This little thread has me really confused. It's like a little window into a parallel dimension where a word has a different meaning. But it's probably just that in our dimension, what I interpret a word as doesn't align with it's current popular definition
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For example I'd describe Steven Universe as wholesome and SU deals with flawed characters, abrasive relationships, rude people, pain, deep interpersonal conflicts, is definitely political
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But the very fact it deals with those things, and deals with those things in healthy ways is what makes it wholesome. It makes it the most wholesome. Many of us have a very positive relation to Steven Universe's stories
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To conflate wholesome with just being cutesy is to wildly misunderstand what wholesome means

If things that are difficult but wholesome stop being called wholesome because some people think wholesome means cute, then the meaning of wholesome will ~become~ cute, over time
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I don't know what any of this means for Grace's games, I've still not played frog detective. My expectation is that is quite wholesome, and cute. The same way that Steven Universe is both wholesome and cute. One descriptor does not imply the other

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