Abi/Floaty, Remus Sanders's Self Proclaimed #1 Fan

Special interest yap blog (multifandom) Autistic & queer adult (They/Them) PFP & banner image from Sanders Sides

[thatonelesbianfander]

This blog is a yap blog for me to yap about my special interests & hyperfixations which includes Thomas Sanders (mainly Sanders Sides), Five Nights at Freddy's, The Circus of Sinners (My OCs), Gravity Falls, and basically anything else my brain attaches to!

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[thatonelesbianfander]

So, today during work I was letting my mind do the normal wander around and maladaptive daydream/think about shit while I autopilot my tasks that I usually do, and the topic that kept coming up frequently was TADC (because I've been getting a lot of videos on my TikTok FYP about the finale and all the drama and controversy surrounding it). More specifically, the topic of Jax and why his character never worked for me despite me liking characters that are similar to him (aka, asshole characters who on the surface act like assholes because they just like acting that way, while deep down having a lot of internal struggles and/or baggage from a bad past), and I think I've finally cracked the answer.

I do not like Jax despite liking a few characters that fall under his archetype because he is not shown to be sympathetic.

To explain my point, I am going to use a character from my own indie animated series that I am currently scripting (The Circus of Sinners) to do so. This character's name is Francis Hellenboren. Now, Francis in many ways is pretty similar to Jax. He is an asshole who tends to not moralize often. He acts on his own whims and impulses, despite what other people may think or feel about him, and doesn't obey any authority figures to a chaotic degree, and one of the main reasons he acts like this is due to his horrible past and his imposter syndrome with his humanity, making him believe he is less than human. A lot of what he does is because he is trying to cope with his anger towards the world and how he's been treated and made out to be a monster that is unworthy of truly being loved. While he isn't as outright abusive and manipulative as Jax, he's still an antagonist and still not a perfect person. Despite being similar characters however, I and many of the people I've shared him with can still sympathize with Francis and still like him and enjoy his character. This is because, unlike Jax, Francis is shown to have positive traits along with his negative ones. Throughout the series, during both the main story and the backstory/flashback episodes, Francis is shown to be extremely caring towards the people he loves, energetic, passionate, loyal, and also extremely kind before his heart was hardened by the world. By balancing his flaws, negative traits, wrongdoings, and unsympathetic moments with his strengths, positive traits, rightdoings, and sympathetic moments, Francis is established as a sympathetic character which makes him more lovable and makes the audience root for him and want him to get better. His tragic past and struggles are also never used to excuse his actions, rather they are used to explain why he acts like that and why he is the way that he is.

Compare this to Jax, someone who also acts like an asshole on the surface because they find it funny but deep down has a lot of baggage due to internal struggles and a bad past, and you can see how his character just doesn't work in the light that TADC is trying to paint him in. I can probably count the amount of positive traits that Jax is shown to have throughout the series on my hands and even that might be an overstatement. Throughout the series, Jax is only ever shown to have negative traits and flaws and negative interactions with the rest of the cast, especially Gangle, and whenever he is shown to have positive traits or positive interactions with the rest of the cast they are very few and far between. Throughout the duration of the series, Jax is shown to be an antagonist of sorts and to be an abuser. Despite this however, the series still expects you to sympathize with him by throwing multiple angst moments with him in your face where he gets upset at something that is said or done to him or something that happens and either he leaves the situation or the cast starts to baby him, basically making it feel like the series is saying "aww! Look at this! Jax is sad! Don't you feel bad for him? Don't you feel so much sympathy?", and it just doesn't work because he isn't shown to be a sympathetic character or a character that is worth of any sympathy. Instead of feeling sympathy for Jax, the audience instead feels annoyed and hates him because he isn't shown to be someone worthy of sympathy. Throughout the series, it also seems like Jax's bad past and struggles are used as a way to excuse his actions rather than explain them.

This is also why I can sympathize with Caine and not with Jax, because again, Caine is shown to have positive traits and strengths along with his negative traits and flaws, and his bad past and struggles are used to explain his actions, not excuse them. Throughout the series, Caine is shown to be genuinely passionate about the things he creates, and to have a genuine love for humans while also tending to be pretty egotistical and tending not to listen to other people when they criticize him or give him feedback. Despite his flaws however, I and many others can still sympathize with him because his negative traits are balanced with his positive traits (and he is also shown to try to make a positive change to try to stop hurting the people around him).

That's why I think that I do not like Jax despite liking some characters from his archetype.

