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i once did throw a birthday party that nobody turned up to except the girl i had a crush on at the time who used it as a chance to tell me she had started dating someone else so it was never gonna happen

captainconfusedrubberducky

Yeah i threw a bday party once and only one friend showed up, but then- she and I are still buddies, the rest nah. Friends since 1992 :D

kissdollz

I wonder what they're talking about?

jense-doodles

Ooooo the amazing lesbian circus oooooo

captainconfusedrubberducky

To quote Cain: wowowowie!

#ragapom #buttonblossom #tadc ragatha #tadc pomni #tadc

crazysodomite

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband

captainconfusedrubberducky

Yup and it teaches young boys one of two lessons : you are stupid you will fail so dont try. Or you dont have to try just be 'charming' and you'll strive once married.

kianamaiart

Episode 3 tingz

captainconfusedrubberducky

Got really super excited cause i thought the ep was out: it wasn't but noooooooow I get be really super excited in the *future* how bout that :O

tadc-tadc-tadc

Shoutout to this shot in episode one.

Shoutout to ragatha being fixed and immediately going to stand next to Pomni, and Pomni doesn't move away, but neither of them can look at each other, and you know they both feel bad, you know Pomni feels bad because she abandoned this person who had only been kind to her twice when she needed help desperately.

And you know Ragatha feels bad because she feels like she failed in a million different ways and despite the agony she just went through the biggest ache is failing Pomni (and kaufmo, probably). And Ragatha doesn't even realize how strong she is to have been able to put on a brave face through that to begin with.

They went through something horrible together, and on instinct, they stand together now, but they cant look at each other, because they both 'know' the other is hurting 'because of them'.

How much of the weird forced awkwardness between these two characters for most of the series could be explained with "Well maybe Pomni still feels guilt for (in her own words) abandoning Ragatha, and maybe Ragatha still feels guilt for Pomni having to witness what she did (as she implies), and maybe they don't know how to be around each other."

I just. I feel like the writing had the perfect excuse, to write in that awkward tension between these characters who had every reason to be closer friends (and seemed to? want to be?), but just never touched on it again. What these two went through in episode one is never touched on again, except briefly in episode five when Ragatha brings it up, but that doesn't touch on the complicated emotions they must both have around it, it's just there to highlight how awkward Ragatha is and how little time these two characters have spent together.

Then they talk about something, presumably, after episode six, but we..don't get to know what that is, really. And then they're fine, in episode seven, and it's cute, in a way, how they're spending time together! They hang out on the beach, they spend most of the episode whispering to each other. But..all they seem to have to talk about is the male characters or whatever plot thing is immediately happening, because despite the immense potential between them, the show never really did anything to give them an interesting dynamic, so they never seem able to have a conversation that's deeper or has any more chemistry than small talk.

And I know, I know, the people who don't care about Ragatha, or who don't care about Pomni, or are just really really tired of complaints about their non-friendship, always go "You can't be mad at the show for not being a different show! Their dynamic was just never meant to be very deep, it's not a valid criticism of the show to whine that two characters you like aren't friends."

Except my complaint isn't that two characters I like aren't good enough friends, it's that they're set up for depth over and over but it's never explored.

They have a great and deeply intriguing setup with shared trauma and potential guilt on both sides in episode one. In episode two Ragatha is established as badly wanting to be Pomni's friend and Pomni is established as wanting a safety net and coming to the realization that the people in the circus could provide that for her. In episode three Pomni comes to Ragatha and thanks her for being there. And then they're not friends after episode three for some reason. Two episodes of awkward jealousy goes by, Pomni gets some actual chemistry with Jax (and like..makes jabs behind ragatha's back for some reason?), and then they 'talk', but they do it OFF SCREEN, and then I think they actually are supposed to be friends in episode seven but there's no substance there!

And it makes me sad, because Ragatha and Pomni's..whatever relationship they've got going on..is a consistent throughline in the show but I don't think the writers cared enough to develop it so they just have the two awkwardly dance around each other for no stated reason, resolve it off screen, and go :) at each other a little to show that..we're supposed to feel like an arc happened there..

Just kind of disappointing, to me.

suziesock

arisartcloset

Hazbin redesigns I did for fun on twitter last year✨

And yes resolution is crappy srry😔🫶🏽

captainconfusedrubberducky

I adore these redesigns!

jaytoonist

RAGATHA, POMNI KISS RIGHT NOW-

jaytoonist

Anime yuri

twilidragonrin-art

I didn't have any ideas for the rest so have this thing I was really proud of

jaytoonist

Welp let’s try this :3

molombo

Where's the African mythology?

The Kickstarter is live now!

boycarofchilladelphia

I know I have close to zero Tumblr fame, which I normally appreciate, but I would love it if this made it into the world and got fully backed. You can even pledge to get the digital content and send a real copy to a school in Africa or to a HBCU or community library of your choosing!