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loverboydotcom · 7 months

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my brain is mush so i cant write prose but do know that i as usual am thinking about best friend dynamics and caretaking dynamics, and the way they integrate in beau and bobby’s relationship arc, and what it means to not just require increasing levels of daily care but to receive it from the person who’s always been your peer, the same guy you grew up with and experienced teenagehood and adolescence with, and now you need him in a vulnerable way you never expected to need from anyone, and how them being best friends shapes that caretaking dynamic in both positive and negative ways, but ultimately in the end it integrates with that friendship and deepens their bond in a way nobody could understand but just them

#it’s actually sooo interesting to me like they have beef about it at first #guy who doesn’t want to admit he needs help + guy who gets anxiously obsessive about giving that help literally recipe for disaster #but once they figure it out it works SOOO well!!!!!#but even when it does work so well and bobby believes he’s the luckiest person ever to get looked after by someone like beau it’s still #something that changes them. like there’s inherently a new dynamic that’s not as equal even if they treat it as such #like the amount of trust bobby has to instill in beau and the trust beau has to have in himself #sometimes he does not get it right!! but it’s okay because they have to figure out what’s best together #also I think there’s a flip side to this where beau needs bobby + bobby is seeing HIM in an extremely vulnerable state too #but on the surface bobby is the more ‘vulnerable’ one and that’s an interesting thing that #reshapes what was otherwise just two 21 year old friends #who read all that!!!!#I’m actually so passionate about it ugh it’s almost like I took care of a loved one in my personal life and now it’s my day job

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