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Some ragatha vent sketches I did last night.

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I see where ur coming from 🙂‍↕️ the only person she should be calling those terms is me—🤭

I think a lot of ppl just don’t get that 30 isn’t old 😭 I work in retail and the types of ppl who say “sweetheart”, “honey”, etc. are women who are a lot older than Ragatha

Anyways I’d add more but I gotta get off my phone

Something I always found telling about the way a fanfic author writes Ragatha is whenever they gave her dialogue that has her using terms of endearment like “Hun”, “Dear”, “Sweetie” etc. even in a platonic sense despite not once ever actually talking like that in canon

Basically pushing her into this motherly role that she never belonged in

I can’t be the only one that sees the bit of sexism in this right? The fact that this character was automatically flanderized in fan works as motherly for the crime of being 30 and female and sweet has always been a little fucking weird to me

Especially when a lot of Ragatha’s personality didn’t exactly read “motherly” to me even when we just had the pilot to go on for characterization. Her primary character trait at the time was just “she’s nice and desperate to keep it together”

And it’s especially hilarious how people thought Ragatha would be the one to get helpless anxious little Pomni through it all when canonically almost nothing she’s done has actually been all that helpful because she refuses to be honest about anything negative and that’s ultimately been the point of her actual character

She is so ineffective as a caretaker

Not to mention how this kind of characterization has often gone hand in hand with infantilizing Pomni in fan works despite showing how she’s more than capable of figuring things out on her own

And now we got confirmation that Ragatha didn’t have anything positive to say about her own mother which most likely skewed her understanding of what is considered to be “motherly”

Gonna break out the whiteboard and tin foil hat for a sec here, bear with me

Let’s really stop and think about the implications here about Ragatha being exactly 30 years old and trapped the second longest after Kinger

I think it’s pretty much confirmed that this show takes place in the present, so let’s put Pomni’s insertion into the game at 2024

For the sake of my insanity, let’s say Ragatha actually had access to a television and has some knowledge of pop culture

Breaking Bad aired in 2008, but the consensus is that it didn’t become embedded within our cultural zeitgeist until 2013. So if Ragatha couldn’t pick up on the reference that Jax made in ep 5, then she likely didn’t know of it’s existence because it either had yet to air or it hasn’t reached a level of popularity for her to be familiar with it

So that means Ragatha has been trapped between 11-16 years

If we are to assume the characters still age normally in the Circus, then the likelihood of Ragatha getting trapped at the age of 18 or 19 is uncomfortably high (the youngest you can be to work as a real estate agent btw)

The oldest she could’ve possibly been would be 21 if she’s used to drinking alcohol but I wouldn’t put it past her trying to play the part and requesting what a sophisticated adult is supposed to drink at social functions

To imagine this repressed and maladjusted woman to display any kind of actual mother like behavior would be highly ironic at this point

She was never meant to be the mother figure that comforts Pomni, she’s the broken discarded doll that’s in some desperate need of mental mending

Note: This isn’t aimed to make anyone feel bad about their writing or how they prefer to write these characters. This is more of a general observation and critique about the way this fandom has treated Ragatha and I wanted to finally take the chance to verbalize my frustration on this topic specifically

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USAGI!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE OCEAN!!!!!!!!

source: 🌊

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I showed my dad this gif:

And he said he thinks Ragatha was a spaz when she was in high school 😭

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My dad asked me to draw smth on his new surf board so:

✨ Sad Pomni ✨

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When parents criticize every little thing u do <<<<<<

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purr—

i like to think he purrs or makes little whirring noises when he's happy lol - transcript under cut if needed.

N. x

Uh...whacha got there, Pom?

An emotional support cat.

...er...right.

(Caine just purring/whirring happily)

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Made a TADC sona!

Her name's Kitty (she/they), and they're based off of my favorite stuffed toy from when I was little :).

Feel free to ask her anything in the ask box!

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USAGI 😯⁉️

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Everyone try to stay calm but I saw this baby bunny last week

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DEAR EVERYONE! PLEASE STAY ALIVE! YOU WILL OUTLIVE THE FELON! TRUST!

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I had a really funny interaction idea based on the baseless hypothesis that Jax has joined the circus late enough to have used vine on the regular, but still early enough that probably missed most of what's happened in the last decade in the real world.

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Omgggg I just thought of the funniest thing ajdjskskks:

Ragatha: ughhhh why won’t Jax stop bothering me 😡⁉️

Sarah: wait I have an idea 😏💡

@quietrainflower she’d do this with Honey too lol 😆‼️