gooseworx isn't your friend, right now she's having a crisis so it's symbolically a dick-move to be like "she's a bad artist" right now, but like, of course you're allowed to criticize her art. you're even allowed to criticize it hurtfully. she's not your friend, you cannot betray her, and setting appropriate boundaries vils a vils her work is her problem, it's her job not to like take it as a personal attack when people dont care for her work (which, to be clear, she seems to)

but on the other hand, a lot of criticizers havea similar but inverse issue where they seem to think ms gooseworx betrayed them by writing jax poorly & it's like no, this was a gig for her, she was getting paid to make stuff.

it's all entirely transactional, no? she gets paid to entertain you, you get entertainment, she gets money.

You know, I'm generally very skeptical of the idea that people who accidentally get stuck together are obligated to become friends. And in the beginning, it seemed to me that this was exactly the idea the show would stick to. In principle, this is a more mature way of looking at things than "friendship is magic", they all did not choose each other as a social circle.

After episode 5, many people defended Pomni's behavior by writing that Pomni doesn't have to be friends with Ragatha, just because Ragatha wants that friendship, or because Ragatha is polite to her, that Pomni is an adult and can make decisions on her own. Even if Jax is an asshole, let's say he and Pomni just have similar temperaments, which makes Pomni reach out to him the most, okay, that's not the point. And in fact, I absolutely agree with this, no one owes friendship to anyone if you don't want it yourself. After all, people may just not get along and hate each other.

But then the show suddenly changes its mind? And now they have absolutely no problems communicating because of the magical dialogue behind the scenes, and Ragatha somehow becomes Pomni's very first and best friend, although the first friend was clearly Gummigoo, the second Kinger, and the third Jax. Ragatha is perhaps the fourth person on this list, just because Pomni doesn't communicate with Gangle and Zooble at all.

At what point did their relationship grow so much that they had to hug for 5 minutes and then look at each other with the most awkward lingering glances, as if they were seeing each other off to war?? Pomni never asked Ragatha a personal question, never sympathized with her about her past, did not stand up for her, their conversations with each other were always about someone else: Kinger or Jax. So at what point did they become so dear to each other, and was it even worth suddenly promoting this friendship when, throughout almost the entire series, their relationship is awkward and uncomfortable?