@seurasoninyang yes...! theres something i really like about the expectation of how a family should be and all the different ways that can manifest or be subverted, or how even genuine love and protectiveness for family can go too far and become controlling and toxic... many ways it could go
@seurasoninyang relationships between actual family can be interesting too, my reasoning with those though is just different and probably even more complicated LOL
@seurasoninyang that makes sense...! I always find pairs that are "like family" more interesting than romantic ones or even actual blood family, but my reasoning is too complicated to fit in a tweet, something about companionship thats closer than friendship but less conditional than romance 🤔
@seurasoninyang *for years
got lost in my own words a little oops, but yeah it always bugged me how a lot of people aren't willing to understand the cultural context behind things like people calling friends or partners "sister", they'd rather just use it to push xenophobia :(
@seurasoninyang yeah! i'm not even asian, but for a years my family lived in hawaii where theres similar culture around familial titles and community as a family, so it just kind of rubbed off on my family as well, i still call all my mom's friends auntie and uncle since thats how i was raised
@seurasoninyang HEHE YES 💜 i can also relate to being alloaro and how it's kind of difficult since it feels like people tend to overlook that possibility entirely
@seurasoninyang i say this because some things i draw on my main account are often really well recieved by people who would hate it if i called it a "ship" even if they see the relationship the exact same way as me, so i always wonder if what makes something acceptable is just semantics for them
@seurasoninyang i kind of wonder if part of why the EN side takes so much issue with abusive pairings is there's not as much distinction drawn, and that there's an assumption a ship is always something mutual and romantic, and not just an interesting relationship...