#sydcarmy void

[comfortfood-sydcarm]

I just love them so much.🥹

[trashy-greyjoy]

being delusional is half the fun of shipping, idk what y'all are on...

[ambeauty]

The Bear S3 & SydCarmy’s Strongest Warriors deserve Purple Hearts for their service

💜💜💜

🎖️🎖️🎖️

@thoughtfulchaos773 @sydneys-adamu @bioloyg @turbulenthandholding @ago0112 @whenmemorydies @currymanganese @espumado @yannaryartside @mitocamdria @bootlegramdomneess

[uncriticalbunny]

sydney and carmy have such a deranged dynamic so it's very funny when people try to put them in a "professional coworkers" box like bffr nothing about their relationship is professional

[theroyalmisfitmess]

I NEED everyone at the kitchen to blow up in Season 3.

It’s brutal? Yes. I’m sorry. But it’s a MUST. It’s for everyone’s character development. And are we expected to believe everything’s remotely okay by the time the new season starts? HELL NO!

It makes absolutely no sense for Syd and Richie everyone in that damn kitchen to still be okay around Carmy. I’ve read some canon-compliant fanfic to fill the void and the way everyone just goes back to normal and instantly forgives each other does not work for me. Not only that, but I also dove into SydCarmy fanfics and I have a personal dislike for Syd just forgiving Carmy and Richie just not acknowledging he had a part in pushing CarmyClaire.

Realistically, everyone’s gonna be professional in the kitchen at best, but there needs to be tension and walking-on-eggshells. Give me the drama of the culinary field masked in comedy. Give me a full heart-to-heart between Richie and Carmy where they BOTH apologize to each other. Give me Sydney refusing “I’m sorry,” in sign because she knows her and Carmen are using their on-duty communication in place of actual communication.

[shamixlour]

Lips like the Sun

As I got older, I learned i am a drinker. Sometimes a drink feels like family. Family.  

Sydcarmy | 524 | GA

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The thing is that Carmen would have done anything for Sydney.

He would have done anything, carrying his foolish heart upon his sleeve, bright red drops trickling alongside his wrist, glistening to the summer sky as he mumbles, stutters silly love confessions.  In fact, Carmen did it all willingly back then and years later, it is still the same. It is still the same. Nothing has changed.

It is still the same. Time rolled across his skin though. It rolled and slid, leaving behind wrinkles, smiles lines, a bucket worth of memories and the void of seconds passing by. Still he would do it all over again if he could. He would. Carmen would keep trying making the sun shine a little stronger, cool warm strokes rolling on his younger flesh.

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OR: the hurt no comfort past relationship short sycarmy peom/fic i wrote while listening to Mitski.

Read on ao3

[atorionsbelt]

have u seen the bear and if so do u see the parallels btwn royjamie and sydcarmy bcuz there are soooo many to me. they've really helped fill the rj void in my heart like we have

icon in their field + newer talent who looks up to them

mentorship that grows into them becoming equals of sorts

have been to each other's houses + already know each other's sisters

sentimental meaningful gift exchange that shows how much they care and pay attention to each other im gonna be sick

being all up in each other's space/touching for no reason at ALL

eye fucking and lots of it.

sexually charged anger need i say more

if ur not a sydcarmy truther thats fine or if ur an anti im sorry (😳) but I just love royjamie and have found myself looking for lil bits of them in everything i watch now so imagine my delight when i found this show. whew sorry for the word vomit lmk if you see the vision and take care <33

i can kinda see the parallels! thank u for compiling them i never really thought about it like that. i am starting to like sydcarmy it’s all very new to me still.

but idk, i think syd is very much her own character and stands alone from anything i’ve ever seen, i can’t really see jamie traits in her. as for carmy i think he’s got a mix of traits from both in rj. maybe that just lends to how men are similarly written. i think that’s also why their arguing doesn’t remind me of rj either bc mlw and mlm tension will never be charged the same way. and to me i’ll almost always be like “yup the woman is right and the guy is dumb” in a fight.

but someone needs to write rj watching the bear and being super into it. canon. then jamie makes roy teach him how to cook

[turbulenthandholding]

Someone somewhere mentioned that these billboards might be more related to Emmy voting (which starts very soon) than season 3 promo. So either they are centering Sydcarmy as the heart and most important takeaway from season 2 and asking Emmy voters to consider that or, if it's promo, they are asking viewers to focus on those moments going into season 3. Either way...how can it be anything other than what it is, I again scream into the void.

I was going to truly rewatch the Bear from the perspective that I don't see sydcarmy being endgame. Then I saw the billboard. It wasn't a promo set with Ebra and Tina together, Richie and carmy together, Natalie and carmy together or CLAIRE and Carmy.

