Tastefictionist

She/her but I accept They/them too

[tastefictionist]

Hello fellow friend

Just to precise

I use she/her but I’m okay with « they/them » too

⚠️Please just don’t use he/him for me (bad experience…)

I won’t respond to any questions about my gender and stuff like that, It’s just too personal for me so PLEASE avoid it

Anyway I’ll just post what comes to my head here, so don’t wait anything from me

See you soon people 🔥

[dapperghst]

!!Daily reminder!!

Trans men are NOT your enemy

Trans women are NOT your enemy

Transmascs are NOT your enemy

Transfems are NOT your enemy

Non-binary people are NOT your enemy

Agender people are NOT your enemy

Multigender people are NOT your enemy

Genderqueer people are NOT your enemy

Genderfluid people are NOT your enemy

Intersex people are NOT your enemy

Xenogender people are NOT your enemy

People who use neopronouns are NOT your enemy

People who use microlabels are NOT your enemy

Gender-non-conforming people are NOT your enemy

People who have detransitioned are NOT your enemy

And if you think that a specific group of trans people or gnc people or any"the enemy", you're just wrong. No group of trans people is the reason for the hate cast towards us, and saying so is transphobic.

It is not trans people's fault for transphobia.

[tastefictionist]

Quick reminder

Don’t hesitate to reblog if you have any definition(s) to add!

[bluequeerio]

“Jax being trans has been obvious since ep 6” NO IT HASN’T??? 😭

And ppl have the nerve to tell me to get some media literacy 🥱

Don’t even get me started on the whole “writer’s don’t have to use lgbtq+ terms for their lgbtq+ characters like we don’t need confirmation guys implications are just fineeeee :DD” argument bc are u fucking serious?? We need confirmation…..more than ever rn????!!!!! 🫩

Y’all umm tadc is an indie series. The point of indie is to give writers more creative freedom, including having explicitly queer characters. Words such as “lesbian” “gay” “bisexual” “trans” etc. ARE NOT BAD WORDS!!!!!! As a lesbian myself I’m done with breadcrumbing. I’m done with creators being like “ah yes I wrote this character with repressed lesbian aura vibes in mind but I’m not gonna explicitly tell u she’s a lesbian in the show bc if I do it would no longer be accessible to 72 countries and I need the money money moneyyyyy” Nope. Fuck that shit. I’m out 🤷‍♀️

[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.

[m4rklol]

Just to be clear, if you insist on disproving that Jax was created with the intention of being a closeted transfem, regardless of your reading of her, you're as bad as the people going around bothering others for using he/him for her even after Goose said we can use any pronouns.

Same goes for people calling out others for seeing him as transmasc or any other identity.

A personal reading, headcanon or AU is one thing, canon is another thing, forcing that reading onto others and policing people's creations based on canon is a third thing.

Goose said we can do whatever we want with the characters but we still have to respect each other.

I'll leave you with some wisdom from the gods:

[garlicnoodle1]

I’ve been seeing the term “media literacy” being thrown around against responses (mostly neutral-negative ones) of the TADC finale and I have to say…do some people know what media literacy actually is?

Media literacy is defined as a communicative ability to use critical thinking, reasoning, evaluation and analysis for a piece of media to understand what possible themes, stories, and ideas its attempting to tell, how it’s done and how that affects the overall narrative/audience.

Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the finale. Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the direction a character took. It’s about why you may feel that way and being open to different perspectives, analyses, literary criticisms, and understanding the differences between intention vs execution.

Media literacy has nothing to do with “Well, you didn’t like that and I did, so you’re media illiterate”. In fact, that’s the opposite of being media literate. What media literacy actually is an ability to critically think and analyze something in your own way, discuss it reasonably, and drawing out conclusions. If you hated the direction of the ending or characters, you are not media illiterate. If you loved the direction of the ending or characters, you are not media illiterate either. It’s not about blindly loving or hating something. It’s not about getting defensive due to different viewpoints of the finale. It’s not about what your opinions are but why and how you came to them- and discussing with others about it.

[mellolite]

Sometimes it really feels like nobody can have fun or depth or a little exploration in fiction anymore. Everything has to be clean cut and pure and fully explained or exactly how people want it.

Things can't be mixed or shades of grey and tbh it's tiring.

[monkeyshines-lucky]

Giving ppl death threats over any kind of fictional thing is rlly silly and unnecessary guys.

Doing this over any opinion is kinda pointless too btw.

[nungusposts]

The most annoying part about Goose writing important plot points in her Tumblr asks responses instead of the show is that now people are flocking to Youtubers criticizing the show with "You don't understand it's [Thing that Gooseworx confirmed on Social Media]!" Comments.Like sorry but not everyone has Tumblr or Bluesky.

