no shade but the miscommunication trope doesn’t work for me when the friends/side characters could just intervene like i get the whole “they don’t have the right to speak for their friend and expose their feelings” but when the friends literally know that the other party loves them back there’s no real risk, it just comes off as negligent and stupid instead of angsty and emotional like it’s supposed to (as a reader).
no shade but the miscommunication trope doesn’t work for me when the friends/side characters could just intervene like i get the whole “they don’t have the right to speak for their friend and expose their feelings” but when the friends literally know that the other party loves them back there’s no real risk, it just comes off as negligent and stupid instead of angsty and emotional like it’s supposed to (as a reader).