Aha! Interesting and very valid thing to ask! Thanks for your question!
I shall not answer straightforwardly!
Doodle (1) and rambles you didn't ask for below the cut. The answer is in the last paragraph.
Clown language.
I admit I personally prefer showing characters interact with each other and allowing their interaction to be interpreted as either romantic, platonic, or even nothing at all.
I think this approach makes relationships less framed by "signpost cues" of friendship/attraction/love (not that I do not enjoy seeing these either). I think it leaves more room for interesting human interactions, independent of what expectations the reader has for the two characters. Some people seem to search for actions like kissing, hugging, confessions, in order to confirm whether something was supposed to be romantic or not. But then, the absence of such cues make them arrive at conclusions that ignore other forms of relationship-building interactions all together :(
(Fig.1: The unparalleled amount of different flavours of intimate feelings that are evoked from "getting shot and dying on your shoulder" - disease)
So for me, it's Schroedinger's character relationships, with a generous amount of "the true value of this relationship is the collection of interactions we have made along the way" and it doesn't need a name. So with that out of the way:
I am not averted to the idea of Medic and Heavy finally getting their hot steamy Tf2 Sex Update thanks for readin-
lowkey trying to read x readers for certain batfam members is such an experience cause the ‘top’ side of the tag has the same 10 fics, but then the ‘latest’ side has random naked people, batmom/batsis reader, or like shared batfam reader and im just like 🤕.
Please i don’t wanna be his mamma or his sister or be with the whole fam bro, what is going on here.
remember that one episode of bbc merlin that had an alien in it and then it never comes up again and we never talked about at all. yea what was up with that
Biker!Simon who brings you to a cliffside view somewhere a little out of the way, the twinkling lights of the city below shining brightly.
Biker!Simon who's so thoughtful when he's riding, careful not to hammer down on the throttle too fast, or shift gears too roughly.
Biker!Simon, whose gloved hand in your own is still so, so warm.
Biker!Simon, who presses his helmet to yours where your lips might touch otherwise, hazel eyes gazing into yours with unfettered adoration. And you just knew he loved you more than anything.
annabeth is the type of gf who would just randomly compliment percy and say hes pretty or cute or smth just to see him flustered and also because girl is on a mission to make his self esteem better
We don't envision season 5 right when we talk because what is that actually gonna be like? This isn't a romcom. Mike finds out about the painting but Will is like throwing up blood and slugs in the corner.
edit: to clarify I wasn't saying "no time for romance" I was saying "it's horror show with raises stakes and angst. Mike will have to figure out how to bring up this truth bomb he discovered when more important things are clearly going on and there aren't the most conversational opportunities". I mean MORE juice, not less.