I saw two comments on Reddit talking about the finale of TADC, and I felt I had to share it with other people on here.
(I’ll refer to Jax as she/her because the person behind Jax is a trans woman)
Why Jax is the most realistic portrayal of ‘A Person Who Is Not Okay ™️’
We all know who Jax is, especially after the finale. Someone who was betrayed, abandoned and so abused she never trusted anyone, even Ribbit, ever again.
Because of that trauma, Jax became outwardly cruel to other people, so no one could get close to her. Especially from Episode 2 to the halfway point, which showed her really close to abstracting, so it was easy to hate on her.
However, now that we got Jax’s backstory, which made her story a realistic interpretation of a person who isn’t okay, it makes people pretty peeved, because that means the people in their own lives are also people battling their own demons and have nuances of their own instead of it being ‘oh, this person is irredeemable’ or ‘Oh this person is just a bad guy’
Often times, this thought process makes sense when you don’t know what someone’s going through. When you don’t know why a person is the way they are, it’s easy to paint them in broad strokes because it helps establish that you didn’t deserve the pain they gave you.
The mature perspective is that the same people that hurt you aren’t simply irredeemable monsters, but also people who have been hurt and are trying to cope with it.
Mental health discourse and how it relates to Jax’s situation.
I’ll preface this next question by saying there are valid reasons to why mental health discourse is seen as the way it is.
Back in yesteryear, people with mental health conditions were often seen as monsters and chucked into asylums, or often lobotomized and drugged.
So of course, people’s views shifted from ‘people with mental health issues are dangerous’ to the other side of the spectrum, which is ‘people with mental health issues are innocent’
I am not saying people with mental health issues aren’t people. They are often struggling and adding more problems on top of that doesn’t help. However, it skewed to defending people with mental health issues without also acknowledging that people with terrible mental health can also become terrible as a result.
That doesn’t mean ‘oh all people with mental illnesses / conditions are bad,’ it simply means that people with mental conditions are people like the rest of us, and should also be held accountable in the same way, instead of being painted in broad strokes
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1. I went to vision therapy Twice 2. The horned lizard is able to shoot blood from its eyes up to three feet away 3. Hard to pick, but I'll go with "Imogen, Obviously" (It made me realize I was Bi!) 4. Uh... a movie that isn't released yet, Heartstopper Forever 5. The Dragon Prince??? IDK 6. ARGH THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD CHARACTERS... Kaladin Stormblessed??? Or someone from MCYT
1: my younger and only brother is twelve years younger than me
2: sunburn is a type of radiation burn, not heat burn, because the sun uses it's rays to move objects which creates heat (I learnt this at first aid, don't come for me if it's incorrect)
3: six of crows by Leigh bardugo
4: I don't watch movies much to be honest. I wouldn't even know where to start with that
5: the rookie or if the life series count than that
1. I've never raged at a video game. Don't get me wrong, I get frustrated to all hell and back but I'm very good at taking breaks before I get to the point of rage.
2. Avarice is a fancy word for excessive greed, which I only learned because of Death's Door
3. Hannah Sweetson series- have you ever wanted recipes in your murder mystery books? I've only ever read these books from a library.
4. Mulan- I was about to agonize over what movie to pick but I literally watched this daily one summer and I get the urge to continuously rewatch it when I rewatch it even now so...
5. Apothecary Diaries-this is mostly recency bias but it's a really good anime. I've been rewatching it with my sister and I just adore Maomao!
6. Uh how do I choose??? Ticci Toby the creepypasta or Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds maybe? Maybe Hornet?
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You may not know me, and I would like to keep it that way. What is the purpose of this document? I strongly believe that child predators
Hello, I will try to keep this short and simple since the document already has a lot of reading for you. I’m sure a lot of you are confused as to why I am posting this in your tags but here is why.
There is an artist who goes by the name of Woofles/Toki/Benrey/Zany/etc. who occasionally posts art in SOME your tags or posts memes. So I made this post for your awareness.
Please share this around.
Users to be aware of dethkhaos/kindlecritter
Associates of this user to be aware of zooblephile/savingabel
what languages do you speak? Do you have just one first language/language spoken when you were little? Multiple? Do you still speak them? How about ones you learned later? Are you fluent?
that sort of thing
I’ll start! My first language is English, but I’ve been learning Spanish for five years and counting and I consider myself mostly fluent (not native level by any means but I can read/listen/write/speak well enough, and my abilities there aren’t much worse than in English, though my vocabulary is definitely less robust). I know a bit of French from my mom and middle school, and can figure some other things out à la Spanish. I can also swear in six languages (I don’t but I could lol)
okay that’s all! Tagging All The People to start this off!
