#sk shippers mostly like the ship because k is so devoted to s and they perceive that s is k's everything and call it romantic

[burr-ell]

hot take: portraying one person being Your Everything as a romantic ideal isn’t any more healthy and mature than thinking ‘he’s mean to you because he likes you’ is Love™ at its finest and people are allowed to like one or both of those tropes regardless

#every time you say 'kl is the dumb relationship you have as a teenager uwu sk is the Mature™ one you have as an Adult' #another animator headdesks so hard they break their cintiq in half #sk shippers mostly like the ship because k is so devoted to s and they perceive that s is k's everything and call it romantic #that's...really...not romantic #having one human being be your everything is incredibly unhealthy #making one person the center of your universe and the source of your happiness without whom you're a shell of yourself #yikes #that puts way too much on both your mental health and the shoulders of a flawed human being who will inevitably fail you #because that's what people are like #and i'm not even convinced that's the dynamic in the show #i also don't see where s is uniquely attached to k beyond 'i'm so proud of the person you grew into that i always knew you could be' #so to me that devotion comes off as one-sided #which is great for the mentor-protégé relationship #for a romance ? not so much my good dudes #'if one of them was a girl everyone would ship it!' no...no they wouldn't. #y'know why? #because twilight exists #even without edward being edward people called out how bella turning into a vegetable when he left shows way too much investment in him #look saying 'ship what you want' probably sounds like a backhanded platitude after a rant like this but i really do mean that #everyone has different preferences and ways of looking at things #but if i already didn't care for something #then getting on your high horse about how Your Thing Is The Paragon Of Maturity And Goodness #isn't going to change my mind #and it's just going to make what i didn't care for about Your Thing more pronounced #anyway. most sk shippers don't do this and just want to ship their thing and be left alone and they are Valid #but this is an undercurrent on many sides and it's really annoying and sanctimonious #sheith critical #voltron discourse #crit tag