It's Syd and Carmy. The story always comes down to Sydney and Carmy.

[comfortfood-sydcarm]

For the Writers

I have an idea for a jealous Carmen Fic!

Plot: The Bear hires a part-time waiter who is also a musician. He's a tall charming guy who plays lead guitar (of course) in a band. The new guy and Sydney hit it off very well from the start. The part-timer notices that Sydney always keeps a journal around and he asked her if she likes to write because his band is looking for some new music. Syd politely clarifies that she enjoys writing and planning new recipes but hasn't written anything beyond that in a very long time. In her high school years, Syd kept multiple journals where she would just write about anything that came to her mind. It was freeing and she missed that calming outlet she had to truly express herself.

Moving forward Syd spends more time with The Part-timer helping his band by writing and editing the lyrics for them. Here's were things get messy, Sydney has been writing down lyrics in her recipe/ planning notebook that she shares with Carmy. Over time the recipes and the poems get muddle together.

Now Carmen notices instantly the connection between Syd and The Part-timer and it makes him sick and foaming at the mouth. It doesn't help that the rest of the crew make sly comments on how good looking and charming The Part-timer is. When Carmy reads Sydney's recipe journal that has now has random poem written in he's just going through all the emotions. Carm is annoyed at how everything looks unorganized now. He's Jealous about some of the words because Sydney has never expressed herself like this to him before and the fact that this "musician" gets to know this side of Sydney make Carmen want to scream and throw a chair. But lastly Carmen is worried because some of the lyrics are a bit dark which cause him to worry about Sydney's mental health. It gets heated between Syd and Carm in the kitchen (because its them) as Carm is questioning her full focus this time which was the biggest mistake on him and he knows it. Eventually they both come to an even ground and have a heavy conversation. Syd explains what the lyrics about her childhood and growing up without her mother. Sydney shows Carmen some poems that she wrote about him in her journal. They were hidden on random pages but when she put them together they express how much love and admiration she has for Carmy.

[comfortfood-sydcarm]

I’m in the Sydcarmy void.

[uncriticalbunny]

me whenever I see people desperate for the writers to make sydney asexual and/or a lesbian.

long post ahead.

as a black woman who is ace, I don’t think sydney being asexual would be revolutionary or interesting. it would actually be so incredibly, hugely, profoundly... boringggggg. and people who insist on sydney being asexual get a massive side eye from me. especially white asexuals, because fuck your representation, and cishet people because who the fuck are y’all? 

so rarely are black women in tv and film treated with respect and nuance, much less when it comes to romance. so rarely are we treated as a person to be desired. to be loved. openly. warmly. carnally. even less so when it’s a darkskin black woman. writers pick from one of two things when it comes to black female characters: hypersexualized vs desexualized. superficially, for all outward appearances, there are lots of asexual black women in media. that is to say, they are certainly almost treated that way. unintentionally. intentionally. maliciously. void of sexuality or sensuality. no romance because she’s a Strong Black Woman who doesn’t need a man. or a relationship so pathetic that it can hardly be called a romance. would it be nice to have an asexual black female character who has a storyline that treats asexuality with respect? yes, yes it would. but that’s not really the point of this increasingly wordy essay. if the creators/writers are to be taken at their word that sydcarmy is strictly platonic, and they had her reject marcus because he misread their interactions, then it just shows they’ve developed nothing for sydney romantically. all the shots of carmy looking at her like she hung the moon and the stars are simply because she's his #bro. marcus really only liked her for her personality and simply confused that for romantic longing. platonic connections and a one-sided pursuit with zero heat. how groundbreaking. 

every fucking white character can have all of the romance-related things though. they can kiss each other, be shown as desirable, etc. etc. nat can be cuddled and cherished by pete. richie can go on dates in a nice suit with dirt caked under his nails, be loving with his then-wife, and ostensibly be wanted by jess. tiffany can still be yearned for by her ex-husband as she prepares to marry a new one. carmy can skip around like he’s in a romcom while neglecting his responsibilities to make out with claire and call her beautiful. claire can be shot in soft, dreamy sequences with closeups of her face and have a convo with her ass out for no reason other than to say she’s desirable and fucked carmy. claire and carmy can have screentime set aside for their relationship and a tender lovemaking scene. it’s expected for white people. it’s the norm. no romantic love for sydney though. because she’s driven. because she deserves better. because romance is unimportant. because she wants that star. because she can have no distractions. because asexual. because representation. [audience cheering]

