Well to respond to a mutual’s “why is the ‘friends to lovers’ trope so big, isn’t that how everyone meets these days?”

the accident is important, “only one bed” or wevs, because then neither of them has to fully exercise agency to make it happen

wasn’t there a post going around this morning, like “tumblr be like [mumble, mumble] but that’s just cause 90% of you have too much anxiety to make a move on someone?”

I mean isn’t that whatever Zoe Quinn and the gamedev dyehairs are off about this week, stories all “well I had no goddamn idea how to relate with people intimately, and he clearly had no goddamn idea, so there was this this dynamic pasted together from half-remembered narratives and actual human need and economic power dynamics and it satisfied no one”