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[fashion-runways]

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[toddycats]

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

[okidoki-artichoki]

Tiny Carmy stop motion teehee!

He’s so sad :-(

[bioloyg]

hey remember when they wrote Natalie going into labor and the first person she called was Sydney. And when Sydney didn’t pick up she tries to call “The Bear” and it tries to call Claire, which isn’t what she wanted, and then Carmen turns around and calls Sydney The Bear?

good times

[bioloyg]

it’s just the way every part of Carmen’s family tried to fold Claire in as a Bear, his underlying resistance to that, and the conscious choices he makes for himself that always seem to come back to Sydney.

She is the only person he ever hired. Past Sydney, hiring got farmed out to Nat (and later Richie). To the point he and Sydney don’t even know who the three randos are that quit on opening night.

And then in fucking vow renewal/marriage style he goes, “here is a contract tying you to my hopes and dreams as the (partial) owner of them, and because you are a part of that dream I do need you to sign the papers, also here is my family name.”

Christopher I’m tired, man. I’ve been tired for four seasons. Can you not kill me on the fifth and final

[ambeauty]

While we wait….

I was thinking about the s4 trailer and went back and watched it. Because of Ayo’s interview with Michelle Obama, some of the brief tidbits she dropped about the quick turnaround and scheduling decisions from the bear s5 filming to rehearsing for Proof sounded like s5 was not an original intention. As well as, if I recall correctly, an interview Jeremy did last year where he said he found out about s5 at Christmas 2024.

Ok so that leads me back to the s4 trailer. Many many scenes in that trailer ended up being unused. And also once that trailer was released, the teasers/short tv spots became more Sydcarmy oriented. “I like this.” is the major one that pops in my head. Also going back to look at the trailer, we know that the beginning scene of Sydney and Carmy in 401 was reshot, to be something seemingly more romantic.

My theory is that originally goodbye was the ending but once Chris realized he wanted to do a s5 he started tweaking things to make Sydcarmy even more romance coded. It’s clear that his original intent was to make it all ambiguous given how things ended in goodbye. With Carmy seemingly open to rekindling things with Claire but Carmy and Sydney leaving a lot of things unsaid and hidden within the context of their conversation in goodbye. Worms was an episode that was added post majority of the original s4 production. The dialogue where Sydney is called out by her cousin for probably having a crush on Carmy, which makes it hard for her to leave what is essentially a bad situation. Even though she says doesn’t, Lionel mentioned in a follow up interview that children always reveal the truth (paraphrasing).

I also feel like the addition of RomCom King Rob Reiner to the show, happened in 2025 as well.

I wonder what other romantically overt dialogue or even subtext was added to s4 once there was a decision to make more of the show. Perhaps and hopefully leaving things less ambiguous for the real conclusion. I wonder if Chris felt just as unsatisfied leaving things up to the audience to decide as we felt after watching goodbye.

For me if you had somewhat of a decent ending already executed, there would be no reason to add 8 more episodes unless you wanted to clear up a lot of the story that was left on the table in the previous season. Majority of that being things between Sydney and Carmy. As always my expectation for explicit romance between Sydney and Carmy in this show is rather low but I hope that it means something that he found it in his spirit to give us one last chance.

Curious if you guys can think of any other moments that were added after the fact.

Curious about your thoughts on this. @whenmemorydies @thoughtfulchaos773 @fairestbeard @aerishey @turbulenthandholding @freedelusionshere @sutherlins @sydneys-adamu @bakerst-sherlolly

Anyone feel free to chime in!

[thoughtfulchaos773]

Also!

Carny hidden facial expressions in goodbye is the thing that gets me that shows something clearly isnt finished. He's hiding something and he started making that face the moment he snapped at Sydney to tell her he was her FRIEND. Not partner. Friend. This guy doesnt know what a girlfriend is and if he is making those expression right when Richie comes in...richie is in the middle of all that he was trying to say ...part 3 here we come..

God now I'm excited for season 5!!!

[ambeauty]

It’s like he’s figuring something out just in the last moments. I still think we were meant to draw our own conclusions from that but now that there will be more hopefully we get some definitive answers. They are the only ones truly stuck in a relationship limbo!

[kdbleu]

While I doubt Goodbye was ever meant as a series finale, from a story structure perspective, it would not have been a satisfying ending. There have been things added and expanded from the beginning of the show. And all of those things have been about Sydney and depth of connection between Sydney and Carmy.

Sheridan Road in season added more sydcarmy. Worms was probably written before the announcement of season 5, but the extended metaphor about kitchens as homes and how one had a cute brother was saying something. And possibly resulted in the rewrite/shoot of the s4 opening.

Sydney is the peace Carmy is looking for in his kitchen and his life. That bubble around them has existed from the start, from the brunch conversation on the smoking bench, even in their separation as Sydney bonds with the physical space of the restaurant. She is the tether that binds him to the kitchen in the present.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[thediscossessed]

Everyone say thank you black women

[noireservoir]

THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN

[creatingblackcharacters]

LOUDER!!

[beanswithbones]

[neechees]

THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN

[luckydiorxoxo]

Ayo behind the scenes of the Paper Magazine Photoshoot

[kdbleu]

Love these. 💙

[alwaysshipping1]

In each other's lives forever 🤧

"it weirdly feels like this family that I always was supposed to have. They're now in my life.” 🤧🤧🤧

[happinessasthebaddest]

[alwaysshipping1]

First "Proof" table read!

[bioloyg]

Sydney “I don’t even know if he knows this” Adamu before telling Carmen’s mother some shit he absolutely does not know because you would have to take pliers to her mouth to get her to express her feelings to Carmen in a meaningful way and even then!

[cyberneticnightmares]

saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

[eroticwound]

walking around my house, head in hands, thinking about the jennings

[kdbleu]

I love you for this.

[bootlegramdomneess]

Unless white people truly confront white supremacy and condemn racism of all forms in this country we are never getting out.

[thelarchtreefell]

When I read in the reviews that Carol "is supposed to be unpleasant" and generally an antihero, I didn't expect to see just a normal, slightly grumpy and very lonely woman, prone to self-destruction

[kdbleu]

and filled with grief for her wife.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

ICE agents forced to flee Minnesota neighborhood due to car alarm alert system

Frustrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fled a Minnesota neighborhood after residents alerted each other by triggering car a

Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.

This is effective for several reasons:

Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.

ICE loses the element of surprise.

If one person hears a car alarm go off, they can trigger their own alarm, alerting even more people, but also making it really annoying for ICE. Annoying sounds petty, but it can be effective. Have you ever been in a building when a super loud fire alarm went off? It's very hard to concentrate. You can't hear much else. You just want to leave. ICE experiences this when a whole street if car alarms go off. Which means they make mistakes.

[eddieisanidiot]

This was how we were alerted to ICE attempting to gain access to our apartment building. This 100% works.