I did wonder if part of what goes on is—hm, it may just be my personal experience, but it seems like a lot of the found family stuff these days is rooted in meta/headcanon? Of course, many things are, and it does also happen in fic and is sometimes very popular there, but personally, I just see a lot more scattered found family headcanons and posts about Why Found Family Is the Superior Trope than people substantially entering into actual found family scenarios. It can seem very preachy (to me, anyway!), which makes the depiction/endorsement line fuzzy.
(Subjectively, I love claustrophobically close relationships, just ... not as a morally superior thing, lol.)
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I did wonder if part of what goes on is—hm, it may just be my personal experience, but it seems like a lot of the found family stuff these days is rooted in meta/headcanon? Of course, many things are, and it does also happen in fic and is sometimes very popular there, but personally, I just see a lot more scattered found family headcanons and posts about Why Found Family Is the Superior Trope than people substantially entering into actual found family scenarios. It can seem very preachy (to me, anyway!), which makes the depiction/endorsement line fuzzy.
(Subjectively, I love claustrophobically close relationships, just ... not as a morally superior thing, lol.)