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Literally the classic Cycle of Abuse /: (
Dennis has a personality disorder and is constantly in a cycle of Nurture/Abandon with Mac and has been for the entire series. Dennis calling Mac out was about humiliating/abandoning him in a public way to destabilize the security that Dennis returning might have brought him. It fits perfectly into the Dennis system, but with Mac the cycle has been going on for so long that with every repetition it becomes more and more extreme.
Leaving was the 2nd N, returning was the I, and crushing him in public is the S. The reason he thinks he can re-attach women he DENNIS’es is because it keeps working on Mac. He’s doing to cycle back to D and do something sweet within the next few episodes, which hopefully means we will eventually finally get E since with every repeat it escalates.
Dennis is a bastard man and this is what he does.
bfore anyone asks NO i do NOT take criticism on my posts
i think my favorite thing about the gang gets new wheels is how the old range rover itself becomes a symbol of dennis’s life in philly. it’s broken down, unglamorous, something even an “economy man” scoffs at, but, it’s somehow everything dennis wants. when he went to north dakota, the gang blew up his old rover, symbolizing the start of a new life and the end of the person dennis had been in philly (dennis even said, the range rover was a big part of his identity). in both cases, dennis tries and tries to get used to a new car (a new lifestyle in north dakota being a family man ) that is considered better, more conventionally successful. but he doesn’t want it. at the end of the day, he wants his broken-down fucked up life in philly more than anything else he could choose from, and he will go back to it every time.
this is a Good concept
in the promo for “bathroom problem” mac is also wearing hawaiian shorts because he has to prove his dominance as the chillest Jimmy Buffet Gay
can I riff… this time it looks like dennis is slowly starting to accept himself in results of the situations he put himself into and this is objectively not good?
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tired: dennis will be mad and sad during mac finds his pride
wired: Boys Are Out Tonight Huh? vol. 2
not to start reaching but it’s…suspicious how often dennis has been saying he’s straight this season.
hear me out: as far as i can remember, dennis has never called himself straight before season 13. he didn’t have to, because he was acting on it. he talked about women a lot and openly flirted with them or slept with them, but he never specifically called himself anything.
and it’s just…interesting, that mac’s finally out of the closet and has openly expressed interest in dennis, and it’s already pretty likely that this fear of his shifting relationship toward mac (and how it’s hurtling toward something a whole lot more than platonic) and their feelings for each other is what drove him out of philly in the first place.
and now, suddenly, he’s professed how Totally Straight he is at least three or four times already. but even more interesting is that dennis hasn’t actually slept with any women this season. he hasn’t even hit on any, except for when frank and that high school kid came in and started saying that they thought dennis was supposed to be this big ladies’ man and were challenging his Hetero Cred…and then dennis tried (very badly, mind you) to flirt with a woman who was definitely a lesbian anyway but i digress
and it’s just…suspicious. i know that i certainly never called myself straight that much, and certainly not that voraciously, until it had already become startlingly clear to me that i wasn’t. and only after i was trying desperately to hold onto my last hopes of not being gay, and once i was trying really hard to convince everyone around me of it too, did i start saying it a lot. i’m just saying, it feels like dennis is being so loud about being straight to fill the gap in his conversations where he’s no longer actually talking about or flirting with any women, hoping that if he keeps saying it then no one will notice that his interests have definitively shifted elsewhere.
dennis refusing to go to the concert is so telling of how he really feels about mac and dee. they’re the two people dennis claims to “””””hate”””””” the most and still he refuses to go have fun without them. there’s just so much dissonance between what dennis says and what he does and how he really feels
every member of the gang is horribly entangled in each other’s lives and codependent to some degree, and no matter how much dennis tries to present himself as the sane one who could do so much better than the gang, he’s the most dependent of them all
u know what really gets me crying??
In “Mac Day”, Dennis is easily the most receptive to Country Mac: He almost instantly idolizes the man after he jumps off that bridge, he’s sitting next to Country Mac at the planetarium, but furthest away from him in the dojo (because the gang is plotting to get Mac’s ass kicked, and thus it’s very understandable that Dennis didn’t want Country Mac to overhear him saying such things about Mac). He laughed first/the loudest at funny/cool remarks Country Mac made, engaged in the most physical contact with him, and was also the most vocal about how much he liked Country Mac (he’s awesome, the way he rides motorbikes is badass, he gave an ocular pat down correctly).
