#so dream smp came in and i decided to do some quick research

[thesummerrtriangle]

op i wrote everything down in the tags. the thing is with big platonic relationships like this is that this is rpf. there is still this hesitation in writing shipping content, which is why according to the statistics i just searched up, dreamnotfound is the only romantic relationship tag in the top 5. and this is because the creators have explicitly stated that they are okay with it.

or perhaps we are all people with issues and who doesn't love found family? and i'm gonna be honest- 'passerine' is one of the rare fics that make me sob.

and yeah, it is kind of worth celebrating. because yeah, it is kind of a fandom in which you would find people celebrating platonic ships even more than romantic relationships.

(yeah i had a minor breakdown in the tags, sorry for that op, i'm literally so tired i need to got to bed)

Amy reason why you guys decided to include platonic ships? Even with the disclaimer i feel like it's a little confusing for the average tumblr user. Tbh the first few times i encountered one of those polls i voted the other ship out of reflex because my brain registered "THAT'S A 15 YEAR OLD AND A WHOLE ASS ADULT WTF" before it could look for context clues but I wonder if I'm alone in this.

The confusion's understandable but from our perspective it's a little bit like asking if there's a reason we decided to include femslash? Gen ships are on the chart, they're a type of relationship tag same as any other, so they're on the bracket, with a clarification in case someone is unfamiliar with / vs & notation. If a ship was on the chart in both platonic and romantic forms - which did happen - we only took the more popular version, but that's literally the only circumstance in which we decided not to include something.

Or, to take a different perspective: whatever you think of the DSMP fandom, they managed to get five different platonic relationship tags into the top 100, including one with four people. I have never seen a four-person platonic relationship tag be that popular before. I have never seen any four-person relationship tag be that popular before! Isn't that wild? Isn't that fascinating? Isn't that worth celebrating, in this celebration?