#and neither is fanservice they legit just want to do for fun or that's just real affection

[khashanakalashtar]

I have decided that there is one circumstance in which real people is queerbaiting, and no it's not Misha Collins, it's fanservice in the BL and idol industries. If the company that owns your contract tells you to get more affectionate with each other so that fans will think Maybe Something Is Going On Actually, and it's not a polite suggestion, I think that counts.

real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting

[cynthiaandsamus]

So I finished Agartha

(Honestly with everyone telling me this was the worst-written arc in the game I was expecting a lot worse, like don’t get me wrong a bunch of this stuff is very dumb, Scherezade is basically doing Syndrome’s plan from the Incredibles and Fergus pulls out a moral that’s only slightly less dumb than Kill la Kill’s ‘people are people and clothing is clothing’ but like... idk, it’s very clear that this is a farce like the first character we see is Astolfo that should be pretty obvious we’re not going for the Arkham City Machiavellian scheming of Shinjuku here.

That being said the fact that it’s a badly written story is kind of because... it’s a badly written story, like Scherezade legit Flanderized everyone and they make it clear early on everyone’s motivation makes no sense so pretty much everything that happens in the underground part of Agartha works on the same kind of Event Moon Logic like something like Gudaguda or Christmas and viewing it like that let me have a lot more fun with the characters.

That doesn’t mean that Scherezade’s motivation isn’t ridiculous and Fergus isn’t still a weirdo and neither of those have any real narrative excuse for being the way they are except for wanting to go for an anti-moral, but I do take them rewriting several characters from this arc (notably Scherezade herself) as kind of interesting given that’s kind of a meta-character development that we wouldn’t see otherwise. Like no matter how events like to play at characters learning something we know they’ll be back to their one joke in time for their next cameo which can be really frustrating for characters that are supposed to have grown so Scherezade’s moon logic being so ridiculous that the writers had no choice but to pump the brakes on it a bit is probably the closest thing to lasting character development she can get.

That and I just kinda liked all the fanservice and shit, 6/10)