This all seems to heavily contrast his attitude towards Mac throughout the episode. He’s the first one to bring up all the little things he finds annoying about Mac (his karate, Project Badass, his devotion to god), even going so far as to postulate that perhaps he doesn’t hate Mac’s interests, but rather Mac himself. The others are not as vocal while Dennis prattles on about Mac, mostly just nodding and saying yes in agreement. Out of the members of the gang, it is only Dennis who thinks deeply about Country Mac’s good qualities and how those contrast with Mac’s. The others just think that Country Mac’s cool. And despite Dennis’s criticisms of Mac, it is obvious he has thought most widely about this, a hint at the depth of his feelings for Mac, however negatively he shows them.
A fascinating thing to note about this is how most of Dennis’s frustration and anger at Mac is directed specifically at Mac’s cyclical self-denial—especially when it comes to Mac’s homosexuality.
CHARLIE: Seven straight hours of lecturing?
DENNIS: Yeah, and five hours alone dedicated to the evils of homosexuality, from him?
In fact, most of the decisive action Dennis takes in the episode is to break Mac out of this cycle, he wants Mac to admit he’s not as big a badass as he thinks, he wants Mac to admit that he’s gay. This desire seems to increase tenfold when Country Mac comes out to all of them.
COUNTRY MAC: Dudes. I’m into dudes.
DENNIS: Oh… you’re gay!
COUNTRY MAC: Loud and proud, brother! Loud and proud! Yeah, ain’t nothing wrong with that.
DEE: Nothing wrong with that!
CHARLIE: Honestly, it’s like, refreshing to hear. You know what, happy hunting bro, get after it.
DEE: Good luck.
COUNTRY MAC: Cool, cool, cool, I’ll see you all in a little bit.
CHARLIE: Cool, yeah, yeah. See, he doesn’t want us to grease them, y’know?
DEE: God, that’s awesome.
CHARLIE: Because he wants them!
DENNIS: It doe—right.
CHARLIE: He wants them for himself. It’s so much more comfortable when someone’s gay and open about it.
DEE: It’s fantastic.
CHARLIE: And, like, I know we’ve never said this as a group, but—
DENNIS: Mac’s gay.
As you can probably tell, Dennis becomes much less vocal after finding out that Country Mac’s gay, staying mostly silent as his gaze switches between Mac and Country Mac, only to chime right back in to declare that Mac is most certainly gay. Yup. Just the Macs. Definitely not him. He’s also the first to observe that Mac has a boner again, from being around all the beefcakes. Unlike Dennis, Mac is unable to force himself to be flaccid at will.
So the gang moves on to the karate tournament, and Dennis comes up with the idea to sign Mac up for a fight to prove to Mac that he isn’t such an unstoppable badass, to snap him out of his delusions. The gang isn’t very certain about this, but join Dennis as he manipulates Mac into fighting through praise and goading him into wanting to prove himself. Dennis consistently asserts that teaching Mac a lesson is for his own good, and in his own twisted way, Dennis wants Mac to be the best version of himself. After the fight ends with Mac getting knocked down and Country Mac beating up Mac’s opponent in his honor, Mac is still adamant that he was more badass than Country Mac. This frustrates the entire gang, who lash out at him, but Dennis most of all who insists that Mac must admit that he got his ass kicked, and that he is not a badass. Even Dee, who was the most supportive of Dennis’s plan before, begs him to let it go because Mac Day is almost over, upon which Dennis refuses to back down, because in his words “We have a lifetime of this to look forward to!”. Despite everything Dennis has said this whole episode, he has this pre-conceived notion that he (and according to his assumption, the rest of the gang) will be with Mac for life. And that Dennis apparently intends for Mac to be a part of his life, for the rest of their lives.
Which is why he is so shocked at the next thing the gang suggests.
DENNIS: Listen, listen. The guy is in complete denial about absolutely every aspect of his life. And there is nothing we can do about it.
FRANK: I say we switch him out.
DENNIS: Huh?
FRANK: Country Mac for Paddy’s Mac.
DEE: We send Mac to the country, bring Country Mac here.
FRANK: Yeah, to the bar.
CHARLIE: That’s not a bad idea. I mean, look, we’d be safer with an actual badass in the bar.
Although he ends up agreeing with the plan, it is important to note how Dennis expresses the most disbelief when Frank suggests this, and remains in shock for a good moment, being the last one to respond to this idea, which is intriguing given how he’s led the gang in most of their anti-Mac talks all day, dominating most of the conversations. So why is it that he’s so slow to respond to this idea?
It appears that no matter what he says about the man, Dennis is the most attached to Mac, most unwilling to let Mac go. Which is funny, given how he was practically over Country Mac the second he died, and was already denouncing most of Country Mac’s “cool” traits at the funeral.
James and Sirius lost a bet with Mary and now they’re wearing adorable play boy girls costumes.
