16, 17, 18, 24 for the ask game?
oooo i'll try to go for TADC again
#16 you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
like listen i think Bubble is funny but i'm also surprised by people who really like Bubble, or think Bubble is going to be a deeper part of the plot / maybe even the villain reveal. which is fine, i think it's very fun and creative, i just have Humanoid Bias so i don't really care for a floating bubble head with teeth xD
i will say tho, i fuck w/ the hc that Bubble is all the not-family friendly thoughts Caine's programming has filtered out of him
#17 there should be more of this type of fic/art
at risk of sounding like a broken record, i won't say bottom Jax. xD i'd love if there was more trans female Pomni! i found one Funnybunny fic with her and i've been obsessed ever since
#18 it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...
I WANT MORE ABEL 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 he's basically a blank slate, you can literally do whatever you want with him! there are so so many fun ideas you can do and alternate scenarios, like if he wasn't in on Caine's adventure and was also tricked, or he wasn't actually deleted and is still one of Caine's pawns, or if he manages to befriend one of the cast like how Pomni befriended Gummigoo -- YOU CAN DO SO MUCH WITH ABEL 💥💥💥
[i say as someone who only looks up Jax ship fics and nothing Abel specific]
#24 topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
honestly, the most 'rancid' discourse i've seen so far has been antis in the Royalrabbit tag. but that's bc antis always have rancid takes lol
hmmm...i think anything involving Caine, Jax, and Ragatha has the potential to get nasty. a lot of fellow neurodivergents project onto Caine and use him being an AI to deny any accountability for his actions. a lot of victims of bullying or abuse see their tormentor in Jax and get upset when fans like him or critique any mistreatment of him, because "Bad People" deserve to be punished. and there seems to be this idea that if you don't like Ragatha (or even Ragatha x Pomni), you hate women. which is silly.
but that's just what i've picked up in my peripheral. i only read discourse if it's A. interesting B. written without the unnecessary moral policing language of "if you love/hate (x) then you're a (x) person" or anything along those lines and C. not written to be inflammatory or accusatory.