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Wants to write fics for Sydcarmy, Boblena, and Barchie, but has no time to do so 😭

Oh, how I wish I had a fic buddy to push me to write something 🥲

Believe it or not but I actually start to write my Boblena fic, but wanted to publish it when it’s ALL written.

My two Barchie fics are still waiting for me to update them, i didn’t forget my Spiderman au fic about Barchie 👌 (that no one care about but me).

Also I’m literally planning a Sydcarmy fanfic in my head right now, like rewriting the show from 4x05 on (iykyk).

And for finish I have written a fic about Andrew Garfield and Amelia Dimoldenberg 💀 I was inspired to write a romcom don’t judge me. I have the last chapter to proof reading and I’ll be able to post it soon i hope.

Anyway just wish i have more time. I’m gonna stop to add more ships to write about now.

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It’s been a month since season 4 and they choose to laugh at me…..

What are they fucking doing at this point 😭

Carmy just has the vision of Sydney rescuing him. That’s the spoiler to THAT scene, when Carmy realized she’s the Bear 🫠

This is SICK

Oh wait there is MORE.

And this was supposed to be a promo for season 2 😭

WTH

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I just watched it today following your post and honestly I was expecting a bit better. I don't think I found it really bad, it was quite good in some respects.

But next to the writing and direction or even acting of The Bear, The Bear is genius for sure. As Burnt is not a subtle film at all. And frankly, the character of Adam (Bradley Cooper) tends to be a caricature. He's a much bigger dick in and out of the kitchen than Carmy ever was. Carmy is almost an angel next to him.

There are a lot of parallels with The Bear though, it's true.

There's even the perfect ex who could be Claire.

Adam inviting Helen to a restaurant reopening in contrast to Carmy inviting Sydney to the last meal at a closing restaurant.

It was quite fascinating to see this film to compare with The Bear, but I didn't have a good or bad time watching it. It was actually quite average and rushed in comparison, with characters that didn't have much depth.

Now what's interesting to wonder is why Chris Storer had the idea of incorporating Adam's character into his series like this? Was it a simple easter egg or are we actually going to meet him?

See Adam was a bigger freak than Carmy in my opinion and yet he choose to continue to cook in his restaurant and stop being an asshole, the writing was lazy as fuck but I do wonder if it’s not the same fate for Carmy. (But with better and more subtle writing of course)

For Sydcarmy next to Adam/Helen…. Sydcarmy has way more subtle layers that we can see as romantic than Adam/Helen got before they kiss 😭 but that movie is so not subtle it’s hard to compare too.

Burnt vs. The Bear: A Familiar Flame in the Kitchen?

If you are a careful audience, you might have noticed a surprising detail in The Bear’s Season 3 finale — a photo of Bradley Cooper as chef Adam Jones from Burnt briefly appears on the wall!!!

I loved this movie, watch it if you want and let me know if you like it. From now on, it will be SPOILER,fyi.

Here’s how it’s connected to The Bear:

Helene and Adam: From Fire to Flame

In Burnt, Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is a once-celebrated chef trying to reclaim his reputation after years of addiction and self-destruction. In rebuilding his culinary empire, he seeks out the most talented chefs — and that includes Helene (Sienna Miller), a fierce, brilliant sous-chef who isn’t afraid to challenge him.

Helene initially resists Adam’s intense, often arrogant demeanor. But as they spend long nights crafting Michelin-star-level dishes and navigating the pressure of fine dining, a mutual respect — and eventually attraction — starts to grow. Their dynamic is equal parts collaboration and tension, rivalry and romance.

By the end of the film, after Adam faces his past and begins to truly change, Helene becomes more than just a colleague. Their relationship subtly shifts, and the film closes with a tender moment between them, hinting that they’re not only professional partners, but now also romantically involved.

Feels Familiar?

Fast forward to The Bear, and we meet Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), another brilliant yet emotionally scarred chef returning home to revive a broken kitchen. He brings on Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), a talented and driven sous-chef. While The Bear hasn’t confirmed any romance between them (and fans are fiercely divided on whether it should), the emotional tension and deep creative partnership between Carmy and Sydney mirrors the spark we saw between Adam and Helene in Burnt.

Both duos share:

• Reluctant beginnings

• Intense respect built in the chaos of the kitchen

• Personal demons that keep their emotions guarded

• And an undeniable chemistry that simmers just below the surface

So… Is Burnt the Precursor to The Bear?

