#they were pining for each other

[fredandginger64]

Dean Martin on the September 23, 1965 episode of The Dean Martin Show making sure everybody knows it's Shari Lewis, S-H-A-R-I Lewis. Not to be confused with JERRY LEWIS. He just couldn't help himself, he had to do it. These two were like two love struck teenagers. Just another example of each of them being in whatever the other ever did. They kept each other close💓

[flufflecat]

thinking about ford "human blood tastes better" pines

ford "i have been desiring blood more than usual" pines

stanford "was bitten by a fruit bat but still wrote the sentence 'i have been desiring blood more than usual'" pines

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Second or Third Contact

part 1 /part 2 / part 3 / part 4

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and they never ever had any problems ever . the end

[artsymeeshee]

they chillin like old times

[pigidin]

"They both pretended to other folks that neither of them was that important because they wanted to feel important, but they made each other feel important which made them important to each other"

So. How we feeling

cr for the video: @spacepancakes24

[puppppppppy]

(guy who has never played cotl) haha au time

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

LUO BINGHE CASUAL SENSHI COSPLAYER

OH, ABSOLUTELY.

(context)

[orxinus]

from this:

[inkyrainstorms]

Ford still can't seem to wrap his head around this moment. It feels to soft, too normal, but he manages to drag the words out from wherever they're stashed in him to stutter out,  “You don't have to, Stanley, honestly it's my own mess-” “Quit it Poindexter, it's just the dishes.”  Ford's mouth clicks closed, and he turns the sink on again. 

— Chapter 10 of AME

And then Ford promptly made his foot and mouth very, very well acquainted at a frankly astonishing speed

@aroace-get-out-of-my-face this entire sequence ripped my heart out and rearranged my guts so. You know. I had to.

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

Still can’t get over the fact that Emily put her whole Prentussy into suppressing her feelings for JJ for nearly two decades just for Miss Jennifer ‘it gives me you’ Jareau to undo it all in 4 words. I am scratching and clawing at my enclosure, PLEASE let Jemily be canon.

[fredandginger64]

Jerry said the tensions caused between him and Dean in 1955 were caused by some 'uncomfortable friends" he has , referring to Dean.

And then they talked and all was well, this was in September of 1955. And on Christmas day look what Dean gave Jerry. He commissioned a painting of Jerry as a clown. And the accompanying note that read, "To my Partner, The greatest clown in all the world. I love you, Dino". These two, I swear, loved each other more than they loved their own families. Even at the end of '55 when they couldn't stand one another, lol. Just who broke them up because I just don't think they wanted it. It sounds like to me they were smothered with people on both sides that were going to make sure they were apart. What happened?

From, Jerry Lewis, 'On Being A Person' by Chris Lewis.

[fadedkat]

can’t look him in the eye

[bunnykaye]

💚BONUS Polin Week💚 day three | Mutual Pining

[grunklebongrip]

Stanford has enough fingers to get “FIDDLEFORD” tatted across his knuckles

[hellsquills]

Something about the Stans and need against selfhood.

Obviously, we have the infamous "I don't need you! I don't need anybody!" and you could make a whole dissertation on that sentence alone (check out Hanna Hyperfixates on yt). But what I'm interested in is how their need for each other was perceived as a weakness rather than a strength.

Because neither of them needed each other to survive, but they needed each other to live.

When they were little, they were constantly together. Twins, misfits against the world, of course they were close. At that point, being considered a pair wasn't a bad thing; they were brothers, best friends, never too far away from each other. They were basically the same person, and that was okay.

As they grew older, naturally, that sense of individuality became more and more prominent. As in 'sure, I love my brother, but I'd like to be my own person too'. And so Stanford became more focused on his studies and Stanley on sports/arts. That ultimately culminated on them growing apart from each other, and feeling like they weren't as close as they used to be.

The thing that drives me crazy about their shared feeling of "I don't need you" is not only that it's both true and false, but also that they did use to need each other, and I think that's what lead to their resentment.

Stan needed Ford to be the smart one, because he wasn't (in the booksmart sense) and he wasn't good enough to be intelligent on his own. He had wits, he had charisma, he had brawn, but he needed brains.

Ford, on the other hand, needed Stan to protect him. From bullies, from rejection, from loneliness. He needed Stan because he was the only one willing to stand up for him. It didn't matter he was a genius, because he couldn't handle people on his own.

And, above everything, they needed each other because they were the only person to stick with them unconditionally.

I think this played an important part on the way Stan reacted when he was kicked out, on how Ford did when he came back, and how their early days reunited went about.

Stan didn't have Ford anymore to help him and back his crazy ideas up. Therefore, he had to rely solely on what he had on him: wits and brute force, mostly. He wasn't smart enough to get a good job or an education (or so he thought, even though you'd also need money), so he settled for what he could do. He found solace in things that didn't require being smart.

Ford didn't have anyone to protect him, from bad people or from his own low self-steem. Therefore, he relied heavily on his smarts and focused only on that, to the point where he got 12 PhDs in less than a decade. Even though he managed to make one friend, he found solace in things that wouldn't judge or hurt him, such as books.

When they think "I don't need him", what they mean is "I can survive without his help. I'm not too weak to make it on my own. I can figure things and do it my way."

And so they start surviving. Stan gets in trouble with the wrong people, and Ford falls for Bill's lies. They have to keep going, no matter what, because they have a goal and they can achieve anything on their own. Because they don't need anyone to succeed and they have no one else by their side anyways.

But again, they are not living. They're just merely surviving. Because there's a part of them that's missing, and they need that. They need the unconditional support, the understanding, the patience, the love. The knowing that there'll always be someone there for them, no matter what.

After Weirdmaggedon, it's undeniable that they need each other. They won't say it out loud, of course, but it's there. They both know that they need the other. They just have to work on believing that the feeling is mutual.

[infamously-winking]

hot take on billford is that the secret third thing is obsession with being seen by someone for the first time in each of their lives