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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
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“Life 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 Ken’s 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 grandmothers’ attention, killer whale grandmothers boost their grandkids’ 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 mothers’ 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. Males’ 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 don’t have the males’ 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 time—usually 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 world’s 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 females’ young. In bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins (further study might reveal others), some females never give birth. Denise Herzing dubbed them “career females,” 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, “White 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.” (Researchers sometimes call babysitters “aunts.” That’s precisely who they often are.)”
— Beyond Words, by Carl Safina
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 Caine’s 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 hadn’t already watched the episode at home so much, it honestly could’ve been a little scary in the moment
everyone say congratulations gooseworx
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 wasn’t 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 she’s “recovering from her injuries,” and the strong implication is that the car accident we see in the end of her Spudzy’s 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 you’re sad your fav didn’t get the ending you wanted doesn’t mean the whole thing becomes problematic when you need to pick and choose your arguments so much to defend that analysis.
Don't get me wrong I love my family but they're all liberal and get really defensive if you imply their allyship sounds performative. There's a rainbow flag on the property and we're the only ones in town who have one. It has been stolen and destroyed before.
I am not coming out as anything I haven't already.
Like. It isn't like I haven't tried to tell them. And my sibling. Who doesn't engage with me about it. But I don't think we understand what I mean when I say I'm gender ambivalent and that any pronouns work. Because we always default to the set they've always used. Which is fine. I'm fine with it. It's fine.
Head in my hands while I think about when my sibling came out and my mother thought it would be appropriate to talk to me privately in the car (note how I am unable to dodge this conversation because the car is moving) about how hurt SHE was that my sibling would ever consider changing their name because the name SHE picked for them had "so much meaning" and now their current name reminds HER of a transgender woman she knew YEARS ago with too much whimsy who became a drug addict I guess??????
And I had to sit there and listen to this whole in the car about my transgender sibling and how hurt and disappointed and frustrated our mother was about the fact they changed their name.
And then I had to tell her that. I picked my sibling's chosen name. It was a nickname I came up with that they really liked while they were trying things out. And that the meaning she thought it had was incorrect. And I explained the actual thought behind it.
And she doubled down.
On one hand I would rather die than admit to any of this to them rn.
On the other hand I don't want to die as I am.
So I guess we're going to the queer meetup in town when I can next?
people should be allowed to kill their parents
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Kattigan Vale the type of guy to climb into your house via the side window on the first visit and then ask you if it’s ok to swear and if you have a liberal family on the next.
jax is like if dave was vriska
I think The Amazing Digital Circus finale transed my gender?
All I can say about the TADC finale is. Everyone needs to batten down the hatches and prepare for a once-in-a-generation discourse tsunami.
Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Just caught The Amazing Digital Circus finale in theaters. It was everything I would have wanted from it. If anyone sees this and wants to chat PLEASE dm me, I’m dying to talk about it but I don’t want to even remotely risk spoiling it.
