#also I may have had a crush on an artsy gay dude when I was in middle school

[secondbeatsongs]

please write part three of your icarly meta i’m gonna cry about spencer as a quirky queer man he was always my favorite and i just want him to be happy

I will get back to Spencer, because I have some more things to say about him - but for now, let’s take a little detour.

let’s talk about Freddie.

at the beginning of the show, Freddie is definitely a weird kid. he’s got a crush on Carly, but it’s nearly obsessive, and he has a hard time acting normal around her.

over the years, he mellows out, and grows into himself more - just like Spencer, he’s very passionate about what he does, but it takes him some time to figure out how he fits into their friend group, and how to express his creativity without overthinking it.

and also just like Spencer, Freddie is not heterosexual.

okay, so sure - he’s not rollerblading everywhere or joining a book club. but there’s more than one way to be queer! even in a show like this, you don’t have to be flamboyant to be very obviously attracted to dudes (which Freddie is, by the way. more on that in a bit).

let’s go to season 1 again.

s01e09 (iWill Date Freddie) is a cute episode in which tiny, baby Freddie Benson goes on his first date! and when his mom finds out about his plans, there is this exchange:

Mrs. Benson: “I’m so proud of you; I can’t believe this is finally happening! Your first date...”

Freddie: “Mom...”

Mrs. Benson: “...And with a girl!”

Freddie: “Mom!”

Sam: (sarcastically) “We’re all in shock...”

now, this may seem like period-typical homophobia on the part of the writers (that’s because it is!), but in-universe, it also lends us a little insight as to how Freddie’s mom views him - she’s been wondering if he might be gay. but, don’t worry! he’s going on a date with a girl, therefore he must be straight, and so Mrs. Benson is delighted.

(this poor child.)

but the above interaction is not the gayest part of this episode. oh, no. that happens when Freddie asks Spencer for first date advice, and Spencer says that if he runs out of things to say, he should stare deeply into the girl’s eyes, because it’ll make him seem cool and mysterious.

Freddie starts to say “Yeah, I don’t really think that works...” but when he looks up, Spencer is staring deeply into his eyes, cheerful and earnest. and just like that, Freddie loses his train of thought and stares back, falling silent.

I really don’t know what the writers were trying for there, but like...holy shit, right? that’s gay as hell.

there’s actually a decent amount of evidence that Freddie has a crush on Spencer - and no, it’s not just about the time Spencer taught him how to fence (though it is very much about that).

it’s also about s03e08 (iQuit iCarly). in this episode, we learn that Spencer has a birthmark on his butt. I’m not kidding - this is a canon fact about Spencer Shay.

“but how do we know this?” you might ask. oh, friends. we know this because Freddie notices it when he checks out Spencer’s ass.

that’s not even a joke. that actually happened. Spencer had set up a bunch of mirrors so he could watch TV while taking a shower. and, apparently unable to resist, Freddie checks him out in one of the mirrors and asks about his birthmark.

what a show, you guys. what a show.

even besides all of that, I think the friendship between Freddie and Spencer is really interesting. here’s Freddie, this little nerdy kid with an incredibly overbearing mom - a mom who gives him tick baths every other week, a mom who installed a chip in his head so that she could track him everywhere he goes - and then right next door, there’s Spencer Shay.

Spencer, who let him crash in their living room when he didn’t want to go home to his mother. Spencer, who asked, “Think it’d be okay with your mom?” when Freddie wanted to try fencing, but when Freddie said, “No...” only grinned and exclaimed, “Let’s do it!”

for Freddie, Spencer is a bad influence in the best possible way. it’s Spencer who gives him dating advice, who nerds out with him about video games and movies, and who is, for the most part, his only male role model.

(no wonder Freddie has a crush on him)

but while I’m talking about the men in Freddie’s life...where is his dad? like, genuinely, where the fuck is Freddie’s dad?

and, more importantly - who is Freddie’s dad? because you see, Freddie’s mom is Mrs. Benson. that’s the name she’s called throughout the show - not Ms. Benson, but Mrs. Benson - implying that it’s her married name.

but in s01e22 (iFence), we find out that Freddie’s great-grandfather ran a troupe of fencers called The Fencin’ Bensons. his great-grandfather on his mom’s side of the family.

now, I’m not saying that anything bad happened here - but I do think it’s interesting that the show hints that Freddie’s parents had the same last name.

if we dig, we can find out a bit more - there was an unaired scene from s03e03 (iSpeed Date), where Freddie mentions that his father’s name is/was Leonard Benson, and confirms that his parents had the same last name before they were married. unfortunately, this never made it into the show, and is therefore not canon. and still, it doesn’t answer the biggest question - where’s Freddie’s dad?

there is no concrete answer to this. just like Carly and Spencer’s mom, Mr. Benson was never mentioned on the show.

turns out this show has kind of a lot of absent parents. I’m not sure how to feel about that.

so, this post has gone on long enough, but I have a lot of feelings about Freddie, so once more I’m going to talk about the show’s finale.

