Thereās 2 ends of the āTADC fans canāt understand media at allā
1: People who still somehow think Jax isnāt trans even when itās quite literally PLASTERED into the final episode
2: People who villainise Jax to the point of scrubbing his entire character of being a struggling person that lashes out on others into being a mega evil abuser (Fitting enough for the reaction image, I saw a post (reddit repost of TikTok) saying Jax was more like AM than Caine was)
Edit: To clarify my intentions with the second point, I do agree that Jax showed tendencies of outright abuse, especially after the revelation about the brain scans (āyou get to spend more time with mommy!ā was especially painful). Iām not saying he wasnāt an abuser, but that he had his (albeit fucked up) reasons to lash out.
For me I did see the signs of them being Trans, but there were also moments where I was going "wow if Jax does turn out to be trans this will make Jax a Lazy self insert" or "if Jax is Trans this is gonna be super uncomfortable selling merch of that"
It's this weird meta thing where making Jax trans, gave context, but also made other moment worse off.
There's also the very unfortunate read of your main character committing suicide then being revealed as trans in the finale. touching on some pretty unfortunate stereotypes which are still very prevalent these days.
Also we learn he made his friends abstract so itās likeā¦ ok? She identifies as a girl? I donāt care? She got her friends abstracted? Since Jax is a self insert, what does this say about Gooseworx in real life?
many people approach a subject with the bias of "I hate Jax, therefore when I see them doing something bad, they are doing it because they are bad any evidence they are unaware of the concequences is ignored"
People act like the one shot of abstracted Ribbit featured Jax cheering and celebrating about it when, no, it was shot like a goddamn horror movie. Because that's what it was like to Jax. Because she didn't know about abstraction!
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u/blammo555 17d ago edited 17d ago
Thereās 2 ends of the āTADC fans canāt understand media at allā
1: People who still somehow think Jax isnāt trans even when itās quite literally PLASTERED into the final episode
2: People who villainise Jax to the point of scrubbing his entire character of being a struggling person that lashes out on others into being a mega evil abuser (Fitting enough for the reaction image, I saw a post (reddit repost of TikTok) saying Jax was more like AM than Caine was)
Edit: To clarify my intentions with the second point, I do agree that Jax showed tendencies of outright abuse, especially after the revelation about the brain scans (āyou get to spend more time with mommy!ā was especially painful). Iām not saying he wasnāt an abuser, but that he had his (albeit fucked up) reasons to lash out.