#TropeChats Only one bed: I generally like forced proximity tropes, but "only one bed" is frequently about sexual attraction which means as an acespec person I don't always get it or care about it. It works best for me when there are a lot of feelings other than just attraction
@Forestofglory i’m always kinda fascinated by the way bedsharing (or even just roomsharing) has become *so* intimate in modern western culture that we project only one bed trope assumptions into cultures / pasts where bed-sharing happened in all kinds of relationships
@Satsuma I hadn't thought about it that way, but that's a really interesting point!
@Forestofglory curse of learning too much history is someone tries to only one bed trope Les Mis and I’m like “no no the *real* question here is why any of these characters were expecting to get their own room at the inn in the first place”
@Forestofglory they’re not two to a room being horny, they’re an awkward pile of college boy elbows and knees!
@Forestofglory @Satsuma I wish sharing space and beds hadn't been so sexualized by the time I was alive because the time we managed a five or six person cuddle pile on a futon soon after college was really a treasured experience for me.
@Satsuma An awkward pile of elbows and knees does sound adorable (when I'm not the one getting elbowed)