J.J.

22 any/all audhd lol linktree art reblogs

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[minittwastaken]

as a creative in general

[kittsexhaustpipe]

analysis on the things that gooseworx said about gangle and jax

we know jax's way of coping with everything she's done was believing her reality is fake and they're just cartoon characters. she viewed her and gangle as a comedic duo, similar to popee and kedamono, the characters they were inspired by. popee regularly torments kedamono but despite that kedamono likes being around popee and considers him a close friend.

she reduces her to a one dimensional cartoon character: a sad character that's the foil to the funny character, and they stick around because they actually like each other and it makes for a funny show.

she wants to believe that's all everyone is, so she can put herself at a distance from reality. to delude herself that everyone she cared about aren't really people so she can put a distance between them and her vunerable emotions, and the way she treated them was actually fine because they're not real. she imagines herself going even further with this coping mechanism if gangle abstracts

jax and gangle are also alike in many ways, they have masks to cope with how they feel about themselves. she breaks her comedy mask to have power/control over her, but also probably because she hates being reminded of her own coping mechanism in such a blatant way (with gangle's face literally being a mask and all). jax believes none of gangle's positive emotions are real, and that she's always sad and hating herself just like jax hates herself

and because of that, she feels confused when she sees gangle happy

as for gangle being codependent with jax and viewing her as a friend. gangle had very low self esteem and when your self esteem is that low it's common to let yourself recieve a lot of negative attention from someone. even if it's toxic, it's still someone willingly choosing to be around you and giving you attention, and to many that can seem like the better option than being alone.

when you have no self esteem it also feels impossible to make your own decisions and do things by yourself, and gangle felt like it was easier/better to just let jax drag her around on a leash and do what she says. and also because she feared what jax would do if she made her own choices, of course.

gangle lost any sense of autonomy the moment she stepped into the circus and jax picked a name for her

and i'm sure she eventually caught on that jax is struggling in her own way. she probably downplayed/excused the abuse she received because she knew jax was suffering too and she felt like deserved to be the outlet for her issues anyway.

it wasn't until she got close with zooble that she fully realized just how fucked up that friendship was, and the severity of the impact jax's abuse left on her. and that perhaps she can actually have healthy relationships after all

this all lead to a lot of difficult and complex feelings later down the road, especially when jax abstracted. jax caused her a lot of pain but she still viewed her as a friend, and i'm sure she was mourning the healthy friendship she wanted and they could've had

[isluigiplayable]

You cannot play as Luigi in Austin Powers Pinball.

[segamascott]

[dysaniadisorder]

happy artfight

[do-not-u-dare]

let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”

[do-not-u-dare]

ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?

[dykepuffs]

I keep thinking about how WhatsApp is counted as "social media" which means that teenagers won't be able to text each other unless they have the right kind of (often more expensive) SMS plan - And how the physical environment that I grew up in that made it possible for kids to just walk to each other's houses and bang on the door is now largely gone, and parents are just less likely to let the kids go roaming like that with no real answer about where they're going or when they're coming back anyway.

Or how spending hours on the phone to a friend a long way away, then hanging up and ringing another one, was a cliche for "the teenager" since pretty much the dawn of mass adoption of phones and only died as they moved from the landline to the mobile and then to MSN...

[Images- one photo per decade from the 1940s-1990s of a teenager lounging on the phone]

This feels like a really dangerous attempt at curtailing kids talking to each other.

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[lutraviolet]

gay kittays

(commission for skittybitty)

[minittwastaken]

[averinna]

Look at his dramatic ass, experimenting NOT controlling a game

[blacksnapdragon]

What if I cried

[mircalla]

you've been summoned for july duty

[neenarchive]

companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

[neenarchive]

learning to ask 'is this an ad' will save your life

[beepborpdoodledorp]

based on a discord convo from a few days back when Goose elaborated on Gummigoo's fate a little more. no I'm not coping

[secretmellowart]

I was thinking about digital bodies as a Metaphor and drew this. "I saw the circus glow?" "Despite everything, it's still you?"

[kind-of-human2]

this came to me in a vision

[tvguts]

something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum

[thegreatgoatby]

some more jax abstraction hair expressions