Freddie Benson got maybe the worst ending out of all of the characters.

if you haven’t seen the finale (warning, spoilers, I guess?), you should know that it was weird. it’s a long episode and a lot of things happen, but here is basically how it ended:

* Carly’s dad showed up and asked her to move to Italy with him

* Carly packed up, said goodbye to everyone, and then left.

* Freddie got all of his tech stuff from their studio, took it back to his apartment, and leaned on the door a bit, thinking about the past.

* Sam got on her motorcycle (I’ll talk more about this in another post), and rode off into the distance, her destination unclear.

* Spencer sat on the couch, smiled to himself like he was trying not to cry, and accidentally set his squirrel sculpture on fire.

that’s it. that’s how the show ended.

Spencer’s ending is one of the hardest for me to think about - he raised this kid for at least twelve years, and now she’s gone, no looking back, and that’s sad.

but Spencer is an adult, and he’ll be okay. he knew parenting was a thankless job, and he can be happy now - Carly gets to be with their dad! she gets to go off and have adventures, and that’s why he’s smiling a little at the end. it hurts, but he’s happy for her. his job is done - time to figure out what the fuck to do with the rest of his life (weird gay stuff, probably).

and Sam? Sam will be fine. she’s always been able to take care of herself, and she knows what she’s doing - even if she’s reckless, she’ll turn out okay.

Freddie’s ending is what gets me the most. the day before, he was the technical producer for a hugely successful web show, with two best friends who’d been with him since middle school. and then, suddenly, all of that was gone.

Freddie Benson had to graduate high school without his two best friends by his side. he had to figure out a new purpose for his life, something else that could help him escape from the life his mother wants him to live. because after the series finale? most of Freddie’s life is back to what it was in season 1.

sure, he’s got Gibby, and that’s great! but he was always closer to Sam, Carly, and Spencer. Spencer, who he probably won’t hang out with much, now that he doesn’t have the excuse of him being his best friend’s older brother.

like, shit, you guys - this is heartbreaking to me. he had everything, and then he had to enter the next part of his life completely alone.

I just...I can’t get over it. Freddie Benson deserved better.

[johns-prince]

Idk one thing that makes me think that John was bi and definitely more attracted to males is this: Yoko said that John was into beauty and although she's full of shit and awful I believe her on this one. Before you rip me apart I really love Cyn and May, but if you really look at the women and the men in his life it's clear that John had a thing for boys. The guys he was the closest to were absolutely gorgeous ( Stu was stunning, Brian was handsome as fuck and Paul was beyond gorgeous ) /

Like I said I really love them so please don't take it bad but when you look at his women you can't really Say the same thing about them: Cyn and May were really average and Yoko well... Yoko definitely looked like a bloke, I agree with John. Now, if John was really into beauty, he would have find gorgeous women, but nope! Idk if you see what I'm talking about, but to me it's clear that he was into males' beauty, much more than women

Hi, I’ve decided to give a go at this lol I don’t think my response makes any bloody sense but I tried, apologies in advance anyhow.

While Yoko is extremely wishy-washy, fickle with shit she’s decided to say and share in interviews and such, there are certain things she’s said that hold some kernel of truth or we should at least take note of. It’s rather easy to know when she’s spewing literal horseshit from her mouth, while other times, she might be giving us some important insight, though those little tidbits of what we could consider relevant she always tried retracting [often because it doesn’t help her or their image much] 

Though I wouldn’t say I needed Yoko claiming both her and John were into beauty [I mean, we all kind of are, but I digress, I understand] to believe it, because, and let me be weird for like a second, John’s a Libra. They covet beautiful things. Beauty is just, part of their inherent likes, to admire beauty.

That and, being an artist, I’m sure he did have a thing for “beauty.” too.

Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, subjective, all that philosophical jazz, but I understand what you mean.

I’m not going to rip you apart, because I hold a rather “controversial” opinion in regards to Paul’s wife Linda-- that is, we’re allowed to see these people contrary to what we assume the ‘bandom’ might push as the ‘’right/acceptable’’ and expected opinions.

