In some pretty 🥺🥺🥺 or 😭😭😭 news depending on how you feel about actor Paul Mescal, new reports say he and singer Phoebe Bridgers are engaged!!! Rumors of the news began circulating once Paul’s profile with The Guardian went live on Sunday featuring a teeny-tiny excerpt buried in the fifth paragraph (!!) seemingly confirming the news.

phoebe bridgers and paul mescal at the 2022 met gala
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In the lead-up, Paul is musing about how he’s stepped away from social media as of late: “I just don’t think it’s particularly useful for people to see, like, literally you...I thought it’s either get off the bus now or stay on it, and I wanted to get off. In 10 years, I might rue the day I threw out my social media, but look, it just is what it is. (Mescal did, however, stay on long enough to exchange charged messages on Twitter and Instagram with the musician Phoebe Bridgers; the pair are now engaged.)” That said, soon after the internet (understandably) freaked out, the story was updated to say “are reported to be engaged.” In-ter-est-ing!

While this isn’t the first time the pair has been the subject of engagement rumors, Twitter still went ahead and spiraled:

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A refresher: Paul and Phoebe actually first met through social media in 2020 after Phoebe wrote a tweet confessing, “Finished Normal People and now I’m sad and horny.” (Paul played one of the show’s leads, Connell Waldron, alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones.) In response to the flirty message, Paul said, “I’m officially dead.” And that, my friends, is the most *chef’s kiss* example of a 21st century love intro I’ve ever seen.

Sadly, though the couple’s origin story is available all of for us to obsess over view on the internet, Phoebe and Paul have kept their real-life ’ship preeeeetty private since making it official. They’ve only attended a handful of red carpets together, including this year’s Met Gala, although Paul has appeared in Phoebe’s music video for her song “Savior Complex” and went on tour with her. In fact, he recently told Bustle this past September, “I really, really enjoy being around her and her band and her friends. It’s also great to get to see a country that I’m not familiar with.”

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Well, happy maybe-engagement, Phoebe and Paul!