I will always root for their reconciliation (whether romantic or platonic), until the day I am no longer in this fandom.

Maybe I’m just too painfully sentimental to appreciate the direction they were taken in postcanon (how the epilogues handled them undid the peace I’d seen between them in Credits and it was such a hurt that when I heard of it I swore never to finish reading a single page of the epilogues), but I’m not one to accept the recent reframing of them as toxic yaoi. I was *there* in the days of the first dirkjake discourse, the arguments in A6A5 (late 2012 early 2013) over whether dirk was abusive or jake was an asshole. Been there, done that.

Perhaps that puts me outside the current cool folks table, leaving me one of the few still clinging to the old order of post-Credits dirkjake thought. So be it. Someone has to keep the fire from going out anyway.