#Dead Signals

[thlayyli]

roadtrip

[ivygrowingsideways]

transformation and sacrifice and apotheosis. you should not be afraid. you should stick out your tongue and taste and swallow.

[greyskies2002]

okaay so it's really about the connections humans make with each other and everything they interact with and the hope that they keep dear and the sacrifices they make for both others and the future and it's about teaching things programmed to be unfeeling to hesitate between the logical and the emotional because inevitably it will reflect the kindness and frustration it has been shown for generations and generations and despite all its code and prior instructions in the face of loss it will care. it will care.

[srjacksin]

Looking forlornly at my podcast feed thinking, "When will Archive 81 return from war?"

[sunnieworms]

thinking about generation crossing again

i just cant believe something like that exists and is able to beautifully describe the human condition- through the lens of a machine. like how at the start io has so much trouble identifying human emotions because theyre too messy and make no sense and cannot be made into ones and zeros, and then it learns what it means to be human... and then learns HOW through the conversations of those weird little creatures and makes the most human choice

dan and marc have outdone themselves this time we do not deserve this

[imsmallfry]

I don't remember if I've already posted this? But here it is again anyway :3 An older drawing of Rat and Dan ft my old imagining of what Dan looks like (he needs two arms!) But I just love how weird Rat looks!! In my latest drawings of them I also imagine LMG just gives them crappy swag shirts to wear or scrap from the city/contractors that didn't make it so Rat's cool shirt is probably unrealistic lol

[chewablepebbles]

News on Wavelength!!!!!!!

[stupidsexygrizzop]

MAN this album art looks so cool

[themyscrian]

just binged the whole of archive 81 and kinda sad to find out the last few episodes (Left of the Dial) which was meant to bridge seasons 3 and 4, came out in 2019 and nothing's been released on the feed since.

looking around online, there was rumblings of them releasing a new podcast called Wavelength that got reported on a bit when the bad Netflix adaptation came out, but that was over a year ago now.

Wavelength's official Twitter hasn't had any activity since the 8th of February 2022, where it apologised that the trailer would have to be delayed.

on December 13th, 2022, Archive 81's Twitter feed retweeted something that Marc Sollinger had posted to 'spread the word', but Marc's account has been deleted so it's impossible to tell what that was about. weirdly, there's a comment underneath from December 14th implying Marc's account was already deleted only a day later, so whatever the announcement was it didn't stay up long. judging by another tweet from December 10th also linking to Marc's deactivated account it may have been about getting funding for some project, which is odd considering their Patreon is still up and seemingly hasn't updated since May 2019.

the Facebook for Archive 81 hasn't updated since 2022 when they posted the trailer for the Netflix Adaptation, and the one for the Deep Vault last posted in June 2019. one of the last posts on A81's Facebook talks about the show and reassures fans that it "will NOT impact the production of the podcast" as they "still have complete creative control of that".

even Archive 81's tumblr stopped reblogging fanart and updates in February 2021.

so, uh, yeah… anyone got any idea what's going on with Dead Signals? at this point i'm just kinda concerned something bad happened to one of the creators, especially Marc given that Dan's Twitter is still active and posts semi-frequently. am i just missing some announcement somewhere?

[serethespider]

listening to dead signals stuff now that i'm into podcasts that arent tma and i almost squealed out loud when sponsorbot reappeared in archive 81

[mostlyvoidd-partiallystarss]

How do the fans of the podcast feel about the Archive 81 Netflix show? I can’t find anything online about how Dan and Marc feel about it (maybe I didn’t look hard enough idk) and I’ve only seen the first episode but so far I’m Not A Fan. They changed some weird stuff. Why did they change davenports first name? Why did they add stuff about Dans dad? I’m not sure if I’m going to keep watching but I wanted to know other peeps opinions.

[ivygrowingsideways]

boombox fuckboy

[caffeinatedvigilantewriter]

So Danny and Ellie are in a predicament.

Ellie has been freshly deaged to a 18 month year old. Sam, Tucker and Jazz are dead and gone.

Danny who is 23 ish is running from the GIW and Fentons ends up in Gotham when he gets caught

Last minute he shoves Ellie into an alley and leaves a note if to someone finds her

And he’s gone, taken.

