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cimoreneOk, I've started Too Many Cooks, and Archie's thoughts and actions around the lovely young woman, and then his teasing Wolfe about it, are fairly unbelievable. I mean so far it's essentially 'She's too hot: better pretend to be married' followed by 'Get it? The joke is that I wouldn't want to quit or get a more respectable job or marry someone! It's just too ridiculous!' And Wolfe goes from the "menacing murmur" of 'You're lying' to knowing the truth with one look at his face and blusters in relief.
If you take canon as truthful, then so far their relationship reads as asexual, maybe queerplatonic, unequal and maybe a bit power-dynamic-kinky; but certainly committed, satisfying, comfortable, profoundly attached and intimately trusting. Still assuming you don't read sexuality or romance into it, you could call that friendship instead of queerplatonic, but the scale of everything is more like partnership or found family.
A romantic queer reading isn't super far out there, and I see the appeal of the ship, but, as is all too often the case, find it less interesting as standard sexualized romance than as an asexual or queerplatonic or even just platonic relationship (or, to put it old-fashionedly, smarm). People hardly ever want to write those.
If you take canon as truthful, then so far their relationship reads as asexual, maybe queerplatonic, unequal and maybe a bit power-dynamic-kinky; but certainly committed, satisfying, comfortable, profoundly attached and intimately trusting. Still assuming you don't read sexuality or romance into it, you could call that friendship instead of queerplatonic, but the scale of everything is more like partnership or found family.
A romantic queer reading isn't super far out there, and I see the appeal of the ship, but, as is all too often the case, find it less interesting as standard sexualized romance than as an asexual or queerplatonic or even just platonic relationship (or, to put it old-fashionedly, smarm). People hardly ever want to write those.
