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"we almost kissed each other. guys, we’re very close and there’s nothing wrong with it" ????

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okay okay so this one is a bit more negative because i'm just generally not a fan of maxiel because (let me explain before you all become laurenphobic) i feel like the way fans portray it in fan fiction plays into this sort of romanticism of trauma and abuse. it's almost like people don't like max, they like how they can use what he's gone through so they can have a fan fic story line. there's a lot of sexualisation of his trauma. and there's a lot of this glorifying of daniel for being max' friend, like they put him as this sort of 'white knight' who saves max from the evil clutches of his father. and it definitely comes of as this sort of belittling of max. when that's not the case at all, daniel and max are like close co-workers, maybe even friends but i never really got into it. i have some friends who love maxiel and i think maxiel is this sort of hit or miss, you either really like it or you just can't stand it. and i'll admit i was a fan at first but after a while i just saw how much i didn't like about it. and it's a mix of how fans portray it and max as a person because i'm obviously very anti-max, i don't like him so I'm not going to like a ship that is based around him and his life (because it also seems like most people focus on max and daniel is just a prop) so that's definitely a put off. i'm not a fan or maxiel or the sort of fan fiction that people put out about them for the most part!! but of course it's all just personal taste

i already answered an ask to something similar to this (link) but that was more focused on the fandom interpretation of maxiel that i didn't like. to be honest maxiel is a huge ship, like it's probably the most popular one or definitely in the top three but i've sort of grown to hate it. mostly because of max, and the way the fandom chooses to portray their relationship. i don't like the whole helpless max / white knight daniel dynamic that people tend to stick to when talking about or writing maxiel. mostly because it does come off a little patronising and a bit iffy towards abuse victims bc a lot of the time they heavily bring in max' relationship with his father as a plot point, and i personally don't think that should be something used as a plot point because that's something so incredibly real and private, but that's my personal opinion. i also just am not a huge fan of max in general, he's done some things that just aren't very forgivable nor has he even acknowledged or apologised for these incidents, i'm not his #1 fan, so why would i be invested in a ship that revolves around him? because a good majority of maxiel fics are about max, and daniel is just used as a plot point or as a background character and he's there to "save" max or whatever. it's not something i'm into. i'm honestly not that big into shipping, i know i tag things with a ship tag but that's sort of like a 'i like the dynamic of their relationship' thing, not me actively shipping them. their friendship isn't something that's ever really interested me to a full extent. it's boring, to me they're only really friends because they have to be. it's nice that they're friends, it's good to have someone that can understand what you're going through but like i said before; i don't like max, the portrayal of their dynamic is very one-sided, and it's not very interesting. so yeah, not a huge fan :)