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What's The Deal?

This starting lobby is where I'll reblog things, mostly art from my fellow creatives. For non-specific art of my own, I'll also post that here. Anything relating to the above blogs though will be posted there for ease of organisation.

Who Am I

Like I said above I'm Ala, a queer and neurodivergent lover of all things artistic and creative. I love cartoons and animation, music, and gaming, especially. I'm a huge supporter of fan work and do a lot of fan art and writing that you can find in abundance on my other blogs!

How to Find Things

Here are the primary tags used on this Blog. Check the pinned message of the side blogs to find theirs.

alaart : For digital and traditional art I make

alawriting : For my story excerpts and such

alaspeaks : For text posts I make

artist support : For reblogs of fellow artists

Note From The Publisher

This is a positive space to enjoy the act of creation. Bigotry and malice have no place anywhere, but certainly not here. We're here to love and create and breathe life back into the world around us. If you're not here for that, you can move right along.

In my storyteller mind, this is the best way they could’ve ended this story with the pieces they had in place and the tone and themes they were going for. Everything, all of what @gooseworx and the awesome team behind this had been saying through this story and these characters was applied. Things wrapped up, ideas or information confirmed or subverted, enough left open for headcanons of “what next”. They did such a beautiful, fantastic job on this.

I think my favourite thing on a larger scale is how grounded it all felt (in relation to this whimsical setting, haha). Nothing felt like an out of left field random drop shoved into the final episode to get it finished. Everything felt so purposeful and planned, and whatever may have been later or last minute decisions fit so well into this story they’ve all weaved that it wasn’t noticeable.

With a fandom this massive that grew so suddenly through virality, there’s always been a large number of people who, genuinely, Don’t Get It. Through virtue of inexposure to non-Hollywood type storytelling or a general lack of ability to interpret storytelling themes or a plain ol bad faith attitude towards creators. There’s always been so many yappers going off about every tiny thing that wasn’t exactly to a T how they would’ve done it or “story beats based on life experiences they’ve never had and therefore those story beats are stupid” kinda people. It’s annoying and it’s supremely unfair to Gooseworx and her team.

To counter that in some small way, I say this: This has been one of the best stories to come out this decade. More than ever we are seeing a boom in independently made animations and video games and we’ve gotten so many brilliant pieces of work from that. And this one, The Amazing Digital Circus, is one that I am confident in saying is among the best.

The thoughtfulness that went into this piece of fiction and the effort and passion that went into building it up into something real, all of that bleeds through with every episode. I earnestly have no complaints about what was done and how this story was executed. Everything they were going for they achieved and they did so with elegance and talent and skill.