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daniclaytcn · 2 years ago

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I agree with you on all those buddie moments. Especially eddie touching bucks shoulder in 5x01. Like... thats such a normal common platonic thing to do. If you're manouvreing around someone and getting up from a crouch in a tight spot of course youre gonna touch their shoulder. Sometimes the way people read certain buddie interactions im like... have your ever interacted with people in real life? Its just perfectly normal friendly interactions. I understand the instinct to look into every frame for a deeper meaning but sometimes people act like it couldn't possible be explained in a non-romantic way

Sorry rant over. Love buddie analysis generally but sometimes I'm like "come on guys"

yeah...i mean, to be fair, we all have a very specific type of blinders on when it comes to the ships we like and it's no use pretending otherwise, so we're all likely to have done this at some point, whether we realize it or not. and it IS fun to freak out and obsess over the little things! but it is a little weird when people start insisting that [insert very normal and platonic thing] is definitely romantic and can't be anything else. i mean, it all depends on the kind of boundaries each individual draws between romance and friendship—what might be romantic for some wouldn't be romantic for others. lol.

#that being said we can—and should—draw a line between instances that may not be necessarily romantic IRL but are absolutely romantic in the #context of the in-universe rules that have been established on the show #for example if the narrative only saves big moments of worry and anguish for the main couples #then fans would not be unreasonable for interpreting a scene where character A freaks out over character B as romantic #that isn't to say that friends aren't capable of having that kind of love for each other or anything dumb like that #bc how it works in the real world has no relevance due to how the narrative canonically chooses to prioritize certain types of love over #others #and i feel like ppl often willfully ignore this in favor of mocking certain non canon ships (cough queer ships cough)#but. uh. fans aren't 'dumb' or 'obsessed with romantic love' for picking up what the narrative is telling them #anyway #i have a lot of thoughts on this clearly #neethu answers #anon

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