Not An Archangel

DISCLAIMER: This is going to be a negative review. If you aren’t in the mood for that right now, please scroll away!

Another Disclaimer: I do not blame Goose herself for this at all. We have no idea what writing decisions were allowed for theatre viewing, how heavily Glitch or other entities were involved in the writing room. This isn’t a condemnation of the amazing writers who was able to make an indie animation in theatres possible.

That being said….

During a time where American transgender rights are being gutted. During PRIDE MONTH-

IMPLICATION IS NOT REPRESENTATION.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts stating that Jax is now canonically transfem. This is just simply not true. If Goose was a cis author, we would not be hesitating to call this queerbait. But I’ll call it more subtextual than bait.

See, the implication was so strong that if you knew what you’re looking for, you definitely could read into it as transfemme coding. But here’s the thing: If you ARENT looking for that, you can easily disregard it.

Jax is not trans in canon if you don’t headcanon him as such. Hes not even an egg in canon if you don’t read into it. And I think the lack of explicitly is a major problem with the lack of trans characters in media.

As a trans person myself, I’m very disappointed that we didn’t get the chance to have a canonical trans character. It was almost like they were too scared to fully commit to it and it just speaks to our lack of representation all around. It would have been nice to have canonical rep for an asshole egg because that just isn’t a character often depicted.

And it just speaks to how “unmarketable” our existence really is. Which I thought maybe we could have avoided from an indie production but I guess not…