[ SECRET POST #2841 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2841 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The best romances are ALSO friendships. You can have both.

[kallanda_lee]

You can - it's a different dynamic, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but I don't think it'd actually change the dynamic much on the show. They'd have their friendship but they'd just include some hand-holding and a kiss if we're lucky. So at most what would change is some of the "looks" (which some would argue happen already) and maybe a discussion or two on their relationship. Otherwise I could easily see the writers managing to make the relationship romantic while maintaining their growing friendship at the same time.

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly, I'm not sure - but that's mostly because I rather disliked how they wrote relationships in the first season. And come to think of it, even in ATLA I preferred the non-romantic dynamics to the romantic ones. I'm sort of glad Aang and Katara didn't hook up until the very end.

It's not like I'd be upset if they went there, but I'm sort of enjoying what they're doing now.

[(Anonymous)]

I disliked how they managed romance before too, but I honestly think the forced subtlety of homosexuality would probably help them in this case. I think the Avatar writers would actually be able to handle showing a good romance if they were forced to show the friendship part of it far more. Korra and Mako were shoved-in-the-face constant-drama omg-passion teenage ridiculousness. Korra and Asami wouldn't be shown like that because parents would freak out over the evil gayness or something. But if they could show SOME of it, it would mean they HAVE to show mostly their good relationship as-is with some subtle changes only. I think it's stupid that they'd HAVE to do that, but the silver lining here would be that them becoming romantic partners and not only friends wouldn't ruin what they have now.

[kallanda_lee]

Well, I guess we'll never know unless they actually do it? I feel the show has matured a LOT since the beginning and it hardly feels like a children's show to me anymore, in lot of ways.

[cloud_riven]

>best
subjective. Friendship and romance? Ick. I'll pass.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah how dare two people in love also get along in other ways that aren't 100% sex and romance o_O

[cloud_riven]

Ikr? They have to put 100% of their feelings into only one of the categories of pair-offs (platonic, romantic, catatonic, frenemetic, pathetic, etc.), or my ability to be entertained falls flatt >:U

[(Anonymous)]

sooooo people in relationships are having sex/making out 100% of the time and otherwise don't interact or get along with each other? i never knew that. wow.

[(Anonymous)]

why are you guys so insistent that there's something wrong with someone wanting a pair to just be friends?

[(Anonymous)]

There isn't. But as a queer person it DOES get frustrating to see chemistry between same-sex characters and without fail some one ALWAYS says "UGH WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST BE FRIENDS FOR ONCE" - for once? They are ALWAYS JUST FRIENDS. Queerbaiting and subtext and all that crap doesn't count. Of all the myriad of same-sex friendships* available in every media form, would it seriously be SO AWFUL if one developed into something romantic? Just because a lot of fans see queer romance in everything doesn't mean it actually happens. If you want to see just friends, watch/read/etc ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE.

(*Though I do agree better female friendships are needed in general)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. That whole "I'm glad they're showing they can be loving friends without it having to be romantic!" thing is kind of a annoying thing to say, because there's tons and tons of great same sex friendships in media, while there are almost no same sex relationships. But the way people say it you'd think it was the other way around. Is it so bad for us queer people to hope to see a romantic relationship once in a while? :(

[(Anonymous)]

In fact, you usually do. As if a relationship that stops at close friendship is somehow inferior and everyone who REALLY cares for someone must be romantically entangled in some way.

I may be a *little* tired of close friendships always having to turn into romantic attraction in media. Just a little.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, all those gay couples out there. Us gay people should just get over it , because we have way more than enough representation, and keep ruining the chance for canon same sex friendships. /sarcasm