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And then you have jax. Someone who put no efforts into being likable. Someone who naturally drawn people in. Someone who's loved and cared for by multiple people.

And she has to watch him ruin it again and again. He pushed ribbit away. He pushed Kaufmo away. He pushed her away. And now she has to see him do it again with pomni.

Imagine how she must feel, seeing jax receive all the love and support she crave for, and still choose to sabotage everything, choose to make people feel awful for caring about him, when all she's trying to do is make people feel good and at ease. And she get nothing in return.

The tragedy of ragatha's character, is that she's an abused woman who put so much effort into making herself small and unproblematic, and instead of resolving it, the show itself treat her as furnitures, a mere accessory to further jax's development. Jax who proved for the last time that no amount of efforts will make him appreciative and responsive. That no amount of love will save him.

But I honestly feel a bit stunned that people are fine with the hints of the transness being subtle when the hints that are subtle could genuinely be easily mistaken or brushed off not as transness. Hell, I'm a trans dude and I honestly buy many headcanons of characters being trans and I actively headcanon a few of my favs the same way, but when I watched the finale, everything that indicated to Jax being a trans woman could easily be mistaken for the likes of mere toxic masculinity, Ribbit just being a good friend and comforting Jax or even misinterpreting it as Jax being a trans man if anything. For the longest time, a great portion of the TADC fanbase thought the trans coding that was there was indicating to trans man Jax and that only changed by the time we got around to episode 8

As a comment under the OG post put it, we already have pieces of transgender media and characters that are much more explicitly trans without nessecarily having the character say straight to the screen "Hey I'm trans".

Even Undertale and Deltarune are much more explicit with their transgender characters, and nobody explicitly turns to the screen and says they are transgender. Toby Fox didn't need to say that these characters are trans, but by god, he put a lot of work into making it known that they are trans and that it shouldn't be mistaken for ANYTHING ELSE when it came to that. Mettaton and his quest for a body he always wanted, Mad Mew Mew integrating into a body she never expected, Napstablook being content with not being in a corporeal form, Kris being explicitly never stated as feminine or masculine but things go awry when you try and force Kris into a more typically gendered role in the weird route, Frisk being a seperate entity from Chara and the player and still being explicitly referred to as 'them', Chara being their own entity and never put into any box, the lion in Undertale who's a fan of Mettaton and wants to wear Mettaton's dress and enjoys it, and in Deltarune we see that same lion and she's now a lioness and working in a diner.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

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While all three are hair textures people can have, larger shapes and sharper points show an increased loss of texture. Ideally, you should be using small, fairly uniform shapes if you aren't familiar enough with Black hair to experiment with how you show texture.

There are a lot of ways to use sharpness and small detail when designing Black hairstyles that don't necessitate looser curls! Shaping/styling can really take you almost anywhere.

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