too tightly, and he drops it on the table in front of him like it’s on fire. He doesn’t want to look at it anymore.
He chances a look up at his sister, sees his own tears mirrored in her eyes. His voice breaks when he asks, “Why wasn’t that enough?”
It should have been enough. It never was. Buck is jealous of a dead boy because he got two loving parents and a wonderful sister, and Buck got I don’t know what you expected us to do, Evan, and a sister who was trying her best but didn’t quite know when to stop running.
It’s ridiculous. It’s unfair. Buck is twenty-nine years old and he still feels like he’s twelve, trapped in that empty space in that empty house between two people whose hearts were buried six feet under. He doesn’t know what to do with that. He doesn’t know what to do with his hands.
“It was enough for me,” Maddie says, and her tears threaten to spill over when she puts a hand on his knee, gentle as always. “You are enough for me.”
Buck takes a shuddering breath, but he can’t seem to find his voice. So he just nods, twists his fingers up with hers, and squeezes. She smiles softly and squeezes back.
i can’t believe you would ask me this, knowing for a fact i’m so in love with both of them that every outfit is a fav....i’m sticking to casual clothes bc the uniforms would win
anyway as of right now i’m personally obsessed with the orange shirt for Buck from 4x03, and the olive flannel and tshirt combo for Eddie in...3x12, i think?
i spent almost my entire day outlining the entire trajectory of this huge fic i'm working on! it's one of the first times i've ever done it but it feels really good to have a roadmap i can fall back on when i get stuck :)
that sounds fun but also exhausting?? i do that with like gifsets to tho!! I make lists lmao and bullet points of scenes/moments to cap and then cap the next day and gif the day after that. so i guess i do get it. and it is nice to know what we are doing!
