Ethereal Hope

Half Chinese Trans lesbian should warn you, I have no idea what I'm doing

[football-in-tuxedos]

We talk a lot about how like, fandom in general has extremely piss poor reading comprehension, but I'm not gonna lie, the case I've seen in Amazing Digital Circus is frankly fascinating.

Like, I'm not the biggest fan of TADC, I thought it was fine, but it wasn't what I would call subtle about its themes. TADC exists very firmly in the Millennial Adult Animated series subtype, which means it looks like a kids show, while being about adult emotions, and also states its ideas extremely clearly. There's a bunch of these (BoJack Horseman and Rick & Morty are the big ones in my estimations). They are extremely direct and very blunt, which is in my mind just a neutral statement. Directness is neither positive nor negative

So here comes this show, which spends a huge chunk of its runtime explaining how basically all of the characters are damaged and need to accept themselves to heal, and then spends a MASSIVE chunk of its double length final episode detailing how its biggest piece of shit character became the way she is via a mix of self loathing and fear of her own identity, culminating with her begging the main character not to love her, literally indicating that she believes her own actions have made her irredeemable, AND THEN the whole show emotionally climaxes with said main character embracing her, choosing to love her anyway...

And a bunch of y'all seem to be champing at the bit to find new ways to punish her. Honestly y'all fascinate me.

[cryptic-rat-in-your-walls]

I’ve also seen a lot of people get really upset over her character arc.

She is not MEANT to be redeemable.

She’s meant to be RELATABLE, in a tragic sort of way. Like all the other characters.

If you don’t relate to her, that’s fine! Not everyone is going to relate to one single character, especially someone as nuanced as Jax. But it’s exhausting to see people that do get ridiculed.

Jax was self-aware enough to understand that everything she did was horrendous and unforgivable in the moment. She pushed away anyone that cared about her because of her fear of vulnerability.

If you’re angry that your tumblr sexy man is a trans woman, you’re probably not mature enough for the show. If you hate Jax and think she should have been hated by everyone without a chance at making it up to them or changing for the better, then you fell for the mask. Not saying she shouldn’t have been held accountable, she should, but you can force accountability on someone with love. In fact, that’s the only way to do it and do it well.

I personally loved TADC. I had a love-hate relationship with Jax and her character (hated the character as a person, loved how she was written). Others can have their own opinions on the show and the characters, but I don’t think people give enough credit to what Jax’s character added to the story, and i definitely don’t think that half the opinions on her are based in anything besides ignorance. But maybe I’m just on the worst side of the fandom right now.

[checkyourasianbias]

matcha originated in China about 1200 years ago, açaí has been consumed by Indigenous communities in the Amazon for centuries, and Dubai chocolate was invented by combining chocolate with knafeh, an 1100 year old SWANA snack.

western (usually white but seemingly not in this case) people love to call nonwhite foods suddenly becoming popular in western mainstream culture "industry plants" as if they haven't always existed.

this is orientalism.

[busket]

important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck

[brightlotusmoon]

[assumptionprime]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Well don't just STARE

It's not gonna spank itself"

[firwalker]

I won't lie i had to stop and look at the image again to make sure this wasn't malevola/invisible art XD still a very nice booty though

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I'd be down for someone to make some "inspired" by this ;D

[firwalker]

They are my fav gals from dispatch so I defenitly wouldn't mind seeing them like this! Especially if you change the position of the tail to be riiiight under the skirt.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

@jmillerart >.>

<.<

[jmillerart]

And i have been summoned!!!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

:D

U HORNY ART WIZARD <3

[bloodyshadow1]

Not fanart (not my.talent unfortunately) but I have written a smutty fanfic about malevola and visi

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I WISH TO READ THIS :D

[bloodyshadow1]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

hope you like it, smut's not exactly my forte, but I think I did okay

[theconcealedweapon]

Also, "stay home if you don't want to be murdered by the government" is not something said by people who value freedom.

