Latest Posts by badn3w - Page 7
"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.
obsessed with the way glenn was gonna have dennis spin mac around like this at the end of "mac and charlie: white trash". if only they kept this blocking in the final cut.
my favourite thing about macdennis is their weird domestic habits like wdym they rented all their furniture for more than two decades instead of buying them. they rented the predator movie each time too even though it's their favourite movie that they've watched 30 times in the last two months. mac peels dennis' apples for him and dennis isn't allowed to eat apples with them. they have monthly dinners that they look forward to where they dress nicely and go to fancy restaurants. MONTHLY. mac only knows how to cook boxed mac and cheese and dennis screams at him for this but doesn't consider taking up cooking himself ofc. they make a room in their suburbs house a trash room and paste fresherners all over the room bc they don't know how to just take out the trash like normal people. they need two rooms and two bathrooms at minimum as a home, and bc they can't find that, they'd rather sleep with dee and an old man in one bed in a house with only one bathroom. the fact that basically nothing in their house before the fire belonged to mac, and dennis supposedly hates living with mac and yet still does even though they're pushing 50. they seem to share their finance, and dennis tells mac to stop buying the rock drinks using it. dennis lets mac massage his pecs and dye his hair. they do all this and yet dennis acts like mac is insane for acting like they're a couple.
not to make anyone sad, but this is mac right before coming out
and this is him right after
gif credit: @mac-mcdonald
which means that the first thing mac does after accepting he is gay is to take off his cross necklace
the implications of this image are insane
I have so many ideas for how they could implement Mac's sexuality into storylines seeing as we haven't really seen him with any sort of partner/ how he interacts with men romantically.
I think it'd be interesting to see Mac start to date a guy that Mac really wants to like, but the guy just isn't as badass as Mac. Mac's new boyfriend likes going on dates to Color Me Mine and wine tasting and Mac finds these types of dates painfully boring. He feels like his masculinity is being stripped away from him by going on such "girly" dates, but he really likes the guy so he continues on with it. Mac would have this whole struggle throughout the episode, worrying his sexuality is causing him to go soft, and he doesn’t wanna be any less of a badass just because he’s gay.
(Obviously, it’s stupid to stereotype his boyfriend as being non-masculine for wanting to go on dates that aren’t fueled by testosterone, which is sort of the whole commentary of the episode.)
Mac gets tickets for him and his boyfriend to go to a monster truck rally as it's something Mac actually wants to do and he hopes his boyfriend would try doing something Mac likes for once, but his boyfriend declines, saying that kind of stuff just isn't fun to him. Mac loses his temper and goes off about how he's been doing stuff he doesn't think is fun this entire time.
The pair end up breaking up because neither is willing to try new things for the other, which results in Mac coming home sullenly. When Mac comes through the door, Dennis asks why he looks so glum. Mac doesn't mention the breakup, but he does mention he has an extra ticket to the monster truck rally. Dennis excitedly asks, unprompted, if he can come to the rally with Mac. Mac just smiles.
the way they look at each other >>>
the way mac looks at dennis
the way dennis grabs onto mac has me unwell
the way dennis looks at mac
i will never get over dennis picking charlie up like he is the weight of two grapes
i have a very specific type of crush on charlie in this episode
added warthog frank to the gang cuz it's a crime he wasn't included before
"i can't live without you."
*dies delicately*
makes a sideblog just to post mac grabs charlies hand gif that ive never seen anyone point out
dennis reynolds is at his best when he's being gay and pretentious while smoking a cigarette
i do find that dennis and mac enjoy the whole dynamic of going after something hard to get, bc if it was easy and direct and open, it would just be too much. Dennis doesn't like himself at times, when he isn't feeding his own ego with delusions, and being aware that Mac takes care of him like a worried mamma bird who loves him no matter what . well that's just not the cold love he grew up with, the absence of having good parents that support their son. wdym theres someone like mac who is nurturing and cares way too much about what dennis thinks and feels of him? wdym unconditional love can come from a traumatized man that knows Dennis and not from a hot woman that he 'seduced' through a system that is flawed to its core? It's not realistic. It's too much, Mac is annoying and angry and naive and loves what doesn't bites him back and he's way too open and also very closed off and easy to manipulate and obsessive and he's like a broken reflection of a Dennis from another lifetime
my welfare queen
how did the most uncomfortable show in the world end up being my comfort show
This is just another proof that macdennis totally banged and glob is in on it. There's NO reason for them to look at eachother as if caught!!!
This was INTENTIONAL.
we all think dennis is the one to make mac realize he was gay but I think it was cuz mac watched glee in 2009 and something clicked
when he's an illiterate janitor whose mother tried to abort him <3
