#they are going to be kasama

[mod-doodles]

If Sydcarmy is not meant to be interpreted in a romantic light, why is it easier to make romantic edits of them (with little to no scenes taken out of context) than it is to produce edits of the actual canon romances on the show?? We've just had them in two short seasons with mostly 30 minute long episodes and we've already been given enough incriminating material against them...Like, it's apples and oranges, since one is a film vs. a series and they're two different genres, but peep how many romantic fan edits there are of them compared to let's say Juliet and Dawson from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or some other romantic work. If you don't plan on making them romantic then Mr. Storer, Sir, brother-man, babes...then why tf are you giving us so much romantic material? 🥴

Me if Sydcarmy isn't romantic endgame:

‘Oh ye of so little faith…’

(Me a cynic trying to put my faith in a production team that has done little to appease my anxiety)

Is it that they are testing the waters to assess the audiences reaction to the potential romance? Are they trying to protect Ayo from the vitriol fans have been known to spew at black female leads on shows where they are paired romantically with the white male lead? Are they being truthful and this is not going to be the happy ending that I would prefer? Unfortunately only time will tell.

As a optimistic cynic lmao, I’m not only trying to be hopeful and delulu but between the very heavy handed romantic cues, the parallels that we don’t get of any one else on the show and the song they chose to represent season 2 of the show; there’s no doubt in my mind that its not intentional. Is it possible that someone exec can ruin it all sure but I’ll take solace in knowing that FX is the ‘indie HBO’ unlike the CW they tend to take on some pretty risky/non conservative shows. 

Another thing is while I don’t think we’ll get them in a relationship unless we’re really lucky; I think it’s more likely that we’ll get a romantic movie ending. Maybe a big final kiss or something version of what we saw at end of s01 that would be heavily suggestive. A lot of writers don’t know how to write past such a high even in the romance genre, thankfully we have fanfics for the happily ever after and beyond. 

When all else fails I remember Kasama is the goal, and like Genie said I do see a lot of parallels lolllll, the only important one is that the owners are married and operating the business together!

[shijiujun]

SO ROMANTIC SAYING I LIKE YOU IN EACH OTHER'S MOTHER TONGUES!!!!!

( ๑ ˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡

[purposechef]

AU where Carm doesn't fumble big time

[theside-b]

FIRST NOTE OF LOVE + Neil protecting Sea (even from himself)

[pharawee]

Oh no, Jame Kasama will be in First Note of Love?? I'll have to gif watch this now, won't I? 😩

[ayoarticulate]

YALL THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL

LIKE KASAMA CHAPTER FUCKING FOUR THIS IS SO SERIOUS IM SO SERIOUS

idk what to do do i reread the last three chapters and read this part or what do i just jump in WHATS THE PROCEDURE HERE

@ethxocore you have made not only my night, but the rest of my month ⭐️👄⭐️ thank you so very much

[chaoswillcalmusdown]

i have a lot of unformed thoughts based off one watch but like. all the little things they mention about the food is like. the opposite of what they should be doing.

getting butter shipped in from out of state ?? buying ingredients for one dish to use in one way ??? idk who taught carm that this is the way to go, but it def wasn't chef terry and it wasn't rene redzepi

[alwaysrunningoutoftime]

will never forget this ending note on before the dawn by mswyrr.

also that kasama thing was Targeted. i was targeted. i was targeted. the unbelievable nerve for chris storer to have syd and carmy go to kasama (tagalog for "together") on their not-date like are u guys trying to kill me? are u ?

[chefkids]

Claire is the physical manifestation of Carmy’s avoidance.

Before he got locked in the fridge Carmy chose to prioritize Sydney over Claire. But at Friends & Family night he ended up picking Claire over Sydney because he was being pressured by Richie and his avoidance kicked in again. This resurfaced his NYC Chef trauma, because Claire was a distraction to getting Sydney her star and the general success of The Bear. Then he tried to over compensate by turning into NYC chef all of a sudden and freaking out at Sydney. Because he wants to get Sydney a star but he’s also terrified of failing and having the NYC Chef “win” and wants to succeed out of spite for how he made him feel.

He left Sydney at Kasama to be with Claire because it was the easier choice for him than to put himself out there and be vulnerable with Sydney. Then he left her to go to that party with Claire and ended up having the Fishes Christmas panic attack. He left Sydney to cook for Claire, then ended up with the alleyway panic attack about Claire and Fishes. He left Syd at service for Claire and ended up with the NYC Chef panic attack then locked himself in the fridge and he is mainly concerned with Sydney and the staff through flashbacks. Using Claire as a distraction from Sydney always comes with a cost. And it always brings up the root cause of his avoidance which is his mother and the NYC Chef.

