#THIS PILOT IS FUCKING AMAZING

[boothyghost]

get you a man that can do both

[khaopybara]

❝Penguin. I saw a documentary on them. They are adorable, but can be pretty vicious. Sounds like you.❞

FIRST KANAPHAN as KANT PATTANAWATand KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as BISON episode 3 of THE HEART KILLERS

[rainbowbeanstyles]

every time i listen to this song it feels like the first time

[theoutlier876]

A drawing I did for one of my favorite games!

This one turned out SOOO good! Mixing my new sketch style with some techniques from older drawings, this non-descript pilot looks fuckin sexy.

(The only specifics are the satchel b/c I’m an absolute gremlin with it and an alternator b/c I like the look and it’s one handed, I don’t particularly use it that often tho)

Bonus versions I couldn’t let go of below

btw the background is the only thing I traced over, the pilot was form scratch

[wienners]

"is gooseworx upset about digital circus becoming a cocomelon ass thing id be so angry lol" I cannot express to you how much they have achieved the DREAM for an online indie animator. they got millions of views with A PILOT ALONE! the original characters are already being cosplayed and the models are being thrown into random ass meme videos as if its a massively famous IP! all that with an indie 3D studio! AND the cg actually looks incredible!!! think they're gonna be okay if some content farms use their models for some brainrot finger family video.

[modgirlyreposts-revamped]

I don't really go here, but all the members in The Amazing Digital Circus are in a polyamorous relationship methinks

[nosetoons]

are pomni plush memes dead

[sol-consort]

the human willingness to date synthetics is probably jarring to the rest of the galactic species

You'd think the first organic/synthetic couple would've been a quarian and a geth. But nope, it's just some human pilot and the unshackled AI of his ship

[legobabyofficial]

I found god in the DC gizz pit

[ambereddragonfire]

i think her skin has the texture and temperature of clay

[suns-blood]

Fuck if I think about the lore for too long the Implications start to loom over me and then I want to do nothing except lay down

[bloodyjinx58]

I will NEVER get over how Adult Swim mistreated Moral Orel. All because the show treated serious topics with the seriousness they deserve instead of just passing them off ass jokes that provide zero commentary on the world.

From the start, the show was obviously a commentary on Christianity, generational trauma, and religious trauma. It handled it in a satirical manner, of course, but it understood the issues it showed us, making a lot of it rather tasteful and relatable.

“Make it deeper and more fucked up!” They told the writers, after the first season had an episode where the joke was that a child impregnates the women of his town against their will due to a little misunderstanding.

And they did, giving us an episode in the last season that, in a way, is very similar to the infamous baby batter episode. A commentary on sexual assault and how women, the most common victims of such a crime, handle the problem. A woman desiring the touch of her rapist, a woman age regressing due to assault from a young age, and a woman with an odd obsession with eggs and purity due to abusive mutilation done by her mother.

Alone was an episode that didn’t just speak to me, but screamed. Never before had I seen these issues be shown in such a way in media. Especially the parts with Nurse Bendy and Miss Sculptham.

As a victim myself, I felt seen by this supposedly silly adult animated show. The feelings of desiring an innocent family, to no longer be treated as just a sexual object. The struggle of desiring the touch and abuse from the one that hurt you in one of the worse ways imaginable.

I cannot stress how important that is to have in media, to have these issues carefully handled to tell the story of victims that so many turn their eyes away from. It’s the disgusting truth of life, the disgusting truth of what so many women are forced to experience.

But it wasn’t funny.

It didn’t turn these women and their traumas into a punchline.

You couldn’t just laugh and continue to never look into the reality it satirized like in earlier episodes.

Adult Swim clearly did not like that.

Rape, being treated like a joke in that episode from the first season, wasn’t too deep or fucked up according to Adult Swim. But once they were forced to look that reality in the eye, to see truth and to question their own views, it was “too much.” Rape and abuse are only acceptable when you’re just making fun of it and the victims.

Moral Orel deserved to be a long story that delved into all the disturbing things society wants to ignore. Adult animation deserves to be a medium for more than just rape jokes and cursing.

Fuck Adult Swim.

[imlivinginyourtrashcan]

I WANT THIS GIRL FUCKING MEAN AND ANGRY

[symbioticsimplicity]

I have a theory that someone else has probably already put out but I haven't seen it so here we go.

I don't think Alastor is actually all that powerful.

Propaganda under the cut.

There are a lot of things that make me think this but we'll start with the first and frankly most obvious to me.

His methodology. Alastor's main thing is making contracts and deals. When we're first introduced to him in the pilot, its with a warning to never make a deal with him. While plenty of other Overlords obviously wheel and deal, I think Alastor's are different. They're more binding and more dangerous because they're his modus operandi.

