#thebearweek

[bentforkent]

everyone get ur last predictions of season 2 of the bear in!!! here r mine!!!!

Maybe, Chef, Maybe: “The Bear” as it may or may not exist

I predict season two of a TV show by following my heart and having fun

a sneak peek to entice u to read this shit i worked hard on

[heardchef]

#thebearweek | free

i love carmy's lil waddle-walk and i can't get this specific frame out of my head

bc it reminds me of

and i just

[melonatures]

favorite sentences from some sydney x carmen fics for #thebearweek, day seven: free

[note: all links direct to archiveofourown]

His touch reminds her of a pastry brush; she can feel her heartbeat in her skin, following the line his thumb makes. —as if the dream of you, it sleeps, too by icouldnotsee (herprettysleeper)

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Where the fuck was Sydney. 

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Say yes. A flood of words that while he can keep going, she can't be saying no. Might be thinking about saying yes.

To clean room, clean linens, a suite far away enough from the banquet hall she'll only be imagining the stink of meat and grease. To him, again, always and forever, over and over again.

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"We flew too fuckin' close to the sun, Carmy."

He faltered. Hard. Brain scrambled and lit up like a Christmas tree with how his name sounded coming out of her mouth. He wanted her to never stop saying it. —Alphabet Stew by comradeocean

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There is an assumption in his actions. That she cares about his opinions. That she’s interested in her jokes. That even after she spends hours and hours on her feet beside him, drinking beer and staring at blueprints with him— Even though she’s barely awake when she sees him in the morning, barely awake when she says goodbye to him at night—

That he’s still got a claim on her time. —End Racism in the OTW | Tightrope by queerofcups

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“Sugar thinks I’m in love with you,” Carmy reveals, his tone so slight. —still don't know what love means by seh28

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“Sydney... Sydney... Sydney.” 

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“...I just, can we just… slow down, please?” —Everything In Its Right Place by Gingerylangylang

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Carmen slips out into the alleyway. Outside the air snaps him in the face with cold, like his shower when his asshole neighbor uses up all the hot water. A kitchen has no seasons. Your ass is always over the fire. —Bear Market Blue by threesmallcrows

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She rolls his name, his realness, the intimacy around in her head until he turns from the door back to her. —Renovations and Observations in Liminal Space by kdbleu

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They’d sit in the quiet darkness of his car because his stereo can’t even play radio now and with everything going on he can’t be bothered to take it to a mechanic. His hand lays open, palm up on a gear shift and she can’t help herself. She threads their fingers together and allows the moment to linger before inevitably she has to go.

They need to do something about it, she knows, but a part of her is curious to see how will it play out if they just let it be. What’s going to happen next? —Two Danish Almond Pastries, to go by zdorik_sandorik

Thanks and love to all syd x carm fic writers; I’m sending good writing mojo your way. 🥰🥰🥰  

[heardchef]

Day Seven: Free Day/Catharsis [everything that can’t fit into a week—music, outfits, favorite episode, depiction of Chicago, etc.; or your favorite thing about the end of s01]

[caffeina-felina]

The Bear week | Day six: conflict/heart

[favorite, most interesting, or most touching relationship— anything from Sydney and Tina, Marcus and Carmen, Carmen and Richie, Sydney and Marcus, Sugar and Carmen, to Carmen and Sydney]

"Cousin"

Carmy and Richie have a lot going on their dynamic, all of it negative right up until 'Braciole'. Richie sees himself as the rightful heir to The Beef, and it's hard not to blame him. He's spent easily over a decade working there, and he's repeatedly put himself at legal and financial risk making sure it stayed afloat. It must have been a painful shock to find out it was left to Carmen, someone who (in Richie's eyes) didn't care and acted too good for it anyway. That this viewpoint is built on conflicting info is not something Richie wants to fully acknowledge. He's too invested in believing that Mikey was beyond reproach. Whenever cognitive dissonance starts to flare up, he essentially punches it in the face and shoves it in a locker:

(Sydney): Wait, why didn't Michael want him to work at the restaurant? (Richie, doing mental gymnastic to avoid realizing that Mikey pulled a dick move on his little brother and hurt him): Because he's a little bitch, probably!

Then there's Carmy, who loved Mikey just as much as Richie did and was rewarded with exclusion from him and the creative world they'd always shared. Carm, who then took his wounded pride and found respect in the mentally cannibalistic world of haute cuisine, but gets that accomplishment minimized while his brother's beloved crew mocks and dismisses him on what should be his home turf. And he's only allowed back on that turf when the worst possible thing happens, because Mikey seemingly wanted it that way. How much more painfully literal can the phrase "over my dead body" get?

At the core of every fight and power struggle between Richie and Carm is Mikey. But it's not just the loss of him that fuels their many conflicts. Michael himself created the tension and resentment between them even before his death. It started with barring Carm from the kitchen, something we still don't know the reasoning behind. But it continued with the lack of support or pride he showed towards his brother's achievements. There's no echoes of positive statements he made to the crew about Carm, no clippings in his office about the rising star chef. But there is palpable disdain and resentment from Tina and Richie. I don't think Mikey knew how much of an impact any casual jokes or moments of blowing off steam about Carmy's career had on the people around him. So when he passed and the other brother is suddenly there, changing things and erasing aspects of Mikey, is it any wonder why they quickly jumped to animosity?

Not to mention, the inherent rivalry of blood brother who's very different from Mikey vs. wanna-be brother who's practically a living homage to Mikey. Actual inheritor vs. spiritual inheritor. A man who sees change as necessary to keep his brother's vision alive vs. a man who sees any change as taking Mikey away all over again.

A huge turning point in Richie's side of the rivalry is when he finally gets checked by Tina. Once having been his partner in the "Carmy sucks" club, Tina's grown and now sees change as something that will keep them all alive instead of as something that further buries Mikey. It takes that loving but firm ego check from Tina for Richie to lower his best friend from an untouchable pedestal and to stop carrying the sibling rivalry torch that he picked up from him as well. Carmy, for his part, doesn't seem to harbor nearly as much resentment towards Richie. Being deprived of respect is largely the cause for Carmy's negativity towards him, and rightfully so. Yet Richie is still a huge link to his brother, and calling him cousin seems to come very naturally to Carm. He's part of the family and Carmy needs family now more than ever. The bond of what they were to Mikey is what forces them to be in the same room, but the bond of what they can be to each other is how they'll keep Mikey's spirit alive and turn The Beef into a thriving and joyful manifestation of it.

[melonatures]

carmen vs himself for #thebearweek, day six: conflict/heart ↳ And I think that just, that flipped a switch in me where I was like, "Okay, fuck you, watch this." And because we had this connection through food and he had made me feel so rejected and lame and shitty and uncool, I made this plan where I was gonna go work in all the best restaurants in the world. You know, like, like, I'm gonna go work in real kitchens. Like, fuck Mom and Dad's piece of shit, right? And it sounds ridiculous, you know, me saying that now, but that's what I did.

[heardchef]

Day Six: Conflict/Heart [favorite, most interesting, or most touching relationship— anything from Sydney and Tina, Marcus and Carmen, Carmen and Richie, Sydney and Marcus, Sugar and Carmen, to Carmen and Sydney]

[heardchef]

#thebearweek | the bear but it's only moments that put me in a silly goofy mood