#dickcrisis

poor becky :( that “upgraded to personal maid” thing as a “just” HEA reward for all her loyalty and friendship never sat well with me.

I know -- looking at it as an adult, of course (or, really, even looking at it as an older child when I was reading it), there are MANY!!!!! problematic things in the story, haha. I expect that’s one reason it doesn’t have the universal appeal of The Secret Garden. Even when she’s destitute it’s often portrayed that the worst thing happening to Sara is that her STATUS has been lowered. Becky is always trying to SERVE her because she can’t stand it that such a personage is being treated like a lower-class person. BECKY, the scullery maid. Who has bigger problems. And yeah, then at the end her reward is that she gets to be a slightly less badly treated maid. They always hammer that Sara is kind to people or whatever but the class stuff is hopeless. Even the title, ffs -- the premise being that even when Sara is forced to dress in rags and do errands she’s still innately better than everyone else because of her Birth. 

@dickcrisis: Thanks friend (T ^ T)

@kqworu: Thanks, as someone in the same spot, I hope you have people supporting you and that you’re doing alright!! Feel free to reach out if you ever want to talk

wait, yoi has straight male fans?

idk what this is about/haven't read her comment (is she starting to validate the heretic interpretation of victor being shady in his treatment of plietsky in particular? wow!), but hey! looking good for my predictions of kubo becoming the kanye of fujoshis if given enough time! that should be fun.

In some interview alongside Plisetsky’s voice actor she was asked about that bit where Viktor sent Yuri to the temple to get his back smacked. Kubo laughed about it and called it abuse. This hasn’t gone down well.

She also said that Yuri P also doesn’t have a sad backstory actually(despite what she said earlier about how that made him unsuitable as a protag and actually put in the damn cartoon) and that he apparently has a mother who was supposed to appear, but they cut her involvement in the series for time. 

Basically people are annoyed that she keeps retconning all the characters to have squeaky clean pasts with no drama because she doesn’t like characters being sad or something. 

i assume the japanese fans prodding her about it (and i do love that she made sure to point out most of the prodding came from overseas) are doing so because, well, she DID get too close to an Event Horizon there with the baits? "kiss" + "engagement" rings are firmly het romance coded and *much* closer to de facto BL than swimmer/vballer boys telling each other they're each other's everything or w/e.

Yeah she got very close to it there. I think as a cynical business tactics keeping the whole thing ambiguous (even though it isn’t) is a smart move as it’s that uncertainty that ends up keeping people on tenterhooks. In terms of keeping the fandom active? Being vague means people will pay attention to your interviews for longer for more ‘evidence’. It creates tension and leaves the whole thing with no resolution so people will come back for more.

It just doesn’t help that Kubo seems to not know what she’s doing half the time, though. On one hand she tries to keep it vague with platonic sports charms/emphasising the coach and skater dynamic but on the other she spills spaghetti about them being transcendent soulmates.

It’s a mess.