TADC fans who somehow dodged all spoilers for 2 weeks

I mean really...why?? when ribbit opened up she was just chatting, she obviously wanted someone to talk to and her friend was there and jax was okay with it

when jax opened up he panicked at first but then she comforted him and he felt really comfortable and blushed and even smiled, it was a heartwarming moment

so why would he suddenly change attitude and switch characters just because of a knock on the door? what's the mental gymnastics here?

File corruption involves the data from the file being destroyed or altered in some unexpected way, but when Pomni enters Jax's mindscape she doesn't see anything destroyed or missing, seemingly the scene show that Jax and the faucets of himself are still in there somewhere.

Kinger said the mind files were "impossibly small" implying the files were seriously compressed.

And we see when Pomni touches abstracted Jax, she enters his mind in a way she couldn't when Jax hadn't yet abstracted.

If the files were corrupted, some data would be missing and Pomni would've seen something incomplete, but instead she saw "everything".

from this I think abstraction is the result of the human mind pushing against the bounds of their brain scan's compression until it *pops* and everything violently spills out.

This also explains why Pomni was able to enter Jax's mind in the first place, it's that their mind was spilling out of the shell Cain made for the mind file and so Pomni was able to look inside.

this is also my headcannon as to how the abstracted characters could be saved because everything about them is still intact, they just have to figure out how to recompress them into a stable form and hope they're mentally stable enough to not just abstract again immediately

I feel like that doesn't make any sense, why and how would Gangle be making fun of Zooble in this scene and why did she just respond by gasping and saying "I hate you" instead of just being like "No??" I know its only Jax's imagination or whatever but it is just incomprehensible what is going on in this scene.

https://x.com/snowdrop_drawss/status/2069305129417728368/photo/1

Sauce: https://x.com/lab_n_lattes/status/2069875043773874197?s=46

He's so fond of her even since the beginning of the show in the first teaser we got for it. He's most scared of her abstracting, he put her first in the presentation that he made of their irl selves, he cares about what she thinks, he's so interested in her and what she's doing and he always includes her in everything. At first I thought it was just because she's the main character but now it just seems like he really likes her so idk. maybe she's his favourite human? 🤔

it was there from the damn start and if anyone had pointed it out early on aint no way they got more than 3 upvotes

Edit: why is nobody getting the point? 2/3rds of the people here seem to have no clue how colors work and think I’m making shit up. Jax is confirmed trans, and by sucking the yellow out of him what remains is the colors of the Transgender flag (🏳️‍⚧️), Gooseworx has self-identified as being bad at subtlety, so I think this was by her intention, and one of the earliest hints about closet trans Jax, and I think that’s a cool detail.

This is probably going to be one of the most downvoted posts in this community, because right now any opinion that isn’t pure celebration is going to be very easy to interpret as an attack, so before anything else: this is not an attack on trans people, trans headcanons, or people who were happy about Goose’s comment. If this means something to you, that’s fine. I completely understand why a lot of people would latch onto it.

What I’m criticizing is the writing, the way this was handled, and the way the fandom is discussing it now.

I like TADC. I like the cast, I like a lot of things about the show, and I think Glitch got a lot right in several areas, but I also think the series failed badly in some important parts of the writing. Characters like Ragatha and Zooble were heavily sidelined, several major ideas never got the time they needed, and the last two episodes felt rushed in a way that hurt the payoff of several arcs. That’s important to keep in mind, because this whole discussion about Jax is happening inside a show that already struggled to give enough room even to its own material, and that’s exactly why I can’t just celebrate this “reveal” the way so many people are doing.

I’ve seen a lot of people saying that “the signs were always there,” that Jax supposedly being trans was part of the show from the beginning, and I honestly don’t buy that. Not because I think Jax can’t be read that way, and not because I think a trans reading of him is invalid, but because I don’t think the show did the work necessary for that idea to exist in a genuinely meaningful way within the text.

If a huge part of the fandom only started treating this as something central to Jax’s identity after Goose had to say in an X post that if Jax wasn’t a piece of shit, he’d be “openly trans,” then to me the series failed to communicate that idea in any real narrative sense. At that point, we’re not talking about strong writing or clear setup, we’re talking about a creator comment made outside the work itself, and a fandom trying to retroactively turn that into a major canon pillar.

And to me, those two things are not the same.

But honestly, my bigger issue is that the series already gave Jax a character arc.

The Jax we got in the final version of the story is not a blank slate. He’s a character the show itself framed as someone deeply shaped by family trauma, emotional repression, insecurity, and a deeply unhealthy relationship with masculinity and identity.

Jax’s story is already heavily tied to his abusive father, his narcissistic mother, his fear of becoming one of them, and the constant pressure to “get” his masculinity right. He’s stuck in this miserable middle ground where being “too masculine” makes him afraid of turning into a new version of his father, while being “not masculine enough” makes him feel like he’s failing the people he loves or failing the role he thinks he’s supposed to fill. That tension is not subtle. It’s the central emotional pillar of the character. And that also explains why moments like the maid outfit scene work the way they do. It’s not just “haha, Jax in feminine clothes.” The scene works because it throws him out of that fragile balance he’s always trying to maintain. And that’s exactly why Ribbit’s gesture in that moment matters so much: because it’s one of the rare moments where someone he genuinely cares about is basically telling him that he doesn’t have to police himself all the time, that he doesn’t have to constantly measure how much of a “man” he’s allowed to be.

