and the pacing contributed to its own weak landing... despite that, i loved it...! i respect that others don't, but if people want to debate on it, at least refer to the actual issues with the writing instead of resorting to calling it yuri/queerbait, which it isn't.
i think it weakens its own theme by building up to this cathartic moment of unearthing true (romantic) love, only to leave the feelings between laramari open ended (i personally believe it was as firm as it could implicitly be, but people can still interpret it differently)
@melthridatism this is obvious for sure but what were people saying about it..? i haven't seen. i don't want to search the tag up too much i'll get too frustrated
@rarachyandesu this is so so true.. i haven't seen anyone talk about this but i always felt this line to be so off. it felt as if mari was simply saying what she believed lara would subscribe to, because she wanted her to return. but it wasn't right. it didn't reflect lara's heart
if you minimize someone's decision to leave in order to further their own personal growth into simply being avoidant, maybe you should reassess your beliefs...
i think how you interpret the ending of sayolara is also very indicative of how you morally perceive certain situations where a person chooses to leave and certain posts with over 1k+ likes show that lol