#sydcarmy asks

[thoughtfulchaos773]

I noticed in your Muse theory that Carmy remembers where Claire address was. There is some back and forth on that. But she means her parents home right not her apartment with no phone service. Why does he know where that is? Did her Mom recently move ? Carmy also didn’t know where Uncle Jimmy lived until Ritchie corrected him in S1 he was going the wrong way. Lastly there was some scene with Uncle Lee and Donna about buying property in Wilmette ?before Mikey interrupts. Any ideas what the hell is going ? Very little is said without reason in this show.

Hey thanks for the ask!

Yes so he could remember her childhood home since Tiffany used to babysit Claire.

I find it weird he made all these drawings of her but he didn't remember she sat behind him in algebra class. Maybe because it was so long ago but there seems to be this thing about Carmy's character where he's so shy he doesn't even want the girl to know that he recognizes her ... Unless she looked so different since their older.

I think Carmy has a bad memory with things he doesn't find important is what the show is saying? But if you're important to him he's going to know and remember things.

Oh the wilmette connection!? Good one!! Let me Come back to this and tag you. There is something in the show where there are reveals and more to the story.

Hearing sweeps was a baseball player, Sydney has a tattoo...it's like this serendipitous connections. Seeing claires photos and seeing her weeks later.

Very interesting.

[missamyshay]

Family’s up.

[conceived-angel]

heyyy @/fx networks... got anything you want to share with the class?

[freedelusionshere]

Syd wants all of Carmy's focus and attention at the restaurant, but when he turns that sweetness and intensity on her...

She doesn't really know what to do with herself.

[purposechef]

What were your thoughts on s3??

My main takeaway is that I loved this lil Sailor Venus outfit.

[teaisana]

i love them a lot guys

[falllpoutboy]

Can you put the link of the best fanfics of Sydcarmy in your opinion??

so glad you asked me that bc i have so many fics that i love rn!! im just going down my bookmarks list and history lol

FINISHED WORKS multichapter / one shots

god i hope it all goes away by ceselle1024 aka cousin aka @ambeauty (the rest of her fics are 👌🏾)

not friends, few benefits by smudged_mascara

atoll by blaquepantheress (anything by her is great!)

the bomb by halfwayhome

scraps by anonymous (the holy au grail that checked all my boxes)

the wild, wild berry by blissymbolics (ICONIC!!!)

legacy by anonymous (and its sequel forever ⬇)

of cities fill'd with the foolish by puzzlepuppy (aka the fic that was inspired by a silly little poll i posted a few months ago)

a change she can believe in by whisperink

don't call me kid by crowned_jewel

UNFINISHED WORKS

rules for (fake) dating an italian by poorlittlegreenie

forever by anonymous

like kasama by peachybunnybabie

i'll quiet down if it's what you want by kotzwinkled

down in the heart | hidden in the stars by sutherlins

shudder by jellyfish101

do (not) feed lonesome bears by hwere

seeds & soil by saintyuka

keeping up with the berzattos by chefskiss40

i could never give you peace (would it be enough?) by make_easter_gay_again and melodicchaos

foolish by idolizedviolence

and much more! check out the ao3 tag for yourself and read the many amazing sydcarmy fics out there!

[poorlittlegreenie13]

I want to write a mobster Carmy au but he is NOT the mob boss in it. He is at the very lowest rung of that ladder. Zero power, nobody respects him, he hates his life. He’s not even good at his job. Just pathetic & lonely. Yk? I actually have an entire plot mapped out in detail. And will probably write it at some point. So plz nobody steal this idea.

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

Syd is the pattern breaker

Which is great news in terms of Sydcarmy ENDGAME.

It's not like we all, Sydcarmy truthers, haven't seen that one coming. Of course, we have always known this lady came to turn it all around in Carmy's world from the very get-go, it was always painfully obvious.

BUT

Here is another pattern that she has come to erase from the life of Carmy (and the show)

(He's fighting it like a champ, I must say)

Storer likes strong women who take charge and take the initiative to go after the men they love so the man doesn’t have to (in fiction, IDK about his real life). The guy is the one who gets to decide whether he accepts her advances or innuendos and responds to them, but he doesn’t really take the first step; she does.

Refer to my napkins theory (handkerchief section) please.

Exhibit A: Jess

Jess made it clear she was into Richie in 2x7. Also, at Syd's party. She is up for it and made it clear, even when Richie has not picked up her handkerchief yet.

I don't know about Tiff, nor do I care

Exhibit B: The C person

He created the C person and I will not elaborate on that one. Fuck her!

Exhibit C: Sugar

He created Sugar who is clearly the one who wears the pants in the relationship, and taking into account Pete’s personality, was probably the one who was all over him from day 1, and he was just like: “Yeah Nat, whatever you say, you’re so great, ILY.”

Exhibit D: Tina

He created Tina, same energy as Nat but her husband is no Pete, so I’m not sure about how her relationship with her husband began, I can only safely assume she always speaks her mind. So I’m sure she was open about her feelings when she met her husband, no riddles.

Exhibit E: Donna

He created Donna and same, there’s no version of the story where Donna was ever shy or quiet and not open, if not too open, about her feelings when she met Carmy’s dad (like you know who: the C person) and that’s probably why they got together to begin with and also one of the reasons why he left her eventually. She’s overwhelmingly vocal about how she feels for ppl because the excessive booze removes any social boundaries and barriers and she’s always ready to shout it in everyone’s face. That’s changing though. But that's how she was written into existence by Storer, to begin with.