Carmy promised Sydney that he would not leave her alone after the fridge. And while he physically has not left her alone to be with Claire. He never mentally left Claire. 

Sydney suggested he should make a call after he got out of the fridge, and he thought she was referring to Claire instead of Richie, who is his actual 'family' and who he really hurt with his words. He apologized but in the most generic way possible and Richie knew he was just doing it to get it out of the way, which is why they're still fighting. He's still using Claire to avoid confronting his emotions for people like Richie and Sydney, who he knows he has hurt but who he really cares about. Sydney didn't give Carmy "permission" to call Claire then. He needed Sydney's push in his relationship just to call Claire his girlfriend. He thinks not talking to Claire equals prioritizing Sydney, but in turn he is still prioritizing Claire only just in his head, not physically, because he is still using Claire as an avoidance tool for his feelings for Sydney, his lack of apology for Richie, and even his lack of confrontation with his mother. 

In Season 3 we see him happy and panic free in Claire flashbacks. Because she is in a romanticized version of his past. We know he can be an unreliable narrator and see things that aren't fully there or twist things, and his flashbacks to his relationship with Claire is not the full picture. He's not thinking about all the times that being with her led to a panic attack after. He is using her to be avoidant of Sydney and what she means to him and what doing all of this for Sydney means.

He can't really answer Nat or Sydney when they ask “Why are you doing this?” because he’s still in denial about what he is really feeling for Sydney. But he can answer that he feels guilt whenever someone brings up Claire because that is easier to address.

Carmy is an avoidant. In Season 1 he oscillated between avoiding dealing with his actual grief about Mikey by just focusing on the restaurant and avoiding dealing with what was growing between him and Sydney by using the restaurant and his grief for Mikey, until it blew up in his face. He physically avoided the restaurant itself Season 2 because he needed to avoid his feelings for Sydney, but still projected his feelings for her onto Claire by doing everything Sydney enjoys with Claire until it blew up in his face with a panic attack about the two of them.

Then in Season 3 he couldn't physically avoid Sydney, so he mentally avoided her by trying to reframe his relationship with Claire as something joyful and carefree and peaceful. When we all know that the reality of it was something else. He tells the Fak's he can't apologize because it's too hard. He's avoiding apologizing to Claire for many other reasons too. Cause if he does he'll have to address the fact that Claire said she loved him, which I really don't think he loves her back like that. He'll have to face the real version of Claire and his relationship with her; which was not all sunshine and butterflies. It was filled with panic attacks and anxiety. So he'd rather live in a romanticized version of her in his head, missing her and filling his thoughts with her instead of Sydney, than face what was actually going on.

Sydney is still his muse. He slipped into thinking about Sydney that night by making a dish about her and by inviting her to go to Ever with him. He made that dish that was blatantly inspired by her standing right in front of him. He has been avoiding talking to her, and he clearly wanted to say more, but didn't know how or what to say.

Once Sydney left he started hearing the music from his time in the fridge, he threw the dish out and immediately started to spiral. He stared at the bar cart with party items for Richie's Tuesday Surprise. aka the Amusement and Enjoyment. Which is what he was trying to find with Sydney that day he had planned an inspirational food tour with her, but ended up ditching her for Claire at Kasama. And what he told himself he no longer needed in order to focus on getting Sydney a star.

He stands outside the fridge then Strange Currencies starts playing very quietly under the fridge music, "I don't know why you're mean to me When I call on the telephone." He then goes inside the fridge and "I don't know what you mean to me. And I don't know what you mean to me But I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out I wanna take you on" plays a little bit louder, which is basically what his deal with Sydney is right now. He doesn't know what she really means to him. He knows she calms him down and inspires him, but he doesn't ever say what that means to him out loud. Then it grows louder with "These words, "You will be mine""

Then he reached for his phone to try and call Claire. Because he's trying to drown out the song with Claire. The first time we heard it was when he first saw Claire by the fridge and once he rejected her, aka when he chose Sydney, the song got louder. Then when he wanted to take Claire to the restaurant, aka where Sydney was, after the party it played again. He knew it was for sure about Sydney from the panic attack, because with Claire it was backwards, she was his past, but with Sydney it was moving forward.

When he's debating pressing call to Claire, the fridge music overpowers Strange Currencies, because Claire is what keeps him frozen in the past and "haunted" by it. He practices saying sorry as the songs grow louder trying to drown each other out, and we see a clip of present day Claire working and Strange Currencies stops playing.

