#a romance of many dimensions

[bohemiarock2]

Mr. Square series consists of 4"X5" gesso treated cardboard with mixed media. There is approximately 400 pieces.

Mr. Square is the protagonist taken, based, inspired from Edwin Abbott Abbott's novela, FLATLAND (A Romance In Many Dimensions)

[gfanlocalcryptid]

I was reading "A Romance Of Many Dimensions" and the Axolotl really said to Bill after meeting once him in a dream: "I like you, little one. I will give you free will, immortality and infinite power. You will be able to inspire people trough dreams and be the best person ever. Really.

Oh, but you can also be a tyrant and a warlord, destroy universes and lead everything to chaos. Revenge, hatred and fear. So choose carefully what your path will be, because in the end, for better or worse, we will meet again."

And all of this is wonderful, but we readers know that Bill is a dangerous instable person, sooo...

[ciphercalamitiez]

Uhhh

yyyeeeeaaahh

[alicec-666]

Drawing Bill non-stop and opening a separate Instagram account for him be like...

... I think I need help

[irregularbillcipher]

this joke has a target audience of approximately 6 people worldwide

[twptwp]

More Flatland 2007

Below is little comic

[snailstrailz]

Flat dreams 💾

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[invertedshroom]

figuring out flatland designs and also some oc ideas (idk what to name them yet)

[shapesenthusiastz]

Reread Flatland for the 10281938th times and suddenly got the strong urge to draw them so yeahhh

Im glad more ppl are discovering Flatland because of TBOB! I am so happy Bill's character and backstory are finally confirmed to be inspired by Flatland!(as if it wasn't already obvious from the start)

[ninten-draw]

[gfanlocalcryptid]

Kryptos: "That’s…"

Bill: "That's the Plane burning. Admire the perfection of chaos, listen to how the fire I created sings."

Kryptos: "What... what did you do..."

Bill: "No one believed me and nobody would have. Only you were on my side. You’re the only one who deserved to be saved."

Kryptos: "Oh, how wrong I was. He really was insane."

[katiekatdragon27]

A silly assortment of Flatland shitposts from yours truly~

Some of these are older than others lol.

Og images below cut:

Have a good one dudes!

[3d-rulez]

The apostle!!!!

[rjalker]

Flatland adaptations

[ID: A version of the "missing the point", meme, showing a purple square shouting in all caps, Holy shit other dimensions exist", while staring at a green sphere that intersects with his plane, while the sphere says, with the words literally going over the square's head, "Racism, ableism, misogyny, and classism are bad.". End ID.]

how come I've watched three full length Flatland movies and many shorter animations but only one of them, which is in Italian, which I don't speak, ever has anything to say about the political themes of the book and instead just goes "woah cool interdimensional theory!"???

[John Crichton voice] Where's my damn political commentary?

Why do people want to just throw out all the criticism of systemic bigotry to focus only on the dimensional stuff?

Edit: Yes, this 1000% applies to the 2007 Flatland film. It is not exempt at all. It is one of the main things I was thinking of while making this. A few seconds of absurdist humor does not mean the 2007 Flatland film is scathing political commentary that forces the audience to think about systems of inequality and question whether they might not be upholding some that are just as absurd and made up to keep people in power.

[ID: The same meme as above, now with a hybercube or tesseract saying, "Racism, ableism, misogyny, and classism are bad.", with the yellow A Sphere from the 2007 Flatland film staring at it in open-mouthed shock, exclaiming, "Wow!! Absurdist humor!!!" while the point flies over his head. End ID.]

Edit August 20 2024: Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 Flatland film, is disgustingly fucking racist and misogynistic. He is literally a proud conservative.

He made a political ad in 2011 that's literally so blatantly racist and misogynistic that youtube has literally restricted it so you literally cannot share the link outside of youtube.

Because it's that blatantly fucking bigoted.

I wish I could say I'm shocked but considering how terribly the 2007 film handles the themes of the original novel, I'm not surprised in the least.

The ad literally has Black men chanting, "give me your cash bitch so we can shoot up the street", while a white woman, with the face of the politician the add is against photoshopped over her, pole dances as a sex worker.

He runs a tumblr account so make sure you block him. His username is filmladd.

He's literally a racist misogynistic conservative.

For the love of all that's holy everyone please stop defending this film immediately and make sure people are aware of exactly what kind of person produced it.

[bagelsbites]

Here's a bunch of renders I did for another assignment! These characters are A. Square and A. Sphere from the book/movie: "Flatland: A romance of many dimensions" I wanted to make some designs for them that were more "humanoid" and I'm pleased with how these turned out!!