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starleska · 7 months

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so 'The Amazing Digital Circus' has all kinds of fun references and wears its inspiration on its sleeve...

from Popee the Performer (the environment, slapstick, and especially Gangle's masks resembling Kedamono's), to Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (the inside of The Tent looking very much like the Daycare), to Deltarune (Caine's eye-glitching looking very similar to Spamton's, and of course them casting Alex Rochon as Caine, who is known for his Spamton voice!). but there's also another neat little set of references which may or may not be deliberate: the nods to Toontown Online!

Toontown Online was an MMORPG where you play as Toons (slapstick-using, brightly coloured, animal cartoon characters) fighting Cogs (evil fun-hating robots based on corporate businesspeople). the game still exists now in fan servers such as Toontown Rewritten and Toontown: Corporate Clash, with a thriving community contributing to new stories and preserving the original game. i noticed a few similarities between Toontown and TADC:

the name generator! when you first enter Toontown, you have the option to choose your name via a random generator. although you can type in your own name, and the names are comprised of separate words rather than letters, the silliness and randomness of it seems very similar to Caine's name generator...additionally, if you typed your own name, you would have to wait to have it approved (ensuring that the name wasn't offensive), much like Caine's quickly-spouted rules about naming!

2. portal travel! one of the big gimmicks of Toontown is that you're able to move between areas by jumping through a portable hole, also known as 'teleporting'. this looks quite similar to the one Gangle and Kinger are pushed through/Jax jumps through to find the Queen of the Gloinks!

3. Jax's appearance! in Toontown, you create your own Toon by selecting from one of the available species, and then changing their colour, height, clothes, and more. a tall purple rabbit is definitely a type of Toon which could be created in the original Toontown game, and his whole playful nature reminds me so much of the game!

as an old fan of Toontown i'm delighted to see these references, and am sure they're on purpose. given that this is The Amazing Digital Circus, i think we're going to see a loooot of references to older online culture, like games and videos 🥰💖 everyone, please do go watch The Amazing Digital Circus pilot and support them if you can. they deserve to be funded to create even more wonderful episodes!! and i'd love to hear people's thoughts on this. were there any references you spotted? 👀

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #the amazing digital circus spoilers #tadc spoilers #toontown #toontown online #toontown rewritten #toontown corporate clash #gangle #kinger #jax #tadc gangle #tadc kinger #tadc jax #popee the performer #five nights at freddy's: security breach #deltarune #long post #starleskatalks

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env0 · 8 months

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I'm just Ken

Snippet of my Improv choreography

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sweetmariihs2 · 6 months

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List of inspirations that I noticed in ✨️The Amazing Digital Circus✨️

an almost-essay (PART 1)

When I watched the first episode for the first time I started to notice several similarities to other subjects that I also like and know, other fandoms and popular things on the internet, and I soon thought about sharing them on Tumblr (which I'm doing now).

I know there will be things that other people have noticed that will be missing from the blog, but I will try to include all the things that I remember recognizing at that moment. Feel free to share them, though!

I don't know the formal names of some things I'm gonna mention, and also my english It's not the best, I'm trying to practice my writing <3

I'll have to divide this blog into two parts because Tumblr doesn't support more than 10 images per blog. grrgrrgr I really wanted to put everything together but I can't. At the end of the blog I will put a link to part 2 and you can continue reading [when i finish the part 2 of course]

1 - Popee the Perfomer

Popee the Performer is a low-budget animation made in 2000, at the time when 3d animation was still a new technology. It's a collection of shorts and they talk about three circus performers' interactions. People found this on the internet in 2021 and they started a new fandom on top of it. What makes this show talked about it's the disturbing situations the characters put themselves through. There are a lot of violent scenes and sometimes the characters die by the end of the episode, but when we go to the next one they're just alive again, and that makes us question if they are living stuck in an eternal loop with no way of getting out of that small circus setting.

The 3d is pretty simple, mostly because it's old, but that makes me think about the connections between PTP and TADG are the aesthetics, the whole "disturbing adult cartoon about serious topics with a children's colorful aesthetic" thing, and also those connections with the Nintendo 64 graphics. I'M GONNA MENTION IT TOO!!

And a part of this fandom also it's part of Raggedy Ann and Andy's fandom. They were pretty close in 2021.

2 - Raggedy Ann And Andy

Ragatha, next one

I'm kidding there's more

Their fandom started around 2021 because the YouTube algorythm just decided that it was time to recommend a video about Raggedy Andy to EVERYONE! And that's how I discovered them too <3 (I WAS THEREEE I WAS THERE). Andy got the main focus and he was everyone's dream boyfriend lol

Also that's completely unrelated but I wanted to say that I'm one of the people whose video was recommended to everyone through YouTube algorythm and helped the fandom to grow even more (I'm so proud of myself guys I'm sorry awnqbehdjwndbwjdnh)

I believe that if that first video that helped me (and more people) to discover them were never recommended to us, maybe Ragatha wouldn't even have that design!! It's alright that Ann is a doll from the 1900s, but the whole "Raggedy Ann And Andy" thing wasn't a fandom topic, they were just normal ragdolls and they were recognized only by grannies and "the anabelle doll" (this one makes me pissed)

3 - Nintendo 64 (and old 3d art)

And this recognition that it is a fandom united this subject to other famous fandoms, leading to the same audience, and this audience is also TADG's audience. I'll talk more about this at the end of the blog! (Edit: Part 2 of the blog. *silently cries*)

And there's this blog:

That low budget 3d aesthetic it's turning really popular recently. I'm not much of an expert on the subject since I don't know much about games, but I recognize it from the old graphics and my biggest reference is Mario 64. There's a good explanation for it being so popular, I have a theory that it's related to liminal spaces, but I'm not sure. Still, it's worth mentioning.... and also that bubble character really looks like chain chomp!!

