fixating on games is like “oh boy! i haven’t played this in months!” and then you end up playing 60+ hours and never touch it again until the cycle starts up again
personally I think an underutilized ship dynamic is “this is so ill-advised that we are both aware on some level that it cannot possibly end in anything but a breakup so acrimonious that we’ll spend the rest of our lives hunting each other for sport, but we have decided to keep making out with each other anyway.”
i’m such a fan of calling 2 guys trying to kill each other their “divorce arc”
men will literally declare each other mortal enemies and make their category 5 relationship drama everyone’s problem instead of going to couple’s therapy