Let's address the elephant in the room first. Femininity doesn't equal womanhood. A bow, a cute "girly" room, a "feminine" color scheme (purple and pinkish-red), liking dresses and wearing an eyeliner (god I hate the maid dress sm but I'll talk abt that later, but I've just noticed how it has a heart-shaped pattern on the chest area so... heart = girl?) and the final scene between Jax and Pomni having a pink hue to it are just not it, Goose.

Being a woman has to do with how you feel on the inside, not how feminine you are. I hate that Jax is flattened into either this "girly cutie pie" or a hottie by the fanbase now that we know she's trans, when she's a frickin mess of a character, full of self-blame and self-hatred that doesn't only have to do with her gender identity

I don't think it's illogical to say Jax had mommy and daddy issues even before she discovered her gender identity. When it comes to how Jax feels about Kaufmo and Ribbit's abstraction... well, I'd rather have her feel immense guilt because she genuinely cared for them both despite everything (I want Jax to be more than her transness and selfishness!), than for THIS to be her train of thought: "My friends are dead because I'm a girl! I couldn't accept it then, and I can't accept it now! It was all my fault because I'M A GIRL! Me being a girl is not only the main thing "wrong" with me, but also the root cause of all my problems!"

Transition wouldn't have fixed Jax because what she really needed to get better were self-acceptance, self-forgiveness and self-love. That's why I want to put the whole cast in Jax's mind in my rewrite. She needed them all to become whole, even briefly, before death

I want Jax to be a complex, fucked up woman with real depth and a capacity for change that she never took, not a hypersexualized, hyperfeminine trans girl. A woman is a woman regardless of her appearance, voice or interests because she knows deep down she is one! Jax's problems were deep and internal, yeah, but imo, her main issue was her belief that every part of her (including her mistakes) was wrong and unloveable. Jax spent the entire show fragmented instead of whole, meanwhile the others managed to overcome their issues. That's why I think it would be a good idea to have Pomni, Ragatha, Gangle, Zooble and Kinger all try to help Jax one last time so she can finally accept and forgive herself

And as we can see from Goose's confirmation post, Jax would have still kept thinking inappropriate things had she transitioned i dont think it's even possible to have your avatar permanently altered and your voice changed in the circus but ok ("I think my 2 friends who I've mistreated in canon are destined to fuck each others' brains out"). Not to mention her design is hyperfeminine and doesn't fit TADC's vibe. That's not Jax. She looks like Octavia from Helluva Boss

The fact that Glitch is profiting off of a trans character being deeply uncomfortable with wearing a sexualized, hyper-feminine maid dress out in public (that was only meant to humiliate them and be the creator's kink) to the point they seemed like they were close to abstracting is uh... certainly a choice. And not a good one. If Jax was just an average Joe with toxic masculinity, I still wouldn't like it, but Jax being a trans woman makes this whole thing even worse

Why do these two scenes have to parallel???

When I first watched Episode 7, I didn't even notice the trans flag colors in Jax's eyes, and when I eventually did, I just assumed it was an Easter Egg that Gooseworx put in there because she's trans

The same goes for the "chicken fetus in an egg" line. I genuinely thought Goose used that specific wording not because Jax himself was trans but because Goose thought to herself: "Yeah, I wanna showcase that Jax is more than a jerk and the funny guy, but I'll use this trans term because I'm trans myself and this is gonna be a fun Easter Egg haha"

I mean, if feeling like a girl was apparently always the biggest aspect of Jax's character, why be so vague about it? Most people aren't familiar with "the egg" referring to closeted trans people or trans people in denial! It feels like Goose just wrote this show for herself and didn't stop to think that hey, maybe my audience won't pick up on this stuff unless I'm more explicit about it, especially since there are a lot of kids in the TADC fandom

And of course, there's Jax's head being shaped like an egg and us only seeing the "yolk" underneath in ep 8

Goose, you've gotta get it into your head that many people are unfamiliar with what any of this stuff even means. That includes boymoding

No, Jax isn't fucking lovely, she's a terrible, selfish and cowardly person, and the audience shouldn't be gaslit that she was ever lovely despite her trauma. Not to mention Jax literally called herself a terrible person like a few lines before that. And if the montage was meant to say "Jax could have been lovely if only she had gotten to live openly as a woman," uh... nope. Jax needed to sort so many internal things out first. Transition doesn't magically fix things

"Isn't She Lovely?" is a song that a Black man sang to his Black daughter when she was born. Using the cover of a non-black man and putting it in the context of a "rebirth as a woman" (which in canon changes nothing abt Jax or Leeroy, neither are explicitly revealed to be trans after it) scene doesn't sit right with me, especially since the finale aired on Juneteenth and Gooseworx is racist, just like some of the VA's. I will never forget the "NEGA" situation where Michael and Ashley laughed for a long ass time because someone posted a pic of a black shirt during a livestream with the word "NEGA" written on it in white letters

You're going on blast for that.

The fact it liked its own comments is just pathetic as well.

So, yeah, anyway, even if these comments didn't convince you, one look at its blog should. Just block and report @/entity098 and move on ig.

The reach tadc has is insane. This song is largely known for the version covered by jobby and recontextualized to honor an adult misogynistic queerphobic character. You should be disgusted. This should should be your wake up call. If you still give glitch and goose the benefit of the doubt, you're either in denial or you're okay with giving this song's legacy to racist pedophiles.

