I'm dying over the conditions of these grants are you fucking kidding me
so many guys dressed up as grant wearing grant glasses and grant shirts and who look kinda like grant stood in a room for like an entire shootblock with this script memorized
do you think they talked??? or were they silent?? did they discuss the script or theorize about whatever the fuck is happening?? did a grant say 'i'm a new dad' just for all the other grants to go 'oh congratulations man!' and then start giving dad advice because some of them are also fathers???? how many of them are there because how many people would you need to make 'hi i'm 50' true for all of them??? when they left the room did they stream out in a crowd of grants?? do you think they made lifelong friends in that room? do you think they fell in love??? do you think one day their grandchildren will ask 'grandpas, how did you meet?' and they'll say that they met standing in a room dressed as some guy named grant and speaking identically because somehow they ended up standing next to each other and now their love story is forever immortalized in this episode???
Since some people seem to be misunderstanding my point again, here's again what I actually mean when I say I don't consider trans woman Jax to be canon:
I'm not saying it's a bad headcanon
I'm not saying Gooseworx didn't intend it
I'm not saying people can't interpret Jax that way
What I'm saying is that the show itself never explicitly establishes it.
The only confirmation comes from Gooseworx explaining her intention outside the show.
That's authorial intent.
It tells us what she wanted to intend, but it isn't the same thing as the text itself communicating it.
For me, canon is what the audience can reasonably get from the work itself without needing to check Twitter, Tumblr, livestreams, or creator comments afterward.
If an important aspect of a character only becomes « canon » after an external explanation, then I consider it authorial information rather than canon
That doesn't invalidate anyone's interpretation. If you see Jax as a closeted trans woman, that's completely fine.
I simply don't think consider it as canon, like every other Jax’s gender
People are free to disagree with my point
What they shouldn't do is act like anyone who disagrees with considering it as canon is automatically "media illiterate," "transphobic," or "objectively wrong."
You can believe Gooseworx's statement makes it canon.
I don't.
That's a difference in how we define canon, not an attack on trans people or on anyone else's interpretation.
Apparently I have to preface everything now, so here's a reading list before you make assumptions about me, call me transphobic,put words in my mouth, argue against things I never said, assume my opinions for me, […] or decide I'm wrong without actually reading my posts:
💬 6 🔁 5 ❤️ 16 · As for your last point, I also don't think it's fair to characterize my post as « denying that a trans character is trans
💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 20 · "Because the line completely debunks your post."
Except it doesn't. Repeating the same sentence for the eighth time doesn
💬 1 🔁 1 ❤️ 18 · tell me, what makes a "real woman" since you're in charge of that
I'm honestly tired of being accused of things I didn't
💬 11 🔁 15 ❤️ 60 · « All people who doesn’t see Jax as transfem are lacking media literacy » · This is a topic people have strong opinions
💬 0 🔁 5 ❤️ 25 · « Jax is 100% Gooseworx's self-insert, so if you criticize Jax, you're just transphobic » · Okay... then by that logic, ar
💬 1 🔁 1 ❤️ 27 · question about this whole situation, not meant to be hostile, but from what I’ve seen:
in your opinion, for something to
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 18 · I agree that queer creators face censorship. This is a real problem, and there are many examples of LGBTQ+ stories being c
💬 1 🔁 5 ❤️ 28 · You're responding to an argument I didn't actually make.
At no point did I say a trans character has to look into the cam
“canon is what the audience can reasonably get from the work itself without needing to check Twitter, Tumblr, livestreams, or creator comments afterward.”
In my opinion, it’s very reasonable to get the fact that Jax is trans from the work itself.
Personally, I first considered it during the whole maid dress thing, and the final episode definitely confirmed it.
It had an entire section about the different parts of Jax, and the ones that Jax keeps locked up, only to end the sequence with the song, “Isn’t she lovely?”
PLUS the conversation with Ribbit?
Most reasonable people would gather that Jax is a closeted trans woman from that.
While the show may not have ever outright said the words, “Jax is Trans”, that doesn’t mean it isn’t canon.
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
If you have not followed the Bricks and Minifigs drama, you are missing out on a MASSIVE case of police corruption and corporate sabotage
I can do a short summary, but this website covers most of the collected information:
A centralized archive of the videos, documents, social-media posts, and developments surrounding the hostile Bricks & Minifigs franchise tak
The summary:
Police corruption and abuse of civil rights (including SWATTING based on fake reports)
Actively faking police reports and threats of murder against Reckless Ben (including the claim that Reckless Ben would “kill us all”)
Ties to the Mormon community in Utah with many major players and police officers involved being a part of the church
Detectives laughing and plotting to falsify charges against Reckless Ben to protect B&M
A member of B&M threatening to shoot and kill Ben in a police call. The police promptly ignore this and continue to try and arrest Reckless Ben
Purposefully targeting Ben and claiming his vehicle was filled with heroine and everyone was on drugs
A deeper look into the history of B&M reveals multiple shell companies and thefts of businesses with similar MO to the current situation
Another channel that covers a lot of legal ground and focuses on history of corruption with B&M is BJC, who goes over legal documents and recently was targeted by the Judge for a video where she points out lies in 9-1-1 calls by B&M against Reckless Ben
BJC Live Show is your go-to destination for authentic and original legal commentary and edutainment on the cases and current events dominati
the media's insistence on labeling every queer thing as an extension to heated rivalry is getting ridiculous. it was fun, it was a nice little tv show and we enjoyed it. stop trying to make that shit happen. i mean who in their right mind will compare hr to a coming of age religious horror movie. open your EYES people . start thinking
I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person
BUT
a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."
Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.
