Alan Shore and Denny Crane
Boston Legal | Season Four | Episode Six
The Object of My Affection
Sitting with Denny on their customary balcony at Crane, Poole & Schmidt, Alan takes a sip of his drink. Denny, holding his own drink and cigar, turns his face toward Alan, but doesn’t look at him.
Denny: "I am not over."
Alan looks at Denny, while Denny looks away
Denny, softly: "I'm sick of people thinking I'm over."
He fidgets with his cigar. Alan regards him for a beat, then raises his eyebrows and looks away as he speaks.
Alan: "I know you're not over."
Denny finally looks at him.
Alan: "As far as I'm concerned, Denny, you've never been more now."
Denny is still looking at him.
Denny, softly: "Thank you."
He smiles at Alan, then looks away.
Alan, purposefully shifting the tone: "I read another study—"
Denny, lifting his drink to his lips: "Here we go."
Alan, as Denny takes a drink: "Talked about how men sometimes seek younger female partners as a way of staying younger themselves."
He looks at Denny.
Denny, chuckling and smiling at Alan, genuinely amused: "That surprises you?"
Alan, rolling his eyes slightly and gesturing with his left hand, pointing vaguely in Denny's direction: "No, but it went on to say that sometimes they seek out younger male friends for the same reason."
As he finishes his sentence, he cocks his head to the side and meets Denny's gaze with a half-smile that doesn't conceal his frown.
Denny, surprised and delighted: "You're insecure!"
He points at Alan with the hand holding his drink.
Alan, scoffing and shaking his head: "No."
Denny, still pointing: "Yes, you are."
Alan shakes his head a little and breaks eye contact.
Alan: "Well, sometimes I wonder if we'd be as close if I wasn't some young thing."
Toward the end of the sentence, he meets Denny's eyes again. Denny has lowered his hand to rest it against the arm of the chair. He smiles at Alan, amused, and huffs out a small laugh.
Denny: "Alan..."
Alan is looking at him with clear affection.
Denny, shaking his head: "First of all, you're no spring chicken. And second..."
Alan nods his head a little, waiting for him to finish.
Denny: "Forget it."
He shakes his head and looks away.
Alan: "What?"
Denny, shaking his head: "No, I said forget it."
Alan: "You were about to say something."
His left hand gestures toward Denny.
Denny, shaking his head: "No, I wasn't."
Alan, looking away in exasperation: "Denny..."
Denny, raising his voice slightly and looking over at Alan: "I wasn't, damn it."
Alan looks at him.
Alan: "Well, then finish the sentence."
He gestures with his left hand again. There is a moment where Denny's eyes look panicked.
Alan: "'Second...' 'Second,' what?"
Alan is smiling at Denny fondly, raising his eyebrows in expectation. Denny looks away and takes a breath.
Denny, softly: "Second..."
The struggle is clear on his face. He shifts in his chair, looking over at Alan, who looks back at him expectantly.
It takes Denny a few moments, looking into Alan's eyes, to say the words.
Denny: "I love you."
His face is serious. Alan looks surprised, but holds his gaze.
Denny, looking away from him for a moment, face still serious: "And it has nothing to do with your youth."
He looks back at Alan, allowing the words to settle between them.
I am such a hater every time a macdennis theory comes across my dash that is so far fetched I have to literally fight demons to stop myself from commenting “no💜”
One of two hits from Bo$$ that scored the top of the charts, the other “Recipe Of A Ho”, but “Deeper” would always stand out as her most well-known. Her career happened when she moved from Detroit to the West coast and was discovered by DJ Quik for a verse before being signed by Def Jam and released her only record Born Gangstaz. Well, that one’s an overstatement. Despite being accomplished in dance, musicianship, and completing two years of business in college, her gangsta’ life didn’t kick in until her and DJ Dee moved to Los Angeles to experience being homeless, slinging drugs, violence and gang warfare. That’s what they ran with and took it from there. Whether you care or not about Bo$$’ legitimacy, “Deeper” is a great single which a vexed Lichelle Marie Laws lets it all out on being harassed, bothered, and taken advantage of, as a female gangsta’. It helped that there’s lots of sampling gold to be found here with “90% Of Me Is You” by Gwen McCrae (’74), "Under the Bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers ('91), “I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby” by Barry White (’73), “Promised Land” by Dennis Brown (’79) and even a soundbyte from Axel Foley from Beverly Hills Cop.
New York’s Hot 97 used this instrumental for Mega Banton’s “Soundboy Killing” (’93), meaning no physical version of that exists.
