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Hello! Welcome to… this!

You can call me Vix or Fletcher!!

Previously nocturnal-spence

I use they/he plus any of the neopronouns here:

My Neopronoun List

I’m agender and queer

I’m a minor

This account is mostly just me shitposting, but I do cool things every three-five business days

My ao3 is Peachy_Peril

My current hyperfixation is The Bear, but I’m still vaguely interested in Parks and Rec, Criminal Minds, BBC Ghosts, Columbo, and Bluey! My brain is so full!

DNI:

Queerphobes, ableists, ace/aro exclusionists, MAPs, proshippers, ppl who make kms jokes, and the other various nasty people

#introduction#blog intro#request#reqs open
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THE BEAR (2022-)

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#literally carmy couldn’t come home. and like. this is a major point of contention for richie—that carm didn’t come to the funeral #and i always knew it was donna-related but after fishes… #like carm wouldn’t have made it if he had come home and had to care for donna #bartonbones thinks he would have made an attempt or a full on nervous breakdown or his health would have gone

#like… richie does want to be a berzatto so bad #he loved that house that sense of family. he loved mikey #donna had a soft spot for him #but he never really had to handle donna #he had to handle mikey #but not donna. nor maintain the delicate ecosystem of that house

#richie is not a tourist. but he also doesn’t understand the full scale of donna duty #like… nat never brings up carm missing the funeral because she does get it. (via @eroticwound)

#hohhhh imagining au where Carm does come home#thinking#forming thoughts#ow#the bear#reblog
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Here’s my observations of 1x03 - Brigade of my beloved, The Bear!!

  • When Carm’s at the beach, there’s a “let it rip, Buddy” which I’m pretty sure is our very first let it rip
  • Carm takes “the chemistry needs to change” and “just try to keep my side of the street clean” and absorbs it
  • I think I’ve counted 4 pepto and tums stashes? The office, the bathroom, the locker room, and his bedroom
  • I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Carm sleeps with socks on
  • In the Al-Anon pamphlet, under the DO (as opposed to DON’T) section was “take it easy— tension is harmful”
  • Manny, Angel, and Marcus are all definitely there before Carm. Marcus said Carmy was early, but he came in at the same time as Syd, so might be able to assume she comes in before him normally
  • We get to see a little bit of Carm’s purer passion for cooking. Him just deciding to teach Marcus about the plum thing because he has that knowledge to share. The Carm-Marcus mentor relationship is so superior
  • Also he says Har-EE-bo which threw me off. I always say HAR-ih-bo
  • Carm starts the French brigade to keep his side of the street clean and change what he can, but there’s also the layer where Carm likes consciously or subconsciously reliving his traumas, but in a situation he has more control over. Carmy is trying to remake New York here, except he’s the Executive Chef, but he’s not going to be overbearing like his Chef was
  • “Ebra: I was in a brigade once. Tina: What happened? Ebra: Many people died. Tina: See, Jeff? Carmy: It’s gonna be different” is such a good back and forth, Ebra is easily the funniest person here
  • Carmy parrots, “They keep their side of the street clean,” and you can almost tell he’s been rolling those words over and over in his head all day
  • We get Ebra’s first “I accept” !!!
  • After the call from Niko, it’s like Carm either doesn’t hear Richie the first time he asks, “What was that?” Or he just can’t get words to come out of his mouth. Carm’s voice goes kinda small and quiet. Richie asks if he blew a fuse, and I could imagine that’s exactly what it felt like
  • “I just felt like Michael was alive for a second.” Carm wasn’t there for the funeral, it’s hard to tell how it was long after Mikey died when he moved back from New York, he never grieved with anyone. He knows Michael’s dead, he can say it without a second thought, he jokes with the “I’ll ask him when he’s not dead” in 1x06, but the deepest proof he has is word of mouth. There’s bound to be some part of him that’s in denial about Mikey’s death
  • He hears, “I want to set this place on fuckin fire,” in his head, same as after the nightmare in 1x08, so did he know about the failing fire suppression stuff? Did Mikey say that to him at some point? Idk this is just a weird quote, some good s1 unreality tho
  • As Carm runs from wherever he was to out the door, you can hear shit being knocked over behind him, but he doesn’t look back. He’s pretty okay with telling people when something is wrong, but actually having them be there for him is a different story. The second he crosses the threshold into panic, he bolts, so no one can see it. When he gets off the call with Niko, he never turned around to face Richie and just waited until Richie walked out before he let himself press a hand into his chest and sit down
  • No matter how pissed Tina is with Syd, she’ll still ask, “What happened? Let me see” when she cuts her finger <3
  • Tina goes up to Sweeps and Marcus who both have the blue aprons and there’s such a good bit I forgot about, “Tina: You two look like you joined a dumbass cult. Sweeps and Marcus in unison: Thank you”
  • Another good Ebra bit: “Syd: Well, it’s not good, so Ebra: You betrayed me!”
  • When Syd goes out front looking for her onions, Richie is talking to Crooked John from 1x06 !!!
  • There’s a bench outside no one ever seems to use after this (that I’ve noticed), but I guess whenever we see someone go out back, they’re probably either nervously pacing (Carm) or too sad to feel like they deserve a bench (Marcus)
  • Even after the hellish half day she just had, it takes a little prompting from Carmy to open up about it, and when she does, it feels almost straightforward, I told you this would be bad, you didn’t listen to me, and that isn’t the job I came for, you suddenly gave me this responsibility then left, and it didn’t go well, etc. She also gains a little bit of revenge by fucking with Carmy and lightening the mood. She may not be super comfortable with explaining this stuff to others, but she seems to have a good bit of emotional intelligence (especially compared to Carm) to pinpoint everything that bothered her
  • Ah, the classic “fuck brunch” <33
  • And after all that, Carmy snuck out again at sunset to go to the beach and feel painful emotions about it being Mikey’s birthday