[phoenixystix]

In recent memory and because the show sanitized his upbringing, Percy gets treated like he had an idyllic childhood. And it drives me crazy. Yes, his mom is actually the only good parent in the entire series and everyone else has incredibly messed up origins. But he, too, had an extremely traumatic childhood and you can see such clear evidence of how it shaped him.

I think of that part from TTC when he meets Annabeth’s stepmom and expects her to like turn into a raving lunatic at the mention of her name and is surprised when she doesn’t. And it’s easy, I feel, to read this in retrospect as Percy just not understanding the nuances of bad parental relationships. But I think this is what it actually is: Percy’s experience with a bad stepparent is Gabe. And that’s how Gabe always reacted at the mention of Percy’s name. And Gabe would have left him to rot without any question or remorse. So of course that’s what he expects from the stepparent Annabeth has been complaining about as long as he’s known her, and she deemed bad enough to run away from.

And yes, compared to Luke and Thalia and Annabeth, Percy is somewhat better off solely because of Sally. Except he, too, was deadly serious when he said he’d rather live on the streets than live with Gabe, and if not for camp that would have been his only option at this point in his life—the same as it was for them. Percy truly CAN relate to the feeling of camp being his only safe haven because this is also true for him. Percy probing Thalia about her history with her mom is not a kid who comes from a stable home trying to relate to her and failing: it’s a kid who grew up sharing living space with an alcoholic, and is able to tell at the age of 12 years old “when an adult has been hitting the happy juice.” And this is of course not even to talk about his constant awareness of money and his mother working odd jobs just to put food on the table—experiences that Thalia, Luke, and Annabeth don’t have. So I think it is just so unfair to view him in retrospect as the kid who is so privileged that he can’t understand trauma rather than what he actually is: a kid who was only ever one bad day away from being in just as bad of circumstances as any one of the other demigods, and who at points in his life, actually was in their circumstances. When Percy meets May Castellan he is not just reflecting on how bad Luke’s life sucked, he has experience and trauma of his own, and he feels a heavy sense of “how easily this could have been me.”

Percy being not outside of the problem, but inside it, is fundamental to the series. He’s not just championing Luke’s cause: it’s also his own! Because who is more exploited by the Olympians than Percy Jackson? This is a kid who has almost been put down like a dog by them ! They took a vote on it in front of him!

Leo and Frank and Hazel’s moms are actually dead and they stayed dead. But Percy watched the Minotaur squeeze his mom to death right in front of his eyes and had to process her death and blamed himself for his failure! Of course he is going to relate to them on a fundamental level, and again, he was so very close from having been in exactly Leo’s situation.

I hate the Percy and Annabeth dynamic the show is setting up and more recent works have established, with Annabeth being integrated into Percy’s happy and stable home life. That’s not where Percy came from. They are both kids who come from messy, painful experiences and and they see likeness in each other. He’s actually needier than she is when they first meet!

[hail-dondus]

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

[cartoonistfreak101]

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

[excessively-english-jd]

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

[hylialeia]

listen it's not that I think epic the musical is a perfect adaption of the odyssey but it was an impressive passion project that knew what it wanted to be and knew what people gravitated to in the original work and it put significant effort into conveying this through its unique medium and tone to the point that hundreds of other people felt compelled to put effort into their own artistic interpretations of that version of the story. and that's really cool! and yes I would be more critical if it was a 100 million dollar project made by a professional because what the fuck do you mean you're a world-famous director and you cut the my name is nobody scene are you goddamn serious

[liberalsarecool]

'Special kind of stupid' is the definition of white supremacy.

[espanolbot2]

‘Daily Show’ Rips Headhunters Responsible for Graham Platner’s Candidacy: ‘Napoleon Dynamite-Looking Dorks’

"The Daily Show" laid into the headhunters responsible for Graham Platner's candidacy after the embattled Senate hopeful dropped out.

Oooh, he was the pick of a consultant team from outside of Maine who didn't do a background check and seemingly picked him in a panic in response to the 2024 election, that explains so much!

Y'know so many of the Democrats problems would be solved by just not hiring consultants in the first place. Like the ones who in the 2024 election told the Democrats to stop Walz messaging on how weird the GOP candidates were because, while it was popular with existing Democrat voters and people on the left, they felt it would alienate the imaginary Republican voters they thought would be attracted to the Harris campaign by leaning into the Chaney endorsements instead.