Not directly. Burnt leans more into redemption and romance, while The Bear dives into trauma, grief, and mental health with raw realism. But if you’re watching Carmy and Sydney and feel that little déjà vu tug at your heartstrings, you’re not imagining it. Burnt walked so The Bear could run.

And who knows — if The Bear ever lets the slow burn between Carmy and Sydney catch fire, we may just see history repeat itself.

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Yes! I've been saying that since May. But at this point, we know little about Bob's life, except that he had a horrible childhood and that today he seems to have no one in his life. He struggles with drug addiction and his mental health.

One day, he meets a girl who seems to understand him and connects with him instantly. But above all, she seems to genuinely care about him.

The rest of the group will become a significant part of his life. But none of this would have been possible without Yelena, and I think Bob is aware of that.

In Doomsday, they will have been living together for 14 months, and their bond will become even deeper and more intense.

The only thing that could make him lose control, apart from someone threatening Yelena's life, would be messing with people from his past, like his family. At this point, we don't know if his parents are still alive or where they are.

Okay so I'm pretty sure Bob's main conflict in Doomsday is going to be refusing to switch back into Sentry mode because he's afraid he won't be able to control the Void (and cue everybody trying to convince him that they need him to otherwise they're going to be obliterated), but what if when he finally does in the 3rd act (likely triggered by Yelena being in danger, lbr Thunderbolts* foreshadowed that coming from 30,000 miles away) he keeps his natural hair color as a visual signal that he is actually in control this time

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My worst curse is that I love Sydcarmy and Boblena, I’m just here for the love of the game and hope for the best 😭

Can we talk about the marketing? What do you mean Yelena is The void/ Bob’s eyes 😭 aka the only part of light in him when he is in that state???

I NEED A MINUTE 😭😭🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

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Parallels between Belicity and Sydcarmy. This is so good!!

Sydcarmy and Benlicity

Special thanks to @emrambling for also making this connection between these two ships, you're fire chef.

Okay, so for those who don't know, Felicity was a show created in 1998 by JJ Abrams & Matt Reeves.

Felicity is a show about a girl named Felicity Porter as she tries to find herself after rejecting an offer at Stanford university to follow her crush, Ben Covington, to New York after he writes in her yearbook. Through the process of this, she realises Ben isn't all she's made up in her head, but still decides to stick it out in New York as a way to learn more about life and herself without relying on her parents.

Rings a bell yet???

As @emrambling mentioned, Sydney essentially also follows Carmy to New York through wanting to try the hamachi dish, and she felt connected to Carmy through the dish. And how that dish made her want to work alongside him at the beef.

Similar to this, Felicity used to follow Ben's track and swim team meets because she felt like it looked like such an amazing feeling, and she felt connected to how fast he ran because she wanted to run away from the expectations of her parents forcing her to become a doctor (Which she does end up pursuing but I will write another meta on this for).

When Felicity got to meet and talk to Ben, she kind of started to realise how imperfect he was. His homelife wasn't great; his dad was a raging alcoholic, and he felt like his mum was stuck in the middle of it because she would either forgive his dad or she'd feel distraught over how much Ben and his dad used to argue and fight. He thought that moving to New York and having his own life would benefit his mum in a similar way that Carmy going to New York would help Mikey, since he didn't want him working at the restaurant. We also know that Carmy doesn't remember much of his dad, so that's another similarity.

When Sydney met Carmy, she also started to realise how imperfect his life was despite working to the level of being the best chef in America. But like Felicity, even if Carmy isn't what she made him out to be, Sydney decided to stick with him because she WANTS to get to know him. I also think Carmy and Ben's facial expressions to Sydney and Felicity when they have conversations are always very similar. Ben has this level of compassion and softness that he shows to Felicity that I feel he finds difficult to express with others, and Carmy does the same thing with Sydney a lot. While Carmy does struggle with asking Nat and the others how they're feeling, he has no problem asking Sydney how she's feeling.

Ben also doesn't think he deserves good in his life because he has deep-seated trauma from his dad that made him feel like he didn't deserve Felicity. Felicity always believes that he is good enough and is trying to continue to be better as a person. It's the way that Sydney empathises with Carmy's upbringing and understands that while he can be difficult, he is a well-meaning person.

There is a specific episode (Spooked season 1 episode 5) where Ben and Felicity deal with an armed robbery, and Ben is very visibly emotionally rattled by the situation. He kind of leans on Felicity for solace. Ben and Felicity have late-night talks to help Ben sleep after the trauma of that incident, kind of like Carmy and Sydney creating the thoughtful chaos menu and the later s2 episode 9 table scene.

