josh

simultaneously correct and absurd. doing my best they/he 21

[amourrs]

even when it’s not trending on twitter : black lives matter. asian lives matter. muslim lives matter. latino lives matter. native lives matter. indigenous lives matter. trans lives matter. lgbtq lives matter. protect our minorities.

[guerrillatech]

Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

[jingerpi]

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME. POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE. ASK YOURSELF, WHAT KINDS OF A WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS? IT'S A WORLD WERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, A WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SAT- ISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.

THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR G6OVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PR0FITS, THE WORK WON'T GET DONE.

[molabuddy]

please. im so nosy.

[molabuddy]

addition which is maybe more pressing and also has been true since chapter 4. PLEASE

[politijohn]

Source

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[senecasart]

Watched The Sun Vanished last night & this pretty much sums up most of the CreepCast dynamic lol

[shaniacsboogara]

hello tumblr meet my fuckass son wendell goon

[maddiedraws04]

My favorite genre of youtubers to watch is "two strange men who are bonded together like stray cats in a shelter and can't be separated"

[meatgoon]

Me listening to Feed The Pig for the eighth time

[alpiinee]

i just listened to creepcast's episode on Borrasca... iykyk

[meatgoon]

Come on, we’re both adults!

[the-midnight-forest-collective]

MeatCanyon / Wendigoon / CreepCast userboxes!!

I love these lol - ⚡️

[just-found-lemons]

folks they finally hit a million subs!!! 🥳 and I'm proud to be one of them!!! :D

it's been a fun 2 and a half-ish years. this show has consistently been the highlight of my week and I'm so grateful that I get to watch it for free every sunday, whether the episode is good or bad or painfully mediocre. congrats to the boys, they deserve it 🎉🎉🎉

edit: just saw this and i cannot 😭

"best community on the internet" my ass but still this is so sweet 🥹

[pikestaff]

sorry himejoshi tumblr but this person using their yuri manga to spell out the kanji for yuri is living like one hundred years in the future

[pikestaff]

Great idea: https://twitter.com/sanm_ata/status/1672620608444862467

[pikestaff]

People sad about missing yuri day: depending on your time zone, you may not have! Yuri Day is June 25. Be sure to celebrate by (! main quest) reading yuri and (! side quest) kissing a girl

[narrative-bunny1864]

OH MY GOD IT'S STILL YURI DAY FOR ME ?!!!!!!!!

[woodsdyke]

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

[paper--machete]

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[paper--machete]

fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is

[finnglas]

You used to, I think, during a brief period of time when albums were made to be listened to instead of made to be singles. There are albums that are so beautifully cohesive they were clearly meant to go together. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is often called the first "concept album" -- that is, the first album that was conceived to be a cohesive concept, to have songs that referenced each other musically and lyrically. It's pretty cool, from that viewpoint, if you listen to it beginning to end.

(It isn't, however, my favorite Beatles album or even the one I consider to be their best--which aren't the same. Best is Revolver, favorite is Abbey Road.)

As far as my own favorite albums, there are a few that I think are perfect. Joshua Tree by U2, VELVET by Adam Lambert, E-mo-tion by Carly Rae Jepsen, every album Janelle Monae ever put out (they're VERY good at a concept album), Lemonade by Beyonce, Strange Trails by Lord Huron, thoughts lights colors sounds by Sub-Radio...

Anyway. I love when artists actually conceive an album to be listened to from beginning to end in order instead of just jamming a bunch of potential singles together.

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[merkerlerspeaks]

Okay now that I can FINALLY talk about it.

Spoilers below for ep 9

I LOVE the way this ended. I feel like it left a few things open ended, and a few questions went unanswered but in the grand scheme of what actually is happening in the show, those feel like moot questions.

I ADORE Ribbit. If I have a TADC ship that isn't Kinger x Queenie, its Jax and Ribbit. My favourites are Ribbit, Jax, Caine, Kinger and Ragatha and this episode really just hammered it home.

Ive seen a lot of people talking about Jax's backstory and calling him a murderer but I really genuinely think that that is answered if you pay attention at the end. Ribbit was right. Police never came after Leeroy. He wasnt taken in by police. Id put money on what happened being him getting fed up with his mothers harsh words, reacting strongly and when he pushed her he knocked her out cold. Someone either found her, or she woke up and chose not to press charges because- parents in this situation are...complex. Being an abusive parent doesn't necessarily mean you lack affection for your kid. It does however mean a lot of....what you do is selfish and wrong. So the thing with this kind of dynamic is that she, as a mother, is still essentially seeing Leeroy as a *kid*. And as someone to lash out at, he's partly his father, she resents his father. So she lashes out at him since his father is no longer there. But at the end of the day, Leeroy is still her child. And waking up after her child pushed her like that and disappeared, she may feel bitter. She may feel resentful. She may compare him to his father all the more because now he's gone too. She might feel abandoned, and justified in her words. But she can probably also tell that she did something to hurt him, even if she feels justified in what she said and did. And she may know him well enough still to understand that- he never hurt her like that before and she doesn't want him to go to jail over an accident, so she doesnt press charges. If she was dead, he would have been the primary suspect. But he's living a decent life, is publically online and everything. He's clearly not in hiding. He's not wanted. His mom therefore must be alive, and understanding enough to not press charges over what happened.