[thatonelesbianfander]

GODDDDD, I NEED TO YAP ABOUT THEM BADLY

PLEASE SOMEONE LET ME YAP ABOUT THEM

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[thatonelesbianfander]

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[thatonelesbianfander]

IDK if I'm gonna interact with the TADC fandom, or TADC as a whole, after I watch the finale. I'm so disappointed and pissed off about everything and all the stuff that's come out about Gooseworx being a racist Nazi sympathizer and most of the cast being some kind of horrible/problematic has killed most of my love for the show.

I'm going to watch the finale when it comes out on YouTube to get closure on the series I followed and loved since the pilot and to support the all the talented (not racist) people who worked on the show, but after that I'm probably going to take my leave and support other indie animation projects like the Knights of Guinevere, Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl, and On Being Blue

[asprinisnotacatch-all]

Look, we all know Roman talks in his sleep. It's canon, DWIT, It's old news, whatever.

But Remus?

This, now this is a man who sleepwalks. Not like "oh haha I woke up outside haha silly me haha XD" No.

This man wakes up and he's in Janus' bed. When did he get there? How? Nobody knows. All they know is he went to sleep in his own room, and woke up in someone elses.

Half the reason Virgil left was because he'd wake up with mister Cling-Wrap over here suctioned to his side at like 4am.

Janus has tried many methods to stop it, it never works. Remus has no issues with being treated like a damn werewolf on a full moon, chained down, locked up, the whole nine yards, he doesn't care. He likes it, even, claims he sleeps better that way.

It never works. Not. Once. Janus has even locked his own damn door, put a fucking bookshelf infront of it. Didn't work, he woke up, and stinky boy was right there, dead asleep, wrapped around him.

Janus even once conjured a snake to watch over Remus the whole night, because he was convinced Remus was doing this on purpose, because there was just no way he got himself out of all of that in his sleep.

He was, in fact, solidy asleep, the whole time. Dead. Fucking. Asleep.

It's impossible, the shit he can go through just to cling to someone else. Batshit insane.

It wouldn't even be that bad, really, if he didn't snore so damn loud. Not to mention the screaming.

He reeks, but Janus, even Virgil, got accustomed to it after some time, but the snoring?? There's no sleeping through that. Borderline screaming. And then he actually does scream. A lot. Like so much. Every night, blood curdling screeching right into your ear. Every night.

Janus hasn't slept soundly in years and it's most of the reason he's so pissed at Virgil for leaving because at least then they alternated, because yeah, sleepwalking Remus kept a schedule.

But now?

Anyway, rant over

[thatonelesbianfander]

If you still interact with anything Harry Potter related in 2026 I am going to automatically assume you are a bad person.

"But it's my special interest/hyperfixation!" Guess what. Harry Potter was my special interest/hyperfixation too. I loved that shit in middle school and half of high school. Do you know what I did as soon as I found out about JKR's shitty morals? I limited myself from the franchise and didn't allow myself to interact with it at all until I completely lost interest. If I (someone who does not give up their special interests lightly) can distance myself from the franchise, so can you.

"But it's my childhood!" As someone who clings to shit from their childhood like crazy to the point where they still have Dora shit in their room, I've given up multiple things from my childhood, you can give up this one franchise.

"Separate art from artist!" You cannot physically separate art from artist if that artist still profits from said art and uses that profit to cause harm to multiple groups of people. It's also impossible to separate JKR from Harry Potter because JKR's shitty views and morals are the DNA of the series. Harry Potter would not be the same without many of the bigotted beliefs that JKR holds.

"I don't spend any money on Harry Potter! I just pirate everything!" You shouldn't be interacting with Harry Potter even if you don't give JKR a penny. Interacting with/talking about Harry Potter still spreads the franchise around and still gives JKR profit.

TL;DR: STOP FUCKING INTERACTING WITH HARRY POTTER. LET THAT SHIT DIE

Thank you

[thatonelesbianfander]

As much as I love how interactive the decorations you can put on your island in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream is unlike another Nintendo switch game that takes place on a customizable island (*cough cough* Animal Crossing New Horizons *cough cough*), they should have really not let the Miis turn off the streetlights. I cannot tell you how many streetlights I have had to replace because my Miis won’t stop fucking with them. I’ve lost track at this point. Then these pieces of shit have the gall to try to complain about how it’s so dark at night, like- motherfucker, YOU ARE THE REASON IT’S SO DARK AT NIGHT. Quit fucking with the lights and maybe it’ll be brighter at night.

