#the lake scene is soooooooooooo good if you take it platonically

[lesbianfakir]

Not saying anything I haven’t already said but it’s 2 in the morning and I have feelings about this!! I want more queerplatonic art and interpretations in the tutu fandom sooooo bad. I keep coming back to how it’s so rare to have a show of this genre where the boy and the girl stay friends without any pressure to make their relationship “something more,” and that really resonates.

It’s not a bad thing but it’s a little sad to me that the tag is so focused on romantic shipping when there are so many other ways to explore the relationships in the show. I would love to see more people engaging with the text in ways that don’t fit in with the conventional relationship script.

Duck feels she is lacking in some fundamental human quality, a narrative that is so very often, an aspec one. For a show that’s so entrenched in amatonormativity I connected with the narrative of tutu in a way that I do with so few shows because it feels so fundamentally aspec. And I want to explore the shit out of that!!

The way the show develops it’s central relationships really resonates with me—rather being built upon some nebulous attraction the foundation of many central relationships come from a place of deep admiration. There is no expectation that that admiration must blossom into romance. At the end of the day, the world is saved through a friendship. There’s no NEED for it to be anything else because that love is complete just as it is. There’s no lack felt—only the strength of what’s already there.

And that said, I feel like when engaging with fanwork that quality is often missing. The idea that these relationships hold the same strength and validity whether they’re platonic or romantic doesn’t always carry through. And don’t get me wrong, I love to see a cute couple. But I wish there was more exploration of the weird nebulous up to interpretation not-quite-romantic, not-quite-platonic relationships the show gives us. It can go either way so it’s so strange to me that fandom tends to gravitate towards only one outcome to these options

Anyways, this is my rallying cry, JOIN ME IN QUEERING PRINCESS TUTU

#don’t mean this in an accusatory way at all #fandom tends to be biased towards shipping #and hell qprs can be a form of shipping like I am very much part of this #and that’s just how it is it’s not good or bad it’s something people enjoy doing #BUT #it’s funny to me that the fandom darling pairing is NOT explicitly romantic yet 99% of the fandom stuff for them is romantic #there’s just this massive gap that is left somewhat unexplored #also I’m gonna say it #unpopular opinion perhaps #the lake scene is soooooooooooo good if you take it platonically #like #as a thing between friends?? #actually insane it scratches my brain like nothing else #FUCK yearning they r besties #(tho I love a good yearning) #princess tutu #lea talks #super sleepy so apologies if this doesn’t make sense #I must go to bed