Sorry, I woke up for something important that made me mildly upset, and got reminded of this, it's so fucking stupid, because it obfuscates any actual discussion of what "icky" is because if you don't know op's whole thing is just being "freaky incest girl" you get to have the moral high ground of the other obfuscation of "erm, being mean is bad ok", as if there aren't one hundred percent instances where the right thing to do IS to point out someone is a danger, post PROOF of them being a danger, and get them out of public spaces, like, oh, the obvious fucking example of racist and bigots who love the exact same stuff you do and DO get called out so they have less social power to continue spreading the harm they do, but oooooh because you're doing it in a "queer and kinky" way, you're suddenly "based" and "epic", here's your 4000 notes and vague posts and what have you because your "niche and transgressive" art is one of the most popular and conservative expressions of sexuality since the age of fucking pornhub categories

Every fucking post like this is always about being as vague as fucking possible until you actually press literally anyone who fucking posts about it and it always ends up stemming back to "erm, sweety, you need to accept my heckin chungus incest, lolicon rapeplay art as queer liberation, you're not a *real* trans woman if you don't enjoy me posting abotu my siscon fetish every five fucking seconds", and they cannot even FATHOM that maybe the stuff you posts makes people not want to fucking interact with you, and will have them talk to other people who ALSO don't want to fucking interact with you based on the same critiera, AND THAT THAT ISN'T FUCKING CENSORSHIP WHEN YOU ARE BEING OSTRACIZED BY YOUR PEERS

the whole point of the ancestors is that they're vagure reflections of the characters they are in the other universe while being an influence on their present counterpart

"why wasn't beforan aradia an archeologist" cause that's alternia's aradia's thing

you are just asking for aradia again

you hear about an artist who draws porn of a random teenage girl just because she has a viral tiktok, and said teenage girl even finds out about it and says how it negatively affected her, but if you say "hey, maybe we should call out this artist for drawing something messed up" some people legitimately think that makes you a fascist

and of course the black elephant in the room of raceplay that no one ever wants to bring up because almost every time no one's qualified due to almost every person in the conversation being white/non-black, or elements of how it feeds into racism are so miasmic that people don't even see it

There's a stark difference between "artistic andrea should be able to draw her weird albeit harmless big booby anime oc in peace" and "no rules, no laws, no decorum, if you think serial sexual harasser sasha is a danger to online circles, you're the same as an ICE agent/supporter"

Why it was so important to talk to the diamonds instead of just completely destroy or imprison them

the main focus also being the various types of grief the diamonds were going through and how the story was also about that

all the behind the scenes issues with steven universe not being allowed to last as long as it really wanted

but one video's a tiktok that's sort of taking a potshot, while the other is a 20 minute video bringing it up slightly, so you can't really expect these tangents to be all that in depth, but it still a little annoying

oh this is a good one

But because the *actual* thing the games are about is the struggles of a dysfunctional family and not the people they're in charge of or their history beyond that, those themes get brought up and juggled around but aren't really meant to be anything more than set dressing

Fundamentally, this is a story about "fixing a broken family" without really tackling *why* it's broken, *who* broke what, and also *who* is affected due to the fact this isn't just a random family but literal gods whose conflict lead to ruined cities and poisoned lands

The main person I'm watching play the game hasn't gotten to the "true ending" yet, so I'll see how it actually goes, but I can understand how the main complaint about the ending happened considering how it seems they're treating this "minor" part of the plot

This is why some people get hung up on moirals being "a type of romance" because "look, the text says it's a romance, let homies kiss homies" without reading further but also get super mad if you even hint that it could be platonic (or try to stress that everything in non-platonic relationships can be done platonically) even though the text literally says it's also platonic right afterwards

wait is THAT what the discourse I wasn't actually seeing was about?