Some More Charlie Sketchbook Drawings :3

dennis and mac making the most painful heartfelt eye contact after frank says “when you love someone you can’t bear to leave them behind, not ever”

"finally"

I've convinced myself Mac wasn't aware of his crush on Dennis until his dream in PTSDee. It's all in his eyes when Dennis first goes in to kiss him, even if it's only a moment concocted by Mac's unconscious mind. His eyes tell us everything.

So much is said in the way Mac looks at Dennis here. It's like something clicks. Dennis is holding onto Mac's face and Mac sinks into Dennis' touch, realizing this is something he has been wanting to experience for a while, even if he has not always been consciously aware of it. While I do believe Mac has had feelings for Dennis long before this dream, I don't think these feelings had ever been fully realized until now, even after coming out.

But then Mac wakes up from his dream as if it were a nightmare. It's as if the idea of having feelings for Dennis shocks him awake, causing him to gasp for air. He is being suffocated by his own realization.

He wakes up in bed with Dee and Old Black Man. This is how he knows he's no longer in a fantasy. In his dream, he was back at the apartment, waking up in his own room. He was back to living with Dennis, the pair of them alone together. Mac looks around for Dennis but finds that Dennis is not in bed. He gets up to search for Dennis, ultimately finding Dennis practicing his dance in Dee's living room, just like he had been doing in Mac's dream.

Mac watches Dennis dance, confused yet intrigued. It's like he's waiting to see what will happen, or more likely he's waiting to see if his dream will come true. Dennis dances towards Mac and throws his hands up on the doorframe. Mac's no longer looking at Dennis in confusion but rather in desire. He knows what he wants now. He knows he's always wanted it. Mac smiles when Dennis comes closer, evidently excited at the prospect that Dennis will make a move. He wants Dennis to kiss him.

But then Dennis doesn't. Instead, he slams the door shut in Mac's face. His dance wasn't meant for Mac. Mac's dream would not come true, at least not entirely. Dennis doesn't love Mac, but hell, Mac certainly loves Dennis.

Probably been said before but what if dennis did use Johnny to get Mac out of the apartment because that was when he was bringing home the guys he had gotten with the S.I.N.N.E.D. system and he knew Mac would be weird about it so he sends him to the motel until he’s done his thing, but also discreetly picks up his phone because using the beads during that time maybe gives him the illusion that when he’s having sex with some other faceless nameless guy he’s actually having sex with Mac but he can’t *actually* have sex with Mac because what if that messes up the delicate balance they currently have, or what if it’s then suddenly too real, all these random people you know it doesn’t mean anything, anyone can get a guy to bang them once, but with Mac it would mean something, something he’s not quite ready to face, something they’re both maybe not ready to face, because Mac’s moved on and Dennis is just catching up, so he hides behind Johnny and the beads, and when the truth comes out, Mac hides behind them just as much because the connection they have through the phone, through the app, it’s safe, for both Mac and Dennis, who’ve never had a genuine relationship, who are afraid to take the leap into one, but it’s still not real and at the end of Frank vs. Russia and continuing through to Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day, Dennis starts to realize he wants it to be... he wants a real connection, he wants to take that leap because he knows Mac will be there to catch him if he falls, but then Mac’s not. Two ships passing in the night or whatever.

boyfriends

my grand hope is still for dennis to confess his feelings to mac so vaguely that mac thinks dennis wants to convert to catholicism instead. and dennis just has to go with it bc it's too embarrassing to explain

when i think of charlie kelly this is what i picture tbh

thinking about pilot episode dennis and mac

the gang in matching outfits

Every Time Mac Calls Dennis "Den"