Moggles

Life kills!

Your friends drink it (but only for fun, never for important stuff). Your classmates are obsessed with it. Your teachers say students aren't allowed to have arsenic smoothies in school, then immediately take a sip of their arsenic smoothie. There's ads recommending it for pregnant women and birthday parties and pet owners and grandparents and every possible thing you can think of. You try to buy a smoothie, it's got arsenic in it. You go to a different shop, also arsenic. You go to a smoothie shop with your family and they call you dramatic when you ask if the smoothies have arsenic in them. There's children's toys that make arsenic smoothies from voice command. Why would you have a heartfelt moment with your loved ones preparing a smoothie with the fruits you grew together when you can order a box of arsenic smoothies by arsenic smoothie drone, same-hour delivery? It's so much easier, it's so much more convenient, everyone already does it, everyone in the future will drink it anyway, we have to adapt.

All the big arsenic smoothie companies are squashing the regular smoothie businesses under their boots made of cash and bones. You point out that that's kinda bad, but everyone just says the smoothie businesses have to adapt, this is the age of arsenic smoothies after all.

There's overwhelming evidence that arsenic smoothies are bad in every possible aspect, but everyone around you chooses to ignore it, because it's so much easier, it's so much more convenient, everyone already does it, everyone in the future will drink it anyway, we have to adapt.

"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