#this is literally just concepting her at the moment

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Arcana Analysis--The Amazing Digital Circus: Jax (The Devil)

If you're new to the concept of tarot cards, let me just say that all the titles are more metaphorical than literal. They still tend to fit at face value, though.

Now we have everyone's favorite bunny bastard, Jax! Biggest asshole in the Circus, bullying Pomni and Gangle and picking fights with Ragatha and Zooble are among his hobbies. He's still a victim alongside them, however, and Goose said that he has a plethora of internal issues.

His card is The Devil, number fifteen in the major arcana. It represents the darker parts of ourselves, and how they enslave us and stagnate our personal development. Jax's major character trait is his bad behavior and terrible treatment of his fellow captives, showing how he copes with the supremely low chances of escaping the Circus.

The Devil card also correlates to the Seven Deadly Sins, two of which Jax is guilty of: Wrath and Sloth. He takes a lot of pleasure from violence, as shown in episodes two and three, which can be classified as "action" and "horror" respectively. When he doesn't get the action he craves, he gets supremely disappointed; in Candy Carrier Chaos, the bandits are dealt with nonviolently, and in Mildenhall Manor, he gets bound and gagged after disposing of a harmless ghost guide. There are different outcomes for both scenarios, however. In the former, he lures a chocolate monster to the Candy Kingdom right at the end of the adventure for him to destroy. In the latter, he doesn't even get the last laugh on Pomni after her own trek with the slightly-crazed Kinger, and Jax ends the episode in a sour mood.

Sloth is where the core of The Devil card is: In addition to being borderline-psychopathic, Jax has the idea that there is no exit, thus surrendering himself to the insane nature of the Circus. When removed from the insanity though, he shows a bit of depth. In episode four, a more low-key "adventure" is played out in a fast-food setting. Not only does Jax not get to inflict a lot of violence to the other players, but he is the one who gets manhandled and psychologically tortured by a video starring Gangle, his favorite bullying victim. Instead of annoyance, the results show outright misery, but at the same time, Jax also becomes a bit more attentive to the other players present. In a key moment, he sincerely asks Pomni how the adventure went for her, much to her confusion and concern. This moment also shows an aspect of The Devil Reversed: detachment from your bad habits, which is what has been happening to Jax for most of the episode, particularly after the middle point.

To wrap everything up, here's how The Devil symbolizes Jax's personal arc: He's trapped in the Circus with no known exit, and he's already surrendered himself to the insanity inside. To cope, he acts on his violent impulses at the expense of everyone around him, making him the most unlikable person among the players. When brought back down to earth, he's able to make sincere small talk with someone else. So, if Jax is able to break his violent habits, one way or another, and remove himself from the madness of the Circus, then he'll be much happier and maybe have a chance to build a genuine connection. (redemption arc let's go!)

[akirakirxaa]

I've been neglecting Akiraha, so behold, my concept for an Akira x G'raha child, all grown up and going on adventures of her own. <3

[ef-1]

girlhood

[recareels]

i think you're trying to kill us with those delicious teacher reca & big brother sunday posts !!!! /pos please keep it coming~

HAHAHAHA oh my gosh anon i am so glad you read my tags lmaoooooo <33 UGH i’m obsessed with it!! can you imagine how upset Big Brother sunday would be to hear that his precious baby sister is fucking a man nearly thrice her age??? that goddamn director who is as sleazy as he is acclaimed??? who is also in a position of extreme power over her as her professor???

he says the term ‘director’ as if it stings his tongue, as if it’s some obscene, disgusting word, face wrinkled as he spits it through gritted teeth—that director. which is weird, you think, considering sunday was such a fan of mr reca’s refined artistry before the renowned director began to take an interest in you…

hehehe <33 i will definitely keep it coming!! it might just be in the form of tiny fragments like this, tho i did write this little piece where reader comes home, breathless with exhilaration, to tell Big Brother sunday that she secured the highly sought after internship with mr reca and sunday responds with such callous indifference to her big accomplishment >.< makes her feel small and stupid and so silly about it all >.< that’s about all i’ve got in terms of a narrative, tho!!

