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The majority of people who insist that the scene were Jax fantasizes about raping Gangle was an intrusive thought are full of shit, and this goes triple for anyone who insist that they are and labeling anyone as ableist for judging him for them.

Because this is the same person who has a key to her bedroom, to everyone’s bedroom.

The same person who has sexually harassed on screen, and made a comment that was clearly a sexual innuendo on the writer’s part.

The same person literally shot her, ran up to her body, and started literally gnawing on her ribbons.

You’re only ableist for judging people for their intrusive thoughts of sexual assault and labeling them a danger when they have never acted on them, and the vast majority of people with them don’t.

But Jax isn’t in that vast majority, because if these are intrusive thoughts, which they aren’t, then Jax is in the camp of people who willingly act on them.

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I made some changes because while I still refer to Jax as he/him and generally do refer to him as a man, strictly because he is closeted and clearly does not want to be perceived as a woman despite being one, I just realized how transphobic me referring to him as a man in this context came across. I’ll be mindful of that in the future, sorry.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

The thing with Caine at the end that bothers me so much is that the blue orb (Bubble?) was literally innocent.

He was consumed by Caine, Caine forcibly made him a part of himself out of jealousy, but now he’s the bad guy when he’s unstable because the dominant AI is loosing his shit and it’s causing a ripple effect?

After everything, he’s the one who has to wander aimlessly in the void until he hopefully is able to create his own world? He couldn’t have joined them?

[starfish-and-sunfish]

Sorry, but whatever happened to Gooseworx saying she didn’t want to put sexual assault in her show?

And even if it’s a “just” fantasy, why add in Jax fantasing about Zooble abstracting and him raping Gangle after their funeral?

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Finding out Gangle and Jax’s races makes Jax saying “aren’t you supposed to be submissive and agreeable” to Gangle a hundred times worst, especially given the fact that Goodeworx got outed as a racist. Like what the actual fuck?

(Their races are under the cut as well.)

Gangle is Indian and Jax is white, regardless of whether Jax and Gangle know each other’s races, or even their own, Goose wrote a white “man” telling the Indian women he abuses on the regular that she should be submissive and agreeable to him, and it’s a play on the kink term submissive and breedable. That’s disgusting on so many levels.

And her response to the nega situation makes it clear she doesn’t consider racist “jokes”, like repeatedly saying nega because it sounds like a slur on a live stream, as genuinely hateful racism, so yeah, a spade’s a spade. Like, it’s really telling how she chooses to separate them and tell other people to kill themselves for doing the “genuinely hateful racism” while giving her friends grace for their behavior, because she clearly doesn’t think they should’ve killed themselves back then.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

It’s really interesting to see the majority of the fandom agree on how there’s nothing bad you really can say about Kinger as a person despite the fact that he was involved in creating generative AI in the first place, and would only be anti-AI now because it affected him, and is one of the people that’s responsible for everyone gettihg trapped in the circus in the first place.

Like, the circus only exists because he and a few others wanted to make what was essentially ChatGPT and it by creating a brain-scanning headset that they tested out using a faulty AI that absorbed the other.

He’s literally one of the root causes of everyone’s suffering because he was arrogant, reckless, and just plain stupid (for lack of a better word).

Even if you like him, which I do, Kinger isn’t an innocent man. He’s far from it.

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Comparing Caine to Generative A.I and ChatGPT is canonically incorrect and a heavy mischaracterization of who and what Caine is. Kinger didn’t help to create “Generative A.I”, he assisted in the development of a creative A.I.

Kinger explicitly states in episode 8 something along the lines of “we were making creative ai; something that could make its own ideas, and Caine was our first semi-successful attempt at that”, which is not something that Generative ai or ChatGPT does.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

I don’t think Caine is the equivalent to ChatGPT, especially since he’s sentient, I just meant that was Kinger and the team’s end goal. (Which Caine is far from.)

Also, I wasn’t aware there was a difference between creative and generative AI? Even after doing some research they still read as the same thing but with different framings - as in an all creative AI is generative AI, but not all generative AI is creative AI.

Because, and I’m going off of what’s generally required to for AI to be considered as creative AI, both types can be used to assist in brainstorming ideas, make suggestions, create works of “art”, etc. It’s just that generative AI does that and more. (Like making tables and spreadsheets ig?)

And still, creative AI doesn’t come up with its own ideas any more than generative AI doesn’t, both are trained on pre-existing works and informations and only work when they receive prompts or programmed to do it without direct ones and produce works based on those.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

It’s really interesting to see the majority of the fandom agree on how there’s nothing bad you really can say about Kinger as a person despite the fact that he was involved in creating generative AI in the first place, and would only be anti-AI now because it affected him, and is one of the people that’s responsible for everyone gettihg trapped in the circus in the first place.

Like, the circus only exists because he and a few others wanted to make what was essentially ChatGPT and it by creating a brain-scanning headset that they tested out using a faulty AI that absorbed the other.

He’s literally one of the root causes of everyone’s suffering because he was arrogant, reckless, and just plain stupid (for lack of a better word).

Even if you like him, which I do, Kinger isn’t an innocent man. He’s far from it.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

Bonnie’s looking at itself in the mirror…

Jax: Yeah… Try not to let it get to you too much, Bon. I mean, you definitely got the short end of the stick, but you’ll get used to it.

Bonnie: I think I’m already used to it.

Jax: What?

Bonnie: I don’t actually hate how I look, I mean, I wish had visible arms, but my head... I used to be in brownies when I was little, and we made s’mores this one time, and I had so much fun making mine. I can’t look at myself and feel-

Bonnie then turns around, but Jax is already gone.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

It just hit me that because there were seven original circus members, so there’s at least seven headsets just out there in the world.

[starfish-and-sunfish]

Bonnie popped into the circus while the others were on an adventure, and it was stoked to be in the there since it thought it found a hidden game and Caine explained everything in the best way he possibly could.

But then Caine spoke to Bubble and referred to it by its correct pronouns, and Bonnie stopped having fun, because it never told the system that its pronouns were it/its…

[starfish-and-sunfish]

Sketches of Bonnie

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[starfish-and-sunfish]

Bonnie

Real Name: Unknown

Arrival Date: Late 2013

Age: 24

Gender & Pronouns: Genderless | It/Its

General Height: Slightly taller than Ragatha

Circus Body: Bonnie's circus body is a little stocky and made of sticks that twist around and into each other, and jut out in some places. Its head is a s’more with the marshmallow layer on top of the chocolate. It has two small pieces of coal for eyes that are set at the marshmallow layer, and its mouth isn’t visible. It also has no hands, arms, or legs.

What happens when it holds its breath? When it holds its breath, its head begins to burn. Luckily for Bonnie, it’s not painful.