wow i’m still thinking about how the author just married one of the couples off to some random dude, and then reminisces about why we were invested in the first place. i’m not against the “lesbian couples don’t always work out” idea, it’s sometimes true, but it doesn’t work in this framing. when you have a thing going and being built upon, just for the very next chapter for it to be over and she’s getting married to some nameless guy, it feels like a smack in the face. there’s no falling out, no introduction to the new guy, no romance, nothing. for all we know he’s some useless piece of shit who doesn’t care about her at all, and she only got married because she felt she had to. this is not only rushed, and contrived, but it’s invalidating and cruel to the queer reader. i know it was axed, and maybe this was the direction it was meant to go, but the complete lack of any context to this ending makes it invalid as a statement, and almost insulting to the reader. it isn’t the kind of ending you feel sad about(which can often be a good thing in storytelling), it just makes you angry. in all fairness, i didn’t write this story. i don’t know if there were any kinds of restrictions in making endings, nor how long the author had to figure them out. being rushed can lower work quality, and with something as time consuming as drawing and writing is, the first idea might have been all they had to work with. i’m not insulting the author, i think they did a great job with almost everything leading up to this, im just venting my frustration through a long and drawn out post so i can try and justify the anger i still feel even after 3 months of me having read it originally :(
