wouldnt it be even more fucked up to bite into a piece of mac n cheese n u see its BLEEDING
don't shame it for it's time of the month
for them. for your siblings. for yourself. we have to fight. I believe in you, we're all in this together.
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I like the maybe foreshadowing of the scene ? At least i hope it foreshadow or else it's gonna be yet again a great cover used somewhere it doesn't belong
Omfg this already pisses me out
Why would Riley be scared fr , isn't blaire your girlfriend?? Doesn't she respect you and listen to you ???
It genuinely feels the most regular conversation we where able to get so far , its fluid and makes sense
This is also a nice insight on the characters
Blaire self awareness and empathy and the same for Jaden, wich knowing Riley will end up with Jaden simply strike me as weird , rusty is basically modeling Jaden after blaire except for the "gendie" stuff . Jaden isn't her own person and rather a reflection of what attracts Riley
So , youre gonna tell me blaire can just guess stuff about Jaden but not realize her own gf discomfort and issues ?? It's such a terrible line of writing , because it sets blaire for failure right at the start , with a gf that uncomfrontational that obviously doesn't want to work on her issues then yes their couple is doomed because Riley has the key of communication and refuses to use it
Its a sweet scene that highlights what Riley likes in a person , but again , its something that is reflected onto Jaden, she isn't a person and rather plot point , she's not the one living theses events she's rusty vehicule to tell a story wich never truly worked in any media , you need to be able to have empathy nor relate for the main character wich cannot be done if the main character is a shell
in the events like Jaden where she isn't a character (wich she should be at this point we are at the 8 chapter) it's dull and will only attract shallow individuals that project themselves onto your work rather than consume it (see ya dystopia stories) i have no doubts the writers behind theses meant to create powerful yet relatable main character
But the issue is to be palatable and attract an audience that was deemed as too dumb (women) the main characters are vehicules of their stories
Wich divergence missed the mark terribly , it gave off a shallow power fantasy where instead of people deconstructing her work and understanding it they projected themselves into it and became way too attached to be critical of it
And the same is happening with leasebound , Jaden is the vehicule because rusty simply can't write compelling characters
The most compelling ones are thoses we see the least because we don't have enough time with them to actually see their development (or rather lack of in this comic)
And that's exactly my point coming stronger
Jaden is an empty shell only there to be what the viewer will impose onto her
She's not too good or too bad , she's not too nice or too mean , a perfect middle of everything , the characters with the most personality is blaire , she put boundaries , talk , has strong opinions
While Riley and Jaden don't have anything, they're bland , they're nothing except vehicules for a stagnant story
Just yikes
If you can't handle social interaction including people making sure they're respecting you then don't talk to people
Like , terfs will complain that people uses they/them as neutral/when they don't know but then complain when they get their pronouns asked ? It's a fight you cannot win because in either case they will complain , hence proving again it's a movement that lies in women being victims rather than strong forces
Im not sure if this is a trope but the dumbification of really smart women by the author is always a very interesting thing to happen in my opinion
Jaden is a medical major , she absolutely had to go trough years of English she knows about pronouns , showing confusion about *why* pronouns would've been the way to go
And honestly it only support my point about the emptiness of Jaden's character
And i don't think its on purpose , but dumbifying a black women only support further bad stereotypes and misogynoire, because at the same time that it's weirdly racist to think a black person wouldn't know about pronouns it's also misogynistic because Jaden is a women so rusty is actively being misogynistic under her audience nose like, yall are going to say radfeminism is for everyone but then you will portray a black women who GRADUATED in medicine as unknowing of pronouns ?
And to add onto this
Her audience actively masculinize the black woman , wich is insanely weird , and racist at worst
You complain about people asking your pronouns , using they/them as default
But then do this to a fictional black women ?? How do yall act with black women irl then ??? Its worrying
Im sorry but what
Did I miss a page or something??? There's is nothing to transition or that make sense between theses 2 pages
Like where did the dishes thing came from ??
Also it's crazy work to give Jaden ashy ass palms , that chapter was terrible in normalized racism , again I don't think that rusty is inherently racist , but she follows a movement rooted in white centered interest and was known to dislike black women or see them as too masculine so therefore "not really women"
Genuinely what's going on , there's for sure pages missing because wtf
There's nothing in between where are all theses come from
What's going on with Riley??? Like it's so badly portrayed , its exactly of neurotypicals will portray panic attacks because they thinks it's that overwhelming thing
And its also a very bad case of "narrative mental illness" because Riley anxiety isn't portrayed accurately at all and only becomes relevant when it serves the narrative wich it doesn't work like that , the main issue is how it's portrayed
Truly in the last 3 pages we get an anxious Riley but then page 2 we get an okish Riley?? And last page she get anxious over what??? It's such bad writing for real its so bad
Coda's right; Josie isn't a boy mom.
