#this tags got rambly ksoakaokaa

[lover-of-mine]

re: tommy and not being your 'type' it's so interesting to me because, like, i'm not really into men, but i'm still into plenty of m/m ships because i find their dynamic compelling in some way. so it's not even that for me - buck and eddie aren't my 'type' either, but i still love the ship.

it really DOES seem like the overwhelming majority of hardcore tommy/bucktommy stans are people who are very into the older man daddy dom thing generally or lfj specifically (or both). but like, if you don't him personally that attractive the whole appeal of the ship kind of collapses because there's nothing else THERE.

Yeah, like, I'm not gonna sit here and say I don't think Oliver and Ryan are crazy attractive because that would be a huge lie, but the ship has a lot to it, so it doesn't end up coming down to just enjoying watching them be on screen together. I also won't say I haven't enjoyed a couple that I wouldn't under different circumstances just because I find the characters attractive, so I can't judge anyone for enjoying them because of it, but if you remove that, the show isn't giving anything when it comes to them so it's kinda just extremely meh if you're not into it.