make me feel

this…….hudconuinely……….oof

this is the second time hudcon playing boardgames has come up today...something on the rpf airwaves today ( @gonnabeokaykid 😁 )

I’m curious if Connor in particular might have had a huge vulnerability hangover after E&I/Hi Tops etc and being clocked by the world. Makes me wonder how far in advance the NYE trip was planned. Did he try to steadily retreat from Hudson as December slid by the same way he retreated from social media? Told himself it was the right thing to do given the upcoming brand breakup? Let his desire to get away from those big feelings steer him into a little fling with another co-star? But Hudson’s making 🥺 faces at him over FaceTime as he tries to let him down gently. The flights are non-refundable anyway so why waste the $300? But then next thing he knows he’s watching him kiss her on NYE and kicking himself for being unable to stay away.

(This really got away from me lol)

ugh wait connor wanting to back out of vancouver because it all got a little Too Much in LA is soooo tasty.....

anon anon ANON. I never need an excuse to go insane about ember & ice and I actually spent the last 10 mins going through my archive to find the best gifset that I think is slept on and it's this one likeeeee the way connor is softly caressing his skin in gifs 2-4? the finger bite?? they were 1000% just freestyling here and the only goal was 'how horny can I make you under the flimsy guise of us being two fairy princes in a forbidden love story'

plus the way they just brush fingers here ft iconic hudson shoulder bump I swear...hotter than anything in heated rivalry lol

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the important thing is that he did try...or at least he thought about trying...okay, their apartments are next door again, but he didn't give hudson a key (until the second day, because it was easier this way, what if he's in the shower when hudson knocks?). he arrived first and pre-bought his groceries so they didn't have to have an emotionally significant repeat of their first meeting but then hudson says he needs to go and what else do you have to do, connor? come with meeeeee. please. at least in the day they have kind of a structure, workout and coffee and catching up on god, so many things, even though they talk all the time it feels like there's still so much to say, but the evenings are dangerous. they can't see a movie out every day. hudson tells him he feels weird when they eat at a restaurant, like people are staring. so they get their takeout and eat it together in hudson's apartment going over their lines. discussing how they want to play it and how their characters are feeling and oh, this one is going to be fun. that is going to hurt.

absolutely I think it's really something special...not to go back to #myspecifictrauma but that is one thing I always hope the remaining 1d members hold onto (and I think they've all mentioned it in the time since the band ended). nobody but them knew how it felt to live those crazy 5 years and they'll always have a bond in some way because of it even if they aren't close now.

vent away my darling!

I absolutely know what you mean - especially because personally, I have so many dear and completely platonic friends who I love so much, I do kind of hate the implication (that hudcon themselves have talked about) that just because they are men and they're close they have to be attracted to each other. however THAT SAID, I have never spent 2 months naked and kissing any of said friends, the impact of which I feel can't be understated lmao. like idk if you guys remember when Sophie Turner and Kit Harington had to play lovers after being siblings on GOT and there's that clip of them kissing for the first time and they're both like GROSS...the #blur exists not just for romantic scene partners. we already know hudcon took some of their scenes home with them (both of them talk about how they felt gross doing some of the heavier stuff) so I feel like it's not a huge leap to think that could also apply in a romantic way?

Anyway, about the triangle, I'm 100% with you and I really think Anton and Issa will probably have a passive-aggressive situation until it explodes into a big fight, which I don't really like bcs their friendship is very important to me, but shit happens (as in, your bff is in a fake marriage AND in love with your boyfriend situation) and they'll have to deal with that. Saw someone on tiktok comments saying that if PB and Anton get together right away it will probably break the friend group, and it would be messy, and yes it would. So I think they'll just push it down and pray. I also think that the boys will somehow try to protect Issa from heartbreak. My question for this season that I think it will be answered is: are PB and Issa in love with each other? Besides the point but i do love the fact that the writers made Issa choose for herself and give up on the marriage bcs she didn’t feel prepared.

Fake marriage is soooo buzzy to me. I was SOLD in every episode bcs of the way both of them look at eo, and touch and interact and PB describes Anton as the coolest person he's ever met, and the glow stick scene and the way PB looks at him and says "oh my god" in that stunned way. And they have FEELINGS - that they obviously won't acknowledge. And suddenly they are MARRIED - but it doesn't mean anything (except, for PB, it does).

Love my girl Issa. She's probably my fav character, I love complicated, messy, a bit self-centered, loyal, pretty, and secure in their bodies kinda girls. She's so pretty and crazy, I love her. How I would rank them in order of favoritism: Issa, Anton, PB, Billie and Samir. But I really love them all as a group and that's why the series made sense for me.

This turned out too long, sorry!! But thanks for yapping with me <3

you see why we (well me and like 2 anons haha) are so desperate for Jack to be in HR? he plays Paul Baker so well I would just die having him in the mix with hudcon somehow 😭 and omg the new girl meth inspection episode...I HAVE to do a rewatch, one of the greatest sitcom episodes of all time for sure.

agreed I don't think there's any chance this is gonna be easy for Anton and PB! i imagine they will end up choosing each other (and neither with PB) because friendship is more important but Issa will eventually give her seal of approval and s2 might end with them making a go of it for real. I think they (Issa and PB) could end up having some deep convos about the direction of their relationship spurred by the wedding and Anton stuff, especially since it all kind of came up in the season finale (Issa lying, how important marriage is to PB, etc)

I know, my fav was the co-parenting ep but I also loved it when they raced wheelchairs in the hospital 🩷 I love the subtle slow burn, like it was there if you were looking but not shoved in your face the way old school sitcoms could sometimes do. I love them and am excited for the hurt and angst to come haha

yes same it's a draw between Anton and Issa for favs for me! I think Billie and Samir are great ensemble characters but I think the heart of the show is Issa really.