Friendship fiction in which the friendship is as important as romance would be in a romance story. It gets tagged, but usually under labels that don't make clear how important the friendship is. And it's *never* mentioned in professional novel blurbs. Never, never, never, no matter how important the friendship is to the plot.
Here's the only example I've been able to find at AO3; you don't need to know the fandom.
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Here's the only example I've been able to find at AO3; you don't need to know the fandom.
Meeting for Robots, by songofsunset
https://archiveofourown.org/works/12919731