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h-i-raeth · 2 years ago

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Time And Hearts Will Wear Us Thin (hanahaki deconstrucion fic) for wip wednesday? i love hanahaki deconstruction

WIP Wednesday Ch 1-3 on AO3 here

“And it didn’t get worse after I told you that you had to be out of your mind to make a move on me,” Robin continues, offering her hand to him palm side up. “Because I didn’t withdraw the affection I do have for you by rejecting you. Even though you didn’t land a single date with anyone else despite quite literally throwing yourself at a wide variety of eligible young women.”

Steve takes the offer, and Robin starts rubbing circles into the hand he places in hers with her thumb. “That would seem to be the case.”

“So. Maybe the answer isn’t to go throwing yourself into a rebound relationship."

#wip wednesday #(it's still wednesday somewhere)#time and hearts will wear us thin #my main issue with hanahaki is that not a lot of people strike the balance between Romance Isn't Actually The End All Be All Of Everything #& Nevertheless Loneliness (& very specifically the desire for the intimacy and commitment associated with a romantic partner) Fucking Sucks #and also like the vast majority of hanahaki is 'it was requited after all' which I Do get right like mutual pining is a whole thing that's #a very reassuring fantasy to entertain #and it can potentially allow you to sidestep that messy question of like. putting the responsibility over a person's life into the hands #of another person's feelings (something they cannot Really control.)#like obviously love Can be a choice and affection can arise out of mutual commitment but that's not a guarantee #and it's a messy as fuck line to walk with magical flower lungs disease #because it's explicitly about feelings and not like. marrying someone for political reasons to protect them from an external threat #or whatever and having feelings develop as a result of proximity #anyway this conversation is only half the equation. is the point

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