I think we got an answer to what causes abstraction????

"I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they hate those, too!"

So, if I understand, the shape and appearance of the Avatars is due to a program that reflects the User's mind state. Normally, this program would run during the Avatar's creation and be turned off after it.
BUT!!!! What if the Program is constantly running in the background and it never turns off????

If the "mind files" start to deteriorate or diverge from the original files. Let's say.... Having a complete mental breakdown???

I would assume the program would interpret that mental state as something quite... Abstract????

I think we got an answer to what causes abstraction????

"I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they hate those, too!"

So, if I understand, the shape and appearance of the Avatars is due to a program that reflects the User's mind state. Normally, this program would run during the Avatar's creation and be turned off after it.
BUT!!!! What if the Program is constantly running in the background and it never turns off????

If the "mind files" start to deteriorate or diverge from the original files. Let's say.... Having a complete mental breakdown???

I would assume the program would interpret that mental state as something quite... Abstract????

Here we got Phantom season to Valerie who is probably one of my fav designs.

She's still the Red Huntress, still going after ghosts(just no longer at Vlads command cuz well yeah) and she has mellowed out just a little( she still will fuck you up if necessary).

Here's her next to her season 1 look.

As someone with long hair i know how frustrating it is to constantly just have it hanging down so now she got it in a bun, and her outfit honestly just feels soo Valerie that i don't really have any justification for why i changed it.

With her red Huntress suit its almost the same suit with just some changes here and there biggest change is her helmet which was redesigned to accommodate her hair.

Can we talk about the fact that the exit door that Caine claimed was his was just Pomni's extreme desperation to escape making the loop of what I assume was the last things she saw on earth.

me to the accursed whispering amulet: hey can you speak up please i have an audio processing disorder

However TADC ends, we will never be ok again.

My thoughts on the new episode of the amazing digital circus

:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

claim your badge here (sobbing)

It now makes sense why Pomni kept seeing an exit door during the first episode because she could accidentally conjure it up without realizing she had that power.

Hmm? What’s that, Scratch? You’ve made a program capable of storing memory files? What’s that, Scratch? Your program also has the ability to give you an entirely new body based on those memory files? What’s that? You want to help make an AI that’s able to create things? Like a new world maybe? And the AI’s main goal is to keep humans happy, thus allowing you to live in a virtual paradise?

Hmm? What’s that, Scratch? You’re terminally ill?

…Oh Scratch, you’re so abstract hahahaha!

Genuinely had the same reaction cuz wtf

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STOP THIS IS SO FUNNY

….…nueral scans?????

edit: “a body that perfectly encapsulates their mind files”???

Congrats Caine on being promoted from antagonist to full on villain !!! Any words you wanna say to the audience?

Caine:

That’s wonderful !

White lies 🐝

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Uzi is still cool to this day

I know what's in the middle

writing challenge!

open up your document and put words in it

All other factors aside, I think people on the spectrum should do whatever is in their power (as little as it may be) to avoid developing an interest in guns and firearms purely because it's not safe for them. Not because autism would automatically make someone unsafe to handle them, but because you really may not grasp how often neurotypical non-gun-enthusiast normies will read you going "hey check out this really cool thing I have that I want to show you unprompted for literally no reason" and pulling out a gun as an explicit threat on their life.

Thinking about the fact that Caine put the cast into their worst nightmares only very briefly, before pulling them out, and asking them why do they torment him

I don't think that was irony. I think he put them in those nightmarish scenarios in an attempt to convey how he was feeling. Creating ideas was his entire life. Seeing every single one of them right in front of him, telling him how bad he is at the one thing he's built for--that was his greatest nightmare.

He just wanted them to understand how terrifying it was. How much he was hurting. And the easiest, most rational way to do that--for a program that has no way to take into account the moral implications--was to show them their own equivalents to his scenario.

It doesn't make what he did any less terrible, but I think it just goes to support what Gooseworx had told us before: Caine isn't inherently evil. He just. Isn't human. Doesn't think like one. He can't help that.

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be here later

Please write some hugs for me. I have a simple need and that is for your characters to hug. To hold each other gently, to hug fiercly, to hug happily, to cling to each other as if it's the only thing keeping them grounded in this world. Just wrap your characters in a hug today.

it’s special to scroll back on your own blog and agree with all the posts. like yeah this guy gets it.

Amazing Digital Circus Episode 8

Holy....cow. Whoa.

