no babe 💕 ur not media illiterate or transphobic 💞💓🩷 ur so right the angsty edgy character who has deep gender related trauma and hates existing in her own skin and was developed by a trans woman and is her self insert and reflects her own mental illnesses is definitely just a cross dresser/feminine man/cisgender guy 💝💘💖
Jax literally killed himself in the circus after making the other two openly queer people around him - a nonbinary person and a non-straight woman - the targets of some of the worst of his externalized self hatred and queerphobia.
But in real life, in the physical world, she's at Riley's bar. She's surrounded by other queer people. He killed himself but she's alive in a place hosted by the nonbinary person he resented. She has the community of other queer people that he rejected.
God im gonna be so fuckin annoyed at the incoming discourse of people denying that Jax is a trans woman.
Ppl are making the bow scene about. Her crushing on Ribbit??? Like guys no lets connect the dots. Jax was just talking about admitting something personal and deep to her mom that she reacted negatively to. Ribbit accepts her and places her bow on Jax's head. Why would Jax's reaction be her suddenly realizing a crush and not related to the extremely feminine bow that was just placed on her ear.
Like this is not even subtext. Its just text. But mfs are stupid as hell in ts fandom and refuse to accept the most obvious trans themes EVER if it isn't spelled out.
reddit's reaction to the finale has me super depressed
Spoilers for episode 9!!!
Jax was explicitly confirmed as transgender, and anybody who argues otherwise is at best ignorant and at worst actively transphobic. It makes me so angry how much everybody denies the obvious truth. I mean, there's literally a long ass montage of all her moments with the song "Isn't she lovely?" and it's focused solely on Jax. She literally comes out to Ribbit in the flashback too.
It makes me so fucking sad and angry how little cis people will even try to understand anything. It's not open-ended. It's not ambiguous. It's blatantly obvious, and if you argue otherwise you are just a transmisogynist. agg it makes me so upset; I'm literally crying rn. I wish gooseworx had just had Jax say, "I want to be a girl" flat out.
Jax's whole fucking arc is a cautionary tale against repression. Its message is to live as yourself and to be honest about who you are. The episode ends with Jax not being able to live as herself. She could have been beautiful and wonderful and lovely, but she wasn't and never will be now, because she was too scared to be herself. That's the fucking message of the character, and yet, even after ALL THAT, people are still denying it and rejecting it and mocking it.
A transgender woman made a series with a self-insert character. A bunny who gets a little girl's room with the colors of the trans flag, who struggles with masculinity, whose backstory is about how she admitted something personal and vulnerable to her mom and was mocked for it, who was given a cute feminine bow and told "your secret is safe with me," whose final moments are set to a song celebrating and mourning the girl she could have been. And still, it's denied.
I used to cynically think that people only see who a person truly is when they die. But reddit has shown me it's so much worse. Sometimes, even after you die. people will still refuse to see you for who you are.
WARNING: MAJOR TADC LAST ACT SPOILERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
SERIOUSLY, DONT SPOIL YOURSELF!
If you’ve watched the movie, you may proceed below the cut.
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How I feel talking to those who missed the obvious transfem coding of Jax:
LIKE… HELLO???
NOTE: THE PHOTOS OF THE MOVIE SCENE WERE NOT TAKEN BY ME! I FOUND THEM IN A DISCORD SERVER OF PEOPLE CHATTING ABOUT THE MOVIE
-the whole scene with Ribbit putting a bow on Jax’s head and saying “your secret is safe with me” after she vented all her problems. (This is like the most obvious reveal)
-Jax said her mother laughed in her face when she revealed something “personal”, which caused an argument. (Then with Ribbit putting the bow on Jax’s head after this was told, hints that the personal thing was her being transfem)
-Gooseworx is trans herself, and has stated that Jax isn’t just her favorite character, but a self insert character, and one she projects her own inner “demons” onto.
-goose states that Jax mainly bullies girls because “He has issues he hasn't worked out with himself yet.”
-Jax was originally designed to be a girl.
-Goose has posted drawings of Jax as a woman
-Jax’s character design is made with pinks and purples which are often feminine colors
-Jax has an overly feminine room he hides from everyone else
-When entering the circus, Jax chose her own name, which choosing/changing your name can be a trans thing
-Jax’s pressure to be super masculine was forced on her by her parents. Her dad who left her, and her abusive mom who wanted Jax to be more like her dad.
-Jax says “My ears and tail are kind of the pinnacle of masculinity.” And then his tail is gone, symbolizing his loss of masculinity or struggle with it.
-goose has drawn Jax saying “I READ SOMEWHERE THAT TAKING PROGESTERONE MAKES YOU BETTER AT GAMBLING” (which is a drug for mtf transition)
-goose has stated that Jax was extremely upset about the maid dress because “He wasn't ready to ask these questions about himself.”
even MORE jax spoilers (this time about trans readings, music, and that scene)
OMG WHEN JAX AND POMNI HUG WE LITERALLY GET THE “SOMEBODY REAL” LEITMOTIF GOING STRAIGHT INTO “ISNT SHE LOVELY” AND THE JAX MONTAGE!!! GOOSEWORX THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE!!!!!!!!
ie: jax self actualizing and finding human connection straight into confirmation that jax is a woman, jax has connected with someone and finally is able to become somebody real, a baby girl 😭🥲🎀
tadc spoilers below (trans jax and trans representations)
i love jax as trans representation. it’s a beautiful, thoughtful portrayal of a tortured, insufferable, dysphoric soul. it touched part of me in a truly meaningful way.
trans representation doesn’t just mean perfect, amazing trans people. it’s also trans people who suffer, who hurt, who are so terrible to their friends. jax strikes me as a similar type of character to the likes of james from imogen binnie’s nevada for instance, as jax is this dysphoric, awful human being who does terrible things, but also does these things because of a sense of self hatred and despair. she knows she’s trans, but she can’t actualize that yet. transition won’t fix her. but the inklings of self love, recognizing her own mistakes, accepting who she is—that will give her the floor to transition, and from there, to really know herself. it’s so beautiful and painful and sad.
ribbit, like maria in nevada, wants to help jax transition and be herself. but you cannot rush a transition; you cannot make someone love themself.
it’s a painful, achey, heart breaking representation of a truly raw kind of trans-ness and i love it so, so much.