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While he’d been gone, Charles had stood on top of the ratty old couch that he and Edwin had been watching unravel for years. He stuck the end of the vine between two slats in the ceiling so it hung down, adding even more adornment to the veritable winter wonderland he and Edwin had created.

Hopefully Edwin would notice. If he didn’t, Charles would just spell it out for his best mate, point at it and pull him in for a kiss.

Which, honestly, was more than brills for a ‘worst-case scenario.’

Bro is LOSING the IDGAF war against a crow and a cat.

Simon trying to shoot his shot at the class reunion, to which Edwin stiffly responds that he's not interested and also married.

And his husband Charles is also so very handsome and charming that Simon feels himself becoming homophobic again

"didn't know they were dating even though they're sleeping together" this

"didn't know they were dating for the past 6 months" that

HOW ABOUT

Didn't know they were dating for the past 20 years, they're not sleeping together, they've never even kissed!

Charles says "I love you" first after 7 years together, he means it as In Love, and when Edwin doesn't even hesitate and says it back, he thinks they're together now.

He introduces Edwin as his partner, because boyfriend sounds silly.

They don't kiss, because Edwin is weird about touch and also said he doesn't miss kissing.

But Charles holds his hand any chance he gets, he hugs him often and they cuddle on the couch and they say I love you often.

He doesn't flirt with others, but he's friendly!!

IMAGINE THE MISCOMMUNICATION

the ANGST

the WORRY

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN MONTY KISSED YOU?!"

"I love you too, can we go now?"

"As more than a friend, I'm afraid"

"?!?!?!??!?? yes? me too??? wait-"

"what?"

"WHAT?!"

*demonic screeching*

I posted this on my Twitter, but I thought I'd share it here, too! I isolated the audio from Charles' death scene to answer a commonly debated headcanon in fandom: did Charles go by something else when he was alive?

Well, at least in this video, I can confirm that all the "Friends" who killed him call him Charlie. 😭

I reckon that is what his peers, teachers, and, even his abusive father likely referred to him as... Charlie Rowland. Makes sense for a teenage boy in the 80s; particularly a sporty, alternative, charismatic boy like Charles who hung around "lad-types."

It's no wonder he flinched when Brad/Hunter called him Charlie Boy. This show really doesn't miss a single detail. It's brilliant and intentional in every single thing it does.

FUCK it deserves a season 2! It's so well-written and in its first season. *Chef's kiss* from beginning to end.

guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening

absolutely

bro my dad “went to dinner” at my favorite mexican restaraunt and said he’d bring me home a burrito and it’s fucking 9pm

my dad is having an affair

dad brought me the promised burrito just now so here’s my obligatory post exonerating him from infedelity

that burrito was fantastic. i’m inclined to think my dad has never had sex in his life

I believe everything should be offline, I believe that every time something that is not your internet browser (and I'm being generous here) should have a big red alert that says THIS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM NEEDS TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET AND REQUESTS YOUR CONSENT TO DO THIS SPECIFIC THING, and you had to touch a big red button and it would disconnect as soon as you close it.

"oh you can't edit this document on your device :) you need to save it to the Google Panopticon first :)" "Adobe needs to update on the background sorry we'll just steal your RAM for a bit :) you don't need to notice don't open the task manager your so sexy ahaha" "Windows needs to be online to send everything you do... somewhere"

IN MY TIME Microsoft Word had to ask permission to even put an hyperlink, let alone fucking update in the background. Videogames had to BEG to connect to a LAN network, now Gabe Newell gives any dev the power to install whatever the fuck in my hard drive.

Computers used to know RESPECT, now they're all assholes who want access to your contact list.

My laptop installed Copilot without telling me. Apparently it was part of the latest windows update.

It's uninstalled now, but there's a word we used to use for programs that secretly installed themselves on your machine.

Malware.

Bougar

Bougar

some payneland emojis for the beloved mutuals <3

bonus problematic fave girlboss (in the end, aren't we all just chewing and shaking edwin around?)

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Lock these 2 bitches in a room STAT I want to see who would win

I don’t like the idea of Charles being the ‘mr. Seductive and flirtatious’ and Edwin the ‘mr. Blushing virgin’. Like.

Yes Edwin is inexperienced, but what does he do when he’s inexperienced in something? He researches the hell out of that thing

I’m a strong believer that once payneland gets together Charles is going to be too flustered to ask to hold hands and Edwin is gonna the autistic touch starved bitch he is and go ‘hm I think I like kissing. I’m gonna find out how to do this whole kissing buisness really well’

I’ll be taking no further questions on this, thank you and goodnight

OKAY SO @montythehumancrow and i were talking about this beautiful, beautiful gif made by @fan-a-tink and we came to somewhat of a realization.

in E2, when edwin is telling charles why he dislikes crystal, charles says “well, that sounds a lot like you, doesn’t it? wait-maybe THAT’S why i like her so much. see? we’re figuring this out!” which is a huge payneland moment, ofc.

but, the gif above is a post-confession clip, and look at the way he’s looking at crystal in comparison to edwin.

it’s like he lights up inside.

he saw attributes in crystal that he knew to be there in edwin and said “hey, look! i can like this one romantically!” because she’s a girl.

i’m not saying he wasn’t attracted to her, because he was, but it says a lot that he was so quick to compare them that early on when all three of them knew that he had expressed interest in her.

he was so quick to be romantically involved with someone he immediately saw his best friend in. because he loves edwin and doesn’t know how to admit that.

but he can admit that he likes crystal and he can admit he thinks they’re similar. that is, until edwin confesses and he’s forced to think about things from that angle.

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