What's good y'all, back on my bullshit
Here's a rant about Leasebound that I only vaguely went into once that I will be going into now: Leasebound and Rusty seem genuinely allergic of writing conflict between romantic lovers if one of the characters involved isn't a gendie supporter, which is essentially the Leasebound definition of a bad or morally ambiguous person.
Literally every single lesbian/wlw relationship in the comic is picture perfect unless one of the people involved supports or is a tranny or effeminate
Riley and Blaire aren't perfect for each other because Blaire likes and supports trans people and that makes her evil and also because of Riley's flagrant issue with never communicating or being honest with Blaire but that's also Blaire's fault because uh- something something handmaiden of patriarchy
Ruth had a femme wife, who is unfortunately 6 feet under
Parniya and Shez seem to have absolutely 0 relationship issues whatsoever
Poppy and Sardonica seem perfect for each other with the only caveat being that Poppy is neutral about trans people, which to the TERF audience is basically still supporting them because how dare you not pop out from the utero as a fully formed hateful asshole
Brick is literally in a relationship with another "woman" but because both Brick and this partner are gendies, they're a problem
While not dating, fans often try to push that Jasper and Clancy should be together on account of them both being the only "salvagable" gendies, acting like this makes them perfect for each other as if they don't have an age gap of barely legal and almost mid twenties
Alexis and Jaden seemed perfect together but Alexis was kinda sorta vaguely femme as well as bisexual so she needed the boot
Even the way that the main "romance" of the comic is being written is pretty piss-poor because Jaden and Riley are expressly written to be almost laughably "perfect for each other"
・Non conflicting work schedules
・Same views on certain people's identities with the only caveat being that poor innocent baby wiley can't express her true ideologies because of her big meanie handmaiden girlfriend which essentially leaves little room for any actual conflict to form between the both of them
・Both being butches/masculine lesbians so they never have to deal with any "icky gendie/patriarchy" stuff"
・Riley is the soft uwu meek type, Jaden is the strong confrontational takes-no-bullshit type so they have personality traits that essentially co-inside perfectly
Way to really make a romantic lead couple
Making it so that there is essentially literally no emotional competition to be had because the leads are written to be as "perfect" as physically possible for one another which will essentially leave 0 room for any of that boring complicated stuff like character growth and change in either characters in their relationship because what's there to change, they're already "perfect"
Literally no actual nuanced or even decently conflicting lesbian or wlw relationships that aren't "one supports trans people so they bad"