LivelyIllustrates

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[kerink]

i love when people draw rocky like

[gooseworx]

We all know transfem Jax is the intended reading of his character now, but are we still allowed to hold other interpretations that maybe we've had for a long time? (genderfluid Jax, GNC cis Jax, etc...)

It's just sad to see so many people being attacked and harassed out of the fandom right now even while they acknowledge and fully respect Jax being trans just because they have a different interpretation of him

You guys can genuinely do whatever you want without needing to ask me for permission.

[freelancebioexorcist]

Since the finale is finally out, I'm going to bullet point a few of my personal gripes having watched it a second time. I'm putting this under a read more section because it's quite long.

The Finale: 2/10

Entire Series: 4/10

Jax - Complex but underwhelming. Message behind his/her story is great, the execution was not.

Pomni's character is extremely disappointing. I see where the dissonance between Eps 1-4 and 5-9 starts to come in because Pomni doesn't engage with other characters in a meaningful way (save for Jax). She flips back and forth in 8 & 9 with Caine's deletion. (Ex. "You just don't listen!" "Are you sure? There's no undo button?") She kinda leaves Zooble alone to cope with the fact they're all brain scans and then she chases Jax down. A lot of her writing choices seem disconnect to what made her a main character in the first place, and all supposed development is earned off-screen.

Bluetooth had no reason to show up. It didn't offer anything to progress Caine's redemption arc forward as he was able to start interpret solutions and develop sincerity on his own. Same with the Ragatha and Pomni hug shot that went on forever- it felt like we were wasting time in favor of visuals.

Caine's redemption, although rushed, felt like it was needed for this finale. I don't think Jax AND Caine could've been both killed off because it literally destroys any conflict the cast needed to overcome. It had to be one or the other. But there's NO explanation to why Caine got rerouted to the void instead of a trash bin or why the Blue AI had such animosity to keep the humans trapped.

Kinger's character is solely for lore exposition, that didn't end up mattering all that much in the finale anyway. He barely flinches after Caine is deleted, despite saying Caine was his greatest achievement. I was expecting more interpersonal conflict or some kind of gripe between the two. Everything regarding lore shifted blame towards Scratch, who didn't have an ounce of dialogue throughout the show.

Zooble is reduced to a therapist once again, but it feels err... redundant? Because we've seen this already in Ep 6. They kinda lost their edge, similar to Pomni in my eyes. But instead of Jax, it was in favor of Gangle.

Gangle should've had time to move past and resolve her traumatic experiences and bullying with Jax by now. Episode 6 should've been THE moment Gangle toughens up a bit because we've already established Jax was a piece of shit to her. It was repetitive and another arc that wasted time instead of progressing an overarching plot forward.

Gumigoo? Queenie? Where are they?

There are so, so many loose threads about C&A, Scratch, Kinger, Queenie. What was the company trying to accomplish? Why is there a massive plot hole between Kinger's irl age and circus age? His human body should've been in his late 40s, early 50s if he had joined the Circus in 1999 with Scratch, but that's not relevant I guess? If Abel was telling the truth about C&A in Episode 7, we literally can't interpret it because Caine debunks it as fabricated. Was C&A doing something shady behind the scenes and the Circus was the only way for them to have an escape? Is the company abandoned?

Last but not least, we have Ragatha. As a character, she's very interesting. She seemed to be the only one that called out Jax's bullshit and most of the characters thought she was being insincere at times. I always read it as her just trying her hardest to fit in and people excluded her for no reason. Her story doesn't really lead anywhere meaningful and the most we get is Ragapom development off-screen. In the finale, she is there just to push forward Jax's narrative. We get small hints of her life but nothing to resolve on her own.

In this finale, everyone's story drives forward Jax's narrative, and they don't resolve their prior conflicts on their own. There's no proper resolution or build up to a meaningful story because there wasn't much exposition in the first place, and the overarching story seems so shallow if you weren't invested in Jax.

I think that's about it. I'll self-reblog this post if I have more to complain about.

