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There’s a video I like to rewatch whenever I get in a weird headspace, about the entire history of the human race and the universe to scale. And I was rewatching it today, and it suddenly struck me just how new the Webspace would be in AvA in comparison to our universe’s age.

Our universe is over 13 billion years old. A majority of that time, the sun and earth didn’t even exist. And even when our world came into existence, a majority of its history thus far has occurred without our species. A million years, to a planet and to the universe, is not a long time.

But it’s comparatively ancient when put beside a universe that’s more than likely less than 100 years old.

Because the digital universe can’t be that old. Computers aren’t that old, the internet even less so. The first digital computers came about in the 1940s, and even then it took years for them to develop into something more closely resembling a modern computer. Mass-marketed consumer computers only became a thing in the 1960s. The internet came about around the 80s and 90s.

Even if we’re being charitable, and presume digital life somehow came into existence alongside the development of the earliest ‘real’ computers, it would only be 80 years old max. The greater webspace would only be 40 to 30 years old.

Alan himself might be as old or older than the Outernet.

That is insanely young. That is so new. The digital universe of AvA is an infant, the tiniest blip when compared against human history, and almost nonexistent when compared against the universe. The Webspace is so fresh it’s still got amniotic fluid behind its ears.

Everything in the digital universe was made in past 40 to 80 years. Every single animation that exists within it has come to life in the span of the average Boomer’s lifespan.

Victim is literally half as old as the universe he lives in.

It’s so insane to think about. Utterly mindblowing.

I wonder what the sticks would think, if they learned of how old the human species is, how old our planet and sun are, how unfathomably ancient our entire universe is. Would they feel a similar overwhelming existential dread as I do when I look at the night sky and remember how small I am to the universe? Would they feel a deeper connection to their own universe like I do when the dread fades into acceptance and I take comfort in the fact that even though my existence is unbelievably minuscule, I am still apart of this universe’s history and it’s whole, and the universe does not forget its past? Would they look up at the Skygrid on the Outernet, and see in their mind’s eye the phantom of a vaster, older universe that exists beyond the boundaries of their own, yet that they too belong to as well?

🌸 AvA/M x Madoka Magica 🌸

You can find me on tiktok under the same username (enperryart) but!! I shall share all of my compiled references i have so far… this au has been in the making since April of last year and it’s one of my favorite things to draw!!

Fair warning though, please don’t use my designs or concept without my permission, because everything from the costumes to the wishes is original (these are basically ocs now lol)

I can’t be certain how often I’ll post from here on out just because of how much there is to catch up on, so please consider checking out my tiktok if ur liking this content!

I’ll stop yapping, hope you enjoy!

@cashastarultra this is stupid

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+ misc doodles that i didnt end up posting on their own so im lumping them in with these