#bed friends episode 3

[fortpeatbabie]

I couldn't understand the context of this shirt scene on the first time. But now I think I got it.

Uea gives the shirt to King and King responds "oh it's here". So basically his shirt was left at Uea's condo? And Uea returns it because Bed Friends don't keep their stuffs at each others place. However, we also see Uea breaking his walls layer by layer in this episode and so the dialogue "keep it in your car" makes sense to me. King the cutie replies "sure" and I am guessing he got the context.

[pondphuwin]

bed friend, episode 3

middleman's love, episode 3

[respectthepetty]

Another week of me falling deeply in love with Bed Friend's King.

How do I love King? Let me count the ways.

Uea told King to wait, and King stopped immediately, which made Uea smile. Good boy.

King did not hesitate to tell Uea he finds him attractive.

And he didn't hesitate to show Uea either.

King is honest about sex. Always.

He knows something is bothering Uea, but he never pushes. He respects Uea and the boundaries he has in place.

He is part spider monkey.

King knows Uea strongly reacted to something he did, and even though he doesn't understand why, he apologizes and assures Uea he won't do it again. No questions.

He called Uea before he went out, let him know he wouldn't be doing anything against their rules, ignored that woman in favor of the fries, and texted Uea when he got home. He said, "there will be NO miscommunication ruining my guaranteed three-times-a-week-sex deal," which is great since Gun had already told Uea everything the next day before King texted him.

He isn't giving Uea room to doubt him. King said "you ain't gotta be suspicious cause I'll put a tracker on my own ass if you want me to."

He was quick to admit that he was jealous of Gun, who he knows finds Uea attractive, looking cozy with Uea.

He took the olive branch (SEX!) Uea gave him because my boy may be hurt but he ain't stupid, and he reacts when Uea says that the reason he is sleeping with King is because he wants to fuck up his life even more. He doesn't take offense because he realizes Uea is in pain, and even offers him a safe place, not just figuratively but literally as well.

My boy said, "I'm lonely" while setting up an entire thirst trap like the slut he is. Good boy.

All his clothes are made out of boyfriend material.

And above all else, the way he LOOKS at Uea every damn time.

Here's hoping he fucks Pock up in the parking lot next week cementing his place in my heart.

[hiddenonigiri]

I just like it. I feel at ease being with you guys. I can do whatever I want, I can be silly if I want to, I can act like a kid if I want to.

[orgonongurlz]

CHIPPED OFF

ONE YEAR

[pcktknife]

yall...we are officially post-timeskip

[lilacerull0]

whoever sees this post it feels fitting to share that op's mother has given her the brilliant friend books therefore this post wouldn't be on tumblr under this username if not for op's mother.

[tkbrokkoli]

cant believe that after driving the car, riding the train, booking a hotel room, having a nightmare, visiting the father in law, visiting a hospital, making a friend, and escaping an assassin, the incomprehensible Horrors™ are back at it again and harder to bear than ever 🐻

[cescalr]

Oooh, definitely glee for the fandom asks! <3

Always with the hornets' nests with these ones, I see! Though i don't think there's a fandom out there that isn't in some way a hornets' nest once it gets large enough... hm. Alright. I'm just gonna be as honest as i can be about this, and tag accordingly.

Glee:

my favourite female character: augh. argh. ouph. so difficult. so hard. Since I'm working off of half-remembered show and half recently-rewatched show... its a tossup. Mercedes, Santana, Quinn. Probably Mercedes. She did nothing wrong ever in her entire life <3 well okay maybe except that one time she smashed kurt's car windows (but it was a banger song, though). Can't say Santana because of the Biphobia TM and other things like excessive use of bigotry-based insults, and Quinn. Oh god girl. Cheating is not cool! Funnily enough! So I find them really interesting but 'favourite' is hard to say. Mercedes. Mercedes for sure <3

my favourite male character: Blaine sam blaine sam blaine sam yes. I am imitating ripping petals off of flowers and coming to a conclusion based on which is the last name i said. So I guess that means Sam! But really this is a tie.

my favourite book/season/etc: Mannnnn idk. I don't like shows for seasons as-a-whole. Also i could not tell you what happened in any given season if you held a gun to my head. I'm not good at that. The only shows i know 'seasons' of are Buffy and Teen Wolf because i've watched them like 100000000000 times (exaggeration) for various reasons (mostly fanfiction research).

my favourite episode (if its a tv show): I can tell you my LEAST favourite episode (blame it on the alcohol, thank you Kurt king of biphobia! this is a persona foible it's not the worst episode in the show. by far. by far. it's kind of an average one. I'm just angry at it.) BUT er. Favourite? Idk. Genuinely some of the earlier Kurt-centric stuff was really well done (his convo with Burt... <3) and the Quinn giving birth accompanied by bohemian rhapsody was obviously iconic, but if I'll be honest I couldn't name any episodes of this show (other than That One previously stated, anyway). And yeah most of the time they were named after song titles and No i don't remember those song titles either. I'm just so bad at this. My memory is that of a goldfish's being haphazardly bounced around on a sieve.

