The Eagle's-Eye View

Scintilla, of Aquiline Studios. NJ lifer. In April 2021, Tumblr nuked my custom theme without telling me (based on Effector, from Pixel Union) and I now have no way of getting it back. All about me My: photos - mashups/bootlegs - AMVs The adventures of baby Vriska My AMV website (with downloads)

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Anyone remember this commercial from probably 25 years ago?

Cashier: "Here's your two cents change."

Customer: "Ah, keep the pennies. They're useless."

And guess what? NOW THEY ACTUALLY ARE.

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We've upgraded from mere screaming to screaming AND groaning!

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Encountered on the Jax route of the Amazing Digital Circus VN fangame chapter 2 (Candy Chaos)

Ragatha: Whoa, Kinger, check out this castle! It's amazing! Me [Ragatha]: Give it a lick -- it tastes just like raisins!

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You just lie about everything, don't you?! The musical number, the romance, the Circus being in Missouri, God knows what else!

~ Jax to @gooseworx, probably.

(Pomni: "... killing off the voice actors...?")

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Yes, I am still quite easily amused.

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Oh no! She's right though!

~ Jax in the maid outfit proving that The Reveal™ in episode 9 recontextualizes everything about his previous behaviour... extending even to the merch ads!

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The chill fellas

Here is a sketch. A small change in the way a drew Jax, but I like how it turned out.

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Out of nowhere, at the big emotional climax of an animated film, the soundtrack suddenly switches to a song that at first seems completely incongruous to the mood, one made famous by a blind Black piano-playing pop superstar

Are we talking about Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (2001) or The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (2026)?

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Duo poses with Jax and Ribbit (click and swipe to see them better)

I just know they had the most fire photoshoots

bonus:

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IF YOU LIKE MY ART, PLEASE CONSIDER REBLOGGING! IT HELPS ME GET MORE RECOGNITION AS APPOSED TO SIMPLY LIKING IT! <3

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Happy Father's Day, King K!

(I can't find the source of this image. If anyone knows who made it, please let me know and I'll add credit immediately.) Edit: Art by SeekersTheShy, original source here -- thanks @the-jnadf-fellow!

[cqraa]

There was a time.

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I'm pretty sure I've already reblogged this at some point, but I'm doing it again anyway, because one of the biggest things I wanted and got out of TADC episode 9 was some slice-of-life and backstory for the Chill Fellas.

It's so easy now to see a picture like this fitting into canon... and of course, I also love the style.

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I asked my husband to make this and he obliged... I'm so happy ;; Please go support and watch his og post: https://x.com/ZatchNakarie/status/2004174666672542172

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Okay, NOW I'll put a (relatively unimportant) spoiler behind the cut

So we have confirmation again that Gooseworx lied, but honestly, it was absolutely the right move here, to try to keep people from doing anything stupid.

You could say it wasn't even "essential to the story": there was no reason it needed to be Missouri -- it could have been any other state with a good-sized city and it wouldn't have changed a thing.

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I am really glad I was able to completely avoid spoilers for The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act before seeing it in the theatre this evening, and I'm going to pay it forward by keeping this post spoiler-free as well (so please do the same in the comments!).

I will say that the comedy scenes in the middle came at the perfect time, because there was a stretch before that when things seemed a bit too slow for too long.

I'm also glad that we got answers to basically all the remaining big mysteries of the Circus, everything we still needed to know about the backstory -- I don't feel like it was missing anything important.

I was surprised at one longstanding theory that was practically confirmed (with just enough ambiguity for plausible deniability, but come on), but at the same time, it felt believable, not gratuitous.

My immediate reaction to the last shot (...I mean the bird's-eye one; I guess that wasn't the real last shot, but if you've seen the movie, you know what I mean) was that it was a weird one to end on, but... it was hopeful, which I guess is tied in with the message of the series. And there's just enough reason to hope that, given the state everything is in at the end, there could eventually have been a fix at some untold future date for the one thing I'm seeing people call unsatisfying about the ending.

I don't mind telling you that this film (and yes, I mean the episode 9 part specifically) very nearly brought tears to my eyes, which is a feeling I usually only get from Impressions de France.

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AURORA ALERT for tomorrow night (Thursday, June 4)!

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With a maximum Kp value of 7.0 currently forecast, and mostly before 11 PM EDT, it just might be visible from New Jersey.

Sounds like a good night to have my eyes on the skies.

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I don't believe I got a full squirt of the product.

Me, complaining about the pump action on my moisturizing sunblock.

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My immediate thoughts on watching the Gameoverse pilot

I didn't immediately find myself thinking "oh, that's obviously Arin" as I did with almost all the male characters in his own animated pilot project three years ago.

This time he actually was consistent enough, and distinct enough from his normal voice, in voicing both Flappers and we're playing !@#$ing Gobbles, that it wasn't obvious they were him.

And apparently he did this while also being the voice cast director, which I'm sure isn't easy, directing yourself like that.