[kavehater]

Chappel Roan saying she’s sad she’s demisexual and then there’s me being aroace as a whole like don’t you think I’m even more sad 😭

[clawsextended]

today was my first christmas without my aunt. today was my first christmas i’ve ever woken up alone. why does grief have to feel so hollow and so heavy at once.

[swordmaid]

thinking abt jaime having to cuddle with a wounded brienne because it’s cold and she’s shivering and having nightmares …

[spock-adoodledoo]

oh my god i just finished the dark forest finally. 7/10 i suppose, i went through the first half or so of the book being really annoyed by luo ji but also enjoying the chapters where he shows up because unfortunately he was entertaining. still don't understand the imaginary girlfriend thing, it just feels like he needs someone to protect from the world which like ??? ok sure i guess, it just rubs me the wrong way personally. for the second half and especially the end i became luo ji's number one defender it's fine. for the rest, holy crap—the droplet, the microcosm of the universe on those runaway ships, the wallfacer project, luo ji drawing from rey diaz's plan, the attitude of the world towards him, the entire theory... wow

[mortalscience]

[pynkhues]

I am very very curious about that tower scene because Sam said in an interview that he didn't think Lestat was at the tower voluntarily--so if Armand put him there, how much of Louis' memory of that scene is accurate? Lestat looks very well put-together for a prisoner, and how is he being kept there? So much about that scene felt intentionally odd (even, and you touched on this in your fic, that Lestat says that he wasn't kept in the room with the corpses/"disappointments", whereas he'd told Louis and Claudia that he was kept in a room with corpses).

I'm really curious too, anon! It definitely feels like one that's going to be revisited, probably in more ways than one given Magnus' tower is such a vital location across The Vampire Lestat, and it makes sense that Sam would say that too given Lestat's not there by choice in the book. Like you said, Armand takes him there after the trial (and pushes him out the window to debilitate him further) and I'm curious as to how much of that the show keeps. They've changed a few elements of that sequence already that I don't think can be reversed - like Claudia's dress ending up with Louis for instance, not Lestat - and the bigger fact of Louis seeing Lestat then at all when in the book Armand tells him Lestat died in the theatre fire even though he knows he didn't).

You're right though that it's an odd scene, both between how good Lestat looked (but then Louis' memories of how he looked at the trial too were coloured by other emotions given the revisited scenes at the end showed how unwell he actually looked) and that change in what Lestat tells Louis about where he was kept in Magnus' tower feels pointed given 2.08 spends quite a bit of time pointing out its own deliberate inconsistencies with s1 moments.

I think like a lot of these scenes, Louis' memory of it will be a partial truth, but it lacks the context that we have (and he now, at least, has some of). I also kiiind of imagine Lestat and Armand are probably talking to each other too with the mind link in that scene, but obviously we're not privvy to if that's happening or what it might entail yet.

I can't wait to see what they do with it.

[dreampearls]

i really do enjoy nahida sooo much conceptually shes 100% my favorite archon i just wish she wasnt the lolibait oneeeeeeeeee

[firstofficerkittycat]

12 should've been rivers doctor and I will never be ok with only having like 15 minutes of them being together they got 24 years but we never got to see any of it fuck offffffff

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread      

The Name Bearer

Queer Latinx YA fantasy

a girl destined to bring the newborn king’s name from the flowers of prophecy to them, is instead told she must wait 10 years to find the new true king, and is taken to train in hiding with a group of warrior women

found family, start of series

[dawnedon]

one inspiration of dawn is the concept of someone staying at their friends house so often, borderline living there, because it's a much better, safer, and more fun alternative than being at your own home.

[horrorwebs]

i hate my best friend earlier i was like "im scared that this guy likes me bc he said something that i would only say to people who i like, but i recognize thats its a normal ass thing to say anyway and i rationally know he does not like me, but still, my brain decided to play with that concept and made me have a terrible nightmare the other night about it and now im subconsciously scared that he will like me ( with the underlying concept of "i am scared of men")" and shell go ohohioo what if youre projecting and its actually YOU that likes him. ????? bitch did you not hear the part about having a dream where he abused me or ...?sometimes being asexual is a nightmare nobody gets it

[kalashtars]

venting in the tags yippeee