I think I might stay over here for a while. Too much negativity on my main account. Ironic, I know, lmao. But I'll just be posting about fandom stuff here for a while, at least until the S*nder stuff blows over.
concept of post transition Leeroy/Lee doing another brainscan and we get a new “jax” who’s visually different enough to pass as a new character and she calls herself lily but overtime the gang start to find similarities and connect the dots …
i find it funny that some ppl were crazy over jax doing ANYTHING femininely and yapping about how its so “cunty”/“serving” or whatever but as soon as shes a woman suddenly its all “making jax trans was a bad choice!”/“i HATE IT when ppl use she/her for jax!” its so misogynistic
She’s Indian, not black. And even if she was black, the watermelon is because she destroyed a watermelon version of Jax on the beach with Zooble, and watermelon is a popular summer food. Black people are allowed to be depicted as eating watermelon, it only becomes bad if a black-
As someone who works in a DV Shelter, I've always viewed abstraction in TADC less as death and more as psychological collapse.
When people experience prolonged stress, trauma, isolation, or hopelessness, they can lose their sense of self. Abstraction feels like a metaphor for reaching a point where the mind can no longer sustain the pain it's carrying.
What stands out to me is Pomni's empathy. In trauma-informed practice, connection is often a protective factor. Pomni doesn't necessarily solve anyone's problems, but she consistently tries to understand others and see the person beneath their behavior.
Sometimes empathy isn't about fixing someone. It's about helping them feel seen before they reach their breaking point, and continue to even afterwards.
I think too many cis people don't like it when a character they resonate with turns out to be trans..
makes them feel like we aren't too different from each other, which means it's harder to dehumanise, demonise and ostracise us
I just want to say this because I’ve seen a lot of artists and writers genuinely worried about it.
Goose intentionally left things subtle, Jax never got the chance to openly talk about it, so people are naturally going to connect with the story in different ways. (1/8)
These people never talked to a single trans woman in their entire life because every trans woman I know (myself included) has had a phase of denial where we tried to be hypermasculine to repress and compensate.
crazy how I got into funnybunny thinking how weird it was I was so into a het ship because I usually only ever get invested in queer ones. turns out I was just preordering yuri. typical
People also forget that Ribbit is an ex-Mormon. She left a religion notorious for ostracizing ex-members. She mentions regretting cutting off her parents, and then Jax makes her relive that trauma by forcefully cutting her off. No wonder Ribbit wasn't reaching out to anyone else.
I cannot emphasize enough how common it is for people who have suffered ongoing abuse from caregivers to NOT know how to trust that love can be unconditional/non-transactional. They will sabotage every relationship because controlling the end feels safer than waiting to be hurt.
i saw someone on tiktok say “we aren’t media illiterate, if you need to tell your audience a character is trans your writing is bad” literally everyone on twitter was saying jax is trans, the only people who didn’t think that was you guys, so i fear it *is* your media illiteracy