(As always if you want to be removed from the tag game master list please lmk I don’t want to annoy ppl lol)
My first language is english, most specifically Australian english (which is the rebelious teenager love child of British english and American english) (1)
I've been learning German for almost three years now and I can get by but I'm nowhere near fluent. (.5)
I also know the entire alphabet and some various other words in Auslan (Australian Sign Language [because we can't also be ASL]) (.1)
Also one of my friends speaks russian as their first language so I know various phrases in russian (.1)
So i actually know 1.7 languages spread out across 4.
well, i'm super boring because i can only speak english lol. i dropped spanish last year because i'm terrible at talking to people (it was basically just: words on paper good, words out of mouth bad). i've also been meaning to start learning auslan for the LONGEST time, but i've never gotten around to it...
my first language is english but i've been learning spanish for about three years at this point. I know pretty much all of the grammar, in theory, but I don't have a very big vocabulary. I understand more of it then I can speak. I really need to force myself to start memorizing words and find people to talk to, honestly
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I need to get away. Now. This is the text I sent to my friends on Discord. I will take any tips or tricks, anything. Please.
Please reblog this.
Here's what it says:
@everyone I'm sorry for doing this but I genuinely need help. My dad is going to cut me off from the outside world. He's threatening the belt again. I can't be here anymore. I can't do this. I'll be in worse trouble if and when he finds out what I do on the internet (Discord, Tumblr, etc.), because he says he's going to search through my entire phone with a professional who can extract information. He wants to ground me until I'm eighteen, with no freedom whatsoever. He won't even let me draw. I'm sneaking this since I can only use my computer for school. I need to get out of here. Please help. I'll take anything. Anything you can offer at all. I can't handle this. I genuine;y can't be here anymore. I feel like if I do then I'll snap and do something like yell at my dad, and if I do that, he'll definiitely get out the belt or do something to make things ten times worse. Please please please I'll take anything you can give me please. I need to get out of here or cope or something and I have nothing and I am GOING to have nothing, this is my hail mary, no puns intended.
@no-one-offical, @elfin-grove, @did-someone-say-divorce @skeletal-spire-man @skeletal-spire-man-aka-overfit @anarchivalsystem @chara-offical @bone-lord @flam-bae @breadeads @h4zelnutwastaken please anyone tell me what to do I can't do this anymore please please please I'm so sorry to do this right now but please
Prev is neither a boy nor a girl nor a both nor an in between (/ref). Prev is nothing.
@catboy-tdick @moonsandloons @spacebnnui @itsjadie @oliver-thebiodegradable @darksilvershadows36 @number1baddestglitch @nonhumaninallways @sparrowaces (all /nf) + open tags to any other moots I’m forgetting! (I really need to make a moots list. There are a lot of yall…)
I’ll preface what I’m about to say with a disclaimer: not all students who excel at school are anything like what I’m about to say here. There are students who performed well in school, and perform well in life.
But there are people who are honor students, who earned PhDs in university, who have the best grades out of their entire class, yet beyond that, there’s nothing there.
There isn’t any depth, any awareness, any ability to think for themselves outside of that.
This isn’t a matter of blaming only the parents, even if the parents haven’t taught them skills that are useful in life.
The blame lies within the school system, especially in America. It rewards obedience, and it programs students to memorize, to perform, and to play the game correctly.
The lie that grades = intelligence has gone on for way too long. A letter or a number grade on a paper, or in a database never measured that. Because intelligence wasn’t ever about getting a good grade, it’s about how you adapt when things don’t go according to plan, how to learn from mistakes, and how you treat people.
I’ve fallen to this lie as well, everyone has. But it’s remembering that grades only measure school performance, not intelligence, that is the key point.
You could have a model student, who got straight A’s in every subject, and graduated with a Master’s or a PhD in university, but their entire personality is hidden behind rehearsed language with an ego built on top of it. It only goes on as long as it has because the system rewards those kinds of people anyways.
TLDR: grades don’t always equal intelligence, they equal how good you performed in school. Outside of school, a grade doesn’t measure your intelligence, but how you adapt to situations that don’t go your way, or how you learn from mistakes is the defining factor.
Fun tag game idea: say something that most of your followers wouldn’t actually know
I’ll start first: I am actually married. Irl. I have a husband. I know it’s surprising considering the Tumblr spouses, but my husband thinks it’s funny.
@mikequeeler007 @whitenailpolishoffical @james-offical @man-offical @totally-cis-offical + anyone else bc I forget who I’m moots with bc I follow too many ppl
STOOPPPPP DONT EVEN PLAY WITH ME WITH THE SIMON PETRIKOV
anyways
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What
How am I dying
The kiss of death
HAH </3
@lumenisce, @elfin-grove, @h4zelnutwastaken, and anyone else who wants to join IM SORRY I DONT REMEMBER ALL OF MY MOOTS
Oh can’t forget the one moot who probably hates me but I still interact with because I think it’s funnyyy (but like not in a making fun of them way just in a I find them intriguing way)
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I wouldn’t say I’ve rage quit, but Hollow Knight and Silksong. I’ve straight up just exited both games many times because of some of their bosses (Second Hornet Fight in HK1 and Karmelita in Silksong)