sydney being a lesbian would also bore me immensely. too often are black female characters treated by writers as russian dolls with every diversity point they can think of. books, comics, tv, film, etc. she’s black, she's lesbian, she's asexual, she’s trans, she’s disabled, she’s poor, she’s this, she’s that. the diversity and representation everyone wants. why is every other character surrounding this ~pinnacle of diversity~ straight, or white, or a man? yes, because that’s who’s mainly writing and casting and greenlighting these things and maybe it’s silly to expect otherwise, but still, what the fuck? congrats on being represented by this fictional character. but it doesn’t feel genuine; it feels spiteful and lazy and self-congratulatory. like where's the other black women and diverse characters lmao. to be clear, I do want to see all the black lesbians in media because there's still not very many. and black women with one, or two, or all of those “diversity points” do exist in real life. we are lesbians, we are bi, we are disabled, we are trans. we're all of those and more. and we are loved and adored. on screen? maybe with a nonexistent or poor romantic storyline. or perhaps a decent and maybe even good storyline that eventually crashes and burns. there's a popular twitter thread right now about the disposable black gf trope and the examples that keep pouring in are bleak af.

the black lesbian character headcanon/canon increasingly feels like just another way to fridge us romantically. #notalllesbiantruthers but too many tbh. a black female character will simply exist without uttering a word and a slew of white women will be there to loudly proclaim her as the lesbian representation they want, need, crave, and adore. especially if there’s zero indication of the character being a lesbian. just stereotypes and vibes. hollow, insincere proclamations. bi black women don't even exist in their world. all these things I’ve observed with sydney. she's a bro, she's butch, she's a top, she's so husband-coded. babygirl is only reserved for the most woeful, pitiful white male characters. it's hilariously #coded. and no one will push back because after all, any gay representation is a good thing.

you’ll see hit tweets about how they know deep down sydney's a lesbian or how it will be so funny when the writers make her one. really, why is that? she can't be bi lest she actually gets with carmy. carmy can't be gay because they want to fuck him too badly. yeah I’m not so convinced all the lesbian sydney truthers earnestly want to see her loved, adored, cuddled, kissed, or fucked by another woman. because would that really be the writers’ objective or finished product? or will they just make her a lesbian and pat themselves on the back for doing only that. a throwaway line? maybe give her a cute romance built largely off-screen? lesbian sydney is a win for diversity and that’s enough. and who really wants to see sydney loved on loudly or be sexual anyway? that's not who she really is! she wears minimal makeup and oversized shirts and sweaters. let’s just focus on her working herself to the bone and getting that star. and I think deep down a lot of these truthers know her storyline possibly wouldn't be done justice. that's why it's going to be so funny to them when they make her one.

it all feels so shallow. fanfiction of sydney x fem!reader or original female character or nayia (the gorgiana black chef from s02ep03) is quite literally nonexistent [!!!]. sorry, y'all are not progressive or galaxy-brained. we get a black female character who’s multifaceted and fascinating, a deuteragonist even, in a show with a fandom that barely considers her as a person, and you’ve set your grubby paws upon her to be shelved romantically. bffr, the writers are already flailing romance-wise when it comes to sydney; they would not do an asexual/lesbian storyline justice. and even if they somehow make a halfway decent attempt, maybe they should have made it clear from the very beginning. not in season 3 or 4 or 5 or wheneverthefuck after they’ve given all the white characters romantic angles and developed her strongest and most important relationship with carmy, the main white guy or possibly because they hate the fact that people ship her with the main white guy. because then it just feels reactionary. and spiteful. and lazy. anyway, this ended up being way longer than I wanted. thanks for reading. fin.

[uncriticalbunny]

saw people on twitter ranting about how sydcarmy shippers are antiblack and can't stand to see sydney stand on her own and how it's acephobic to want to see syd in love. here's the thing: storer had a ridiculously strong reaction when he saw people shipping syd and carmy and not for any of those aforementioned reasons. he didn't have any phony concerns about ace rep or seeing a black woman being strong on her own [I'd barf]. he legit scoffed at romance/sex in the show when he saw how a *very small number* of people liked the darkskin black woman and the white man together. and then he introduced claire. if you are not mentioning these things or feel the need to twist what sydcarmys actually want out of the ship, your arguments are not in good faith.

the show is not void of romance or sex at this point. and I've already talked about this in depth. so no, I won't be satisfied with sydney [the only black female character in this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] not having a romantic storyline, and I'm saying this as an ace black woman. at the end of the day, the people who don't want to see sydcarmy together outnumber the number of people who do [by far]. tumblr is a bubble. and I've yet to see a sydcarmy tweet go viral like any of the ones against them. it's never any ranting about any of the actual racist shit syd/ayo go through by fans of the show. it's always "swirl ship bad." like c'mon.