space is the place @transgenderarson - Tumblr Blog

💿 Stag // they/them // 20s // fandom sideblog

💿 Current interests: The Amazing Digital Circus, Iron Lung, Project Hail Mary

💿 Other past interests I've posted about previously: X-men, Dungeon Meshi, Invader Zim, Unus Annus, Last Life SMP/3rd life SMP, DSMP, (particularly Tommyinnit, Philza and Technoblade 🐷)

💿 Ao3 is DigitalKeyboard

Zionists DNI

robot-prince-of-the-apocalypse

Heavy heavy heavy tadc finale spoilers below cut!!!

as a certified pretentious film elitist who only likes five hour-long black and white Russian movies from 1930 with no dialogue my opinion on the show remains middling to positive, as I am very much not its intended audience-that being said, even though it isn’t for me, I can recognize and applaud the show for this: Jax is a very good character who I see myself in quite a bit, and I found his fate in The Last Act very well-done. an extraordinarily lonely person terrified of opening up to and being rejected by by the people close to him, so he presents this devil-may-care hypermasculine hedonistic persona, hiding behind so many layers of irony because he does crave friendship, deep down-he just has no idea how to express it besides acting like an ass all the time (I’m talking about me a little bit too now)

his death (if abstraction counts as death) hit me like a ton of bricks but what was even more heartbreaking was the reveal that his human self was getting back on his feet in the real world, that he was doomed from the moment he entered the circus-he could never have gotten the help he needed there. I was convinced he would be somehow resurrected, but his tragic permanent abstraction made much more sense, thematically-sometimes no matter how hard you try you cannot save everyone. the best you can do is just. try to be a friend. as much as you can.

#i think this is the best analysis ive seen of how Jax was handled in the finale #tadc spoilers #the amazing digital circus spoilers

demilypyro

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

btwimamermaid

Somebody wasn’t a fan of their role in the finale…

quikyu

TADC spoilers

probablymarin

TADC: The Last Act is really good if you actually care about the story instead of whatever headcanons you've decided to base your whole personality around

demilypyro

"if Jax is a trans woman she's still an abuser so she's bad representation so the show is transphobic" you're an idiot. you want your blorbos to be perfect ideal angels, I want my blorbos to be realistic, nuanced, flawed human beings, we are not the same. I LIKE that she's messy and fucked up and problematic, I think it's a realistic depiction of how a lot of repressed and traumatized trans women are. I think the show goes to great lengths to explore how and why she is the way she is, and to evoke sympathy for this kind of person. it doesn't excuse her actions but it does make them understandable. and I think the fact women like that deserve sympathy is an idea worth stating and worth shouting. yes she's a bully and she hurt everyone around her and that may never change. she still deserves sympathy.

#i need to isolate myself from all opinions held by people who are either under the age of 18 or do not have a life outside of fandom #bc wtf #tadc spoilers #the amazing digital circus spoilerz

demilypyro

best case scenario Digital Circus gets remembered in a similar way as Steven Universe: a show that was Really Fucking Good and had nuanced characters and interesting things to say, but the audience wasn't quite ready for it and it imploded into a discourse ball. four years from now I expect to see lesbians drawing Jax like she's a renaissance muse the same way people still draw Pearl or Lapis

#the amazing digital circus spoilers

eldritch-fleshlight

Welcome to the amazing digital circus!

stereosonicanimatronic

ryland grace is aroace. however he is also stratt’s dead wife, rocky’s red string of fate starcrossed soulmate, & intensely violently homosexual for mark “simon iron lung” iplier. all things are true & all things can coexist. peace & love on planet erid

opabiniasarecool

Yes, Ryland Grace is the most aroace person you will ever meet. Yes, Rylan Grace was this secret third thing with Eva Stratt. Yes, Ryland Grace and Carl would've been wonderful husbands if fate hadn't ripped them apart. Yes, Ryland Grace is mates with two alien rocks who love him dearly. Yes Ryland Grace is down bad for Simon from Iron Lung.

All of these statements perfectly coexist in my head.