u/bakerstreetrat

It's so rare to experience art that you had nothing to do with creating but that you know will make people understand you better having seen it, but that's how Coyote vs Acme has me feeling.

What I've always loved about the character is captured and articulated so clearly on screen, and this whole week with this movie coming out has felt so validating and like an otherwise private, personal piece of myself is being embraced and shared by others for the first time. It's overwhelming! ♥️

Come to the "What Exactly is Kirby?" panel Sunday at 10 to get a Kirby ribbon!

You hate one or more of the following:

1. You hate that the signs pointing to Jax being trans that resonated with others, particularly trans people, throughout the series did not resonate with you - potentially because you haven’t consumed much media that does not center or speak directly to your lived experience.
2. You hate that the creator’s words on the character have been brought into the fandom discussion space as a response to 1), but mistakenly believe it’s being brought in as evidence that Jax is trans, because of 1).
3. You hate that there is a large outpouring of celebration and support for Jax being trans when that is not one of the aspects of Jax’s complex character that resonates deeply with you.
4. You hate that there is a large outpouring of celebration and support for Jax being trans when you feel that Jax, on the whole, does not deserve to be supported or celebrated at all due to her actions.

But if you hate that Jax being trans ruins the other aspects of her character, or the series on the whole, for you, or you hate seeing trans characters and/or people period, then congratulations! Its is, indeed, transphobia.

Thank you for your time.

I think that's why no one is actually getting anywhere when trying to articulate what's wrong, and why they're getting so lost in the weeds about eyelashes and brow shapes and irises. It looks wrong - and it is - but it's hard to explain why, visually.

The animation is fine. The problem is the lack of realism. The guys on the left are very well animated cartoon characters, and as such, they do not look grounded in reality. They don't look grounded in physics, accentuating more cartoony, rubbery features closer to the animals in Madagascar than the vikings in How to Train Your Dragon. Immediately, that lowers the stakes. If the Donkey on the left was hit with a frying pan, I'd expect his face to smush and his eyes to roll around. If the Donkey on the right was hit by a frying pan, I'd expect him to bleed.

The new style takes away the humanity of the characters, and seeing the humanity in "fairy tale creatures," ogre or otherwise, is the entire heart of the franchise. That, I think, is why this is such a disappointment. It's not the animation, it's not nostalgia, it's a betrayal of actual human connection.