We’re individuals, I don’t expect you to hold the same opinions, and I do enjoy hearing what people have to say as long as they’re clearly open, civil, friendly-like is always nice too. So, no, I shan’t rip into you lol 

I see where you’re coming from. 

For me, I find May very pretty, and I think Cynthia was pretty [cor that doesn’t really attest to if they were average pretty or not, I don’t know, but I can see why you see that, I do. I personally find Cynthia incredibly average looking, dare I say plain, when she was much younger, before doing her hair blonde and all that] But then again, compared to Yoko... well.

What Ronnie Hawkins said at the end of this interview, is the nicest way to put how I feel about Yoko in terms of her appearance;

“...what I couldn’t understand that he didn’t have about four or five of the most beautiful women in the world with him, because he could have.”

I know it might come off as insulting but it’s not like we were the one’s to say it first-- John was the one to say Yoko reminded him of a bloke in drag, so. 

I can’t say I’ve ever thought of it this way though, or took noticed like you did.

I think it depends. 

Dude clearly had a thing for drag queens and transvestites, even at an early age. 

I agree, many, most of John’s relatively close male friends were very attractive, very pretty, handsome; though there’s no 100% solid evidence that John felt any strong particular way towards Stu and Brian like he did towards Paul [that is, obviously something sexual happened between John and Brian, but I think that was mainly John experimenting and having the right sort of individual he could do so with, safely, and he might have pitied Brian in a way but, I don’t think he’d meant to hurt Brian or anything. I personally don’t agree it was a powerplay either] John indeed appeared attracted to, or at least drawn to, effeminate, feminine boys.

Not saying all his close male friends were effeminate, femboys [Pete Shotton, Mal Evans...] but I suppose we’re mainly talking about the individuals that, besides being “close”[I also think we could have a discussion of what it meant to be a close friend of John’s, because even if someone might’ve thought themselves close friends with John, they actually weren’t-- not many were; Paul was possibly the closest to close a male friend/relationship John could’ve had, besides Pete] have been rumored he’d had some sort of infatuation or tryst with, like Stu and Brian; Mick Jagger was a very pretty boy, those full lips and relatively soft features accentuated by the longer hairstyles of the 60s and 70s [whether you believe something happened between Mick and John is really up to you, I’m relatively neutral on it I don’t know, but there certainly was a lot going on during this [x] [x] [x] get together between them] and David Bowie is 100% an effeminate boy, and there had been this story, whether it’s true or not I don’t know so take it with absolutely a grain of salt, where a server or whoever caught note of a familiar pair of boots in a stall that belonged to John, David, but another pair of feet which could’ve been anyone, when at a party he’d attended with Yoko. Wish I could find the damn source for it [just another thing I wish I had cataloged better, damn me] 

Side note, I honestly believe John would’ve been rather interested in Tara Browne had it not been for the fact Tara was Paul’s friend, a friend who was very attractive, and artsy and bisexual, and Paul really seemed to dig him [though I do not believe Paul held any deeper feelings for Tara, as much as Tara might’ve had a crush on Paul]-- which had John feeling threatened and his jealousy/possessiveness shot through the bloody rooftops, as we know. Tara was to John as Stu was to Paul. 

I don’t know, you may be right. 

I personally believe John leaned more towards men specifically because he just seemed to enjoy, was happier, and was much more comfortable their company, friendship, the bond, more than women, but despite being gay or in a same-sex relationship wasn’t illegal in the UK anymore in 1967 [oh what a year] it was still easier to be with women than men, openly anyway.

Just because something becomes legal doesn’t mean culture and society are really on track with it, if you get what I mean. 

But anyway, yeah, I could see it, him being more attracted to “male beauty,” more than “female beauty,” if he were to lean more towards men in his bisexuality. I don’t know.

Anyway there’s my answer, it’s non-coherent, I’m sorry lol

Clearly John couldn’t officially be with the person he wanted to be with though, who was a man, because of issues and reasons we can only begin to assume and possibly pinpoint. Nobody can hold a candle to Paul, he is a bloody Adonis, and I’m sure John would’ve agreed, begrudgingly or partly jokingly. That and John’s soulmate.

I’m 100% they fooled about, and like 85%-90% positive they fucked. 

