Another Offering To The Bones Fandom C:

gay is used very loosely here but i think booth has some repressed homosexual thoughts

the hodge.

Just realized I haven’t worked on my SweetsFisher fic in like six months I’m gonna be sick… someone beat me in the head with a hammer until I finish it

thinking about how people only call temperance brennan “temperance” or “tempie” when they’re trying to manipulate her.

like angela, her best friend and emotional confidant never calls her temperance, no matter how personal things get. and she’s always “bones” to booth, even when he’s terrified for her safety. and when hodgins, one of her oldest friends, is desperate for empathy and appealing to her humanity during the grave digger arc, he never stops calling her “brennan”.

and it’s only ever the men who try to manipulate her—her father, jared booth, or dr. stires, the old professor who tried to publicly humiliate her—that try to appeal to the an intimacy that her given name doesn’t hold

Notice how Brennan is saying something personal and Sweets is offering a generalised observation that is logically derived from Brennan's example. Just like emotion and logic fail us when they are exclusively used as defences meant to protect us from the world, they are also equally effective and vivid in the consequences they bring once they are applied to everyday situations and we use them to help someone else. :") You might even end up helping yourself in the process. <3

Episode of all time.

I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh

I really love how Brennan absolutely does NOT fuck around, even from the very beginning. Like they seriously had her beat the shit out of a homeland security agent in the first five minutes of the pilot and shoot a man by the end of the episode… wow 😵‍💫

Hodgins and Angela

redoing this for funsies lmao