hay there

Like, I'm not the biggest fan of TADC, I thought it was fine, but it wasn't what I would call subtle about its themes. TADC exists very firmly in the Millennial Adult Animated series subtype, which means it looks like a kids show, while being about adult emotions, and also states its ideas extremely clearly. There's a bunch of these (BoJack Horseman and Rick & Morty are the big ones in my estimations). They are extremely direct and very blunt, which is in my mind just a neutral statement. Directness is neither positive nor negative

So here comes this show, which spends a huge chunk of its runtime explaining how basically all of the characters are damaged and need to accept themselves to heal, and then spends a MASSIVE chunk of its double length final episode detailing how its biggest piece of shit character became the way she is via a mix of self loathing and fear of her own identity, culminating with her begging the main character not to love her, literally indicating that she believes her own actions have made her irredeemable, AND THEN the whole show emotionally climaxes with said main character embracing her, choosing to love her anyway...

Before this final episode, lookin around the fandom, Jax was considered the Tumblr sexyman of the month. A smol bean who despite bein objectively awful & abusive could "do no wrong" for some reason.

Most people who identify with fandom culture have intensely unexamined transmisogynistic ideals. Hell, most people do, regardless of fandom affiliation. It doesn't shock me that when a character, who used to be shielded by fandom's protective love of abusive men, betrayed that categorization by being trans, it caused the general tone to shift towards one of accountability. An insatiable. An over-sufficing accountability often leveraged against trans feminine people.

I can't remember who it was who said this on here so forgive me, but one girl said

such a gentle cat. it loves its pelleds

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit

5 minutes later: only in death does duty end

Like, he simultaneously such an everyman just doing his job, and the most mysterious man placed on earth with no concrete info on him outside of his job, dog, and enjoyment of chili.

There is an episode where he walks onto the crime scene disheveled and breaking a hard boiled egg only to silently loom over the culprit like some vision of an omnipotent being only like an hour later.

Yesterday the landlord's contractors came and cut down our "OUR HOMES ARE WORTH A FIGHT" banner from under the old rail bridge that runs next to the estate. We told them as they were doing it that it isn't the landlord's property and they don't have a legal right to do it, but they just did it anyway. They were smirking the whole time the way that men do to comfort each other emotionally when they know they're doing something that is clearly in the wrong.

I told them that I know they know what they're doing is wrong and the scale of the crisis they've created for vulnerable people is despicable, that I've had to work nonstop the last 3 months to help everyone here and haven't been able to do my own job. The head builder replied "you've never worked a day in your life". Lovely guy.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.