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ABSOLUTION PROGRAM projected release date delayed to 10/12 due to unexpected Illness in charlie area. just. just trust me on that one, i don't want to talk about it.
this gives me more time to make it actually presentable, so not too bad.
it's coming. for real this time. the story will begin to continue.
so im discussing with my bro what juno and kel will probably end up looking like next update cause im finishing up a fic about them and the other one
and hes using moirallegiance as an example and im like
dude.
they are is yaoi
oh god, wow. i uh. forgot about this old thing. don't worry everyone, i'm not dead! i just don't care much for bluesky or tiktok or whatever the fuck the kids use nowadays. plus, tumblr is kinda nostalgic for me at this point. it's so quaint. i guess i will just start using this again for my garbage takes, cause why not?
progress on absopro 13th anniversary edition is going steady.
"but stan, you said it was going to be out on 09/14! it's not the anniversary edition anymore! you missed the anniversary!"
i did! that's true! some stuff came up (i don't really wanna talk about it) and i'm going to be a bit late to the party. but it'll be fashionably late. i hope. also i am probably going to be the only one at the party. nobody really cares about absopro anymore besides crazyass diehards like me who've been trapped in this gamer hole for 13 years for reasons that may or may not have to do with pewdiepie.
...ahem. anyway.
it's coming. the story will continue to continue! i'm trying my best over here, okay! i'm just a guy!
10/12/2025. get your butts ready.
something i do really well, for better and for worse, is making every character feel fleshed out. but this comes with the unfortunate side effect of me unwittingly becoming obsessed with random ass side characters who don't actually have much bearing on the plot.
and i hate it so much i'm so fucking obsessed with jlin and caro right now it's unreal. i love these two deranged mad scientist women who are unhealthily obsessed with each other to such a point they're slowly killing themselves over it. they're so allergic to self-reflection they'd shrivel up and die if they saw a mirror. they're horrible and toxic but they can't be without each other. i can't stop fucking thinking about how real it is, how it's exactly what happens when someone with unchecked BPD finds an FP that's obsessively devoted to them right back (i might be speaking with experience on that note).
meanwhile the entire joke of caro's existence in written canon is that she's a background character that's fucking everywhere.
anyway, for the sake of covering all bases, i think it's really important to have a post i can point to as to what absopro actually fucking is, until i'm ready to release it.
ABSOLUTION PROGRAM, commonly shortened to absopro, is a 2012 multimedia webcomic about some kids in a fucked up, surreal magic users' society that make deals with demons for magic powers in return for fighting aliens. the absolution program, as it's termed, is intended for teens and young adults who feel trapped in their current life situation, for one reason or another, as a way of "redeeming" themselves. ABSOLUTION PROGRAM: 13th Anniversary Edition, however, is the true story at play here: AP13AE (as is shortened when distinction is necessary) is a character study of its (deceased) author lucas through the lens of the comic. it has multiple layers of narrative: in-universe, popular fanfic writer turned official absopro team member ghoulishtemperance has taken it upon himself to archive the webcomic as it existed pre-death of flash and recreate it while also adding real-world context and his own commentary when appropriate. the result is typically the webcomic itself being sandwiched in between the author's own commentary, the state of the fandom at the time, and GT's own interpretation of what the fuck is going on. why is this necessary? because lucas is a fucking murderer.
despite the other, surviving author's assertions, absopro does contain wild amounts of subtext about lucas's moral philosophy that can't be ignored. this is why the comic is so polarizing. as the story goes on, GT realizes this is true and wonders if it's right for the team to continue on with a murderer's comic. is it okay to still be a fan of lucas's work, even if he's not hurting anyone anymore?
as for absopro itself, it does seem unassuming at first glance. it's not a deconstruction of mahou shoujo or even a dark mahou shoujo, but a very earnest one that just happens to have darker things in it. while Being a Magic User absolutely sucks, the comic tends to shrug this off as a "yeah, it just be like that." and focuses more on the systemic abuses perpetuated both by the society and the real-world society that pushes these kids into thinking their only option of turning their life around is becoming a magic user.
the first two parts, written by lucas himself, focuses on the main team and their struggles with completing their first few missions and becoming "official" magic users, until something goes completely awry and exposes them to how corrupt the society is. the third part, released ten years after the comic's indefinite hiatus, shows them just what happens when you dare to question it. also, the main villain is a tumblr sexyman and totally not a self insert of lucas. that's probably relevant.
i sure hope GT doesn't fuck up the chapter chronology or anything. that would suck.
who is the weirdest character in Weird Magic People Society
drug dealing gang leading catboy who skinwalks a deranged homestuck OC
cuphead shadow witch (drawn in perfect crayon)
14 year old edgelord gamer boy, amnesiac cop, grizzled war veteran
cannibalistic catgirl who kins utena and dirk strider. obsessed with science
self-hating bi catholic vampire boy who's parasocially obsessed with a dead guy
literally just a kid from new york who isn't ready to go to college
the most powerful mortal born demon, who was a tumblr funnyman and a gang leader
kelfur afton and his trusty sidekick, the Aftonmobile
hell creature made of nine fucking people but she's chill
whimsical idol boy with unfittingly suggestive outfit who is secretly god
boy who got so addicted to meth he cyborg'd himself. once respected as a virtue
200 year old superwitch who's just along for the ride but wants to kill everyone
honorable mentions that didn't make the list: conspiracy theorist who thinks the magic users' society is a communist psyop, the entire society of slug aliens made of the fabric of the universe that worships a pantheon of dead gods based on a fucking fanfic, robot girl who keeps an entire arsenal of her own legs and tits on her walls, the metaphysics furry, basil hallway
i don't know why i put effort into this but
i love BTW that the absopro trigger phrase has become "it's coming" because look me in the eyes and tell me it's doing that. try.
