🌹MissYapzaLot🌹

20s // Woman // Writer // Storyteller Remember: the happier they are on the outside, the more dead they are on the inside. DNI if -18. No minors, please.

[missyapzalot]

THIS BLOG IS 18+ ONLY

Minors DNI: Pls & Thanks

Listen to me ramble about Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and BloodMoney! Watch me reblog shit, maybe write a ficlet or two. IDK, it’s whatever. Stay a while? 🙃

I also ramble about gibberish and headcanons

[3hkowalski]

And the universe said——

I love you

[missyapzalot]

My face when I see this beauty 🥹

[six-tooth]

the fumbling one

[missyapzalot]

The gravity of which Jax fumbled these two will never cease to amaze me. How do you do this?

[3hkowalski]

~Your voices

Their voices~

~all wonderfully wacky voices~

...Yet no one could hear your cries

MEME ver:

[missyapzalot]

I don’t know if it’s fair to criticize TADC on making Jax a main character without calling it a critique of the plot itself. Goose mentioned this was always the planned route, so she’d have to make that clear with her storytelling. Thus, Jax took most of the limelight with main character status. If that was the intent of the show, Jax getting the most screen time was inevitable. To say that this plot choice is not great is one thing, but I wouldn’t say it goes against the story itself. To not like Jax or Pomni would be to simply not like the main plot points of the show.

But to separate that critique from the one stating how the others were not as fully developed as they could have been, my ultimate takeaway was TADC just needed more time. The team could absolutely have fleshed out Zooble, Gangle, and Kinger (now he would be peak) in say…4-5 extra episodes. But that’s not the story Goose wanted to tell.

While I’m not one to fault how she wanted the story to go, I didn’t like the execution of the Jax reveal. Came out of left field for me. The one good thing I have noticed is that while Jax’s transfem identity is accepted, no one is really excusing or justifying the abusive behavior because of it (you know with Ribbit, Kaufmo, and nearly Pomni). Trauma and anxiety can absolutely explain why someone does things, but their actions are ultimately in their control. So, I’m not one to fault Goose on the type of story she wanted to tell, I just had a small critique on how she chose to tell it. If that makes sense?

[pikavani]

A little white lie 💚

My contribution to Ribbit's and Ragatha's relationship.

Believe it or not I've been working on this comic for months now but only had the time and patience to finish it now.

Rest assured that whenever Ragatha doesn't get enough attention, I will make it my mission to make her shine.

It's just a little funny interaction I had in mind.. tho I'm sure Ragatha had a hard time keeping up her smile when her friend abstracted.

[missyapzalot]

Fucking kiss the brick before you throw it, okay?

[itskebb]

. TADC SPOILERS .

!! EYESTRAIN WARNING !!

‘wearing it “ironically” huh?’

Hiii!! Look at what I made!!! This took 3 days and I’m really proud of it

[missyapzalot]

I see what you made. And I’m jelly.

[asterinx14]

TADC EPISODE 9 SPOILER

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" unconsciously adoring each other's avatar "

[missyapzalot]

Stop it. Stop. Stop being amazing.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Going to go see the amazing digital circus finale in theaters today! Oh boy, I sure do hope nothing bad happens in it!

[arlo-skipp]

claim your badge here

[the-pomnisuitjax]

HOO WAY

[missyapzalot]

[missyapzalot]

I fucking love Pomni.

Even when Jax is saying all this hurtful shit that they’d move on and forget her, Pomni be looking like “I know yo ass is lying, quit yo bullshit.”

Look at this face. You can’t tell me this face doesn’t mean she’s clocked your ass a long time ago.

[castlepunk1077]

Well, that's that then.

[missyapzalot]

I STAND CORRECTED

No, I mean this un-ironically. I did not initially believe Jax was meant to be a trans-woman, so I wasn't a fan of the take. Seeing Goose not only confirm Jax being trans, but giving Leeroy a feminine take on his/her name (Lee was mentioned), let me be clear I am both okay with it and happy for those who feel vindicated by representation. And you're right, normalizing LGBT+ people in broader society through media like this is a net positive for the entire community. Sometimes that involves subtle representations that don't overshadow the story. Jax is a very well written character—trans or not—and having well-written trans characters is sorely needed for trans-people. Most definitely!

...That said and please don't kill me I believe this execution should have been handled better. You don't even have to make significant changes to the series for this either. I believe two problems could have been solved with one tiny line. That being Zooble's off-color comment in the baseball episode.

REFERENCE: "I figured you'd be into this."

