DENNIS USING THE SINNED SYSTEM IN THE TEXTS AS JOHNNY
S - SUPPRESS YOUR INSTINCTS: fight back the urges to tell Mac who he is, to make things personal, to feel jealous at Mac flirting with who he thinks is someone else
I - INFLATE HIS EGO: complimenting Mac constantly. Asking for pics and finally freely letting himself talk about Mac’s body. Giving Mac affection without restriction like he’s wanted to for so long
N - NEED HIS POWER: ask him to run errands for you, ask him to dirty talk with you, make Mac think ‘Johnny’ needs him in every way possible (emotionally, sexually, etc.)
N - NEGATE HIS POWER: randomly ghosting him. never meeting up with him in person. keeping him just close enough but never where he wants to be
E - ENGAGE PHYSICALLY: the beads and the sexting
D - DO YOU WANT A TISSUE?: literally I could see him sending Mac off to pick up tissues, but metaphorically he was probably getting Mac to open up to him emotionally, like deeply, enough so that Mac got attached and “in love”
i just remembered charmacden went to the same boys-only catholic high school together, st. joeseph's. dennis calling his dating system for men the SINNED system & taking 16 seasons to reveal it...AAAAAAA ;-; poor thing ....
Something about how Mac was able to suppress his instincts and let himself be. And how he threw compliments at Dennis left and right. And how he looks to Dennis for decisions to try and make him feel like the leader. And how he complimented Dennis on what a great job he does as said leader. And how he let himself touch him here and there, their arms brushing or his hand winding up on Dennis’s knee. The way he tended to Dennis and made him feel helpless by poisoning him but then using that only to look after him.
What I’m saying is that this is everything Mac has been doing. Everything Dennis told him to stop. This is everything Mac did to make Dennis fall in love with him.
But Dennis may very well still be here. He tried to separate entirely but it didn’t work. It didn’t work. Recounting how he found the Sinned system didn’t happen, Mac and Dee asked him why he had a system for men and he SHUSHED THEM. Dennis claimed the system and its accountability because it worked on HIM. And how could someone get Dennis, the golden god, to fall in love with them? He’s never really felt that has he. We’ve never seen it in a relationship not even with Maureen. How could Mac of all people get Dennis to fall in love with him? It must be some sort of algorithm.
What’s more “I’m in love with you and I see the efforts but I can’t be with you because what if it ends” than setting Mac up with some other dude? Distancing it all from himself. And maybe a reasoning for why he can’t stop feeling that way is because Mac used this over YEARS over the decades that they’ve lived together.
Dennis held his hand as he ripped Mac’s heart out. I have nothing to say about this but I can’t stop thinking about it. And I don’t like the way this looks like it’ll end.
Most straight relationships in media: “Even though there's no development and no chemistry and we don't look like we love each other that much we'll date because we're straight and that's what we're supposed to do. Right??”
Most queer relationships in media: “If saving you is a sin, I'll gladly become a sinner.” — “Dying together also included a ‘together’.” — “You changed my destiny from the moment we touched.” — “I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” — “The hero and the warrior were like the sun and the moon...”
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The fact that The S.I.N.N.E.D. System is not only the reverse of The D.E.N.N.I.S. System by name, but in its actual goal:
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System ends with Separate Entirely and begins with the avoidance of going on a date. It’s purely about sex.
The S.I.N.N.E.D. System ends with Do You Want a Tissue? Dennis’ tried and true method to secure a second date, and:
it works for Dee but she sabotages herself—because she has no interest in pursuing a man romantically;
it works for Mac but he bows out—because he already has a man he’s pursuing romantically;
The S.I.N.N.E.D. System is about romance. Dating, consistently, something Dennis makes very clear he doesn't do...
BBC Merlin, The Beginning of the End (1x08) /// Cut by Catherine Lacey /// BBC Merlin, To Kill the King (1x12) /// Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente /// BBC Merlin, The Crystal Cave (3x05) /// Cassandra, Florence and the Machine /// BBC Merlin, The Coming of Arthur: Part 1 (3x12) /// The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde /// BBC Merlin, The Coming of Arthur: Part 2 (3x13) /// Adam Raised a Cain, Bruce Springsteen /// BBC Merlin, The Sword in the Stone: Part 2 (4x13)
GUYS who here has a pic of dennis shushing in frank vs russia when he's explaining the sinned system, i dnt save it any of the times i saw it & now i need it 😭 subtitled shush is fine even preferable but not necessary
Is that canon!?! Was Machete just really naive/didn't really understand the implications of his relationship to Vasco? Did his mentor ever find out about them or discuss such things with him? I assume bc he didn't have parents, he kinda didn't get educated on sex or anything. Was it a big shock to realize he was "sinning"?