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After Richie gets arrested for aggravated assault during a bachelor party hosted at The Beef, Counsellor Lara Khoury, public defender, takes over his case. She gets to know the crew of The Beef, and more specifically, one grief-stricken emotionally-constipated chef.
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Alphabet Soup for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner; Knuckle Sandwiches for Dessert by bodybaggg
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
03 Oct 2025
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They fought. They fell apart. They put themselves back together again with duct tape and hot glue and goddamn calk.
Marcus planned a funeral, Sugar and Pete had a baby, Tiff got remarried, and The Bear did not fail— maybe not exactly in that order.
Carmy learned how to breathe. Sydney got her star. Richie finally shut the fuck up (or he really, really didn’t). They slowly fixed the restaurant and themselves.
Meanwhile Marcus and Luca became totally normal pen pals…
Bon appétit!
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Weeks after leaving The Bear, Sydney opens the door to a version of Carmy that she isn’t ready for.
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Just another hurt/comfort fic where Carmy gets some desperately needed comfort.
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Carmy reaches his breaking point and falls harder than he thought possible.
(aka. Carmy goes through hell and everyone else is there to help put him back together)
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They set the emotional thermostat of the entire restaurant, always have, and right now they’re running warm. The whole kitchen hums with it: sharp, sizzling, focused.
“Chef?” Syd says, watching his trembling hand reach for the next steak. No response. “Yo, Carm— you’re about to sweat all over your wagyu.”
Chef Carmy is sick, and Sydney won’t let him ignore it.
sicktember prompts: 3. why are you so sweaty?
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- Part 3 of ⟡ kovu’s sicktember ‘25
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Carmen didn't think most people struggled with time just getting away from them, but maybe some people did. Most people probably didn't wake up wanting to puke the moment they sat up, but maybe some people did. And most people probably didn't need to say things out loud to remember, but maybe some people did.
or, Carmen doesn't think his daily routine is anything to write home about until it is.
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Adaptive Strategies in Low-Cost Dining Environments: A Longitudinal Study of Reentry by nickreadsnow
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
18 Aug 2025
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This study examines the adaptive behaviours exhibited by individuals engaging with low-cost urban dining environments over an extended period of time. Data were collected through participant observation and longitudinal engagement with a single high-density culinary microcosm in Chicago, herein referred to as the Case Site. Initial observations indicate that subjects employed a combination of resource optimisation strategies, including selective consumption, spatial positioning for environmental control (i.e., heating access), and exploitation of ancillary infrastructure (notably Wi-Fi connectivity).
Following an extended absence, subjects demonstrated patterns of reentry and reintegration, suggesting that previously established adaptive mechanisms facilitate not only survival but also the negotiation of social and institutional structures upon return. Observational data indicate that reintegration is moderated by prior social embedding, with notable influences exerted by legacy relational networks and the evolution of site-specific cultural norms.
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Mikey shows mercy to a broke exchange student and years later she returns to her old stomping ground.
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Carmen was going to kill himself tonight. He knew it— really knew it—in that rare, quiet way you know something without doubt. More certain of this than he had ever been about anything in his entire miserable, joyless existence. More certain than he'd been about leaving New York, more certain than opening the restaurant, more certain even than the ache he carried in his chest every waking second. This wasn’t a passing thought. It was a promise. A decision. A conclusion.
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Trigger Warnings for graphic depictions of self harm and suicide as well as non graphic descriptions of child abuse and student/mentor abuse. -
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Where Natalie gifts Carmy with a therapy session after the events of season four
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Cigarettes for Breakfast by Stellascoot for Jagroka, Slashaddict96
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
02 Aug 2025
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”Look, I don’t expect you to get it Ritchie, you weren’t the one who Mikey literally kicked out of here for being a fat ass”.
“He said that?” Ritchie looks like he wants to kill a dead man, and Carmy feels a surge of protectiveness towards his big brother.
Carmy shrugs “when he told me I couldn’t stay here he said it was for my own good” he says gently. “And I get it, I couldn’t control myself here-“
“You get jackshit! Mikey was trying to protect you from all the crap he had going on!”
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Nia Russo is chasing Olympic perfection down to the millisecond. There’s no room for distractions, until a chaotic visit to The Bear pulls her off track. She tells herself it’s a waste of time. But time, like control, might be the first thing she needs to lose.
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He knows he can't keep up this charade for much longer because it's started impacting his work; that, as a whole, is more important than some bullshit like his general health.
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Carmy already has bad eating habits in the show, for lack of a better word. I decided to... expand on that a bit, and by expand i mean make it worse.
(Please read the tags, stay safe, much love ♡)
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salt in the sugar by bussymaster3000 for FancyLadySnackCakes
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
25 Jul 2025
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Carmy leaving The Bear was always going to be about more than just the restaurant but Syd didn't understand why.
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Carmy tries to tell himself to get a grip, to not ruin this night for himself, the way so many others have been ruined, to shoo away that little voice in his head, the one that sounds like David Fields. The one that put him in the hospital.
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Carmy is having his daily kitchen meltdown but today’s seems to be more intense than usual. After a small back and forth, Richie is elected caregiver for the day and does so in true chaotic older “cousin” fashion.
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“When we were kids we did a paternity test on him and everything”’, Ritchie laughs, clapping him on the back. “Remember that Carm? It turned out he was just chubby”.
More laughter. Only one of them- a tall black guy called Mark or Malcom or something-looks uncomfortable.
Carmy does remember the paternity test, and he doesn’t eat the stew Sydney serves up for family.
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He’s never been big into dork stuff, but Carmy has seen enough movies to have at least heard about chaos theory. The butterfly effect or some shit. This definitely feels like a reminder that, somewhere along the line in their messed up lives, he and Richie caused a hurricane.
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A look into Carmen and Richie's history, the parallels between past and present they experience, and how they move forward.
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Carm hid his face with shaky hands and sobbed in silence. He single-handedly ruined Friends and Family night. He knew he did. He was the reason Claire left him, Richie hated him, why his mother didn’t show, and why the damn fridge door was never fixed in the first place. Everyone else was maturing around him, but Carmy was still his same, painfully tense self. And there was zero question how much he loathed himself for it.
or, s2 finale fix-it sick fic where sydcarmy sails as they should
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“Look at me”.
“I do nothing but look at you! All day every day”.
“I’m fat Ritchie”.
“I know!”
Oh
Fuck
No, no, no.