#just mephone and the shimmers

[hyfinart]

2am art is interesting 2 look back at in the morning 2 say the least

[a-coolrock]

“the past is a grotesque animal” 8” x 10” canvas with acrylic paint, crayon, oil pastel, posca pen, & nail polish

i started this one the same day i started the last one if it wasn’t obvious by the theme of fan being the focus and an of montreal song being the inspiration,,, i just finished this one later because it’s bigger & i WANTED to use clay on this but i don’t know where my clay is….. MAYBE I’LL FIND IT NEXT TIME!!!!!! (HOPEFULLY) ALSO i know this one’s more choppy and messy and not as clean/flat colored as the last painting but that was SORT OF the point and also I REALLY DONT LIKE PAINTING LAYERS IT TAKES TOO LONG AND I AM VERY IMPATIENT … so i use crayon instead heheh

other versions as well!!!!! this time i put the non-shiny/glittery one as a secondary variation because the quality is SO BAD AND IT SCREWED THE COLORS UP . also kind of figured out how to get the glow in the dark to show up on camera … it’s brighter in real life & i had to use SO MANY FILTERS just 4 that 2 show up…….

[tiedsh0es]

Thinking abt the shimmer's finally bringing Mephone4 home-- but Mephone brings 3Gs with him. Bc despite everything he still sees the other Meeple creations as family and he still wants that family around.

And the Shimmer's let him do it, but 3Gs just KNOWS that they recognize him. He's the phone that stole away their young all those years ago. He's the very reason Mephone never got to grow up with them in the first place. Everything Mephone shares with 3Gs about what it was like to live with Cob's he realizes is his fault.

It's clear the Shimmer's don't trust him, some still even fear him, and he doesn't blame them. How could he? He did this.

And obviously, obviously 3Gs isn't the one to blame in this situation. But who is going to tell him that?

[wheucto]

cobs i'm afraid support for your life is ending, old man

[ii-meeple-confessions]

I've seen a lot of cool shimmer4 posts I love, but I can't help but think it MIGHT not go as smoothly as "Shimmers take in mephone4 and go to their home planet" Because like, Meeple and the other Mephones are still a part of Mephone. The FIRST thing the shimmers did when spotting Mephone was trying to blast him. and you cant blame them, his brothers stole their kids! But that being the very first encounter with his bio family is uh. not good. Also they DEFINITELY will still have beef with 3gs (He just got out of the closet man) Also they killed Mephone1 and 2... (Also idk how Mephone stll works without the egg considering he was powered by it. Wasn't that part of him shouldn't he be dead???)

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[lettermanjack]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJAJSHHSBDHDHDBDH/POS

THE FAMILY FR FR THEY DESERVE TO BE HAPPY WITH EACH OTHER.

New found family au crossover Blu! Mephone gets the father he needed and GKGG Cobs gets the son he lost/lh

when the father & son but different aus

i honestly have a plan, a angsty “first interaction” comic, liek the other two (the mephone and 4s ones), but my brain went “nah” and the closest to that “angsty comic” is smol comic on the left side,, and i did these random doodles too

GKGG AU (Cobs) belongs to @maxphilippa

Blue Eyes AU (Mephone4) belongs to @lettermanjack

[pankielovesfan]

ii16 spoilers under cut

(Analysis of what the episode implies/means for Fan more specifically)

HELLO. SO. I kind of predicted this.

These are specifically about Fan glitching in episode 14, and about PEOPLE OVERLOOKING IT!!! I always KNEW there was something more to it.

Fan glitching is both similar to Springy's glitching, but also the Shield and Tree Mephone made. So automatically I thought, Mephone generated Fan. He can generate things! But, I honestly did not expect this to be true. It felt too easy. (so i instead went with; when mephone regenerates the contestants they are "built" out of his code, so close at least....?) But. Well. You saw the episode. And I am a sucker for these tropes and I have been incredibly interested in what this means for Fan specifically, considering he was made SPECIFICALLY to be a fan of Inanimate Insanity.

Here's me talking about the idea about a month ago:

As we all know, Fan's entire character is that he's a fan. That's the number 1 obvious thing. He was another "stereotype" as labeled by Mephone along with the other season 2 newbies. For almost every character it has been repeated that they are "more than what they are", which makes even more sense with the reveal. However, with this knowledge... What the Flip does this mean for Fan.

His entire arc has always been about his identity problems, and his extreme attachment to his identity as the #1 fan, which he STILL latches onto and puts so much of his confidence in. Almost like that... IS his purpose. Is everything he's ever known. All he had. But that was not only an emotional thing, he was quite literally created just to be the biggest Inanimate Insanity fan. That's his ACTUAL purpose. WHICH IS NOW MAKING ME CRAZY.

