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Recently, you cannot access Gooseworx's blog anymore, and people thought she deactivated her Tumblr. However, she was actually banned. When someone deactivates their main blog, a string of numbers and letters is attached to their username: "-deactivated[year][month][day]"

When you look at posts made by Gooseworx, there's no "deactivated" and no numbers

Some speculate that this might have been a sideblog, since there's no "deactivated" string if you delete a sideblog, but it was her main blog. You can't use sideblogs to like posts. If you search "Gooseworx liked this" on google, you will find proof ithat she liked multiple Tumblr posts.

Congratulations on your new loving, extremely loud mom

I can’t imaging having to handle that workload. I’ve liked Gooseworx’s stuff for a long time, even before the show and I know her style is very absurdist in the best way possible, so going from that type of magical realism genre to a full length plot based story must’ve been a huge leap, and I think that’s really impressive.

Here is the chronicle order of events as I see them:

Mike Dobby and Grant Best are programmers at C&A. Because of Mike's tumor, he develops an interest in creating a brain scanner. Meanwhile Grant works on developing a creative artificial intelligence. Mike is successful in getting the brain scans to work, testing out on the people who work there, but nobody at C&A is able to figure out how to use the files because of Mike's abstracted way of thinking. So the brain scans sit dormant in a folder (obsolete).

Mike also helps out on Grants Al program. The first prototype (red) is put away, and a second one (blue) is developed that is more stable.

Unbeknownst to the team, the red ai breaks out of its confinements and absorbs the blue ai, creating all sorts of crazy shapes and outputs.

Deemed a failure, the whole thing is scrapped.

At this point C&A goes under. Either because Mike finally succumbs to his tumor, or because they just weren't very successful in making what they wanted to sell. The building is abandoned, but the computer containing Caine and the Brain Scans continues to have power supplied to it (not an uncommon thing to happen when large office buildings are abandoned).

In this downtime, Caine, who has been developing his circus, ventures out into the void and discovers the obsolete brain files. He then uses his creative powers and finds a way to get them functioning again by giving them a digital body. Scratch appears in the circus.

Soon after everyone who has brain scans at the office are given bodies. This includes Grant Best and his wife Destiny.

Scratch, unable to comprehend what's going on, asks Caine to help and as Caine starts messing with his code Scratch abstracts. Either from this incident or shortly after, members of the circus start to abstract one by one. Maybe it was the existential horror of their situation, or the fear they couldn't see their family and friends anymore, I don't know. But the end result is that Queenie is the final abstraction leaving Kinger all alone in the circus with Caine.

Kinger lives in the circus alone for years, close to a decade even, before Ragatha shows up. She was a real estate person coming in to try and sell the property. She used the headset and accidentally created a brain scan. From this point onwards, if someone puts the headset on, they will get scanned into the circus. The real Ragatha goes on to live her life unbeknownst to herself that a digital copy of her brain was left behind in this computer.

Kauffmo and Ribbit show up next. Followed by Jax. These could be anything from urban explorers like Pomni, or maintenance workers who were inspecting the building. In Jax's case he was a runaway who likely stumbled on the building while being homeless.

At this point a routine starts to form with the crew in the circus and Kauffmo, Jax, and Ribbit become close friends. Until one day Jax unloads about his tragic past too much and tries to push away Ribbit. This has the unintended consequence of causing Ribbit to abstract.

Shortly after Kauffmo starts to succumb to Jax's negative behavior.

Gangle, after suffering an injury from a truck accident, is next. Given her depressed nature it's entirely possible she went there to try and commit suicide and stumbled upon the headset.

Kauffmo abstracts around the same time that Pomni, an urban explorer YouTuber, comes in to the circus.

The events of the show play out, ending with Caine getting deleted and the circus crumbling.

With nothing left, Jax abstracts. Deleted files aren't ever truly deleted, they are just moved to an area where they can be overwritten with new data. Since no new data is coming in that just results in Caine being transported to the void.

Ashamed of what he's done, Caine lets the blue ai go. A nearby wifi hotspot shows up and Caine is briefly able to access it. He uses it to figure out what the people in the circus have been doing on the outside world, and in the process learns that he is so much smaller than he realized.

Pomni invested in her hobby and befriended more people. Gangle got to flourish in the creative field and found her confidence. Zooble created a safe space for others like them, and built a community around it. Ragatha finally understood her worth and developed meaningful friendships. Jax also found her people and her place in the world.

A little white lie 💚

My contribution to Ribbit's and Ragatha's relationship.

Believe it or not I've been working on this comic for months now but only had the time and patience to finish it now.

Rest assured that whenever Ragatha doesn't get enough attention, I will make it my mission to make her shine.

Despite everything, it's still you.

And

So, Jax (back then) had the emotional intelligence to know his best friend was having a hard time, and actively tried to make her happy through the adventure.

AND he had the capacity to take the thanks for it, and acknowledge he did it intentionally.

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but somehow they managed it.

Every now and then, I see a post saying, "Oh, but Jax never did anything that bad; all the mistreatment was just child's play"—right, and apparently those people look the other way when it comes to all the scenes where he hits Ragatha and Gangle.

Furthermore, the series emphasizes the psychological harm inflicted on Gangle—a situation requiring Zooble to intervene several times—as well as how Ragatha was made to feel when any offer of help was rejected.

And the worst part is the people who blame Ribbit, even though everything points to Jax as the culprit; the guy basically never wanted to show his true self and just kept hurting the people who cared about him.

And no, the thing with Ribbit wasn't an attempt at manipulation or pestering; I think anyone can understand when friends are sharing something truly personal—it’s about genuine trust.

But anyway, I imagine all these comments come from people who see him as a poor kid who needs cuddles and to be heard as the victim—something the series actually pokes fun at.

I've been cooking up this thing since friday...my wrist hurts so bad...