"Hussie has always made a point of kind of mocking his own audience/fandom, but this definitely felt nastier than before."
Yeah. Nothing sweet or kind happens in CANDY. It's just people being terrible to each other. I have read candy, and this is not it. And everybody who reproduces (except R/K's adoption) is a terrible parent. John and Jane, who had the best Dads, are awful to their children.
I liked the Terezi/John relationship coming back. That was nice. The thing I particularly hate about Jade is that she's not just manipulated, she's actively cockblocking Dave/Karkat, the OTP. And wow, the slut-shaming, for both her and Jake. It's the way some slashers write female characters who get in the way of the sweet sweet M/M. (Not all slashers, obvs.) And Dirk ... like Dirk had more genuine growth than just about anybody in the comic not named Strider. And it's all thrown away. Love for friends? It is to laugh.
Given the ironing ending, Rose is very obviously not happy.
UGH. Some are expecting an Epilogue Epilogue given that the Epilogue had a Prologue. I'd be there to see the loose ends tied up, but I haven't had a good time.
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Date: 2019-04-21 08:41 pm (UTC)Yeah. Nothing sweet or kind happens in CANDY. It's just people being terrible to each other. I have read candy, and this is not it. And everybody who reproduces (except R/K's adoption) is a terrible parent. John and Jane, who had the best Dads, are awful to their children.
I liked the Terezi/John relationship coming back. That was nice. The thing I particularly hate about Jade is that she's not just manipulated, she's actively cockblocking Dave/Karkat, the OTP. And wow, the slut-shaming, for both her and Jake. It's the way some slashers write female characters who get in the way of the sweet sweet M/M. (Not all slashers, obvs.) And Dirk ... like Dirk had more genuine growth than just about anybody in the comic not named Strider. And it's all thrown away. Love for friends? It is to laugh.
Given the ironing ending, Rose is very obviously not happy.
UGH. Some are expecting an Epilogue Epilogue given that the Epilogue had a Prologue. I'd be there to see the loose ends tied up, but I haven't had a good time.