(Sirius lost on purpose eheh)
Oh and Moony and Reg are here too
(I’m going to hell I know)
OH MY GOD YES
"The first time we met I was looking up to you. Suppose I still am."
"Did you think I was looking down on you? When we met."
"Weren't you?"
"No. More like... admiring the view."
lab partner
the moment you realized you loved him
description: your friend, kuroo, offers to help you catch up on some chemistry homework, and after a lab accident you realize that maybe he might just be more than a friend.
genre: fluff
warnings: language
a/n: ap chem prepared me for one thing and one thing only
“Thanks for helping out,” you said while tightening your goggles, “I really appreciate it.”
“It’s no big deal,” Kuroo reassured you, “I don’t mind the extra lab practice either.”
After being out sick for two weeks with pneumonia, you couldn’t have more to catch up on in school. Thankfully, Kuroo had offered to help you with chemistry, so there was one less task to worry about completing.
“You said this was a titration?” You asked while examining the lab procedure.
“Yeah, can you grab a burette?” He asked while scribbling notes onto his own packet. “They should be in the closet with the other supplies.”
“Roger.”
Chemistry has always been difficult for you- fun, but difficult. It fulfilled your childhood dream of mixing exciting liquids of different colors and creating bubbling “potions” that filled you with nostalgia. However, the actual science behind the chemicals tended to blow over your head.
Kuroo, on the other hand, enjoyed the calculations. Something about the methodical approach, to an otherwise theoretical subject, brought him peace because there was always a single right answer. There was no hesitation or second guessing himself. He was always in control.
Except with you. With you, he was completely lost in a state of limbo- entirely unable to fight off the pulls from both sides.
Were you just friends, or more?
The question caused his thoughts to run around in circles, going back and forth in a never ending cycle. Spending time with you only made everything even more confusing.
Technically, he knew that you were only friends, but he wasn’t blind enough to not notice how the air between you two was laced with something different- and it was addicting.
Your smile made his palms sweat and every time your fingers would brush against his, Kuroo’s heart would jolt into overdrive and the sound of his pulse would rack in his brain.
That doesn’t happen with friends.
You, however, dismissed these feelings as nothing special. Sure, your stomach felt all funny whenever he was near and you really wanted to touch his hair, but that meant nothing.
Because Kuroo was just a friend.
And you would keep telling yourself this because nothing could be more awkward than admitting you had a crush on your lab partner. So maybe you were in denial, but it made things easier and that’s all that mattered.
“Oi,” Kuroo called out from the lab table, “what’s taking so long?”
“Yeah, yeah I’m coming!” You shouted back, shuffling back over to the lab table.
“I thought you got lost in there,” he teased with a wide grin, “here let me help you.” Kuroo plucked the materials from your grasp and placed them on the resin slab.
You tried not to react when his fingers grazed your arms, instead focusing on the procedure that Kuroo had printed out.
“We need Sodium Hydroxide for this right?” You couldn’t help but smile at the scrawled out annotations he had left for you.
“Oh no,” Kuroo paled, “I forgot to ask Hayashi-Sensei to dilute some of that for us.”
The way he had slouched enough to fit his entire lanky frame onto the stool made your heart clench with fondness, and you couldn’t help but wonder what it would feel like if his limbs were draped over you.
“Well, we need 1 Molar, right? What would it be diluted from?”
“12 Molar,” he deflated more.
“We definitely can’t use that as a substitute.”
He shook his head, “I’m sorry, Y/n. I didn’t mean to waste your time.”
You were a little disappointed, but the look on his face made your stomach churn. He looked so sad, and it made your heart ache.
“We can just come back another time, there’s no need to worry.” Your grade was definitely going to suffer for a while, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
“WAIT!” He shouted, jerking up from his position.
His outburst startled you and you stared at him, wide-eyed.
“I’m a genius,” he grinned at you, and you tried to ignore how his smile made your chest tighten.
“Um, I’m happy for you?”
He was racing through the lab and towards the closet. “We can just dilute some of the 12 Molar NaOH to get 1 Molar! Duh, it’s so obvious. Why didn’t I think of it earlier?” He mumbled to himself while grabbing the flask.
You paled. “Isn’t 12 Molar really dangerous to handle?”
A sense of uneasiness began to blanket you. The way he was waving the Erlenmeyer flask around was a little too haphazard for your liking.
“Well yeah, but Hayashi-sensei let me do it once under his supervision,” Kuroo reasoned. He hated how your face had dropped when he told you he had forgotten; he wanted to make it up to you. “I’ll be super careful,” he added.
You could feel yourself starting to give into his pleading. Something about the way his head was tilted and pupils dilated was hard to resist. You also really wanted to get this assignment over with, and you knew it would be difficult to book another time slot in the lab.