my favourite cast member: it would be really funny if I said Demi Lovato [she counts!] but the truth is N/A: i don't know these people !!! They are strangers!! (i don't. follow celebrities. at all. I couldn't even name most of them. They're just people doing a job and their lives are irrelevant to me beyond their ability to perform that job well. I do not need to know where they live and what coffee they drink. Stalker shit tbh. I'm kind of a very private person myself, so rpf-adjacent stuff just... creeps me out. I've never watched a single cast interview in my lifetime and I'm not about to start!)

my favourite ship: Difficult to say! Grave and obvious lie. Blam. It's blam. Quintana is a close runner up though Santana really needs to stop dating people who cheat on the regular (I'll accept Quinn has grown enough not to do this by the time a Quintana coupling would be viable - and satisfying in terms of character arcs - narratively speaking).

a character I’d die defending: Blaine Anderson did something wrong for sure but like Kurt did it first so shrugs. Cancels out. Bad for each other! Case closed!

a character I just can’t sympathize with: genuinely don't remember if I had one of those the first time around because I was like 10 and just didn't pay attention if I didn't care, but Terri and her racist self take that 'prize' this time, alongside the obvious predator in the room [original choir teacher. Sandy? I forget his name immediately after hearing it. He doesn't deserve to be remembered]. Also JBI is just.... a yikes character all around. I mean, he's a blatant stereotype for one, in a the people who wrote this person don't like jews kind of way. Unfortunately common stereotype too, for the era, so not only is he that, he's also lazy. Just a one-note pervert who's the butt of various antisemitic 'jokes' you've heard from era-peer shows a million times over, tired and awful and a sour reminder of bigotry that continues to this day. Really regrettable character who's lack of redeeming qualities was probably purposeful. (I know Rachel and tina are also jewish, but this comes up very rarely and mostly only when santana needs to say something kind of fucked up, as is her modus operandi, for 'comic relief'. Tina's jewish-ness wasn't even canon for several seasons, because she didn't have a surname or a family or anything resembling complex character depth for several seasons. The one time I really remember Rachel's religion being important was when she was pressuring Kurt into believing in some kind of god, which??? don't do that. Bad example. Trying to guilt trip a friend into faith sucks. I take back what i said earlier Mercedes did that too. Boo. Girls try again that was a bad showing all around. Though i have no idea why Kurt went the acupuncture route as his 'secular' option but i think that has to do a lot with the writers doing literally no research ever once in their lives (you can tell they don't by the way they write the football segments of the show, which make no sense according to football fans who watch Glee, of which there are numerous because real life isn't like fiction where you can only like music or sports. Most of the kids in my school year were doing the most of everything ever if they were the 'popular' ones - we do that differently; popularity isn't really based on who know know; for some bizzare reason literally everyone knew who I was? Even people I'd never spoken to?? - but more about like... how much you can do, I guess. Overachievers, but I'm not saying that negatively; these people were generally - generally - very nice, and surprisingly chill for people who had no spare time whatsoever. I'm not entirely sure when they slept; A* across the board, at least one sport, at least one instrument, several extracurriculars, parties every weekend, dozens of friends and an s.o. . Eh? Way too much going on. Scary lifestyle! Impressive burnout rate, probably. Er. Tangent! Back to the scheduled programming).) There's uhhhh there's a lot of bad characters on the show, but i'd say Sandy and Terri and her equally but more loudly racist sister are truly completely irredeemable ones. Like they're not interesting or anything, they're just there to be narrative annoyances (which, in the case of Sandy specifically, is insane. Arrest that man!!! He has actively sexually assaulted minors!!!).

a character I grew to love: difficult to say because I tend to just make an opinion and stick to it. Also i don't remember who i liked at first and who i didn't, this show came out when i was eight. I didn't watch it until I was a little older than that, of course, but I frankly have spotty memory until my late teens, so! I'm not sure!! Quinn, probably. Pink-hair-era Quinn helped me understand her more, and seeing the moments of kindness hidden behind practical cruelty, when you understand her family and situation, makes things make a lot more sense. It takes a lot to get me to sympathise with a cheater, but I can see where Quinn was getting all turned around in her head about life because of her upbringing and socialisation, not to mention the profoundly negative impact cheerios had on her mentally and that the school's culture in general was not exactly a breeding ground for empathy and optimism.

my anti otp: can you tell (klaine). I don't dislike Kurt!!! Please let him have a fun chillaxed boyfriend in new york with his vogue friends. But also please stop attempting to control other people's diets thank you!! Thank you!! I'm of mixed feelings. Blaine and Kurt both did at least one bad, relationship-ending thing, and proved over and over again that they just weren't on the same wavelength in regards to life goals and ways of living it. They can't even share the same living space, which is kind of required for a functional marriage. I don't know, it just seems like they settled for their first proper, serious boyfriend even if that's not really the best match, and I... wish they'd just got to see more of life first, you know? They got married at like 20! Or something! I'm 23, I cannot imagine getting married at 20. That's a baby. Let them live first!