Another thing is his seeming lack of territory. Every Overlord has actual terf that we see them in, except for Alastor. This could be from lack of interest, or due to having been gone so long, or what have you but it seemed like a strange thing to have not mentioned. In addition, Carmilla, who was leading a meeting on the property and interests of all the represented Overlords and how to protect it, was utterly dismissive of his sudden return. Which to me implies that whatever he controls is likely minimal at best. Meaning him being there is pretty inconsequential to the larger picture. Dude was able to disappear for seven years and it was mostly fine? So what does he actually have?? (My only thought honestly is that maybe the air is his space since radio waves and all. That would honestly be broke as hell but there's no real evidence for this, is would just be really cool.) As much as Vox as making a dig at him, he did have a good point that the reach of radio has certainly died down over the years. While that alone doesn't mean Alastor's power has waned, its not really a *good* sign for him. He still has speakers all over but that and one really rundown store front with a single radio are really the only traces we see of him outside of the hotel.

This bit is conjecture, but when talking about his past, not only does no one ever mention HOW he killed so many powerful Overlords, they don't go into detail about much at all. There's every chance that he could have contracted them the same way he did with Husk and either forced or waited for them to break their end of their deals and THEN used them as fodder to terrorize the masses. Most of his power comes from fear and word of mouth. Most people don't even bother fucking with him because they've heard the stories, or the broadcast.

Which brings me to my next point: The Broadcasts. There are a LOT of ways that Alastor and Vox parallel each other and I can't help but wonder if using their medium to deceive people isn't one of them. So far a lot of the magic we see Alastor use is largely illusionary. Phantoms and shadows and temporary changes of environment. So what if his broadcasts are the same? What if he DOESN'T kill the Overlords he claims to have and instead used his broadcast to simulate it instead. Like War of the Worlds, but on purpose. Honestly it would be smart of him, especially if he's NOT as strong as he seems. This is also conjecture but if he made deals with those Overlords instead, he could still have them stashed away somewhere and just be calling on them and their power as needed. (Also: Husk. This man is a constant pain in the ass and usually disrespectful at best. The only time he pops off on him about it though is when Husk mentions his deal which is really just a big No-No. But he still only *threatens him* which to me implies that he actually does need him. If not for his services, even if only for the power granted by his contract. In the same way that Val doesn't actually kill Angel or anything because he can't REALLY afford to, so he controls him in other ways. If Al isn't this super strong demon, he can't really afford to just go wasting the contracts hes got due to momentary irritation when he can bring them back to heel with some light terror.)

The next thing that makes me think he's probably not super powerful is his fight with Adam. Not because he lost (I firmly believe he only actually lost because he was fucking around most of the time/ wasn't fighting for loved ones) but because of the form he took to do it. He was in a life or death fight with an ostensibly high ranking angel, and yet he didn't pull out anything more than he would have used to fight other sinners. Sure, that could be him being prideful, but I just don't think so. Home boy was being recorded and presumably knew that, if he was being prideful shouldn't he have gone balls to the wall??

In relation to that, he also made a deal himself. Not that we know what it was for or who its with, but would someone as control oriented as Alastor really make a deal if he didn't HAVE to? Overlords don't just DO that, there had to have been a compelling reason and honestly assuming Alastor isn't as strong as he makes himself out to be gives a very good opening for it.

Smaller detail, but it still matters, the smiling. He very clearly uses it as both a shield and a tool to help him maintain control of a situation. Thats not really the kind of thing you think of and commit to if you're the strongest person in the room. Covering up weaknesses obsessively is the sort of thing someone who's fronting does so their secret stays exactly that.

In the same vein, the way he reacted to Lucifer. He was threatened, which is understandable given that Luci is leagues above even the strongest Overlords, but I think it was slightly more than that. Having Lucifer around would make it drastically obvious very quickly that Al isn't as strong as he claims. So of course he tries to unbalance the situation and put focus somewhere else, the same as he always does. (Its actually the same thing he does in his duet with Vox. I'm almost certain Vox IS actually stronger than Alastor but hes so wrapped up in Al's head games he might never notice.)

It's honestly unclear if this has always been the case with him, or if its a result of his deal or his time away or something else entirely, but to me it seems incredibly likely. Alastor mostly keeps order and power through fear, not through enormous shows of power. And even those when he does them are strategic and mostly against opponents he knows are weaker than him. He's clever as all fuck, and still very dangerous for it but I don't think hes actually all that physically powerful.

[puppyeared]

save me old flipnote studio MVs.......