[tfw-no-tennis]

mtmte liveblog issue 30

30 issues wow...forget the fact that I skipped like 5 issues of crossover event nonsense

another big ole swerve recap omg

this trial is so messsyyyyyyyyy lmao 

hvbajdfbahsjkfdbhjs starscream listening to meagtrons speech looking like ‘hmmmmmmm I may have miscalculated’ 

prowl looks pissed af meanwhile optimus just looks dead inside lmao

I mean. megatron kinda does have a point. this is like, the most biased, conflict of interests lookin trial of all time, in that all the major participants have some sort of long, complicated history with each other. what a mess

optimus, listening to megatron’s speech: wow this is worse than divorce court was

oh shit I totally forgot that those decepticons attacked the trial 

MAGNUS HAMMER AYYYYYY

a guy saying ‘objection!’ as optimus prime punches half his face off...that pretty much sums up idw op lmao 

op: oh thank god, I can punch shit now. I'm not cut out for this bureaucracy nonsense

megatron: thanks, random decepticon, for the attempted rescue, but I'm super old and I just want to nap so no thanks

random decepticon: wtf- [gets murdered by optimus prime]

I love op’s big ass antennae 

meanwhile, brainstorm goes to a bar and instead of buying anything, pulls out his own drink. I feel like that isn't allowed in most bars, or is at least frowned up vbsjdhfbhjdkfn. ily brainstorm 

also? big ass mood I was so broke last time I was on a barhopping vacation w/friends that I brought a cheap giantass bottle of mixed drink in my backpack and just drank that at all the bars lmao

WHIRLLLL I love his humansona sm. and also I love that whirl is into artsy french movies or w/e omg

brainstorm, drinking thru a wrist funnel: sorry I cant take my mask off rn it isn’t plot relevant yet

‘earthlets’ lmao

I love that rung is like, too pretentious to care that much about movies and would rather read earth books lol

and then bluestreak is like ‘yeah they have books...comic books’ can this man not read

I still cannot fuckign believe that the argument that got megatron out of a for-sure death sentence or w/e was ‘its not a war crime if we’re on the moon’ liiiiike what the actual hell lmao

also I love that, once again, we see magnus’s strict adherence to the law, technicalities and all

magnus: you cant really stop a trial and move it somewhere else where the laws are better suited to the outcome you desire

prowl: what are you, a cop? fuck off

also op being like ‘ok whatever all that doesn't matter...what DOES matter is that it would look bad for us to move the trial to cybertron in an obvious attempt to circumvent the rules, and public perception is what’s most important, fuck all that ‘morality’ bullshit’

meanwhile, rodimus is dead! and ambulon is also dead, which makes first aid sad, which makes ME sad

ayyy, rodimus is still alive! well, one rodimus is alive, at least 

rodimus and megatron really have the vibes of ‘stepfather and stepson forced to work together on a family road trip gone wrong after dad decided to sit this one out’ lmao

ah yes, ‘malaise’ the medical diagnostic term for ‘I don't feel so hot and idk why’ that practitioners like to throw under the ‘diagnostic notes’ section of lab orders to explain why they're ordering every blood test under the sun for a patient 

I love medical terminology. ANYWAYS

BE NICE TO MY BOY MEGATRON. 

rodimus: listen I have to come to terms with the fact that there's another version of me right here, and he’s DEAD, which means we can’t fuck, which is super lame 

I firmly believe that rodimus would be team ‘hell yeah id have sex with my AU self’ tbh 

I find it interesting that megatron is often casting blame for his actions onto others - here, he says that rodimus made him realize he doesn’t want to stop doing stuff w/his life, and then says that starscream forced his hand w/the whole ‘luna 2 law’ thing, and previously he’s said how whirl beating him up in jail is what led to him abandoning pacifism - take responsibility for your actions and decisions dude!

though he goes on to say here that he resorted to violence because he realized that the system that was in place could withstand everything else he would have tried to use to change it, which is super interesting 

megatron: okay, yes, I MIGHT have murdered billions, but I could help find us a new planet, which would be baller, sooooo...how about you co-opt your lame son’s frat boy ship and put me in charge? 

op: sounds fair to me. now how about we do some more Big Speeches before I make you somebody else’s problem

vbhdjskfbhaskdjf the ‘team rodimus’ lineup setup reminds me so much of the ‘together we make the ______’ meme with the different members being like, ‘the power’ ‘the gay’ ‘the awesome’ ‘the guy with no ears’ hbvhjdkfbs

chromedome: if I do this I could die

rodimus: that sounds like a you problem bro

‘this one time’ YEA RIGHT c'mon cd honor your dead husband’s wishes

omfg I forgot abt brainstorms ‘early early warning system’ lmao

I love nautica soooo much oh man

ooooof drift :( :( oh no

dead future rodimus!! uh oh is right

rodimus, known himbo: I'm sure I can defeat the inevitability of future events! all I have to do is cut my own arm off!

