[ SECRET POST #3045 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3045 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/nnzhCow.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Well, this is super-overdone in fictional romances, so maybe that's why? Or because in romances, the fight usually more about "omg no they're gonna break up!! :(" whereas with friends the fight is usually more about...you know, the actually subject of the fight.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

Thirded. And it can be so contrived, too.

[fingalsanteater]

I like when friends fight but then come back together as friends again and become a couple (as long as the fight wasn't about dating).

[(Anonymous)]

Oh ew I hate that so much. It's like, the entire fight just existed as a means to an end to get the characters together.

[fingalsanteater]

Eeeh, well. I like the enemies to friends to lovers trope, so if it goes friends to enemies to friends to lovers, I like it. But, like I said, only if the enemy portion was facilitated by something not related to dating. Say one friend betrayed their other friend as a means to an end. Or, one friend was brainwashed (Stucky, for example).

[intrigueing]

What bugs me most is when fanfics "reinterpret" a fight or split-up that was canonically over a non-dating conflict as "actually, it was all just about their unresolved romantic feelings all along! That important issue that caused their fight actually didn't matter at all!" It's such a lazy way to render a canonical fight moot so the characters don't have to work through their issues, and makes the characters look like their lives and decisions revolve entirely around their romantic relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

same

[ketita]

(as long as the fight wasn't about dating)

ughhhhhhhhh this. 99% of relationship drama in fanfiction is about the relationship itself, or one of the characters suddenly thinking about how maybe the other doesn't actually want them, or one of the characters nearly cheating or whatever and I hate it. There are so many conflicts that can put strain on a relationship! And then you want to see them overcome it together! but nooo

[forgottenjester]

Whatever floats your boat, OP. I can see why this could be. In romance this could fall into more cliché territory I suppose.

I think I see them pretty equally but I think that's only because of my vehement hatred for the same thing but for stupid reasons or easily avoided miscommunication.

[nightscale]

I don't mind it with friends or romantic couples but I do get tired of that trope if it happens too much with the same pair because then I find it repetitive and boring.

Though if the break-up is caused because of miscommunication that will drive me up the wall.

[intrigueing]

I think that fights between friends tend to put more emphasis on the reason the characters are fighting and their personality/worldview/job responsibility differences, and less on "token fight therefore draaaaammaaaaa!!! Will they break up/realize their ~twoo feewings~??" But that depends on the show/movie/book. Have you ever seen the inane crap in the frirndships on ER? Serious junior high school shit there.

[(Anonymous)]

They make me cry, because I never reconciled with my best friend

[intrigueing]

:( *hugs* I am so sorry to hear that, OP. I hope things work out better for you in the future.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, anon. I'm so sorry you went through it, though.

[ibbity]

I'm not that big a fan of this trope, but Ia that it is a million times worse when it is a couple because the fights between couples are almost always written as something very stupid and/or related to jealousy, which I loathe

[(Anonymous)]

Or you could have them kill each other while reality burns.

Sorry, I just came from scans_daily. Marvel's got me pissed off.

[intrigueing]

Oooh! Oooh! Deets? (Do I have the right icon?)

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's boring and annoying whether it involves friends or couples. Meh.

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to my obession with Clexa. Clearly romantic intrest exsisting between the parties doesn't make a difference to me.

[(Anonymous)]

What's Clexa?

[fingalsanteater]

Clarke/Alexa from the show The 100.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: a broken "Best Friends" pendant

Text: Two friends having a huge fight or falling-out over something important (a betrayal, a moral conflict, a controversial action), and later making up is probably my favorite type of story.

b!s: I find this topic boring an annoying when it involves a couple instead.