#and that's s1 sydcarmy

[iglowlilac]

listen,

let's say you forgot something at work. maybe it's your pen. maybe it's a water bottle or, i don't know, your everyday scarf. maybe it's your little notebook. In either case, you forgot something at work, but it's that One Thing that pretty much makes you, you. a signature, in a way. it's as part of you as all of your bones; it's very you, like your dna, but made trivial. you don't even think about it like that, like it's something that holds that much significance to who you are.

but your boss does. 

your hot boss, the one that now gets on your nerves just in the same intensity you used to adore him. professionally speaking, of course. probably. you think (i mean: with your credentials, you could've been working somewhere waaaay better than... than whatever it is your boss has going on right now). he used to be your inspiration… but It doesn't matter anymore. it shouldn't matter anymore.

your boss... he's great at what he does. he is. no doubt about that. but maybe he's also a little bit too much sometimes. maybe he's a little bitch. a piece of shit, sometimes.

and maybe you're overworked and have been disappointed with him for months now. he's a mess, and at this point in your life, you should've been able to know fucking better. so, naturally, you decide to quit. 

your boss kept asking why: why were you quitting. but you tried to talk to him for too long now. and when you quit, you're angry and exhausted and feeling frustrated with life, really, so you leave that workplace in such a hurry that you end up forgetting your signature stuff in there. let's pretend (assume?) it's a little notebook, the one that's very you. you're always carrying it around with such a devotion, it could be your own heart. 

then again: you don't think about it like that. but your boss does. you don't think about retrieving this ordinary yet sacred little notebook (it's... whatever. you can get another one), but your boss finds it and, knowing very well it belongs to you, he caress its pages - the ones you've written out most of your creative ideas, the ones maybe you've drawn out, in sharpie, silly faces, when you were spacing out a little bit. 

your boss holds your little notebook with such a devotion… he can't take his eyes, his hands, off it. he knows he fucked up with you. he doesn't know how to fix it, tho (he knows he can admit to you he was in the wrong, of course. but how could he have you back? would you even be back? and why would you do that, when now, more than ever, it's pretty clear you deserve more than everything he's been offering to you, which is stress, for the most part).

he's sorry. like, really, really sorry. he's actually pretty sad you left, but because he's feeling shitty all the time, he doesn't even have the language to admit it or articulate this sadness just yet. for now, he's nothing more than a coward. he'll keep your notebook to himself. he'll never say a word about it.

[sydneys-adamu]

I just want it known that sydney adamu is a person. a human. with human feelings which now more than ever will be annoyed. angry. frustrated. regretful. and she has every reason to be. she shouldn’t need to be defended with every argument as to why she is allowed this room for her feelings. what she is, is a human, not the obedient little girl so many people seem to think she should be. where as her white male counterparts can scream and yell and nearly tear the place apart, she can’t even be mad about it without being called “annoying” or “ungrateful”. she may scream for the first time. she may yell. she may decide that she’s fucking over it and she may have to be convinced this is still worth her time. carmy may have to fucking convince her that HE is worth her time. she cares about him, and about every other person in that damn restaurant but that doesn’t mean she has to smile about it 24/7. I don’t want to fucking hear your stupid reasons as to why a young black woman isn’t allowed to be overwhelmed into making decisions you might not personally make. literally shut the fuck up.

[falllpoutboy]

my favorite nondescript sydcarmy tweet

[beauspot]

The 8 Elements of All Great Rom-Coms

Two Loveable Leads

No matter the stakes, situation, or scenery, the audience has to root for [these] two characters

A Meet Cute

Essential to the basic plot of every romantic comedy is the moment the characters meet

A Unique, Troublesome Situation

Call it a complication, a troublesome situation, or set of intricate stakes, no matter the nomenclature there has to be something that pushes your characters together and pulls them apart

At Least One Great Sidekick

Every great rom-com requires an incredible sidekick

Relationship In Jeopardy

A key scene in every romantic comedy is the moment the core relationship is put to the test, pushed so far to the limits that everything is in jeopardy of falling apart

The Lightbulb Moment

The moment of realization is crucial to any film in the rom-com genre

A GRAND GESTURE OR EPIC LINE

If you write a rom-com and don’t include the grand gesture or incredible romantic line, did you even write a rom-com?

HAPPY ENDING

A happily ever after is a staple of all romantic comedies…

coming soon 🙃

Inspired by “The 9 Elements of All Great Rom-Coms” - ScreenCraft

[yangsharperavery]

sometimes i think that i truly must be nuts, batshit, UNHINGED, bc moments from s1 still send me into a fevered conniption when i rewatch them. almost like the exact reaction i had when i watched "review" for the first time in summer 2022, and heard the way carmy's voice goes lower, softer, more vulnerable on that second "what are you doing??" into completely frantic and desperate in equal measure when he continues to repeat it as sydney is quitting with everything falling apart around them as the kitchen ticket printer goes off incessantly like GOD DRAMA TENSION ANGST BRILLIANT CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE CHEF'S FUCKING KISS!

[spywhitney]

Claire: Full on throws herself at Carmy unapologetically and from her perspective, has a perfect relationship with him. / Overhears him say one negative thing about the relationship and has made no attempt to come back into his life.

Sydney: Gives her all to the actual Carmy and the restaurant and has continued to do so, and only walked when he disrespected her a bit more than usual. / Came back after he gifted her a place in a fucked restaurant. / Sydney still deals with the same bs and has a panic attack over leaving Carmy and the restaurant/what she'll choose/the way Carmy has treated her etc etc etc because she cares so much.

[https-hunter]

If I had a nickel for every time there was a m/f duo in a show about a workplace where they were really good friends in season 1 but then in season 2 one of them started dating someone they don’t really have chemistry with, thus turning me into a shipper of the platonic duo, I’d have to nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

[alwaysrunningoutoftime]

crazy to think how the s1e3:brigade crate conversation laid the structure and solution for sydcarmys relationship.

And then, you know, you kinda left. Like, you... Y-y-you did. Not even "kinda." You just straight-up left - this is what happened in season 2.

But you just didn't really listen, and... - this is happening in season 3

if this is going to work the way that I think we both want it to work, I-I mean, I think we should probably... try to listen to each other.

carmy has a whole lot of shit he needs to work through and improvement is non-linear. But for sydney and carmy's relationship, from the start she provides the solution to all their problems in this one scene. this conversation has been ever present in their relationship, they're still working through it.

[mileenaxyz]

Wait, wait, wait...I've watched that S1E1 scene a thousand times. How did I miss that???

[xothemedia]

The Bear 1x8 | “Braciole”

[conceived-angel]

flaws and all x sydcarmy

[notyourdaisybuchanan]

1x03 // 1x06

[lazyspeedy]

“sydney is too good for carmy” “sydney shouldn’t have to fix him” listen listen, if sydney wants her sad little white boy, she will have him

[bitchthefuck1]

you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

[donetbhlmao]

anyone else up missing s1 sydcarmy

[alwaysrunningoutoftime]

Richie, to Sydney: I don't want you dating Carmy. It can upset the delicate balance of who I can pit against whom in my life.