You should consider talking to a therapist about why you don’t consider non-romantic relationships to be valuable, because your take is not only not universal, but also indicative that you have some shit you need to work through.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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So if you lived in a superhero universe and you got powers and your best friend was killed, you would honestly use your powers to find the killer and be a hero to avenge them? Seriously?
"You killed my father, prepare to die"
- Some hero
Sounds like you need to read The Count of Monte Cristo.
It is the epitome of a revenge story and it doesn't need to kill the love interest to work. In fact, it works better because his wife doesn't die but remarried the fucker who ruined his life.
Moby Dick, too. Pretty sure the whale didn't kill Ahab's wife.
What the chicken fried fuck are you talking about?
Fridging is a form of reductionist misogyny. It's not just that somebody died, it's that a woman existed only to die in a brutal fashion.
An uncle, a child, a best friend, a parent, a teammate getting killed is not tragic
That's a unique take, to say the least.
That's cold.
OP's like It's only tragic if we were banging.