With this in mind, you realize how Fan being created is actually hidden in his arc. The writing doesn't make you consider the possibility, because the arc and personality work so well to hide it. This is shown most well once the prime shimmer asks him what he is beyond the show, to which he hesitates to respond to, saying he doesn't know. This whole scene is now in a completely new perspective to me. He ACTUALLY doesn't know. His identity literally IS built around the show, that's what he was made to be. That's all he's ever been.

I had mentioned Fan having parallels to Bot.

Something along the lines of this. Your identity being One Thing but then realizing you can be more than that, that's the main parallel here. WHICH- IS EVEN MORE INSANE CONSIDERING THIS EPISODE NOW. Fan was ALSO made with a purpose to be ONE thing, Fan (and Test Tube) was quite literally repeating the same thing Mephone did- the same thing that happened to them, but even more so with Fan specifically.

The one thing I keep thinking about is how Inanimate Insanity is still a big part of Fan's life. That's still something he loves so much and ties to his identity even with his development of trying new things. How would he react when he realizes he's forever tied to the show he was made to love? That he's forever attached to Inanimate Insanity, no matter what?? HE WAS MADE BY MEPHONE, THE HOST OF HIS FAVOURITE SHOW THAT HIS ENTIRE EXISTANCE IS FOR?? THAT HIS LOVE IS GENERATED? Compared to other contestants, Fan is... even more stuck in the show. He literally surrounds himself with it even when outside of it. Honestly was Mephone projecting when he created Fan or something???

Fan describing him being eliminated as literally dying is kind of even more tragic now. sad!

His whole reality would be shattered if he found out. I don't think he'd have time to think: "wow I'm actually EXISTING for Inanimate Insanity and that actually IS my purpose? and I AM truly the number 1 fan because that's what my entire identity actually IS built on????" While that would validate him and help his insecurities, Fan would be. Well. When your entire person is created to be passionate and dedicated to the thing you were created FOR and you even made prior appearances JUST to serve as the fanbase and nothing more. I don't even know dude. He'd be in so much denial over it. He'd start to question the sincerity of his love, or, something. At least he's made with the things he loves: creative passion. Which he was also made to love . but whatever,

You'd probably think he'd at some point try to separate even more from Inanimate Insanity. Honestly I think the opposite. after his initial denial i believe he'd latch onto it even HARDER. I think he'd just start regressing to old coping mechanisms to deal with it.

The fact he was created FOR the purpose of being ONLY THE FAN Also makes me realize something about him and Test Tube. On one of his tumblr posts he mentions how Test Tube introduced him to so many new things and ideas he had no idea he could be so excited about, because he's always been just tied to Inanimate Insanity and nothing beyond that, as he felt there was nothing else to care about. Test Tube offers the support of opportunities, even as early as when they first met, and especially in Hatching the Plan once she made him realize there was more out there.

It just makes me go completely insane how most of Fan's arc is so built on the fact his entire existence is to serve as a fan, and that wasn't even just an emotional thing or whatever he quite literally felt like he was nothing but a fan. I need to sit down. or draw art inspired by this cause good god. Hey fan you're basically made from technology the thing you really love! haahaa... at least that love comes from a real place right? I mean. In short. Fan is just... made out of what he loves.

[justin-chapmanswers]

do objects age?? like were any of the contestants at one point children or like some sort of equivalent to it? or were they created as they are now? what about ,,,, idk how i would put this uhhh real objects? like objects not connected to melife or created with melife? (DO THOSE EVEN EXIST?? DID MEPHONE CREATE EVERYONE EVEN SIDE CHARACTERS??) do they age? seeing all the flashbacks with mephone tells me they do not. but cobs created mephone for specific purposes i assume so it would probably be inconvenient to build a child who is incapable of doing the things you ask it to do or like program mephone to become old and die

MeLife creations don't age. Just born as they are. They could potentially get style updates and new memories inserted since they're connected to MeLife. Cobs probably does age though!

And right so everyone we've seen so far can be found in one of the following categories:

-MeLife Creations

-Meeple Creations

-Shimmers

-Spring-bots? (this one's complicated)

-Cobs

-Bot

-Baxter

[ziocio]

Fan knew too much.

But there's something bigger than just that.

Where did he get the Mephone from?.. if it was the first time he ever went to Meeple in season 2 episode 8?..

He had these devices since the second episode (unless i missed smth in episode 1)

How did he get the phone? When? The laptop?

Cobs has been in control the whole time.

"It was generated by Mephone" No it wasn't. Soap's phone didn't disappear at the end of s2e17.

It's a real mephone. From Meeple.

Did he get it from Cobs?...

Not Cobs personally, just in general. Like it got shipped to him?..

Did Cobs.. want this?...

Was it a way for Cobs to keep an eye on the contestants and Mephone4 more closely??...

Fan constantly blogged. Online.