The game changer → Sydney Adamu

So, that takes us to Syd who never openly flirted with Carmy, unless we count Pasta 2x2 (which I don’t).

And never really read the awkward signs he was trying to give her (which I hate but totally understand because they are business partners and she's a professional).

And so… we have a pattern breaker here. That in Storer’s book means MEAT.

We've reached the meat of the matter, chefs! YAY!

So, there are about a zillion foreshadowing leads we could analyze of how that game change in terms of the female role in the courtship dynamic will play out SOON, Storer wasn't precisely slick throughout the series, but the most obvious and recent one was brought to us hidden in plain sight, in S3 -3x5- and I already went over it here (my own RB notes from 7/27):

The point is that as the post it says: "ALL QUESTIONS ASK SYDNEY!"

That means that dynamic will have to be reversed for Sydcarmy to happen, CARMY WILL HAVE TO POP THE QUESTION. LOL!

No, not that question. Well... maybe eventually, but I'm actually talking about the CONFESSION and asking her out, asking her out on a date or something and I don't mean a symbolic date like the fucking funeral he completely ignored her at and where he then ditched her too. I'm talking about really and openly telling her how he feels for her, and exposing himself to her rejection. Not the other way around.

She has to enable this, of course, so in a sense, she will have to break her patterns for Carmy too, because love is an act of mirroring, as we all know by now.

But it´s Carmy who will have to grow a pair and put into words what has remained unspoken between them and is starting to decay inside -and it's ruining their whole relationship-. He will have to turn the dynamic around and take the role that Storer usually puts "strong women" in, and open up and go after who he wants. He will have to be the strong one and say it out loud. ASK ALL THE QUESTIONS because Syd has all the answers and her answers are the game changers of the show.

I wish it went like this (let's imagine Tanner is either Shapiro or Luca):

Fun fact: Demian Lewis said that he characterized Bobby Axelrod by playing him like a wild animal, tapping into that energy and bringing in it on set every day to play his scenes. He didn't say the beast was a bear though.

Bonus track: Ayo Edebiri. Ayo´s pattern is to be the pattern breaker of the plot. The → plot twist.

Ayo always plays the game-changer character. In Omni Loop, she did too, I'm sure her next movie with Luca Guadagnino will be the same thing. She is drawn to that type of characters and plays them beautifully.

Remember to follow my tag #Gingerpovs💋

[miredball]

okay like it was cute and all but s3 I need carmen to step up and actually keep the promise he made about being there for sydney. like I need her to be mad at him. to feel some type of way about his ditching her. then I need to see him try. like desperately try to make it up to her. carmy needs to be that guy doing too much. she wants a star? ok he’s gonna die on that line if he has to. AND, and this is important, she’s gonna go on a date. with who the fuck knows. because she’s beautiful and desirable and not just like, his. and she’ll confide in him about feeling nervous and she’ll try to talk herself out of it but carmy. carmy will have to be a good friend this time. carmy will encourage her to go. he will tell her he’ll cover for her during service and to have fun because she deserves to have a life outside the kitchen. then we get a scene where syd leaves out the back with her stuff and carmy just stares at the door after her.

[thoughtfulchaos773]

[ciaomarie]

GIF by @thoughtfulchaos773

I woke up this morning thinking about The Bear as one does. The Donna and Claire parallels were on my mind. In S2E10, Carmy was pushing them both to the back of his mind/bottom of his priorities. It was Nat who wanted her there. That night, Donna learned that Natalie was pregnant. That bit of info was her final nudge not to enter the restaurant. Claire came inside, but it was Richie and Neil who were excited to see her. Later, she learned that Carmy (who was spiraling in a vat of self-loathing) didn't think he could be in a relationship, and it was a distraction. That was her nudge to leave and cut him off. Then, in S3E8, about 30ish years after his birth, there's Donna talking crap about Carmy's arrival like he got himself stuck and how terrible her relationship was with his father. In S3E7or9(?) we have Tiff relaying the ish, Claire is saying about Carmy, who is at fault, but she's miscontruing his meaning and has no empathy for him. So, the woman who saw his mother drive into their home and said she loved him is dragging his name through their mutual friend/family group?! Idk...if Claire is endgame imma throw up. Tbh, I don't want a whole S4 episode of Donna either. Two scenes and wrap it up.

[purposechef]

Some spicy art work of Carmy and Syd ?? Pretty please 🥹

spice-y sydcarmy texts

[unladyboss]

THE COMMUNICATION IS BAD AND CARMY IS TRYING

This scene was a perfect example of Sydney and Carmy's communication

Sydney thinks that communication about the WORK is what will get them on track and make them closer

CARMY thinks it's the stuff outside of work that is what's important. That's how he wants to get close to HER

So she wants to talk about work and he shuts that down because it doesn't mean that much to him.

He's been through it and knows there's nothing but stress and grief at the end

HE wants to talk about life outside of work and SHE shuts THAT down

I actually don't blame her because if they start talking about life outside of work it means she might have to entertain a conversation about Claire. As far as she knows, outside of work Carmy is UNAVAILABLE.

(That's a barrier that he put up because he doesn't even know that his outside self has anything to offer Sydney)

Working with him is all she has now...

So they're out of sync for the entire season 3

[falllpoutboy]

Ayo Edebiri & Jeremy Allen White @ Wrigley Field, Chicago 05/19/2024

[sydcarmyfan]

Legend says Carmy thinks about this moment at least twice per day