They're besties

4 - liminal spaces (backrooms and the "dreamcore" aesthetic)

happy balloons because the backrooms scare me (i hate it)

I think if you're on Tumblr it's very likely that you already know what the backrooms are. A part of our reality, but outside of it. There are floors and floors of eternal levels, where you wander in the same place and don't go anywhere. As if you had broken the matrix and were trapped outside, in a bug. This has become very popular on the internet and it's interesting that it is being used as inspiration for creating a show.

Furthermore, there was also the popularization of aesthetics such as dreamcore, traumacore and weirdcore, which consist of images that look like they came out of a dream. Things that you recognize, but don't know where they came from, like a deja vu, which makes you uncomfortable. It's extremely linked to the backrooms, since it's the same feeling. Many of the images are things that take us back to childhood, to the past, but they are not right, as if they were corrupted. Old 3D is also used a lot to make some of these images, like the example I gave of the Nintendo 64. The fandoms are all interconnected!

In this whole concept they also like to be inspired by childhood characteristics, such as old images of toys, empty birthday parties, playgrounds, and it also takes us to that famous sensation on the internet that I don't remember the name of, but it is basically feeling afraid of a place where people should be going, but they aren't. Abandoned places. The fear of being alone. All those topics revolve around each other. They makes us question abour reality, "do I even exist?" (I know I do, but writing characters that way and exploring the possibilities is kinda nice)

I know a brazillian youtuber that made a good video about it, her name is Replai and in the video she talks about how Poppy Playtime's art was made, but I know that most of the people reading this don't know how to speak in portuguese so... yeah. It's a good video.

5 - Children's aesthetics (but something's off)

This gif speaks for itself. It's that traumacore/dreamcore/weirdcore thing that I was talking about.

Still talking about that empty feeling of knowing that something it's familiar but don't knowing where it came from, childhood memories can be related to this, as they are vague, distant and sometimes carry a feeling of sadness. I'm not a great expert on the subject, but somehow the way that's explored scares us, I know there's a good explanation on the internet. This reminds me of the reason why people are afraid of clowns: they wear this fixed smile on their face and try to appear friendly, but it's this frozen, empty expression that leaves us afraid that there are other intentions underneath. And the fact that they are so related to childhood and children's innocence makes us fearful, because we don't know if they can do any harm to them. (of course, this all happens subconsciously, you don't think about it that way but your brain activates this instinct of fear) (not you YOU, people with that phobia)

I refuse to believe that these things are not interconnected. There is a strange feeling that can be explored from this childish aesthetic and connection to childhood.

Many media are using this aesthetic as part of their stories, especially horror ones. Five Nights At Freddy's was a pioneer, exploring this in the early 2010s, and then there were other franchises like Poppy Playtime, Bendy And The Ink Machine, other FNAF games (and there are also discoveries of things that do this unintentionally and that were created before this popularization, like Popee the Performer. In music we also have great examples like Melanie Martinez's old albums, during the Cry Baby era. There are also other aesthetics who like to explore this childlike-creepy vibe, and they're a little unrelated to all this stuff, like Morute/Dollcore). Whenever I talk about this I remember FNAF SB Daycare, as it is the result of all these topics we have talked about so far. The Security Breach DLC "Ruin" decided to explore this fear of empty, abandoned places, but which once had happy children walking through the corridors. This feeling is very scary.

Do you remember when I gave clowns as an example? The circus is also a way to explore this scary+childhood feeling. A place where there should be lots of games, but which only causes fear, as in the case of those scary clowns. It's quite common in the media for the circus to be used as a focus of terror, however in the internet version we were talking about just now, it doesn't have to be directly a horror circus, just feeling that childish sensation and feeling that something is wrong is enough. Enough to make us feel uncomfortable. It's like the characters were suffering, but they can't scream for help, and it's a disorted vision of how a circus should look like. Hi Pomni!!

The Daycare Attendant also explores that.

6 - Bendy and Fnaf (for the same reasons I already told you all, but one more)

Jax it's Bendy's and William Afton's lost son. We don't need no DNA test.

