[ SECRET POST #2567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2567 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Tumblr and/or social justice in and of themselves aren't fandoms, unfortunately.

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Comments

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[(Anonymous)]

When "that moment" when a character realizes their friend is romantically in love with them, rather than just having a deep platonic friendship with them, comes because someone who was "just a friend" wouldn't care about them so much/treat them so well. Not because they realize their friend's behavior towards them shows distinctly romantic feelings, oh no. No, it's just because the only reason to care about another person is being romantically in love with them (or more accurately, as the depictions of "love" in most of these fics seem to imply, wanting to get in their pants).

I always assume that any writer who writes a story espousing this view most likely a) has never had a long-lasting friendship and/or b) has never been in a serious romantic relationship.

(This happens just as often in het as in slash, btw, and it's just as irritating, particularly when the guy is doing the worrying.)

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[dreemyweird]

YES THANK YOU

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[blunderbuss]

THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE.

My BFF is a dude and it's driving me NUTS that everyone assumes that we want to bone because it's impossible to care about someone without wanting their dick. I am very guilty of shipping best friends together but I can goddamn realise that they can be JUST FRIENDS too.

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[truxillogical]

Oh man, I want to give you a fistbump of "I know that feel." My best friend is also a guy. Who's also my housemate. Who's recently single. And I HATE the knowing looks people give me. "No, dudes, we know all sorts of stupid things about each other because we've been friends for half our lives and lived together for over four years. If I wanted to get on that at all, I would've done it years ago, plzkthx."

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[(Anonymous)]

I think what they're getting at is the implication that after a certain quantity of caring about a person, their friend's feelings must necessarily tick over into romance, because being in romantic love with a person means you care about them quantifiably more than you would if you were friends with them.

Re: Small things in fic that drive you insane

[intrigueing]

YES. I ship a lot of best friends together, but the romantic-ness vs platonic-ness of a close relationship has to do with the nature of their love, not the quantity.