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You know the last few episodes of Critical Role have been good when it's monday and you are already vibrating in your seat about "Is it thursday yet". This next episode is going to be such a culmination of so much buildup and I genuinely haven't felt this excited about any new piece of media in ages. 14 people and 7 months of actual play and it does feel like they are going to land something incredible
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im sorry i literally cannot get this out of my head since last night
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I feel like one thing about Pomni that seems neglected to a lot of people is the fact that, more often than not actually, she DOES NOT know the right thing to say and do to help someone else. It's why I don't really agree with the notion that she's just a therapist character.
My evidence to support my claim?
Episode 1-3 she is anything BUT a therapist character. She is a nervous wreck who is, for the most part, self serving. Because she wants to go 'home', doesn't want to be this jester, and she has an immense fear of death. She feels like she's nothing. The reason she turns to Gummigoo and helps him is because she could relate to him and the feeling that they're nothing, or their existence means nothing.
And in Episode 3 it's HER being the one getting therapised. And she's given the advice to cherish everyone around her because they could all be gone someday. It's fulfilling to build connections with people.
But that doesn't mean she's immediately perfect at being that 'pick everyone up' person, are you kidding me?
She doesn't know how to help Gangle. She invites Gangle to talk, but Gangle doesn't want to talk about it. She even offers Ragatha to talk to Gangle, probably because Pomni herself doesn't know what to say or do.
She gives outright flawed advice to Ragatha and she's not really the one who can help her in this situation. YES, SHE LIKES RAGATHA AND SHE ALWAYS HAS, sick of people pretending she 'willingly ditched Ragatha for Jax' or whatever (When she is literally shown inviting Ragatha to join her team in Episode 6. First person she turned to for that was Ragatha, not Jax. But I guess you're not allowed to have more than one friend??). But 'it's okay to be a jerk sometimes' was NOT Ragatha's problem. Ragatha's problem was her self loathing and need to be validated in a way that didn't alienate others.
Pomni flat out read Ragatha WRONG here. I don't see this getting talked about enough. She did not do a very good job diagnosing Ragatha here. But that doesn't mean she doesn't want to be friends with Ragatha and/or that Ragatha is not a close person for her, she's always been.
And let's also bring up that she literally got in a PHYSICAL FIGHT with Jax. Did he deserve it? Oh hell yes. The reason she fought him here was because he TRIGGERED her. He toyed with her insecurity about her identity as Pomni, and her fears of abstracting by saying he'd move on and forget about her. At the heat of the moment, ANYONE would punch Jax in the face here. And she is never invalidated for doing that.
Pomni isn't the heart of the group because she always knows the right thing to say and do. She's the heart of the group because she makes the choice to try and help because she experienced in the first episode what the stakes are if they are left at a breaking point. It's her fear. It would be a fear of hers to see it happen to them too.
And the thing is?
SPOILER after this:
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Nintendo. If you didnāt want them to be gay. WHY doesnāt Sidon tell Link that Yuna is his fiancĆ© if you run into him at shatterback point first. Why does he go down on one knee, take Linkās hand, make a solemn vow to serve and protect him, and give him a glowing ring of power as proof?? NONE OF THE OTHER SAGES GO DOWN ON ONE KNEE FOR THAT NINTENDO.
like Murray couldn't have been more clear in her talk with Azune after the sewer fight that her protectiveness over Demodus has everything to do with that Demodus took a job through the school and ended up almost dying because of it. she wants the Penteveral to be a safe place for young arcanists like Demodus to learn magic, and within a day of the Sundered Houses' power grab, they exploited a financial aid student and framed him for theft, which directly led to him almost bleeding out in the sewers. making sure things like that don't happen is something Murray considers directly under her responsibility. this lines up with the fact that while she's less fond of him for being a rich boy, Murray also sprang into action to find Occtis when it became clear he was in danger from his father and literally performed a miracle to resurrect him. may I remind y'all, while it wasn't as explicitly about that, she also immediately stepped in when Azune suggested Occtis go in Demodus' place.
you can boohoo as much as you want about Azune but he's a grown ass man who isn't one of her active students. she's still pretty sympathetic to him, but he's a peer in her eyes because it's a whole ass different situation.
I know some of y'all zone out and go into selective hearing mode when a woman is talking, but if you pay attention to her personality and values, Murray has actually been remarkably consistent in the way she treats all three of these men. she puts in a sort of gruff tough love approach with all of them and is, unsurprisingly, the most protective of the financial aid student directly under what she considers her responsibility. any other interpretation is just woobie googles rotting your brain.
