hello hi probs last ws rant ever

vvvvvvvvv long rant ahead feel free to skip !!

ok so. i LOVE wet sand okay. i LOVEEEEE the characters the themes the art the plot everyth about it. ik it's not everybody's cup of tea & that's okay but ive loved it for so long so the last few updates, & now the epilogue have left me genuinely rly rly rly sad about what went down.

first, the character. i LOVEEEEE tj & ian. i love them together. but it's sad how their entire relationship and their seperate character arcs were just. so rushed in the end. i obv love the fact that they end up together but the way they did js..... makes me rly sad.

tj's character, up until the middle of season 3 was very consistently developing. it was gradual, it was subtle, but the growth was there. & then he regressed a lil when that bathroom fight happened, which i LOVED bc it's realistic yk? but then. the wedding massacre happens, & he changes tides in the span of what? 2 chapters? ykw, i can actually excuse that too. if u think about it that also makes sense, so whatever. i would have liked to see more chapters being dedicated to this whole thing, but WHATEVER. this wasn't the worst bit i think.

ians character though...... literally what the actual fuck. it's CRAZYYYYYYY that we until the v end didn't get a single monologue about his actual, ACTUAL feelings. all of what he thought about tj & jo was given to us in riddles. one second he's thinking about how wants to kiss jo to test smth, the very next second he's thinking of tj right as he's orgasming. which would've been okay HAD WE GOTTEN A PROPER MONOLOGUE AT THE END. what the fuck is the point of hiding his feelings till the very end. genuinely what the fuck.

moreover, i dislike how his entire development was done off screen. & this goes for all 3 characters actually, but especially for ian.

one of my BIGGEST gripes is the joian breakup chapter. on its own? beautiful. when u look at it as whole? genuinely the messiest thing ever. why would ian say he can't be with jo bc he doesn't want jo to go down the path he did, and THEN go back to tj? AND HOLD ON. it could obv be a bittersweet ending showing ian actually wanted jo but settled w tj bc he loved jo too much to put him in danger. BUT THE THING IS. THE THING IS IANS LITERALLY HANGING OUT W TOBY ??????? DOES HE NOT GAF ABOUT TOBY ????? AND ALSO. ALSO. TJ LITERALLY BUTCHERED THE ENTIRE GANG THAT WAS AFTER THEM WHAT MORE DO THEY NEED SAFETY FROM ???? it's also crazy bc post timeskip tjian are obv living freely without any threat (AND WITH TOBY !!!) so saying joian couldn't have been together bc of the fear of smth happening is crazy. unfortunately i WILL take it as the author wanting to appease joian fans one last time which was a v loser move. if you've decided on an endgame stick to it.

another gripe, well actually idk if it's a gripe or js an observation, is that in the end nothing really depended on ian. it all depended on tj, and his choices. ian never ONCE thought of leaving tj for jo. he was only willing to leave w jo when tj disappeared. and when tj did reappear, the first thing ian asked him to do was to run away together, even when he's promised jo the same. i'm not blaming ian here, but when tj was basically the central point in how wet sand plays out, does it really even make sense to call it a love triangle? hot take maybe ws would've worked better w tj as an mc hehehhxiqu IM SORRY ill stop.

the plot holes: what was the deal w big teddy? what was the purpose of jo being shady asf sometimes? the eerie ass pic of kid jo holding up a dead rabbit? emphasis on the bullets, his dad saying an injured person can shoot the gun w one hand (iirc)? what was chiwoons phone call about? did ian rly leave tj without a word? okay ian healed for 2 years, but what happened to giving tj a semblance of self esteem apart from him revolving his entire existence around ian? what happened to jamie? and the biggest thing: not a single proper conversation of tjian talking about everything they've been through. do u know how crazy that is? CRAZY. ALSO EHAT THE FUCK DOES WET SAND EVEN MEAN IM RHING SON. WHAT DOES IT MEAN WE DIDNT EVEN GET A BEACH SCENE FUCK OFF FUCK OFFFFFFFF.

ykw, i can actually tell the author had longer plans for wet sand. it was going okay until at one point she started speed running through things. idk what happened, i was blaming the toxic ass fandom for it but..... the fandoms been toxic for a while. if she was tired she couldve taken time off. idk man.

it's crazy bc ive been recommending ws to oomfs for AGES now. do i still love it? ofc. would i still recommend it? hmm. maybe if u don't get so emotionally attached to the characters like i did, u won't find the ending TOO disappointing (it still will be though!). was it worth it for me? huge yeah I'd do it all over again. but rn im gonna fuck off from talking about it for at least a year.

IF U READ THIS FAR YOURE INSANE BUT ALSO I LOVE U GIVES U A BIG WET KISS ON THE MOUTH.