Its So Funny How When In 5x01 Mac Tried To Dress Gay To Pretend To Be A Couple With Dennis So He Shows

You guys need to start greasing some dudes I’m gonna freak out!

they're on a date

Mac and Dennis were definitely victims of Twilight Mania, right? Like, they totally went to see the first movie in theatres as a joke, but then both of them got really into Twilight and Dennis probably bought the books in secret, only for Mac to catch him reading New Moon in his room and asking Dennis if he could borrow it when Dennis was finished. They probably went to see every movie that came out the day of their release, all behind the gangs' backs, of course, cuz no one could ever know two 30-year-old men genuinely liked Twilight.

Plus when Charlie calls Twilight stupid in "Who Got Dee Pregnant," Mac and Dennis def went home and cried about it.

"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.

perhaps the real macdennis canon was the friends we made along the way

theres no way the year 2006 is real. people made it up to prank me

power of naturally pretty eyes opening minds

I can't stop zooming in on every insignificant detail of Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs...

im sorry to bring this up again but actually im not

it's always sunny in philadelphia is no way an underground indie show but feels like it. feels too niche to be mainstream. too unpacked. so many little moments that worth a life in the eyes of a couple of dozens of queer people. love and hate's flirty blur, the narrative of not suffering alone but with the only family that accepts you, understanding that it is a curse to be this codependent but knowing it's the only thing worth seizing, homoeroticism lurking behind every single character's relationship with each other. how did this show survive till now. a beautiful cockroach smoking a cigarette in her ruin balcony watching the flames grow bigger

when he's an illiterate janitor whose mother tried to abort him <3