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[insanepurin]

Creators of Adventure Time: What do you think of Bubblegum/Marceline?

I don't watch much television anymore (except MLP, and even then on YouTube), let alone Adventure Time, but the idea of a lesbian couple in a kid's cartoon being portrayed positively instead of freaky/weird? YES PLZ. Hell, the song Marceline sings is damned awesome.Unfortunately

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[insanepurin]

I've heard the business argument before, so there's something to think about on that end, but at the same time, I have the same question as you do. When the hell would LGBT be considered "marketable" enough to show to the general public if people are never shown LGBT characters in the first place?

I have no idea if there's any "canon" pairings on Adventure Time, though I've heard an argument that "A cartoon show is pretty silly to be preaching gay tolerance on. Unless it was a cartoon meant to teach about lesbian tolerance, which AT is not." But that's the thing. What people need to realize is you can have a gay character without going into an Aesop roving that OMG TEYR HOOMAN TOO!!1!1". I'm not saying AT has to be educational if it isn't. AT can go on doing AT things, and Marceline and Bubblegum can hold hands for five seconds without anyone in the show going tl;dr about LGBT rights. Heck, I dislike preachy LGBT poster-children in media as much as the next person, which is one of the reasons why Brokeback Mountain rubbed me the wrong way. ("SEE TWO COWBOYS. SEE TWO COWBOYS ANGST BECAUSE THEY'RE GAY. SEE TWO COWBOYS SUFFER BECAUSE IT'S NOT FAIIIIIIIIR.")

Boy am I testy today. I know it sounds ridiculous to be up in arms over a cartoon I've never watched, but fuck, I have the right to be upset.