I'm gonna be honest I think I'd be disappointed if buddie actually becomes cannon
romantic relationships are literally everywhere
anywhere you go you're being force fed amatonormativity and that the only form of "love" or bond that matters is romance and that the person you choose to be your partner in life and to make a family with has to be a romantic one
and that the most important relationship that you have should be the romantic one
proving the amatonormativity wrong
they're raising a son together they're partners they trust each other they love each other their bond is stronger than with anyone else they're best friends they act like a married couple
they date other people but that never takes time away from each other or sacrifices what they've already built together
they don't need to be romantically or sexually attracted to each other or he in that type of relationship to have those things
and yeah we can all tell the intention is to make it as queer as possible for the bait if it all, but what's become of it in the process of the baiting is so special to me
like that type of relationship representation is so hard to find anywhere let alone a mainstream popular tv show and its so important
because you don't need romance or sex to have a partnership with someone, you don't need those to raise a kid, you don't need those to have a deep meaningful bond.
if those are things that you want in life you can have them with or without sex or romance
(you also just don't need to have any of those things in your life if you don't want it but I digress)
it's like Athena and Michael's relationship (when he was still in the show rip), they're not married anymore they're not in a romantic or sexual relationship but the care and support and love is still there and yeah their relationship changed a lot but they didn't lose the important parts
there's just so many different types of relationships and so many different ways to care and support people that goes beyond just "friends" or "romantic/sexual partner" and I'm clutching non romantic buddie in my representation starved claws until the day my long dead body decomposes