#king of lineland

[katiekatdragon27]

Guys what is this book and what is the Bill on it? All I know is gay shapes-

A. Sphere: I'm not calling you "Good Boy" A. Square, that court case was SHIT.

Me earlier: Wow! The Book of Bill just came out, that's cool ig.

Everyone recently: *being super active in the tag, watching the movies, relogging and liking my art*

Me: *me carrying some small doodles over* WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???

Thanks for bringing me back to brainrot by spam-liking all my old posts guys I forgive none of you (/J I LOVE YOU ALL)

More stuff below cut (BE WARNED NEW FLAT-PEOPLE SOME OF IT IS LOWKEY SPOILERY):

A. Square and A. Faux Line: Damn, that circle kinda a hottie- ...

I had this silly idea after my 29374th time watching Flatland that a majority of the first part of the movie is just A. Sphere watching all the shit go down like the worst telenovela you've ever seen. Also, that A. Line was originally going to be the apostle, but... uh... she can't really do that anymore, so he banks all his money on A. Square.

Also, I thought it would be super funny of A. Square and A. Faux Line both crushed on A. Sphere when he first showed up lol. Crazy smooth priest spawns and everyone swoons.

Older Hex doodles too. I love Hex, they're such a real one the whole time. With all the faults of Sphereland, I do like Hex maining in that one. But I also like picking and choosing which things I take as canon in my own work, so you get young adult Hex with their totally not-romantically-involved-with-at-all partner Punto (P. Octagon).

It's been a bit since Flatland happened in this hypothetical, so A. Square's still around. He's trying to be supportive of his masc-nonbinary kid who likes kissing boys, but still has to be annoying with dad jokes and the occasional backhanded compliment. He means well tho.

A. Tesseract: Hello A. Square!

A. TESSERACT OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU POOKIE <3333. She's probably one of my most favorite ocs I've made (and the one that gets the most art <3) She's also the one I feel the least awkward about shoving into the source material lol. I yearn to work on A Heightlander's Escape again, but we'll see.

I just wanted to draw something cute between her and A. Square. She may or may not be the voice at the end of the movie hmmmmmmmm.

At least A. Square would end up in good hands.

"There is always something beyond. There is always INFINITY."

Just a little doodle of smth I may or may not render cuz I really like how it looks. There is always something greater after all.

Thank you all for the recent support on those old-ish drawing, y'all made my week tbh. I have a new AU cooking for this so look forward to that lol. Have a good one :)))

[meloncholicmonosodium]

king of lineland + monarch of pointland gijinka redesigns >_0

+ some old art

vv old designs vv [ that im pretty sure i havent posted here yet ]

i think i shouldve kept the sketchy linework 4 the monarch ,, im just gonna add them in future drawings

also i balded king of lineland

i dont even know why i added hair whydid i do tha

[cosmocosmiccosmivech]

Baaaahhh!!!! Voice head canons,,,

I’ll maybe make another one but otherwise I just needed to outlet my brainrot

Art used:

[ranmagender]

[ID: a picture on a white background of an axolotl to the right, its composed of light purple colors with lighter on its bottom and tail fin. its pertruding appandages by its face have darker purple edges and even darker fins around t hem. its eyes are black with white dots to indicate stars. its doing a owo face. To the right of it are doodles of bill cipher, a sphere and a square or versions of them. they are in a vertical line formation. a sphere looks unhappy and a square you can see its innards, behind them is a line between a square and a sphere and above the line is an s-shape tetramino from tetris. The Axolotl says "The truth of the multiverse is empathy and axolotls not fascism & hate!" END ID]

Had this idea of a 5th dimensional axolotl speaking to the shapes. legally distinct (TM) 5th dimensional axolototl.

