ThatFoolWithAHat

My one talent is the fact that I wear a cool hat. Minor.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Just remembered that in the actual show Jax was only wearing the maid dress for maybe 15 minutes and that nobody ever brought it up after except for her (to my knowledge). They played a prank on her, it eventually stopped, and everybody else moved on. Except for her. That single instance of wearing a dress, however humiliating it was, left such an impact that it's how her ironic and dismissive side is portrayed in her own brain, how she imagines herself in different situations. Wearing something fem one time clearly shook her up and reshaped how she thought of herself, albeit for the worse. After the baseball game none of the others ever mention it or tease her about, but it's still living rent free in her mind. It was 15 minutes. That rabbit was repressed.

[thatfoolinthehat]

He's technically been committing a crime for like 15-20 years.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Jax: I'm a cautionary tale about repression and self-hatred. I ended up this way BECAUSE I thought I was a monster who isn't capable of change. I'm a fictional version of a lot of very real people who are at risk of suicide because of thinking like this. I suffered a horrible fate that nobody deserves. A core message of the finale is that believing yourself or anybody else to be irredeemable will only make things worse.

TADC Fandom: Jax is a monster who isn't capable of change! I can't BELIEVE he wasn't punished! He deserved WORSE than his horrible fate actually! He clearly thought he was perfect and Pomni should've listed all the ways he deserves to die instead of showing him empathy. Bad people are irredeemable and should kill themselves.

[lizlives]

Ngl, and I know this probably sounds stupid, The Last Act was a pretty deeply vulnerable experience if I'm being honest, mostly down to how I saw some (to a heightened degree and emphasis on "some" to be clear) of myself and my younger self's flaws in Jax. Ever since then, every time I see a post that pretty clearly has already decided that Jax, as a character, is/was beyond or essentially beyond the concept of forgiveness or grace, a part of me is profoundly hurt. It's like someone saying, "Hey yeah, if you messed up and got worse to a degree I personally found irredeemable, I would permanently view you as an ontological evil. I would spend my time, even when expressing empathy for you, performing disgust at your actions to not alienate people who fucking hate you and everything about you. I also may or may not think committing suicide would be an acceptable fate for you if I considered you bad enough." I dunno I just find it so bleak in some ways that the entire finale is all about expressing the idea that hurt people hurt people and that even when you've messed up and done bad things, even if it doesn't fix them or make them go away, there will be people that still will care about you and want you to come back to them, and a good portion of the fandom was just like nah we think she/he should kill themselves.

[moroniccats]

Rereading The Hound Of The Baskervilles with my mom and cackling at how the INSTANT Watson is apart from Holmes he turns into the most romantic gothic Victorian horror narrator ever. He is no longer shackled. He is living his goth crime girlie fantasy.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Just had an argument with an older relative of mine about AI and learned a lot of his very stupid opinions on it, but one of the worst was that every time I talked about the environmental impacts or the delusions it inflicts or the exploitation of workers he would always say "You're not thinking long-term. In the future they'll have fixed all that." Bitch you're gonna die in the next 30 years and I'm gen z, I think one of us has way more incentive to think about the long-term impacts than the other.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Very very very important thing to remember: CORPORATIONS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. A corporation does not care about you individually or your family or your safety. A corporation does not care about it environmental impact or the people it exploits. A corporation's only goal is to make money, and that is the only goal it will ever have. Big companies only make compromises when absolutely necessary. A small company can start off caring primarily about its quality and helping people, but the bigger it gets the less and less it cares. Never ever ever trust a corporation to do the right thing, because they almost never will. Never ever ever trust that a corporation is working to fix its massive exploitation and lack of respect for human life, because it will move heaven and earth to avoid fixing the policies that make it money. If your information, your hours, your privacy, you votes or your opinions can give it money, it will do everything in its power to access that. Do not fucking trust companies. There's no real way to avoid every single one, but for the love of all that is good do not think of them as your friends.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Why is it that the middle-grade books are always the ones with the gorgeous covers?? Every time I go into a bookshop all the books for adults have plain, simple, boring covers with just the title and a single image, and all the ya books have photo-realistic bottom-halves-of-women's-faces and a single also-photorealistic prop, but all the books for preteens have gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations with characters and backgrounds! I want more books with mature themes to have painted illustrations on their covers! I'm willing to bet that having incredible artwork of the characters and world would actually make more people want to read your complex mature book because it gives you a much better sense of the characters, world, and feel of the story than if it was mostly blank! Plus it's just pretty! Let books for adults look pretty!