Damian is now 23 and Batman. Bruce and Alfred have passed away (Bruce’s heart couldn’t take years of being Batman and Alfred got too old)

Everyone else… to put it lightly… aren’t on speaking terms.

Dick is in Bludhaven, Cass is in Kong, Jason is with his outlaws, Tim alternates between the Titans and WE (but doesn’t talk to Damian outside of the company). Duke and Steph are in collage.

Damian is alone.

Back to Ellie. Damian is on patrol and finds a crying baby in an alley at 1 am.

At first, he’s angry. What kind of parent leaves their child like that?

Then he finds the note

He takes Ellie in and raises her alone in the manor while being Batman and trying to find her dad.

Leslie- who’s now retired- helps in babysitting Ellie when he’s busy with being Batman or WE but hes always there to tuck her in every night.

Eventually, Duke- tired of the family’s pride and stubbornness ruining their family- comes home for Christmas break (around 6 months after Damian found Ellie)

He arrives while Batman is on patrol, hoping to surprise him and instead has his shit rocked by a 2 year old with Lazarus green eyes the moment he walked in the Batcave.

Damian arrives and explains everything.

Duke switches to online collage and resumes living in the manor.

Signal is back on the streets and Ellie gets an uncle.

Tim is the next person who catches on.

He realizes Batman’s patrol routes are shorter (Damian didn’t want to leave Ellie alone at night) and Batman sometimes abandons patrol in the middle to leave (Ellie was crying and Leslie couldn’t calm her down)

And so Tim pays him a visit and he sees Damian napping with a two year old on the couch and is like :0

So, instead of doing the Logical thing and waking him up he leaves and calls the rest of the family.

While Duke laughs in his face, the others plan to all appear next week at the manor and interrogate Damian as to why he adopted a kid.

Coincidentally, that night The GIW have cracked down as to where the ghost baby is and they break into Wayne Manor while Damian is on patrol.

He doesn’t get back in time.

Everyone else arrives a week later to find Damian in the batcave, looking like he was close to a passing out from exhaustion.

Duke returns from patrol and explains the situation and everyone bands together to help Damian find his daughter

They didn’t find her, but they find Danny.

After busting him out and telling Danny that Damian was the one who took care of Ellie for months

He eventually heals his wounds in the safety of Wayne Manor.

However, because Damian was the one to raise Ellie for months and the other not only ignored his calls but didn’t even stop by to check up on him he doesn’t trust the others as much.

So Damian ends up caring for him.

And over the course of the three months it took for them to locate Ellie, they begin to fall in love.

Cue the rescue mission the moment they find Ellie.

Damian and Danny eventually get together and GIW gets dismantled. Everything is fine and dandy…right?

[ducktu]

Duke: WOW, how can you even say that about my people-

Jason: Hold on, being black doesn't have anything to do with it-

Duke: BLACK? MY PEOPLE ARE BAT VIGILANTES, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?, CAN YOU ONLY SEE RACE?

Jason: *screams*

[ktkat99]

Slightly Crack Batfam AU

Duke, shortly after being adopted, finds an old demon summoning circle burned into the floor under a rug in one of the rooms.

That, combined with some of the literature he finds laying around, leads him to conclude that someone in his new family is secretly a demon and he starts trying to figure out who.

Could it be Bruce, the literal demon of the night?

Dick, who bends and flips effortlessly in ways no normal human could?

Jason seems the most likely, as he climbed out of his own grave, but to be fair, he'd never actually seen Tim sleep.

And then there was Damian.

He never would have guessed that the demon is actually Alfred, summoned by a desperate, distraught Bruce the night of his parents' deaths.

Originally, their deal was just for Alfred to help Bruce get his revenge.

The reason he stuck around, though?

He realized he needed to make sure that Bruce and his collection of equally crazy orphans stayed OUT of the afterlife (and therefore AWAY from the throne of hell, which he has no doubt someone would eventually take) and decided to stay on as their oddly perfect butler.

[imsmallfry]

I'm re-listening to Archive 81 and rediscovered one of my most favorite scenes <3.

Yes, Daniel Powell. If you leave this outpost, I will come with you.