#Vandertrees

[neottia-orchids]

Your honor, it's them

[parallelfallout]

Not enough love for resident alien so I’m putting this here

[matchasketches]

I just love them a lot okay they’re so freakin adorable together

[pzyii]

My vision this is canon btw (it's not) harry and d’arcy are just besties. They hold meetings about how to keep asta the happiest and safest (she’s the only reason either of them have faith in humanity)

[manwholovescabins]

we deserved live action vandertrees

[vampgf]

[vanderspeiglemd]

God like shut the fuck UP.

So Chris originally pitched vandertrees. They were supposed to be together in s2. They were supposed to take care of Bridget.

Chris says that didn't work out because Alan and Sara's 'chemistry is more mother-son' and I've never heard a more absolute bullshit excuse for 'I didn't develop my main character so when Alan played him as ND read I said oh he's a baby haha' and changed the shows trajectory after the first season. BTW that's from his own mouth, he didn't even know Harry until they got Alan literally when they were already filming the pilot and then he decided Harry was supposed to be an idiot child. Like yeah, that dynamic happened bc you FORCED the child/parent thing later, that never existed in s1. Their interactions after the whole dumber Harry thing are so stiff and miserable, it's not natural the way they were before.

They genuinely won the lottery with two super attractive, talented actors who had immediate chemistry and they shit all over it. And fine don't make it canon, why do they have to be so hostile and weird about it? You're not smarter than shippers, you make a show full of poop jokes.

[fictionproblem]

society if I became hyperfixated on ships that either 1: are canon, or 2: end up happy together, or perhaps even 3: are both ALIVE

[neottia-orchids]

...Even Superman has Lois Lane. If you have the right person on your team, they do not hold you back, they lift you up.

[cactihut]

au where asta never treats harry like a kid & instead recognizes that he’s a whole adult alien trying to live as a human with a mate from his home planet that he’s realized he’s grieving & hundreds of kids that he’s learning he misses

AND harry never becomes a man-baby who only becomes capable when it’s useful to the plot & instead continues to honor his love for asta & her history by being kind to her

also they solve crimes

[matchasketches]

NOBODY FW VANDERTREES LIKE I DOOOO s3 does not exist ok guys they’re still my otp and im still in that s1 and comics-specific brainrot

[perniciousmockery]

I’m so disappointed with Resident Alien. They completely ruined Asta/Harry’s relationship and veered so far from the source material. It’s all stupid poop jokes from a big alien man baby that has no character development and this ‘mother/son’ relationship that nobody wanted.

[slow-burn-sally]

Dear Resident Alien fans,

If you ship Asta/Harry, you are so valid.

[manwholovescabins]

people will act like shipping vandertrees is crazy like they’re not a love story in the source material and their s1 dynamic wasn’t 100% a romance set up

[takineko-arts]

Ok I rewatched it and you're right Asta was likely saying "She was not jealous romantically, but yes she was jealous" by the way she said "Maybe, yes." or whatever

Also I somehow didn't catch that Harry was saying, "I love her like I love you, but not just in my head and in my heart but in my pants!" Which obviously he's never lusted after a woman before so this powerful infatuation and bashful feeling and attraction all at once is new-- though he's had sex before he had never been drawn to someone that way before.

I still think the ship has potential, I don't know that they'll ever pursue it. I'm hearing from long time fans that the cast are always saying it's not romantic which was very different from how me, a new viewer saw what was on screen. But that's ok. Ship what you want, don't like what you don't like, just don't bully each other over it. It ain't worth it.

[vanderspeiglemd]

Sara: HARRY AND ASTA WOULD NEVER BE ROMANTIC BC THEY'D NEVER FUCK. EVER. THEY'RE PLATONIC. LIKE FRIENDS LOVE PLATONIC. SHE PARENTS HIM. DEEP MEANINGFUL PARENTING FRIENDSHIP. ROMANCE IS LIKE CRINGE AND ROMANCE MEANS FUCKING SO THEY'D NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT PLATONIC. UWU FRIENDS. NEVER FUCKING EVER. EW.

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