Platonic Relationship Rock!!

Remember that even if we post a popular ship here, if it's not canon, people are allowed to see it as friendship.

[nazumichi]

i love it when characters are package deals, i love duos i love trios i love quartets, i love groups and squads, i love it when you can’t find one without the other(s), i love it when they’re glued at the hip, i love it no matter the context of these dynamics, i lov

[dulciecollins]

[brotpoftheday]

When you purposely avoid pairing who have a lot of shippers who take their interpretation as canon because if they see someone daring to interpret the dynamic as platonic they're going to harass you

And I am really not in the mood for that

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite platonic ship, what their dynamic is like, and why it works as platonic.

[brotpoftheday]

The Platonic Relationship of Today is :

Tohru Honda and Yuki Sohma as MOMTP- I mean family- I mean... as friend. As important friends.

[brotpoftheday]

The Platonic Relationship of today is : Itadori Yuuji, Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara as a chaotic trio

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite platonic ship, what their dynamic is like, and why it works as platonic.

[averinna]

I waited so long for this

[brotpoftheday]

Anyways it's a thing on AO3 to have a tag for platonic ship so why is it not more widespread to call platonic ship character A& character B everywhere else

[qprbros]

How to convey to the normies that yes this is platonic but no I’m not gonna shy away from any subtext these bitches are life partners

[qprbros]

ppl who are like “yes they’re close but they’re SIBLINGS don’t make this shippy” like yes?? i would like them to be close and platonic AND each other’s most important person.

[qprbros]

“they’re just friends” and “they’re just siblings” always gets thrown around to debunk a romantic/sexual relationship (the former usually if the relationship is queer and the latter because. well incest) but like okay??

where’s my fucking friendship fic then, huh? where’s my totally platonic but genuine and deep appreciation for each other?? do you actually want them to be platonic or do you just want to supersede their dynamic with some other romantic ship??? do you actually support platonic love or are you just amatonormative like Oh No They Can’t Love Each Other TOO Much Or They’re Obviously Fucking

when i say “this but gen” i MEAN this but gen. all the acts of love, all the prioritisation, all the stuff that normally gets seen as romantic/sexual but isn’t because they don’t feel that way but they still truly LOVE each other. i want them to be life partners, i want them to care most about each other, i want them to be each other’s most important person. i want all of that without relying on romantic or sexual attraction.

“hurr durr platonic love is important too” do you really think that or are you just bitter it sinks your preferred ship

[trans-axian-archive]

not to sound like a homophobic straight dude but I think yall should just let some characters be Friends not everything has to be about romance

[trans-axian-archive]

not only is it just like... boring to make every single close relationship romantic it's also just sort of. weird and almost Sad that every act of affection has to have some romantic or sexual alterior motive? like yall don't hug your friends? don't tell them you love them? don't stick your feet in their lap when you sit on a couch together or rest your head on their shoulder or put your arm around their neck while you walk next to each other? you don't do random acts of kindness for them because you care about them? you don't hold their hand? don't say good night or good morning or text me when you get home safe?

I'm so tired of every single act of love and affection and care between two characters being taken as romantic like please I am Begging you let friends exist. this mindset seeps into the real actual world n has a negative affect in the real actual world n has yall shipping real life people because you don't understand how friends work and think that two people liking each other and having fun together must mean they're In Love

n I've talked about this before but romanticizing and sexualizing all expressions of love and affection also results in fictional sibling relationships being stripped of their intimacy. no one can portray siblings cuddling or kissing each other on the cheek or sleeping in the same bed because it will Automatically be perceived as romantic or sexual. this also has a negative affect on the real actual world, as proven by the dozens and dozens of people on my last post about this saying that seeing this being done to fictional siblings made them uncomfortable expressing affection and sharing intamacy w their siblings in Real Life which is honestly one of the most heart breaking things I've ever heard

this isn't about me not liking a certain ship or not seeing the chemistry between two characters its about how its Genuinely concerning that yall cannot view affection and love and care and devotion in any way besides romantic or sexual. I could go on and on and on about how its narratively boring or ineffective or annoying in a purely technical and analytical sense from a writing point of view, but mostly I just want yall to know that its weird and unhealthy to think this way and that fanbases at large having the inability to interpret any show of connection and care between two characters as anything but romantic/sexual is legitimately concerning and harmful

[damnfandomproblems]

When you really enjoy the relationship between two characters but nearly all the content for them is romantic and while you love them as a BROTP when it comes to romantic pairings they’re your NOTP

[brotpoftheday]

The platonic relationship of today is :

IDOLISH7 as a squad

[brotpoftheday]

The platonic relationship of the day is :

DiverDiva from Love Live

[damnfandomproblems]

Someone shipping two characters platonically does NOT prevent you from shipping them romantically, stop acting like a fictional character’s love life is more important than human decency. They are fictional and people can give them any relationship they want, what you assume their “ reasoning ” is shouldn’t matter because they aren’t trying to police what you ship, it’s not that deep.

[brotpoftheday]

The platonic relationship of today is :

Bibi from Love Live School Idol Project as a squad

[brotpoftheday]

The platonic relationship of today is :

Karamatsu and Choromatsu Matsuno from Osomatsu San as family

[brotpoftheday]

hey op you accidentally put akigumi on the natsugumi post

Oof