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Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

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digitaldemxn

Hola welcome to another episode of tadc everyday it's the second to last one and today we have a new oc!

Fascinating.

#cute!!#tadc oc

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a Wild West adventure episode would have been nice. to cope with the show ending im going to draw a bunch of scenes like this of different episodes we could have had. im taking suggestions if anyone has any. Also here’s more:

demilypyro

LOVE the concept of Jax IN THE STORY reducing the characters to archetypes and BEING WRONG. Fandom gonna fandom so yeah people were constantly flattening these characters to fit them into the Trope Boxes. We had people acting like Pomni is a helpless child, and like Ragatha is either a manipulative monster or a perfect being. Now you have Jax CANONICALLY doing exactly that: choosing to think about everyone as if they were flat stock characters so he doesn't have to think about their internality, and it's shown how he couldn't be more wrong. These characters have DEPTH whether you like it or not. Fucking awesome metacommentary

demilypyro

I'm fascinated by the line "don't need to scream if you ain't got a mouth" that Caine delivers in his villain song, because while it's obviously the strongest reference to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream in the entire show, I think it also starkly illustrates the biggest difference between Caine and AM: that Caine is way, way more vulnerable to criticism.

The original line is delivered by the last human: it's Ted's sad internal lament that he's become unable to even express his pain, which is its own form of psychological horror. It's AM's final, cruelest joke. But here the line is instead delivered BY the AI. Caine did his best to please the humans. But the humans just WON'T stop complaining! And that's torture for him. So rather than listening to them, which would take willingness to reflect and improve, he just takes their mouths away, so they can't complain anymore.

Rather than being a cruelty inflicted on the humans, it reframes the whole line as a way for the AI to protect its ego. It's Caine going "la la la I can't hear you." It's not a clever form of torture, it's just pathetic and childish. Caine's ego is his biggest flaw. And it's what gets him killed.

hojichabuns

how funny tadc may be the show that defines the existential dilemma of the late 2020s. no wonder so many people deeply resonate with its theme of finding autonomy among the insane circumstances they find themselves in, very much paralleling our real world as we know it. zooble was actively mourning the future they always hoped for themselves, that they wanted to leave their mark on the world. to abandon that felt like betrayal of the self, proving to others their own worth with something to offer. tadc came at the right time where a lot of people are questioning what autonomy they have in this world. many feel robbed of opportunities and missing important life milestones from the pandemic, all while AI continues to pose as a serious threat to our livelihoods on a very fundamental level. for the characters in the digital circus, radically accepting the situation does not mean it is any less of a shitty one, but moreso poses the question: so things didn’t go as planned, how will you live your life? build and strengthen connections with those around you and you’ll foster hope with every exchange. in turn, you inspire them to keep living, day by day.

demilypyro

I think Jax in the anime scene in episode 5 is really good as a microcosm of his character because his first reaction is to be like "ugh anime is so lame" but when the others push back he ends up saying he dislikes slice-of-life anime specifically. but if he really wasn't into anime he wouldn't know or care about that distinction in the first place. he first tries to act as if he's not into anime, but he is, he just doesn't want to have something in common with Gangle because he thinks that would make him look bad. he's embarrassed. note how he also very pointedly pauses before calling Gangle "one of those... losers" for liking anime, which at least to me implied he was going to say weeaboo, which is a word that implies more insider knowledge. girl is SO afraid of being caught liking something, and especially something a girl likes.

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jurassicpeanut

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

demilypyro

making a sarcastic fourth wall breaking comment towards the audience but i've misinterpreted where the camera is so i'm just speaking in a random direction while everybody stares at me funny

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artbyblastweave

The old world is dying. The new world had that thing happen where the umbilical cord gets caught around the neck as it's coming out, yuuuurk, no new world either. So it's basically just gonna be monsters forever

artbyblastweave

And for the last time, you can't fuck the monsters. They aren't the kind of monsters you can fuck

toastedicarus

Had it with all this bullshit grimdark worldbuilding just for the sake of edginess with nothing to actually say. I'm going to fuck the monsters.

artbyblastweave

Listen, buddy, I get it when it's monstrosity-as-a-marker-of-marginalization or it's a, a commentary on arbitrary constructions of beauty standards or whatever. That's one type of monster, that's fine. Very fuckable type of monster. But we're talking about, like, the metaphysical worldly manifestations of imperialist warmongering and rapacious depletion of the environment and systemic racism and shit like that. And I mean it's obviously not conceptually impossible to eroticize all that, you see people doing it, but it's fraught, right? It's fraught. Thin Ice. And if you're gonna go there you can't be flippant about what you're doing, man. This shit affects people's lives in real, non-metaphorical ways. When I was at CVS I just saw three or four anthromorphic personifications of the concept of medical debt pulling a little old lady apart like a wishbone