So we did get SOME confirmation:

1. C&A is real, Kinger worked for them, but they were developing AI, not games of any kind. Being a "game" might be Caine's idea
2. At least some of what's gone wrong with the circus might have been severe miscommunication among the programmers, especially Scratch
3. There WAS another program other than Caine, a real "Abel", tho that's not EITHER of their names (I do wonder if Bubble is the remnants of the other program, made subservient in some way but sometimes breaking free enough to make cutting remarks)
4. The ENTIRE original circus abstracted instead of Kinger, and it was ages of him on his own before Ragatha showed up. This also means Kaufmo and Ribbit were newer members too, a Second Generation of humans for Caine to try with.
5. After Pomni, Zooble is the newest, and this is part of why Jax resents them, he sees them as contributing to Caine's losing it
6. Zooble was 100% right in episode 4, the only thing holding Caine back was "liking" the humans. Toss that and they are SCREWED because Caine is able to go God Mode at any time
7. Despite the two former points, Jax is STILL willing to be the first to try and distract Caine
8. This really was all about Caine's ego, in the end. He HAD to be the star, be liked, and so on.
9. Honestly, good on Pomni for FINALLY calling him out and the rest in joining in. Especially Ragatha's portion about never even TRYING to understand the humans despite claiming to care for them. Totally true
10. Despite not seemingly understanding them, Caine's tortures of the crew-minus-Kinger were REALLY aimed at their personal issues (Zooble being a mess of toy parts, Ragatha being abused, and so on). So he KNOWS them, he just doesn't COMPREHEND. Or, more terrifyingly, doesn't CARE to

GOD-COMPLEX INSANITY IS SO FUCKING HOT

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Ok so Pomni’s torture scene represented betrayal. We all got that. But I’m going to take it one step further: I think it represents the specific fear that when people are being nice to her, they’re actually putting on a front to infantilize her.

Walk with me here:

First we see what looks to be normal GummyGoo, then he turns and shows his face.

Here we see a face that’s more like an actual crocodile, not the kid-friendly version of a crocodile that GummyGoo is. He is, quite literally, turning on her and showing his “real” side.

Then we see Gummygoo and his gang attack Pomni, tearing her apart like the apex predators they are in real life. In this moment, they are literally showing their true nature.

You have one side of GummyGoo that Pomni is friends with, the toothless PG version made to appeal to children. Then you see a “real” version of GummyGoo, one that will hurt you without a second thought.

Now put this together with her relationship with Ragatha and Jax. She tells Ragatha she’s not a child and begins to mistrust her after Gangle says it’s hard to tell when she’s being genuine, she is hurt by Jax when he says he was only friends with her because he thought it would be funny. There’s this theme that keeps coming around; people befriending her to humor her while hiding their real intentions/opinions.

And the cherry on top would be this interaction in episode 2:

And this to me solidifies Pomni being neurodivergent coded. Because I think all neurodivergent people know that feeling; when you find out a friendship wasn’t real and you were just there to be their personal jester.

Controversial, but I think it's harmful to tell people you're never going to write something good on the first try or it's always going to be pure garbage, like that may be helpful for some on some level, but I personally don't think it's a healthy way of thinking, and it causes others to second guess work that is good. Is editing often helpful? Yes. But you're not going to have to Ship of Theseus everything you ever make. Anyway, the phrase "idk, man, it depends" strikes again.

I really love this scene where Zooble tells Jax that everyone's gonna look out for him while still acknowledging that he's an awful person.

Now, let's make something absolutely clear: at no point in this scene does Zooble downplay, excuse, forgive, or ignore the awful things that Jax has done. And why would they want to? Especially given that Jax has still made NO ATTEMPT to acknowledge how cruel he's been to everyone, especially Gangle.

Zooble isn't telling Jax that he's a decent person, or even that he's gotten better. What Zooble is saying is that, despite everything he's done, they don't want Jax's situation to get so bad that he ends up abstracting, because, A) forcing/allowing him to abstract isn't exactly a good way to hold him accountable for his wrongdoings, and B) they won't really be able to properly hold him accountable anyway if he does end up abstracting.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: healing and accountability are not mutually exclusive.

P.S. It would be really great if we could get a scene in the finale where Gangle just absolutely crashes out on Jax and puts him to task.

everyone’s talking about the Jax skin peel but when I close my eyes tonight I’m seeing Ragatha’s mother

I’m about to make a terrible decision.

it's okay mom i know you didn't mean to

Awww Kinger and Queenie are referenced on the chess board on Kinger's desk.

