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The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

inthefallofasparrow

XXI. The World

taboo-delusion

This is what world peace looks like

isawken

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

Blue Lois

can i help you

Red Marge

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

isawken

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

sugarsylvie

Little rotom tablet baby with unrestricted internet access

They are scared...

Noah, he needs your help before the rain comes down!

#voice acting meme #voice acting #voice over #cat

kitsunico

test sticker | LINK

clogalaxyy

yellow for hope 💛🤍💜🖤

demilypyro

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

xwasp0

Finally someone said it! I've heard someone call the show "theory baiting" and another saying it doesn't have an overall plot. With how short attention spans are these days, a lot of people online either need infromation spoon fed to them by someone else and/or in a concise, simple manner. Subtlety and nuance, what's that? World building? Never heard of it. I've come across a surprising amount of people who lack basic media literally skills, and I genuinely wonder how they come to some of the conclusions they do. Part of me blames the simplicity of the pilot compared to the rest of the series. Yes, it had to be that way to gain an audience, but it pulled it a bit too large of an audience.

punkitt-is-here

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

totally-cis-offical

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

moon-of-curses

we're actually in a youtube video if this turns out to be funny enough

Tonight, I watched The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act at my local theater, and while I do have a lot of thoughts regarding it, I wanna take some time to talk about how this series has personally affected me and helped me navigate life as a whole. Don't worry: this post will not contain spoilers for TLA.

I recall seeing the first teaser on Goose's channel when it initially released and being immediately interested. I've been following her since her Undertale remixes days, so seeing her produce a full show with an entire team was exciting. While the first three episodes were good, the 4th one struck a chord with me. At the time, I was working a graveyard shift job. Working 10 hours a day, getting off at 4 in the morning, going to bed at a time most people get up for work, and waking up regularly at a PM time was awful to say the least. I felt like most of my life was being stripped for me because of my job, and on top of that, I was moving nowhere in the company alongside dealing with shitty clientele. The episode opened my eyes to how trapped I felt there, thus it inspired me to put in my 2 weeks, despite not having a job lined up. It was liberating to leave the job. I remember after I got off, I stayed at my apartment for a few hours before driving to the beach to watch the sunrise and reflect on my new beginnings.

Episode 5 was a gut punch. Yes, fans gave Ragatha a lot of shit for her actions in this episode, but I personally related to her a lot and can absolutely see where she was coming from. She was always one of my favorite characters, and this episode solidified her as my favorite. It's frustrating when all you want to do is help as many people as possible but you end up making things worse while not understanding what you did wrong. That need to help mutates into people pleasing, and you lose a part of yourself. There was a really good post that went more into detail about it that I highly recommend you read as well as a great follow up post. Kinger and Ragatha's chat about worrying people hate you and not being able to make everyone happy moved me to tears every time I watch it as, again, I have the same frustrations. I can be on the defensive at times and have irrational thoughts out of nowhere of people hating me for the most mundane reasons, and Kinger's advice has legit helped me deal with that issue. Coincidentally, a Kinger cosplayer shared similar wisdom with me, and we're good friends now.

Jax's crash out at the end of Episode 7 also gave me a sense of validation. It's frustrating when you have a bad hunch about sometime and people just dismiss your suspicions without question. When you turn out to be right, it's a very hollow feeling, and seeing how Jax reacts to being right all along made me feel seen, not to mention all the hell everyone went through because no one wanted to even entertain the idea of finally escaping being a ruse.

Without going into detail, TLA did make me cry at one point, and it did encourage me to reach out to people more often. I had a very good theater crowd, and I even ended up making some new friends afterwards. I've met some truly wonder people and made plenty of awesome memories because of this show,

If anyone who worked on the show happens to be reading this, I just want to thank you for creating a piece of art that has moved me and changed my life for the better. This silly little cartoon revolutionized my ability to tackle this wacky world of ours, and it has helped me grow a lot as a person.

#the amazing digital circus #the last act #spoiler free

I'm devastated. My virtual spouse broke up with my virtual self (they didn’t even try to make it work), and car companies still suck major ass!

#tomodachi life

chirasul

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

chirasul

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

fishmech

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

chirasul

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

bleekay

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

bleekay

i'm glad people are finding this fun as a concept and making references to stuff that this reminds them of but i really gotta express how bad of a nightmare this was for me. i had fallen in love with the original story and characters (though on waking i couldn't tell you the details), unintentionally warped their story beyond recognition, and found myself an unwitting god that could not provide mercy for some without doling torment to others. one of the characters started offing themselves every time i started another reread. stress dream doesn't even begin to cover it