(I'm obviously just kidding btw, his design was probably inspired by them, MOST ESPECIALLY BENDY and maybe the Cheshire Cat from Alice because of his smile??? Idk)

stay tuned for part 2 <3

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xxinkys-ocsxx · 1 month

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First post on Tumbler! ^^

Hiya! I'm Inky! This is my first blog on tumbler but definitely not my first time on tumbler lol (I have a alt acc on my laptop)

(just a random reminder that this is a oc x cannon blog, if you don't like that stuff please be respectful and ignore my silly ass lol)

I'm probably going to be posting art and POSSIBLY writing some oc x cannon/x reader fics on here because yass👏👏Anyway here's just a summary of me but as one of my ocs profiles loll

Name: Inky

Nickname: Inks

Gender: Cis female

pronouns:she/her

Species: Little sona gal

Nationality: England☕

Fandoms I'm in: Hazbin hotel, Helluva boss, tadc, murder drones, E.N.A, glitter force, fnaf, popee the performer, Guardians of the Galaxy, lackadaisy, TMNT, cuphead, casino cups, ferngully, spooky month, eyes arg, MLP, Mean girls, beetlejuice, Hamilton, epithet erased, poppy playtime, little nightmares, dark description, Demon slayer, black butler, Heart stopper

There are probably SOOOO meny more I just can't think of rn :/

But yeah! That's me! Expect to see lots of art, mostly oc x cannon

I'm excited to start posting, until then bye!!

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savemeafruitjuice · 4 months

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Actual Fandom List! (finally)

After some thought, I've decided to just add a few more fandoms I'd like to write for! (again, I may get motivation to draw something, but I can't promise anything 😅)

Demon Slayer

Characters I won't write for: Muzan, Kaigaku, Gyokko, Aoi, Hantengu, Rokuro

The Amazing Digital Circus

Popee the Performer (its a silly show trust)

Five Nights at Freddys (movie or games)

Over the Garden Wall

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 version, ROT, or Mutant Mayhem)

Characters I won't write for: Lee! Splinter, Shredder

DISCLAIMER: I will NOT write NSFW so please don't ask! Also, if I choose not to write for your prompt, don't get too upset. (So far everyone has been very kind to me though) I'm kind of busy sometimes, and my mental health may get in the way of responding, so please understand, but I will always reply as soon as possible!

also I'm extremely into rottmnt right now, (like, major hyperfixation) and 2012 tmnt so that's what I'd be most happy to write for for the time being!

Okay that's all I can think of for now, but I'll add more if I get into any more things. Feel free to ask about or request anything for any of these fandoms and I wish you the best! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

UPDATES:

-I will now write for lee! Casey Jones (2012)

-I'm starting to watch TMNT 2003, so I will likely start writing for it soon

-Gave myself a name (finally)

#fandom list #help me this is so many tags #demon slayer tickle #tadc tickle #the amazing digital circus tickle #popee the performer #popee the performer tickle #fnaf #fnaf tickle #five nights at freddys tickle #otgw tickle #over the garden wall tickle #kny tickle #tmnt tickle #teenage mutant ninja turtles tickle

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blackfliesinbluesugar · 5 months

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I want to preface this by saying this is in no way a dunk on TADC, I enjoyed the TADC pilot a decent amount, but man-

People keep bringing up TADC's explosive success as a sort of dunk on Hazbin (I know some are just comparing to highlight how impressive the former is, but I've seen several people legitimately leveraging it as a mockery of the latter) and I don't... get that. Hazbin Hotel was introduced from minute one as an 'adult' cartoon, with swearing and sex out the gate. It's a show that no one in their right mind would be comfortable with their child watching. And yeah, some kids like it, but it's definitely a teen and adult dominated fandom. Teens and adults will rewatch media, and they're a wide viewerbase - hence 90m views, but they're nothing compared to the viewing power of children.

TADC is like BaTIM, and FNaF, and Baldi, and Poppy's Playtime, etc etc, in that it's a brightly coloured, 3D, simple character-designed /horror/ (psychological, this time!). Which is, as proven by the amount of examples I picked right off the top of my head, INCREDIBLY popular among children 14 and under. This isn't to compare TADC quality-wise to those products, just, it does fit into that theme bracket. Its characters literally can't even swear. If a parent sees their kid sat watching it, 9 times out of 10 they'll see nothing wrong and let them watch it.

And boy, kids are a powerful viewing audience. A kid will sit and let something loop 20 times and never get bored. You know those Johnny Johnny Yes Papa videos with 1 BILLION views? Those nursery rhyme animations with hundreds of millions? I'm serious, the cap for how popular a piece of kids internet media can get is SOOOO much higher than one for adults in 90% of instances.

Again, not disparaging the popularity. It can only be a good thing for GLITCH and Goose, and I want them to succeed... at this point I have much more optimism at their prospects to deliver a good product than Vivziepop and Spindlehorse. But I don't know if anyone had brought this fact up before 😅.

#if anyone takes this as some hazbin stan desperately defending their bias i will minecraft myself #popee the performer and hello neighbour also sprung to mind but wasn't sure if they entirely fit since popee i think is enjoyed by slightly #older kids and hello neighbour is a very different vibe? i mean it also sucks so #oh my god. banban.#tadc #the amazing digital circus #pomni #jax #ragatha #hazbin hotel #alastor #angel dust #bendy and the ink machine #batim #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #baldi's basics #poppy's playtime

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