(same for Santana and Brittney, imo. I also don't really like them together because Santana and Brittney have very different ideas regarding monogamy, which is just never going to go down well in the long run. If your girl cheats on you like twenty times and tells you to your face its not cheating in her view of things, but you think it is, break up with her because you'll just make each other miserable. Brittney sort of seems incapable of feeling guilt but if she were, this kind of moral pressure would be Not Good, and obviously Santana isn't comfortable with the idea and doesn't have to be!! Just move on!!! Find other people!!!! Don't marry your first girlfriend if you've broken up like ten times this is simple!!!! Please!!!! But Klaine wins out over Brittana because - in my opinion, glee fandom please do not persecute me, I am known for this specific thing - I see... interactions that verge on abusive between Klaine that I don't see in Brittana. So. Oof? Ex; use of public perception to disguise attack; deliberately hurting Blaine in a stage-combat fencing match (you are not meant to make actual contact in these) and thus using Blaine's own dislike of making his difficulties common knowledge against him in order to 'punish' him. This is no good! Don't do this!!.[Also just to err vaguepost about a comment.... that is. not. what i would call passive aggressive. Physically attacking someone with a sword - no matter the type of sword, fencing foils hurt just as much, they're just not stab-you sharp... er, these days - is just straight-up aggressive.]).

Note that negative things stick in the mind better than positive ones; on a rewatch I may well alter my opinion!

But also I'm really, really stubborn. So it's not likely. Klaine.

[littleragondin]

Episode 1 truly said "look at Uea's beautiful hands" and I didn't need to be told twice.

Points for King's too...

Other sets in the Hands Series: Ep.1, 4, 5, 6, 7

[fortpeatbabie]

Uea and the nape kiss trigger (bed friends ep 3)

This is my two cents...

So we have seen the lick that King gives on Uea's nape/neck in the episode 1 of bed friends.

Cut to episode 3 there are many instances where Uea gets the neck/nape kisses. It's only one instance where he gets triggered heavily, the scene where King is trying to dry his hair. Nape comes in King's view and he just goes for it. However, Uea jumps out of his lap asking what he was trying to do even though they are "bed friends". And then there is that flip second of snap in the episode 3 (after s*x talk) where Uea's expression changes but he goes back to smiling. Somebody explained it really well about how it's related to trigger/trauma kink and overcoming it in the most dangerous scenario. Just like consumption of Dr*gs when you are at your low.

Anyways, my observation is that Uea feels the triggers when his mind is not in the state of "s*x". Basically when he can't control his thoughts whereas in the hindsight his mind sees hope with King (maybe). In the towel drying scene you could see Uea letting his wall down a little bit and let King baby him kind of. The soft smile is cinematic representation of him being genuinely present in the moment, otherwise you would see him smile with smirk during the bed scenes.

You can search for the towel drying smile 🙂

Exhibit for that smirk smile

And then the second time when King tells him to let him be one good thing in his life. There's also that "at least I'm good in bed" dialogue which kind of hints to the domesticity Uea has let him feel with King. There's that soft smile again when he says "enough" and tries getting up.

This split second smile -

In both the cases Uea's mind sees the situation something other than s*x with King. Basically his mind is not prepared for physical (intimate) touch, something that goes back to the childhood scene where his uncle/step dad tried to breach the boundaries for the first time. Obviously that wasn't only the last time as we have seen some precaps for next episode but that was the FIRST time. An image/hope about that uncle was clearly blurred out, it was the pivotal point. The same thing happens with King. Uea let's his mind wander to situations where King (potentially) is not only the "bed friend" and as soon as the "bed" part returns with the nape/neck kiss, his memory of that uncle is triggered. Now the second time is brief because he realises that they were in the act a couple minutes ago, so the kink plays the cupid between his mind and King.

Of course it's too early to have this conclusion and I would wait for more episodes to see any other explanation to Uea's behaviour. But as of now, this is what I could think of

[blmpff]

[respectthepetty]

Half of the western hemisphere heard me scream during episode three of Bed Friend (and no, it wasn't because of that):

King, you are a Blue Boy! Why are you wearing black?! Even your office mates are calling you out!

TELL ME WHY YOU'RE COVERING UP YOUR COLOR!!!!!!!

What are you hiding, babe?! What is your secret?!

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN LOVE WITH UEA?! HOW LONG?!

*puts on tin foil hat* Since you were kids?

TELL ME!

[heartshattering]

5 AM

Just me and my overactive mind facing the nighttime again 🙃

[lesenbyan]

I will not start a project with denim when I've been awake for 19 hours. I will not start a project with denim with I've been awake for 19 hours. I will not start a project with denim when I've been awake for 19 hours. I will not-

[lalarubyss]