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This is why Spamtenna is so great. Two lonely people (who are probably autistic) finally finding someone who is like them, who understands them, and bonding for life would be interesting as a platonic dynamic too. They just happened to also be attracted to each other, so they're partners.

But I would go even further and say that them being specifically a romantic pair actually adds an interesting layer to their story.

This is something that the "divorce" and "toxic yaoi" fanon misses, but the thing that destroyed their relationship didn't come from within the relationship itself. They were compatible (intentionally similar characters and all), they were happy together, and neither wanted the separation to happen.

Spamton was - and still is - deeply attached to Tenna, and he was devoted to the point of being self-sacrificial, willing to risk the thing his career hinged on for even the possibility that he might be able to help Tenna. And then his Valentine's card doesn't even bring up that huge sacrifice. The question he asks is "why did you change your number? I thought we had something!!!", and considering SNEO's Weird Route lines about screaming into the receiver until you realize you're all alone and the reference to screaming "It hurts! It hurts!" in the engraved wedding ring description (with the "it hurts" part linking to the "damn you Tenna" page), he tried to call Tenna repeatedly. Him running away after the phone call Tenna described was a panic response, and he fully intended to come back (if that was possible). He desperately wanted to come back, but thought he had been discarded.

Considering the misery apparent in Tenna after he saw that the mailroom is empty, and the way he still keeps the posters and the phone in the Z-Rank room, still keeps the pipis, still wears his half of their matching outfits, and just can't stop talking about Spamton after a decade, even as he's in deep denial about everything that happened, including his own feelings about it, he clearly didn't want Spamton to leave either. He desperately wanted Spamton back and still wants him back. Thus, it doesn't make sense for him to have changed his number like that.

Someone else, someone more powerful than them, wanted that relationship gone and forcefully separated them. Spamton was then tortured with his puppet transformation, and Tenna was effectively sentenced to death by the prophecy.

While forbidden friendships do exist sometimes, forbidden love has a much stronger presence in both fiction and real life. Queer love has historically been forbidden and punished, and that punishment could be as severe as death.

But another reason I like this theory is because there's an interesting way it can tie into Spamton's relationship with Tenna.

Remember how Tenna said he gave Spamton life advice? Some of that advice probably had to do with work, in which case, he would've been directly stepping on the benefactor's turf, their sphere of influence.

And I can see there being a key distinction between the way the benefactor and Tenna approached helping Spamton, where the benefactor just told him exactly what to do and kept him dependent on their support (perhaps that dependence was the tradeoff for their help), while Tenna was trying to teach Spamton how to do things, teaching him the underlying skills required to act on his own, which could eventually reduce his dependence on the phone, and that could be one of the reasons the benefactor didn't like Spamton and Tenna's relationship. Spamton isn't supposed to be self-sufficient, to be able to succeed on his own, and he's supposed to be firmly under their influence, and Tenna's involvement challenged this.

"Give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish" type situation, in which the person conditionally giving the man fish didn't appreciate it when someone started teaching the man to fish.

SPAMTENNA SHIMEJI 1.0 ARE HERE!

PETTABLE! GRABBABLE!

THEY SLEEP! THEY HUG! THEY STEAL YOUR WINDOWS!

DUNK THEM IN MILK & THROW THEM AT THE WALL!

*milk glass not included

DOWNLOAD: WINDOWS VER | MAC VER

(the mac version is untested!)

just a drabble inspired by this @pallas-prince art for lovebug au!!

so that lovebug au huh I think addispam would feel like a fraud for sure but also wouldn't pass up the chance to rub in the fact the metaphorical and literal big guy is on his side for once (especially if it's an addison) and appreciate all the pampering after his shit life lmao

Also the time travel problem of the person you love technically no longer existing

WHEEZE THANK YOU!! Took inspiration from a few other Spamtons i've seen and liked. The biggest ones that won me are def the Spamtons drawn by @/ganondoodle and @/thescarletcrow please check them out they are 50,000 chef kisses. Thinking also how stress/homelessness/etc adds into the equation too, also fckn remembering Spamton A Spamton is a thing too askdjf....i love his balding fuckass hairline.

Beyond Repair is THE fic that got me into Spamtenna, and actually got me to meet people in a domino effect ?!? Plus the writing is sooo good, I needed to make something nice for it before it's finished (for once I'm happy a chapter hasn't released yet).

LIKE PLZ READ IT ITS BY @manofthepipis

I tried to think of a composition for so long, but when chapter 17 came out, I loved the poster fixing scene so much I knew this was the thing I needed. I won't yap too much, but also, close ups below yay !