#bonding netflix

[orphic-selcouth23]

Listen these episodes are only 15-20 minutes long but fucking hell bonding is weird as fuck and I love it

[passiveagressivepoet]

anybody wanna talk about netflix’s 2019 seminal classic and excellent dark sex comedy bonding

[starsstillshine]

jacob from abbott elementary is in bonding i am screaming

[touchoflaughter]

Bonding S.1 Ep.4

Gosh the funniest thing happened last night with my bf! One year ago that would've been the most embarrassing situation possible for me but thanks to this community, I'm so much more comfortable with tickling now! Ok ok let me tell you what happened:

We had plenty of tickle fights before and were in a cuddly but silly mood so we started watching 'bonding' on Netflix. [For everyone who doesn't know the show: it's about a domina and her assistant who got some different clients with all sorts of fetishes.]

So we were at season 1 episode 4 when they had a client whose wife had called them to- you may have guessed it- tickle him.

I was surprised cause this was the first time I saw my fetish being represented in tv. But I wasn't embarrassed about it. Actually I found it pretty funny.

As we were laying there, him spooning me, I started laughing again and again. They portrayed it so awkwardly, really!! The wife was so prissy and ashamed (see here) and the whole tickling process was completely unrealistic and weird so I just HAD to laugh about it! Go take a look at it and tell me your thoughts please!! 😂

Here's the link to see it on Netflix.

Jon seemed to have to process what exactly was happening on screen before he commented as it's the most natural thing in the world: "He has a tickling fetish."

I mean- how many more green flags do I need to finally tell him my love for tickling, huh? oh dammit one day I'll tell him! But for now I was just busy laughing and being happy that I felt so comfortable with the situation. Of course he also had to tickle me shortly after.

Again, thanks to everyone I can talk to on here. I was so, so shy about this whole kinky side of me and I'm grateful for everyone of you! <3

[gordonstanheight]

badass gf himbo bf

[ruubesz-draws]

Showing off the babies

(I watched Ultraman Rising! It was good!)

Bonus:

From this

[girl-in-the-thunderbolt-suit]

Baby reindeer was brutal, triggering, uncomfortable, honest and beautiful. One of the best portrayals of someone with sexual trauma I've ever seen on TV.

[drunkenmantis]

Eepy cuddle pile

[spielzeugkaiser]

The ages in this show!! I have made some jokes about this before, but it gets me - with aging Ciri up and bringing her closer to Jaskiers age when they meet I can not help but draw parallels. Like Geralt bonded way differently with both of them (which makes sense because Ciri has been his Child surprise since birth and Jaskier just randomly turned up one day and followed him like a puppy) but it's so funny to me. also I'm 100% sure Jaskier was horny as fuck from the beginning so there was a whole different vibe from the get go

[cannibalismposting]

Beauty of this man makes me speechless

[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

I know! I was always surprised there wasn't more buzz around this show. It seemed like all the ingredients were there. Another show that got cancelled too early :(

[orphic-selcouth23]

It feels wrong hearing D’arcy carden saying these things…

[where-dreams-dwell]

*spoilers for One Day*

For people saying ‘it’s tragic, Dex and Em only got 3 years together’ no. They got 15 years together.

Glossing over the span of their life together to sum it up as ‘only 3 years together’ misses all the love and time they had together that wasn’t solely romantic.

Why is their relationship only ‘important’ or ‘counts’ when it’s a romantic one? Maybe there was always romantic love buried in there or growing steadily but there was a whole lot of platonic love there too.

For 15 years they were the most important person in the world to one another, they described each other as their ‘best friend’ and the person they reached out to at every high and low moment. And for the last 3 of those years they were also a couple.

There are loads of examples of Dex reaching out to Em when he’s at his lowest: the last birthday with his mum, then he’s reeling from his divorce, when he’s scared people will hate him on TV. And you *could* read that as pathetic and Em being his emotional crutch, with Dex latching into her. But you could *also* see that as when you’re struggling and low, you just want your best friend. Because they *get* you. And part of being a best friend is being there in those low moments.