I'm sure Cobs could've seen them.

And.. if Cobs didn't personally send the phone to Fan himself.. did Mephone4 provide it?.. to keep the stereotype of Fan accurate?

I doubt Mephone4 would've.

The meeple phones are...

Really suspicious.

Cobs knows they're fake. Fake creations made by Mephone4. Why would he provide them internet access unless it were for his own gain.

Then Test Tube grants Fan his own original phone.

No longer associated with Meeple.

Their "rebellion" against the company after Fan lost his original phone.

This phone here is created with the tools Test Tube had. So it's fake compared to the realness of mephones.

So now they're no longer connected to Meeple on that fashion... but...

Speaking of the original phone...

Fan's original mephone was left on the Shimmers ship.

The mephones are very very important to the story in several ways.

In this scene, Fan wasn't even holding the phone when he dropped it.

It flung out of whatever invisible pocket he had.

This is either:

A. Left behind for the Shimmers to use in the finale

B1. Intense foreshadowing of Mephone4 going with the Shimmers

B2. Foreshadowing Mephone4's relationship with the shimmers

C. IF Cobs planned this from the start, the phone being on the Shimmers ship can cause chaotic karma.

No matter what happens.. Cobs truly was watching the whole time.

And the phones are always important.

Whether they're alive, like Mephone4, or not.

Also Soap possibly stole a phone from Meeple while she was there.

If that's true, then Cobs calling Soap a thief in that episode was crazy foreshadowing that she actually was a thief.

[mxleedy]

i love this show so much cries

the last episode in review for inanimate insanity EVER!!!!

as always, SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 18 OF INANIMATE INSANITY SEASON TWO!!!!!

holy shmowzow

this was a fantastic episode, such a fun and satisfying way to end everything off yknow

let’s get into it!!!!

this first segment was heartbreaking.

seeing mephone reflect on everything he’s done and seeing the consequences of his actions was such an incredibly crafted sequence. his disassociation, his distance from what’s happening, it really shows how traumatic all this is for him. mephone has lost everyone he has ever loved, and he’s stuck with a man who has done nothing but demean and hurt him. he feels hopeless, and the song in this segment also gorgeously captures that.

his slow walk to the cliff edge, looking over everything he’s lost, only for cobs to pull him away? amazing, mephone’s not really there because there’s nothing to be there for, and cobs is trying to pull him back into reality.

this idea of like a cloud in mephone after everyone was deleted was so interesting, like i get it was forshadowed and all but its so cool that its so non-linear too

anyway, BOX?? i’ll be real, i was always a box hater, and i’m glad to know that alive box is too. she’s actually such a cool character though and i totally love her. her and suitcase both having experiences with drowning was so interesting too, like okay i see you brown retangular characters who were somewhat meek but grew from that and also have had bad experienced with water.

also, ahem ahem, new suitcase ship?

also, just because i understand that tumblr has a photo limit, seeing mephone stand up to cobs by warning the prime shimmer was wonderful. he’s finally taking action to amend what he’d done. granted, it didn’t really work out, but what matters is that he tried right?

i am so glad they canonically met

they’re two characters that have grown from their anger filled behaviour and (ultimately) end up making a sacrifice for the people they love. they’re also just violent idiots at some points, and i think that’s really great for them.

also, KNICKLE CRUMBS, 4s comforting knife after he expresses his upsetness about pickle ough my heart.

now all of the hug scenes were very cute but WHAT.

this felt like a 35 minute payjay makeout scene because i was not expecting this. salt’s total freakout was hilarious too, alongside pepper’s awkward congratulations, though i can tell salt will NOT be coping well with the realisation of the guy she’s pining over being gay.

also, i’m not adding the photo for this one, but the starfruit and guava drama went crazy i loved it

WAAAAAH

this was an incredible scene for mepad, because it really emphasises his core values. its clear that he adores the contestants, his actions since he’s arrived have made that very clear. but he’s also incredibly selfless, you have to be to make a sacrifice like that. he’s always seen potential in every character, and i think people forget that sometimes. he dislikes mephone because mephone doesn’t acknowledge the contestants’ efforts, and that he withholds information from them for his own benefit. he’s just such an incredible character

also, i’m honestly not all that surprised that the genocidal business ceo pulled out a branded knife to stab his creation, thats all i wanted to say.

this is such a pivotal moment for knife.

it’s representative of his atonement for what he’s done wrong as a whole. he sacrificed his safety for someone who despised him due to what heMd done in the past. he was the type not to tolerate these kinds of people, and its just wonderful seeing him overcome such things and move forth yknow

this was hilarious actually, also offering it up to mephone was insane

knickle crumbs,,,,,,,,, i love them so much

also knife becoming a ghost was hilarious to me because i’m currently writing a fic about PICKLE being a ghost but oh well new au i guess??

