>>89986322Here's how you make the scene work.
>Bubblegum pushes off Finn's hand nonchalantly>Marceline pats Finn's hand with her left hand gently, sort of narrows her gaze at PB, and keeps talking, as Finn naturally moves his hand down, and PB looks away for just a secondIt moves it from just 'don't touch me peasant' to a better character study of WHY the two work together. Bubblegum's this character of gentleness and radiance but in person she's an antisocial avoidant person who methodically rejects physical affection, even platonic gestures, subconsciously. Meanwhile, Marceline, the seemingly evil one, is in person more empathic and concerned for others, and able to correct PB when she's being autistic and uncaring, and reminding her, subtly, like girls like to do, that Finn is a friend and he's just being friendly. And nothing I said wasn't already established in story as how they act.
Bubblegum's able to provide order to the pairing, and Marceline can keep the emotional core in check. You can have lesbians and not have them be anti-males. Sometimes people are trying to be friendly and they're not getting it can weird people out and there's ways to address behavior and acknowledge it gracefully while getting out of it. It's all shit like this that makes liking Bubbline so impossible for me. A pairing needs emotional purpose and connection, a mutual implicit spite of our hero for being near them isn't enough.
That's what makes this frustrating, there's no way to interpret it but a condemnation of Finn, and as this is HIS show, you the viewer by proxy. Like, how DARE YOU want to in the presence of these beautiful lesbians you pig person! An art that has spite for its own audience, even subconsciously, is as obvious as it is bitter.
Have some qt Marmar to wash down the tl;dr