I feel like episodes 5-7 were finally starting to land somewhere, and episodes 8-9 killed off any tension and refused to elaborate on plot holes that severely impacted everyone else's story. I felt empty and unsatisfied at the ending, like we had been wasting time instead of finally picking up plot beats that were sprinkled throughout the past episodes. I'm not even a huge fan of Kinger, but god, I would've liked to see why he ended up there with Scratch. Maybe he didn't want to go alone? Who knows.

[vaythecreator]

Idk how else to put my thoughts in order, or how else to make sense of what is happening in my mind if not by writing it.

So, everyone bare with me.

Spoilers for the last episode

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Anyone else feel.... apathetic to everything? The whole experience, concepts, story? Like everything experienced in those 4 years, means nothing?

Probably not... I keep seeing alot of people in the Fandom being happy and emotional towards the experience of TADC and is clear it means alot to everyone. It meant alot to me too, at some point.

And yet, I can't help but feel hollow.

Let me try separate in topics:

I didn't dislike the choice of Jax abstracting. Far from it, out of everyone, the most tragic interesting choice would either be Jax or Kinger.

I didn't like it happened off screen and it was sort of treat as "well, that happened"

Idk, it felt anti-climatic

I REALLY like going inside Jax's head. See his inner fantasies, exploring how complex he is.

I really liked to see his relationship with Ribbit. I liked how close they were and the tragedy of seeing them go. I liked how Jax and Pomni's relationship was so strong.

I really like the trans allegories. I liked how it really cemented that Jax is a transwoman, but it also left space for other interpretations that fits other gender experiences. I loved how Jax isn't just about being a transwoman, but is about gender identity in general; of every little one in the expectrum.

I like that this was a very personal story of the creator, and I like how Jax can still be relatable to so many.

I liked the hug.

I liked that Caine understood his wrongs. I liked he was slowly forgiven and became finally part of the cast.

I didn't like the names reveal, but I liked to know they were out there in the real world, living their best lives and growing old, like they all should have.

I didn't like that the characters we followed are just mental copies. A version of those people stuck in time, locked in a digital world, is a awesome idea. But I felt it lost impact the fact they are living life and growing up. Idk, it kind of makes the whole thing pointless and meaningless.

"There is worth in living a stagnant life"

I dont feel this message was converted very well to me. Idk if anyone else felt this way.

I kind of didn't like how everything sort of... got fixed. Idk why. Again, the happy ending felt... hollow

Meaningless

I feel like this whole experience was meaningless. I can't find in myself to feel anything other than indifference, and I dont know why

Is true I had a falling out with the Fandom. Even the ones with the best intentions were awful. I saw many people calling others names and being uncensarily angry over things so stupid like headcanons and ships.

And even if many of those things turned out to be canon, I feel the awfulness doesn't justify.

I feel the awfulness directed towards me was unfair.

And all the awfulness towards Goose, Michael, Ashley, and everyone in the cast feels unjustified too. All the nasty words shared... it took away the shine of this place.

And deep down, I hoped I would watch the final episode and still feel the spark. The pleasure and happiness I felt seeing all the art and stories, feeling my own creativity shine again to have fun even after all the nasty and awful words that transpired since episode 8.

I hope I would come out of this experience feeling like it was all worth it

But it didn't. And it doesn't

I left the final episode, not hating it or thinking it was bad executed (on the contrary), but feeling like it nothing mattered at all.

All the ships feedings i longed didn't matter. My favorite characters having a proper send off and finding happiness didn't matter. The end credits of everyone that survived happily living didn't mattered. The headcanons, the theories, the plots that I would love to be true (transfem Jax, they being able to build things in the circus), it didn't made me feel anything.

I keep looking at all the art I liked over my time here, all the stories I saved and loved to read, all the art I did and the ones I was still working on, and I feel nothing.

I keep deleting all of it and I feel nothing

I look at the art I made and feel like deleting it, but feel it would just be like i wasted too much energy.

I can't find meaning in The Amazing Digital Circus. I can't find joy, sadness, anger... absolutely nothing

[witheringlunatic]

Dunno I didn’t really enjoy TADC episode 9. It felt really badly written and paced for a final episode.

