[ SECRET POST #4701 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4701 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You honestly sound really young. Most people do not go through their whole lives with their "family" of best friends-- people change, people drift, people fall away, and there is nothing wrong with that. It's just how life is. It has nothing to do with SOs or people being "disposable" or anything along those lines-- it's simply that most people will never stay so static that they have enough in common with the people they knew years and years past to remain as close as they once were.

[(Anonymous)]

Most people do not go through their whole lives with their "family" of best friends-- people change, people drift, people fall away,

You mean like... Real families??? Oh gasp no, say it isn't so! Real Family is just Super Duper Close Always!!!

Also considering most canons aren't fluffy happy fun times, I'd think a big shared adventure would keep a lot of people close for a long time just because they're people you went through it all with.

[(Anonymous)]

Real Family is just Super Duper Close Always!!!

I literally... said... the opposite? In fact I'd venture that most families aren't in fact Super Duper Close Always, or even terribly "close," and I say that as someone that is fairly close with her family. We adore each other, but we'd all kill one another if we had to live together again. That's normal.

I'd think a big shared adventure would keep a lot of people close for a long time

Untrue, actually! I'll have to go on a quick look for them, but there's studies showing that people that form attachments through intense experiences end up having a brief period of getting extreme "highs" from the relationship, before the glue of said experience (now past) wilts away and leaves massive, uncrossable gaps between them where common interests and such would normally fill in. They're relationships of convenience and comfort that only last as long as the experience itself does, in other words.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yep, especially to your second point! And fandom seems aware of and more than happy to accept this when it's about romance: "Oh all that she silly YAs where the main boy and girl end up together just because they think saving the world together out of necessity makes them soulmates lol they're not gonna last a year" - but when it's wholesome platonic non icky het hormones "found family", saving the world together is a lifelong commitment.

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[(Anonymous)]

But it's fiction. It's a fantasy either way.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you're from a gr8 family, but found family is all some of us have, so yeah, we're a lot more invested in that than romance. It's not about ~teh icky hets~ (the only people I see bitching about this are heterosexuals who tend to be upset that people aren't swallowing every shallow as fuck het ship ever), so much as being tired of romance being crammed down our throats and treated as so much better/more important than familial or even friendly bonds. See: every story ever where two people are pretty much raised together, but because he's a boy and she's a girl, they just HAAAAAAVE to get together!!1!!1!1!1!!!111!1!

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[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was thinking this myself.