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@pearlier-gates
It's so funny that we're going to have to cite this merch as the thing that finally confirmed that Vox will get his body back before or during the events of season 3.
(Sure, he had his body in the Christmas merch, but that was released extremely close to the end of season 2 and didn't have any concrete place in the timeline, unlike the 2026 Pride lineup which clearly happens after Angel has already left the hotel.)
Speaking of the Christmas merch, I do think it's a red flag that Vox makes the exact same fake PR smile the only two times we've seen him with a body post-season 2. You doing okay there, buddy? Are we burying some big feelings with substance abuse or just good old-fashioned emotional repression, maybe?
TADC finale spoilers below (written on 6/4 after a single theater viewing, so forgive me for any misremembered details):
As previously mentioned, episode 9 took a LOT of risks that are honestly kind of scary when you're mid-way through your first viewing and aren't certain whether the end product will be good or not. And I'm so impressed at how many of those risks, no matter how much they bothered me in the moment, made total sense by the time the credits rolled.
Jax being quietly revealed to have abstracted off-screen had my entire theater groaning and muttering to themselves when it first happened. And yet! The rest of the episode shows Jax so much thought and care that I now can't imagine it any other way. The sheer scope of his plotline could have easily turned this ep into The Jax and Friends Show, but Glitch was careful to avoid unnecessary scenes that would make him overstay his welcome or allow his pain to steamroll the rest of the cast.
I adore that Jax's circus flashbacks take the focus off of him in the most literal way possible. They're shown almost entirely from his own 1st person perspective, as though he's just a distant viewer watching the others through a screen. He gets an opportunity in Ribbit's room to open up and start acting like a real person who is inhabiting a real world alongside her, and the camera responds by finally letting him into frame. But once he shuts Ribbit out, we're back to the 1st person. Jax is no longer real at his own insistence, and the camera's attention stays on what matters most- all of the people he is choosing to harm.
Special shout-out to the empathy afforded to Gangle in this regard. TADC very much ended up having a "social murder is never justified even when the victim is a total dick" theme. It's a lovely nuance that Gangle is one of the characters who most embodies this lesson without her being pressured to like or forgive Jax. Glitch stuck the landing on respecting the inherent value of his life without expecting any of the others to light themselves on fire to keep him warm.
(Side note: Jax mentally casting Gangle and Zooble as overbearing nags that exist for him to pull their metaphorical pigtails? Right before we learn how he really feels about femininity/nonbinary identities? OOF. OOF.)
On a completely different note... Pomni casually smiling and then pulling out a fucking gun right before confronting Jax's abstraction was so tonally scuffed that it looped back around to being brilliant again. By this point the other people in my theater were making sounds of pure agony, and it was hands down the funniest part of the episode. I thought I'd remember it as a so-bad-it's-good writing fumble, but honestly? I like that this happens immediately before Jax's mind palace throws a tantrum over how serious and unfunny this episode has been. Making light of such a somber moment with some inappropriately timed comedy is exactly what Jax would have done if the somber moment in question wasn't his own death. It's as if Pomni needed to get into his headspace before she could, you know, literally get inside his headspace.
And my god, the choice to BOTH canonize transfem Jax while also leaving him in the closet was so, so good. It would have been easy for either Pomni or Caine to posthumously out him and then romanticize it because "well, she's already abstracted and was clearly hysterical over gender identity, so we don't need to respect her choice to present as male anymore". I love that Jax remains a he/him until the bitter end. I love that even the reveal of his IRL counterpart doesn't give the game away to the rest of the group. Because no matter how bad his mistakes were, this is nobody's secret to tell except his own.
Plus for all we know his hypothetical good ending would have been he/him lesbianism with Ribbit but THAT'S JUST A GAAAAAAME THEEEEOOOOORRRY-
I think the one scene I still have questions/concerns about is when Pomni and Ragatha just kind of stared at each other in silence for an entire business day and a half. It was so melodramatic that I assumed one of them was doomed to abstract and needed to get in one last heartfelt goodbye for the audience's sake. But no? They're both fine? I dunno. These bitches just gay I guess, good for them. Not as gay as Gangle and Zooble though. Love wins.