Then a flash of her in The Bear sitting on the garde manger aka cold prep, which was the same clip we saw of her when he was thinking about her when he was locked in the fridge, Strange Currencies plays again over it. He is still stuck on it even though she's moving on and living her life. Strange Currencies grows louder because he keeps trying to convince himself the song is for Claire and reverts back to the past when he thought it was for her that night he took her to see the kitchen.

Claire's I really love you voicemail plays. Then it cuts to who else but Sydney. I really love you. aka I really love *you*. Sydney. What he is actually thinking but avoiding. What stops Carmy is fearful avoidance, because Claire Sydney is so great she scares the shit out of him.

[meluci-fer]

@sagittariusdarkarrow if you're still not watching, have more good reasons to start!!!

"I won't ever forget you."

— First Note of Love 弹一场完美恋爱 (2024) | EP. 6

[falllpoutboy]

Can you put the link of the best fanfics of Sydcarmy in your opinion??

so glad you asked me that bc i have so many fics that i love rn!! im just going down my bookmarks list and history lol

FINISHED WORKS multichapter / one shots

god i hope it all goes away by ceselle1024 aka cousin aka @ambeauty (the rest of her fics are 👌🏾)

not friends, few benefits by smudged_mascara

atoll by blaquepantheress (anything by her is great!)

the bomb by halfwayhome

scraps by anonymous (the holy au grail that checked all my boxes)

the wild, wild berry by blissymbolics (ICONIC!!!)

legacy by anonymous (and its sequel forever ⬇)

of cities fill'd with the foolish by puzzlepuppy (aka the fic that was inspired by a silly little poll i posted a few months ago)

a change she can believe in by whisperink

don't call me kid by crowned_jewel

UNFINISHED WORKS

rules for (fake) dating an italian by poorlittlegreenie

forever by anonymous

like kasama by peachybunnybabie

i'll quiet down if it's what you want by kotzwinkled

down in the heart | hidden in the stars by sutherlins

shudder by jellyfish101

do (not) feed lonesome bears by hwere

seeds & soil by saintyuka

keeping up with the berzattos by chefskiss40

i could never give you peace (would it be enough?) by make_easter_gay_again and melodicchaos

foolish by idolizedviolence

and much more! check out the ao3 tag for yourself and read the many amazing sydcarmy fics out there!

[ago0112]

What I want to know - The Bear things

Really, truly, all I really want to know at the end of the day is if Carmy thought Syd was so green why open a restaurant with her? Where is her pocket notebook? What was his REAL problem with the short ribs and risotto? Why, when deciding on a uniform, base it off of hers? Why give her so much control if she's green? Why did he only tell her about his brother?

What was he going to do if Syd invited him with her to do something when he asked what she was up to? Where else was he planning to take her after Kasama? How did he get her measurements for the jacket? Wasn't it expensive? When did he decide to get it? Why did he think of her when he was having panic attack? Why is she the only one he can talk to about his feelings? And why did he scream for her when he got locked in the walkin?

Why is she the only one he actually apologizes to, IN person, and is Sincere about it? Why does he offer her a partnership? I thought she was green? Why push her into the Ever funeral? And why does he want a star so badly now?

And who does that fuckin scrunchy belong to?!

He says he doesn't have time to explain things buuuuttt he explains things to Syd.

But I guess we're not answering those things lol . We'll just bury them. And and Syd Carmy shippers see it...we have the meta and posts...but doesn't anyone else?!

I guess I'm hoping this show doesn't leave me hanging.

I might have watched S4 of the umbrella academy and spiraled. Hoping they actually answer these questions.

[marianasue]

sydcarmy truthers , hear me out !

I don´t know , but I have a theory , maybe it´s gonna be true in the upcoming season , and maybe not , anyway I just want to share it with you and hear your opinions about it .

guys , do you remember the conversation between Emmanuel and syd in s2 , during her mother birthday .

when Emmanuel talked about his third date .

focus with me :

the next episode I think , carm told syd to go with him to kasama: this is supposed to be their first date but sadly claire interepted .

in s3 , carm invites syd to ever to go with him also : this is supposed to be a second date but sadly chef david was there .

my theory is :

in the upcoming season , we gonna get the third date , I don´t know how or when or why , but there must be a third one .

why I´m saying this ?

because I felt that Emmanuel story with syd mom may be repeated again with carm and sydney .

something catched my attention is , when syd mom fixed the car problem , sydney said to her dad :´´ you didn´t know that her dad was a mecanic ?!

emmanuel said : absoluetly .

and this is really interesting , because until now I assume that carm knows nothing about emmanuel, especially his job .

what if something similar may happen between the two , and syd open up about her dad and mom to carm ??????

