I KNEW IT I SMELT THE MOMMY ISSUES ON HIM AND HES HOMELESSSSSS I WAS ON THE MONEYYYYYYYYY THATS CRAZYYYYYY
And yk what im sitting here thinking man I write jax like really self projecting maybe I should dial it back.
ACTUALLY.,,, I wasnt projecting ENOUGH apparently. Oooooooooo i can write him so gooooddd nowwwwwwww
Also. Rewatching the series beforehand. "When we get out, ill buy you a beer" "you should've opened up to me man" ma'am you speak like a frat guy y u so cute
This is an opportunity to say read my ficcccccc ok bye
IKRRRR kudos to that one person on ao3 who wrote a funnybunny smutshot with jax having mommy issues you were right on the money my guy. I knew i wasnt projecting my mommy issues. His jabs at Ragatha were way too specific to be just jabs. I literally convulsed in my seat once it was revealed he ran away from home because of abuse i was so fucking right.
I don't want to come off as mean, but if you still genuinely believe Jax is transfem and tell everyone to "use she/her or die" (a real post btw) then, sorry, you need to touch grass 😭 Jax goes by he/him for the entire series and is trans CODED at best. And I understand that in a current political climate it's hard to show openly trans characters - I might have to resort to coding in my comic too if I want it to get published - but if you ask me which characters are supposed to be trans I would give you an answer. Gooseworx? Gooseworx would say something vague and then post another maid Jax doodle while GLITCH produces more Jax maid merch because yay let's capitalize on our supposedly transfem character who didn't wanna be outed yet
If you want to use she/her for Jax, that's fine, but her canon transness is pretty damn questionable and you can't fault people for still using he/him (or even they/them) for them. And you ESPECIALLY should not tell people to die over a questionably trans cartoon rabbit.
THISSS. While i do think that reading jax as transfem based on the coding is valid and present, just forcing people or trying to pressure people into using pronouns that aren't canon is kind of insane. Headcanons are headcanons, nothing was ever confirmed and while i do think it's completely okay to use different pronouns for him, it's not misgendering if someone uses the actual canonical pronouns for him 😭😭
Have we already forgotten how to move around fandom spaces? There's an ettiquete, guys. C'mon. As a person who has been in fandoms for my whole life it's infuriating, frankly.
Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it
Okay. I can't believe people are still hating on Jax after TLA but honestky this fandom seems to have a bit of a thick skull and i understand how to analyze literature without a bias some of ya'll seem to have towards him.
SPOILER CUTOFF
"We want morally ambigous characters!!" Until you see a realistic douchebag traumatized character who can't just immidiately redeem himself
Fyi to all of you, just because someone finds a support network doesn't mean they're going to change on a whim and be a better person after years of abuse, being homeless, getting trapped in a place where they KNOW they can't get out of, and dissasociating for 90% of the time.
Side tangent: holy shit does Jax have D.I.D??? It seems like it?? Or atleast has seperate personalities or masks he switches between based on what works best to get people off his back at that moment.
Anyway, Jax, like i fucking called btw, has been abused and ran away from home directly because of said abuse (i fucking knew that guy had mommy issues i could smell that shit stg), then after a YEAR of HOMELESSNESS, he ends up trapped in the circus, has by far the worst reaction we've seen (which makes me think he ended up in there YOUNG young) and eventually adjusts enough to be happy around ribbit and kaufmo (which clearly takes a while, based on how ribbit reacts when he laughs)
Hes vulnerable with them, he can trust them enough not to laugh at him (like his MOTHER did when he actually opened up for once, keep in mind) and actually enjoys being around them, especially ribbit. Actively wants to team up with her, and he's actually happy (possibly even crushing on her, based on the bow scene?)
Then he opens up to ribbit, and its a tender, vulnerable moment. But it shatters when he hears kaufmo outside and freaks out, probably thinking kaufmo heard him admit to thinking he potentially KILLED his mom, unwillingly, by pushing her off in self-defense.
He snaps at Ribbit, threathens her to not tell anyone, and pushes her away, retreating back into himself. He acts like nothing happened because if nothing happened then his walls are still intact and noone can use his vulnerability against him.
Keep in mind they may all be friends, or friendly, but they're still trapped in the circus. If anyone, including Ribbit, were to reveal what makes him tick, he could NEVER escape it. This isn't irl where you can just ghost someone and move away when rumours get bad, when you need a new life to escape to. This isn't online where you can just turn the screen off when it gets too toxic or someone says some shit to you. No.
