Astral Aegis

I'm just being here. Nonbinary 33 year old. I write the TADC fanfic "Of Two Minds". I'm not really anyone special.

[astralaegis]

Okay, I haven't been sharing this around yet, but I finally finished the first real arc of my Funnybunny fanfic and I'm pretty proud of it. I'm not expecting it to blow up or anything, but I think there's a few people on Tumblr who'd get a kick out of this.

The characters designs are inspired heavily by @chubs-deuce's Aftershow AU, although the continuity is very different. The fic /is/ written to be canon compliant to Episode 6, even if it doesn't seem that way at first. If you enjoy human Jax and Pomni, please check this out. Maybe drop a kudos or even a comment, if you'd be so inclined. It'd really mean a lot to me!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ohnoitstbskyen]

there is a lot of praise that can and should be given to Witch Hat Atelier's artwork, but something that should not go underappreciated is how FUCKING good Shimahama is at physical gesture. look how well they READ!!!! look how much you understand the scene just from POSE and POSTURE!!!!!!!

[princessaxolotlcandy]

Thank you, Digital Circus.

[rednines]

[pickledblueyy]

He wants to be heeeeld 🥹

[donutfloats]

That rabbit, she pisses me off

[yedd33]

These two took me by a storm. I relate to Jax in so many ways as a character, and (no spoilers) but tldr; it hurts knowing how things turn out. The idea of two people trying to connect but ultimately falling through because of circumstances, self inflicted or otherwise.

Thank you Gooseworx for making something I found comfort in weird ways when needing an outlet. It's been real

Also lol I'm not going anywhere - this account will be filled with all kinds of art to come!

[sssssswirly]

I redrew this picture of the cast as the characters

also I’m seeing the movie today AAAAAAAA ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[schpog-art]

~ Back in the days ~

The dialogue is reaaaally really chaotic, I'm so sorry guys. I originally just wanted to draw that d*ck joke but then the story got out of hand.

NO EP9 SPOILERS IN COMMENTS OR TAGS PLS!!

[demilypyro]

It's really, really good, but I think for a lot of people it was so subtle they never realized it was happening. They got boiled like a frog. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 all have big action scenes and a central Adventure Plot to be resolved... still, every episode has a subplot where deeper emotional conflicts happen during the adventure.

However, this structure instantly falls apart by episode 4, when Caine takes a suggestion and has them work in a fast food place. That episode has no action scene, no "adventure plot" to solve, they just have to work a job for a whole day. The entire episode is just character drama. Then by episode 5 the structure is just gone. The lightning round format means none of the adventures even have time for a plot, it's just scenario, scenario, scenario, one after the other, and it becomes clear that the real point is the character drama, the history of these people, their traumas, the way they interact.

Episodes 6 and 7 (haha) are the last dying gasps of the adventure format. Episode 6 doesn't have an adventure plot beyond "shoot eachother" because Caine literally doesn't care anymore, and so the episode is really all about exploring the tenuous burgeoning friendship between Jax and Pomni, again focusing almost exclusively on character drama. And episode 7 is the calm before the storm, the characters trying one last time to get out of the circus, the show's last attempt to be formatted like a normal story that adheres to narrative convention, only for the complexity of Pomni and Jax's characters to deny Caine the narrative format he wanted.

The Last Act is not an action movie. I understand why they included episode 8 with it, because 8 and 9 form a pretty cohesive single two-part episode. And it is ALL character drama. The show was never about running away from monsters or going on adventures. It's about people, exploring their dysfunctions, the struggle of relating to eachother. That's all the movie is.

Don't be a boiled frog. Go in with the right expectations.

[demilypyro]

best case scenario Digital Circus gets remembered in a similar way as Steven Universe: a show that was Really Fucking Good and had nuanced characters and interesting things to say, but the audience wasn't quite ready for it and it imploded into a discourse ball. four years from now I expect to see lesbians drawing Jax like she's a renaissance muse the same way people still draw Pearl or Lapis

[ruinedchildhood]

[comicdez]

Writing the script for Abel

[suppermariobroth]

In Super Mario Odyssey, one of the compliments Mario receives from Cappy after performing impressive feats is "Amazing! I'd take my hat off to you, but..."

This is referencing the fact that Cappy's species, the Bonneters, have two forms: a "ghost form" in which they appear as a small ghost with nub arms (similar to a Boo) wearing a hat, and a "hat form" in which they are only the hat itself. Since their eyes are on the hat in both forms, it is logical to assume that the hat is the main/essential part of their being and the ghost body is an auxiliary construct. As such, the possibility of them being able to remove the hat seems very unlikely.

However, if we assume that such a thing is possible, i.e. that a Bonneter can remove the hat while remaining embodied in just the ghost part, then Cappy's model is not actually fully modeled enough to see what that would look like. As the top of his ghost body is always covered by the hat, it is missing from the model.

Still, Cappy's sister Tiara does have a fully modeled ghost body underneath her veil. This allows us to view at least her in this hypothetical "hat off" form, and if Cappy were to have one, it would likely look very similar to this.

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[skelotan]

I can never be annoyed at teens for being excited. I used to be a VERY annoying one! PATREON

[possumsarenice]

Shout everyone else taking the vow of silence today

[demilypyro]

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it