It Made Me Think of Bamchel

Bamchel is love! Bamchel is life! The Bamchel brainrot is so real and omnipresent and crippling that you can sell me on just about anything by saying there is something Bamchel-ish in it. I never sleep when Bamchel; I am front and center like a good little devoted cultist.

Explain, please

Bam fallen back onto Rachel's lap on a white background. Silly edits have been made to the gif using Picmix to state that the two are in love.

Okay, so "Bamchel" is the ship I have plastered all over this site because it is the truest definition of an OTP I've ever experienced. Everything is Bamchel-coded to me. I can and will find something that reminds me of Bamchel in anything.

The ship is made up of Bam and Rachel from Tower of God, a webtoon with an anime adaptation. They are wonderfully toxic and freakish about each other. He'd be content to just live in a cave forever so long as she was there, but she's hellbent on becoming a special person, an important person, the star of her own story. It gets pretty fucky! A special shout out to when Bam attempted to pull a toxic ex-boyfriend routine on Rachel and physically force her to stay with him because he didn't give a shit about anything else.

I want them to be in love forever!! I want them to strangle each other!!

So, this is basically just a collection of various images or text posts or whatever that made me think of them and their terrible, horrible love. ❤️

A line of gold stars.

A gif of a gold star with an arrow pointing to the right. This page is a hot mess of me dumping various images or screencaps that I pointed at excitedly and proclaimed as Bamchel. The alt on each element will describe the source for it as best as possible (e.g. the author and text title if a quote from poetry, the user and site of origin if a cap of a Tumblr/Twitter/etc. post).

A Tumblr text post by user elainiisms reading: 'i want you carnally *shoves a knife into your abdomen'. A Tumblr text post by user charlemane reading: 'two characters who understand each other like no one else does and therefore hurt each other like no else can'. A Tumblr text post by user homosandhomies reading: 'you ever see a ship you love so much and saying 'i ship them' isn't enough. like no you don't understand they give me mental illness'. A Tumblr text post by user eleooooooo reading: 'midwife? I dare you to call her that again' A quote from 'White is for Witching' by Helen Oyeyemi reading: 'It seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?' A Tumblr text post by user catullan reading: 'i loooove toxic and codependent relationships in fiction. they are so narratively juicy. if they don't even warp and mangle each other to the point they create a single, fucked up entity then what's the point.' A Tumblr ask post. Anonymous asks: 'Is it bad that I kinda wanna hit my crush with a car and then nurse him back to health like a baby bird or it normal? :)' User ndiecity answers: 'yorue literaly insane'. A Tumblr text post. User tyaz says: 'What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion'. User alleycatboy replies: 'they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage'. A Tumblr text post by user manywinged reading: 'yes it's cool when unrequited love isn't treated as this huge tragedy and people can still be friends or accept it and move on but i do love the fucked up dynamic you get when someone is so utterly obsessed with someone else that they beg and plead with them just to be allowed to devote themselves to them like a dog even if they get nothing in return for it. when the love is completely one sided but it isn't any less intense for it.' A reply by the same user reads: 'just let me stay with you. let me sleep at the foot of your bed. i would kill for you. i would die for you. if you won't share a life with me, at least let me dedicate mine to you.' A red triangle flag with pink text on it reading: 'I think you are going to eat my heart out. I think I'm going to let you.' There is a pink heart at the bottom of the flag. A naked-looking person is bent over a rock formation. Text on it reads: ''i can fix him' girl you are WORSE than him'. A Tweet text by user aroceu reading: 'i don't need my ships to be 'unproblematic' i need my ships to be disastrously codependent and unfathomably horny'. A quote from 'I Knew I Loved You When You Showed Me Your Minecraft World' by Hera Lindsay Bird reading: 'You walked me around and I watched the back of your head / suddenly overcome by the feeling of knowing / I was beyond what could be recovered from'. A quote by Warsan Shire reading: 'When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly / completely, drowning in everything. Every / glance can be a conversation, eyes just / playing and saying what needs to be said. / Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I / want you. I want all of you.' A quote from 'This is How You Lose the Time War' by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone reading: 'I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me--I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.' A Tumblr ask post. Anonymous asks: 'i wanna cut you open and look at your organs'. User orpheuslament replies: 'take me to dinner first' A screenshot reading: 'Location: You're alone and the water is so cold.' A Tumblr text post by user grasslandbutch reading: ''i dont ship them theyre too toxic i just think their dynamic is interesting' i hope they kill each other mid-fuck'. A Tumblr text post by user foxtrotsicrra reading: 'not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing ( aggressively codependent yet emotionally unavailable )'. A Tumblr text post by user lunarlagomorph reading: 'Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Kills you. Resurrects you. Are we still friends.' A Tumblr text post by user priestfrommidnightmass reading: 'they hate me for my PSYCHOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP with my CANCELLED WIFE'. A Tumblr text post by user tunisian reading: 'yeah im good with what i have (about to explode with yearning)'. A Tumblr text post by user autismpowers reading: 'theres something so specifically wrong about you its alluring'. A Tumblr text post by user girlhorrror reading: 'sorry for thinking the idea of decomposing together is the most romantic thing on the planet i know rotting together is cliche now but it's for a reason'. Two images taken of a book by Marie-Helena Bertino. The first reads: 'What we love, we mention.' The second reads: 'Then I must love you because I mention you all the time.' A screencap of a text conversation. The first person says: 'Rip I was always into you'. The response reads: '? worst confession ever'. The first person then responds: 'You are not dead? I lied. You are nothing to me'. A Tumblr text post by user warnersibss reading: 'I think the best ship dynamic is two characters who are 5 times divorced minimum'. A Tumblr text post by user taxidermychrist reading: 'celebrate this valentines day the way god intended! cannibalize your lover!' A Tumblr text post by user aturnoftheearth reading: 'mutual pining IS the best trope. no they're not trying to move on, no they're not brave enough to risk it, no they're not trying to date other people, they don't know they can have it but it's okay if they can't (but they CAN)'. A Tumblr text post by user preyanimal reading: 'pussy from a girl who wants to stab me' A screencap reading: 'Soulmates as Horror'. A Tumblr text post by user i-know-how-my-story-ends reading: 'God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit' A Tumblr text post by user trees-waiting reading: 'when they say 'you're hot' but kafka said 'you're the knife I turn inside myself' like do better'. A Tumblr text post by user beatles-mpreg-yuriedition reading: 'i could be your yaoi girlfriend or yuri boyfriend. but it has to be weird.' A Tumblr text post by user hgsn reading: 'come get your man he's not doing anything wrong he just misses you'. A screencap reading: 'a dash of codependency for flavor'.