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I had the absolute pleasure of drawing for lovely @ohmyarda I had a blast with these commissions, it was fun drawing some more Dragon Age.

If you haven't already, please go check out her art!

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“unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.”

-Cassandra reading her smutty literature on the beach (don’t tell Varric)

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the most disturbing trend in online leftism is outright hostility towards any kind of community building tools and forgiveness whatsoever.

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What if the worst thing Jax can do is goad Caine past his breaking point?

The series has established that Caine is feeling self-conscious about whether his adventures are enjoyable or not, barely keeping control of himself at the prospect. Jax brushed off the idea that Caine could hurt them (“not in the programming”) and was surprised when Caine was able to make him Vegan.

The series looks like it’s leading to Caine having a breakdown and, more than likely, Jax being at the center as the instigator.

Or Jax goading/suggesting Caine do something that fucks with one or more of the cast because he doesn’t take Caine seriously

Either way, a big part of Jax’s problem is that, even if he feels some care towards the others, he is constantly forsaking other’s feelings for his own entertainment and doesn’t take things seriously and eventually that might be his undoing

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old Bunnydoll art for you

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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Would be really funny if Gooseworx apologizing to bunnydoll shippers is because the theory that they’re siblings is true rather than Jax offing Ragatha

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I love very specific cakes

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i forgor how to draw Ragatha but that does not stop me from sketching her in the Portrait de Madame X pose [under da cut]

Maybe ill redraw that sketch into more detailed piece but for a warmup it`ll suffice

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Observations on Jax in Untitled

While Jax isn’t onboard with Caines adventures, he does like the “bite” of them and being allowed to fuck around. It’s why his own suggestions have a similar vibe to Caines; weird, wacky but with extra violence (and at the expense of the cast)

Makes me wonder if Jax is more involved with the Circuses creation plus his shock when Caine turns him Vegan

Versus not finding the more “grounded” adventures as fun because they remind him too much of the real world and he doesn’t understand the appeal in doing what they did previously

Not wanting to work minimum wage, relaxing under the stars, school life. The only reason he liked baseball uptill the dress was because of the evil clones

Jax seems to have a large dislike for people that he believes are faking their emotions, which is why he butts heads so much with Ragatha

This could explain one part why Jax goes after Gangle, seeing her comedy mask as a fake version and “fixing” it for her

He asks genuinely if Gangle is capable of being happy, seeming to imply/clock that Gangle is depressed and trying to find ways to “fix” that (such as the plastic mask)

thinks a lot about Jax saying he likes Gangle when she’s sad vs. when she’s wearing the plastic mask and is constantly forcing a happy go-getter persona that clearly isn’t actually making her happy and should have cracked by now but never does until Gangle allows herself to feel all those negative emotions by removing the mask

When Ragatha says Gangle doesn’t like Jax messing with her, he sounds genuine when he says “she likes when I’m mean to her”

Either Jax has a misunderstanding of what’s going on between them, thinking their relationship is a playful one orrrr

Headcanon wise, I wonder if intially Gangle did like Jax messing with her because it meant somebody was paying attention to her and it started off friendly. But then boundaries were never set so it’s started to get out of hand, and Gangle is too scared of confrontation, and here we are

That said, Jax seems to dislike people with “doormat” personalities, reacting negatively to Evil Jax and wanting to see him dead. So that could also be why he targets Gangle and Ragatha specifically, they exhibit traits he finds unappealing and instead of being normal he bullies them

…could be him trying to “fix” or “toughen” them up, which could make for a tasty traumatic childhood to parallel Ragathas

However when Pomni shows surprise in Jax being interested in what people like, he initially starts to explain but then brushes it off as “of course he doesn’t”

So there’s implication there that Jax does have some level of care about people and their likes

I wonder if he’s a reverse of Ragatha. Where she’s stuck in this optimistic outlook and feels she can’t express negative emotions, Jax has set himself up as the asshole and needs to keep up the appearance that he doesn’t care about anybody

Headcanon/theory wise: I wonder if a part of Jax feels like he needs to be the asshole so the others have somewhere to direct their negative emotions rather than bottling it up….but he is still an asshole himself, so it’s less sacrificial and more, eh, getting way too into the part and enjoying it

Getting into them, I think there’s an fun dichotomy in how people react to Jax and Ragatha dropping their acts.

With Jax I think it’s like a balm to a burn that keeps coming back. Because there’s the constant expectation for him to be an asshole, when he actually shows some level of care or positive emotion it’s takes the person (Pomni in this case) by surprise. He’s still an asshole, to be clear, but seeing him break from that mold earns a positive reaction because the only thing it can do is benefit everybody else. If Jax isn’t a dick, the rest of the cast can lower their hackles, even if they still hold a grudge/don’t like him.

With Ragatha it’s ripping off the bandage for a wound that won’t heal. It’s not pretty. It’s not pleasant. Ragatha is supposed to be nice and optimistic, so when that persona drops and she lets herself feel negatively nobody knows how to handle it. Primarily because it starts being aimed at them rather than something they can agree with. Ragatha’s negative comments in Episide 3 aren’t received well, if they’re even acknowledged at all, despite people wanting her to be more negative. Because nobody knows how to handle that, Ragatha just goes back to covering the wound and pretending it’s fine

Jax advice to Ragatha is to be more mean because it’s funny but then gets angry when she does exactly that; very much a can dish it but not take it type

Well at least in regard to the friend comment, he actually seems to be enjoying himself when Ragatha starts yelling at him

Makes me wonder if his eyes going big when she apologizes is because he’s secretly touched or pissed because he thinks she’s lying

Initially I took the not having friends comment to be about how all his friends are in the real world but it’s interesting if it was someone who abstracted, as people have pointed out from the intermission

Jax being unhinged (attacking Evil Jax) is funny to Pomni until it’s directed at her and, maybe, others

Based on her comments to him about throwing her out of a truck

Jax knows Kinger has been here the longest but didn’t know he had a wife, meaning Queenie likely abstracted before any of the cast showed up

Jax looks very good in a maid dress

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“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed

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Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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Jax Screenshot Dump Pt. 3

Maid Jax Pt. 2:

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I'm in love with that face.

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Jax in TADC Episode 5 (Part 2)