But then, following that, at a Halloween party, Ben ditches the idea of going as Frankenstein. They talked about going as a 'couple costume' with Felicity going as Frankenstein's bride before. But instead, Ben "rejects" Felicity by going as Peter Lawford. Which reminds me of the time Carmy asked Sydney to go on the food tour and then ditched her for Claire. Ben also ends up kissing a random girl at the party, which is like how Carmy kisses Claire. But towards the end of that episode, realising how upset he made Felicity, Ben comes to terms with how shitty he has been to Felicity and gifts her a necklace in place of what she told him during their late-night chats about how her grandmother's necklace got stolen during the armed robbery. Which is like how Carmy gifted Sydney the Chef's coat upon seeing his custom one.

Ben ends up dating Felicity's friend Julie. Julie has also liked Ben since the episode Felicity introduced them. Julie ends up not trying to date Ben for a while because she knows Felicity likes him romantically. But then, when Felicity has something with Noel (There is a major love triangle between Felicity, Ben, and Noel), Julie decides to give it a go with Ben since Ben reciprocates interest in Julie. What I find interesting with the Ben/Julie relationship is the fact that Ben is emotionally immature at this point in season 1, so he ends up pushing Julie away, and he never talks to her about serious stuff. But you know who he continuously talks serious stuff to??? Felicity. And that reminds me of Carmy and Claire's dynamic. No matter how much time Carmy and Claire spend together, Carmy will always try to talk to Sydney and open up about real stuff (like when he asked her what her relationship with her mum was like or when he kept asking her about her dad, and everything in the table scene lol).

Ben and Felicity also become coworkers at Dean & Deluca, like Carmy and Sydney are. And I feel like their dynamic is a lot like how Carmy and Sydney's is. Because even if the interactions they have in their place of work aren't romantic, they clearly place them with the intention that you're supposed to pick up on what kind of dynamic they have. Like they'll naturally be close and talk to each other and have their own things going on, which makes it nice that Ben has his own life outside of being a love interest, and Felicity isn't always pining after Ben, and their conversations are very natural, and you can feel them growing closer.

Whenever Felicity reminds Ben of an accomplishment he made in high school, he always smiles to himself in a very genuine way, like he's very touched by what she says about him. It's like how Carmy struggles to really step into enjoying his craft, but he was genuinely touched when Sydney told him he was the most excellent Chef in the United States of America. It's really cute.

Also, whenever Ben gets jealous, it's more subtle and involves visual cues. Because when Felicity officially starts dating the other guy in the love triangle, Noel, and she makes out with him in the bathroom, Ben sees.

He doesn't mention it to Felicity to embarrass her near the others afterwards, since it was Felicity's business to deal with, and they had a Thanksgiving dinner to attend. It's like when Sydney got Shapiro's offer and Carmy knew about it during s4 episode 6 'Sophie' but withheld telling her since she was going through her dad having a heart attack. Ben only decided to mention it to Felicity in the following episode because it was to show us, as the audience, that he is naturally curious about the fate of Felicity's decision about what she and Noel are. It was to also show how much Ben cares about Felicity more and more like Carmy does for Sydney.

Also, Ben's dynamic with his Landlord, Sean, is like Carmy's dynamic with Richie. Sean is older than Ben, like Richie is older than Carmy. Richie has a lot of theatre references in his dialogue, which is like @thoughtfulchaos773's theory that Richie is the director of the show. Sean is the director of a documentary he created about Ben and his college friends' lives, and he made a documentary about Felicity and Noel (when Noel is confused when his ex gf reenters the picture, Felicity loses her virginity to an artist named Eli. This causes a strain in their relationship). Sean decides to ask Ben if he's bothered by what is happening, and Ben asks why, and Sean's like "Because it's always been Ben or Noel, Ben or Noel, now it's Noel or Eli." And Ben responds, "So what?" and Sean's like "You're not jealous?" and Ben responds in a very unconvincing way of "No, I'm not jealous," then he pauses before saying again, "I'm not." And this is while Ben is still with Julie. So Sean is bringing into question Ben's feelings for Felicity in the same fashion that Richie did in the restaurant scene when Carmy brought in Claire. Richie was like, "You nervous?" alluding to the fact that Sydney was also in the room. I feel like neither Sean nor Richie does anything in a way that pushes Ben or Carmy into making a decision to come to terms with their feelings, but rather, it's a genuine point of thought that they're questioning with Ben and Carmy. Because we know Felicity liked(s) Ben, but up until this point, we didn't know what Ben thought about Felicity in a romantic sense.

