#the gang exploits the mortgage crisis

[sofiasketches]

Just a couple of partners in real estate

[rahquaza]

— mac + dennis: all the times they pretend to be together (+ the one time they admit that they kind of already are)

5x01 | 12x10 | 16x04

[macden]

You guys, I have huge news!

[charmac]

5x01 | 16x05

Mac and Dennis + Aggression

[theunknownpoetandrewfoster]

Mac's always gotta be on top. 😂

[hottest-gay-bar-in-philadelphia]

Everyone knows and loves "Baby Boy" but I will always be thinking about Dennis' hands in this moment <3

[charliework16]

[godduh]

i am so normal about them (i'm not)

[translesbianvampire]

the staircase of the suburbs house & the mortgage crisis house are like, functionally the same. does this mean anything?

[kazisonline]

The ending of the episode, the chicken fight in The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis was so wholesome I'm smiling so hard

The clip is glitched in the middle but the ending is there and it's so sweet they're all so crazy dysfunctional happy and stupid together

[macsmittens]

“do that for me, okay, baby boy?”

[charhuahuakelly]

sunny cubby is coming together 😋 just need to figure out how I want to display the charms (from @triviamurderparty2 !! tysm for the stickers)

[specialtysacrifice]

None of the gang should ever leave their apartments. Something about being in a house fucks them. Extreme home makeover. Exploits the mortgage crisis. Move to the suburbs. Shitty apts humble and medicate them. Keep them locked up.

[cruiseshipmoment]

One of the (very few) healthy things about the Gang's dynamic is that they let each other be silly and play. Encourage it, even. Frank and Charlie play an imagination-based worm game all the time. Even when Dennis is really upset, he tells Frank yeah, being a man-cheetah is pretty cool and he does want to get in on that. Mac sees Charlie do a silly-looking dance routine he made up in 8th grade and calls it beautiful. The bit at the end of "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis" where they're in the pool, and Dee gleefully pushes Mac over.

It just makes me happy to see them be silly together.

[charliework16]

real

[chrliekclly]

if you ever want to talk about your thoughts on joyce .. Peeks over the corner of your blog. i love talking and hearing ppls thoughts on joyce sooo much even if they're different from my own!! and your analysis and stuff is always so well thought out

i hope u dont mind if i answer this publicly to take advantage of th request nd get my ideas out ther (also tyvm im happy u like my insane takes on these idiots, iv ben thinking abt them for almost 10 years)

i said a lot here so gnna 'read more' it

iv ben building trans charlie n my head fr, like i said, nearly 10 years. i used to view him as cis bcuz i always try to take as much frm th source material as i can wen i craft my HCs nd i had v personal (stupid) hangups insofar as him explicitly referring to his junk multiple times nd bottom surgery simply not being on my radar as a naive littl trans idiot deep in th sauce tht transmen oftn fall into w phallo being viewed so so poorly

evn still i leaned towards transmasc charlie nd always lovd moments tht let me imagine, for a moment, it being true, like his discomfort w taking off his shirt [hundred dollar baby, charlie kelly: king of the rats, the gang exploits the mortgage crisis, young charlie and mac deleted scenes, etc etc etc], or bonnie yelling abt ppl stealing her "charlie-girl" [the waitress is getting married] which i lovd to see as her accidentally misgendering him while drunk off her ass.

having grown out of my phallo issues (nd if ur reading this and u still view phallo super poorly, please do some research and grow too), ive in recent years fully subscribed to transmasc/nb charlie, and view his timeline something like this:

baby -> elementary: charlie refers to himself as a boy, doesnt "come out," simply has no idea he's afab. bonnie lets him dress however he wants and refers to him as asked. when charlie gets confused about his genitals, bonnie says his dick will grow in later lol, makes charlie wear a dress in public restrooms and tells him its just a game

middle: puberty hits and charlie gets confused and scared. bonnie puts him on blockers w.o explaining them ("my mom used to vaccinate me like every month" [the gang gets quarantined]) charlie goes on content and oblivious. STP acquired because hes "a late bloomer" and his dicks still not growing in?? weird. confides this in mac once, but he doesn't understand.

high: charlie finally registers that he's trans after forgetting theres a health class 1 day and not being able to skip it. throws him for a loop a bit but he becomes actively invested in his goals. he gets to start T and wants to have surgeries. "what guy hasnt done some extensive research on his own genitalia?" [mac is a serial killer]

college (aged): able to surgically transition (ty medicare) and continues on with life as we kno him now

joyce, imo, fits neatly into these views.

as a transmasc nb who came out young nd prefers to be seen as just A Guy by strangers, i grew up v vehemently against anything girly that might get me misgendered, but th more i began to 'pass,' th more @ home n my body i felt, th more and more comfortable i am w femininity, th more i wdnt mind putting on a dress, as long as th general public wd see me as "a man in women's clothes." n my mind, i prescribe something not exactly th same but v similar to charlie.

i see charlie "i dont really identify" kelly as afab and nb. i see joyce as a "character" he originally created to distance himself from the dysphoria of putting on a dress as a young trans boy, but that became part of him as the hard lines he drew in the sand as a child became blurry with age and self acceptance. charlie's comfort with himself allows joyce to evolve into a more solid persona, one he enjoys embodying and allowing to become a permanent facet of who he is. he's ok with being referred to as either. they're both him.

so maybe joyce comes out a bit more outside of the bathroom now.