c/g first!!

the biggest thing with this ship is that glados is a robot. like she’s literally an AI. not even a humanoid one! so while her actions of, like, killing everyone in aperture science, are Bad they’re generally incomparable to a human doing the same thing. so like, glados trying to kill chell in the first game/first half of the second game is bad but not the same thing as a human trying to, because imposing human morals on inhuman things is a little weird.

the second biggest thing is that people who try to cite c/g as abusive is they completely ignore the latter half of portal 2. you know, the half of the game where chell and glados team up? and glados is noticeably much kinder to chell since she’s not hooked up to the giant thing that forces her to test? like when wheatley is hooked up to it he’s a straight up evil bastard, while he wasn’t when he didn’t have the “itch” to test imposed on him. likewise, glados is far less evil when the “itch” is not imposed on her. the latter half (and, imo, the most important part) of portal 2 is focused on the development of chell and glados’ relationship and people just... ignore that. by the end of the game they’re, at the very least, on good terms.

thirdly, the turret opera song  (sung entirely in italian) that plays when glados finally sends chell up to the surface, is really fucking gay. (note that bambina is translated literally as “little girl” or “child” but is actually wildly used as a pet name) 

this part is mostly analysis but the moon is a common theme in lesbian literature and of course it’s also a huge theme in portal 2. glados’ attitude about wanting to kill chell so badly but not quite understanding why is reminiscent of compulsory heterosexuality (”i feel things for this girl that i don’t understand, so it must be hatred.”) the fact that glados could’ve killed her in the HOURS she was unconscious if she actually wanted chell dead but instead waited for her to come to so she could send her to the surface. the fact that “killing you? is hard” could refer to literally or regarding her feelings. glados claiming to hate chell’s murderous traits  yet desiring those exact traits in atlas and peabody in the co-op campaign. i could honestly go one but basically

people who blatantly ignore all this stuff and dismiss c/g as a hateship or abusive (or worse, say that glados/caroline is chell’s MOTHER) really, really bother me lmao

MY B/D SPIEL IS NOT NEARLY AS LONG, I PROMISE LMFAO

ok so first of all we see like, 5% of b/d’s relationship in the game. what we see is billie either owning up to her hand in the plot or delilah ruining her chance to do so. either way, at this point neither of these women are on good terms with each other. that doesn’t mean their relationship was abusive?

i feel like people cite delilah’s status as a villain to demonize their relationship, which... no, someone can be a villain and still be in a fine relationship. what’s often missed is that billie came to delilah ON HER OWN FREE WILL to try and overthrow daud. in high chaos she even says “i’m only sorry i didn’t pick a better ally” and something along the lines of “you knew it would come to this, it’s out nature.” delilah didn’t manipulate billie into thinking overthrowing daud was a good idea. billie already wanted to, delilah pointed out that he was getting weak, billie agreed, they struck. 

in low chaos, billie’s “i was an idiot to listen to you” probably refers to the timing of their strike, how she underestimated daud, as opposed to referring to the idea of taking daud down in general. 

in both chaoses, delilah’s reaction to the betrayal (the violent threats) are... normal? first of all, they’re just who she is as a person. second of all, billie just BETRAYED HER! foiled her plans! now daud is way more of a threat to her than he ever was! i’d be pissed too! i’d want her dead too! that is in no way indicative of how their relationship actually was.