#carmy coded

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

sooooooo Carmy coded I can´t even

Not to flirt but I would make you food in the middle of the night if you ask me to.

[mancandykings]

JEREMY ALLEN WHITE The Bear (2022-) | #03.01

[readwing]

One interesting part of the discourse surrounding family-coding relationships in media is when people who are against it raise the argument that two characters ‘can’t be sibling-coded because their relationship is more complicated than that.’ As if siblings relationships by nature were an uncomplicated thing

[g3othermal3scapism]

sometimes autism got me lying cus im so desperate to connect my hyper fixations somehow. “sydcarmy is kinda poolverine coded" no its not. u just made that up.

[wizard-legs]

I finally watched season 1 of the bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

[gayofthefae]

A great example of investing vs not investing us in a scene on purpose, I'm gonna use two different shows' examples but you'll follow along regardless:

In The Bear, Carmy promised Sydney he would work on the menu with her but spends time with Claire instead.

In Stranger Things, Mike intends to look for El, who is crying alone somewhere, but instead stops to talk to Will about their relationship.

In the first, we root for Sydney. In the second, we root for Mike and Will. Why?

In The Bear, they tell(show) us "Carmy promised Sydney he'd work with her" then have him spend time with Claire instead. Additionally, we are shown Sydney alone without him and irritated about that throughout. Now, they have made every moment with Claire he is happy and relaxed - something we should be rooting for because we never see him like that - instead recognize a broken promise and stress he is causing someone we care about.

In Stranger Things, we see Mike and Will looking for El together before it comes up in an argument about looking for her that they haven't talked all day and they stop walking, stop looking for her, to argue about why they didn't keep in touch. After this conversation is over, they continue walking to look for her and the camera zooms in to reveal they just walked past the closet she was crying in. But in this scene, they have given us permission to become invested in Mike and Will's conversation by allowing us to temporarily forget about El. In not telling us where she was until after, or even confirming/showing that she was still crying, we were able to treat the scene as if it were just about Mike and Will, dropping the urgency to find her completely and allowing the pause on it to happen.

Had they shown him with Claire then revealed that he had stood Sydney up, or even omitted the clips of her upset with him, we likely would have been able to root for Carmy and Claire.

Had they started the scene with El crying in the closet, not yet having been found, or at any point shown her overhearing the fact that they stopped looking and started talking about something else, we would not have been invested in their conversation at all.

THAT is how they manipulate who you side with. That is how they make you root for who they want you to root for. That is how they, as I say, don't write what you want, but make you want what they write.

So simple, so small: order of clips, inclusion of the affected character or not. And it changes entirely what you thought were your own voluntary desires for how the story goes next.

It's the same situation, it's fascinating to study. One person shirks their responsibilities to someone who needs them to spend time with another love interest. And they got us to root for different people in near identical situations. But not identical shot lists.

THIS is the shit I LOVE to study. How to puppeteer an audience while letting them think they formed their own opinions. AMAZING.

[unladyboss]

JAYO/AYOMY SYDCARMY CODED. SCANDAL AND THE BEAR.

An interview with Kerry and Tony may as well be our Bear duo talking

Only difference is that T&K didn't allow other members of the cast to wiggle their way in between them...

We could have had it all.

[fairestbeard]

Oh, precious, precious silver and gold

And pearls in oyster's flesh

Drop down we two to serve and pray to love

Born again from the rhythm

Screaming down from heaven

Ageless, ageless, I'm there in your arms

Don't want to weep for you

I don't want to know

I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow

The memories fire

The rhythms fall slow

Black beauty, I love you so

So, so, so

Oh, the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more

Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more

Well it's you I've waited my life to see

It's you I've searched so hard for

(Mojo Pin- Jeff Buckley)

[janeaustensgf123]

Sydcarmy:

[purposechef]

what if we kissed in front of a giant vat of veal stock?

[pureseasalt]

i want you to understand. i need you to understand. that shipping these two or whatever is not just something that carmy/sydney truthers came up on a whim. the writers and directors and crew and actors and producers of the bear fx are in fact encouraging us, the viewers, to make with these two like two dolls. put their lips together. and make them do a lil kissy kissy. a smoochie. "u could do this without me" "i couldnt do it without u. i wouldnt even wanna do it without u" "u make me better at this" "and what if i just melt and fuck up and fail?" "i wont let u". excuse me??? they want us to do it. they're begging us to do it.

[arabellas]

they see right through can you see right through me?

[ruethrills]

Are y’all thinking what I’m thinking…

[g3othermal3scapism]

posting this here first for reasons… anyway The Bear you will always be Hamilton coded. TO ME.

[jezuschristsuperstar]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66112594/chapters/171704653#workskin

“He dedicated his time towards understanding her. He didn’t want it to feel as if she was undecipherable- so he studied. Studied her like you would a tome- scribbling along the margins when he found something particularly striking; crowning words with question marks when he came across concepts he couldn’t quite comprehend. Reading and remembering until he could recite each sentence in his sleep. He was never a good nor a dedicated student, but to this he was wholly committed.”

New Chapter up🩷🩷🩷 I hope you enjoy it… don’t be afraid to tell me what you think😉

[willow-elated]

i need people to appreciate my extremely based and accurate "prestige-tv-character-based" playlists fr