And Em has done the same with Dex, just in different ways. That first year out of uni Em had no idea what she was doing; in a job she couldn’t wait to leave, a relationship that didn’t make her happy, not sure where she was going in life or what she was doing. Em writes to Dex often, and doesn’t need him to reply to her, just to read her letters and be *her* emotional crutch and person to vent to.

Even at that breakup-dinner, Em has things she ‘needs to talk about’ and she’s reached out to Dex to do it. We don’t see her discussing it with Tilly, we see her trying to talk about it with Dex. She’s at arguably her lowest moment (hates her job, hates her partner, hates her home) and she wants her best friend to listen to her. Just like he did when she was 24 and thinking about giving up and leaving London, and Dex convinced her to stay and keep going.

So they are emotional crutches *to one another*. That’s also part of being someone’s best friend.

And for all the low moments Dex also wanted to share his best moments with her too: when he’s excited about the TV pilot he calls Em to say ‘the only person I want to share this with is you’, and begs Em to find a way to be there. Yes this is also him dismissing and ignoring her achievements, yes this is self absorbed and rude and at the height of his egomania, but in that moment of triumph he only wants his best friend there with him.

When they see one another again at Tilly’s wedding Em is brave and self assured when she reveals she’s ‘thought of you every day, missed you every day’, and that even though they are friends again now the fact that Dex will have a wife and child ‘feels a bit like loosing you all over again. Because people with families have different priorities…’ That’s how close they were before.

The sentiment that ‘we grew up together’ is really true, for the both of them. They were very different people throughout their lives, and if they had tried to be a romantic couple earlier there is no guarantee that version of them would have lasted the course.

Would Emma have stayed with a peak-of-his-tv-fame Dex, partying and living life ‘to the full’? Or would they have explosively ended and decided they were too different for one another for it to ever work?

Would Dex have even tried for a career in TV or a full year of travelling if he’d become a couple with Emma after Uni? Or would he have done something else but grown resentful of what-could-have-been?

If they had sorted out their issues and apologised after their fight and Em had left Ian, would Em have found the strength to turn rock bottom into a spring board and finally write her book? Would she have even hit that bottom at all? Or would the hook have remained a pipe dream while she continued as a teacher, happy with Dex but professionally unfulfilled?

We will never know what could have been, and that doesn’t necessarily make those alternatives the ‘better’ option that they ‘missed out on’.

Maybe they would only ever have had 3 years together as a couple and getting it in their mid 30’s the way they did was their most mature and peaceful version.

So yes at times their relationship feels like it’s moving toward the inevitable conclusion of a romantic partnership. But the time before they get there wasn’t wasted or unimportant or unnecessary. And they were always together.

[starsstillshine]

the connection between mistress mira and MJP/john paul

[polin15]

Their bond is unmatched and I hope that it’ll last forever. 💙

I miss them 🥹

[stopper-my-heart]

Here's another adorable mini moment (Heartstopper S1E6). Tao has just asked, "So...we're ordering a second round, right?"

As the gif shows, the group agrees, and Nick says, "Yeah, I mean, we can go and get them if you want."

Taking a closer look at this:

Nick says "we" can go and get them without specifying who "we" is, and it wasn't obvious from the preceding conversation. So not only is Nick just casually lumping Charlie in with himself, he's also assuming that everyone else will understand that Charlie is the rest of his "we".

Nick didn't even non-verbally check with Charlie before making this offer, that's how strong his assumption (or hopeful confidence) is that Charlie will be okay both with being part of the "we" and with being volunteered by Nick to fetch the milkshakes together.

Perhaps the best part of all of this is Charlie's reaction:

He does a quick double-take at Nick with a little smile sneaking in, and then he tries his very best to not get stuck on what has just happened and to remain casual in front of the group.

Charlie's slightly delayed "yeah" of confirmation to the group that he and Nick will get the milkshakes is pretty convincingly nonchalant, but it's still clearly trying to be nonchalant, basically saying, "Yeah, whatever, just gonna go get the milkshakes with Nick who volunteered 'us', no big deal".

Honourable mention of additional cuteness:

After Tao's question about ordering a second round, Nick and Charlie instinctively look at each other to coordinate their responses. They quickly look away though, possibly because they've realised they "shouldn't" be checking in about their answers (especially in front of Tao and Elle who don't (yet) know that Nick and Charlie are on a date).