Sprigatitobix

Sideblog for all of my various random interests

[supivuokko]

I'M A LITTLE YELLOW FISH IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA, WON'T SOMEBODY HELP ME

[chloroform-flavored-crayon]

Saw this on Pinterest and thought it deserved to be here too

[flowersatopadecayingcorpse2]

“Jax never faces consequences” she died. What do you want from her. She died.

[the-silence-collective]

"jax faced no consequences for her actions!" a trans woman can literally lose her mind and fucking die and you people still wouldn't see it as enough of a consequence for her actions. which is telling

[acollectcall]

I keep bringing it up, but I hate how people purposefully and continue to take Goose's words out of context to continue being being transphobic. Between "I'm not transphobic but..." and "Goose said we could use he/him pronouns!" it never serves to be less annoying.

Yes, she said you could use he/him to refer to Jax. It's very clear she meant that in a discussion-esque manner. When discussing Jax use either because Jax is using those pronouns for most of the show, so it's fine to refer to him as such when discussing the series.

She did not mean, "Use he/him pronouns still because Jax being a manly man's man who is still a man is a valid reading of a story about a repressed trans woman killing herself."

The lengths people go in the TADC fandom to be so underlyingly transphobic can feel so shitty because they refuse to let go of the person who hated being a man so much and was so terrified of being a woman, that she killed herself, and then they go around acting like, "Actually if you are trans you shouldn't transition because you're hotter as a boy <3" like fuck off for real. Learn to love a trans character, you'd be rightfully chewed out for depicting a character who was trans from the first scene as their assigned gender at birth, just because Jax didn't come out until the end doesn't give you a pass to continue being transphobic.

Like I do genuinely think its one thing to draw pre-finale Jax as depicted in the series, I think its an entirely different ball park to just say, "he's a man in my manly man au."

Do what you want, sure, I'll still call it transphobic because there's nothing more reductive about engaging in a piece of queer media by making an AU where all the characters are nice cishets.

[cowabummer101]

I get, like, legit angry when people insist Jax actually killed her mom even though the series shows both through Ribbit's reasoning and Lee being able to get employed and live a normal life that Miss Mateo was fine generally speaking. (Like maybe she got bruised up or a sprain but clearly nothing life shattering).

Even though Jax herself wasn't certain what happened after she ran off, the fact that she even thinks that her mom might have been faking to make her feel bad is very telling as to what kind of person Miss Mateo is. For Jax to even come to that as a possibility means that her mother must have done something similar in the past as a manipulation tactic. Possibly multiple times.

They also talk about the shove as if it was premeditated, and not a knee jerk reaction of an abused teen trying to put distance between herself and her abuser.

(Not to mention that the hug itself was possibly an attempt by Miss Mateo to initiate a reconciliation phase after verbally abusing and then laughing at Jax/Lee for coming out... or that she may have indicated a desire to deny her daughter's identity and/or to send her to "therapy" during the hug...)

Like, come on y'all, be so fucking for real.

[victorian-robot]

My running theory around the “there was no build up to Jax being trans” conversation is that it boils down to existing knowledge of what pre-transition trans folks are like.

I think a lot of people went in thinking pre transition trans folks are all gender nonconforming and she definitely isn’t.

But among trans people and others in the know she was really obvious because she showed a bunch of clear signs of repression and a low level obsession with her masculinity. As a combo it was possible for that to be a cis guy, but it also heavily pointed to her being trans.

I’m really glad Gooseworx wrote about Jax this way. It’s one of few queer cautionary tragedies that I can get behind because it’s not a story of how her queerness was tragic but how her avoidance of it was. Of a woman who ripped apart everything that looked like kindness because she hated herself so much that she couldn’t handle anyone loving her.

