By request here is the full post from my insightful anon… it’s long but worth the read!
Sorry I can’t add a ‘read more’ on mobile.
Great little post about the haters. If you don’t mind I’ll tell things from my point of view. I have been a fan of the show for 7 years. And in those 5 first years I was not really into the idea of <Gillovny>. I’ll admit that I thought it was mostly some kind of a fantasy and that people were way over the top about it. Although I have always told myself that if Gillian and David were to be a real life couple, I would support that and be very happy because who wouldn’t want their favorite (1/8)
fictional duo to be a real life couple, right? I never went on social media to rant about the ‘snoggers’ or publicly shamed them. Had better things to do with my life and as long as there was no harm, I didn’t see the problem. Even if I didn’t see what these fans saw. In 2016, it happened. I got hit by the Gillovny bug. How could you not after going through their press week? I still don’t understand how anybody saw nothing between them and how they saw this as pure friendship during that (2/8)
week. Since then, I have been totally into Gillovny and I want these two to be endgame very badly. I am not exactly like everyone in this fandom though. The perception that I used to have of Gillovny changed quite significantly but not entirely. There are still things about their past (everything before 2016) that IMO are a bit over-fantasized and romanticized by the Gillovny fandom. And even today or in the last 2 years, I haven’t agreed with everyone’s views. TBH I’m always questioning (3/8)
myself and other people, always wondering where does the reality of Gillovny ends and the fantasy starts. We know so little about the whole story that it’s hard to ever be sure of anything. I’m not even sure they are a perfect match and would live happily ever after. While I believe some XF/Gillian/David fans romanticize too much, I also believe some fans IGNORE a lot of things. They don’t see what they don’t want to see. Looking back, I realized that I didn’t take the time to analyze (4/8)
certain elements before I started shipping David with Gillian. I didn’t take the time to focus on Gillian’s love life. I didn’t take the time to read Gillian’s body language around David. I didn’t take the time to watch the way she looked at him and how she didn’t look at ANY OTHER MAN that way. Is it just lust? You decide, but it’s not *nothing* (does “There is an attraction” ring a bell?). I probably didn’t take the time to read all their quotes about each other either. So yes, you have (5/8)
to take the time to dig into their past and into their shared history and try to unbiased yourself to understand better and get a real opinion. On top of the Gillovny week and all the touching and the gazing we witnessed, I could give you a list of Gillovny FACTS from 2016. A lot happened that year. At some point you have to connect the dots, know what I mean? Also…I am not much into hating PM or MP. Don’t know them well enough to judge them anyway. I am not loving *some* of the things I (6/8)
saw from them though so I understand a little bit where it comes from. Wish we could turn it down and be more respectful but that’s just me. Oh and if people wonder why we are so into DD and GA’s relationship, it’s because: 1} We do need an escape from the hurts of the world. 2} The mystery of this relationship makes us want more. If they were totally open about it and very relaxed about it and 100% honest about it, we wouldn’t be analyzing every one of their moves the way we are doing it. (7/8)
In the end you can mock the Gillovny fandom or mock the anti-Gillovny fandom but you don’t have the entire puzzle. No one does. But we shouldn’t turn our backs on love. People are allowed to love love, G/D as a couple is not an impossibility, the romantic notion of Gillovny was not created out of thin air. Just wish we could all be united and ship their friendship. Because that’s NEVER going to go away. They will always care for each other - a small or big amount. And that’s no fantasy. ♥️ (8/8)
