Jay / Kit

compilation of my pride requests! Had a lot of fun with these

so many good points in this holy shit. YES time does not equal ‘oh theyve changed theyre better now’ fucking thank u!!! ‘it was years ago!’ do u think that bcuz the dude who stalked me did it years ago is innocent now bcuz its been years since he started doing it? no! there aint no statute of limitations on problematic internet fuckery!

Well uh...

Thing is i don't, i am critical about the way the female characters were treated, Jax whole wasted potential , everything in the finale.Queenie and Ribbit character execution etc

But i still like this show, it not perfect but it still a very comforting series and special interest to me.I love drawing these characters and there designs and personalities.

i believe people should criticise the things they love because it makes them more receptive to those who don t like it.

An piece of art can t be perfect but it doesn't mean you can't love it.

Being critical doesn't mean you hate something,but are abel to see it flaws and still enjoy it.

ONLY IF YOU WERE PLANNING TO PAY TO SEE THE FINALE (TADC EP 9) IN THEATERS :

if you are a genuinely passionate fan of tadc, I honestly HIGHLY recommend hearing out people talking about the finale or even watching the leak before you pay money to travel and see it in theatres-PLS HEAR ME OUT!!

my pov:

I really love and admire the show and have supported and defended it always, even making content about it, and have openly shared my love the show and my love for indie animation making more impact!!!

I was originally planning to drive two hours to the nearest theatre to see it. YES I KNOW but again, I really love the show and knew this would be a huge moment for indie animation getting more support (online and financially)!!

I got so angry when I heard there were leaks. Like, this is such a huge chance for indie animation to show it can have just as much of a large impact in theatres especially with its beginnings, being on youtube, then netflix, and now a theatre release. Like this is so amazing !!! and probably a dream come true it looks like for aspiring animators wanting their passion projects to get support to fully come to life!! hope core !!

well ofc I had heard/seen some comments, and honestly they seemed all over the place at first. Like I couldn’t get what was really happening? I had been actively avoiding spoilers but these just came through in people’s passive comments or making references to what happened. Then ofc the inevitable happened and when I thought I was watching a trailer or edit, it seemed to be like a super cut of the finale. I read the comments explaining further(i was just appalled at what i saw and wanted to confirm it was fake, so so badly), and though i’m not too proud of it, followed a link and watched the whole portuguese leak myself. I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW THATS HYPOCRITICAL BUT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IF YOU KNOW AN SAW WHAT I SAW!! I KNOW THAT SUCKS WHEN PEOPLE ARE VAGUE ON THE INTERNET BUT IT IS YOUR CHOICE AT THE END OF THE DAY IM SORRY IM JUST A GIRL CRYING ON HER BLOG TRYING TO PREVENT DISMAYYYYY😭😭😭

honestly? I’m glad I did before following through on the plans to travel to see it. And show my friends the show. I don’t want to be associated with it when they see it. I’m sorry but my honest reaction to everything I saw in the leak was just: if I saw this in the theatre after driving 2 hrs, paying for tickets the same price as my weekly gas, and constantly defending this show I think I would’ve crashed out and gone insane trying to convince myself this was all just a huge prank and the real finale is in the popcorn bucket or something 😭 like i do think it’s would’ve been another stranger things season 5 type of deal/reaction but this time people paid money and drove or traveled in general to watch it. to which im sure would make a lot of people MORE pissed and aggressive than the dark parts of the fandom already are like 💔

Not too many details because I don’t want people to be spoiled by my hints before they make the choice to see them. but Even if i did, if I read everything that happened in the finale before watching it I think I would had the same reaction as goose and assume it was all fabricated. Like nothing made sense. and it never will. I genuinely thought being were being way too crazy about this, like everything else that’s happened recently. and now my foot’s in my mouth lmao

