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the rot settled in without you by mayinthebackyard
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
31 Oct 2025
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Every vein in his body is put there for Mac, a fantasy designed for only one pair of eyes.
“Come home,” Dennis says into the phone.
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Mac’s at The Rainbow. Dennis is alone. He spirals.
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“And if it helps your ego at all,” Mac starts. Dennis’s face is warm under his hand; it feels so real, and he can’t believe they’re here. Decades of slamming each other around, screaming, and it all amounts to this. “I think you’re pretty perfect, dude.”
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After the last rehearsal dinner, Mac and Dennis are forced to confront the last few decades of their lives—together.
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you claw, you fight, you lose by mayinthebackyard
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
12 Aug 2025
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[formerly titled ‘i wanna brainwash you into loving me forever’]
“I think this whole thing was a mistake,” Mac says finally, subdued. “Us having sex and all that. I, uh. I still care about you, Dennis. So much. But you know me. Sometimes I just… I get carried away.”
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Mac changes his mind. Dennis breaks everything.
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if you could only hear what i said by mayinthebackyard
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
06 Apr 2023
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There were two sides of Dennis Reynolds.
One, a ghost. An apparition of a young Adonis, dripping in gold.
The other was just a teenage boy.
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A collection of moments between Mac and Dennis. sometimes angsty, sometimes funny, sometimes sweet. Not told in chronological order.
Let’s try to piece it all together.
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You Don't Know How Much I Love This by EndlessRain
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
08 Oct 2022
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Dennis was enjoying this way too much for his own good. If he wasn’t careful, his addictive personality would take over and he’d never be able to stop asking Mac for the truth.
Mac and Dennis make a pact to never lie to each other again. Once the truth starts coming out, it's difficult to keep things the way they were.
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- Part 1 of So You'll Tell Me How it Is
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26 Feb 2026
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in the face of a dying god by sewerkingcharlie (orphan_account)
Fandoms: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
04 Sep 2020
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In which a regular seeming Sunday slips into a mental break, after Dennis appears in Mac’s room demanding that he hits him.
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Mac opened the bathroom door, and blinked. Dennis was sat on his bed. His hands were jiggling and his lip was bleeding and his eyes were puffy from crying, yet as dry and tear-less a piece of gluten free bread that’s been abandoned on the kitchen counter for a few days.
“What you doing in here?” Mac asked, in a neutral voice. It wasn’t accusatory, nor was it annoyed — a simple question, that Mac could guess wouldn’t have a simple answer.
“I need you to slap me,” Dennis said. His voice was shaking, but the tone was just as neutral and casual as Mac’s. “Or punch me. Whichever is kinder to the remnants of your masculinity.”
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26 Feb 2026
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Love you with my hands tied. by Patchwork7987
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
07 Jun 2025
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Mac stared silently as he watched the tears fall, and Dennis could feel him twitch inside. “That's what you want, yeah? Get me mad so I hurt you?” Mac questioned, grabbing Dennis’s face in a tight hold, forcing eye contact.
“I have no clue what you’re talking about.” Dennis feigned innocence, but he didn’t sound all too innocent when Mac hit another sound from him; his face was going to be more bruised than not.
“You’re disgusting,” Mac spat, face showing anything but disgust as Dennis hiccupped another round of tears; he was getting off on that, wasn’t he?
Dennis has a plethora of kinks ranging from semi-normal to borderline psychopathic, and as his boyfriend, Mac, is dragged into committing every single atrocity. (And maybe find out he's more into it than he previously thought.)
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Bookmarked by mayinthebackyard
19 Dec 2025
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i want to know (am i sure that i heard you right) by lohoron
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
17 Aug 2023
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Mac straightens out, shutting the half-open door. "What?" He whispers, quiet and subdued, like he must've misheard. After thirty-three years, he must've misheard a love confession.
"What?" Dennis goes with, playing it cool, playing it off, he didn't even say anything. Mac's a fucking idiot who heard what he wanted to hear. That's all. "You're not going?"
"Dennis," Mac says like a warning, eyebrows furrowed.
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21 Nov 2025
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If you need to be mean (be mean to me) by BleedingAlive
Fandoms: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
07 Jun 2023
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Dennis bends back, and Mac leans forward, prepared to chase him the way that gets them both keyed up.
And then, Dennis snubs the cigarette on Mac’s chest.
On the bare skin of Mac’s chest.
(Or, Mac spanks Dennis)
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Bookmarked by mayinthebackyard
15 Nov 2025