💥explodin th baaby💥

maybe im a little doodoo stupid or missing something but i dont think she infantilizes pomni that much either save for that one line in ep2 (AKA the one where pomni replies "im not a child you dont need to hype me up").

and again you also could have argued she IS overbearing at times, specifically in ep5, but all of that is easily justified, considering that jax DID drive a person (and probably even two) to suicide in front of her very eyes. i would be more concerned/pissed if ragatha saw allat happening and DIDN'T try to do smth about pomni and jax getting closer.

as it stands ragatha didn't do twat to jax except be... nice? to her? and i really dont see the problem in that, if anything i think it would perfectly showcase how deluded jax is in her projections onto others. how even simple kindness looks like a threat/a ploy to get under her skin due to her past trauma.

on ragatha's side it could showcase how much of a people-pleaser she is. that, even though she didn't essentially do anything wrong, if jax treats her horribly then that immediately means "it must be her fault" and not just. her being abused.

"i try too hard to get onto their good side and then end up pushing them away" like god forbid a girl be nice/considerate towards others in an already terrible situation.

please tell me if im missing something because ive rewatched this show in one sitting like recently and i have NEVER once seen her be fake or manipulative or anything like the show is trying to present her as. if anything she's TOO vulnerable with others my girl can't stop oversharing and trauma-dumping at every turn

(i feel so bad but i still can't help giggling at how she jsut randomly starts talking about her mum verbally abusing her & that one absolutely gold of a dialogue "hey pomni remember that one time i got violently tossed and slammed against a wall lol while you ditched me and ran away to save your own skin hahahah" does she know that her being in excruciating pain is not as funny as she thinks it is?)

ok it's been long enough. Can I be honest and admit that watching her talk with kinger in episode 6 felt lackluster when I first watched it. Like legitimately the most interesting part of that conversation to me was the 'and then you showed up' part. Everything else kinger told her was completely understandable because she CAN be a people pleaser to a debilitating extreme. But in the context of the entire show and what we see on screen? It really does not feel like she ever did anything wrong to ANYONE other than herself 😭 and it's soooo frustrating to see the narrative of 'we all did bad things' like that doesn't feed into her insecurities about herself that's simply not true!!!!!!!

(May or may not be working on a TADC animatic to this song rn)

Your posts have always shared a lot of the criticisms I have, and since you clearly enjoy reading fics, I thought it might be interesting to you. I’ve only got 2 chapters out with the second one being posted just yesterday, but it would mean a lot if you checked it out!

It’s called “the amazing digital Glitchfest” and there are links to it on my alt @simpli-art if you’re interested.

ive actually read that when i saw it posted on the tadc ao3 page! ive been meaning to read the second chapter in a 'im skimping on sleep just to read fics' for one of these nights LOL

atp im not even sure what the hell 'crashout ragatha is deserving of' means anymore so ill just compile a bunch of fics ive parsed through my bookmarks that are either 'she actually yells at people' or 'ragatha experiences an Emotion. Lets Read About It :D' or some loose thing in-between. here we gooooo

especially the lines "well i guess i should stick up for myself / but i really think it's better this way" and "the more you suffer / the more it shows you really care / right?"

like this isn't just me having ragatha brainworms right this really is so her

gave it a listen and its lowkey hilarious that outside of being lyrics in a song i can hear her internally saying these words to herself as she stays in denial ToT like girl....

Or secret evil option, evil ragatha