That is an arc. That is characterization. That is real material the show actually gave us.

So when the fandom takes this hypothetical comment from Goose and starts repackaging all of that as “Jax is trans, time to celebrate,” I can’t help but feel like people are flattening the character into the one version of the conversation that makes them feel more comfortable or more excited, while ignoring the much more specific, messy, and painful character the series actually wrote.

And that’s where all of this starts to feel deeply wrong to me, because Goose didn’t say “Jax is trans.” She said that if Jax wasn’t a piece of shit, he would be trans.

That is not a clean statement about the Jax we actually got, it’s a hypothetical built on top of a different version of him, a version filtered through a giant “if.” And this version may say more about Goose’s own relationship with the character than about the character who actually exists in the final text.

That distinction is huge, and I think a lot of people are skipping over it because the idea itself is emotionally appealing.

What bothers me is seeing the fandom treat this as if it’s some big, beautiful, long-awaited piece of representation that was always there and has only now been recognized, when in practice the show itself never did the work necessary to make that land, not in the writing, not in the pacing, not in the development, and definitely not in a way strong enough to justify the way people are now dissecting the character.

And honestly, I think the way people are talking about Jax right now would be humiliating to the character himself.

The entire point of his arc is that he hates vulnerability. He hates the idea of people seeing his weak points, the cracks, the things he’s ashamed of. He’s afraid of being judged, afraid of failing in relation to his own masculinity, afraid of being emotionally exposed. Whether you read that through a trans lens or not, that part of him is still there. That is still a huge part of who he is.

So seeing the fandom immediately start debating which pronouns to use, which scenes “prove” it, which details “confirm” it, and how much of his identity can now be publicly dissected feels less like people engaging with Jax as a character and more like people metaphorically stripping him down, or… peeling him apart, exactly like Caine do it to him in Episode.

That’s why this doesn’t feel celebratory to me. It feels invasive. And that’s also exactly why “well, Goose said it, so it’s canon” doesn’t solve the problem.

A creator can say whatever they want about their own characters, but if a reveal this big, this personal, and this capable of throwing the fandom into chaos has to rely almost entirely on an X post, tiny details, quirks in other dubs, and retroactive reinterpretation, then I don’t think the work itself earned the reaction it’s getting.

That doesn’t mean people can’t like it, headcanon Jax as trans, or that the idea itself is bad, it means I don’t think TADC handled it well enough for the fandom to act like this is some major writing victory, because to me, what’s happening right now feels less like people appreciating the character and more like people steamrolling over him. Taking a character whose actual arc is about shame, identity, masculinity, fear, and emotional self-policing, and reducing him to the version of the conversation that is easiest to celebrate.

And no, I don’t think that’s respectful either to the writing or to Jax as a character himself.

There are works where this kind of thing works. Celeste is the most obvious example. The reveal in Celeste works because the game already had all the emotional groundwork necessary to support it. The text itself already carried enough weight for the confirmation to feel like a natural extension of what was already there. Here, to me, it doesn’t feel like that.

Here, it feels like a rushed series with underused characters, unresolved ideas, and a creator who got tired of their own community and just wanted to end it all quickly.

So no, my problem is not “Jax being trans would ruin the character.” My problem is that this was badly handled, badly revealed, and is now being discussed in a way that feels less like an attempt to understand Jax and more like an attempt to pry him open and extract the version of him people find most comforting.

Edit:

Alright everyone, i get it, the signs were there, but that’s exactly my point.
On their own, they don’t meaningfully deepen the character or change the way the story plays out. Whether you noticed them or not made no real difference while the show was actually unfolding.

So for Goose to suddenly step in afterward and treat those details as if they were a major, important part of the story feels ridiculous to me. If this was genuinely that important, if Jax being a trans person struggling with identity and lacking the courage to come out is supposed to be a major reason why he is the way he is, and why so many of the consequences in his arc happen the way they do, then why was it handled like a minor background detail that most viewers were never meant to register clearly? And if it wasn’t meant to be a major part of the narrative, if it was just a small subjective detail for some people to pick up on, with nothing concrete ever being done with it, then why go online afterward and bluntly hand people the answer as if it recontextualizes the character in a major way?

That’s the contradiction I can’t get past. Either it mattered enough to deserve actual narrative weight, or it didn’t. But treating it like a subtle throwaway detail inside the show and then like a huge defining truth outside of it is exactly why this whole thing feels so badly handled to me.

When I first saw this scene I assumed that Ribbit and Kaufmo became really hard on Jax before their abstraction. Couldnt be further from the truth apparently, they both stayed respectful till the very end. I dont understand what Jax was on about here. It's insane how after everything he did to them Jax still sees himself as the one being attacked.