Darks, camera, action!

UTDR OC sideblog for @dingbats-dust-n-darkness

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"In the computer industry, a dingbat font or pi font[1] is a computer font that has symbols and shapes located at the code points normally designated for alphabetical or numeric characters." (x)

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Sort of an Undertale/Deltarune OC fancomic, sort of just a place to collect the lore of said OCs, sort of a place to chatter about 1950s television history. Would not turn down asks directed to the OCs askblog-style, also.

"#dingbats dust and darkness" is the tag for the Undertale continuity for these guys, which follows Dr. Gaster's glory days as Royal Scientist and eventual fall into darkness. "#darks camera action" is the Deltarune continuity, in which Gaster's old friends and allies try to cope with the weight of his disappearance while dealing with a rotating cast of melodramatic TVs in a tech-repair-shop Dark World. Tenna is there sometimes

Character tags are "#oc [name]" or for canon characters "#[name] cameo," except Gaster who is at present just "#dr gaster".

Header Image By Bilovitskiy - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=142172267

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

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#you don't understand. i don't Know For Sure yet.#i take canonicity very seriously !!!!

(tags by @abbreblogs)

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Fluke 8800A // Digital Multimeter (USA, 1974)

Loving that elegant switch design!

[kayvsworld]

most tragic thing about wanting to see more stuff of your oc is that the c is o and YOU have to make the stuff. devastating. why can’t art of my beautiful baby just appear in my hands. just materialize under my pillow, like from the tooth fairy

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[lonelysummerbreeze]

2012

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The Numbers Department

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The Steve Allen Show

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original character

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Destination Magoo (UPA 1954)

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Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962)

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Technician operating early videotape machine at WCBS television station in 1959

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on a more cheerful note. i was surprised to see that some of the backdrops in the 1950s live-action shows are very stylistically similar to the ones that show up in the cartoons from the same era. the nat king cole show uses the same kind of messy, texture-y abstract geometrics here, and the colgate comedy hour has the skewed, off-kilter perspective and the combination of bold linework and lineless representations.

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nat king cole show was fun. that guy has a whole lot of stage magnetism. i don't know if it's that it's several years later and they'd figured out How To Television better or because he already had several years of film experience or something else, but he seems a lot more comfortable and natural on camera than a lot of these people.

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watching the first episode of "the colgate comedy hour" from 1950 tonight. one thing i've learned is that apparently everybody's always wanted to go back to the good old days, because this tv show from our "good old days" ended with a "boy i sure miss the good old days" musical number.

the second thing i've learned is that apparently "going back to the good old days" was always a racist thing, because the specific thing they were singing about as their glorious past was minstrel shows.