Hopelessly Romantic on Main

now, you are, of course, welcome to take on the measured risk- you're only breaking your own heart, after all...but you are absolutely unwelcome to use that heartbreak as a cudgel to beat the artist and other fans with.

the healthiest shippers aren't the ones who ship 'happily ever after canon' ships. It's the ones who see the value in all types of relationships and find joy in the experience rather than the destination. in what the artist uses their art to say about life and the human experience of it.

it was a goddamn work of art. and i 100% believe anyone that actually resonated with the themes at the core of the series and wasn't simply projecting onto certain characters or story elements will, if not enjoy it, find it poetic and satisfying.

personally, i loved it. and just like every other episode so far, the underlying message that 'we make our own meaning' is artfully punctuated with a flourish. the audience, like the characters, gets to decide whether to find joy in it, or to despair.

and i want to be so for real right now- it requires tremendous skill in brevity, intentionality, and clarity of vision to stick the landing like this. Gooseworx, and everyone else on the creative team, have made something technically and artistically brilliant. Something that will speak to audiences for years and years to come.

i hope they're all proud of what they've built. especially since the most vocal part of the online fandom is so eager to tell on themselves as never having understood that art isn't supposed to be made to order.

true art is meant to be shared with an audience, yes, but sometimes that audience is only one: the creator. If you feel betrayed by the direction they took their own artwork in...I would council you to reflect on what that says about you, yourself, rather than writing off the author as having wronged you.

You get good at what you practice. And, in order to develop art appreciation, one must expose themselves to actual art and not simply content subject to the whims and preferences of the audience.