if nicola’s article taught us anything, it’s that both luke and nicola are real people with agency, boundaries, and eyes that see what you write about them. they’re not objects for you to project fantasies onto, and they’re not fictional characters you get to build headcanons around.
stop acting like shipping real people is harmless. stop acting like being deeply invested in a stranger’s private, personal life is harmless. it’s not. we don’t know them. we know they are both in relationships, and I’m happy they’re happy. but their relationship with each other? we know they’re really good friends because they told us so. that’s their agency. and the only information that matters is what they choose to share, consensually.
and for the love of god, STOP VICTIM-BLAMING.
“but they post about their private lives!!” yeah. because they’re adults who have the right to share whatever they’re comfortable sharing. if you don’t want to see it? unfollow.
“but they played into shipping for S3 PR!!” there is zero evidence of that. they said, multiple times, on the press tour that they were just friends. you’re blaming them for your own naivety and desperation to see something that was never there.
i’m so proud of nicola for speaking up about something that would emotionally wreck most of us, and devastated to see the toll s3 exposure has had on her. nicola and luke have been so generous to this fandom. they didn’t deserve any of this, and I truly wish both of them nothing but the best.
