The majority of people posting about the leaks do not understand Portuguese and are spreading what they think happened, but they also conveniently ignore the trans themes to make what Jax did seem much worse than it actually was because they hate her.
If you watched that scene and didn't understand that the argument broke out because Jax came out as transfem (Why do you think Ribbit placed her bow tie on Jax's ear, a typically feminine accessory placement? And then said that Jax's secret was safe with her?) to her mother, you're either a transphobe or completely blinded by your hate of the character, making your analysis of her flawed from the start... or both. What do you think Jax meant by "something really personal"? What's interesting is that everyone trying to make her seem much worse than she is never bring up the fact that she was being abused by her parents, and that her mother was constantly pointing out how unlike her father she was, because she wasn't as masculine as him. I wonder what demographic is constantly belittled for clearly not fitting in with the other boys, because they aren't boys...? So, why is Jax being treated as the sole evil, and not the person who had control over her whole life, her mother, being transphobic to her and still thinking she had any right to hug her child without repercussion?
Jax's rejection of Ribbit wasn't just misogyny, it was a transfem, who not only already had problems with being genuine, but also never got rid of all the awful things she had internalized, getting scared that she was going to be outed and ridiculed again. Her throwing Ribbit's bow tie on the floor when she heard Kaufmo coming and telling Ribbit that the two would never talk again if she told anyone about her secret wasn't her being an asshole for free. She got desperate and scared, and from then on dug her own hole, hurting herself and everyone else in the process.
TADC may not be perfect, but my post is not about the ways the writing itself could have been improved, and this was Gooseworx's first time working on anything of this scale, so she has my full understanding on why she doesn't want anything to do with this franchise anymore. But the moment you start treating fictional characters as real people and a genuine reflection of the author behind it, you've lost the plot and are only looking to harass a transfeminine author for making decisions you personally didn't like in her own work. A "bad" character doesn't need to be punished in fiction, and not all stories are going to have punishing the perpetrator as their purpose, and a character not being punished doesn't mean the author behind it actually glorifies those things in real life. Sometimes a work of art wants you to feel bad that a perpetrator wasn't punished. It's obvious Gooseworx wanted to explore the conflicting feeling of sympathy towards people who are themselves hurt, but hurt other people, and while it may not have fully worked because the development between the characters wasn't balanced, nobody is trying to trick an audience into feeling sorry for an 'abuser', it's the whole point of the scene where Gangle, the main target of her bullying, is questioning why she didn't really feel sorry for Jax. Stop trying to treat fictional characters as real people and start thinking about why they were written as they were and what role they play in the work's themes and setting. And lastly, to the transmisogynistic fools who are jumping on a harassment campaign against Gooseworx under the guise of being "critical" of the work, I hope you feel good about yourselves for trying to ruin the life of a trans woman because you didn't like the ending and a fictional character. Those accusations of grooming are textbook transmisogyny, and they're conveniently appearing after she wrote something you didn't like, curious!
The finale not being as great as you wanted doesn't give you the right to harass a member of an extremely vulnerable minority, put that energy into fanworks or something that's not going to hurt others. I don't care if you're a minor or an adult doing this, you WILL hurt others the same way after you're done hurting Gooseworx.