You may be tempted to say most of the misunderstanding comes from the show just not being for a broad audience, but this flew under many queer people's radars as well (myself included). I am openly bisexual and try to keep up with everything going on. This came out of left field for me. “Show, don’t tell” works beautifully for what we can assume is popular knowledge. It doesn’t go so well when you are dealing with a niche audience. And for LGBT+ representation, it’s especially delicate to handle without the fanbase blowing up. Some of it is prejudice, some of it is ignorance. Most of the time, it’s just a surprise. For me personally, I believed “Remember / The Last Act” was simply about men and how their emotions are stigmatized. None of these nuggets were specifically pointing to identity and came across more as vulnerability and the idea of weakness. Even in Episode 9 when Jax opens up to Ribbit about not liking what it means to be a man, I started to think it was about Jax wrestling with the stigma against male vulnerability. This topic is rarely tackled head-on in the way I thought it was here and also sorely needed. I was shocked to learn this was not the route the show took for Jax.

Now, about the Zooble comment.

Another reason I didn’t like this take was because in hindsight, it makes Zooble’s and Gangle’s maid dress stunt especially heinous. I know Jax is a POS towards Gangle, but to let your partner conjure up a feminine outfit against someone’s will and then to joke that the outfit suits them? That’s like me throwing a skirt on a closeted trans-woman and then shouting ma’am in front of all our friends. Zooble is openly queer, so it seems out of place for them to allow and say. But you also don’t have to change the whole scene to solve the trans-Jax confusion.

I’d simply have Zooble say something unironic about Jax not having to hide who she really is and reverse the dress stunt themselves. This would have been more on-brand and imply to the audience that yes, you should be looking for hints in this direction. That one tiny change would have made it clear without fully holding the audience’s hand. I am fine with Jax being trans at the end of the day, but just wasn’t a big fan of the execution. I didn’t understand the reveal at first because it felt out of left field, but that’s just me. I’m an idiot running her gab on Tumblr, so don’t take what I say to heart! TADC is still amazing work. Goose is a mad lad for also getting this indie series into THEATERS. 🎭

[kibble-mp4]

there is still time

[missyapzalot]

WE TOOK AND WE GOBBLED

[festeringmoons]

this is what happened right

[missyapzalot]

Yes, especially after finding out what JAX did to RIBBIT. LIKE BRUH BE SO FR RN

[starlike-sight]

I haven’t seen anyone else post these here yet, but I thought this thread of alex rochon’s post finale thoughts was really interesting! I’m still forming my thoughts so I’m mulling this over for now

(you can read the full thread on his bluesky!)

[missyapzalot]

I love this thread, it puts everything together about Caine so well. And I especially love that the intent of his character arc was indeed 'your past does not define you.' I--like many people--struggled immensely with being a victim of bullying, lack of empathy, destructive coping mechanisms, and not understanding how to navigate social connection. I don't know if I will ever be able to reach the same ability of human connection as an everyday neurotypical person because of my traumas, but trying to change that right now is what matters.

Too many people get stuck in this idea that our worst mistakes are what define us. We see it often with "cancellation" being poorly excused as "accountability" even if it's wildly unjustified.

I also appreciate that we can love Caine and know that he is indeed an AI creation. He's the very thing so many of us on here are viscerally against (artificial intelligence) and yet we see Caine as bbygirl. That's intentional, and that's a good thing. I have been a proponent of not jumping down people's throats for not being anti-ai all the time, and this to me was a subtle way of vindicating that take as well as the broader 'don't let your past actions destroy your future goodness' narrative. Most people aren't rapists, child abusers, psychopaths, drug lords, or axe murderers. Most people make big mistakes once in their life but never touch these territories. Most people can be redeemed.

Most people are also brand new to understanding AI as both a positive and a negative force. Both of these comments being made at once with Caine's character is what makes me love him so much.

I stay stanning my messy AI himbo lmaoooo.

[3hkowalski]

Your Breakthrough

this scene is so powerful! I’m speechless...

[missyapzalot]

YOUR ART IS SO POWERFUL, and I too am speechless

[missyapzalot]

WARNING: TADC SPOILERS:

I don’t normally post the amazing digital circus content, but this theory has been going off in my head ever since the finale.

WATCH THE FINALE HERE: IT IS RELEASED

Ever since I saw the last episode, I’ve had so many questions about their conjuring abilities. There wasn’t a lot of time available to explain how they worked, but between Caine and Kinger’s powers, I believe they can do almost anything.

When Caine sees Jax in his fully abstracted form, his first words are “did you guys need help with—?” as if he could still fix things even without his full power. Yes, he gave up part of what makes him the god that he is. But how much of that could be filled in by Kinger and the gang?

And because they now all have conjuring abilities, is it possible that they can engineer something to reverse abstractions in the first place? It makes sense as a logical conclusion. See: They can conjure up anything — Caine came back to help — Pomni jumped FULLY into Jax’s abstracted body and actually reached him…it lays the groundwork for endless possibilities.

People who saw the episode, what do y’all think? Do Jax and the other abstractions stand a chance to un-abstract within the show’s logic?