i miss my horses :(

I’m so grateful for the fan🙏 I missed drawing ragatha so here it is

I tried animating on ToonSquid T^T

- no actual confirmed gay characters unless its out of the show/implied. Disney sucks but atleast theyve included some onscreen gay scenes…. glitch has theirs in the credits, and easy as hell to remove in other countries too. Its catering, ik u can yap all u want about gay rep not needing to be explicit but it does… its shitty that gay people r treated as some secret society in media.

- hell most of their character writing and stuff isnt very innovative… other than the ideas not being typical mainstream… its ur generic shows. Jax isn’t some amazing and deeply written tragic character thats never been done before, hell their chances to do them… such as with zooble and gangle (tho ive already ranted about how gangle going from bipolar rep to generic mask metaphor pisses me off), but no funny bunny man and ms “i can fix him” get all the screen time. Like god ik if any other country did the stiff glitch has done, theyd be attacked for being sell outs.

Its obvious theyre willing to lie… like let me get this into some peoples head, js because theyre indie doesn’t mean theyre ur friend.. glitch has history with treating female employees like shit, and i wont even mention the tweets goose posted.. like yes goose said jax was a main character… yk halfway through the series..? or their promise to always have it first on youtube… that changed quickly… and god the fans were so annoying with the leaks, its unfortunate they happened but god the way americans immediately whined about having to avoid spoilers (i genuinely couldnt believe the anger that caused when they were calling people overdramatic for the “nega” situation)

artists really need to learn that js cuz they can draw doesnt give them the right to be a pretentious ass about writing… hell i say this as an artist who writes too, yet everyone acts so pretentious over it… theres a difference between an artist making a cute animation and a full fledged company making shows… ll say this proudly idc that yes goose owes me a good show, if u make a show your making it for other people.. u get money off our enjoyment and engagement and were not allowed expectations? It’s soo dumb.

sidenote too: but glitch very much feels like those alt/weird kids who r js doing it for the trend and end up being gatekeeping assholes… they literally ghosted a korean company (yes i love that the leaks came from brazil instead), which is not only rude but wildly unprofessional… + they made us do the work of contacting other countries and movie theaters… they can post pictures of everyone coming together but a ton of fans simply dont have the area or money for it. Literally i can use myself as an example, i have 1 movie theatre within 3 hours of where i live so we were nearly fucked.. Not to mention the fact that they oretty much made no statements or barely any acknowledgement to the leaks AND the racism situation… like god idc that theyre sad babies or whatever, that their show was ruined by fans etc… it doesn’t mean they get a free pass to stop acting professional…

Something something Ragatha’s closeted ass being trapped in the circus before the legalization of gay marriage

incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go

correct response:

(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)

I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.

now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.

hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:

…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).

it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.

personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.

plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.

don’t:

change the ending

do:

there are a few details this anon is missing in their defense of “isn’t she lovely.”

glitch, goose, and some of the vas already had racist pasts online for anyone to see. there was that video of michael kovach (jax) repeatedly using the n-word in a rap skit. sean chiplock (kinger) had multiple tweets blatantly using the n-word. even if the “nega” stream never recirculated, nothing changes. goose knowingly collaborated with people who have documented anti-black history, selected a black song about black fatherhood—inherently black art—and redefined it for her white queer story.

this happens to every facet of black culture. take the product, leave the people.

look at k-pop for instance. they use grills, braids, aave, locs, trap beats, and hip hop, then continuously exhibit anti-black behavior.

labeling our upset as an “i love pancakes, so you hate waffles" take is disingenuous. this suggests you think this is black people getting frustrated at a boogeyman we made up. but that’s not it at all. we’re calling out the whitewashing of black media that is blatantly happening in front of our eyes. we’re calling out gentrification.

you know what? let me put this in a way white queers will understand.

let’s say a lesbian musician wrote a heartfelt wlw song about her wife. it’s very personable, and even features her name in the lyrics. a director with a homophobic past uses that song as the background track to a straight couple kissing in his movie. the fandom then brands the song as that straight couple’s song. any gay person who talks about how the director misused the artist’s song gets told to shut up because songs have many different meanings, and there’s nothing wrong with a homophobic director taking a lesbian’s love song, and applying it to a straight couple. in fact, it’s beautiful sentiment and anyone uncomfortable with the situation is an old man yelling at clouds.

do we see the issue here?

i couldnt have put it better! thank you so much. i didnt really understand exactly what they meant by the waffles and pancakes comment, it seemed to have nothing to do with what i was saying like. at all.

And then you have jax. Someone who put no efforts into being likable. Someone who naturally drawn people in. Someone who's loved and cared for by multiple people.

And she has to watch him ruin it again and again. He pushed ribbit away. He pushed Kaufmo away. He pushed her away. And now she has to see him do it again with pomni.

Imagine how she must feel, seeing jax receive all the love and support she crave for, and still choose to sabotage everything, choose to make people feel awful for caring about him, when all she's trying to do is make people feel good and at ease. And she get nothing in return.

The tragedy of ragatha's character, is that she's an abused woman who put so much effort into making herself small and unproblematic, and instead of resolving it, the show itself treat her as furnitures, a mere accessory to further jax's development. Jax who proved for the last time that no amount of efforts will make him appreciative and responsive. That no amount of love will save him.