Oh my god- We barely recovered from Vex Voice and now you've gone and done whatever this is, and now you're using your real name?
Okay, the name thing isn't actually a problem. I only use P.V. because I'm a ghost and don't remember my name. But still!
Have you even spoken to your friends about this? Turtle Voice and Midnight Voice seem to be doing fine and the others are doing- well... something about Denny's parking lots?
Oh, and now we're glitching. again.
You know what? I'm just going to go get A- er- him.
Don't- Try and stay calm, Owen. I'll do my best to help. I also thought they were implying murder, so that isn't just a You thing.
(I'm actually going to go message the Apo blog and tell him to get over here lol)
@outsideiin sent : "you are in my way." hand raises then, making a 'shoo-ing' motion. "well, become from me. scoot." dennis adds, frustration evident on his features as he lets out a groan. "can you hear me ??"
𝗜𝗙 𝗦𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗬𝗣𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡, someone with grace, patience, someone who had the very real capability of turning the other cheek, someone better than her, that fickle mood of hers wouldn't have to take such a sudden nasty turn. oh, but there's heat burning at those cheeks, her stomach churning something awful. and the worst part? 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘪𝘵. but pride will bring any more vexed displays to a halt, it always does when it comes to eleanor. instead, a breath, a beat, a moment for her lips to twist up into a semblance of a smile, tight. she'll keep up the smirk as she whips around, blonde tresses swishing before her gaze moves up to meet the source of that entitled voice, ❝ oh. sure i can hear you, dillweed, ❞
❝ i'm just choosing not to listen. ❞ point is made by the bounce of her shoulders ( 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵? 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘥 ) but there's a tug as she looks at him, a feeling that he's not gonna back off so easily. and just like that, vexation melts into amusement. why let him get under her skin when she can keep getting under his? ❝ besides.. you have eyes, don't you? 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁. i'm not moving. ❞
Dennis rushes into the room, stands in the doorway, strikes a muscle man angry pose, and looks Optimus in the eye. Then, once eye contact is made, he says, "My Tallest." And runs away.
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You know in that deleted scene from Reynolds v Reynolds where Dee starts massaging Dennis’ hand bc he’s getting angry I now have a headcanon that she was the only one that knew how to calm him down as kids and she would stroke his hair or massage his hands/shoulders and talk to him in a calming voice until he was chill every time he started getting vexed :,) they’re twins but she’s his big sister okay
When I fall in love
Sometimes I despair when I fall in love
When I least expect it I fall in love
Time just stops
My soul comes to the body
I smile, when I fall in love
So a long time ago I wrote this and just rediscovered this, my description of Lost Girl ships in the style of @doubleca5t. Now that I found it again, I figured I might as well share with my peeps:
After watching too many of those videos, I couldn’t get the idea out of my head, so here we go:
Bo/Dyson: you love the inherent eroticism of loose cannon private eye/by-the-book cop
Bo/Lauren: Your favorite high school dynamic is juvenile delinquent/nerd
Bo/Lauren/Dyson: Your solution to any love triangle is always OT3
Lauren/Dyson: You just want the two ends in a love triangle to be friends, and who wouldn’t?
Bo/Kenzie: Your favorite movie of the last few years is Ocean’s 8
Bo/Tamsin: you believe in the inherent eroticism of rivals to lovers
Bo/Morrigan: you believe the inherent eroticism of ENEMIES to lovers (and you also want them to remain enemies)
Morrigan/Vex: You believe in WLW/MLM solidarity, combined with be gay do crime
Vex/Kenzie: You’re always a slut for villains being seduced to the side of good through weird friendships based on shared interests
Tamsin/Kenzie: You’re always a slut for villains being seduced to the side of good through experiencing love and caring they never got from their birth family
Kenzie/Hale: you just wanted good things for Kenzie, and really, who wouldn’t?
Dyson/Hale: you believe in the inherent eroticism of buddy cop movies
Dyson/Vex: you believe in the inherent eroticism of buddy cop movies where one of the “cops” is actually a criminal forced to work with the police
Trick/Kenzie: you may not want to fuck dads, but you definitely want to fuck father figures
Bruce/Kenzie: you are a slut for mooks who are too dumb to really be evil
Bo/Persephone: you’re into stepmom porn
Hades/Zeus: you just like campy villains
Hera/Zeus: you are always a slut for genderbends
Dyson/Alicia, Dyson/Ciara, and Kenzie/Nate: you are heterosexual
Bo/Ryan and Bo/Reynard: you are heterosexual but also are into edgy boys
If you can think of another one of these, or you think I’m way off, please reblog with your opinions