[ SECRET POST #2872 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2872 ⌋

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Comments

[ninety6tears]

I almost have this weird "It's so wonderfully unpredictable that the man and woman are just friends that I ship it so hard" mentality that doesn't really make sense. Maybe because so many romance relationships are badly developed by comparison to the friendships, at least in a lot of fandoms.

[sabotabby]

Maybe because so many romance relationships are badly developed by comparison to the friendships, at least in a lot of fandoms.

I think you've hit the nail on the head, actually. The vast majority of things that I ship are long-established friendships, which tend to be same-sex in most media. (Whereas het ships are, "pretty people meet cute, instant chemistry," and I find this less interesting, especially since the woman is usually underdeveloped as a character.) A long-term male/female friendship will likely hit exactly the same buttons for me. Of the ones listed here, I only know Dax/Sisko (which isn't really het as such) but it's a really interesting ship to me because they're both well-developed characters, they have a history that's hinted about but largely unexplored in canon, and they have shared interests beyond being good-looking.

[diet_poison]

For me one reason I have a tendency to do that (not always, but often) is because I think the best romances begin as friendships. So if they have a lot of chemistry, I like the idea of it transitioning from the one to the other, with trust already established.