[karl-raccoon-enjoyer]

Wowza a flatland post? After all these years (months)? Anyways realistically what happens if you’re a linelander and another linelander dies right next to you? Does it decompose or do you forever have a dead body as your neighbor? If it does decompose, you still have a decomposing dead body as your neighbor. Idk just something to think about

[twindrillscomputer]

ok but it’s an absolute crime how the flatland short film’s length left pointland and lineland underexplored

it feels like they both suffer the same plight of having nobody to be with or even rule over like flatland and shapeland ; though they handle it in two rather different, yet oddly similar ways

the king of pointland is obsessed with himself in a childish sort of way, one that shows a lack of grip on reality. with nobody else to show off his position to, he does it to himself: as shown when he constantly asserts to a square (i forgot his short film name qwq) that he’s the king of pointland. he was probably overjoyed to finally have someone to talk to.

the king of lineland is also obsessed with himself, albeit in a more mature yet far more egotistical way. he is arrogant, to put it simply. unlike the pointland king who seems more concerned with himself, the lineland king takes other dimensions into thought but refuses to believe them as fact. still conceited.

I kinda want them to befriend each other

[presidentcircles-assistant]

@karl-raccoon-enjoyer i really loved your idea for what their dynamic afterwards would be and i wanted to write something for it

[rjalker]

The characters' assumptions and biases that the author put in there on purpose

[ID: AN MS Paint drawing showing characters from the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. At the top of the image, the King of Lineland, represented by a simple straight line, looks at the square narrator and says, "1x eye = female". The narrator, who is a square marked with a grey Mars symbol to show he is male, looks down at the Sphere, and says, "Not a straight line = male". The Sphere, represented by a circle with a grey questionmark to show unknown gender, looks at the Monarch of Pointland, and says, "[unknown criteria] = male". The point is marked with a grey nonbinary symbol, and says nothing, looking at no one. End ID.]

[waspygav]

had this really odd dream where i was meeting my friend’s mom who only spoke german but when i tried to tell my friend to translate to her that i can only speak english and french she just looked my dead in the eyes and went, ‘start speaking german’

[waxdream]

Ok so like, lineland was great fun in flatland. I always liked how the methods of "seeing"/awareness changed relative to dimensions. In point land, the king had no concept of sight, and considered all sound to be his own conciousness. This could be considered level one: no sight, no touch, poor hearing.

Lineland is heavily focused on hearing and singing, with it being the primary method of understanding your neighbours. The music from two mouths of a male linelander allows for their length to be determined after all. Touch is possible in this dimension, though like the line segments in flatland, it is lethal. So at level two, we have no sight, poor/lethal touch, and excellent hearing.

In Flatland we understand that the basic method of understanding is touch. I'm of the opinion that if the flatlanders evolved differently, they could theoretically perceive the way the linelanders do, however they just don't. Perhaps the addition of a new dimension is a problem here. Sight in Flatland is also learnable, but very hard. In my opinion, Abbot added these differences purposely, but I'll get to that in a minute. Level three has poor sight, excellent touch, and poor/no hearing (as a means of percieving the world around you).

Finally we have spaceland. Our own world, where we perceive primarily by sight and need a completely different method to get around in the event of blindness. So in my levelling system, we as humans don't often get around by hearing or touch, and have excellent sight.

I think this could be graphed as a curve if you really wanted to, but I think Abbot was possibly trying to reflect the changing of dimensions and how aspects of the next dimension are seen in the previous. This is a concept seen in mathematics after all, so tying a tool of flatland's classism (not teaching lower classes the skill of sight recognition) into this mathematical concept is rather elegant if you ask me. It's exactly the point of the book, to combine mathematics with social commentary, and I like that.

[capt-t-leela]

Literary References in Futurama, Flatland

In the Futurama episode 2-D Blacktop, two spaceships crash at high speeds, which results in the spaceships and their occupants compressing into a two-dimensional disc and being transported into a two-dimensional world.

Part of the meta joke here, obviously, is that a cartoon is already a two-dimensional world, but Bender, Leela, Fry, and the Professor are nonetheless transported into the two-dimensional world of Flatbush, but as Leela points out it's:

she knows she's in a literary reference sub-plot because she reads.

Another layer to this setup, perhaps, is that 'Flatbush' is a neighborhood in Brooklyn? Unsure, but Flatbush is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. ANYWAY.

