#are they just snowcloning without noticing that you still have to assign semantic meaning to the words in the snowclone? in a way

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making no comments on the nature of the relationships of whichever pairs of fictional men have been attached to this post: how on earth is that not platonic. what could "platonic" possibly be a useful word for if not to describe this exact situation. like i guess if you want for this precise setup you could introduce "familial" but in that case, like, we very much know about "found family". it is NOT secret. absolutely known fourth thing