But Markipliers movie Iron Lung was officially announced as the #1 film in America. A self financed, made, and distributed passion project. With practical effects, art, and soul. Is the number one film, in a time of year when movie theaters are notoriously slow.
And idk about anyone else. But with all the AI slop and doomerist news and media, or quick Disney cash grabs. I just believe it's a wonderful thing to see happen.
A glass ceiling was shattered today in Hollywood. Art (especially fanart less we forget the game that spawned this film) still matters, in a world that wants us to forget what it means to be human. To create, to share, and enjoy the things we make. This film does and says so much.
Idk peeps. It just feels like something worth celebrating and seeing again this weekend too. If one can.
*peeks into the askbox* (notices a lack of polycircus yandere content) *places a little request for reader x tadc everyone and how the relationships would be different. Who would team up together. Who would fight Who in a Dennies parking lot* *leaves*
Pomni, being one of the newest members to join the circus, has a difficult time adjusting. She’s still learning about the other members of the circus; who she can trust, who she can care for, who can care for her. It’s terrifying and lonely to find yourself trapped in some video game world with no hope of escape but not knowing if you can trust the people around you makes it all the more difficult. But she’s learning to care about the other members of the circus. She’s learning to care about you.
You become something like a lifeline. She’ll be okay as long as you’re okay. But that also means that if anything ever happened to you, Pomni isn’t sure what she would do. She’s sometimes haunted by thoughts of you abstracting; your polygons shifting and distorting until you are an unrecognizable monster that has to be banished to the darkness. She tries not to think about it too much. But if her grip on your hand is a little tighter than it should be, it’s just because she’s afraid of what might happen to both of you if she lets go.
Gangle is often too shy to even talk to you, but she spends a lot of her free time quietly sketching in the same room as you, completely minding her business. You never seem to mind her presence; perhaps you take comfort in the quiet companionship. It’s nice to know you’re not alone even when you don’t have the energy to have a conversation.
If you saw Gangle’s sketchbook you would see that it’s filled with drawings of you. Usually your avatar as it appears in the circus; occasionally as what she imagines you might look like in the real world. She’s shown you a picture or two she’s drawn of you and she felt heat rise in both the comedy and tragedy masks when you complimented her art. Still, she’d die from embarrassment if you found out her sketchbook is full of pictures of nothing but you.
One time Jax caught her drawing lewd pictures of you making an ahegao face and he likes to keep that little dirty secret in his back pocket so he can dangle the threat of telling you any time he thinks you and Gangle are getting a little too chummy.
Jax flip flops between bullying you and trying to get you to let loose. You’re a bunch of cartoon characters living in a cartoon world where everything is fake and nothing matters. Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just want to go ape shit? Part of the reason he antagonizes you is because he wants to see what you’ll do when you’re angry and reach your breaking point.
While you haven’t given him the reaction he’s looking for yet, it’s fun to pick on you. You make really cute faces; pouty scowls and annoyed eye rolls and smiles you try to hide behind your hands. If he’s lucky he might even get to see what you look like when you cry.
Yes, Jax has a key to your room but it’s fine. He has a key to everyone’s room. Don’t worry about it.
Ragatha genuinely feels kind of bad for you. You never asked to be the center of attention. Never asked to be the object of affection for a group of people who have been outside their own bodies for so long that they have to struggle to keep their sanity every day. It’s a cocktail of sympathy and pity and duty that has her checking in on you. If you need a shoulder to cry on or an ear to vent to or a pair of arms to hold you, she can be that for you.
And that’s how it starts for her.
Ragatha had only intended to be a support system for you out of the goodness of her heart, but somewhere down the line the wires get crossed and the feelings get muddled and she depends on you relying on her as much as you depend on her for emotional support. You make her feel needed and important until she is completely dependent on the feeling of you depending on her.
Zooble is one of the most down to earth members of the circus and you enjoy talking to them. When they aren’t pissed off about Ajax’s bullshit or whatever asinine adventure you’re all forced to participate in, their dry sense of humor and overall chill vibes are something of a comfort. It’s nice to have someone to talk to who doesn’t sugarcoat the bullshit or try to make you look at the brighter sides of things. It’s nice to know that you can go to them if you just want to vent and take a moment to process how miserable you are.
In this way, Zooble has seen a side of you that you haven’t shown to most others, and they cherish the gift of your vulnerability. The world around you is fake but the human connection between the two of you is so real. Zooble would have liked to have known who you were before the circus. You seem like someone who would be fun to get high with, have a few beers with, share a pizza while watching bad TV and occasionally making out during the commercials.
Zooble suspects their feelings for you are one-sided; they know you like them but likely not to the extent that they like you. They’re okay like that as long as they can still be around you, even if it makes them miserable sometimes to keep those feelings to themselves. But they can accept not being with you as long as you don’t end up with Jax.
Kinger is one of the easiest to handle. He behaves the same around you as he does everyone else. Well, for the most part.
Sometimes, in rare moments when Kinger’s eyes lose their dull glaze, pupils dilated in the dark and gaze focused on you. He’s calm. Stable, even. But there’s something about the way that he looks at you that makes you feel uneasy. But then Jax snatches Gangle’s comedy mask and tosses it toward’s Kinger’s pillow fort hard enough to knock it down (and sends Gangle’s mask crashing to the floor, splitting in two) and Kinger is back to his abnormal self.
