moonbow

"time went on for everybody else, she won't know it" call me oyora! | 22 | she/her | eng/spa | lesbian | ♍ sun ♎ moon ♋ rising | artist & editor (supposedly) | icon credit

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TADC EPISODE 9 SPOILERS

Ironic how the character whose name means “remember” in russian is the one who says “I forgot how bad it could get”

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TADC EPISODE 9 SPOILERS (very vague, but still)

I have been thinking these past few days about why the discourse around Jax infuriates me so much when I don’t even like her. Some points that I’ve seen repeated over and over again to justify that Jax isn’t a complex character is stuff like:

“He doesn’t have any redeeming qualities”

“The show is trying to make me feel sympathy for him when he doesn’t deserve it”

“His backstory isn’t even sad enough for him to be doing all that when other characters had it worse” (NOT justifying his behavior, but this one especially angers me A LOT bc they usually water down Jax’s trauma to “a divorce and a fight with his mom”, underestimating how much emotional incest can fuck you up in so many aspects).

And it got me thinking: why are people so obsessed with having ALL characters be redeemed and have a happy ending when that is clearly not the story that the creator wants to tell with this character in particular?

And then I realized that this entire discourse is just Jasper-from-Steven-Universe discourse repackaged a decade later.

Their characters are meant to contrast with the rest of the cast. They hate themselves so much to a point where they refuse to get help from those around them, even from that one person that does not want to give up on them. While the rest of the characters have their own hardships and traumas but end up learning to deal with them and to grow through the help of others, Jax and Jasper tell the story of broken people who refuse to get help and turn to hurting/abusing those around them in response, continuing the cycle of abuse.

I know everyone wants to see characters get better, but in real life you will find people like Jax and Jasper that in fact become worse and worse people. Not every character gets to be redeemed if they don’t even want to and if they keep isolating themselves due to their self-hatred. A redemption arc is not what makes a character complex. A character with a sad/bittersweet ending, which is a direct consequence of his actions, doesn’t mean that she is poorly written just because you don’t like it.

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GOODBYE MY LOVE

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me watching the good omens fandom be in absolute shambles after the ending, but i'm a jjba fan who already went through the "my favorite characters have been erased from existence and now have their happy ending in another universe" type of grief

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Any interesting TADC concepts/ideas that ended up being cut?

Ragatha was originally going to be subject to a lot more violence and she was gonna have plush organs.

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why, you look just like your mother!

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thinking thinking about writing a meta about ragatha's psychological torture scene because i'm SOOOOO obsessed with it....

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so uh…episode 8 am i right

stuff below the cut

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Hey! Hey, so this shot from Ragatha’s POV where the knife in her button eye looks as if her mother were holding the knife is INSANE!

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kinger the terrible

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Her mother looking like a huge terrifying shadow of herself because she's scared she might become like her mother 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also, one of the knieves stabbing her right in her button eye while her mother has both eyes intact, looking at her from up above and making her feel so small 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh Gooseworx, you're so silly!

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I’M BACK AT THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN

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having people that i talk daily with at uni is great and all until i have the worst anxiety episode (???) ever and suddenly i wish my class would just forget about my existence like they did in high school

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NOT POPPY WITH THE BONG????? 😭😭😭😭😭

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Months later, but I finally have time (and energy) to take a look at the new welcome home update. Only thing I know is that it's Frank-focused this time, I'm so excited!!!

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MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE