#It was a weird one

[lienwyn]

I haven't drawn using regular graphite in literal years so I decided to do a bit of a warm-up to see if I still remember how. Turns out I do!

[crookshanks23]

Ok. So I finally re-listened to episode 34. It's a weird one. I certainly enjoyed moments of it. The stand up is wonderfully cringe. And then the space stuff is just weird to me. I think it was too much for my brain to have these two very disparate things in one episode. Still enjoyable overall, but not one I think I'll revisit too often.

I am super intrigued by what they're going to find at JPL. And how long Scary's "madness" is going to last. Definitely not sure where the next one is going to go at all. And I'm thoroughly enjoying the ride.

[angelicgarnet]

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[planefood]

rules for thee and not for me

[stemmmm]

one more one more

same au thing as last time

[cosmicpines]

I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.

Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.

Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:

(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)

But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:

If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.

Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.

Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.

...Hence "so much blood."

(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)

[bone-evidence]

Last night I had a dream that aliens were visiting us on a space station type thing, took the form of human women to come see us so they wouldn't scare the shit out of us, and that I was reading greeting cards to them because they didn't know how to read human languages???

[whoareyoueventhough]

last night I had a dream that I met Bill and Ted, and I complimented Bills crop top and said something about how I would wear crop tops if my body was less bogus and he put a hand on my shoulder and said “what’s truly bogus is the way you think about yourself” and Ted nodded solemnly and then I woke up

[lokh]

communication is key 💪

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[heather-chandlers-weirder-cousin]

this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

[bread--quest]

visitor at our museum made a comment today that made me question a lot of things so i'm making a poll about it

the scenario: it is a beautiful day outside and by beautiful i of course mean "cloudy with a chance of rain". sky is gray. smells rainy. possibly already drizzling. you don't really know How rainy it's going to get, but there will definitely be Sky Water happening for a good portion of the day.

also feel free to mention where you're from, if you think it's relevant or just want to give a shout out to your location

[therealraewest]

Laios cuts the tags outta his clothes like an autistic king confirmed

[that--witchling]

This reminds me of this really weird dream I had recently where the giant red pillar candle on my altar (it's currently unused) just lit itself? I was like ??? Lady Athena??? But no, her candle is the grey one on my desk... I was so confused that I woke up in my dream and called for her before waking up in real life.

SIGNS A DEITY IS REACHING OUT

THEIR SIGNS AND SYMBOLS SHOW UP IN RANDOM PLACES

YOU DREAM OF THE DEITY OR THEIR SYMBOLS

YOU CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT ONE DEITY IN PARTICULAR

YOU'RE GOING THROUGH LIFE EXPERIENCES RELATING TO THE DEITY