[goldensunset]

my thing i haven’t made is so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[thatfoolinthehat]

Online media literacy right now is like if a bunch of people who only knew addition and subtraction started calling themselves experts at calculus and teaching other people their own completely absurd fake math that didn't make any sense, to the point where when anyone used real calculus, others would fail to use fake calculus to solve it and deem real calculus stupid and stuck-up.

[thatfoolinthehat]

Media Literate People: Media literacy is a skill you have to learn and practice and it means you can understand the author's intentions, biases, the themes of a story and how it communicates those themes. There are a lot of media illiterate people who don't know how to understand these things and they're dragging down online discourse.

Media Illiterate People: OH MY GOD, LOOK AT ALL THESE MEDIA ILLITERATE PEOPLE. THEY DON'T AGREE WITH MY VERY COOL CORRECT AND OBJECTIVE TAKES. I CAME OUT OF THE WOMB KNOWING EVERYTHING ABOUT FICTION. THESE STUPID MEDIA ILLITERATES DON'T REALIZE THE AUTHOR WROTE IT LIKE THIS BECAUSE THEY WERE EVIL. DUH.

[thatfoolinthehat]

I love the Paranatural fandom because everybody's like "These are the complex themes, lore implications and fascinatingly layered character writing of Devilora, the elderly evil vice principal with cartoon villain proportions who traps kids in detention prison forever and eats flies."

[thatfoolinthehat]

I had a dream recently that Agatha Christie was staying at my house for a few days, which surprised me since I had assumed she was dead, and my sister kept daring me to explain the Among Us show to her. I was staying in some sort of communal living space and the longer the dream went on the more apparent it was that the community was a cult, to the point where we were partaking in some sort of ritual involving birds and chasing children through a complex and dangerous obstacle course as initiation into whatever it was we were doing.

[thatfoolinthehat]

I wonder if the reason Isaac's house became next to Max's after the town changed was because Isaac wanted to be closer to Max. And the magic misinterpreted closer emotionally as closer physically.

[thatfoolinthehat]

I'm looking through lists of old webcomics from the 90s and 2000s back when they were primarily by and for amabs and they all seem to primarily fall into 4 categories:

Dudes talking about video games for 5,000 pages

Classic newspaper comic strips

Kink

and of course the oddly prevalent

4. OH NOOOO! I, A VERY NORMAL MAN, HAVE BEEN TRAGICALLY TURNED INTO A GIRL! THIS IS CRAAAAZY! NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN A GIRL BEFORE, IMAGINE BEING A GIRL!! I DEFINITELY HATE THIS AND ALL MY EMOTIONS REGARDING THIS TURN OF EVENTS ARE 100% SEXUAL AND NOT AT ALL INDICATIVE OF MY OR THE AUTHOR'S REPRESSED EMOTIONS! DON'T LOOK INTO WHY THE AUTHOR STARTED MAKING THIS COMIC IN THE FIRST PLACE!

[thatfoolinthehat]

I love you drawing. I love you writing. I love you animation. I love you books. I love you movies. I love you oral storytelling. I love you tv shows. I love you music. I love you folklore. I love you cds. I love you paintings. I love you comics. I love you video games. I love you comedy. I love you literary fiction. I love you mysteries. I love you romance. I love you black-and-white films. I love you mythology. I love you reinterpretations of older work. I hate you ai you should go to hell. I love you stop motion. I love you visual novels. I love you illustrations. I love you webcomics. I love you flipbook animations. I love you pop-up books. I love you tiny learning-to-read books. I love you live-play podcasts. I love you heist movies. I love you stupid technobabble sci-fi. I love you strange whimsical fantasy. I love you dvds. I love you roleplaying games. I love you choose-your-own-adventure. I love you manga. I love you newspaper comic strips. I love you epistulary novels. I love you art, every single kind of it, and I love that we'll never ever ever ever run out of it.

[thatfoolinthehat]

I am usually so cool-headed through fandom drama. What the hell. I know not to let the internet get in my head. Somehow people completely misunderstanding literally everything about TADC for the thousandth time has broken me. I give in.