I think the first 2 eps introduced external and internal conflict respectively, so now, we could start getting into some recurring stuff. It starts planting the seeds for the season 2 Carmy ditching the restaurant for what he thinks will be healthier arc. And Syd gets her shit rocked, and that’s so rude because she deserves the world

Anyway! Ep 3 boom done!!

#my bear rewatch#the bear#the bear fx#the bear meta#meta analysis#panic attack#character analysis#character writing#fanfic prompt#headcanon#carmy berzatto#carmen berzatto#marcus brooks#marcus the bear#sydney adamu#ebra the bear#richie jerimovich#mikey berzatto#michael berzatto#sweeps the bear
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I decided I was going to compile a bunch of lyrics from my Carmy playlist that work well enough to cause physical pain

“I’ve loved you forever. Hell, I’ve loved you all along, and since the screams and shouts won’t stretch these clocks, let’s live our time by, “Oh, just one more song.”

-home by modern baseball

This whole song feels a lot like Carmy missing the idealized version of Mikey he knew when he was a kid

“You hang me up, unfinished, with the better part of me no longer mine.”

-constant headache by joyce manor

Carmy’s genuine passion for cooking has become warped and corrupted. It’s the better part of him, love of his life that he’d never walk away from, but it has been negatively shaped by old bosses, Mikey, and everyone who taught him to cook until, at his lowest points, it doesn’t even feel like his own thing anymore

“I’m not tryna stick it to you, but I’ve been trying hard getting through to you, and I’m not gonna lie. Let’s face it, you know I won’t take it. I’m never gonna take it, and you didn’t even notice. Just running through the motions. Don’t test my patience, and I just can’t take no more.”

-sibling rivalry by pup

This whole song works so so well for a teenage Carmy pissed at Mikey. (Except he is 100% tryna stick it to him)

“You were the only one I cared for, the only one that I can see. I look back at you now, and you’re missing me. And I held you, and I felt you, and I swear we were alright, and I feel like this is it, but I’m not about to quit it. And I promise it’s not over. It’s okay, we’ll be alright.”

-alright by the axidents

Just Carmy feeling his relationship with Mikey start to strain and having no idea what was happening. He swore they were alright, but Mikey never answered his calls. Carm just begging for this to turn out okay.

So yeah, ow

#the bear#the bear fx#carmy berzatto#carmen berzatto#mikey berzatto#song lyrics#playlist#character playlist#lyric analysis#Spotify
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I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

#desire paths!!!#reblog