“Fine,” you sighed, “just be cautious and put some gloves on.”
“You got it,” Kuroo exclaimed and hurried over to grab a beaker and stirring rod.
You smiled at his excitement, and slipped your own pair of gloves on too.
“Can you check how much NaOH we need?” He called from across the room.
“Yeah, in a second!” For some reason, you couldn’t stop smiling. Maybe it was Kuroo’s infectious giddiness, or maybe the thought of you two working together so harmoniously- kind of like a team, or partnership, or maybe even a coup-
“Oi, earth to Y/n?”
The words were uttered right behind you, close enough to your ear to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up; the proximity startled you, and you jumped and whirled around to face Kuroo.
However, in your alarmed reaction, your arm came into contact with the flask containing the NaOH, knocking it off the lab table, shattering the glass, and spilling its contents everywhere.
You didn’t have much time to react, before a pair of arms wrapped around your middle, and pulled you back from the wreckage- stacking you both onto a stool.
“Holy shit, are you okay?” Kuroo frantically asked.
You heard the question, yet the only thing on your mind was the fact that you were practically sitting on Kuroo’s lap, with his arms locked firmly around your frame in a tight embrace.
You could feel his chest through your back, and every heaving breath made you rise and fall along with him. At the thought of your shared closeness, your face immediately erupted into a fiery heat and you went rigid in your shock.
“‘m fine,” you managed to choke out.
His body slumped at your words, and you felt the tensed cords of lean muscle relax underneath you, but Kuroo’s arms didn’t loosen around your waist. You were still in his lap.
He was so warm. Not the volcanic temperature that your face had become, rather the feeling of a light blanket on a summer night. Kuroo was comfortable. As awkward as you felt in his grasp, you could easily get used to it- enjoy it even.
“Are you sure?” He badgered, spinning you around so he could examine you for any damage.
You were close enough for your noses to brush against each other, and as you stared into his worried, goggle-clad eyes, you knew
that this was love.
There was no point in ever even denying it. Every memory with Kuroo was filled with so much adoration, and you wanted nothing more than to spend the rest of eternity making enough memories with him to last forever.
“I’m sure,” you whispered, breath ghosting onto his lips.
You weren’t sure who moved first, but your lips pressed softly against each other’s and it felt like the most natural thing in the entire world. His lips were slightly chapped, but oh-so addicting.
You had wanted this moment since forever ago, you realized as your stomach fluttered.
Kuroo thought he was going to die. Well, first he thought you were going to die from the spill, and he had never felt more scared in his entire life. Everything had been going wrong today, except for this. Kissing you made his mind spin slowly, like a ballerina in a music box, and oh did it make his heart feel so full.
So he kissed you deeper, pulling you impossibly closer. It was a clumsy kiss, your goggles kept knocking against each other, and he wondered if you could feel the smile that was taking over his lips.
This was the missing piece in your relationship. For so long, Kuroo had felt like the friendly side-hugs and platonic words of affirmation weren’t enough. Touches would linger, searching for something else- something more. He knew he loved you, but for the longest time, it was only ever as a friend. At least that’s what he would tell himself.
But now, as his lips were pressed against yours, Kuroo felt so whole.
You didn’t know how much time had passed before you pulled back from each other, detangling your limbs and with a helping hand from Kuroo, you were able to climb off of the stool.
“Careful,” he mumbled, holding onto your elbows, “watch your step.”
You laughed. You couldn’t help it, you just never would have expected today to go like this.
Kuroo eyed you nervously. “What’s so funny?” Were you laughing at him? He knew that the kiss wasn’t exactly phenomenal, but there would be plenty of time to improve- if he was reading the situation correctly.
“I’m just,” you started when your laughter died down, “I’m just happy.”
“Oh,” Kuroo felt his neck flush bright red, and he couldn’t meet your eyes, “me too.”
Something about the way that you were smiling so brightly, made a similar grin stretch across his own face; and Kuroo knew that your words rang true.
And honestly, he was sure that there couldn’t be anything better than falling in love with your lab partner.
clive is so touch starved... that man would explode if anyone tried to hug him
Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends
still just a joke to you, but now a slightly funnier one
AYYYYEHAJVDJW WTH THIS IS AMAZING✨
WHEWWW HOLY SHIT FINALLY
I suck at making comics quickly but anyways Miguel inspires me sooo
omg for the anon that talked abt apider noir, YESSSSS OML IF I REMEMBERED HIM I WOULDA ADDED HIM TOO😭😭 gil u should 100% draw him sometime pleas pleas pleas🙏🙏😔
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he is so 🖤🩶🖤🩶