Spoilers below, I’m going to be a bit critical here so just don’t engage if you don’t want to:

So the entire first scene was wayyy to short, why does Kinger immediately tell them all they’re brainscans and how is Jax the only one to have a appropriate reaction to that by getting angry (and abstracting).

Zoobles dialogue sucks, they don’t even have their personality anymore it just sounds like they’re a therapist or something (although this was a problem awhile back for them). Where did the angry, rebellious side of them go? Why aren’t they mad that they’re a brainscan and their real self is out in the world?

Gangle again is sidelined and only has a couple of scenes, one of which I had to skip over because it was so embarrassing to watch and literally sexual harassment.

Abstragedy was in the ending credits, which was definitely an appeal to the fans. I get it but can shows not appeal to fandom anymore? The only time I enjoyed when a show included its fanbase was with Gravity Falls and that was because it was supplementary codes that added to the lore, and a fun manhunt, not the fanbase adding stuff and the show putting it in.

Ragatha…gets nothing, again. Weird hug scene between her and Pomni which just felt really off and poorly executed.

Pomni is literally just the “I have to be nice to everyone and save everyone” person she has zero personality anymore. No anger, no sarcasm in her dialogue. She and Zooble don’t sound like real characters anymore. She helps Jax and that’s it.

Jax…. I don’t even know what to say about her. She is the main aspect of this episode with her backstory and everything. I understand why she pushed everyone away from her, although I didn’t really enjoy how that part of the episode was written. I know when you become closed off and angry you hurt other people, but Jax opened up to Ribbit completely and Ribbit accepted her openly. Maybe I’m not Jax but I wouldn’t have pushed her away at all. I don’t know how to feel about Jax’s character it’s pretty complex and I don’t think the writer did a good job portraying how complex Jax is.

If they really wanted to make this show about Jax, make her the main character. There’s no need for Pomni if Jax is supposed to be the focus.

And Caine, well I did like his character in the previous episodes and was really happy to see that he lived. But I don’t really like how he could have survived? I thought Kinger permanently deleted him from the computer in episode 8? Well either way, he’s back and I guess is forgiven immediately by the group after literally lobotomizing himself. Ripping out the blue AI shouldn’t have been possible, and that blue AI being the unreasonable part of himself doesn’t make any sense when we see that the red AI was the one who consumed the blue one out of anger.

Anyways, not a great episode. I enjoyed the first couple episodes of the show but not the last bunch.

[laladoods]

Guys pls give me funnybunny fics recommendations I NEEDDDDD

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

anyway now that the episode's out. im sure we're gonna see a lot of "jax de-abstracting post-series" art and fics and stuff and you know i think it is valid to read the final ep as open for that to be a possibility, no matter how slim. but i will say that if you do this it is legally required that you include what would be the hands-down funniest moment, which would be jax walking out of that blanket fort, seeing caine, and immediately hearing the kill bill sirens

[its-justpan]

Episode 8 if Jax locked tf in

[laladoods]

Teacher AU x TADC

So like.. what if Pomni was a super cool, long-haired, thrift shopping, hippie queen?? She so cutesy hehe

What subject would she teach??🤔🤔🤔

[laladoods]

TADC x La La Land

[laladoods]

FunnyBunny x La La Land

[doodlepom]

to be loved is to be known

[laladoods]

FUN BUN dont worry Fortnite Pom Pom won’t hurt u

[laladoods]

FINISHED RAHAHAHHAHHHHHHH

[laladoods]

Lenore Dove!🕊️

[laladoods]

🎶Guess who’s back, back again..🎶🎶

HELLOOOOOO IM BACK.

AND AM NOW ADDICTED TO HUNGER GAMES AGAIN.

For the prosperity and the glory of Panem, the four tributes of District 12! Haymitch, Maysilee, Louella and Wyatt.

[imobsessed123]

Ok but imagine if Shannon didn’t make 9.5 so in book 10 Keefe will just randomly say something like

this is worse than that one time I burned down a gas station

and Sophie is just like ;-;