tailgateeeee he’s so cute...I love that he can tell stories of his daring escapades, just like at the beginning of mtmte, but this time its actually TRUE

OH SHITTTT GETAWAY

he looks so fucking sinister there lmao how are we NOT supposed to realize he has bad intentions from the get-go

‘you’ll make a prime one day’ well, getaway, you’re right about that at least...

cyclonus in the bg like 🤨🤔 at getaway

seriously I cant get over how getaway has such a slimy kinda vibe to him, like specifically in his interactions w/tailgate - this is before things even really take off but I'm still like TG GET AWAY (lol) FROM THIS GUY

cyclonus: somebody flirting with my crush? better go stare out a window instead of communicating absolutely anything to said crush about my feelings!

honestly I feel like, while megatron renouncing the decepticons and becoming an autobot is certainly interesting, it would be equally interesting for him to remain a decepticon but try to change the philosophy of the movement 

like, I get why op had him give that speech - to prevent the cons from trying to free megs again/thinking that he was being coerced into things (ironic considered he WAS coerced into giving that speech) - but it’s kinda the easy way our for megatron - being able to completely abandon the decepticon cause and not deal with it at all, and start over anew as an autobot

it would've been a lot harder to remain a con and try to reform what he has broken in the decepticon movement - but I think that would've been really interesting

though from a writing logistics standpoint, I get why jro didn't go for that bc we don't get a lot of other decepticons in the cast for that to work, and also megatron still definitely DOES have to face down all his mistakes w/the decepticons w/the djd and overlord and whatnot

anyways. I cant believe that all megatron had to do to join the lost light was make ONE speech denouncing the decepticons. like, they should've at least had him do a tiktok dance too or something, just to make it a really tough deal

I love the rodpod vbhjfsdkfbjaskjndfj

ok but I still don't really get the logic of making megs CAPTAIN like ouch. poor rodimus 

I feel like making megs a bartender at swerves or st would've been WAY more useful in showing him humility or w/e. OR it would've made him evil again, which, fair, 

ratchet: don't worry, we’ll medically poison him, it’ll be fine

ok but rodimus is right, this is SO messy, op wants to prove his ex husband isn't 100% evil so he’s like ‘ill let my rebellious son deal with him’ lmao god. I love this setup so much, its so wild

ratchet is also right, rodimus’s fuckup definitely pales in comparison to megatrons All That 

OH BRUTALLLLLLLL when ratchet says the list is fake ‘because my name’s not on it’ FUCKING OUCHHHHH

‘only bad guys say ‘unhand me” rodimus ily

omfg ‘we’ve practiced this’ of course they've done evacuation drills...magnus ily

lmao it’s the panel where it looks like rodimus and megatron are doing karaoke or having some sort of rap battle

and the lost light is GONE! oh shit!!!!

and there closes issue 30! once again we’ve gotten a lot of setup and exposition - which, while definitely necessary, means I don't have too much to say

I will say, throwing megatron onto the lost light has definitely mixed things up, and it’s interesting to see new dynamics already forming

so, until next time!

[musicallisto]

Hi! Can I have a ship for The Sophomore, High School Story and ILITW? I’m a gay dude with blonde hair and blue eyes. I love musical theatre and I’m obsess with dancing and choreography. My dream is to be able to teach kids ballet. Other than that I love watching sitcoms like Brooklyn Nine-Nine or Parks and Rec. I like to think I’m a normally a pretty friendly person. I do have a pretty short temper and I can be a little mean or aloof if it’s a bad head day. Thank you!

I Ship You With…

Z I G   O R T E G A

• I ship you with Zig! So something that really makes me think you would be perfect for each other is your love for dancing and ballet. Have you seen how this boy gets when he talks about dancing? it’s clear that it’s his passion and that he lives for it. So I think that’s something that would really bring you together, and also the way you two would meet. You wouldn’t know each other apart from vague rumors - is that true that Hartfeld is accepting a guy with a criminal record? haven’t you heard that this Zig guy was arrested by the police? -, rumors that you had never paid attention to. When that Zig guy, however, turned out to be in your dancing class, you were intrigued by his past, to say the least, and the unusual circumstances that led him to you. You weren’t afraid of him, as opposed to many other students in your class, and were the first one to ever show signs of kindness and friendliness to him. You had never been the new student somewhere, but could easily imagine how disagreable it must’ve been, especially for someone with a gritty reputation. You were convinced that the actions of his past did not define the man he was, and he was a bit taken aback by your candor and your warmth, but he really appreciated it nonetheless. It was a huge relief for him when you were paired up together for practice, because he pretty much knew (and trusted) no one in the room except for you. The first moves were very, very awkward, because you didn’t exactly know where to draw the line between “we are just dance partners and we are doing a physical and artistical exercise as asked” and “there’s definitely some underlying sexual tension building up in the air”. And after a few dance-offs, the latter definitely won. Or so it appeared when Zig kissed you out of the blue, blushing furiously right after and waiting anxiously for your answer (which was another kiss, because God knew how long you had waited for that moment to happen).