This is real life, no matter how much he was willing to accept it or not, before seeing Kinger be lucid and break yet another archetype he created in his mind to cope and dissociate. Archetypes, or masks, forms, whatever, are concepts in literature which describe a certain number of characteristics people fall into; social, identity, political or economic traits that build a box, no matter how small or big, people fall into. It's something our brains create to cope with the reality we live in, boxes shape how we interpret the world. And those boxes are most reinforced during times of hardship.
Jax has put everyone into an archetype so he can choose his OWN personality accordingly in response to the others. It's rehearsed. After Ribbit he became a well-oiled, dissasociated machine. Every line is practiced, every move cartoonish, overexagarrated and made to provoke a reaction to his "comedic relief/funny one" persona. Jax doesn't see himself, or the others, as human because seeing them as human would mean certain death in his mind.
He was vulnerable with someone once, which, in his already guilt-ridden mind, killed them. He's not vulnerable with anyone because that's certain death. Because him ultimately lashing out after being vulnerable is the same as killing someone. He doesn't recognize that as an unintentional coping mechanism, he sees it as something that will always happen after he's vulnerable with anyone.
And then, after he looses it, he doesn't see a point im being vulnerable with pomni in the dark plane (his mindspace??? The place with the lantern, idk) because he's already too far gone, but pomni does. She lets him be vulnerable and let all his grief out and that's what ultimately lets his abstracted form stay sane enough to be led into the tent palace and not go rogue again.
Because his vulnerability, for once, didnt kill someone.
He didn't kill Ribbit, he pushed her away until she abstracted, but he didn't do that to kill her. He did it to protect himself, just in case. Because that's what abuse trauma does, the hardest part of healing from something like child abuse (as a victim still deep in the process of healing even after being abuse-free after 6+ years) is breaking the habits and letting people in without feeling threathened by revealing the information.
Jax wound was still painfully raw, and he wasn't there yet, still isn't there yet. And that's okay, maybe he can get better even after being abstracted, we don't, won't know.
Living is hard for a lot of people, including myself. Some people are dealt a worse hand and then go and make that hand somehow even worse on themselves as punishment.
Jax's whole point ideologically has always been that theres no meaning to life in the circus, that none of it is real. That none of them and by extension, their expieriences, are real. The Narrative proved him wrong, that even after knowing you'll never get out of the circus, after abstracting, you can still find meaning in a stagnant life. And that meaning is being there for eachother and healing together, GROWING together.
And I think that's a beatiful message we all need now.
IT WAS EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED AND NEEDED AND FORETOLD????
I am going to keep my yapping either contained to my drafts page or release it under a spoilered tag with a cutoff before the actual analysis part, just to be safe
But idc what twitter says that shit was peak and some of ya'll are NOT understanding the theme of the whole show and it shows, and i need to correct that
david szymanski knowing about bloodymary is hilarious to me. imagine you're an indie horror game creator and a crazy popular gaming youtuber plays your game and loves it so much he turns it into a movie, starring himself. despite being self-funded and produced, it achieves a level of success and earnings so big there are articles written about it challenging hollywood. then a few months later a big hollywood movie comes out also set in space and now a large portion of fan content for your game is ship content of the youtuber's character and ryan gosling.
Im watching a video about Instagram getting mass hacked, but the only reason i have Instagram still is for that guy that does a discord mod voice and claps his feet and the guy who does cursed bakudeku audios
That being said the literal meta ai not having aby safeguards or identity verification for sending password resets is fucking diabolical and just further proves why ai should only stay in the medical/scientific field for data analysis
good thing i wasn't there when the leak happened. these guys doesn't have any respect to the people who dedicate their time to created this show.
I'm not only pointing those who leak the episode but also those toxic fans. Many ask absurd things, criticize harshly like they're such a perfect people, cursed those with their mistakes like it's so big deal the world will end because of that and even saying tadc would be better if it didn't show to the theatres when it's a big step to glitch's growth.
I dunno if that's really how they feel or they're just craving attention but some fans are tired of it (including me), the author, the voice actors, and lots of people are so done with these absurdity.
I'm just truly thankful for gooseworx and glitch for giving one of a kind story i haven't seen in a while and for all animators, script writers, voice actors and everyone else that became part of the show.
I'm only here for a short time but I'm done with this fandom. I still had fun with other fans like sharing arts, taking about interpretation and theories and seeing others' AUs, watching fan songs, fan animations and jokes but the toxicity really outweighs that and tbh it's just draining,,
Tho i still gonna post arts and doodles as part of my hobby but I'm interacting less with others, (i'll mostly interact here in tumblr because i love the tadc fans here.)
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