Oh my goddddd, dads and daughters are so it for me.
Also: found families, especially when it's a group of friends who celebrate holidays together (which is pretty much the same as your platonic best friends scenario, I'm such a sucker for anything about friends and shared histories and building lives together); stories that are about growing up and trying to figure things out for yourself and failing and triumphing and learning about yourself and your place in the world; secretly married or secretly dating or any sort of secrecy; faking being married or dating or any sort of relationship; relationships (platonic or romantic) that develop in weird, extenuating circumstances, like on tour buses or at war or in apocalypse situations, that kind of brothers-in-arms camaraderie that blossoms into something desperate and intense; and probably so many more things that I cannot think of right now.
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Also: found families, especially when it's a group of friends who celebrate holidays together (which is pretty much the same as your platonic best friends scenario, I'm such a sucker for anything about friends and shared histories and building lives together); stories that are about growing up and trying to figure things out for yourself and failing and triumphing and learning about yourself and your place in the world; secretly married or secretly dating or any sort of secrecy; faking being married or dating or any sort of relationship; relationships (platonic or romantic) that develop in weird, extenuating circumstances, like on tour buses or at war or in apocalypse situations, that kind of brothers-in-arms camaraderie that blossoms into something desperate and intense; and probably so many more things that I cannot think of right now.