Veras the Arch System

Zooble, after realizing the curse censor was gone, just started going through a list of curses to make absolutely sure. But mixed in to the curses were also some onomatopoeia that they were saying normal like everything else.

The surrounding cast are confused and ask why. Zooble catches themself and explains that in their free time, they'd experimented with the censor to find its limits. Eventually they discovered that even if you try speaking one of sounds that the censors make when censoring a curse, those sounds get censored too.

So like saying "Zoink" for example would also be censored. It'd be like if a kid thought they could get away with cursing by just literally saying "Curse Word" or (high pitched) "beeeeeeeeeeeeep" in place of a real curse, and then those got censored too for still "taking the place of one", like replacing a crutch word with a different crutch word, defeating the intent to do something actually different.

Anyway I choose to headcanon this dream as canon until further evidence. The version of Zooble in my head has in fact spent a long time trying to find a curse word they can get away with saying.

(Am also glad We waited to watch it until now. We saw people getting very autistic about it early on, and remembered some of the last times We chose to follow ongoing media with agonizing hiatuses between updates (SU, Deltarune, TCOAAL) and decided "y'know what I'm just gonna wait till it's basically done then join right before the finale to simulate/condense the hype")

Extremely solid writing. Love this cast Basically everyone is perfect for what they're for, no notes

I think My favorite episode is either Untitled or Guns

It was fun finally learning the context behind that joke about those 2 fish which I had previously only heard repeated out of context in a YT video of people playing Pokemon Jackbox

When I start tryna think of a favorite character, there's of course Zooble, with Gangle not far behind, especially since their dynamic together is great But then I feel silly for leaving out Ragatha. Would be friends with all 3, which I think is a good marker. Of course I like Pomni as well, I just still don't have the clearest grasp on her full character since she changes the most across the show. Also all 4 are Gender

Jax sucks but like on purpose, an ideal "love to hate him" type. And I think I can tell the type of guy he's pretending not to be too, not that I can put it to words. Just a confident vibes reading I suppose. And I feel sorry for getting to Kinger last since he's just nice :)

To regrettably dip my toes into the BS... It sucks how enough people with Game Theory brainrot latched on to TADC as if its a piece of Mascot Horror (/derogatory) and did all that to Gooseworx

Especially when I think about the most common phrase I lost count of during my marathon was the genuine question "Do you wanna talk about it?" making it a lot closer to a Steven Universe than a Poppy's Playtime along that spectrum

(Not that the active fandom for the former was deserving of much more praise than the latter tbf… Smth smth Death of Media Literacy, Parasocial Audience Entitlement, etc. But I digress)

It's a great show about great characters with great character writing

Thumbs up 👍✨