#ribtalks

hey. call me ribbon, i use they/star pronouns, and im a grown ass adult. i have audhd and other stuff, am an incectual csa survivor and not into incest because im fucking normal

what this blog is:

a personal vent blog that you can also vent to, if you want. no promises ill post everything

someplace to talk about this, since ive been suffering since the planes hit, and its been eating at me to deal with this

a place to complain, complain, complain

what this blog isnt:

a place for anyone to say how much they ~love and support~ kc. you will be instantly blocked :P

a space for any "proshipper" no matter what

aside from the fact i dont plan on saying my actual name or anything, thats it. send asks if you want, say whatever according to rules, dont be weird and be sure to support the victims. tags below cut

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you realize kc did not tell you to zap your brain of sc right? squeak did not tell you to upturn your entire life and dispose of all your thoughts of these characters and the comic. you literally do not have to make miles long posts about how you're mad that you can no longer experience and enjoy and love the comic when in fact, nobody said that.

would it ultimately be better to distance yourself? yes! please, actually!! especially if you're acting like this about it!! but there is quite literally no reason for this mass panic. this gigantic exodus. just calm down. take a step back. stop being so rash.

to start this blog off right, im going to immediately launch into my many issues with doom and how he is both delivered and perceived

with that said, here are my main and most thought on qualms

doom being paired with patients

whilst i believe pairing any patient with a staff member is creepy and gross, doom in particular is not only shipped with a plethora of them, but also finds his way into the main polyamorous quadruplet that makes up cometcare. this is troublesome for many, many reasons, but the main one that always springs to mind is this: the egregious power imbalance

think about it. would you really go out with your medical nurse? wouldnt that be odd? not to mention doom has hurt and tortured several of the patients he is currently in a relationship with in cometcare. i dont know about anyone else, but it would personally make me extremely uncomfortable to have anyone insinuate me and a person who abused me would make a great couple

dooms gender being changed for the express purpose of shipping

doom used to be a cis man. while there is nothing wrong with him being changed to agender, kc has gone on record saying that it was specifically so his gender could be compatible with caroline being a lesbian

from a perspective of "these are just kc's ocs!", this is ultimately something to shrug and maybe make a face over. however, from the perspective of sparklecare as a piece of media (which is very much is, regardless of what kc thinks) and as a story, it is upsetting. why make a man agender just to ship with a lesbian? a lesbian that he has hurt repeatedly, no less? its not a very fun situation

dooms extremely sudden character "development"

i say "development" in quotations because truly, there was none. one day kc decided squeak liked doom, and thus his deterioration began. squeak started drawing him much more friendly looking and decided that any of the things he had done in the past volumes (such as being toxicly masculine and (even unwillingly) misogynistic towards uni when taking away beary) suddenly didnt happen. doom is forced to do things like this yes, but he had no reason to act maliciously as he does in many of these situations before the sudden change. now he has been sanded down to his barest bones, leaving a sad and pathetic little guy who you Have to feel sorry for :( he has no say in the matter of what he does :( he would never hurt a fly :( yes he tortures people for a living BUT DONT LOOK AT THAT! look at how sad and lonely he is!! :(!!!

overall, i would not say doom is my favorite character. in fact, because of these issues, hes probably one of my least favorite ones. its extremely frustrating seeing kc course correct so hard to make characters squeak likes into "good guys" that they lose all sense of themselves along the way. if you ask me, doom should have stayed morally ambiguous. it is not only much more interesting, it is actually true to what his original role as a character was. i do unfortunately believe that because of cometcares existence, this role is forever lost and will never be found again, which is a shame