I'm planning to put together a bingo card for non-shipping relationships and people are giving me SO many good suggestions, and it just makes me wish all the more that there was as much a tradition of fics that explore these kinds of relationships too! I want to read about ALL of them, repeatedly!
anyway definitely taking more suggestions still!
list so far:
- mentoring
- i’d trust you with my life but not with the last cookie
- seemingly have their own language incomprehensible to the rest of us
- we slept with the same asshole and now have a weird bond of solidarity as a result
- Big Divorced Energy; were never married
- metamours and digging it
- ride or die
- may genuinely believe they are siblings
- reluctant allies for the eleventh time
- co-gremlins
- We have the same mentor but we can't stand each other
- Drift Compatible even though we seemingly have nothing in common
- I don't like/trust people but you're the only person who's as devious as I am so there's grudging respect
- I hate you but also I'm ride or die for you
- one-sided enemies/nemesis/ultimate competition
- intellectual soul mates
- low-key friends
- low-key enemies
- one-sided devotion
- found family
additions to the list:
- one-sided devotion
- we've known each other for so long, we might as well be friends
- we survived a dangerous and harrowing situation together
- Kate Beaton's Nemesis Comic
- our best friends are dating each other and we keep ending up the 3rd/4th wheel
- big sibling rivalry energy
- person who submitted a paper & review two
- you are the cryptid that keeps appearing when I’m working the night shift and no one believes my stories about the messed-up things I’ve seen you do
- reluctantly working together even though we don't like each other because we'd like working with anyone else even less
- It's Complicated (TM)
- make each other better
- make each other worse
- the definition of married (platonic)
- will die together in a heart shaped pool of blood
- they should kill each other
- they WILL make it romantic/sexual no matter what
- u remind me of me and I hate it
- ur the only one of these clowns I respect, I guess
