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none-of-your-biscuits · 2 years

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Okay so chopping up this part of my hgs rant between multiple things to talk about bc they're all kinda short(the LGBT+ "rep")and/or things I don't have enough knowledge on to go super deep into (music and animation)

Okay let's get it over with real quick

The LGBT+ rep is fucking trash

Pretty much all the lgbt (actually just L, T, Maybe B, absolutely no + and no G bc theres no one around to be gay bc this show hates men (besides like maybe the self insert teacher but I don't want to talk about him more than I need to))

So let's go down the list of the uh "rep"

We have, 1 trans man, and while they did put on their big kid shorts and say the word transgender, they immediately ruin it by basically have him read off the first answer you would get if you googled "what transgender????" And then he was an awful character for the rest of the show and I hate him

We have the lesbians (cousins? Aunts? The Wikipedia says cousins) who are, they're just stereotypes, like, they're apparently based on a real person but being "based" on a lesbian doesn't make them good rep or characters, and they're throwaway characters, you could cut them out entirely and nothing would change besides minor story elements

And then we have Snapdragon (which I will continue to use they/them for)

This could be a controversial opinion (if anyone else even cared about this show) but this character, is not trans rep (again apparently based on a trans person and again, doesn't make them a good character or proper rep) nothing that Snapdragon did in the entire show said "trans" to me, everything they wanted to do didn't have anything to do with changing their gender (which is an entirely different topic but just know I hate transition magic so much), they just liked feminine stuff like the costume in the Halloween episode or painting their nails, and with the writers being the way they are im really not surprised we wouldn't be allowed to have a feminine male character (or non binary character, again we don't have any of those) so they did not create a transfem person they just enforced gender roles (there was like some last minutes tacked on dysphoria which didn't make any fucking sense bc this show has horrible writing and didn't fit in with Snapdragon at all (the only example I can think of at this second was like them calling their shoulders broad and I'm just staring at this absolute twig of a kid and questioning if the writers even know what they're saying))

And as a trans (non binary) person it's so disheartening even from an absolute dumpster fire show

And then the last couple are pretty vague hints which is so aggravating when you switch between "oh nOes SHE LIKES GIRLS" which are hinted at with thyme and sage but are never actually confirmed bc this show is fucking garbage and then the whole "transgender is-*google search answer*" thing like pick a fucking lane Jesus Christ

Rosemary had a crush on the plot device boy and a weird jealousy thing for sage so like it's implied shes bi/pan (or they're just going for "no that was comphet actually." Without knowing what that actually is)

Parsley is there. I guess. She said the plot device boy was cute or smth I literally don't care I fell asleep watching that episode

Okay I'm done with that bc I'm full of rage about that

So let's go to the music

I'm not a big music genius or anything but even I know the music is bad

Not even in like a "this sounds terrible" way but it literally just doesn't fit the shows energy

They have this high energy bouncy music for a show that's supposed to be rated mature (I'll get to that some other time) and it just doesn't work

If this was like a magical girl anime (which it sure looks like it is) I wouldn't question it, but the music doesn't make me go "oh no this is a little intriguing a tiny bit scary wonder what will happen" it makes me go "haha silly slice of life anime with no stakes :D"

Your Intro Song is supposed to be your big moment as a show creator, it's supposed to set the energy for your show, and if someone is gonna have to listen to it every episode, it should at least sound good

So like, as an example they could have used something in the same vein of like the wizards of waverly place theme, like it has the vibes of a show thats rooted in slightly spooky Hijinks and magic

So moving on from that to the animation bc I can't not talk about the animation

The problem I think is that (from information I've gained through osmosis with friends and YouTube) is that there's so many mistakes but they're all such noticeable and simple ones, like coloring issues or using stock photos (like maybe just don't cut corners) like simple fixable stuff, there's absolutely no way anyone on the writing or editing or hell in the animation department watched this and went "yep that's good" like they fucked up stuff like the scale of characters or just straight up changing designs multiple times like did they not get a reference sheet? Isn't there like a person who's whole entire job to find animation errors and either fix them or at least point them out to the people who can fix them? And then there's just character design problems but again not my wheelhouse but like cmon, even I could come up with better designs than this and I'm not even a drawer-er/artist/ whatever and I could complain about designs more but honestly I can't think of any that wouldn't take me like several paragraphs to explain why I don't like them so I won't

Anywho toodles I'm off to write the next part of this while I'm still in the mood

#biscuits ranting about hgs

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