Flatland is a novella written in 1884. It's uses a two-dimensional world of shape-based characters as a proxy for the rigid, stifling social hierarchies and structure of the Victorian context in which it was written. It's told from the perspective of a Square, who dreamt of a one-dimensional world of points and lines, called Lineland. In the dream the Square tries to teach the king of Lineland that a second dimension exists, but, threatened by this mind-blowing information, the king tries to kill the square.

After dreaming this, the Square is visited IRL by a three-dimensional sphere who can float and shit. It's mind blowing for the Square. He tries to share this new info with his own people, but they are not okay with this. He tries to talk about three and four dimensional things, but the ruling class is PISSED about his ideas and their implications. Then a class war breaks out and square gets thrown in prison blah blah blah. Once in prison, he writes Flatland as his memoir. You can read the whole thing here, it's 96 pages. It gets very detailed about preferred number of sides for a shape and also there's a lot of gender / biological sex dynamics at play in the shape's society:

I'm not saying it's the most exciting read in the world, but it is certainly thought provoking.

In the show, Flatbush isn't really used as a proxy for social hierarchy, but, like in the book, our crew pisses off the king of Flatbush with the Professor's suggestion at the existence of a third dimension. Which is a pretty historically common thing for ruling class folks to do! They don't usually like when new information threatens the status quo :)

[katiekatdragon27]

your flatland art is SO GOOD RAHHHHHH

Thank you so much! I'm happy there are still people who enjoy my silly occasional Flatland art lol. I need to start posting more of these guys cuz as much as I love the Flat Dreams stuff, I wanna see my silly pookies more. The true Flatland content /j

Take a doodle for the ride btw, I'm happy you like my art^^

Have a lovely day :)

[meloncholicmonosodium]

FLATLAND VOICECLAIMS ! [ part 1 / 2 ]

changed spheres design a little, btw spheres star things in their face is makeup i dont think ive mentioned that yet

[ranmagender]

King of Lineland: a second dimension, thats stupid, you're insane there is no such thing!

A Square: a third dimension,thats stupid. you're insane there is no such thing!

A Sphere: A fourth dimension, that's stupid.you're insane there is no such thing!

[darkclouud9]

I love making symbols so I decided to make a bunch for each area of Super Paper Mario bc no matter what it won't get out of my head.

Flipside and Flopside's symbols are partially based on Tippi and Undertale's deltarune (mainly about the angel part, and Tippi's the angel.)

Lineland is based on the trees there (even though most of what we explore there is desert)

Gloam Valley is based on Merlee's Mansion. kind of.

Bitlands doesn't really have any reference. this one may change later. not proud but I don't really have anything I want to make for it. maybe something to do with Fort Francis

Outer Space is kind of based on Fleep (the shape of the exterior) but mostly on Squirpina (crown and star shape. notice the very top of the image.)

oh wow I wonder what the Land of Cragnons is based on. (Primordial Fruit.)

Sammer's Kingdom has no reference either. it was meant to be based on any kind of weapon, but it ended up being claws, and then I wanted to add a crown because of Merlumina's sister being Sammer's wife or whatever but King Sammer is literally just a crown- there was no thought process okay

Underwhere and Overthere are both from chapter 7 and they both have their significance.

the exterior of the Underwhere was just. poison cloud (<- thought process anyway). and the inside is the fountain right at the beginning. (it heals all your health back up)

the Overthere is clouds bc its literally in the clouds and the rainbow is the bridge that leads to Grambi. the hearts in both symbols represent Luvbi, though the Overthere's second heart more represents the Pure Heart.

Castle Bleck... wow I wonder. more Tippi-Angel idea, hat shape is Count Bleck's hat. double heart is the Chaos Heart.

Trials? no real thought besides oooo fancy!! final challenge. multitude of hearts could represent the murals in the background of both the Flipside and Flipside Pits of 100 Trials.

Fracktail mural ^ though there are more than that. notice he is holding a Pure Heart.

[twindrillscomputer]

i'm not the biggest fan of the 2007 short film...but i DO like them [king of lineland and king of pointland]