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But I really hope Lord commander wanting ash to be his protégé comes up again. It most likely won't but I do love the idea.

Like that wasn't just invictus going "oh join us", like he litterally was going to whip out the adoption papers on her to take Ash under his wing.

I really want some type of A Series of Unfortunate Events thing to play out

I haven't even watched the latest two episodes yet, which I guess pretty much sums up my feelings about this season.

I'm really mad about Fox. He was introduced as a "main" character but barely got to do anything, had no real plotlines of his own, and in the end was unceremoniously killed off for other characters' development. The show clearly wanted us to feel like it was some grand tragedy but honestly? It just felt shallow. They were trying to recreate the feeling of Avocato's death in S1, but they weren’t willing to kill off any actually important characters. Hell, they couldn't even commit to actually killing off Avocato.

I thought the timing was weird. There are some unfortunate implications considering the way Ash got redesigned and aged-up shortly before the reveal. But all that aside, I though the Ash/Evra stuff was super sweet, and I am thrilled that we're adding another female character to the cast.

Watching the fandom meltdown over this has been....... interesting, to say the least. I understand why fans are disappointed, and you know I’m not going to tell people that they can’t criticize the show. Honestly I think it’s great that more people are thinking critically about it. The lack of diversity in the writer’s room has been a really big problem this season, both in terms of LGBT rep and more generally. So I totally understand where the negativity is coming from.

First there was no family, and then there was one.

I don't really know how to answer this, so I'm just gonna ramble for a while.

First things first, as much as the fandom is horrible to some of the other characters, Quinn is 100% getting the worst of it. I think that's pretty indisputable. There's no other character that's getting the same treatment that Quinn is. I will concede that Ash and Fox don't get as much appreciation as they deserve, but they aren't getting the same level of hate either.

You say most of this fandom is fine and, you know, you’re probably right. But there are a lot of people out there who are willing to turn a blind eye to antiblackness and other problematic behavior because they don’t want to get involved in “drama.” A fairly popular fanartist once thanked me for speaking out about the way the fandom treats Quinn. But even though she has a much bigger platform than I do, she’s never spoken out about it herself. She won’t even reblog that kind of stuff from me. So she gets to stay on good terms with everyone, while I take all the heat.

On the flip side, plenty of people who claim to love Quinn these days have said some pretty vile stuff about her in the past. But ever since black lives suddenly started mattering last summer, it's become "cool" to care about racism and antiblackness. Or at least, to pretend to care. So nowadays you will not find as many folks wishing that Quinn would just die, but they'll still fantasize about her white love interest berating and abandoning her. It's the same misogynoir just in a new form.

Then there are the stans. I know exactly the kind of people you are talking about, and it's true that they can be horrible and inconsiderate and just generally annoying, but I do want to be careful here and say that I don't think there's anything wrong with liking those characters or the ship. (Would you believe, even I used to like garycato, a long, looooong time ago.) I think it's more just a numbers game. There are a lot of people who stan Gary and/or the Catos, and a lot of people who are just jerks on the internet, and so naturally there's some overlap between those two. But there are also Gary and Avocato stans that are perfectly nice people.