Not everyone will agree I’m sure, but it was just so upsetting how they handled this show. I was so hopeful and even calling out the fandom for being so disrespectful. BUT I KINDA SEE WHY THEY LEAKED IT, everything was just so appalling I couldn’t believe glitch approved this and no one even pushed back on this even a little. The last 12 minutes had more impact on my than the entire thing and even then I couldn’t enjoy it because I was so ragebaited by the shit from a butt I just watched. IM SORRY I CAN TELL MUCH LOVE WENT I TO THE PROJECT EVEN THE ANIMATORS WERE TRYING TO HARD TO SAVE IT AND MAKE UP FOR THE ABSURDITY BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME.

anyways pls consider finding out how bad it does get before committing to watching in theatres, I know others might not want to support this release either if they knew what they were signing up to watch!!

edit: i wanted to add that it’s more uncomfy than you may realize, which was my main reason for not wanting other to travel to see it especially if seeing in a different city than you are familiar with. there definitely should be some tw for the episode and i don’t wanna share them in case people think it’s spoilers, but some scenes were triggering for me, and this is after years of working on getting panicked less easily and emdr therapy so idk how else to lay it out that it might be worth looking into if you’re cautious if those things

vvvvvv TLDR vvvvvv

TADC Episode 9 spoilers under the cut! Though, I do think that was obvious.

it just breaks my heart in so many ways. Everything that I was invested in was discarded.

there's no redemption for Jax. there's no reconciliation or regret expressed for the people he abused. there's no confrontation from said abuse victims. there's no dialogue about the relationship between his femme-leaning gender dysphoria and his abusive behavior against women. there's no lore drops or hints about abstractions possibly un-abstracting, so that one day Jax could be saved.

there is absolutely none of these things. Any of the topics or concepts that I found interesting about TADC, about Jax himself, anything at all that I wanted to see on screen, is completely disregarded.

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Zooble, the non-binary character of TADC, gets done kind of dirty.

Zooble’s gender identity is implied by their pronouns and journey with both implied gender dysphoria and explicit body dysmorphia. However, the only time their gender is outright talked about in the show is when Jax, in his mindscape, makes a transphobic comment about Zooble’s “weird gender thing”/“weird non-binary thing” or whatnot (not sure of the direct translation). I don’t count the newspaper clipping we see where it says they’re non-binary as that shows up for a millisecond and is very small text.

So yeah, that’s great. The one time Zooble is mentioned to be trans/non-binary is in a transphobic way. Not to mention, while this is more subjective, it bums me out we focus so little on Zooble as a character when they have so much potential, and are one of the characters that shows a sincere arc of growth during the story.

Edit: Ribbit isn’t confirmed to be non-binary, I’ll keep this part in for clarity though:

And with Ribbit, oh my god. She only exists as a plot device for Jax, rather than us actually getting to explore her own character. I didn’t expect them to be super developed, but considering Jax talks with them about (implied) his being queer/possibly trans, there could have easily been a line where they relate to Jax on that or something instead of that random, disturbing thing about Jax pushing his mother so hard she fell on the floor unconscious. And I’m surprised they waited to introduce Ribbit until ep 9, she could’ve been a super interesting foil to Jax and also gave us some backstory on Ragatha through flashbacks with her, Jax’s and Ribbit’s dynamic. Why not get a flashback of her sooner? I know why, because she’s barely relevant and episode 9 had to focus alllll on Jax rather than the other characters. Disappointing tbh.

And Jax themself… I’m kind of glad they were not explicitly confirmed as transfem, as I think the way they were written was haphazard/a mixed bag in terms of being decent representation (I am a cis woman, so I could be missing something here). Yes, you can write a transfem character with internalized misogyny, but Jax’s writing is just not thorough enough for it to work. There are extremely harmful stereotypes of trans women being misogynistic that exist in our society, so if that is done in media it should be done really carefully and gracefully as to not play into that even accidentally, imo. If we had a different show, where Jax worked through misogyny and had an arc of self-acceptance and development, it would be another situation. In this scenario, I am honestly relieved there wasn’t explicit confirmation of Jax being trans due to how they were written in episode 9. I really like seeing the fandom interpretations of transfem Jax, but the canon didn't stick the landing. Especially with that weird scene with Gangle, ugh.