Partnership
Mar. 25th, 2017 02:49 amIt continues to puzzle me what fandoms latch onto about a character or pairing.
Or not puzzle, about the quality, just, why do they decide it's essence of those assholes?
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The distance between the partnership they could have and the one they have right now is where the angsty drama tension lives, because what they want is thirty years of watching each other's back, and what they've got is thirty years of watching their back around each other. And wishing.
That's where the story lives, where they keep choosing each other and hurting each other, try as they might. And where we can hope for them to do better.
But reading the happily ever after as a given is sweet too.
Or not puzzle, about the quality, just, why do they decide it's essence of those assholes?
( Read more... )
The distance between the partnership they could have and the one they have right now is where the angsty drama tension lives, because what they want is thirty years of watching each other's back, and what they've got is thirty years of watching their back around each other. And wishing.
That's where the story lives, where they keep choosing each other and hurting each other, try as they might. And where we can hope for them to do better.
But reading the happily ever after as a given is sweet too.