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[garlicnoodle1]

Sorry but this was my IMMEDIATE reaction 😭

[creatingblackcharacters]

Saw a tweet about Elon Musk saying "the first trillionaire is an African American" and even if it was meant to be incendiary bait it worked bc this bullshit is precisely why I prefer to go by Black, because ain't no way I gotta be lumped in with a white European settler from South Africa whose usually white-beloathed immigrant status is ignorable because he's the right color of "African" like bruh PLEASE it was cool and right when Mamdani did it, fuck Elon bro

[weirdkimmie]

An insane bunch of friends 🎉

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[lluxentz]

Happy pride

[garlicnoodle1]

Jax really reheated Ragatha’s trauma nachos and thought we wouldn’t notice?

[garlicnoodle1]

When you both got piano skills, mommy issues, and dead friends but one’s a woman so they don’t gaf

[garlicnoodle1]

Kinda fixed the audio a bit

[kasaeatsbugs]

Really wish all the female cast were 5x meaner

[garlicnoodle1]

CLOCK IT RAGATHA. SHUT JAX THE FUCK UP. Also, real. Let them be rightfully angry.

[garlicnoodle1]

Ragatha and Jax beefing and arguing was so funny. I miss Ragatha yelling and clocking his shit so, so badly.

[garlicnoodle1]

Though I was theorizing it would get confirmed by the end, Ragatha and Jax being ex-friends always made perfect sense for why their dynamic is the way it is. But even then, I find it crazy how the series has Ragatha not only confirm this and refer to Ribbit as “losing ANOTHER friend” (implying she was also friends with Kaufmo and Ribbit) but they don’t even bother showing her interacting with him or them in a flashback?

Or explaining how she felt losing Ribbit and Kaufmo? Or showing her and Jax on better terms before as friends? How she felt losing her friends (both to abstraction and a falling out)? She just gets background treatment despite having strong ties to these characters too! It’s a strange writing choice how not only do Ragatha and Jax get built up tension to go absolutely nowhere with it at the end but we never bother to see Ragatha’s POV outside of telling and not showing.

[garlicnoodle1]

I’ve been seeing the term “media literacy” being thrown around against responses (mostly neutral-negative ones) of the TADC finale and I have to say…do some people know what media literacy actually is?

Media literacy is defined as a communicative ability to use critical thinking, reasoning, evaluation and analysis for a piece of media to understand what possible themes, stories, and ideas its attempting to tell, how it’s done and how that affects the overall narrative/audience.

Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the finale. Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the direction a character took. It’s about why you may feel that way and being open to different perspectives, analyses, literary criticisms, and understanding the differences between intention vs execution.

Media literacy has nothing to do with “Well, you didn’t like that and I did, so you’re media illiterate”. In fact, that’s the opposite of being media literate. What media literacy actually is an ability to critically think and analyze something in your own way, discuss it reasonably, and drawing out conclusions. If you hated the direction of the ending or characters, you are not media illiterate. If you loved the direction of the ending or characters, you are not media illiterate either. It’s not about blindly loving or hating something. It’s not about getting defensive due to different viewpoints of the finale. It’s not about what your opinions are but why and how you came to them- and discussing with others about it.

[winterpeta1s]

that one kpop girl that loves jax and drew herself dating him but when asked if she would date a jax in real life she went guys no its only cool when he's a cartoon that would be horrible get higher standards people, i hope she's having a good day

[garlicnoodle1]

Realest opinion EVER.

[garlicnoodle1]

If you are a Kinger fan who hates Ragatha, you are not a real Kinger fan.

[garlicnoodle1]

If Kinger was a woman, a lot of people wouldn’t dote on him and would constantly blame him for the circus existing. He wouldn’t be the goated father figure everyone loves. He’d be the secretive wench who plays dumb to avoid accountability.

[garlicnoodle1]

Lesbianism would have saved Ribbit.

[winterpeta1s]

[garlicnoodle1]

The Amazing Digital Conformity Gate

[garlicnoodle1]

One thing that always intrigued me about Jax was why he was the way he was. I was always fond of the idea that Jax’s antagonistic behavior was not just a result of a troublesome human life but an example of how the Digital Circus could ruin a person’s humanity and mental health. How being a young adult trapped in a digital purgatory for several years of your life constantly subjected to dehumanization and grief over loved ones can lead you to lose yourself. How Jax, instead of finding ways to heal over time with people who cared about him, decided to embrace treating everything like it’s a game out of fear of being hurt again. He would dehumanize himself and others as a way to cope, despite harming real life people, including the ones who witnessed him as an entirely different and kinder person (such as his ex-friend Ragatha and Kinger). How would this parallel Kinger’s ability to cope maturely and manage to try to humanize the world around him? How would this parallel Ragatha’s behavior of being kind to others and putting their health over hers to prevent their abstractions? How will our main protagonist, Pomni, find her footing and would she fall prey to his dangerous philosophy? Will Jax remain the person he is now and what led him down this path?

However, the finale unfortunately demolishes these concepts entirely. It turns out Jax was mostly always that way. Maybe a bit nicer and sillier but this gets worn down by the fact he’s a murderer. In fact, the more you learn about his backstory, the less understandable and worse he becomes (in terms of both his morality and writing). Turns out, Jax isn’t just an insensitive and abusive asshole. He’s also a serial murderer who led his two friends into suicide and he may have killed his own mother! He also had thoughts about sexually harassing his victim and spouting out bigoted nonsense. But that’s okay that Jax is revealed to be a worse person now because he dies in the end, facing no consequences for his behavior, the people he’s hurt never receiving closure, and him dying in a show about overcoming mental illness/trauma is an ending that intertwines with the central message of….finding meaning in a stagnant life? What?

The finale felt like character assassination in how far they can go with Jax rather than anything that tied into themes of mental illness, grief, burning bridges, psychological trauma, and possible redemption. It would have been greater to see Jax grow into the terrible person he is today due to the circus and losing his loved ones over being revealed to be a murdering bigot who the creator decided to kill off-screen. But that’s just me.

[garlicnoodle1]

1-4 Pomni and 5-9 Pomni would be opps.