[skatepark932]

As someone who watched TADC after it had all been released, it pisses me off so much to see people have the wrong perception of the story. The theme of the story is not at all supposed to be redemption and forgiveness. It's not a story about how caring for someone can fix everything. Jax is an incredibly well written character, and the point of the scene after her abstraction is that her abstraction was self inflicted. No amount of forgiveness and comfort from her friends make the outcome any different without Jax herself actively making an effort to change for the better and let people in. She refused to do so and it resulted in abstraction. As someone who has a friend who is veryyy similar to Jax I despise that people say her plotline is bad representation just because they don't personally know someone like her.

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over

[b-h-art]

Just saw a post saying how Jax is utterly incapable of taking responsibility when it's her fault and like. Yea. But her entire skit is about thinking every fucking thing is her fault and trying to keep herself out of everything just so she doesn't mess up again. She DOES think it's her fault she KNOWS it's her fault but it's her coping mechanisms that's a mess. She keeps hurting everyone around her cause she doesn't know how to stop. She's still in that room playing the piano chained to that feeling while every other versions of herself keep laughing and taunting her along. She's scared of expressing a single emotion shes terrified she wants to break free and it's that terrified kid still stuck in that memory that has the key to opening up the current Jax. But she can't do anything about it cause she's still stuck there, to that piano and she knows if she tries to break free the other jaxs will get her. She couldn't even accept the fact that she could be something other than whatever was expected of her that she can't help anyone else cause she can't even fucking let herself in. And so she kept pushing everyone away. She KNOWS it's her fault but all the self hating self loathing parts of herself keeps laughing at her and they don't care. It's much easier being the people laughing at the little kid forced to play the piano than trying to please parents who don't care about you and who can't get over your other parent and expect you to be a replacement for them. She does care but she's so terrified to let anyone see her that she couldn't even get the courage to help someone else, in case someone figured her out.

All of this just to be a fucking asshole who literally pushed their two best friends towards suicide that goddamn fucker deserved everything that came to her and that IS the point of her story. If you can't be sympathetic towards yourself you will end up like Jax. The girl who was too much of a coward to be one. See idc what it is that you hate about yourself but this is what y'all should be taking away from this. Jax is a cautionary tale and y'all are having a debate over this.

[skelletinne]

something something the thing about a tragedy is that it was always going to happen

cropped and lineart only under the cut

[noah-delart]

The perfect doll Raggy 🪡🧵

[crabkatz]

I don’t know how to collooorrr😭😭

[skellyjingles]

Two repressed queer people getting over their comphet or something (and of course Mitski is involved.)

video version on youtube

[maiben-rill]

[bubblegumbi-tch]

Just finished watching Ann Droid. And it may have started out as a commentary on AI but as someone who works in social care I ended up finding it a pretty poignant (if unintentional) commentary on care work and the value we bring to the lives of the people we care for that many don't often see or overlook, and the very real and strong bond we have with them, no matter how unconventional.

[sprigatitobix]

It felt like it was a very intentional choice in the writing to go along with the themes of aging, and grieving the loss of your partner and who you used to be with them.

[vulnus-sanare]

i have also found it was brilliant in the way it introduced those thematics in the midst of the satyre to AI and the state of the world.

It mentioned how important it is to bring novelty to the life of someone who is grieving. How to be present in what they need is more important than just being there for the sake of being present.

It speaks mostly about elders but I can totally see that some people are already attached to AI for basic "human-like" conversations. I used to do it often, don't mind me. I really did and I ditched it because I noticed it was making me feel even more lonely.

The robots in the series are doing the same but we can see the spark on Linda, the robot, like she is curious about "tasting ice cream" and leaning more about how to console and deal with Sue. Opposed to just being a care-giver.

Diane Morgan as usual with her brilliant writing.

[adultlikers]

[porksweats]

e me a mail

[fortooate]

make the attachment a pic of a snail

[jumpingjacktrash]

give me two gifs

of critters in clover

[nuclearcarrots]

then photoshop them on the CLIIIIIIIFFS OF DOVER

[laurasinele]

I still reference this post today. And yes, when I say I reference it I mean I sing it.