Okay, I don't want this post to be too long, I'll make another, so this will be the last thing to mention. Remember when Carmy kept asking Sydney to go to the Ever dinner with him? In the Season 1 finale of Felicity, Ben wanted Felicity to go cross-country with him and to go home to Palo Alto (They both are from Palo Alto, like how Sydcarmy are both from Chicago), while Noel wanted to go to Berlin with her. Firstly, Felicity repetitively denies wanting to go cross-country with Ben because he had just broken up with Julie, and she KNOWS it will not be platonic if they go together. I feel like Sydney not wanting to go to the Ever dinner with Carmy is like this because she KNOWS this might cross some lines between professionally working together and getting closer. IT IS BEN AND CARMY who don't actually mind if they cross those lines. Ben WANTS to be with Felicity. Carmy WANTS to be closer to Sydney, whether it starts with being friends and becoming closer, to being even more than that. Ben asks countless times, and even asks to the very LAST MINUTE before he leaves to drive cross country if Felicity will go with him, and Carmy doesn't let Sydney refuse till he gets a confirmed answer that Sydney wants to go to the Ever dinner with him.

With Noel wanting Felicity to go to Berlin with him, Felicity thinks about how glamorous it would be. It's like the two sleepovers Sydney mentions. Like how she described with Shapiro, that she could have all the possible resources of a restaurant handed to her. For Felicity, it would be travelling to Berlin and having that amazing experience to see the atmosphere.

But it wouldn't make Sydney or Felicity happy.

Why, you may ask?

It would be with the wrong person.

Felicity and Sydney both knew it. Felicity would rather go Cross Country WITH Ben, and Sydney would rather stay in the "Musty House" Because she wants to work at the Bear and she WANTS Carmy.

And Felicity chooses Ben, and Sydney chooses Carmy.

Special thanks to everyone who read this long ass post. I hope y'all get something out of this.

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You were one of the two people this post was targeted at 👀

This post will only resonate with two people. But I can't stop thinking about how Felicity Porter and Sydney Adamu have this thing in common: they followed a man they didn't really know, and it changed their lives forever.

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“I thought you'd be psyched” makes more sense when you put it that way.

He´s doing exactly what Syd told him to do, as usual

It´s all in the symbolic subtext side notes.

He´s retiring to get more of this:

And when he´s THAT Carmy, he will say what he really meant to say here:

This Carmy that she won´t even indulge with a sorry sign, is the one he´s retiring because she told him to be "less miserable first", happy first.

The only 2 huge holes in his arguments are lack of transparency bc he unilaterally made that decision, and that he thinks he will be happy away from her somehow, forget cooking, Syd is the key to his happiness, any chance of surviving, and his real peace that feels like chaos because

"It´s fucking hard and that´s what makes it special, right? It´s fucking hard, and it´s gnarly and it´s brutal and it´s specific and not everybody can do it."

But:

He can do it.

Side note: when Carmy is telling the truth or saying something we should BELIEVE, the camera focuses on his eyes, close up, frontal, light. That´s Storer telling us "THIS!!!". Let´s call those, for the sake of this meta, "Moments of truth".

More examples of these MOT are:

Not only Syd, but Marcus as well, brings out that MOT Carmy in him:

Another side note: So canonically/symbolically since the 04x02 "apology" happened, every time Carmy refers to FIRE from now on, we´re supposed to understand his relationship with C and all the anxiety-driven fire he felt and "loved" during it and how he also called her his "peace" at some point before, because that fire was what he thought was his ticket out of the hell he was in. But as usual, he got that wrong, because what it means is that his REAL PEACE is what he will find AFTER HE PUTS OUT THE FIRE, in the smoke (which is a culinary technique that since 02x02 we should know Syd prefers and he likes too) not in the fire itself, but we´re gonna forgive him bc he´s a himbo. The fire is part of the problem; what comes after PUTTING IT OUT is what real peace is for him.

So, it has been established throughout the series that Carmy is an asshole, or POS, as Sydney calls him, for going about it like this, but he loves the restaurant Syd because:

Their restaurant, anyway...