DO YOU SEE THESE LOOKS OK like you’re in love with him little buddy

also taco being petty about pickle’s forgiveness for mephone shows that she still has a really long way to go in terms of genuinely apologising, and i really hope she gets there eventually yknow

this was overall a really sweet ending for a fantastic show, and i am so happy it ended the way it did. sure it was a little silly at points, but inanimate insanity always has been. a bug musical number featuring all the songs from episodes past just felt like the perfect way to finish up a show like this.

as someone who’s been watching this show since 2015, this ending meant a lot to me, because its an ending to a big part of my life as well (to a degree, i will not be ceasing posting). and i feel like this episode beautifully shows that yes the future’s unpredictable and unknown, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep going anyway. build your own future yknow!!

but yeah, this was fantastic, and words cannot express how grateful i am for inanimate insanity as a whole. thank you animation epic, for everything.

[hyfinart]

cw // shimmer death! not graphic just cracked egg but just in case!

what's wrong, mephone?

[pencilgutz]

ii17 spoilers, mainly me rambling and theorizing

WHAT THE FUCK GUYS

IM GOING INSANE

okay there is no possible way they are ending it on that, because we still have to worry about the shimmers, cobs said he needed to 'save his company' as well as just....movies have three acts, there has to be one more then it's not really a 'Movie' is it?

Also, I thought about Bot. Is Bot going to play a role? Because they weren't made by Mephone, They were made by Fan and Test Tube, AND it is confirmed that if they died, they would not be able to come back, so meaning they have no Melife profile.

Which means, THEY WERE NOT MADE USING THE SHIMMERS. BOT IS STILL THERE, AND ALIVE.

WHAT IF BOT GOES AFTER COBS TO GET MEPHONE BACK.

BOT HAS TO BE A HUGE PLOTPOINT FOR THE THIRD ACT. THERE HAS TO BE A THIRD ACT BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH TO BE EXPLAINED.

I DON'T THINK BOT WOULD BE DELETED WHEN THEY PULLED THE PLUG BECAUSE AGAIN, THEY WERE NOT MADE BY MEPHONE.

DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT IM GETTING AT HERE

THERE

HAS

TO BE AN ACT THREE

[porter-pumpkim]

Brain moment

Mephone made the contestants, he made silver and candle, candle has the "inner flame" which manifests with greater power and a 3rd eye, aswell as speaking without speaking in a slightly altered voice

Who else has great power, extra eyes, and speaks in a reverby way without a mouth? SHIMMER

What if mephone just subconsciously made someone who can actually use the dormant abilities he himself has? And seeing as it's said this power can be unlocked for others, as seen with silver, it could just be dormant shimmer energy within the contestants

Conclusion, candle has the most shimmer like traits unlocked when she was created but sense mephone doesn't know wtf a shimmer even is he just framed it as a mystic thing

[demonoinakemono]

ive been stumped

but wait this applies to if he was biologically related to cobs too though, doesnt it? using real world logic causes some issues

i like to bend the rules when something doesnt go how i want it so maybe thats what you did, i dunno

Don't worry kids - Momma Tessa will keep you safe! :D

- 💙

"I'm going with them, Fin. You and Cabby will need to take the rest of the kids."

[wheucto]

an ii/su crossover would be fun just for the trichotomy of light-based beings. inorganic light/organic light/whatever the ii contestants are

[ecto-hazard]

im surprised there's people who think that cobs is lying about mephone making the contestants. like nah they were hinting at this all over the place. this is absolutely what happened here. just cause cobs is supposed to be some evil mastermind doesnt mean that its not true?

if anything, narratively speaking, i feel like itd be more disappointing if it was a lie. the main theme of this show that's being developed is becoming your own person in spite of what you were designed to be. mephone is more than one of cob's devices. bot is more than a copy of bow.

taco was right in that playing this game is taking a toll on their lives, but their doing it anyway. it seems like many characters haven't found happiness till they found purpose beyond the game. we see that in marshmallow and apple moving to purgatory mansion. we see that with lightbulb realizing she doesn't have to win for her friends. oj running the hotel, fan and test tube creating bot, etc. it seems like the characters who tried to stay in the game were doing it just because, well, what else is there for them? and when they found what else they could do, the game didn't matter as much anymore.

fan's probably one of the biggest examples of this in action, especially with the scene with the prime shimmer that's been pointed out numerous times now. he didn't even know who he was. he felt like he was nobody outside the show. and seeing the show break down from its normal pattern broke him, cause he had to face the reality of finding something outside of the show. he had to leave his shell and find out what else is out there. that's really scary when you realize this pattern was all you ever had

idk just some thoughts. like if the show turned around and was like nope it was all a lie lol, it just wouldn't make sense to me. i think this is the chance for them to become their own people, and that would bring the theme of this show full circle