Zooble and Gangle are the only ones who get along well enough to agree to join forces and share you. They like each other and their chances double if they work together. Zooble is often the one who invites you to hang out with them and you always appreciate the invitation.
Jax and Zooble are the ones fighting in the Spudsy’s parking lot. Zooble strangling Jax until he pulls of one of their arms to smack them. THEN GANGLE COMES IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!!!!!!!
As for Caine, well… you don’t really know what to think of Caine.
He’s not the one who brought you into the digital circus and, as far as you know, he isn’t the reason you can’t leave. He’s not human but he experiences simulated emotions that are indistinguishable from the emotions you and the other members of the circus experience so he’s as alive in this world as you are.
You try to be understanding and polite to him. It’s not out of the kindness of your heart; you know he has more control of the world and its surroundings than you do. While you’ve never seen him get angry, that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of it. His inhumanity can make him unintentionally cruel. You’re terrified of the ways he could hurt you if he really wanted to.
Thankfully, Caine seems oblivious to your cautious fear of him. He sees a nice polite human who doesn’t complain about his adventures. Maybe you even like him?! Wowie! He loves humans so much and it’s his one purpose in life to make fun adventures for them so it’s nice to finally have someone that appreciates all his hard work! Why, if he ever thought that you didn’t like his adventures and that you were actually scared of him? Who knows what would happen!
I also feel like Sundrop would demand to give cuddles and attentive aftercare, whereas Moondrop wants nothing more than to make you his naughty bitch. Yandere or not: these two would have to work out a system with each other so both of them can be with darling like they want. But Sundrop only wants them after a really harsh session where they can wipe away those tears, and Moondrop is more than happy to make you sob.
I like to think that his darling and im are both horrible. Since you're human, he enjoys watching you be aware of your mortality. You enjoy having both of them but they can also become so exhausting after a while. Moondrop literally torments you by hunting you down and Sundrop hates not touching you. When you both have sex, they switch a lot. One moment Sundrop is holding you gently and the Moondrop pops in and fucks you like you were nothing but a dispensable toy.
Blurrg - How do you write out complex scenes? Do you visualize them or do they just flow?
I visualize them! Usually I have the dialogue for complex scenes in mind first because that’s where I stick a lot of my characterization! And then I layer and layer them until they’re complete.
Ill be the one to ask it: S/O first smooches to Draal, Bular, and Blinky. Is it soft or nasty? Does it get soft (cuddles) or nasty (smex) the longer the kiss lasts?
Draal
A first kiss scenario with Draal will likely end up being animpromptu spur of the moment kind of deal, maybe after some sparring whilst he’sstill wrapped in the rush of the fight he’d make the move and catch yousomewhat off-guard by the advance; he has a lot more confidence in this but ifyou switch the tables you might just catch him flustered by how ardently youclose the distance. Sometimes first kisses can be a little awkward on theget-go which is likely the case with Draal, but after a beat or two he’d warmup to the gesture very quickly; he’s very forward with it though, after all subtletyis hardly one of his strong points so once he’s into it he’s definitely into it. Expect to be pressed flushagainst him, maybe even pulled into his lap if you’re in the position to do so.He tries to be relatively gentle but that doesn’t mean he won’t get a bitcarried away if it blossoms past more than just a single kiss, but you can’tsay it isn’t welcome from time to time~
Bular
If you think Bular’s kisses are going to be even remotelysoft or gentle then you’re going to be in for quite the shock – his kisses arehard and dominant, practically radiating possessiveness as he all butoverwhelms you with the force alone. Expect lots of teeth and tongue involvedbecause the first kiss is bound to leave you utterly breathless (mostly becausehe won’t pull back until you’re literally gasping but hey details, details~)but it certainly won’t be unpleasant, it will just take some time to get usedto just how domineering he is with all forms of contact (not to mention thekinds of growls he lets out the entire time are enough to have anyone weak atthe knees). With that being said though he does show a slightly more tame sideonce the initial kiss ends, he’s clearly smug to see you so thrown off by the suddennessof it all but if you’re lucky he might give you some time to catch your breath,head coming to rest against your own watching the rapid rise and fall of yourchest for a little while, until he’s pulling you right back into another roughkiss.
Blinky
His kisses are considerably softer compared to some of theother trolls, although you might have to be the one to initiate the first kissunless he’s sure that it’s what you want. He seems like the type to hold yourface in one set of his hands while kissing whilst his other busy themselves wrappingaround your waist to settle the two of you or perhaps run along your arms,simply relishing the feeling of you beneath his palms and feeling you relax themore you get into the kiss; it’s almost like he’s trying to map your skinbeneath his hands, making the moment all the more intimate (probably more intimatethan you expected). He’s likely the one to slip a few words between kisses, mostlycute little compliments or praises that make your face feel all the more warmerbecause honestly he’s an adorable dork you just know that whatever comes out ofhis mouth the moment you pull away is going to have you flustered like notomorrow.
