The latter is a dark and moody indie film that ends ambiguously. The former literally looks like something I would see on Nick Jr., with cartoon pacing, bright-ass vibrant colors, goofy sound effects, and other wacky absurd shit. TADC's ending was gut wrenching for me, not gonna lie. And apparently it didn't need a dark and brooding atmosphere to accomplish that. Maybe the difference is the story itself? in TV Glow it's open-ended and you wonder if he ever transitions. TADC, meanwhile, depicts what is basically considered repper "victory": dying without trooning out. You don't usually see that, so it kind of highlights that usually unspoken part of:>"ok, then what?"Like, what does a life well-repressed look like? Can you ever feel happiness when you are permanently masking as an edgy straight dude? You might achieve professional success, sure, but you'll never really feel the sense of accomplishment since you are fundamentally not living as you would like to.TVG felt like barely anything, like I was able to go to work the next day and feel ok. TADC, on the other hand, brutally kicked the shit out of me.Sorry for the blog. Anyone else experience this though?
It's because you're an infantile little freak.
>>44005957i wonder if it's because I saw the TV glow ruminates on it for like the entirety of the runtime. You can see the main character suffer and such.Jax just dies. There is not saving her. The rapid and sudden loss feels a bit more jarring i suppose.
>>44005973i mean yeah
>>44005993Good point, also Owen is never that close friends with Maddy and she just kinda drifted away, whereas Jax literally pushes his friend away so hard that they rope. Something about how our personal demons can harm those around us too, if we don't deal with them healthily.
>>44005957because she was a tumblr sexyman that attracted all the obnoxious tumblrtards
>>44006436Honestly, this is the meta commentary that I think Goose went for all along>Tumblr sexyman who is rude and awful and checks all the boxes>it turns out she's a punished troon all along>pushes people away exactly like punished troons do>"It doesn't make any sense! Jax didn't show any signs of being a troon until the last episode! He was our sexyman!">Gooseworx has to literally tell them Jax is trans even after it becomes obvious>Exactly the same experience and pressure tons of reppers feel
>>44005973That was the target audience for ISTTVG too the problem was that movie was obvious to any queer or questioning person which made it boring as fuck to watch like goddamn it really drags after the bar scene
>>44005957>what does a life well-repressed look like?
>>44006832yooooo
The button scene hit me like a sack.of bricks. One of the most goated-est literary concepts ever.>Character makes the horrible wrong abject and insane choice>Turns out it was the correct one all alongMetaphor for trooning or w/e. It's just cool as is
i have not seen I Saw the TV Glow but i was also cut deeply by The Amazing Digital Circus. i have been listening to Isn't She Lovely and crying about it for a while now. i have never cried over anything filmic before. she really was less than a minute old. she was seen and understood and loved and accepted for an instant and then she was torn away from it.the building of her torment throughout the series was so poignant and well-done and i felt everything with her; so much of what she felt lives inside my heart. i have never identified so much with a character that is nothing like me. i don't know if i have ever identified so much with a character in general. all of her dialogue just before she is finally consumed could have come straight from my brain. it was like being shot through the heart repeatedly. oughghhhhh..
>>44005957>more into rabbits than black men
>>44005957jax arc showed you the consequences of ironic detachment from your core identity/soul, and how different things could be if only you were capable of vulnerability
>>44007945How does one learn it even assumign they arent a tranny
>>44007962boomerhons and "sneed"hons seem to manage. you just have to learn to accept that many on this board will mock you for being yourself. though many more will quietly respect that you did what you had to do, and they should accept it themselves too.
>>44005957>The latter is a dark and green stream that ends ambiguously. The former literally looks like something I would see on ScatSite, with loud braps, stinky farts, smelly poop, and other wacky absurd shit.>The sloppy shit's ending was gut wrenching for me, not gonna lie. And apparently it didn't need to be diarrhoea to accomplish that.>Maybe the difference is the chemical composition itself? when i piss i'm dehydrated and eat a lot of asparagus. my shits, meanwhile, depict my "diet": HUGE chunks of sweetcorn and blood. You don't usually see that, so it kind of highlights that usually unspoken part of:>>"damn, that shit stiiiiinks">Like, what does a shit well-formed look like? Can you ever feel relief when you are permanently constipated from your pain meds? You might achieve limited success, sure, but you'll never really feel the sense of accomplishment since you are able to shit as you would like to.>my piss smelt like barely anything, like I was able to go to work the next day and feel ok. my shit, on the other hand, brutally kicked the shit out of my nose.>Sorry for the blog. Anyone else experience this though?
>>44005957>>>/co/154363502
finally a tumblrsexyman for me
I came here from the /co/ thread. When did this board get flags?
>>44008018respect the commitment
>>44008097Every pride month.
I Saw the Bunny Glow
>>44005957It was the total opposite for me, I thought Leeroy getting over all the toxic Jax stuff and starting to transition irl was kind of inspiring.Owen was so nice, just wanted to keep everyone happy, and ended up completely wasting at least half their life because of it. The ending of TVG made me feel sick to my stomach.It could also be that I related a lot more with Owen too. I never really had a problem with toxic masculinity or abusing women or anything.
