“The Gang As Animals” 🐭🐶🐱🐸🐤💕

the beginning of the gang misses the boat is one of my favourites: mac is vibing to hollaback girl, frank and charlie are eating worms, dee has a fake mustache and pretends to be a captain and dennis is applying mascara and then he rides into the river

save me family fight iasip episode. family fight iasip episode save me.

anyway i hate how they retconned the chardee sex scene but the implications of it being that charlie remains inhibited from viewing sex as an act of intimacy and will continue to perceive it as a breach of trust rather than an expression of love whilst dee remains unable to maintain a genuine connection with anyone who is willing to accept her because her lifelong desperation to be admired has manifested into destructive behaviours... that does make me feel a little something

just a heads up for all writers out there!

I was recently told AO3 is currently being plagued by bots that comment on people’s works and falsely claim their fics were AI generated. and I can see how vile and discouraging hearing that is for authors who put so much time, effort and dedication into creating their fics.

now listen to me, if you ever get a comment like this on your work, please please please please know that they’re most definitely bot who comments the same thing on dozens of people’s works at random without ever reading the works. at all. they just copy and paste the same script onto random fics, any fic they come across.

they’re bots with malicious intentions, and they most certainly want you to lose motivation and/or delete your works. DON’T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.

if you ever get a comment like this, just delete the comment and/or report it to AO3.

remember that their comments don’t mean your works look “AI generated”. it only means these bots come across your fic and leave the same copy and pasted comment on it like they do to other writers.

don’t let them make you question yourself. they’re nothing but spam bots. YOU are a writer and you are fucking awesome.

I don't think we talk enough about what Mac falling for Johnny means in terms of his perception of love and his relationship to Dennis. I mean, we talk a lot about Dennis catfishing and e-dating him and the sexual component of it —which gives us plenty to unpack about Dennis' psyche, so it's understandable— but my favorite aspect to dissect is Mac's willingness to "fall in love" with a ghost.

In the episode, Dennis mentions there being texts between them so we know Mac wasn't just talking to a wall the whole time, but he's been stood up by Johnny so many times.. yet he keeps at it, keeps going on errands and to motels just in case Johnny decides to actually meet him this time. He's constantly waiting for someone who never shows up for him, and that's reflective of Mac's entire character. He keeps searching for love and validation from his mom, his dad, Dennis.. and when he doesn't get it, he just keeps on pushing, putting in more effort because maybe this time it will be enough. He holds so tightly onto his faith in god, a being he can't even see or hear, but that represents a hope for eternal love if you do everything right and conform nicely to its supposed expectations.

Mac isn't a stranger to loving distant beings, so of course he fell in love with Johnny. He's so desperate for someone to love him back but the only form of "love" he recognizes is a distant kind. That's why he can't give his date from the episode a chance, and why he doesn't want anything to do with uncle Donald. Easy and earnest love isn't something Mac knows. Hell, it isn't even worth it. Love, in his experience, requires work and sacrifice, otherwise what's the point?

This also plays a lot into his dynamic with Dennis, and why Mac will never let go of it. Sure, we saw him kind of trying to move on in 'The Gang Gets Romantic' by fabricating a love story for himself with Greg, and a more genuine attempt in 'Frank vs. Russia' by dating Johnny, but all roads eventually lead back to Dennis. A part of it can be attributed to Dennis not letting him move on —keeping Mac at arm's length while giving him just enough to keep him hooked— but that's not all. At this point I don't think there's anything Dennis could do or not do to put a definitive end to Mac's obsession with him, because he's exactly the type of person Mac craves in his life. As mentioned before, Dennis is someone that makes him earn his love and respect, and Mac can't find that in other potential romantic partners. He already tried looking for it online, where you can meet all kinds of people from all kinds of places, and who did he find? Dennis.

Obviously, the Johnny thing being orchestrated by Dennis means that Mac "found him" on purpose, but the point here is that Mac didn't know that. From his perspective, it was a fresh start with someone completely new, a guy that met his subconscious requirements. It just so happens that his requirements are Dennis. Because as mushy and gooey as it sounds, at the end of the day Mac is irreversably in love with him. He loves Dennis so intrinsically that he falls for him a second time, without even being aware of it. And I suspect he always will, no matter how many times he tries to move on.

I don’t have twitter, has the person who posted those clips from icbiballtay night 1 posted any more than the ones you’ve linked? And if so, can you pls link them?

:)

Here are all the links!

Land of the Dicks

Orphaned at 33

Listen to Your Heart

Join Us (And Die)

Status Quo

Happy Ending

She’s going to post more later!

horrible gay people who hate each other (they are in love)

Sometimes I’m reminded that all of franks adopted children roofied him and shoved a load of anal beads up his ass and I think yep that’s my favourite show

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mac McDonald/Dennis Reynolds, Mac McDonald/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Mac McDonald, Dennis Reynolds, Original Male Character(s), minor appearances from the rest of the gang Additional Tags: Screenplay/Script Format, Post-Season/Series 16, Tragedy/Comedy, Angst, toxic codependency, Toxic Relationship, Toxic Yaoi, Jealous Dennis Reynolds, Manipulative Dennis Reynolds, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, thigh rubbing Summary:

Mac gets a new boyfriend. An actual, physical boyfriend, who isn't Dennis this time. Dennis is not thrilled.

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New Macdennis fic, yippee!! It’s a little fan episode afcdibiebe I had a lot of fun with this one <3. I love writing in script format, it almost feels more intuitive than normal prose. I really wanna be a screenwriter someday. But for now, I have to put my talents into making toxic yaoi fanfiction :D.

Owen survival diagram my beloved! Thank you 2021 me for saving literally everything 🙏🏼

yesssss thank you omfg

joey makes the most gorgeous art <333