fratt is actually sooooo important for the culture like. what if you were grieving your best friend in the entire world, your platonic soulmate, and after he dies you have to deal with your grief and guilt and trauma but also your all-consuming romantic and sexual attraction to this fuckass ex-marine whose love for violence matches only your own. happened to my good friend Matt Murdock
and i know people mean well when they give employment advice but god damn some of them its like "did you try submitting your resume to a place that is hiring" fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no kidding. shit. ive just been printing them out and eating them. yeah thanks i'll try that
THE PUNISHER 1x05 “Gunner”
𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔤𝔦𝔞 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡𝔥𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤
I thought that I was flyin' But I was crawlin' on my knees
—Blind Spot, Bruce Springsteen
If anything, I really feel as though that episode cemented the fact that despite their lingering feelings for one another, Matt and Karen are capable of being 'just friends'.
Frank and Karen are not. They will never be able to be around one another without emotional devastation following because their feelings are that strong. There is no such thing as ~casual~ for them, they can't just meet up for diner coffee and gossip because they can't pretend they don't want each other. Frank can't even look her in the eyes without laying his soul bare! There is no reality in which these two people are just casual buddies.
I think they will continue to be in each other's corner, but Karen walking away really cemented that she can't do the halfway in, halfway out thing that she can do with Matt. It's all or nothing.
Either Frank lets her in and the two of them are together for real, or she can't be in his life.
lieberman would have rolled on the floor if he saw frank fidgeting and internally losing his mind over karen’s “no, thank you” i just know it
and guess who else? Foggy. Foggy would go red trynna keep his laughter in bc he wouldn’t dare. not in front of the punisher. but he would
DAREDEVIL | S02E12 "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel"
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
matt listening to frank and karen’s heartbeats and realizing that they have feelings for each other oh my god put me down right now