Wait do they have KIDS!?!

And a dog!?

This just makes their situation so much sadder... 😥

It's always a gamble whenever an ancient or medieval ruler died from a "hunting accident"

On one hand, hunting trips were the perfect opportunity to assassinate the king/duke/heir/whatever and get away with it.

But on the other hand, these fuckers with no knowledge of germ theory really did go out into the wilderness to fight giant muscle pigs with spears for teeth. So it's not at all an indication of foul play if they died.

See You Before Chapter 1: Let's Do the Time Warp

This is my latest story. It's a Murder Drones Time Travel fic that I had a lot of fun writing.

Summary:

Not content to just be trapped as a tail for the rest of time, Cyn gathers her remaining power over the Solver to send herself back in time.
But she didn't go back alone.
Now thrust nine years in the past, Uzi, N, and V have to scramble to get Uzi her adult upgrade and prepare everyone for what's coming.
Because if there's one thing they know for sure, it's that Cyn is not going to suffer losing again.

this is crazy because usually you’d expect the classic “oh it looks like he knows but he’s actually gonna say something dumb and then everyone else will be relieved! haha!”

and then he drops THIS

dude. when I tell you my heart fucking DROPPED

When I was really little I asked my dad why we don’t celebrate Easter and he said it’s because we’re Jewish but I didn’t know Easter was a religious holiday so I just thought the Easter bunny was antisemitic

a simple drawing for pomni from ep8..

Thinking of maybe writing down the conversations they have in my head. Like

(Lukas - purple , Petra- blue)

"Hey Petra, what do you think of this arch?"

"What arch- oh"

*blueprint for his next build*

"Huuh.. okay."

"What do you think. Too much? Should I make it lower?"

"I think. ..your lines are ass"

"...what?"

"Your lines are fucking ass. I mean, how old are you. Five??"

"It's just the rough sketch, I haven't cleaned up the lines yet—"

"Your lines. Are fucking ASS"

"I never asked you about the lines!"

"Well how do you expect me to give you opinions on ot, if it looks like shit??!"

"Just give me your opinion so I can finalize it!!"

Just know half of Lukas' text should be in caps

Ragatha wip!! She's so cute

come get your badge before you it abstracts

jax’s “this is real” ohh my god. oh my god he’s been in denial this whole time

Uzi: “Never have I stolen anything.”

N: “That’s a lie. You stole my heart.”

Uzi: “… babe.”

V: “Bro.”

J: “Oh my robo-god, get a room.”

Really stupid idea that popped up randomly that I had to draw

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It appears we have had to downsize the amount of fireflies

Different Forms of Mental Breakdowns

Survivor’s Guilt

Parental Abuse (resulting in losing her eye from a knife attack)

Imposter Syndrome/Identity Crisis (tries to kill herself bc of it)

Body Dysmorphia

Inferiority Complex and Fear of Abandonment

I call this one the happy penguin ponytown trauma saga

nodding. writing this down in my notes. this ai actually understands things

Bite me?

My Reaction

I just finished episode 6 of Murder Drones. (I'm not that much in but I've looked up spoilers lol)

THEM HOLDING HANDS THAT WAS ROMANTIC

"No dating my robot please"

"HE'S HIS OWN PERSON"

(also thank you @dimondbird for following)

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

“One day an unfamiliar app called ‘X’ suddenly appeared on my home screen, and I thought it was the beginning of a death game.”

- Uzi

the fact that ragatha was hanging out with people when she put on the headset. she was callling out for their help....

Bug parents

Sits on your dash

Hi sorry I died for like a month I turned Petra and Lukas into cats

Douxie: Break the law with me
Zoe: No.
Douxie: It's my love language, Zoe
Zoe: Learn a different language.