>>44007962examine the root cause of your fear of being cringe instead of taking it as a given/social law
>>44007962>How does one learn it?Learn vulnerability? Scary blind leap of faith, my friend, just as many other things are in life. I've been on the fence about telling my sister about my gender dysphoria for a while now. She sometimes drops these subtle hints that she already knows what's up, but I've always erred on the side of cautious privacy on the off chance that she's secretly hiding her power level and that she actually wants to use that sensitive info to fuck with my life. You know the phrase "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"? It's kind of like when you've been burned badly once, everything looks like hot stove-top and you end up way worse off at accurately judging who's really willing to be there for you and who's simply trying to use/manipulate you. Obviously it's hard, nobody denies that, but it's pretty bad to operate that way your whole life. We let people in on our personal misery, because offloading part of it onto others who are willing to split the burden is HEALTHY for you. It's not cringe/gay or selfless, it is actually GOOD for you and your brain on a fundamental level as a social animal. Nobody can live their whole life tanking every miserable thing that happens to them all by themselves with no emotional outlet whatsoever, because we quite literally evolved for the exact opposite. However shitty a person you may think you are and however undeserving of love and compassion you think you may be because of it, you should still try to peak your head out of the sand to see if there's anyone there patiently waiting for you to open up, cause sometimes it feels there's an abundance of love in the world, but a serious shortage of people willing to accept it. Go talk to someone with the full expectation that they'll emotionally accommodate you and see what happens. u can do it vro. :]
>>44006783>the hints were dropped so people would miss themholy shit.....
>>44005957>literally looks like something I would see on Nick Jr., with cartoon pacing, bright-ass vibrant colors, goofy sound effects, and other wacky absurd shit.because 14 yr olds obsessed with FNAF and xenopronouns with self diagnosed DID eat this shit up for exactly the reasons you listed + its free on youtube
>>44010623
>>44005957I think this is going to be the thing that makes me troon out and I hate that
>>44005957same honestly. I don't know why, I thought the show was kinda bad up until the finale and didn't like the dialogue or a lot about how the show is written, and found most of the characters pretty weak. But the Jax storyline feels pretty real and well done, and after rewatching the death scene I fucking bawled my eyes out despite all my feelings on the show.I'm years out from my boymoding and repressing/hiding stages now, but this brought up all those old feelings and was the first time I've seen such a true depiction of this experience in a story, and that was moving. Seeing him let someone in, finally in his last moment was heartbreaking, and the song gets to me too.
>>44010709the finale was the weakest segment of the entire show.
>>44010996because of how much it was about jax, yes. i dont see the issue wrt that post tho
>>44011014>I thought the show was kinda bad up until the finale
>>44010996how come? the finale was a mixed bag for me, i thought the emotional resolution with jax was the highlight, and that was basically the emotional core of the show. The Caine stuff was pretty weak but I never liked him much to begin with.>>44011014I mean, that's the story the creator wanted to tell though isn't it? The other characters don't have all that much going on
>>44011032show went from complex with multiple characters to rushed jax-centric troonslop with fuckall payoff for any other characters/lore/universe besides jax and his tranny feelsits like going into the matrix movies and the big reveal is agent smith was transgender and all other plot points, philosophical questions, universe lore, etc. become background noise for the way more complex and deep concept of trooning out.sloppy/rushed bullshit to anyone who isnt hyperfixated on WOW, TRANSGENDERS IN MY HECCIN CARTOON!?! SO BASED!!!!
ok now i’ve seen it i don’t get what ppl are saying about when they say the show turned into cringe therapycore right at the end, that theme was broadcast pretty obviously in the first episode
>>44011065agent smith is kinda reppercore come to think of it
>>44011133the big reveal of the matrix is neo has to save agent smith from herself 14 minutes from the end of the film all other plot points are discarded, to focus solely on agent smith's dysphoria and how he's really a girl UwUjust feels weird.
>>44005973everyone here is tbf
>>44005973me
>>44005957The explosion in boymoder public awareness as a result of this cartoon rabbit will become the latest optics nuke, mark my words.
>>44010640Now they can play dog Jax
>>44005957>Why the fuck did this stupid purple bunny show hit me so much harder than TV Glow?seeing the transvestite glow was just movie lenght innit, while here you have a full 9ep (longer and longer as it gets deeper (ladies ;)), so you get more time to develop empathy for the characters, not to mention that goose knows her shit and hit us with some pretty surgical heart wrenchers that resonate with us for obvious reasons>The latter is a dark and moody indie film that ends ambiguously. The former literally looks like something I would see on Nick Jr., with cartoon pacing, bright-ass vibrant colors, goofy sound effects, and other wacky absurd shit.aesthetics is surface level shit, it's the humans (or any sort of sentients) underneath that we connect with cuz muh mirror neurons and whatever>TADC, on the other hand, brutally kicked the shit out of me.goodtake your pills if you haven't yet
>>44010709>But the Jax storyline feels pretty real and well done, and after rewatching the death scene I fucking bawled my eyes out despite all my feelings on the show.goose wrote what she knew, and her self insert character with all the self-hate is shit she definitely knows
