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Everyone's leniency on Jax is unrealistic because he's on equal footing with them, having no reason to tolerate him except for the sake of the plot. The same people, who stood up to Caine, the AI who controls them and the circus, never did the same to Jax, who had nowhere near the same power.

Honestly, if Goose hadn't written everyone else to be submissive, then Jax probably would've abstracted sooner because he would've actually faced consequences.

CW: TADC 9 leaks, mentions of victim blaming, and discussions of sexual coercion.

So thankfully people are talking about Jax's fantasy of sexually coercing Gangle when she's vulnerable, but I haven't seen people talk about the framing of the situation after he leaves.

i believe gangle is a victim of sexual harassment but the writers don’t want to acknowledge that

i first started thinking this when she talks to zooble in episode 6

“Gangle: It's Jax, though. He probably wants revenge. And he's gonna make it painful, and-

Zooble: (Softly) Hey, you deserve better than thinking about him when he's not even here. You're a human. (They sit down next to her.) You're not his toy.

Gangle: It sometimes doesn't feel that way.”

i know this probably is supposed to imply physical abuse but the line about being a “toy” just sticks out since toys are often an allusion to sexual assault, a toy can’t consent, a toy is an object, the abuser can play as rough as they want

jax also sexually blackmails her with the jar and her drawings, these are played off as a gag but knowing her relationship with him the writers could have tried to imply jax hurting gangle emotionally

but i know they wouldn’t have even dared to make jax into a sexual abuser because that’s too evil! that's one of the bad bad crimes that can’t be excused so we couldn’t possibly imply that!

and dare i say the fact goose didn’t want to explore the idea of jax doing an irredeemable action is indicative of her own misogyny and obsession with torturing the women she creates

Meet PJ! Caine and Pomni's nonverbal jack-in-the-box baby.

Although their box patterns were more of a whim, I snuck a lot of fun little nods to Caine ans Abel so now every time he looks his kid in the eyes he's reminded of what a great brother he is :D. There's even a mini circus hidden among the patterns

Some silly initial sketches under the cut:

"BAD TIMING"

Full short Caine x Pomni comic (19 Pages)

TW: Suggestive

Man, I miss my husband...