#tadc ramblings

[eco-systeme]

I’m so evil for this but I just had a brain idea for TADC. Idk if this counts as spoilers, but I will be talking about episodes enough?? Maybe spoilers, idk. Read with caution. But anyways:

I was doing the dishes when I remembered when someone mentioned how Caine can’t directly affect the cast’s minds, but can manipulate them as seen with the stupid sauce in ep 4. Gooseworx’s response was very vague, giving only a small ‘heh’ in response but it got me wondering what that sort of thing could do if Caine realized how much he could do with it. See, no one expects Caine to do anything malicious, because he isn’t supposed to be, and quite frankly, he doesn’t want to be the bad guy either, ALTHOUGH he does have a very oblivious and factual sense of logic.

My thoughts then turned to the meals he makes for the cast, occasionally, if they eat meals regularly, or if he gives them to the cast as prizes, (as seen in the end of the TADC pilot). My brain immediately thought of how Caine, wanting everyone to enjoy his adventures and their life in the circus, might react when he realizes he could just feed them something that could actually make them enjoy his shenanigans! To Caine, I’d make perfect sense, and not malicious at all since then they’d be more compliant and happy. Even if it’s forced onto them.

The thought of Caine making an adventure for them, and making a meal for them afterwards with code that’ll manipulate their senses and practically mind control them seems like something he’d 200% do if he ever realized he could. One of he worst things would be that then, if they were still “conscious”, they wouldn’t just be stuck in the circus, they wouldn’t just be trapped with each other, they’d be trapped in the back of their minds, suppressed as second thought that would be completely overlooked. If not, then their minds would be seen as completely stable, and they wouldn’t even be able to get out via abstraction anymore! An everlasting generation of circus members that don’t go insane, argue, or abstract! Caine would see it as perfect!

My ramblings are just about a random thought I had, I don’t expect it to actually happen, though with how shocked the voice actors were with the script, and how the mind-altering substances aren’t completely off the table, there’s a possibility of it happening. An absolute nightmare of an ending for the show.

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

Me, before watching the new episode: Aw, that was sweet, in a humorous way! The bucket is a nice touch!

Me, after watching the newest episode: Oh...

[iamespecter]

my brain: You're hating your art style again aren't you me: That's literally your fault my brain: Yeah well lucky for you I know how you can deal with it me: How my brain: Practice cloth wrinkling and lighting using a different brush me: Aight...

my brain: But also draw Caine hot me: Wh

what

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The Amazing Digital COMIC #15-Ant Watching

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[cosmic-nia]

…so like, can we all just agree this part gave off will wood vibes

[xaytheloser]

WAITER WAITER MORE GANGLE SHOWING JOY AND WHIMSY PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[l0ganberry]

My boi Kinger got an A+, even know he wasn't even in the adventure.

Maybe the Kinger x Caine is canon

[willowshimmer]

I'm sorry but this was adorable in my opinion.

LIKE HE JUST RESTS HIS HEAD ON HIS BACK! THAT'S ADORABLE! 😍

[ramblinseahorsey]

As a person with bipolar disorder, I never thought I'd see a joke about mania I liked, but Gangle's struggles with her emotions and the heavy guilt for being over the top or needing help all the time was handled with so much care in her "episode". I feel respected and heard... Which is very rare.

Lots of people who are doting when your hurt in a thematically romance-able way, conveniently quiet or depressed and tragic, suddenly don't like helping or being around you, or even knowing you at all once your disabilities make you annoying, discomforting or angry. When your feelings are out of your control, and your hurt and overwhelming emotions disables you from being kind and helpful and happy, people are often much more disconcerted with you than bad behavior from a "normal" person. Sometimes it feels way lonelier than being stuck in a depressive episode somehow.

And you know they often don't mean to or don't know they're disrespecting Gangle, she seems to know too, but she sucks it up because she doesn't know how to "earn" help in either state, and the fear that a sudden surge of happiness will lead to a sudden great fall after solidifies the want to hide your "wrongness".

She is the very opposite of helpful here, but she tries her best, and having someone let her know it's ok for her to be around or have failed attempts to not bother those around her is all she needed to smile on her own face today. It doesn't fix everything, Zooble doesn't even correct her from saying she doesn't deserve their friendship, cause that's not something she will believe or needs to hear right now. She needs to know she still deserves and will get help and more tries, that there will still be people who will forgive and love her, that those who lose their patience with her right back will still want to spend time with her later.

The horrible ups and downs still haunt you, the long long journey to find the right treatment is exhausting, and it still won't ever get rid of all of it, but the episodes don't feel like their going on forever and always when someone will listen to you, wants to listen to you. Wants not just to help you, wants to spend time with you, wants you to be.

Also it is legitimately really funny to me she outright states she's going to weaponize her trauma to get back at Jax for his warcrimes lol. There isn't much out there better at making you feel less guilty about your mania than a legitimately evil person tbh. The manic episode having more seasons pun feels like something a bipolar person or someone who is trusted personally by a bipolar person would say, it legit made me giggle

[fizzlewizard404]

TADC episode 4 spoilers, kinda ///

i think this is pretty much how id summarize what I felt while watching this episode

[canonically47]

i like that kinger can glow. i liked that he glowed when going down a hallway with pomni. i like that there was no light at the end of the tunnel, so kinger became it, he became the light itself, he guided the way for pomni, comforting her when she needed it, becoming her hope. there was no hope in sight, ever, for him, for his queen, for their relationship, so he created the hope, he became it, and he continued sharing that hope forward.

maybe that’s why kinger never abstracted despite having all means of doing so. despite being pushed down again and again. despite becoming crazy. because in moments of dark, he embraces it. he embraces the darkness, he likes it, he truly thinks in the darkness. and he becomes his own light.

i like that kinger can glow. i like that he wants to glow. i like that he chooses to keep glowing.

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

POV: you're into STEM/research and something happened in your field of work that gave you trauma and memory issues.

[iamespecter]

I've updated the designs of nearly everyone because I wasn't happy with the previous ones, sans Jax and normal Pomni (I.... still haven't started on Zooble but I already have a rough concept in mind)

Gangle is STILL giving me a ton of trouble no matter what AU the girlie is in because you can only do so much with a bunch of ribbons and a mask-

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The Amazing Digital COMIC #31-The Sillies

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[oobbbear]

Kinger is going into my box of scientists that went insane + amnesia + lost wife box with fiddleford and Simon Petrikov

[cosmic-nia]

y’know, with how often Caine and Pomni get paired up together for stuff, i am REALLY crossing my fingers for a Caine and Pomni episode. If not a whole episode, at least more moments where they interact with each other.

like, not even just for showtime purposes, their dynamic is just so interesting and i genuinely wanna see more of it