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honeysunspots

an ineffable collage.

#my post #my art #good omens #ineffable husbands

grac3yn

eva stratt they could never make me hate you

javadiology

dragon-spaghetti

In another world </3

Reference to this post by goose

wolfsteax

isn't she lovely?

secretmellowblog

So that circus show huh

illunesa

very far away, on the other side of a computer screen :)

kuropin

Jax and Kinger

ventismfsblog

antlered-vixen

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

empire-of-light

(insp.)

empire-of-light

#as a teacher myself he makes me ill#educating students is a beautiful wonderful thing @carhmel

cloudedcomet

I think if you understand TADC as a deeply personal and direct story centering on transness, emotional/self repression, the inner complexity of cruel people, ego, control, self-destructive tendencies, second chances, and what it means to live a meaningful life, all filtered through the core vision of one person, you'll find a raw expression of all those things, an experience being shared. You'll find a story that is consistent in its theme, subject matter, and quality throughout. Not something impossibly esoteric or flawlessly sophisticated, but a story that puts every piece it needs to into place. A story that completes itself, that says what it needs to and leaves a mark after it does.

Conversely, if you understand TADC as a story to take every single aspect, moment, outcome, and detail totally literally rather than in tandem with the thematic signficance it communicates. Or were looking for a more lore-driven story. Or were hoping for a more rounded exploration of its world and characters, a hollistic dive into the premise it sets up rather than a story barreling towards a specific end goal/a very pointed thematic stance. You're gonna end up disappointed with what you got.

And this is not a moral judgement, I don't think any expectation is at all more correct than another. I actually think my last point is probably even the most fair stance to have. Especially if you don't engage with any secondary material and just look at the show itself, since it doesn't totally establish Jax as a core focus until later in its run. Some storylines do feel very sidelined.

But if you view the show for what it was meant to be rather than what it was expected to be, I personally think it was rather beautiful. Not perfect, not the pinnacle of cinema, but as a trans woman, it was meaningful to me, dearly so. I feel like the standards its being held to aren't totally reasonable. I think it's a story that deserved to be told as it is, I think it's human.

#the first way views it as literary fiction #the second way views it as commercial fiction #not a moral judgement by any means but if you’re someone who only consumes commercial lit ur gonna be bored with literary fiction #i fucking LOVE literary fiction tho and i thought that finale was sublime #it’s not a story made solely to entertain #it’s a piece of art trying to sho individual expression and the singular world view of a creator #and i think goose fucking nailed it #she created phenomenal work and did exactly what she set out to achieve #and i think it’s amazing to take a lit fic approach to something like a cartoon #it’s genre blending in a new and exciting way and it is such a gift to the audience #the show deeply trusts the viewer #and is bold and new #but the speculative premise exists to serve an emotional need #not an emotional need existing to serve a speculative premise #(again the difference btwn commercial and literary fic)#but i digress #the amazing digital circus spoilers #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc spoilers #transfem jax #the amazing digital circus the last act

elwenyere

Ilya Rozanov getting back to his CCM-shoot hotel room after hooking up with Shane Hollander and absolutely blasting "All I Do Is Win" on his 5th generation iPod nano.

bearloonz

my summarized thoughts are that i think tadc 9 does make me think jax is the best written character in the show not just by process of elimination but because his narrative evolves and peaks into something so beautifully heartwrenching and uncomfortable. but also that literally every other tadc fan lost this episode.

astraleliza

its really the most impactful trans media since i saw the tv glow honestly

#tadc

kind-of-human2

No, it’s not ambiguous, you just have no reading comprehension

i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated

shoutout to gooseworx for putting three years of her life into making a show about her ocs, one of whom is trans and also a piece of shit because she knows that the two are not mutually exclusive

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