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TWEWY fandom petty grumble
Dec. 29th, 2018 02:13 pmI have an eternal hateboner for TWEWY fic and meta that talks about 'the Long Game'. 8( It's never called that in canon, most of the cast has no idea what was up with Joshua and Kitaniji, and the world is big enough I don't think composers from other areas would have a Term for it beyond 'that stuff they did in Shibuya'. It's just ... it's that time they held three Games in a row. Joshua, Megumi, Sanae, and Neku are the only ones who know there was a single overarching Game involved.
I get annoyed every time I see it, because I don't think most of these authors know it's not canon, and it feels lazy. It's Kariya's month with no breaks, or that time Uzuki got a promotion because everyone died, or The Shibuya Thing, or the Red Skull pin thing, or Joshua's bet or Joshua's month off. That time the headphones kid got screwed over specifically. Pick something that makes sense in context!!! Most of the cast doesn't know much about what happened specifically, and outside of the main cast, there's no reason to expect it to be sufficiently unusual that people would recognise the Shibuya debacle as 'the Long Game'.
I get annoyed every time I see it, because I don't think most of these authors know it's not canon, and it feels lazy. It's Kariya's month with no breaks, or that time Uzuki got a promotion because everyone died, or The Shibuya Thing, or the Red Skull pin thing, or Joshua's bet or Joshua's month off. That time the headphones kid got screwed over specifically. Pick something that makes sense in context!!! Most of the cast doesn't know much about what happened specifically, and outside of the main cast, there's no reason to expect it to be sufficiently unusual that people would recognise the Shibuya debacle as 'the Long Game'.
