#I've drifted from most of my fandom friends and damn that hurts as much as drifting from rl friends let me tell you!

[sashannarcy]

What are your thoughts on the Amphibia fandom complaint's about S3? For me, it felt like people complained about the stuff I had no issue with but ignored or praised the things I did have a problem with.

I'm curious to hear what u personally thought were s3's issues; feel free to lmk that!! as far as my own opinion goes:

I'm really not picky w Amphibia's writing. I've always loved it and that did not change when s3 aired. the major thing I saw most people complaining abt was Anne's seeming indifference in s3a to the situation regarding her friends; I really never thought this to be bad writing imo. we had two seasons of the show to learn how Anne deals w all of her emotional issues: she represses and ignores them. idk why people expected Amphibia to suddenly become this depressing show after True Colors, bc 1) Disney wouldn't have let them (their younger audience wouldn't have found it engaging) and 2) that's never been Amphibia's style anyway. I think there were well-developed and subtle signs that Anne was struggling throughout the season (see: the entire museum episode and also that little outburst Anne had at Sasha during Sasha's Angels), and not to mention the kid had Andrias's robots and the literal FBI after her during all of s3a??? idk, speaking as someone who compartmentalizes all his problems, I think it's def realistic that Anne wasn't having visible breakdowns. so yeah, I didn't and still don't vibe w the complaint that s3 is too cheerful in this sense.

another major complaint I've heard: not enough Marcy. which is so laughable that that's a complaint in the first place. this isn't the Marcy Wu show, this is the Anne Boonchuy show. sure, I would've loved to see more of Darcy, but I'm also v aware that the crew ran out of time for a lot of things and I'm willing to give them some leeway in that sense. s2 really ruined the fandom's perception of the show from what I can see, bc as soon as Marcy was introduced, it was like no other character could be as important as them. I see very little gripe abt how little we see Sasha in s2 and it's practically just Marcy and Anne, but the second we have smth like s3 where Marcy is barely there and it's practically just Anne (and then Sasha), it's a major problem for some reason. it's dumb. s3 was perfectly fine as far as how much Marcy showed up. again, this isn't their show.

final complaint I can think of (which I again disagree with) is how Amphibia ended. I do seriously wonder sometimes if I watched the same show the rest of this fandom did. the entire damn theme of the show is change. did people somehow expect the trio to NOT drift apart? or even for them to be able to return to Amphibia? look, I get it, Amphibia's ending is bittersweet and it hurts, but then again, doesn't life hurt like a bitch sometimes? this is literally inevitable. Amphibia's message is all about change and being made better through the connections you've made and the people you hold close, EVEN if you have to leave those people physically. the point is that love is strong enough to persist without that constant face-to-face connection, and we get an example of that w the future trio reunion ("you'd be surprised what makes its way back to you"). sometimes shit sucks, but you just keep moving forward and you keep hoping. you keep loving. Amphibia is insanely good at representing REALISTIC emotional scenarios, despite the grandiosity of its plot. this is why I love the show so much. you don't have to like the finale, but to say that it's bad writing is just. missing the point.

other than that, I can't really think of the other major things I've seen people say abt s3. I am a s3 defender no matter what. I love Amphibby that's my final statement🫶🫶

#this got long my apologies!! thank u for asking though I love getting asks like this abt amphibia #anonymous #ask #amphibia #long post

[merihn]

Hey Alex! Hope you're having a wonderful Christmas <3 Many thanks for all the great writing you've done this year, you're such a fantastic writer and I'm so glad you're sharing your work with the JatP fandom, and look forward to seeing more from you when you're ready to post it x

Hi! I had a great Christmas! I hope yours is going well too 😘

🙈🙈🙈 ugh you are so sweet, thank you so much for sending this message. Hopefully I’ll get out of this tiny little rut I’m in and get back to writing. I feel juuuust a little like JatP kind of saved my life (maybe not that extreme but pretty close) because I hadn’t been in a fandom for 8 years and basically life felt pretty empty until this silly little kids show came along. I ended up watching it at least once a day (twice, a couple of times) for like 2 weeks.

It brought me back to Tumblr, which I far prefer to any other social media, and it got me talking to a friend I had kind of drifted from again.

#ok like a looooot of shit has happened over the last 8 years #and it just kinda feels like when you don't have a fandom/fixation that life isn't that great #there's not that thing you can fall back on that's guaranteed to make you feel brilliant #to immerse yourself in #like I still read some fic and stuff but nothing was that exciting #fandom is amazing and I cherish it so much #plus it brought me Yeo and I'm completely obsessed with her so #because that's another thing fandom brings you #AMAZING friends #I've drifted from most of my fandom friends and damn that hurts as much as drifting from rl friends let me tell you! #anyway shut up alex #thank you again anon for such a lovely and sweet comment I'm going to reread this for the rest of the day and bask #Anonymous #i hope you read all the tags bc omg the amount of SPECIAL i felt when you used my name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #if you want to message me off anon (if you have an account) please do! lets be friends!