dont have much to add (edit: i lied) but this entire post is so objectively correct... seeing the alice wu interview killed me i think about that a normal and healthy amount. cries.
i feel like a really fun flavor of breakupshipping is like... idk have u watched hxh? im thinking killugon-adjacent sort of like being young and imprinting so deeply onto each other that you've become unhealthily codependent and cannot conceptualize yourself as a person without your 'other half'... 8jun is not exactly this but you could def tweak it to fit 8jun which is what makes them so divorceshippable to me
i think divorceshipping is really compelling to me not only bcs of the whole having to take time apart to grow independently thing but also bcs ive always been rlly interested by like... meeting someone u used to know again and having to reconcile their past self with their present self and accept that yes theyve changed but so have you and that doesnt mean you're not the same people anymore. and i guess i also like that it means breakups dont have to be final... it's not that u were bad for each other it's just that u weren't right for each other at this moment in time and things could be different later on. the whole right person wrong time thing always feels so sad to me so i like that theres a possibility for it to eventually become right person right time. like leaving that door open haha
also i love that u brought up the idea of friendship breakups bcs that shit HURTS... like sometimes romantic relationships just dont work out bcs of external circumstances but i feel like having an actual friendship 'break-up' where the relationship immediately severs hurts bcs someone has to do something wrong for it to happen and its like wow i fucked up enough to actively drive someone away from me... n i feel like romantic relationships can carry a lot of diff kinds of obligations but for friendships its jsut like. ur friends bcs u like each other. and then when u stop liking each other it hurts
ok ive rambled long enough LOL but very excellent post op always love reading ur thoughts <3
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i feel like a really fun flavor of breakupshipping is like... idk have u watched hxh? im thinking killugon-adjacent sort of like being young and imprinting so deeply onto each other that you've become unhealthily codependent and cannot conceptualize yourself as a person without your 'other half'... 8jun is not exactly this but you could def tweak it to fit 8jun which is what makes them so divorceshippable to me
i think divorceshipping is really compelling to me not only bcs of the whole having to take time apart to grow independently thing but also bcs ive always been rlly interested by like... meeting someone u used to know again and having to reconcile their past self with their present self and accept that yes theyve changed but so have you and that doesnt mean you're not the same people anymore. and i guess i also like that it means breakups dont have to be final... it's not that u were bad for each other it's just that u weren't right for each other at this moment in time and things could be different later on. the whole right person wrong time thing always feels so sad to me so i like that theres a possibility for it to eventually become right person right time. like leaving that door open haha
also i love that u brought up the idea of friendship breakups bcs that shit HURTS... like sometimes romantic relationships just dont work out bcs of external circumstances but i feel like having an actual friendship 'break-up' where the relationship immediately severs hurts bcs someone has to do something wrong for it to happen and its like wow i fucked up enough to actively drive someone away from me... n i feel like romantic relationships can carry a lot of diff kinds of obligations but for friendships its jsut like. ur friends bcs u like each other. and then when u stop liking each other it hurts
ok ive rambled long enough LOL but very excellent post op always love reading ur thoughts <3