#Another trope I don't like is when characters try to sneakily have sex or make out in the same room as their platonic friend....

[lipglossboy]

yeah this sort of thing bothers me a lot particularly irl. Sometimes it's okay in fic like I can pretty comfortably separate certain things from my real life values especially bc I like when people are intentionally written to be toxic in fics. Like lil jealousy here and there (in some ways). But when the romance rules in a fic remind me too much of IRL constructs that my friends assume one needs to subscribe to, it does bother me.

Idk if this is part of that umbrella, but the assumption that a romantic partner should be more important than a platonic best friend irks me.

*edit: okay wait I'm maybe embarrassed. Is amatanormativity literally what I'm talking about? I thought it was mainly about monogamy.

The problem with amatanormativity is that even though it's RAMPANT in Fandom spaces, none of you know enough to even be able to recognize it, much less address it at all.