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Hey guys, so I'm living out of my car now. It's not quite as uncomfortable as it sounds, but we're still relying on doordash to make money every day, and that doesn't always work out since I live very much in the country. Right now, we're looking to get our cat Meatball some things that'll make his life easier like a longer leash and a more secure harness since he has nowhere else to go but with us. Hopefully, this situation will be as temporary as possible, but the way things have been going the past year, I'm not incredibly optomistic anymore.

If anyone reading this had some pocket change they could throw our way, it would be a huge help with food, gas, water, cat things, meds, etc. No pressure, though, unless you absolutely can spare it.

PayPal - dsophia (icon is SpongeBob)

Cashapp - ThatOneDemon666

Thank you to everyone who has helped so far ♡ I honestly wouldn't have made it this far without y'all.

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"we want more complex female characters" ya'll can't even handle her-

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that is a very convincing username buddy 😭

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"my lord you are now the most feminine character in his manga"

says the bitch who walks around in hooker boots 😭

Why is his face so funny to me 🤣 it reminds me of that comic/meme where its like "young master, I'm sorry to inform you that you are now the most feminine character in this manga" and we see a close up of Ciel going "shittttt" with a really annoyed scrunched up face, wearing makeup and his earrings 🤣

Ya know, this one 😁😁😁 credit to artist

Full comic:

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Headcanon that Gangle was the first player to enter the circus when Ribbit abstracted, hence why Jax has taken the most pleasure in tormenting her out of all the players. 🥲

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okay one thing I love about episodes 4-5

Episode 4 has Gangle's submission in the adventure suggestion box be them working at a fast food place, something that was once her job. In Episode 5, she suggests an adventure inspired by slice-of-life manga, something that was once her passion.

I could be reading too deeply into this, but to me, it feels like Gangle is learning to re-embrace that passion (with Zooble's help) after having given up on her dreams of being a webcomic artist.

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goddamnit-

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I’m surprised at how many people are still calling Ragatha “fake” even after Episode 5’s release. When I once posted about that moment where she apologized to Gangle about what she said to her in Ep 5 when she was on the stupid sauce, there were a good bit of comments saying “she’s not being sincere/she’s being fake/Gangle probably doesn’t fully buy her apology/etc.”

And yeah, I get it: it’s left up in the air whether or not Gangle truly forgives Ragatha after she apologized (implicitly many, many times, judging by the way she says, “again, I am still so sorry about that”) though I’d argue that the small smile Gangle has after the interaction plus her later thanking Ragatha for her advice during the Softball segment seems to indicate that she doesn’t harbor that much of a grudge towards her.

Again, what irks me personally is how people are calling Ragatha “fake,” and that “she masks how she truly feels” like she’s secretly a bitch in disguise and only thinks negatively about those around her. I’m gonna be blunt and say that’s plain fucking dumb and far from what Ragatha is.

“Masking” is putting on a facade. It’s concealing or suppressing who you truly are underneath. It’s not just hiding how you truly feel about something or someone else, it’s pretending to be someone you’re not.

Remember Gangle in the majority of Episode 4? That’s masking. We know Gangle for being timid, shy, and non-confrontational (unlike Ragatha who’s obviously not afraid to call out Jax on his bullshit) but when she puts on the comedy mask that Zooble gives her, her personality takes a 180 and she becomes more assertive, more hyperactive, and even a control freak at times. When that mask “breaks” (or when she takes it off during her conversation with Pomni), she reveals her true self.

Ragatha doesn’t “mask.” She “bottles.”

She bottles up her negative feelings (even when others take her for granted) because she genuinely wants other people to like her.

Sure, she puts on a “happy face” and hides any negative thoughts and feelings behind those cheerful doll eyes and stitched-up smile, but she’s not trying to be an entirely different person.

I know many people say these methods are still basically the same, but I feel like their personal life experiences also somewhat factor into this.

Gangle had a passion for drawing, and dreamed of being a webcomic artist and launching a manga-inspired webcomic, so she enrolled in a community college for graphic design, which she later drops out of for unspecified reasons. Then for the rest of her life, she was stuck working in a fast food place, having basically given up on her dreams at that point. When she’s dumped back into a familiar environment in Episode 4, she takes on the role of the “hyperactive control freak manager” leaving no room for the timid wannabe mangaka. This is how she presumably coped with her dreams being thrown away.

Ragatha grew up in a wealthy family that had a large rural property, and had a rather troubled relationship with her mother, and many of their interactions involved her “yelling, berating, and guilt-tripping.”

While it’s not as big of a lore dump as we got with Gangle in the previous episode, we can go off the assumption that her behavior stemmed from practically walking on eggshells whenever she interacted with her mother (speaking as someone who’s gone through very similar experiences) being as kind and nice as possible to avoid possibly upsetting other people. Even when others don’t treat her the best (such as Pomni attempting to ditch her twice) she brushes it off and says “oh don’t worry about that, it’s fine.”

When characters in-universe say that it’s hard to tell how genuine Ragatha is, they refer to how she pretends to not be emotionally hurting, not how she’s “pretending to be nice.”

Everyone often points fingers at the scene where she called Gangle annoying while on the stupid sauce.

You know what else she did on the stupid sauce? 

She says to Jax of all people, “I like, hate you… but I don’t want you to hate me. Is that weird?”

If she was truly a mean person only pretending to be nice and the stupid sauce was her being her “true self”, why would she also say that? I feel like people just straight up ignore that one line of dialogue in favor of painting Ragatha as a bitch in doll’s clothing, because it always circles back to what she said to Gangle.

Anyway Idk how to end off this post so uh 

#RagathaDefenseSquad

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The Amazing Digital COMIC #55-Uncensored Fandom Thoughts

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"goodbye to a friend"

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dude...

no words, just angst

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*takes mic* Ohhhh shi—

THIS MADE ME LAUGH SO FUCKING HARD YOU HAVE NO IDEA

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move faster piracy

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okay Idk if this was intentional or not but I love how you drew him in a similar pose to Jax

fwog

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this is how i see them

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DUDE THAT'S WHY JAX LEFT IN THE MIDDLE OF KAUFMO'S FUNERAL HOLY SHIIIIIIIT-

ooohhhh

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...oH-