re: JakeMorph, auspisticism

This is suuuuuch a good distillation, thank you. It does a lot to sort of cement my previously expressed feelings on auspisticism! Romanticizing the act of trying to keep the peace to an acceptable baseline. Like, the part about Terezi being an abuse victim only being a problem when everyone else has to start dealing with it is especially moving to me. That's literally how abuse gets approached in real life.

Alternia being in some ways a very exaggerated and bloodthirsty form of Earth is one of the best things about it, and as a result I think the urge to approach Alternian romance from a position of... almost cultural relativism? I think that urge is very stupid. It's literally a lot of real life romance stuff taken up to eleven, just like a lot of Alternia is.