I don´t know but can you see my vision , I´m smelling a third date in the air , can you feel it with me ??????

I´m waiting ...

[brokenwinebox]

⊹ My Sydcarmy Masterlist ⊹

Carmy’s Panic Attack - My First Meta

Best Friend & Cigarettes

Smiling At The Fennel

“Do you think we’re going to heaven?”

Sydney And Carmy: Water

The Difference In Response

Genie Kwon’s Kasama

These Writers Might Be Sick

“People Don’t Remember The Food.”

Can You Level The Tables Out Front?

Carmy And Sydney: Nice

Claire Bear

Claire and Marcus: Pushing

Carmy And Claire: Frozen In Time

Claire: Ominous Or Naive?

Carmy & Claire: Guilt

Glass Table & Glass Fish Tank

What Did You Get Out Of These ClairexCarmy Flashback Scenes?

Mikey Told Claire About The Bear?

Carmy & Claire: Fixing

The Magic Trick

The Review

Fourth Wall (being broken)

The New Paradigm

Turns Out We Have A Heart

Mocktail Is A Dirty Word

Carmy Is Holding All The Cards

Glass Table & Glass Fish Tank

“Do you think we’re going to heaven?”

The Fox And The Caterpillar

Mikey Told Claire About The Bear? Part 2

Allegories & Symbolism

“Mold Is The Death Knell.”

What’s Your Character’s Theme Song?

My Other Metas

Shapiro’s Friend Was The Reviewer?

Food & The Haunting

Tags

First Initial Thoughts Of Season Three Tag

The Magic Trick Tag

The Bear Is A Ghost Story Tag

The Juxtaposition Tag

[drrav3nb]

You know what actually gets to me. If Claire wasn’t around this season, Carmy would’ve never been distracted, he would’ve been fully devoted to the restaurant. He and Sydney would’ve spent loads of time together working on the menu, they would’ve went to Kasama and probably spent the day going all over Chicago trying different foods. They would’ve developed their bond and Sydney would’ve probably told him about her mother, just like he would’ve told her about his family’s fucked up Christmas dinner. And on their opening night, he would’ve never got stuck in the fridge and they would’ve completed dinner service as a team and a stronger unit.

But that never happened because the writers wanted to waste time writing a romance that did nothing but make Carmy look like a jerk.

[sydcarmyfan]

Here are my 12 predictions for season 3:

1. Marcus will have a tough time at the beginning, but he will pull through and he may start thinking about leaving The Bear for a new start.

2. After coming out of the walk-in, Carmy’s fear of loosing Sydney will elevate, causing him to do everything he can to keep her.

3. The daily menu changes will cause a lot of issues. Tina will reach her breaking point.

4. Sydney will have what she’s wanted in the last two seasons: her own apartment and Carmy’s full focus, but she will start having doubts about staying at The Bear, so when Carmy sends her the partnership agreement, she will try to delay signing it as long as she can. She may not even sign it.

5. Richie is going to focus on his roles as a father to Eva and as a maitre d’, so he won’t have time to really meddle in Carmy’s affairs, but he will start to notice the connection between Sydney and Carmy.

6. Although they will sweep their fight under the rug and pretend they’re okay in the first episodes, there will be tension between Carmy and Richie that will reach breaking point. The Adamu-Jerimovich alliance is going to be so strong and it may be one of the reasons why Carmy wants to fight Richie so bad.

7. Natalie will give birth to a girl, and Donna will try to be there for her even though Natalie will be a little hesitant at first.

8. Sydney will have a love interest this season. It may be Luca, Connor, Kasama Bae, or someone new. Yes, Carmy will be jealous.

9. Regina King, Viola Davis, Angela Bassett or Whoopi Goldberg will be one of the guest actors in s3.

10. In episode 8, Carmy will finally reach his breaking point and unfortunately, he will say something that will make Sydney walk out of the restaurant. Everyone, especially Tina and Nat, will be angry at Carmy for Sydney walking out.

11. After making Sydney leave, Carmy will try to get her back by making a nice meal for them, but it will not work, because during their meal, Sydney will announce that she’s leaving The Bear.

12. In the last episode, there’s going to be a gathering so Sydney and Carmy will see each other, and Carmy will try to apologize to her again and finally confess that he’s in love with her. After his love confession, the screen will go black.