• So two Hartfeld dancers who started dating would definitely not go unnoticed, especially not since it was Zig Ortega, the infamous “criminal” no one seemed to shut up about. At times you heard whispers about your boyfriend and his criminal record that made you want to punch things (and more often than not, punch humans), but the majority of comments were positive and supportive. You didn’t understand why everyone was so nosy though; you were in college, not in high school anymore, so who could be bothered if you were dating Zig or not? At times it really drove you mad, but fortunately you had the support of your boyfriend and your best friends to prevent you from breaking teeth. A quick hug from Zig or a kiss on the cheek right before classes is always enough to calm your nerves and he knows how to deal with your short temper. it can also be a problem since you two have a fiery personality, and usually arguments between the two of you are a battlefield. However, you don’t stay mad at each other for a long time, and are easy to forgive. You’re used to dealing with anger and short tempers by now, and you wouldn’t have Zig any other way after all. Besides, dancing with your boyfriend in front of everyone on D-Day, the last day of your dancing classes, flawlessly moving around with him in your arms and sealing your performance with a kiss, is definitely more pleasing when you’re not busy being offended.

E Z R A   M I T C H E L L

• For High School Story, I ship you with Ezra! I originally thought about Michael, but I eventually changed my mind when I thought about non-LI characters, and realized that you would be adorable with Ezra. Once again, it would be your love for music that would bring you together and draw you closer than you would have imagined. You would have this enormous ambition of creating a musical with you. To make it short, it would start after you both were on a musical marathon, and between La La Land and Mamma Mia, Ezra would just ask you “hey, do you wanna create one from scratch sometime?”. It was the craziest idea he had ever had and you happily agreed to do so. The idea was that you would write the dialogue and the plot with the help of other high school students and your writer friends, and he would compose and write all the songs with the band. It was a bumpy ride at first, because you often disagreed on what direction you wanted your creation to take. Ezra wanted to make a super angsty, drama-filled tragedy about two lovers who had to face unbeatable odds to fulfill their passion, and in the end died, à la Romeo and Juliet; but you definitely wanted something lighter, a comedy to clear one’s head after a long day of work. Finally, you came to a compromise and wrote a beautiful tragicomedy with just the right amount of laughter and angst. It was a huge success the day you played it in front of the whole school, and you even got a deal with a local theater to represent it every other Saturday night. It was like a dream come true.

• Another thing you would love to watch in your free time, in addition to musicals (regularly having Hamilton re-runs), would be sitcoms. Like you would have watched every single one on the planet. From Friends to How I Met Your Mother, from The Big Bang Theory to B99, you basically had seen. everything. You were definitely the most invested in the couple, Ezra not watching a lot of them at the beginning - in fact, he avoided them, not really getting the appeal. Sure, humor in fiction was enjoyable most of the time and often touched the viewer, but making a whole series only based on humor? With little to no plot progression or character development? needless to say, you quickly made him change his mind when you watched the first one together, Parks and Recreation, and that was when he realized that, indeed, sitcoms also have plots and in-depth characters. I mean, the boy may be easy-going and fun, he’s also an artsy drama queen, that’s literally his first concern before watching a new show or movie, or reading a book. But you also managed to teach him that some works of fiction don’t need elaborate plots or angst-filled introspections to be enjoyed. And he finally understood it thanks to your sitcom sessions, curled up on a couch together and stealing lazy kisses every now and then.

