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Something I’ve come across often in reading fanfiction is this… pervasive idea that people cannot love wholly twice, and that if they’ve chosen one person, it’s because that love is greater than the other.

It’s not expressly said that way. It’s couched in gentler, loving phrases like “he’s never felt this way before” and “it wasn’t like this with anyone else.” It’s especially prevalent when there is a canon love interest to be denied, or a mutually exclusive ship to push back against, and it feels like trying to quietly dismiss a contrived love triangle instead of recognizing that different loves can share intensity and one might still not work out.

And I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m not saying it’s problematic or amoral or something that needs to stop, that people shouldn’t be doing this. I’m not saying that one true love is a bad trope. I guess I’m just asking, what are we afraid of?

Why can’t the character have felt that way before? Why can’t they have loved someone with their whole heart before? It’s the tragedy of love isn’t it- that sometimes it doesn’t work. Not that the love was missing or less, but that it was there, that it was whole and full and real, that it mattered… but that it didn’t change anything, couldn’t work out. The circumstances were wrong, the people were wrong despite their love, it was everything and that wasn’t enough. Love doesn’t have to be less or gone to recognize that maintaining a relationship for it is unsustainable. A character can leave behind a great love and find a new great love, and while love is never quite The Same between people, it can be As Much.

And I guess I’m wondering, you know, how it is better, to love wholly only once? “It was never like this with the other person” is surely meant to be a soft sentiment declaring how much greater this love is, but, all it does is make me wonder what is so weak about it that if there was an equal love, this love wouldn’t survive it, wouldn’t be chosen.

“I have loved like this before, and I’m choosing to fight for it this time” is surely not a lost cause to explore.

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made myself sad thinking about how skamnl would have made fantastic (and probably the best) seasons 3 and 4 because the cast was so inclusive, storylines were relevant, and they had 3 women leading the production and writing.

wtfock can’t relate.

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The authors notes in fanfiction read like the story section of recipe blogs

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STEP SIBLINGS, ADOPTED SIBLINGS, AND FOSTER SIBLINGS ARE REAL SIBLINGS AND IM SO SICK OF PEOPLE SAYING THEY ARENT "TECHNICALLY" REAL SIBLINGS. YOU ARE DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTING TO THE ISSUES STEP/ADOPTED/FOSTER KIDS HAVE WITH FEELING LIKE THEYRE REALLY A PART OF THE FAMILY. ESPECIALLY IF YOURE SAYING THIS JUST TO DEFEND A SHIP. YOU DISGUST ME.

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#i love one (1) reading man

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there’s two types of people

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Arthur just cheated on and outed his girlfriend to his family without her permission and all you people are talking abt is two guys hugging... I mean the skam fandom couldn’t care less about women and their wellbeing so at least it’s on brand lmao

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being gay is just like. damn it tattoos are expensive. damn it piercings are expensive. damn it getting your hair dyed professionally is expensive. damn it combat boots are expensive. damn it therapy is

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its not that americans can’t read subtitles and watch international films but the propagandist arm of the us empire doesn’t want its citizens to see films from other regions, particularly their adversary nations, because they know that cinema could humanize the very same people and culture they try really hard to vilify. its better to exaggerate the inaccessibility of subtitles and limit distribution of foreign films so people are forced to be pacified by english blockbusters. 

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why would you want alexia and arthur to break up when they're one of the few couples beside evaks who seem to have a healthy relationship? .......i know some of you want bi!arthur to rise but he can still be canon bi and date a woman... that's how bisexuality works......

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hufflepuff more like hufflePREP amirite

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Those tags speak some major truth

Matteo and David: [literally have sex, post thirsty captions and close ups of each other’s butts, randomly make out in abandoned buildings around Germany, are always all over each other]

Skam fandom: They seem like really good friends!

A straight white male character and a gay character from the same remake or a different one: [exist]

Skam fandom: OTP! They’re made for each other! I hope the gay character breaks up with their current bf and dates the straight character! I will campaign on all social media platforms for this to happen! I already created so much fan content for them!

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Aaron's incredible weekend

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This scene alone is reason enough to renew Skam NL.

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Hey so renew skam nl how about it?

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#RenewSKAMAustin / 12/22/19 / 9am PST

This is not a drill. We need to show Facebook that we won’t be giving up anytime soon. Tomorrow, join Kennedy Hermansen (Grace) and other fans in promoting the hashtag #RenewSKAMAustin. Use this on all platforms especially Twitter and Instagram!! We want a renewal for Shay & Zoya and we have the power to get one, if we use it.

Credit to @/shayzoya on twitter for the image.

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