Josie simply does younger sibling syndrome and tends to baby Jacob. I won't be surprised if you factor in her trauma too, and see her as sort of "giving a better life" to her late husband, who Jacob is named after.
In fact: Jacob's kind of messed up AS WELL as Jaden.
Even if Jacob wasn't parentified and made to basically raise himself (Jaden did that for him), Jacob was born right after his father died and even named after him. He's then said to look like his dad.
That's...kinda scary. I'd be scared if I were me. It's like some ghost I don't even know is following me, and everyone can see it, but they won't save me from it if it tries to engulf me.
Honestly, considering Leasebound is supposedly meant to be about strong and "well-written" female characters, and does so with the motherly characters within the story, I feel like a missed opportunity would be touching upon THOSE kinds of "boy moms".
I'm not talking about favoritism, like Josie with Jaden and Jacob, I mean...
Those moms on tiktok who post videos talking about how their sons are their entire world, and if their sons weren't their sons they'd be DATING them, meanwhile they avoid talking about their daughters like the plague, act like having a daughter is some sort of curse or punishment, the ones who view their daughters as "competition" because they envy their daughters youth or see their daughters as trying to "steal" the attention from their husbands, and make it obvious that they'd happily throw their daughters under a bus for their son. THOSE kinds of boy moms.
But knowing Rusty and how she handles a lot of heavy topics in her work, she'd probably write something like this in all the wrong ways. Especially considering this would force her to have to actually write a female character who's actually flawed if not downright a horrible person, and the closest she can seem to get to writing an "evil" female character is a woman with dyed hair and pronouns and a homophobic Christian mom.
yknow, this is kind of what I meant when I said you guys other-ize women that don't support you entirely.
You're acting like Kai is asking for something the way she's acting. There's not a lot of sympathy and sisterhood for him, even though you preach it.
We ever gonna talk about how incredibly creepy Rusty portrays Kai and his boyfriend. Like, I'm about to have my head on a platter for this one:
Kai and his relationship with his boyfriend reeks of heavy revenge fantasy.
Like... The entire point and "joke" of Kai's relationship is that his boyfriend doesn't actually support his identity as a transgender man, and is faking doing so for what I'm guessing is solely the purpose of getting in his pants considering that's all Rusty seems to think that men are, made even creepier with their heavy age difference of 21 and 29. Considering Rusty and her TERF goons view Kai as nothing more than a "yaoi addicted woman who's a victim of patriarchy but we still hate her because its also simultaneously her fault", this smells so strongly of a revenge fantasy. It gives the heavy vibes of how so many shows and stories will have an evil or antagonistic female character, and it essentially plays out as:
"This evil/abrasive/bratty/antagonistic female character deserves to be punished! But what should be her punishment...? Ah, perfect! She deserves to be assaulted!"
I think what's honestly sad is that I wouldn't even put it past Rusty and her TERF goons to write one of the gendie characters to be assaulted as revenge for being a gendie, especially Kai. Would she probably ever do it? Probably not. Would I be even remotely shocked if she did? No. Not at all.
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I think something that especially irks me about Rusty's portrayal of Kai, and specifically their inability and disliking towards speaking to cisgender women, is that this could've actually been an avenue to explore with his character, given it's not actually out of the realm of reality for "cis women" like Kai to not want to speak to other cis women.
Because surprise, surprise! No, women are not perfect flowery little angels with the only evil women in the world being trans women and any woman supportive of them. In fact, given I had to suffer through 3 years of middle-school (I guess technically 3 and a half because quarantine started mid-way through the 8th grade), as well as just generally growing up as a young autistic girl, I've had first-hand experience of how genuinely nasty and terrible other girls can be.
I myself often isolated myself from other girls my age, specifically because they were girls, because oftentimes, those were the people who were the absolute worse to me, for no other reason than the fact that I wasn't a conventionally attractive and sociable person like everybody else. It took me forever to basically unprogram my brain from the extreme anger I felt towards the female gender (and honestly the male gender too, I basically just hated everybody back then) because I genuinely just couldn't find myself entrusting anybody who identified or was born a girl because of the treatment I had to endure.
So honestly, I really relate a lot to Kai and his issue, and I'm kind of irked that his issue is downplayed and actively mocked as "evil idiot gendie slut who deserves nothing but the worst for daring not to be who we want him to be"
Sounds a whole lot like what I had to constantly hear growing up autistic...
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