I don’t know how to explain to some discourse damaged people on the unholy trinity of social-media-websites-whose-names-start-with-a-T that romantic subplots in non romance media are not put there with the sole purpose of giving the audience the warm fuzzies; that, like any other element in a story, a romantic subplot should serve the themes and central thesis statement of its larger narrative; and that sometimes the most adequate choice of a pairing or approach to romance for a given story is not necessarily the one you personally think would be the cutest / healthiest / most progressive
“this is not a healthy relationship!” okay, but is this detrimental to the type of story being told somehow? is it part of the point? is it well written and complex? does it complement the tone and ideas of the narrative? are you aware that romance in fiction exists to tell good stories and not being a life manual? that sometimes a dysfunctional love story can still be good as a story?
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