Introducing the phrase "found family" to fandom spaces was a mistake. Now half of fandon wants to force their "found families" into neat little boxes like "this is the dad, this is the mum, this is the fun uncle, these ones are siblings", even though the entire POINT of found family as a concept was to reject traditional family structures as the norm and rigid ideas of what a family even is, and then they get big mad whenever even dares suggest something romantic or sexual could happen between two completely unrelated mature adult characters they've arbitrarily decided are "parent/child" or "siblings" based on basically NOTHING in canon and start accusing that potential relationship of being incestuous. That's not how that works! That's not how any of this works!!
SAY IT LOUDER
Nearly half the people offended by this post are people who someone interpreted it as me saying *adopted* family is not the same as a traditional family, or people being like "this is true for most found families but not [insert media that's literally about adopted family]!"
Some of you people have been treating found family as though it works just like adopted family for so long that now you legit can't tell the difference, and that's harmful to both found family as a concept AND adopted family as a concept.
