My source has ended

[bedes]

My thoughts on my source, the direction it took, and how it feels to have it end, as Hunter.

 

As expected at this point, some stuff happened that pissed me off, as Hunter. (Like, they really killed off Flapjack and used that to cure my in-universe disability, only for me to be shown in the epilogue with a slightly DIFFERENT bird? Whose name is fucking WAFFLE??? You couldn't even TRY to be subtle that this was a blatant Flapjack replacement so you could have your angst AND let me still have a palisman too? Is that what we're doing??)

But, honestly, it's a relief to have the show over with. Having a huge ID from a source that is currently ongoing is, how you say, TERRIFYING and incredibly anxiety-inducing. I was constantly worried that they would fuck something up, which, of course, they did end up doing. (See the fridging of Flapjack for no reason other than to make the audience sad and the curing of my disability.) And, since the fandom was so big, I could hardly ever complain about the direction the show took because so many fandomgoers demanded nothing but positivity from everyone.

I greatly look forward to the majority this fandom moving onto the next big, current thing. My fandomgoing experience, as fictionkind, has ALWAYS been the best when either the fandom is small, or the source in question has ended, and the only people still active in the fandom are a select group of (usually fellow autistic) people.

I will say one positive thing about the finale itself, though, and that is this: for all of its pushing of myself and Willow as a romantic pair (ew, no), it didn't end up showing us getting together in any meaningful way. In the epilogue, we're around each other a lot, but we never kiss, call ourselves together, blush or (my worst fear) get married. I find this extremely funny, because the case can be made that the romantic feelings that we had as kids faded away when we grew up in canon.

My FAVORITE thing about this is that I can finally do to M/F ships what happens to M/M and F/F ships CONSTANTLY. You and I both know that if what happened between the two of us in canon happened between two characters of the same gender, and people then tried to say that it was semi-canon or implied, het people would lose their MINDS. Because with same-gendered couples, there's usually an attempt at plausible deniability. But now that a M/F ship that got this treatment... It's finally time for me to do it right back to M/F shippers.

Is it petty, because for years upon years, I've had many of my semi-canon same-gendered ships treated this way? Oh, absolutely. But I'm an arospec fictionkin of HUNTER THE OWL HOUSE, known target of the writer's wrath who ADMITTED to torturing my character ON PURPOSE, and who killed off my disability aid for no fucking reason. I deserve a little pettiness, I think... As a treat. <3