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the red means i love you!

day 73: new

hehehe

ask-asexual-crystal-gems

Did not expect to so viscerally negatively respond to such a nice piece of art but-

wdym that’s all you have.

You have friends that you appear to neglect

(Gangle has made no effort to reconnect directly with Ragatha or lay out her problems with her, Zooble has talked one-on-one to ……. basically none of the cast except to argue with Jax?)

You had a funny guy who made an adventure jointly with you and filled a dull day’s workplace with wacky hijinks that hit a sweet spot between his chaotic artist vision and your more down-to-earth needs.

You had a god who showed signs of being able to compromise with you- and you couldn’t come up with any further compromise than demanding he rearrange the WHOLE circus dynamic for you.

You had an entire universe laid at your feet for one brief moment- and you couldn’t figure out how to stop bickering with him long enough to prevent his death.

GAHHHHH YES guys WHY are you not bonding with ANY of the other cast, why does the writing leave this so barren, how did we manage to have an amatonormative narrative when they’re NOT EVEN IN AN ALLOROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP

I wish amatonormativity were a person so I could stab them

Listen. I respect Gooseworx. I love her shit. But.

She claims this show is about “relationships between the characters” and there’s “no romance” but we saw NO resolution with Ragatha and Pomni, with Gangle and Jax, and she ULTRA focuses on Pomni&Jax merch and teasing Abstragedy in Tweets.

You came SO close to averting fandom ship wars and yet I can’t figure out if your brain is basically generating romance while thinking “oh if they don’t SPECIFICALLY declare it so and go on candlelit dinners and kiss it isn’t romance”

Like I don’t know who you think you’re fooling.

Like are you grayromantic and haven’t realized it yet?? Or what?

lowkey im all for abolishing societal amatonormaty but this is my ship art tagged abstragedy

Give me a second I’m trying to fight down my sarcastic impulses /gen

“You’re all I have” is an amatonormative phrase.

You say that like people can’t use hyperbolic language to express any number of bad societal ideas.

Somebody could over-exaggerate a racist or sexist joke and not really “mean” it, as well.

I 100% believe you don’t LITERALLY buy into the notion- gonna take that on good faith- it doesn’t make it not amatonormative.

did you deadass just compare someone posting ship art on the internet to racism.

normative thinking has to be undone whether it’s heteronormative, able-normative, perisex normative

normative thinking is a problem.

Because you don’t think it’s “as BIG a problem” as racism or sexism doesn’t mean you don’t need to do the work to un-internalize it.

ask-asexual-crystal-gems

ooooo this post exploded lol

*grabs popcorn

squid-is-oniline

“You had a god who showed signs of being able to compromise with you-“ his ass was not compromising for shit, he got hit with criticism and started tormenting them with their traumas. I’m sorry but that doesn’t seem verrrrry… how to put this? “god who’s gonna compromise with me” Y’know? (If there’s any missing context i apologize)

He compromised in ep 4.

Then in ep 5, Zooble pushed it way further, asking for a TON of work that would require who knows how much out of a glitchy, run down AI (I mean “leave all the adventures open”? Could a HUMAN on the other side of the screen even do that?)

This is AFTER laser-targeting his insecurity which made him almost crash the whole circus in the therapy session.

The writing on Zooble is incomprehensible throughout the series. They act like they’re scared in 4, then seemingly totally forget that and snipe at him over and over. Can’t figure out what the writers were going for at all.

That NONE of the cast could picture a compromise between “only him adventures” and “a request that he said wasn’t possible (we don’t know why, but still)” just indicates to me none of them has any imagination.

such as “do some suggestion box stuff but let Caine have a little more artistic liberty than sticking to ONLY their ideas”

blorbospinninhouseplant

Yeah, to tack onto what you're saying about the suggestion box, his entire purpose as a program is to be creative, so the humans wanting suggestion box adventures, while a reasonable desire, completely robs Caine of any sense of self, turns him into an adventure vending machine, and forces him to do something that completely goes against his primary directive. It's like getting mad at a washing machine for not cooking you spaghetti!

Why not do Suggestion Box one day, and then his the other. Likkkkke

DUH.

So many different compromises could’ve been made here.

I really think this is the crux point of the series.

Like, they could all be sitting around in this digital wasteland in ep 9 and realize wait a second. This could’ve been so easily fixed.

And now he’s dead.

(perhaps permanently)

(perhaps he only returns when they fully grieve and accept his death, actually. That would be neat.)

We were all caught up with getting only OUR OWN WAY. Pushing him out entirely, even when Zooble, A FELLOW ARTIST MIND YOU, was directly SHOWN via EARTHQUAKE how much it meant to him.

When he said “They’re selfish” in his office, he was ONE HUNDRED AND TEN percent correct.

Does that justify torture? Ofc not. But this is a weird situation and honestly they made their own bed.

renegadeer

i hope in the final episode kinger says “lowkey caine is dead af” and everyone starts making out sloppy style in celebration

I love how everyone assumes a sex update is even possible . . . (giving Gangle and Zooble proper mouths, too) like canonically they're probably going to ask Kinger and he's like "wtf you think we could do that? You silly kids."

"Wait he wasn't just withholding it from us?"

"Huh? Oh you made him have a panic attack, didn't you."

"What?"

"He did a spontaneous memory wipe you mentioned it, yeah?"

"Yes . . . ?"

"He's sensitive about that, he hates that he'll never experience it and never be human."

" . . ."

“caine is forcing these 6 grown adult humans who desire personal autonomy into eternal chastity because he can’t fuck” you literally just invented Incel Caine AU and u want me to feel bad for him