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are u guys hearing this

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.

Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.

This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.

Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!

December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.

February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.

March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.

April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.

March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.

And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.

June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.

The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.

Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.

Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.

Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.

Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).

This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas

I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.

If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend

i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.

For myself, I fully interpreted the bow as being similar to a romantic gesture of someone taking their jacket or hat off and putting it on the person they're flirting with. I did not read the scene as gender-affirming at all. I was utterly surprised when I saw that being confirmed online, and went to ask my friends who separately watched the show, who also were confused about Jax being transfem.

You can't just say "this character is transfem" outside of the narrative and then pat yourself on the back for queer representation when that's not at all clear within the bounds of the narrative. Especially when you have such explicit queerness like Gangle and Zooble's very lesbian-coded relationship, and Zooble being non-binary. Goose also made a post saying Ragatha was "supposed to have repressed lesbian energy"-- of which I didn't pick up on that at all???

I still really enjoyed the show for what it was, but we can't sit here and say "the girlies who get it get it, and the girlies that don't have no media literacy" over Jax's """coming out""" when that's just Not the case for this show.

If we wanted Jax's transfem nature to be more explicit- we should've heard what it was Jax said to their mom, or had some other indication of transness being involved. Hell- my friend got "Jax is non-binary" confirmation from Jax's real-world self seemingly visiting real-Zooble's bar and dressing more androgynous. If Goose wanted us to get "transfem" out of it explicitly, maybe make real-Jax actually transfem? Or at least show they're leaning that way. There's plenty of posts on Tumblr about the myriad of ways Goose could've done this better.

But instead we'll hide behind

Caine having the ability to manipulate people, as shown repeatedly, and the tail hinting towards Caine changing Jax's body without his permission

The entire maid outfit fiasco making Jax extremely uncomfortable, and I don't think forcing any man into a dress and them being upset at being sexualized is evidence for that man being secretly a trans egg

Jax calling himself an egg could reference how Pomni is trying so desperately to crack through his outer walls, and to figure out who the "real him" is

The bow, again, I think is more akin to someone flirting

There are so many problems with "Isn't She Lovely" that I'd rather not touch it, but I'll just touch on the easiest one: RACISM.

Jax lookin like an androgynous emo outta 2013 was not on my bingo card

And I will even extend an olive branch to you: All of these could be interpreted as transfem Jax. That's how the theory even started spinning up, after all. But my point is that all of these also can be interpreted as not that way. There are other interpretations of these medias-- to the point where, talking to my transfem friends after the finale, they were outright confused, baffled, and a little upset when I told them "Yeah Goose said Jax is transfem on social media".

But when Goose herself says "its up to interpretation" and then turns around and goes "also Jax is a trans woman, but you can interpret it however you want" suddenly anyone who didn't interpret Jax as a trans woman is "incorrect" or "stupid" because diehard Goose followers start attacking other people.

When a transfem is pre-transition and in denial and/or scared of people finding out, she might get embarrassed and panicky about the thought of wearing women's clothing, especially around other people. She might also get scared of judgement from others, as wearing the clothes you like in a body that you don't can trigger dysphoria. I know there were times where I got very upset about presenting as feminine, even as a joke, because I thought I looked stupid and didn't want people to see me as a man in a dress. This is is also why i bring up how Jax repeatedly says she looks stupid throughout the series when looking in a mirror. And look at her body language during the scene, how she unconsciously takes on a feminine demeanor and only reverts to using masculine coded body language when trying to put her walls back up by making fun of Gangle.

The egg bit has multiple meanings in context, something that often happens in creative works. What Jax is trying to convey by saying that is what you've laid out in your comment, but it takes on an additional level of meaning when you understand that "egg" is slang in the trans community for a transfem who hasn't realized she's trans yet ("eggs" hatch into "chicks" after all) and Gooseworx, as a trans woman herself, would be very aware of this when writing the script. Interpreting art sometimes requires understanding the context under which it was made and the person who made it, something you delight in ignoring.

