my friends have conceived of a narrative concept called "daddy and the boy", which is a duo of men in fiction: one older (a mentor role) and one younger (the student) that have some degree of sexual tension but aren't gay. So like Walter White and Jesse or the two leads from The Lighthouse
nish bae
hit me with your hyperspecific friend or family slang. when i was a kid my friend once ate too many sour patch kids and then had some ketchup on fries and it was painful because of how acid blasted his tongue was. he told this story a few times, so "a ketchup story" came to mean an oft-repeated tale