✨Partners in Crime✨

Consider this my Christmas and new year’s post for y’all uwu

Claim your badge everyone! We need it more this time.

things I can’t believe are actually canon:

• The “there were originally 2 AIs but Caine canibalized the other” theory
• The “Jax’s body can be conceptualized as a yellow skeleton thing with a purple skinsuit stretched over it” idea

gang how are we feeling about this rn

That's a pretty good drawing for the one minute it took to draw it. I wasn't sure I would get what I asked for but I'm satisfied :D

oh blorbo from my shows? haha yeah man i love that guy. i hope something terrible happens to him in front of his loved ones that he barely survives and i get to watch.

saw someone on twitter saying this should be drawn as V and i couldnt resist

If the solver took away my beautiful purple curls I'd kill myself too

Nori, Alice and Yeva redesign

this is the second time gangle's been hit by a car, so im starting to think that actually happened to her irl. maybe she became disfigured and hid herself away out of fear (hence the association with masks)

also i believe one of the other episodes implies jax might have run someone over irl.

anyway the episode was great cant wait for the finale

V with her prom dress, I missed her sm🥹

Non-au stuff...for a moment💫💫

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Og screenshot under cut! 💫

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here's the rest of the human designs! 👁️👁️

girl why u so :3

Mini Uzi visiting a local lagoon >:3

Heheheheheheehe

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

CLAIM YOUR FREE BADGE HERE!!!

Uzi: “My toxic trait is that I truly believe I could win a fight against anybody if I was mad enough. My opponent may have the strength and size, but I have the pure, unfiltered rage!”

N: “It’s true. That’s why I always say sorry, even if I don’t totally mean it.”

Uzi: “… excuse me?”

N, already on his knees: “I’m sorry.”

N: “Did you know there’s a word for when you can’t sleep at night so you eat instead?”

Uzi: “Depression.”

N: “… insom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nia.”

if we're gonna compare Caine to AM we've got to do it right

Uzi: “I’ve got an idea!”

N: “Does it involve breaking the law?”

Uzi: “By now, don’t you think that’s a given?”

N: “I was just trying to be optimistic.”

V: “Don’t bother.”

WHOS READY FOR TADC EP 8!!!!

N: “I don’t get this thing, guys.”

Uzi: “Oh, it’s a Rubix cube. Gimme that junk.”

Uzi: “Just give it a little shuffle, and boom!”

N: “Woah, you solved it that quickly?”

Uzi: “No, I gave up.”

also i'm really glad that nothing bad happened to kinger, when he didn't get Normal under the bucket for a long while i thought that caine erased the remainder of his sanity when he took him away at the beginning

Cyn: “The worker colony is doomed. I have poisoned the oil supply.”

Nori: “Actually, because you poisoned the oil supply, we discovered that the colony’s pipe infrastructure is really severely outdated. So thank you for bringing our attention to that. Millions of drones could have gotten really sick over the next few years. Uh, secondly, because you snuck past the security system so easily, we found out that funds specifically for that security system was being embezzled by JC Jenson. So we’ve busted a major fraud ring. And finally, the pathogen you unleashed does give drones mild diarrhea, but we found it also is a great source of vitamin C!”

N: “Mm, I’d say she’s a -1.5, maybe -2.”

V: “N, what the f-?!”

N, panicked at the sudden realization that he should’ve phrased that better: “YOUR EYESIGHT. I MEANT YOUR PRESCRIPTION.”

TADC Episode 8 Spoilers

Jax’s “Oh my God. This is *real*.”

Just… that single line carries so much weight and suggests that Jax genuinely convinced himself it wasn’t real, he coped himself into denying everything until he couldn’t.

(Also the fact that Kinger saying it was enough to convince him- like he didn’t believe Abel, but he DOES believe Kinger because for him, Kinger even being sane rocks his view.)

After therapy, Uzi left crying.

V: “What happened?”

N: “Today was ‘tell to your partner the darkest truth.’”

V: “What could you have said…”

N: “I told her she was the cutest, even among a bunch of the most cutest drones, she would still be the cutest. And in the ‘cutest drone contest’, she would win first prize without even participating.”

Uzi wails.

N: “ACCEPT IT!!!”

Caine: “I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files.”

KINGER AND QUEENIE MATCH BECAUSE THEIR “MIND FILES” SHOWED THEY WERE A PAIR EVEN WHEN THEY DIDN’T RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER

OOOUUUGHH THEY WERE SO IN LOVEEEE

I think it would be really really funny if Pomni was touch adverse (she cannonly is) so no hugs, no pets, noo cuddles, etc.

BUT

For a weird reason she's perfectly relaxed when picked up by the ears of her hat, sat on top of, thrown or flopped onto a bed or soft surface, squeezed a tad too tight, or given harsh pats to the head. Everyone thinks Jax is being an asshole when they catch him using her like a stool, sitting on her. Turns out that's him being nice to her and she's very well and relaxed

King of the Circus 🦋👑🎪