L U C A S   T H O M A S

• I ship you with Lucas! You’re friendly, outgoing and charismatic, but also have a short temper and can get angry easily - that’s exactly the kind of personality that Lucas would seek for in a partner, and he would definitely know how to deal with your sudden anger outbreaks. I think you would balance each other: he would calm you down when you got too upset, and you, on the other hand, would help him get out of his shell, telling him to loosen up and teaching him how to “live a little”. You would also give the BEST shoulder massages when he’s stressed out (one of the many reasons he would love you, tbh). Also, he would totally see when you’re having a bad day because you’re more aloof and distant than usual, and he knows it’s strange, given how cheerful and happy you are most of the time. If it was one of those days, he would lead you out of the hallways for a few minutes in between classes, to breathe some fresh air and talk a little. Sometimes you wouldn’t want to talk at all, and Lucas would understand and respect that, so you would just stay there in silence, maybe losing two or three minutes of class, but Lucas wouldn’t be caught dead skipping classes, so he would just explain he was dealing with presidential matters and lost track of time. Besides, your well-being was more important than algebra. It was one of the most peaceful moments in the world: sitting behind Westchester High School, in the middle of the afternoon, with no one to bother you since everyone was in class, getting lost in each other’s breathing. 

• I don’t see Lucas being much of a party animal, so I believe you would be the one who drags him to all the parties you get invited too just because you don’t want to spend the evening alone. It always ends up in a dance-off contest because everyone knows you’re the best dancer to ever grace this town, except the newest additions to the friend group, who are not familiar with you yet and believe they can rival your moves. Very obviously, you absolutely crush and destroy them and their foolish hubris. Lucas watches it with a mixture of pride and amusement in his eyes, because you always get like this at parties, no matter how wasted or sober you are. When you’ve had a few drinks, you would totally take Lucas by the arm and drag him to the middle of the dancefloor for a dance-off with your boyfriend. It’s no use telling you he “doesn’t dance”, you’re a little too shameless right now to care. Your friends in charge of the music know it’s the exact right time to belt “I’ll Make A Man Out of You”, and soon you’re two idiots singing and dancing the night away in a dimly lit living room, ever going, not knowing tiredness, not knowing anything apart all the fun you’re having dancing, yelling and laughing with your boyfriend - and best friend.

Moodboard

Playlist

Mulan - I’ll Make A Man Out Of You

Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance (sadly the pronouns don’t fit but the rest of the song does)

The Rembrandts - I’ll Be There For You (Friends theme)

Piotr Illych Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake

ships are closed!

[whizzywrites]

Zach Roberts and Christopher Dayfield

Chris has worked at the school way longer than Zach, so when Zach started his job, he was so ready to place a face to the name “Dayfield.” He also heard kids talking about Chris, so he thought he’d probably get along well with him. When he finally met Chris, he was instantly gay.

They first meet after Chris finds Zach crying in the drama room after it got wrecked. Chris wasn’t the biggest help, but Zach was relived to have someone. Chris was going backstage to grab some things when he stumbled across Zach. 

Chris offers to help rebuild the set, and Zach is like, “oh, no, it’s fine.” Chris spends long hours after school on painting the sets, and Zach is so shocked when he sees the sets.

“Oh yeah, I’m an art teacher, that’s why I offered to help.” “Oh! You’re the man I’ve heard about!” “What?” “Nothing... I’m Mr. Roberts-” “I’m Mr. Dayfield,” insert Zach’s gay squeals “But you can call me Chris.” Insert even louder gay squeals.

Zach is so obviously crushing on this dude. At meetings, he’ll stare at Chris and loose his train of thought and totally blank out. He’s usually the flirty type, but just totally looses his mind.

One meeting, Chris was wearing his art hoe clothes, instead of his hoodie, and Zach just looses his shit, since he has never seen Chris like that before.

They both happen to be senior class sponsors, and are selling tickets. Zach spots Chris, and is instantly like, “oh, shit, he’s not selling tickets, is he?”  Chris comes over with a smile, like “hey, Zach! I didn’t know you were selling tickets too!” and Zach is instantly flustered. They do start to get closer, after sitting together at football games.

After one game, Chris asked Zach if he wanted to come over, and Zach panicked.  Nervous laughter, “Like a-a date?! Like-like, uh... Come over, like a date?” Chris totally knows he’s terrorizing Zach. He caught on that Zach only gets this flustered around Chris.

Chris continues to tease Zach a bit, just loving to see him flustered. Finally, he admits it, and Zach’s face just drops because, hey, he’s an actor, he should’ve caught on. 

They don’t officially date until a long while later.

One day, Chris is sick and gets Zach to be a sub for his class. The day before, he was asking his kids about needing a sub, when Zach walks in (he likes to some up to Chris’ class sometime), and he takes up the offer since a drama student begged.  Chris: I think he’d be a great sub. (winks at Zach) Zach: gets a boner on the spot

 He sucks at art, and is just way more interested in all the little art tools, but the kids still love him. 

