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I don’t speak for everyone but personally I think a lot of the criticism around TADC as being about the author’s self-insert being explicitly denied any sort of unpleasant backlash towards her shitty behavior and how that seems sus is very much in the context of her real life behavior.
With the most obvious example being the whole N-word and pedophilia jokes and her explicitly saying she won’t apologize for them, when Ashley and Michael did the bare minimum of that.
But also there’s that whole incident regarding Gooseworx beefing with fans for criticizing her show. Specifically that time she felt the need to poke fun at fans for “actually being upset the show is focusing on its two main characters” which riled up fans to get real mean-spirited.
So naturally a fan on reddit decided to compile as factually as possible why people were upset about Ragatha being sidelined, how the story definitely set her up as more important only to drop her. This wasn’t even criticizing Gooseworx’s self-proclaimed self-insert or anything. Let’s just engage the discussion in good faith.
Gooseworx singled out this fan and snapped at them on a public server with her own official account with “Do you really think Ragatha won’t get more development in the next two episodes” (the fan clarified before this that the damage had already been done to her writing even if that did happen) and then deleted her account, which led to people harassing and blaming the fan for “harassing” a creator who chose to initiate that interaction.
Gooseworx went on Twitter and made vague statements alluding to what happened without really specifying, saying that she was the one who snapped and that criticism should be allowed. She’s been going through some stuff. But not actually issuing a direct apology either publically nor in private DMs; Nothing like “Hey don’t harass someone for voicing criticism.” She declined the appreciation week but everything was about her feelings in that whole situation and there wasn’t any support to the fan in question over how they felt and what they were going through. And Gooseworx knows her fanbase sends death threats, she brought it up before that incident.
So with that in mind of course some people are gonna scrutinize the writing in the context of Gooseworx’s IRL behavior because Jax IS somewhat autobiographical, she herself has outright said it. Jax was based on her experiences with conversion therapy which I’m sorry for but like. That doesn’t give you the right to act that way towards someone who wasn’t even discussing your self-insert?
An actual apology would’ve made it all make sense but there was none, no check up. And I feel good will was finally lost when the racist jokes came to light and there was no attempt at addressing that. I thought the point of this story was that you’ve grown from your reflections but I guess not. This was all caused by Gooseworx trying to take the piss out of people’s reasonable responses and then it backfired because she can’t handle what she dishes out.
And I can speak confidently on my evaluation of how this incident reflects itself into the flawed writing of Jax and vice-versa, this sorta self-pity party for oneself that is never followed up with actual apology, and this baffling insistence that you owe forgiveness and compassion to this person and if you remain upset over getting nothing then you’re the immature one. Her guilty feelings are always more important.
Because by the end of the day Gooseworx did act a bit Jax towards that fan, all the way down to the questionable beliefs aspect of it. And I don’t think what I’m saying is parasocial behavior given how Gooseworx initiated that interaction; I can confirm what that fan went through quite clearly and their initial concerns over further harassment about being blamed for Gooseworx’s own immature behavior because
i love when a character with a severe anxiety disorder fucks up over and over and blows up their whole life about it. we have a fair amount of characters with mild anxiety (not that theres anything wrong with that) we need more characters who just cannot function or stop themselves from ruining everything good in their life out of fear
do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.
Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.
Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.
Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.
And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.
So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.
very telling that even if you’re not allowed to view content related to self harm/suicide/eating disorders due to not giving up your ID on the uk internet you will still be shown relentless ads for weight loss drugs and fad diets showing unrealistic/AI generated bodies and unhealthy methods and time frames for weight loss that can only be achieved by starvation. oh and also so so many gambling ads. relentless ads for gacha and gambling services. almost like it’s not actually about protecting kids at all or something