I also love how Caine seemed to foil Jax this episode. The one that was supposed to be alive 'died' and the one who was supposed to be 'dead' was alive. Willing to reach out, apologize and take accountability VS Being too scared to seek help and fix what you did and the consequences of that. The consequences of toxic masculinity. The consequences of emotional abuse. Hurt people hurt people. All that stuff.

And now that they know that they are new beings separate from their counterparts outside the circus they can find new meaning.

I also feel like abstraction was left open ended and I feel like that was actually a nice decision. Especially since its essentially a metaphor for suicide. I feel like there are possibilities for what happens to abstracted people. My initial thought (before this episode) was that abstraction was the files containing their minds became corrupted, or deleted, or they escaped the circus in that manner- some how some way there was a gap in the programming where they had been and this abstracted monster took their place as the computer found something to fill the hole they left behind. But now I think that its more akin to a corrupted file. And corrupted files CAN be recovered, so Im seeing it kind of like- If someone tries to take their life, and theyre in the hospital, there is a chance they can still survive. Being abstracted I think is around the equivalent to that. The file might be able to be recovered, it might not. Maybe once the heavy emotions heal and the people stuck inside the abstractions (since we saw that they were still very much present inside those abstracted forms) heal, maybe that can reverse the effects of abatraction and create a metaphor for suicide survival. At the same time, maybe that only lasts for so long after they've abstracted and that blinding light that Jax became was a signal that he passed the threshold and is unrecoverable. Either which way, he was shown resting peacefully if nothing else.

The thing too is that Ive noticed that Pomnis character was consistently shown being given options between Jax and something else. Sometimes she chose Jax. Sometimes she got stuck with jax. And sometimes she didnt. The times she didnt end up with him somehow were the times he almost/then did abstract. I feel like theres a message in that saying 'just because they may seem fine, doesn't mean they are. Especially if you know they have problems'.

Jax was also mad at Kinger in the beginning. Imagine, being this guy, who thinks he killed his mom by accident, seeing this other guy that accidentally killed someone get off scott free. When you've been so hard on yourself for it all this time. You havent even been able to forgive yourself and they're willing to just forgive him IMMEDIATELY? No wonder he crashed out.

And we now know how everyone but Gangle really ended up getting their hands on the headset.

- Pomni and zooble explored abandoned buildings

- Ragatha was into real estate, likely looking over the abandoned building to sell

- Kinger was an OG programmer

- Jax was homeless and likely hunkered down in the building for a while

Gangle was likely just looking for a quiet spot. I wish we knew how Kaufy and Ribbit ended up in there too though. It is interesting that new people popped up with each abstraction though, almost like the program had a queue system or something. Probably not but, who knows?

At the end of it all, to me, the circus is purely metaphorical. A look into the psyche of the people the show is really about. Jax is Leeroy at his worst, if he'd never improved, never reached out. Ragatha is if Suzie never grew a backbone. Gangle is when Zoey was feeling, probably kind of invisible. Zooble was in a state of when Riley was the most unsure. And they did each grow, slowly. But Jax is what happens when youre too scared or refuse tok. Jax is what Leeroy could have been. The themes of forgivness and love and growth were just fantastic. I liked how they had Gangle struggle to cry over Jax because he was so awful to her but she still cared about him as a person.

Weirdly enough too, to me, the confirmation that theyre just neural scans of real people means that Jax was actually right about a LOT of things and just had an awful way of going about it. And after the initial pain of realizing they cant escape I feel like they probably had a sense of relief because at least now they know for sure and can go on with their lives without...wondering. And looking. And rest easy in the comfort of knowing that they are a piece of something bigger thats still pursing their desires outside the circus. Its to bad Jax didnt have a chance to get that memo but gosh the way they forgave Caine and let him be a part of their lives, actively instead of being an overseer was just fantastic.

And maybe Caine can give them insight on updates to how their outside counterpart is doing? If he can access the internet again, anyway.

Something else I can say is that out of all of them, Zooble is the most like what I expected. Pomni....isn't. In my mind Gangle was a red head, and Jax had more basketball shorts vibes with shorter hair but hes otherwise what I expected. Ragatha is pretty close.

And one more thing, their sentience is questionable to me. I know zooble said 'we're still human' and theres probably a message in this, something about making a life for yourself when youre stuck in something, but like they just factually arent. Theyre something a little to the left of human. And because i view it metaphorically all of their sentience and conciousness is in question to me. I dont know that I see them that way in terms of who they are in the circus. Like in terms of suspension of disbelief and realistically speaking.

Anyway wrapping it up. I rate it a solid 9.5/10, I loved it, theres some that could be done to improve it but nothing that takes away from the expirience imo. Gave me a lot of emotions. I liked it.