Dennis Reynolds - Why Am I Anxious?

i don't want to start discourse or arguments especially during hiatus but i do think something needs to be said and like maybe this will be controversial and some of you will unfollow me but i don't care. anyone else think it's fucked up how in risk e rat they wouldn't let mac play and have fun and in the gang gives frank an intervention mac had to stand there with his frisbee and watergun and realise this was actually a funeral it's so fucked up how they never let him play and have fun

THE GANG GETS TRAPPED ANIMATION!!!! I’ve been working on this one all summer so the art style isn’t super consistent but whatever 😁

All-time favourite pathetic loser of a woman

sunny fanart from last week☀️🩷🩷

Funny how in Dennis’s fantasy during The Gang Saves the Day (the one where the gas station gets robbed) he envisions being taken care of in his most helpless state. Something that Mac always does for him. It speaks volumes that he wants to be nursed back to health (and this actually shows up later in the show when he lets Mac poison him and pamper him).

Except in his fantasy it’s the news lady with the big tits doing it, because she is the ideal women a straight man would desire. But as soon as the time comes for him to “confess his love” to her, or has to take care of her, he kills her off. Because no matter how much he wants to deny it, being in a long term relationship with an attractive women is NOT his ideal life. It also shows he doesn’t feel like he can take on the responsibility of taking care of someone & that’s why he is so resistant to macs affection- he doesn’t know how to return it.

All stuff we already know abt Dennis but I haven’t seen ppl bringing up the evidence from this specific episode.

thinkin bout how Dennis has basically been using the D.E.N.N.I.S system on Mac for 15 seasons…

Demonstrate Value:

- hangs out with Mac a lot, especially in the early seasons when their friendship is less antagonistic

- their codependent relationship is really just them demonstrating their value to each other

- one example that I guess kinda works for this is in Gun Fever, when Charlie is robbing the bar and Dennis shoots at him after Mac says to

- monthly dinner dates

Engage Physically:

- I mean… come on

Nurturing Dependence:

- again… their codependent relationship

- Mac constantly needs to check in with Dennis

- Mac quite literally depends on Dennis for all his emotional needs

- in the D.E.N.N.I.S system episode, Mac depends on Dennis for his M.A.C system to work

Neglect Emotionally:

- I can think of a thousand examples for this one, obviously, but I won’t list them all

- Dennis constantly rejects Mac’s platonic and romantic advances

- Dennis isn’t great at showing emotion anyway, so it’s kinda natural that he’s neglecting him in that sense

Inspire Hope:

- constantly making up scenarios for schemes in which he and Mac are life partners and/or romantically involved

- “I’m emotionally involved with Mac”

- continues to be physically and emotionally close to Mac, even when physically and emotionally rejecting Mac’s obvious infatuation with him

Separate Entirely:

- I think he was attempting to do this when he left for North Dakota

- he was clearly trying to separate from the whole gang, but he leaves in the same episode where he’s pretending to be in love with Mac, so… you tell me

In conclusion,

totally platonic moments between two best friends and roommates of 20+ years

this happened.

#macdennis #AMAZING ART OMG

in a tender macdennis mood recently and esp yesterday prob bc i was high lmao

was anyone going to tell me that mac was wearing dennis' shirt in the PTSDee macden near-kiss scene or was i supposed to realize that myself after rewatching mac fights gay marriage