Once Chris gets back, all the kids beg for Zach back. Chris insists he has his own class, but Zach is free that period. He comes in and the sexual tension between he and Chris is real. The class all try to ask Zach if they can transfer to his class after that, but Zach insists that Chris is a great teacher, and that the kids really shouldn’t leave.

There’s just a lot of rumors of the two dating and such going around.

Zach texts Chris the strangest things. Zach: Guess what’s tomorrow Zach: Guess! Zach: Please guess Zach: Skull emoji Chris: I was asleep... Why are you texting me? Zach: Wrong answer. Tomorrow is Hamlet!

Zach also constantly corrects Chris’ grammar constantly, such as when he watches students Snapchat stories.

Zach is the founder of the GSA and totally begs Chris to help with it because he’s desperate to spend more time with him. 

Zach then asks if Chris wants to go to pride, and Chris replies with, “I’m usually not a big fan of pride-” which scares Zach, but then finished with, “but I’d gladly go with you.”

While at pride, a man is handing out rainbow condoms, and Chris takes one and teases, “we’ll need this later,” and Zach freaks out because 1. Chris never jokes like that, and 2. he thought Chris was serious for a minute. Chris only joked about it since he was drunk at pride.  “I - uh, I - really?” “Zach, no. I was kidding.” “Oh! Ri-right!”

. Chris gets drunk so quick. At pride, it only took him two drinks, and he was wasted. Zach, however, was just barely buzzed. Zach finally offers to drive Chris to his house, and Zach gets more drunk. Chris is clinging to him, and is all cuddly. “Zaaach, I knooow you like meeee.” “I - what? You - I - what?!” “It’s ssssoooo obvious. That’s why I love to tease you about it. You should... be my boyfriend.” “Are you sure? I - Chris, you’re drunk, are you sure? Just- ask me in the morning... You’ll regret it, please-”

Chris stays the night that night, and falls asleep on Zach. Zach is so gay.

The next morning, Zach was awake first, spent wondering if Chris was serious about it. Finally, when Chris wakes up, he’s quiet, before Zach spits out a, ‘were you serious about last night?’ Chris is just totally confused, and it crushes the boy’s heart. Finally, Zach mentions it and Chris freaks out. “How much did I say?” “I just... Did you mean it? “I mean, yeah.”

Zach loses his shit. That’s when it finally becomes official.

They spend a lot of time together after that. Of course they do, they’re super head over heels.

One night, they’re drunk, and Zach posts to his students only Snapchat (he has one for students, and one for his personal friends) of he and Chris kissing, and Chris posts a picture of shirtless Zach on his art Instagram, with the caption “fun night!” (spelled horribly, since he’s drunk). Only two students see, before they delete them, and rumors get even more severe. 

Zach also posts pictures of Chris covered in lipstick smears on Chris’ Instagram as well. Zach tries to be mockingly artsy, and most of the pictures turn out pretty bad. Some do actually come out pretty well.  The caption: My boyfriend’s recent art project - me

Chris always goes to every show that Zach stars in, since he also works at local theaters. Zach finally lets Chris backstage and Chris gets way too excited. “You mean, I can go back there?!” “If I sneak you.”

During intermission, they start making out and getting a bit too saucy. Two minutes before Zach’s about to go on stage, and he’s shirtless, his hair a mess, and bite marks on his neck. The director walks in on them making out, and screams.  Zach needed to quickly get dressed and on stage, as a hot mess.

It has happened more than once.

Still, no students know the two are officially dating at all, yet so many have assumed. 

It isn’t until they actually get engaged that people know (which is about three years later, and yes, they’re still teaching). 

There was a class that started as freshmen, who were there when Zach first started his job, and cheered him on once they found out they were engaged.

Zach proposed, via ‘inviting Chris to a “special play,”’ which was how he proposed. Via play.

A kid, who didn’t even know about the rumors and theories of Zach and Chris dating before (because most kids who had theories were in drama or GSA), asks about the ring, and who Chris is engaged to.  “Mr. Roberts.” “Wait, like... Mr. Roberts. Mr. Roberts?”  “Yes, now can we get back to-” “Like the drama teacher?” “Yes, now back to work.”

Zach, however, can’t keep it a secret. He comes into his first period class, with donuts, and the whole class asks what the occasion is, and he’s straight up like, “Listen, fuckers, I got engaged...” and keeps the class waiting, before finishing. “To Mr. Dayfield.” His first period is full of the seniors who were freshmen the very first day that Zach started the job, so they all flip their shit. 

Soon enough, the whole school knows. 

More may come soon, but since this has gotten long enough, I’ll end it here!