Obviously, this has already been pointed out by Black people in the fandom, but I wanted to bring it up because I’ve had a few asks about that song specifically that I’m not comfortable with answering. I am extremely happy that Jax is canonically transfem because even though I’ve never watched the show, I’ve witnessed people’s excitement about it, and I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but I’m also not going to pretend like the racism doesn’t exist because that’s not the kind of blog I’m running here. Any other song could’ve been used, and perhaps there wasn’t much thought put into its choice; I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberate act of malice, because from an outsider perspective that song seems to fit perfectly, but that ultimately doesn’t make it any less harmful, especially given the context surrounding the production.

I feel similarly about how United In Grief by Kendrick Lamar became a popular TikTok sound for people to make funny jokes about something going wrong when the original lyrics are specifically about Black grief. Or about the new trend of “the saxaphones are getting louder” taken from Boyz N The Hood, which is a movie about Black-American experiences that a lot of (white) people using this sound likely haven’t even seen.

Aside from how inaccurate the gravity descriptions for violence and sexual implications are with Goose (jfc). I have major beef with Glitch not adding flashing lights or eyestrain warnings to TADC (or warnings for any show at all)

Istg TADC is an active hazard for epileptics. And just generally makes non men character suffer an absurd amount for the """mild violence""""

The Countdown for the finale wasn't made by Glitch, as premieres have a certain set of premade countdowns, and a lot of them (from what I've seem) are very disorienting, and triggering aside from literally One (and maybe two but it's still bright).

So for once, it's not entirely Glitch's fault in that department specifically, as Youtube seems very limiting in what it can offer in premiere countdowns that isn't triggering to epileptics, or just anyone who cannot handle brighter colors, and illusions.

But they still could've picked one of the calmer ones (there's a really nice drawn forest one I found) even if it didn't fit with the """aesthetic""" of the show. OR they could've set the premiere up as a ""livestream"" instead, where they have a custom, less triggering countdown play. I've seen livestreams used as countdowns before so it can't be too difficult.

So the blame is both on YT and Glitch here, for not having more epileptic friendly options, and not using one of the epileptic friendly options just to stick with the show's general abstract theme.

Everything else here? Yeah that absolutely sucks and is a huge understatement.

"Mild Drug/Alcohol reference" we had a whole bar scene with Jax becoming more, and more wasted. (Even if it was a nice peek into Zooble's life before The Circus)

WHILE Ragatha was talking about ther mother, which could lead to the connection that her mother drinks, which could Really trigger people.

I kinda imagined that the countdown was more on the YT side of things. And I've personally barely seen any premiere countdowns that aren't disorienting or not very triggering for epileptics, but it's good to know that there are calmer ones available for premieres! The live stream option also seemed appealing and easy enough to pull.

I personally really really hated the carelessness glitch had towards consciously picking an EVEN MORE disorienting countdown just for the aesthetic appeal of the episode. Even I had a bit of a hard time with that thing, like, needing to look away and blink so I wouldn't get dizzy staring at it.

Overall, I agree with you! And I greatly appreciate the correction you made^^

As for the rest of the things you pointed out about how loose the Goose's trigger warnings were, all I can add is that the whole "dark themes" is SUCH a sleazy "warning".

And alongside what you've mentioned in regards to the "mild drug/alcohol references" and the implication of Ragatha's mother being an abusive alcoholic, I'd also like to point out just the entire "torture" sequences in episode 8. NONE of that was "cartoon violence", it was treated with so much weight, and it deeply upsets me how there is no specific warnings to "references/scenes of abuse", especially in Ragatha's case or how Jax treats her and Gangle. I know for a fact that a lot of fans relate a lot to Gangle's situation.

Like are we deadass??? We're okay with racists using black people's art?? We're okay with racists changing the original context of the song?? We're all okay with racists taking a black mans song out of context on juneteenth?!?!?!?

1. The characters being mind files of the originals doesn't make them any less people then their real counterparts? That's literally what the ending of the episode was about and overall This is one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard altogether. That's like saying "SiNcE wHeN cAn ChArAcTeRs Be TrAnS HuH? ThEy AiN't ReAl! ThEy'Re JuSt MoViNg/NoN-MoViNg JpEg ImAgEs On A sCrEeN! SiNcE WhEn CaN-" shut the fuck up bro Like WTF is this point?

2. As much as I agree that we should have gotten more hints that Jax talked about her identity to Ribbit to warrant Ribbits bow scene. It's how the show decided to do it.

3. As much as I wish they used a different song because the originals history, Disliking the song choice doesn't erase the reason it's there? And Jax not being a good person doesn't erase the reason it's there either. We can dislike "Isn't she lovely"'s inclusion, dislike how Jax didn't earn to be called lovely, want the show to use a different song and still understand that they put it there because they wanted to hammer home the Jax is trans plot point.

4. Gooseworx herself confirmed Jax is trans what more do you need at this point? To see the top and bottom surgery on screen?

Just say your transphobic and move on

We will show Ragatha and Kinger's room in merch!

Let's reveal Caine's attitude to abstraction in advertising!

You will see Queenie's name only in tumbler or wikipedia!