Bonus track: JAW´s iconic characterization of Carmy gave his character tics. This one in particular is meant to show Carmy´s anxiety, which usually shows up when he´s nervous,

OR about to do something he knows is wrong or not what he REALLY REALLY wants to do because he´s in denial, in other words: sublimating/transferring because his mind can play those tricks on him, but his body language and tics are not fully influenced by his denial mechanisms, only partially:

This also sometimes is seen as him rubbing his lips or chin, but that´s more like covering an impulse than a truth, like sublimating arousal not just not telling the truth, and I´m not referring to that right now, but I am referring to his body language being always very telling, even when he´s not being totally transparent. He´s not a great liar when he talks it out, but he´s awesome at lying by omission, by keeping secrets.

He also rubs his nose when he´s downright lying:

So, my theory is that this whole retirement tantrum he threw to keep Syd at the restaurant and away from poachers, as I mentioned in the UTT Community is just a that and what he said in the back alley is not gonna happen or last, meaning this is his Braciole era. And we all know how Braciole ends:

So, we´re fine whether he leaves or not, chefs.

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This post will only resonate with two people. But I can't stop thinking about how Felicity Porter and Sydney Adamu have this thing in common: they followed a man they didn't really know, and it changed their lives forever.

Also, what I wanted to add is that what I find fascinating about Sydcarmy, and even The Bear in general, is that “show don't tell” is an important part of the series.

Sydney never explicitly said that she had followed Carmy. And yet that's what she did. She has to lie to him on her first day, pretending that her dad loves this place.

She never confessed to Carmy because I imagine it's quite embarrassing for her.

Unlike Felicity, who quickly admits that she's following Ben, but it's also very explicit with Felicity's narration from the start.

If you've never watched Felicity, check it out. The pilot episode of Felicity is truly one of the best I've seen.

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I truly believe he would be another man with her 😭🫠

When they talk about the restaurant, they are ALSO actually talking about each other bc the restaurant is what ties them together (for now)

That´s what Carmy is trying to change by leaving; he wants to have more in common with her than the restaurant.

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Them touching hands for the first time in season 5 cause now they’re not co workers anymore, they are just friends 😩

I have fully (delusionally obvs) convinced myself that SydCarmy will be a full-blown couple in S5 and

I am excited for the contrast of how touchy-feely they will be with each other

once it's "legal"

compared to how touch-avoidant they've been to date

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Can’t wait to see more of them outside the restaurant. Chris don’t be stupid, you’re gonna write what you have to write.

They BOTH need a life outside the restaurant, he wants to be her friend, she needs a pretext to be with him. Like you have one job Chris.

When they talk about the restaurant, they are ALSO actually talking about each other bc the restaurant is what ties them together (for now)

That´s what Carmy is trying to change by leaving; he wants to have more in common with her than the restaurant.

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Jeremy saying this about Sydney like… after season 3 and 4 especially, it’s even more insane.

"What are you scared of?"

"What’s the opposite of chaos?"

"Peace."

"Right…"

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I hate to say it, but yes, I think Chris Storer won't have the guts to explicitly put Sydney and Carmy together as a couple. He won’t have the guts for Marcus and Luca either.

And I hope I'm wrong.

On the other hand, I could see an open ending such as the finale of Ugly Betty in the best-case scenario. Implying that Sydney is Carmy's partner for life.

That way, those who see them as platonic can still claim that they are 😭

I know that some Sydcarmys ship Syd with Luca because they're just tired of waiting for Sydcarmy and want a love interest for her.

But I can't help but notice that there's a huge portion of people who ship Luca and Syd (after only two scenes, mind you) and say that they have more sexual or romantic tension than Sydcarmy ever had. And that's where I have a fucking problem. Because these people who say that are obviously very against Sydcarmy and are SO FUCKING quick to ship Sydney with this side character. And there's just something so off-putting about it.

But Sydcarmys who ship Syd with Luca, you do what you have to do, I guess, I won't judge you for that, right.

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I find it interesting that Chris Storer is like, “No, Carmy shouldn't know that Sydney came to eat his dish in New York before they met. But on the other hand, Sydney can tell other people about it, even Carmy's mom.”

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No way this song is playing when Sydney talks about Carmy to Donna... I’m tired for real 😭

Apron Strings by Everything but a girl

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And then….. He’s coming back for her 🤫

She came because of him.

She thought about leaving because of him.

Then she decided to stay because of him.

Finally, he decided to leave for her.