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Queer coparent. Illustrator. 911 dispatcher. Fandom perpetuator. Foolish Child @ Autostraddle.com. Forever destined to draw Bering & Wells.

Tumblr is always doing stuff. Why is my dash giving me Y2K flashbacks.

bering and wells was canon. i am not sure where or when the mood diverted into "it should be" but it is. and yes, conversation about how representation is presented has surpassed the show's creative existence by nearly a decade but there are ANSWERS to all of these questions and a lot of old heads in this fandom worked hard (and had a lot of fun trying) to get those answers. if the very people who played those characters intentionally played them as in love before the influence of fandom and, repeatedly (to this day), affirm that they were and are in love, the canon lives on.

i'm (not) sorry jack kenny is so wounded by the fact he didn't think up the most popular thing about a show that he decided to destroy the entirety of by throwing into a heteronormative chum bucket - but that doesn't negate the fact that MYKA and HELENA are IN LOVE and in love ON SCREEN, and the whole writing, filming, editing, and effects teams were all in on it.