#likeeeeeee

babes, i know absolutely nothing about how those records work in the UK (nor do i care to find out), but still being in denial about them being married after what Law said + this is a little craycray, dont you think?

(John's newest post, 7th slide)

Adding these two pics to this; I reblogged my own post with them but changed my mind lol.

CARTERBENTON!!!!! idk if you care about spoilers but my God their lives are inextricably intertwined

carter who still continues to fuck his way through the entire roster of women he does, seeking something remotely comparable to the love he never got from his parents, at the same time in a decades-long situationship with peter “actually, no, you don’t look a thing like my father” benton, the only person (maybe bar abby) who sees every one of his glaring insecurities and the fact he’s so needy and his desperation for validation and approval and knows exactly where it comes from 

carter who is so completely physical, every thing about him bounding puppy dog, and peter who has a million rules for himself for who he has to be and how he should behave in the world to garner respect and carter who for reasons of all elements of privilege intersecting has never had to police himself, who is open and it drives benton crazy up the wall jealous insane because how easy it must be to live like him? 

and carter. who has been emotionally interpersonally starved for years (losing his brother, parents pulling away, gamma the only true familial relationship he has) seeing in benton a sister and a mother and a family who adore him, who are so proud of peter for who he is what he’s made of himself, and so he gets to be golden boy and do what he likes (which he takes advantage of, because he can, he puts his career before them). carter who has never felt like his parents have been proud of him for anything, being a surgeon at a county hospital is a disappointment to the family, this life that to peter's family is everything to be proud of.

they are so deeply intensely envious of each other in absurdly realised ways. carter needs benton's respect like he needs to BREATHE. benton hates that carter's respect is something he needs because he also doesn't want to need anyone. but he does. he cares for carter so deeply, he wants him to succeed at first as an extension of himself but slowly, through carter earning his respect, as himself. as an emergency physician, not surgeon, who is making his own path taking on peter's advice but also finding his own way. which is possibly even MORE attractive to him than carter trying to be everything he wants him to.*

this (and below) came out of me like a geyser….. thank u for your ask. they are the heart and soul of the show. groundbreaking relationship, canon love affair or otherwise. changed actual television history.

*SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT FOR ALL 15 SEASONS