Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.
the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you
There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.
Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.
And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.
Looking back, I don't think Pomni was as "obsessed" with Jax as I had an initial thought over.
Episode 5 and 6 they bond, but the time-frame is probably pretty short, and it was because Jax was opening up and revealing a side for herself that wasn't seen prior. Someone who is funny, who brings a lot of fun to the party. ("You reached out to ME! Not the other way around!")
Jax is an enjoyable person to be around if she had just been good. And even then, while Pomni laughs, she still glares and/or swats Jax's hand away because Jax continues to do things she doesn't like like touching her without asking. Jax is fun, but a lot. She was also wanting to team up with Ragatha at first during the gun episode instead of defaulting to Jax, and only got paired with Jax when there were no other options left.
Pomni DOES care about Jax, but they weren't friends. Yet. But they were becoming friends. That bonding sequence was the first and only time they were actually growing close.
Once Jax lashes out, Pomni stops pushing. This is actually the last time they had a full conversation before Jax abstracts. (not few sentence replies)
She hangs out with Gangle and Ragatha, she plays with the others, and keeps an eye out for Jax because she KNOWS Jax is NOT in a good mental state. AT ALL.
The only time Pomni goes to visit Jax is because Abel needed help. The most time spent in Eps 7 and 8 are Pomni quietly saying "Hey, I know we had a fight, but I still consider you a friend and I'll let you take your time before reaching out to me again."
But she's not forcing herself to fix Jax. She's not pushing and prodding, she's just giving encouraging smiles that quickly turn to frowns because Jax deflects every time she does so. She is emotionally mature to realize Jax is not doing great, that it was all a facade. In fact that "... Be here later." is an acknowledgement that Pomni subconsciously knows that Jax is on the brink.
And I understand now why Pomni in episode 9 didn't pry more. After that fight, she just thought that she needed to wait until Jax was ready. She thought that she shouldn't pry. She shouldn't press. She shouldn't force an interaction. Jax... ATTEMPTED to reach out but... She left. And so Pomni left too, to help the others that were in a pretty low point.
Once again she just. Figured that Jax needed to reach out on her own terms. I mean every time Pomni reached her hand out (literally at some point) it was met with the same rejection. And unfortunately.
Unfortunately it was too late.
I say all this not to write as Pomni not caring for Jax as much. I think she really does care for Jax, truly does.
But she does care and cherish everyone else as well. The bad thing is we had little to no screen time seeing her do that, only bits and pieces of them all hanging out together, hugging, reconciling, etc. Calling Ragatha her closest friend rings hollow to many, but as much as their relationship had been kind of rocky, Pomni always chose Ragatha first to be a partner or to hug, to see again and sit next to. Pomni does find comfort in Ragatha, despite being a bit babied at first. Gangle drew Pomni, herself, and Zooble all together, being friends. And Kinger is probably the biggest source of comfort of all.
She just wished she could have paid it forward for the one in the circus who needed it most. Jax was ALONE. Pomni didn't want her to be alone.
And. I guess she won't be alone now. Cared for and cherished and accepted, despite her mind lost now to corruption. She was given a warm tent, and then reunited with Ribbit and Kaufmo in the perfect environment for Abstractions.
It says a lot too that Kaufmo and Ribbit also accepted Jax so readily in Abstraction form to swim serenely around her. Jax is cared for. Jax is loved.
I was cutting it CLOSE with Dulcet's ref for artfight! But I did it!
He's been in need of a new reference since I modified some things on his design, and the old one was from 2017- so it was time for a change!
Come on, now, op. We all know squidward doesn’t go to the club.
He’s one of those “I’m not like other gays” gays who goes home to a bottle of wine and his obscure 50s vaudeville records, and then mopes because he can never find a boyfriend.
not to talk about the hp show but it's wild to me that jkr was like publicly and explicitly like "the last set of child actors have denounced my bigotry, I want a new set of child actors to groom. create a television program so I can have new children" and everyone was just like ok joanne! :) here's your new children! :)