[gooseworx]

We all know transfem Jax is the intended reading of his character now, but are we still allowed to hold other interpretations that maybe we've had for a long time? (genderfluid Jax, GNC cis Jax, etc...)

It's just sad to see so many people being attacked and harassed out of the fandom right now even while they acknowledge and fully respect Jax being trans just because they have a different interpretation of him

You guys can genuinely do whatever you want without needing to ask me for permission.

[gooseworx]

Not as an attack towards you ofc, but ppl are gonna be rly upset again at you "answering lore related questions on tumblr instead of putting it in the show!!!" because they can't actually pick up on context clues or don't realize that some things just didn't rly matter to the whole thing.

Loved it all personally. Extremely happy about the reveal :3

I consider what comes from these QAs "fluff."

[gooseworx]

We all know transfem Jax is the intended reading of his character now, but are we still allowed to hold other interpretations that maybe we've had for a long time? (genderfluid Jax, GNC cis Jax, etc...)

It's just sad to see so many people being attacked and harassed out of the fandom right now even while they acknowledge and fully respect Jax being trans just because they have a different interpretation of him

You guys can genuinely do whatever you want without needing to ask me for permission.

[emriennn]

well would you look at that.

[tastefictionist]

SHE SAID IT GUYS!!! SHE SAID IT 🎉

[dead-dove-ble]

The real irony of antis is they think they’re protecting people from harm, but the harm is coming from them. Harassment, doxxing, bullying, moral purity tests. Meanwhile the fanfiction is just sitting there minding its own business.

[bash1n-1]

people believe what you want and hint at what you want about Jax being trans or not

that is up to the watcher’s interpretation and I don’t understand why some people are getting so mad abt Jax being cis or trans

I saw a Reddit post saying both cis and trans Jax are true

it was getting mad downvotes

I don’t get it

can’t people just

believe

what they want

to believe

Here’s the link for the Reddit post btw https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDigitalCircus/comments/1u3h757/jax_being_trans_and_jax_being_cis_are_both_correct/

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[necro-lag]

The fucked up thing about this discussion about Jax being trans or not, at least for me, is that the people defending and saying its good representation are using the "People have no media literacy and need everything spelled out for them-" whenever someone brings up that having to confirm things on twitter/X is an example of the bad writing.

And you know what? Is other cases I could agree. If we were talking about something like a Disney show, or even a netflix one, I could understand why a Twitter post confirming a character sexuality/gender could be great- Lord knows the JJK fandom would make a pride month of their own if it it meant a post from the author confirming Kirara is a trans woman! Because there's reasons why they would not expect this post and why it was so important.

TOH got canceled for being openly queer, movies with blink and miss it moments get hidden and forgotten by the companies if they show any sort of queerness, like the buzzlightear just for example, American examples! In a place like Japan, something like that could have been an end to JJK run.

So yeah. I could understand that way, with a terrible bitter taste but I can swallow it. It's at least understandable why the creator/authors could chose to imply diversity subtly instead of showing it openly. Why a post confirming it would have been so great in that case, why showing instead of telling could be a great representation.

But not in TADC case.

TADC has been loud and proud about being a indie show since the start, when the whole cinemas thing started one of the arguments was about how great it was that a indie show was going so far to the point of being displayed in cinemas, a mark for indie animation!

TADC had openly queer characters (Though abstragedy started halfway mid the show) and the Va's, animators, and the creator herself was openly queer or allies of the LGBT community.

There was nothing keeping Goose from showing a character being openly trans, like her. She was so direct about Jax being just like her in everything else but she couldn't do this for such an important type of representation? A representation for her own community?

She still chose to imply it losely and then confirm it later when people were rightfully lost and confused about it. She could have made anything after the reveal, she could have had Pommi correct the others about Jax pronouns, or maybe use the right ones herself. If she didn't want Pommi making assumptions, she could have showed the real Jax as a trans woman in the end as they watched the real life, heck, even if she wasn't typically feminine, a pin could have done it. A trans flag somewhere.

But no. There was one scene with Ribbit and then it never got mentioned again. Just a post later. Btw how do we know if it was both Circus Jax and the real one? Who knows, we don't- which is crazy considering how much Jax has been forced down on out throats for so long now.

Never made a post about TADC before and probably won't again now with all the racism involving this show, but I wanted to say this because I didn't see anyone mentioning it till now.

[baydoors9000]

"This piece of lore was confirmed by Gooseworx in a tumblr ask!" and then I see this