Do people typically flirt with you like this??? What are you talking about?? The only reason I would put an obvious symbol of femininity on a cis man i knew is if I thought they might be an egg. And if this is just flirting, what reason would Ribbit have for saying "Your secret's safe with me."? You are just either really bad at interpreting media or so uncomfortable with the idea that Jax is transfem that you feel the need to go into denial about it. Very possibly both.

Fellas, is it racist to embrace black music in your art? What, would you prefer white people only ever use white music in our work? Would you prefer someone in a group at the top of a racial hegemony only ever attribute meaning and worth to art from within that same in-group? If you looked at that scene and the ONLY thing you took away from it is it's "problematic" and "racist" because it uses a very popular and pop culturally important song by a black man, without considering if the creator of the work might be trying to communicate something VERY OBVIOUS through this choice of music, I think you might just really really hate the idea that Jax is a trans woman for some mysterious reason that guess we'll never know.

Do you know what a boymoder is???

I think you misread my post where I said that every bullet point and screenshot you pointed out can have transfem interpretations. My point was that they can also have other interpretations. A lot of people interpreted transfem Jax; a lot of people interpreted other things. That's the problem with not canonizing things within the bounds of the narrative: you're not stating outright that Jax is transfem. You're leaving it up to interpretation for others to apply their own headcanons to the genderqueer situation. Apparently, saying "I interpreted a situation differently" or "I have a different take-away" or "I have a different opinion" leads a lot of Goose glazers to jump to "this person is bad at media literacy", which is not the same thing.

Recognizing that these two things can be true at the same time: that these are hints for the Jax Transfem Train AND these can be interpreted in other ways, is ACTUAL media literacy.

As far as the racism- I'm white, so when every black person in the fandom is saying that "Goose took a black man's song about his joy in his black daughter covered by a white nazi to be about a very negative person is racist", I'm not going to argue with them. There was zero chance for Jax to show any redemption, because they killed themself (since abstraction is a metaphor for suicide, according to Goose). It was just a song to show "oh but don't you feel bad for her!! driven to kill herself because she's a shit person who pushed everyone away and also made others kill themselves :(" that I thought was very oddly placed.

I don't think Goose is racist, to be very clear. I think the fandom is incredibly racist, and I think that song placement was not very thought out, because the covered song-- in combination with everything else going on in the show --is racist. I think that people who are not actively racist can still do racist things, because racism is a systemic issue that we're all born and raised with. I don't think I'm racist. I do not think I'm immune to unintentionally doing racist things (I'm white), and I enjoy when I'm called out on it so I can learn from the opportunity rather than defending something that was obviously wrong.

And no, at the time, I didn't know what a boymoder was. I'm not trans. Why the fuck would I have that context? I only know now because of Tumblr. I think this post explained the importance of "context" very well, and why not understanding Jax is transfem is not a sign of shit media literacy.

Jax being transfem doesn't make me uncomfortable. Jax's story being shittily told makes me upset.

The real problem is that people just see someone critiquing a woman and call them a misogynist, or critiquing a trans woman and call them a transmisogynist. No one is immune from critiques.

I don't believe you about the majority of black fans calling racism on the use of Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely, but i have to admit that I'm white and can't claim to be an authority on cultural appropriation. The song only feels "not very thought out" if you refuse to consider that Jax is a trans woman. With that crucial bit of context it makes perfect sense. It is a declaration of her womanhood and a bittersweet celebration of her metaphorical rebirth as a woman right when her life is ending. I find it very powerful that we are encouraged to love in our hearts for the happy girl she could have been if she only embraced vulnerability, a mourning of the lovely girl she could have been. It's very sweet, and I find it vile that the only thing you can see in that scene is '"oh but don't you feel bad for her!!". You failed the empathy test.

Very interesting how you say you enjoy being called out for racism, but when I call you out for racism, you get defensive. Not to mention how you are very clearly upset with getting called out for misogyny and transmisogyny and instead imply that the women calling you out for this behavior are just overreacting. That is misogyny, my guy. You also somehow found a way to reblog the version of this post before my edit where I further call you out for your explicit transmisogyny in how you talk about nonbinary people.

25-02-09

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love