The Multiverse Is Leaking

Its ruining the hardwood AAAH

[anxious-alto]

With the lack of SNAP benefits in the US hitting in a few days, welcome to No Snitch November. If you see somebody taking food? No you didn't. Taking formula? No you didn't. Taking diapers? No you didn't. When the government turns their back on our neighbors, it's our job to protect them.

[neoncoat]

TADC Theory: Who Will Abstract?

Spoiler Warning!

The latest TADC episode (#6) was the best one yet, with over 30 colorful minutes of crack-up jokes, crack-shots, and character drama (a fandom’s crack cocaine). It looks like the fandom went from betting on Raga’s abstraction to lying firmly in camp “Jax is NOT okay.” Not that I blame them; my man’s having a rough go of it.

But will Jax really be the one to bite the digital dust? We all thought it would be Raga, and now that’s surely not the case. Perhaps nobody will abstract, and they’ll all live happily ever after…

But, assuming (sorry Ming) that there WILL be an Abstraction, who’s on the writer’s chopping block?

It’s Caine. It’s going to be Caine. And I’m gonna tell you why:

1. Caine.exe isn’t just crashing; he’s crashing out.

Ever since the therapy session with Zooble he’s been getting more and more unhinged, and not just with Zooble but the whole gang. They’re always fighting, always complaining, and never giving his adventures the appreciation he feels they deserve. He tried to mitigate it with the trust exercise, but that failed, and we can see after that he just kinda gave up.

2. Caine isn’t what he seems.

He was looking at those pictures of C&A offices. He also built the fake offices from Episode 1. Perhaps he, too, is from the outside. Leading to my next point:

3. Caine is… human?!

He isn’t an AI, he’s another human that got trapped in the Circus a long, long time ago, having long lost his mind. But then how does he control the Circus? We saw Kinger summon a healthpack Butterfly out of thin air, so its possible that its something any human player can do, if they know how (or have sufficiently lost their minds).

4. This is all setup for an edge-of-your-seat finale.

This is kind of cheating, but my writer senses tingling here: Caine abstracting in the series finale will be a massive shakeup of the status quo, an escalation of the stakes, and a character death—the main ingredients to any grand finale. After all, Caine’s the one who puts the abstracted humans into the cellar, so if he’s gone, the remaining cast has to figure something out. Maybe that means discovering how to mod the game like Caine and Kinger. Maybe it’ll be something else—making peace with the abstracted like Kinger with his wife.

It also gives the entire main cast the opportunity to reconcile once the smoke clears, allowing for a bittersweet conclusion that the series may be aiming for.

4a: Addendum.

So who really controls the Circus? Maybe it was Bubble all along. Maybe it was nobody; it was a sandbox game the whole time. Let me know your theories!

4b: Doesn’t the logline call Caine a “wacky AI?”

As per my last theory, I think another reveal will be that they’re all AIs, digital copies of the human minds who tried on the headset, none the wiser. That’s why there’s no way out. See my last TADC theory here:

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 14 · TADC Theory: The Broken Videogame · So I, like many people, have greatly enjoyed The Amazing Digital Circus pilot, but it'

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

[yaknowlikenyah]

We need to bring back the bait fish because sometimes it feels like yall can't tell when someone is trolling you

Look at him! He's so cute and he knows that someone posting stupid, brain dead or offensive comments is just trying to get you mad, and you should make fun of them for that.

We as a website need him back in our lives

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[ancient-debris]

Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.

[omnybus]

Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.

You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.

[peaceandlove26]

everything is funny & i love being alive

[huddsonwilliams]

Re-sharing this post I found on Twitter for people looking for alternatives to NaNo. I haven't tried any of these sites but they might be worth looking into.

[twistcmyk]

[hoshi9zoe]

[tpwrtrmnky]

infighting

[tpwrtrmnky]

infighting, part 2

[tpwrtrmnky]

infighting 3: not an argument against green people

[tpwrtrmnky]

Infighting finale: Outfighting

[pwrshklightning]

Holy shit they turned that guy into a couch

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[kittydeliverycomic]

Yes they asked this in a mall food court with a big flashing sign right behind me.

[kittydeliverycomic]

I missed. She realized it was ham a little later and went bonkers eating it.

[neoncoat]

I know this has been done to death, but The Lorax is such a weird movie. Its world is based in one of the most terrifying dystopian premises--the commodification of clean air--and yet the social commentary only goes so far to scold audiences for their consumerism, using a caricature of a society that is anything but oppressed. The Thneedville citizenry live in a luxurious suburban corprotacracy smack dab in the middle of environmental devastation. Where does the food come from in a world of ecological collapse? Why is the prospect of a toxic, polluted environment brushed off nonchalantly mid-song? Why does nobody in this society feel the affects of the worsening environment? And infamously, replacing the original's cliffhanger with a feel-good ending.

Call it poor writing or a big oil psyop all you want, but I think the real reason is that anything beyond what Illumination produced would be too risky. Movies are financial investments; a mediocre, well-marketed movie is more likely to be successful than something that takes a risk and fails.

But I still mourn what could have been. Imagine it: The zany Seussian architecture draped in smog, vibrant colors tainted by accumulated pollutants. Characters traversing in bulky respirators, childhood innocence slowly chipped away by a mother's distress at increasing air prices. An open-ended conclusion defined by a singular glimmer of hope.

Would it make children existentially discomforted? Yes, and good. Not only is it an endless source of my amusement, it's also a moral prerogative for these sorts of things.

[kittydeliverycomic]

Time flies.

[kittydeliverycomic]

They caught me off guard.

[anexperimentallife]

[kittydeliverycomic]

I have baskets for everything.