Because what Democrats want is more Republicans... Although admittedly, that was what Aaron Sorkin suggested Biden should do (having a Republican on his cabinet), a display of naivety that explains why the West Wing is such a frustrating, infuriating watch.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Well don't just STARE

It's not gonna spank itself"

[firwalker]

I won't lie i had to stop and look at the image again to make sure this wasn't malevola/invisible art XD still a very nice booty though

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I'd be down for someone to make some "inspired" by this ;D

[firwalker]

They are my fav gals from dispatch so I defenitly wouldn't mind seeing them like this! Especially if you change the position of the tail to be riiiight under the skirt.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

@jmillerart >.>

<.<

[jmillerart]

And i have been summoned!!!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

:D

U HORNY ART WIZARD <3

[bloodyshadow1]

Not fanart (not my.talent unfortunately) but I have written a smutty fanfic about malevola and visi

[weaver-z]

This satire article resonated with me so much

[gudetama-tamad]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Cishet people love the narrative of the Brave Queer and the Heroic Trans Person because they only really like minorities when we're suffering and they can use our suffering to show what Good Allies they are

They don't like when minorities win or have power because then things might change in a way that doesn't make them comfortable

So it's much nicer for them to just sit and weep at the thought of our Noble Suffering

They're far happier crying performative crocodile tears over an article about a guy who got gay bashed or a trans woman who was murdered than they would ever be reading about us actually achieving anything

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

there’s something so very juicy to me about puppy mira being used as a toy and prize in zoerumi’s little make believe competition to own her and use her however they see fit and the different ways that they do see fit, with zoey seeing her as her little pretty puppy to play with and go on walks with and pamper and gives treats to and get a bit of cuteness aggression (aka, “need to fuck her until the urge to press her against every flat, hard surface goes away”) with her, while rumi sees her as a gorgeous disobedient puppy that she covets and wants to do terrible things to and can lure into her grasp with promises of the sweetness zoey showers her in plus more, only for her to bruise up her body with too hard thrusts and gripping hands and to make her cry from teeth biting at her throat and chewing just above her collar and choking her. and zoey, ever the sweet owner, comes to the rescue for her puppy and reminds her to never wander off again because (she gestures to mira’s bright red skin and dark blue bruises) look what happens, and then she punishes the conniving rumi in whatever cruel way she used mira x10.

and then they transition out of play and into aftercare, with nice warm baths drawn (mira choses the scent of the soap) and sweet words of praise exchanged and rumi’s gentle fingers worrying at welts and bruises and marks made by her on mira, who reassures her that it was perfect, and zoey tending to each of the marks she left on rumi and asking her if those were okay and rumi smiling and kissing her and telling her she was amazing and rumi wouldnt change anything about it, and then mira is given the choice of after sex food and movie and she’s allowed to choose what spot on the bed she wants (middle, always middle) and anything else she needs just ask them, because they wanna reassure her that all of their objectification of her is play only and zoey and rumi are extra sweet on each other to remind each of their pure adoration and rumi is gentle with mira to remind her of how she really wants to handle her outside of play, and zoey nuzzled against her to remind her that her sweetness during play isnt at all for the game of it, just the way that sweetness is communicated is, and then they collapse into bed together, full of food and maybe a bit of bodily fluids and certainly a lot of love

[bloodyshadow1]

Honestly, I like this a lot. I prefer when fanfics or fan writings actually engage in aftercare, or just sweet moments after that remind us that the characters love each other.

The sexy times are neat, but I'm a romantic bitch at my core and like the soft stuff, especially after the hard stuff

[luca-is-a-pengu]

steph and cass sitting by the entrance to a party.

[aicodraws]

Fluffy caitvi based on the thread below 🫶🏽

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The writer/artist on this book knew EXACTLY what they were doing here XD

[jell-o101]

"We want more complicated female characters!"

Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.

[blackstar5078]

Important tags to include actually.