It’s happened again, and it won’t be the last time. There’s a thing I like, something that brings me joy, and yet I can’t find a way to talk about it without feeling a need to roll out a list of defensive caveats first. Whether it’s Homestuck or Steven Universe or Undertale or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (ok I only saw like three episodes of that last one but they seemed decent), there seems to always be some new flavor-of-the-week that is embarrassing to talk about in public. Something that inevitably gets a weird reputation for being cringe or flawed or for weirdos. Something with a lot of subtweet discourse. But that’s always such bullshit, right? Especially because in almost every circumstance, the thing that generates so much “discourse” and “cringe” ends up being a fairly normal piece of media that is enjoyable for fairly obvious reasons. It has fun characters, or great music, or a resonant story. The fact that I’m even wasting the intro of this review drawing attention…
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