No-spoilers TADC Ep 9 review: despite multiple moments of internally screaming "oh god no where are they going with this", I was fully on board by the end.
I don't think any non-indie studio would have dared structure the grand finale to their most successful IP this way, but the payoff spoke for itself. If you haven't seen it yet, do your very best to remain unspoiled until your first opportunity. It's worth it.
step one: replace entire personality with open, festering wound
step two: contort absolutely all stimuli in my environment to relate to the my wound in some manner, ideally one which justifies random acts of unbridled aggression and vengeance
step three: marry a girl with generational wealth
Why is pet play always dogs anyway
Youre a dirty little goldfish arent you. daddys gonna clean your tank out so good so you have to wait in the sink until im done.
Alastor being bad at sex is one of my favorite hc
Man we do not talk enough about how Vox made Velvette attend the first overlord meeting he knew Alastor would be at after his 7 year disappearance.
Like, can you imagine present-day Vox taking actual stock of his feelings and fucking acknowledging that he would not be able to act normal ™️I know he was feeling some kind of way about that shit, holy fuck.
We were fucking robbed of the scene where Vox asked Velvette to attend, I tell you!! We were robbed of the scene where he realized he needed to ask her to attend!! Where's the director's cut Viv?? 😭
Don't even get me started on Alastor having his whole fake ass speech for "I'm sure you've all been wondering where I've been" ready only for Carmilla to hit him with the "not really" because Vox wasn't there (it's him he's the only one who cared- 😭)
This is one of those little details that validates Velvette and Valentino's decision to take Vox back after the shit he pulled in season 2.
When he's at his baseline, Vox is a good business partner! He's aware of what Alastor does to him and will voluntarily cede control to Velvette to stop it from hurting their company. Throwing away everything the Vees worked for just for Alastor is not normal and not the standard to judge their friendship by.
Hhhhh everytime I find a funny post I'm really agreeing with and then I get hit with the "velvette is staticmoth daughter" hammer. I'm sorry that's their BESTIE.
I love how, against all odds, there is a near-consensus in the fandom that Vox is not a war veteran.
We all watched him go homicidally insane in early 1950's America, did the math, realized that he is almost certainly the right age to have been traumatized overseas only a few years prior, and still went, "Nope. Too easy. This man has something uniquely wrong with him that WWII had absolutely nothing to do with."
Can’t wait to see Alastor react to the Pentious situation, by which I mean not react because my bet is that he just ignores it. Oh, poor, naive Charlie Morningstar and her doomed dreams of redemption—you’re saying that loud snake is in heaven now? No, that doesn’t sound correct. Probably an elaborate trick. Good on Charlie for figuring out how to lie though! Keep flexing those deceit-muscles!
Found abusive family
Sometimes a group of queer, traumatized people come together and beat the shit out of each other and do DARVO tactics to recreate what their parents did to them. And that's beautiful.
Nonbinary/genderqueer Vox is an unrivaled headcanon in terms of the highs and lows it puts him through.
His death takes him out of ultra-repressed 1950's America and into a new cybernetic body that resembles an object more than it resembles a man. He gets the opportunity to change his name, appearance, and entire identity with a quickness and ease that living queer people can only dream of.
None of this changes the fact that Alastor will deadname him on the worst day of his afterlife, and that Vox will not have the language or self-awareness necessary to explain to anyone (including himself) why that hurt so much.
Vox text posts
+ 1 Alastor
why vox sitting on the floor lol
It isn't really the murdering or the cult leading that makes Vincent look like a complete psycho it's that he arrived in literal Hell and his first thought was "I have to go start a business," and he's been running that business for 70 years like. You are in the afterlife and your first instinct is getting on the grindset? This man isn't normal.
Heartbreaking: this Overlord reached the power tier where you don't even need to deal with things as petty as employment anymore yet voluntarily continued like the freak that he is.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure Alastor has yet to monetize any part of his radio show and only has Husk because enslaving a casino owner sounded more convenient than eating your landlord every time the rent is due.
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cw blood/flesh, cannibalism in the extras below the cut >>