The Amazing Customs Circus (In draft)

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Disclaimer:

This blog is +16 and plans to explore themes of discrimination, bigotry, and prejudices of various types, as well as, sexual/suggestive topics.

Those who are younger or exhibit behaviors of extreme ignorance and any form of bigotry will receive the boot. Basic DNI applies too.

Specific T*DC fans DNI

White trans-fem Jax/Daisy seekers.

Agreeing or depicting the racist colorblind TADC casting: Making Zooble and Jax the only brown or/and Black characters with a tan-dark skin tones while everyone else is either white or light skinned.

G*osew*rx and GLITCH stans, fans, and financial supporters.

Anyone who defended GLITCH, THE VAs, and G*osw*rx when their racism/anti-Blackness was exposed/"It's fandom/overly online discourse" belief

But for the time being, I'll say this: I think the biggest flaw with TADC is Gooseworx took it seriously too late. Despite the episodic nature of the first four episodes, I think Gooseworx alway had the idea of a serialized show in mind. However, she wrote the first four similar to her shorts before realizing halfway she actually needed to WRITE a serialized story now because of the short episode structure she limited herself too. She probably thought she could wait until later on to set up an overarching plotline while in the meantime throw in vague lore bits as substitutes.

If she giving herself the traditional 12 or 24 episode structure, she could naturally integrated a serialized storyline and organically introduced genuine lore regarding the settings and characters.

Gooseworx has also explained that she created TADC in two weeks while there was a writing gap between the first four episodes and episode 5. I'm not sure what the exact details are in GLITCH'S contracts for their showrunner. I've heard it's most likely the pilot episode will also served as a first episode while simultaneously testing the waters in reception to see if it should be greenlited + we aren't really given a time-frame how much their creators are expected to work on their concepts before the initial pilot airings.

Of course, the structure of itself has issues in restraining and pressuring the creators. Yet all I can chalk up is 1. either GLITCH did give the opportunity for Gooseworx to work longer than 2 weeks or she strictly follow that time limit. Either way, it's on her to work with what's she been giving or push for her accommodations.

No matter what I possible excuses I can give her, it still falls on her as a writer to try, which I don't really think she did as much as with TADC's art.

Many of the show's writing problems could have easily been solved if she paid more attention and was considerate. It makes no sense to me that for some reason the serialized plot line ultimately focused on Jax in the end, and not the original main character Pomni and her goals of exiting the circus. In addition, the main conflict and climax for the pilot was Kaufmo's abstraction instigated by such obsession. Gooseworx easily created herself a potential serialized concept which is reinforced by the fact the characters don't want to be in the circus, but instead of causing any intrigue or possible conflict by Pomni to push for answers- Gooseworx never focuses on the concept again besides randomly in the last episode where a shoehorned, and frankly bad, lesson in accepting stagnation in life when all that means is the person is stuck/regressing, rather than accepting and appreciating their life more through the mundane. But they can't push the latter message considering nothing about the situation is mundane and none of the characters have found internal peace either.

Gooseworx had all the puzzle pieces this entire time she didn't utilize them because she never properly planned for the series, besides knowing she wanted a serialized plotline/or that the audience expected one.

I think ultimately that's what differentiates Vivziepop's Hellverse from Gooseworx's TADC. Vivziepop prioritizes story first, using art as its conveyor. There is plenty to critique about Vivziepop's character just by her online presence alone, but one thing you can commend her for is she's very artistically devoted and passionate about her projects. Which even though shows like the Helluva Boss suffering greatly from unplanned writing and discrepancies, they still maintain a level of consistency in terms of identity and end goals. Even if they mainly exist in Vivziepop's mind and conversations with her team, instead of desperately needing to be written down.

I truly want this universe to feel alive and sentient. Not only the circus, but every adventure that Caine create. Something like Wreck-It Ralph when the arcade closes. Even if they never go on an adventure again or often frequent; it's still a bustling place in a bigger ecosystem of micro-biomes equivalent.

And the reason for this relates to a game created in 1994 by white writers called Warcraft. The game has blatantly racially coded monsters called trolls, whom despite being named after the norse things are blatantly coded as Afro-carribean.

youtube.com/watch?v=YQQ0DTuBNbM

Warcraft Trolls have:

Jamaican accents

Dreadlocks (note all WoW humans are basically all white)

A stereotyped version of Voodoo, including demonized verison of real vodun deities.

Live in grass skirts.

Are cannibals, much like western imp propaganda.

Their lore has them as the original people of the land, until white humans and elves came from another continent, and started exterminating them for it.

The game also has minotaurs that are blatantly coded as very stereotypical indigenous Americans and whilst not quite as much as the trolls, again heroic white characters frequently kill them for land and this is depicted as ok.

wowhead.com/object=175733/the-founding-of-quelthalas

The elves developed a deep loathing for the vicious trolls and killed them on sight whenever they were encountered.

"As the troll armies broke and attempted to flee, Thoradin's armies ran them down and slaughtered every last one of their soldiers.

wowhead.com/item=145289/arathor-and-the-troll-war

If you're curious about this the info, here's some direct info on the white people ethnic cleansing of the Afro-Caribbean trolls. Note the white people killed so many of the trolls, they renamed themselves the trollbanes with pride.

Simply for very politely saying "I know the writers were just copying tropes omnipresent in western fantasy media and didn't have malice, but this is racist and should be quietly updated to be less offensive" on the most popular Warcraft wiki site, I was labeled "racist against white people".

Note this is Berenal openly dismissing the demonization of a real religion, all whilst freaking out because some white colonists, who are background characters, were called the anti-native colonists they were.

He further attacked my Iranian American heritage and accused me of using it as an "excuse". And somehow I'm the "racist".

Not only have I been labeled a "harasser" and "racist" just for saying this was offensive, nevermind that I de-escalated and was the one attacked, Berenal has regularly slandered me and my personal friends, just for blocking him.

Since than a white person who claimed to be interested in my experience and that they were not "racist", saw all this stuff and went "so, boys will be boys", than made a callout post and went to the racist discord to express their support for the racists.

Since then Berenal created a new account to threaten me with legal actions whilst calling me a racist and insisting he's not Berenal, nevermind his account was called DopeySpyWolfThing, .

This is Anti-Black and Anti-Native racism, correct?

Yep, it is. These people are calling you the racist one because they feel called out. Also racism against white people isn't a real thing either.

I'm not legal professional by any means. It sounds like they want to intimate you into silence. I don't really know what case they have in a court of law considering they're the one doing the harassing. Unfortunately this behavior isn't new from racists whenever POC call out racism in fandom spaces.

[Start ID: A digital drawing of trans-fem Jax done by Gooseworx posted on Bluesky. /. End ID.]

Also why the hell have you guys been so dubious and misgendered her genderqueerness till the end?????????????