I do really love medias where a bunch of adults are trapped in a smaller-than-the-rest-of-the-world space and because of that they lash out at each other and develop unhealthy complexes and they're too scared or angry to do what they need to do most (stop worrying so much about the weird stigma society puts on platonic relationships and just try to form those platonic bonds cause they're like literally the only thing that makes life worth living and also they are literally life-saving especially in a time like this)
Mouthwashing filled that role pretty well, but of course it was painful for me to think about and engage with cause... uh. yeah.
And idk why it's probably cause I realized tadc fits that description to a t or because i fell in love with tadc around the time mouthwashing came out but like it really was a miracle that i really was getting everything I wanted out of a media but it was. really bad for my mental health. and then like the exact month later a media i was only somewhat interested in got so good i fell in love with it AND filled all the check boxes of everything I want in a media AND MORE (being based on the type of old educational games or cartoons i grew up with and kind of used a little bit as a coping mechanism for the real world. like a happy place riddled with thorns. and 2 characters (one of them being my now favorite) having that exact same complex (or whatever you call it))
anyways what I'm trying to say is i wish the whole tadc fandom latched onto Headlock as much as the Mouthwashing fandom did and it would've been so great for my mental health specifically. especially when the episodes were still coming out and we were waiting with bated breath and making theories but eh. whaddayagonnado.