best case scenario Digital Circus gets remembered in a similar way as Steven Universe: a show that was Really Fucking Good and had nuanced characters and interesting things to say, but the audience wasn't quite ready for it and it imploded into a discourse ball. four years from now I expect to see lesbians drawing Jax like she's a renaissance muse the same way people still draw Pearl or Lapis
āLife after menopause is exceptionally rare in animals. It can evolve only in creatures where grannies help younger family members survive. Only human, killer whale, and short-finned pilot whale females routinely live for substantial periods after they stop breeding. Like humans, killer and pilot whales have roughly twenty-five to thirty childbearing years, then can live another thirty or so. And as Kenās just explained, some live a lot longer. Up to a quarter of the females in a group are postreproductive. These whales are not waiting to die; they are helping their children survive. As human children often benefit from their grandmothersā attention, killer whale grandmothers boost their grandkidsā survival. A rather bizarre twist of killer whale society is that killer whale mothers remain crucial to the survival of their adult children. When older killer whale females die, their adult children start dying at high rates, especially males. Male killer whales who are under thirty years old when their mothers die suffer a tripling of the annual mortality rate compared to males in their age group whose mothers are still alive. Male killer whales who are more than thirty years old when their mothers die face death rates more than eight times as high as males in their age group whose mothers are still living. Daughters under thirty show no mortality increase after their mothersā death. But daughters older than thirty when their mothers die have more than two and a half times the death rate of same-age females whose mothers are alive. Malesā handicaps of the extra drag of their huge dorsal and pectoral fins and the extra food required for their immense size (at around 20,000 pounds, males can be one-third more massive than females) seem to make them reliant on their working mothers for food. Females donāt have the malesā impediments, but while raising young, females may rely on food shared by their no-longer-breeding mothers. Adult females share essentially all the fish they catch, and more than half goes to their children. Adult males share their catch only about 15 percent of the timeāusually with their mothers. While no one fully understands their strange death pattern following the loss of a mother, extreme parental care is likely at the root. Toothed whales are the worldās champion nursers. Short-finned pilot whales continue to produce milk for up to fifteen years after the birth of their last calf, likely nursing other femalesā young. In bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins (further study might reveal others), some females never give birth. Denise Herzing dubbed them ācareer females,ā because their role in society does not include motherhood. They might be infertile. They might be gay. But their contribution is crucial: they do a lot of babysitting. When Herzing entered the ocean with a visiting nine-year-old girl, āWhite Patches, the eternal babysitter herself, had never seen me babysitting a young human before. Her excitement vocalizations were audible and electric and she continued to swim around us, eyeing the human youngster attached to me.ā (Researchers sometimes call babysitters āaunts.ā Thatās precisely who they often are.)ā
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just throwing this out there
I just watched the TADC finale and I have a lot to say about it im ngl. (Specially with how twt and other socials were filled with discourse abt it) so I'm gonna scream to the void - spoilers ahead!!
Also i may be kinda blunt on this rant, so apologies LMAO
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While I really enjoyed the ending, I think the best part of seeing tadc in theaters is Caineās crashout. You see every detail, every expression so clearly. The music is so loud surrounding you on every side, and the size of the screen makes it feel so much more intense than seeing it on a screen at home. If I hadnāt already watched the episode at home so much, it honestly couldāve been a little scary in the moment
everyone say congratulations gooseworx
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jax as a character doesnt really do it for me but i saw someone say that it's funny that gooseworx managed to make people care about a transfem character by disguising them as a tumblr sexyman and ykw that IS really funny actually
ok sorry still mad about people misinterpreting a certain Plot Point in the tadc finale so. under the cut
"oh so the trans character kills herself??? this show is transphobic" JESUS CHRIST YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE. Jax repressed himself to the point of abstraction, then Pomni finds a way to reach him even through his broken mental state, and the gang puts him in a safe and comfortable blanket fort where s/he can relax and get his senses back in order without hurting himself or others. The other abstractions get to be seen being happy and at peace. No it's not IDEAL but it's basically like having a mental break that just needs some care and attention instead of Cellar. We do not see any Abstractions get fixed but the episode does leave it open-ended as to how much they will one day be able to be reached, and the characters have eternity to figure it out. Jax finally opens up to Pomni in that headspace and it's far from impossible she can still talk to him in this state.
it's also not like Jax is the only trans/queer character. Zooble is nonbinary/genderqueer and makes it through the entire show, is given emotional depth and weight to their own dysphoria and character struggles, and then gets to end the show with their human self opening a successful (implied) queer bar and their digital self having epic gay sex!! (entire theater cheered and clapped at that btw)
like. look me in the eyes. do you think that a trans woman show creator would write a trans woman character just to kill her out of malice?? like do you think she was maybe trying to say something with the abstractions and Jax's repression and the fact there is still hope and time for him and his human self?? are we operating on this level of media literacy or are we just looking for things to get mad at
"i saw the tv glow is transphobic bc the main character never comes out"-ass thinking
adding below the cut:
Jax wasnāt even the only suicidal queer woman in the show in the main cast! One of the last things you hear about Gangle in the outside world is sheās ārecovering from her injuries,ā and the strong implication is that the car accident we see in the end of her Spudzyās shift was a mirror to some sort of Attempt in her real life. So! This is much more a story about Lots of different queer folks (and Grant is there too) responding to life and trauma in different ways and maybe just because youāre sad your fav didnāt get the ending you wanted doesnāt mean the whole thing becomes problematic when you need to pick and choose your arguments so much to defend that analysis.