[thatonelesbianfander]

Fun fact: Racism and incest are not jokes and should not be treated as such. It does not matter if the joke was made years ago or yesterday, it’s still not something to be made as a joke

Fuck racism, fuck incest, and fuck you if you support that type of shit

[thatonelesbianfander]

One week on Flouxiar Island (the name for my Tomodachi Life island)

I have gotten Karrot Kings, Dukeceit, ArtWrite, and GuttedRose to marry

Two side ships have gotten married, those being Amia and Rachel (two of Pat's college friends) and Francis and David

Ethan Deoson has moved in with his daughter, he is still unaware he has a wife and son though

Ashlyn and Trinity (two of my non-TCoS ocs) have moved in together before they even started dating

Addy and Sabrina (two more of my non-TCoS ocs) have also moved in together and found out they're related (this one was a little unwillingly because I misclicked when I meant to not have them move in together)

Zach and Alice, & Matt and Sillias have started dating

Roman and Logan are still dating

Ashlyn is crushing on Trinity, and Ella is crushing on Ethan

I will be posting clips of this island as soon as I am able to get the clips off of my switch's SD card

(For reference, italic bolded names are TCoS, italic names are non-TCoS ocs, and bolded names are Sanders Sides)

[thatonelesbianfander]

I really gotta do a oc introduction of The Circus of Sinners cast...

[thatonelesbianfander]

Update for my Tomodachi Life island

Logince is together, Logan is head over heels while Roman is not getting along (which is kinda how it is in canon as well)

Karrot Kings are married and have been at the soulmates status (the highest status for married miis) for around 48 hours now

Dukeceit is still dating and have been switching back and forth between wanting to get married and in love

ArtWrite (the yuri ship between two of my ocs) have been at wants to marry for 36 hours now and have been swooning over each other every other second but still haven't married yet

GuttedRose (the yaoi ship between two of my ocs) have also been in the same position as ArtWrite

I'll share clips and pictures and shit as soon as I get the motivation to take my SD card out of my switch and transport my pictures over

[thatonelesbianfander]

"Why do you like Caine if you hate Jax?" Because Caine is actually able to be sympathized with. He's an AI who was made to entertain and is hated for it because he can't understand human emotions. He doesn't and can't know any better because he's an AI that can't understand human emotions unlike Jax, who is a human that can understand human emotions and feelings and should know better than to be blatantly abusive.

[thatonelesbianfander]

Two days in on my Tomodachi Life island

Karrot Kings is married and Dukeceit is dating

Life is good

All I need is Logince to start dating and everything will be fine

[thatonelesbianfander]

Checked on my miis last night in preparation for the full release of Tomodachi Life Living the Dream last night

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN MY MII HATES REMUS BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN QUARANTINED IN THEIR HOUSE FOR WEEKS NOW BECAUSE MY DUMBASS FINISHED THE DEMO

Nintendo, you are paying for my emotional damages if they fucking break up their friendship, you stupid motherfucks-

[thatonelesbianfander]

Crisis adverted, they automatically fixed their friendship as soon as I transferred my demo data to the full game

[thatonelesbianfander]

Oh, yeah-

I’m done hiatusing on Tumblr cause I got most of my finals work done today :D

[creepy-c00kie]

NO YEAH remus is so interesting to me as what he actually proper is, someone who is entirely unashamed of what he is and only has issues with being brushed off. like. he's annoyed by how logan handles him, at least to the degree that he doesn't want to be ignored. i think it's really helpful to look at him through the same angle all the sides operate on: he does, at his core, want to help thomas in some way. they all exist to help thomas. it's just what exactly that looks like differs from side to side, with remus having one of the most nontraditional ways of expressing that, but at his core he is still, from his perspective, helping the whole with what he does, and he considers what he does. like. good. a good thing, rather. he's aware it's repulsive and such but it's something he takes delight in because it's necessary. to him.

like. idk i also worry about mischaracterizing them so feel free to beat me up with hammers but like!! looking at his intro and his song, he really seems to operate from an angle of ''i am not going to let thomas hide from things that are uncomfortable. i am a part of him, all these uncomfortable repulsive things are a part of him, and He Will Know That.'' he's aiming to Get that reaction, out of patton and virgil and thomas, and Not getting that reaction feels similar to being ignored, which. is against what he wants. honestly i feel like any hypothetical accepted remus endgame should look like acknowledging the repulsive thing he does, going ''ew. gross.'' or whatever, and then moving on. giving him a reaction, but not letting that reaction take hold as a moral weight, and moving forward. ''i see what you are bringing up, i acknowledge it, i do not like it but it, and you, are There, and i see that. moving forward.'' it's Almost what logan does, and more accurately it's a reasonable application of logan's suggestions to the group, because while logan himself doesn't really care because it's not real, the others are all going to Not Like It always, but it gives him an acknowledgement that recognizes his contribution as doing its job. taken into consideration and then moved on from.

this is also why i think the wider used logan and remus dynamic in fandom is a bit off the mark but that's a different topic and i shall not flood your ask box with it lmao -🌙

Yessss go off anon!! 🗣️