#I will talk about queer booth hcs all day long try and stop me

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Same booth/hodgins anon as before, but truly I'm on the b/h brainriot for the fact I can't categorize their relationship??? cause, yes, they're friends but are they like friends friends or work friends? At some point in the show they said they love each other (I love you man/ don't get me wrong I love hodgins) but we don't see them hanging out much outside of the lab. hodgins asked booth advise when he wanted to propose, and booth tells him when he kissed cam's sister. hodgins hugged (or tried to hug) booth multiple times, and booth wanted to give him the money to take care of his brother. aND AND the whole bugboy thing, (that I first didn't like) but LIKE booth calls everyone by a nickname, and the ones that got an special name were bones and technically his grandfather.

But at the same time these are like a handful of interactions in 12 seasons. I really wish the show had explored booth relation with the squints outside of brennan (and sometimes wendell) a little bit more.

I am DELIGHTED to get more of this because yes.

there’s something so appealing in Booth’s …I guess you could call it tsundere “yeah you’re annoying but I would die for you, it’s no big deal”. Like Booth going just as feral for Hodgins as Brennan when they both get Gravedigger-ed, but then immediately going back to “whatever, bugboy, I wasn’t worried”

I think a lot about closeted, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell-era military Booth and how completely unsuited he is for hookup culture. Always wanting something more permanent but not being able to get past his own internalized homophobia. How that makes him really tetchy about any sign of affection to other men. “Guy hugs”, shoulder punches, the way he makes up with Sweets after yelling at him. It’s all a part of his insecurity about presenting as Manly Enough (see: cocky belt buckle)

that coming into direct contact with Hodgins, the radical, casually queer nerd who sees right through all the bluff and bluster. “Yeah, sure man, whatever you say.” He says with a laugh, knowing full well how flustered Booth is. It would take a lot of patience and “Relax, man, it’s no big deal” on Hodgins’ part, but he’s patient and amused by the whole thing. Picture him after one of their interactions, grinning to himself as his desk chair spins in slow circles. “Yeah, he’s into me.”

yeah this ship is Good

imagine the expensive gift Hodgins would get him. It would totally be a super rare baseball card from Booth’s childhood memories and Booth has to go sit alone in his SUV because it made him have Too Many Feelings