#i think there are friendships that barely got squat but sancedes isn't one of them

[tuiyla]

This is gonna be controversial but I think the fandom puts even more into Sancedes than it does into Kurtana.

I love those girls and I fully believe in their friendship, but in canon, they didn't get a lot of moments onscreen outside of 5x18. Most of their scenes were either background moments or them performing together. Or they were implied, like the Troubletones tour. They deserved more, but Glee didn't really give it to us.

I'm seriously not trying to compare the two and I think both of them were valuable to Santana in different ways but I do think that we got more solid Kurtana friendship onscreen.

I actually did ponder about Sancedes after last night's ask but I concluded, just for me personally, that I'm merely running with what we're already given. Sancedes didn't have much screentime but what they did have I'd consider quality, particularly in the context of how Glee overall is, well to put it diplomatically Not Great at maintaining friendships.

I love 5x18, I go on about it all the time, but it's just not true it's their only substantial episode. Their friendship begins in 2x04 and continues throughout small moments in season 2. Season 3a has snarky comments from both to each other because season 3a sucks so bad oh my god I hate that they did Sancedes dirty like that. But that's just a few moments in the first three episodes, and come episode 4, Santana is the very first person Mercedes thinks of for the Troubletones. Once they're Troubletones homegirls there's really no going back on the undisputed top bitches train. And episodes like Goodbye reinforce their mutual respect and love and even Santana admits that she's happier for Mercedes's success than she'd be for most's. And this is all just high school stuff.

Also just to note, the Troubletones tour wasn't implied, it was an explicitly stated thing that happened to go down off-screen. There is a difference between these terms so to clarify. Implied is them being tight in season 3 following the formation of TT; the tour fully did happen between seasons 5 and 6. And I get it. We needed more. We deserved more. But they absolutely do have a friendship outside of 5x18, too. That episode is just the cherry on top, because Glee's writing sucks and they have - if we're lucky - single episodes focusing on friendships that are then discarded almost entirely. But Sancedes is one of Santana's most stable relationships, and yes, they didn't get much screentime but that doesn't take away from the fact. They got more than a lot of others but they still deserved so much more.

I mean, look, at the end of the day Glee gave us crumbs compared to what the overall family dynamic could have been. Like I said with Kurtana, because there's already a story there I see no reason why the fandom shouldn't put more into Sancedes than we actually got, which for emphasis was something already. The screentime they did have showed them becoming good friends who respected each other so much. I don't think there's a need to compare that with Kurtana at all, no but about it tbh. Apart from, like, Hummelberry and Blam, the fandom puts more into every friendship than the writers ever did. And I consider myself the no. 1 champion of that, please keep doing that everyone.