v.alexart

faces! (pt 1/?)

Each time I sketched out a new batch of characters, I went, “ooh i should draw x also!” until this became a much larger project than originally intended lmao.

what they did to one of the core four, the only canonically gay member of that group, was disgraceful. that coming out scene is a farce. it’s not just clumsy; it’s structurally homophobic. you do not stage a coming out moment with twelve characters in the room unless you fundamentally misunderstand (or disregard) the emotional, historical, and cinematic weight of queer disclosure and coming out narratives. it’s the opposite of intimacy, the opposite of safety, the opposite of respect. it’s a spectacle. it’s humiliation dressed up as catharsis.

and the blocking makes it worse. the camera doesn’t protect will. it exposes him. it treats his vulnerability like a plot device, not a person. even noah’s performance, which is extraordinary, can’t salvage a scene that was built on such a fundamentally hostile foundation. the text, the staging, the proxemics, the emotional architecture: all of it betrays him.