i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much
I sort of love the TV show Bones because it's fun for the workplace comedy bits to involve people handling decomposing corpses while talking about their love lives or whatever, but it's also about a bunch of weird nerds psychologically tormenting a bisexual artist whose only respite is playing with unnecessarily advanced and technologically unlikely art tools that the United States government spends an insane amount of money on for her
Booth and Bones are one of the best slow burn romances because they live in such complete denial and have such platonic and then unaccepted romantic love for each other that they are so Normal around each other. Theyâre buddies who know each other inside out and always have the otherâs best interests at heart. When one of them gets a relationship, the other is genuinely happy and rooting for them, even giving advice or befriending the significant other. No sabotage, no brooding, no resentment⌠Itâs beautiful.
And the denial is honestly hysterical because they are so feral about each other and so joined at the hip. Like guys. You lose your MINDS when one of you is in danger. Thereâs Something There. Everyone knows it, Sweets wrote a book about it â youâre the only ones in the dark!
And of course it means that when things do happen, it is all at once. Booth figures it out first because heâs um capable of introspection but then it hits Bones like a truck and she is all in, full throttle.
âdonât go where i canât followâ is literally the most romantic thing anyone has ever said. itâs like. iâll let you bring me anywhereâfar from home, far from the places and people i love, so long as you stay with me. iâll let you walk into danger and through hell, but i will not let you go where i canât go with you. that is where i draw the line.Â