is this ship popular because it’s legitimately compelling or is it popular because it’s the easiest to decontextualize and write college roommate AUs about?
#i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again 🤷#i’m finally realizing that a big thing for me is what i suppose could be called high-context relationships#where character dynamics are VERY strongly shaped by canon circumstances and events#which AUs render completely incoherent or meaningless#vs. ships that aren’t as context-dependent and are thus friendlier to people looking to write AUs#or project their OCs onto the characters and their relationship#which isn’t like. Evil or anything#it just isn’t my cup of tea#like. obviously it’s compelling to those people in a very different way#but that’s different from it being compelling IN CANON#which is all i personally care about so 🤷🤷
