ohyayaseance replied to your photo “Idk why I can’t respond to this the normal way. You failed me, xkit. ...”
yes thissssss. Even when I like couples together, I don’t often actively ship anything. For me, every ship obsession I’ve ever had has been tied to an UST-y will they-won’t they coupling. If that’s not in place, it generally doesn’t tip into shipping for me. It’s so interesting how that works! Brains are weird.
SAME...but then also...if there’s TOO much of a will-they-won’t-they, I don’t care. Like if they’re trying too hard or it feels too manufactured. I mean, that’s why I keep falling for shit like SVU. It’s my own fault. (They teased that a lot though! They really did. They just never intended to do anything with it.)
I think my thing is...a lot of proximity, but no overt like, meet-cutes or any kind of self-conscious framing of it. Of course, Mulder and Scully started with the most self-consciously goofy meet-cute of all time, so, who knows.