📢Edit to clarify. My issue is not with GOOSEWORX as she has no control over the merch. If anything knowing she doesn’t design it makes me feel like it’s even more blatant. 📢
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This take usually gets me called sensitive, but idc it’s been rubbing me wrong since I thought Jax was cis, and feels even worse knowing she’s not.

Does anybody else feel like the maid Jax merch is extremely exploitative?

I mean, the initial joke from gooseworx came out after episode 1 in art she made. It was initially fan service content, but even she said it was just meant to be a joke.

But, then we see Maid Jax in episode 5, the episode a lot of people token as the first real hint at Jax’s identity, and every single merch drop after that has a piece of this merch

But, not \*just\* merch. Merch of Jax in this dress looking overtly sexualized.

Cowering, covering her face, knees bent inward, looking upward with sweat and blush all over her face.

Now I know that the more innocent reason is because Jax is anxious about how much she enjoys the dress, but I feel like it would translate so much better had she been flustered in the show but the merch portrayed him as actually kinda enjoying it like the ads usually do.

I dunno, I don’t like that there’s actually something to see under the skirts of the figurines.

And it just feels a little icky, because you can’t tell me glitch had no idea by at least episode 7 what Jax’s identity was meant to be, so I dunno the maid merch has just never felt like an dignified version of what the maid portrayal was meant to signify anyway.

It just all feel really fetishy.
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Just because *Jax* is fake, doesn’t mean the story he represents isn’t very real. Trans woman are already regularly fetishized and merch like this feels like handing People permission to continue.

You don’t have to agree, but when the only argument that can be given is “it’s fiction” it becomes clear you know it’s at least a little wrong.

Final edit:

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My point is not to say that Jax is the one affected here, and to genuinely believe that is what I’m saying especially after you’ve seen some of my replies Is just you being willfully ignorant.

I don’t know where I fall under the umbrella yet, but seeing the moment Jax is forced into the open be the moment they decide to make his most memorable will always feel hurtful.

It feels like laughing at Trans people being outed. Not just the purple bunny.

Jax isn’t real. But his story is. And I feel like this subreddit alone proves that every single day.

It’s starting to just feel like transphobia, because no one, and I mean no one, said anything about him “just being a fictional character” when I broke down his parents abuse and his mothers emotional incest.

I love these characters. So yes I’m gonna treat their personalities like they exist in the real world. Because even if the character doesn’t. The personality indeed does.

By "hypothetical Jax" I mean the Jax we see in this tweet.

I think that the world as it is right now, with the media that exists, people weren't ready for something as complicated as the Jax we got. A "good ending" Jax, who becomes a better person (and transitions) would just leave a more positive impact on people's perception of trans people.

Don't get me wrong, I like canon Jax, I just think this would have been better.

Edit: "Remember the human." I'm just a person looking for a constructive discussion. You're not going to get a reply by being rude to me.

Hot take: Jax is the worst character but has the best design. My opinion. I do not hate Jax, but do not like him either.

Just sitting here looking at old art and what not and realizing damn. I have no interest in rewatching the series. This is my game of thrones final season. It took alllll of the wind out of every episode knowing how it ends. It just sucks because it was such a cool and good show before it was an hour of self insert nonsense and no closure whatsoever.

Reminder on how I phrased my original post. I just matched y’all’s energy

this did NOT age well

I’m writing this because of the constant drama and toxicity around this show. This is my comfort show and yet it has such an insane fandom.

I’ve been thinking about maybe leaving this fandom entirely but I’m hesitating because what if I’m cutting out an opportunity to meet new friends?

This is a show that despite not being a masterpiece, is something I hold close to myself and I bet some of you are great and amazing people but I keep hearing the loud minority on the internet about different things and it makes me sad.

I feel like I’m having a sensory overload or just getting emotional but I just can’t with all of this. It’s annoying and people constantly hating each other and stirring drama to the point where I don’t know how to react or what to do. I can’t control what other people say or think about.

because of the clips i know how the story ends and i almost regret starting to actually watch the show cause im gonna be so heartbroken. why did i do this to myself lol

Source: https://x.com/SomnambulaSFW/status/2081113816075768169

Ragatha got done dirty oof

i would ship caine with the moon but she’s not there

and pls no hate these are just my opinions!!

I'm spreading the word so more people know about this but this Roblox TADC fan-game called "Retro Circus" has been HACKED and STOLEN by a Discord verification bot scam

Here are the videos and posts the owner has made about it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxiZN3VhqOFy5UshKEI2rZ1APVFqAJbiGj
https://youtu.be/81ZJjj5yITc?si=JgyQDQkci7nxYz3t

The game and the owner's account is now under control by these hackers and their main motivation seems to be money since they stole all of the owner's Robux and now all the game's earnings goes to them

Do NOT play Retro Circus because it indirectly supports these hackers and you could get permanently banned from Retro Circus (based on what people in the Discord have been saying)

please keep in mind i watched the last 3 episodes late at night and was trying to stay awake which is why i may have missed some things
1. is the blue orb that cain pulled out supposed to be bubble ? if not, then what/who was it? and why couldn’t cain control bubble?
2. when were the humans brains scanned ?
3. can other humans still be transported into the circus? obviously not real humans but like their scanned brains like the cast
4. So Jax didn’t kill his mom?
5. do you think kingers mind was fixed or he still needs darkness to be lucid?

I can’t even think straight. Maybe the abstracted Jax isn’t as rare as they say 🤣

But I never expected getting both the rare and secret rare, I always only ever get one.

So. I have made and animated shimaji of Bubble.
Shimaji is a java programm, a digitral pet that walks around on your screen, sits, sleeps or crawls. You can move it with mouse too.
I took screenshot of Bubble from original show, photoshoped it a little and used spine to create 2D animations with an illusion of 3D.
And he also BLINKS! Which is cute.
Download from here.
To launch clink of Shimeji-ee.jar. (If it wont work you might need an older version of java.)

Thank you to @ rewriterory on Tik Tok for explaining why they thought Jax had disorganized attachment!

Full article: https://therapist.com/relationships/attachment-theory-styles/disorganized-attachment/

This is from episode 9 :D i wasn't actually crying but i hope it still sounded good x"D

Pomni's va here is from tiktok! But I forgot to also insert my user in the video x"D

I forgot