Yes, it's a gay love epic for the ages, on par with kirk and spock, or gilgamesh and enkidu, but it's also just fascinating how so many writers took compelling pieces and bits from the source material and formed an interconnected labyrinth of stories, all in conversation with one another and forming new nodes of compelling concepts that were then picked up by further stories
most contemporary storytelling considers "originality" as an inherently good quality. Creators are encouraged to conceal their influences as much as possible, so it should be difficult to trace directly where ideas descended from. It's not spoken out loud but once you see it, you can't stop realizing how weird it is.
An artistic ecosystem that rejects that premise can do some BONKERS stuff.
It's intoxicating to see stories interacting on an ecosystem level so closely, exchanging and circulating ideas, refining and clarifying
And with early Stucky fandom, it's driven by this frenetic sense of passion. I don't think everyone believed that the ship would become canon, but in a way that's hard to describe, you can tell they believed it was real.
There is no self-consciousness. It is blisteringly sincere art