Xennial Musings

they're gonna figure it out one of these days, I just know it.

My name is Maddie Parker. I was born in the late Holocene, and I’ve seen some sh*t.

"Pantheon" asks a very ancient question: What does it mean to be human?

It's answer? Connections.

We're the neural pathways and firing synapses in this magnificent meat sitting in our skulls. But it's not just electric chemical signals. Those make us physically function, but they're not the only thing that makes us humans.

We're that stupid song we love to hate.

We're an argument with our siblings.

We're the compassion for a baby bird with a broken wing.

We're the grief when we lose someone.

We're the joyful memories that stay even after they're gone.

We're every relationship we make from loved ones to complete strangers, from close to distant, from real to imaginary, from material to theoretical.

We're made up of every single little thread of feeling that ties us together both inside ourselves and to others. Physical or digital, "real" or "simulated," those never go away. Even when you're "gone," whatever that means to you, the connections stay in one way or another.

We're all the things we learn from each other when we decide to make those connections; both when we reach out and reach back. Humans are woven together like a quilt, every one their own square yet all inextricably linked.

And y'know what? It's not the answer, because there never can be one to such a complicated question, but it's an answer I really like. Which the show portrayed in a really beautiful way that had me sobbing by the end.

and it takes maddie seeing her father die three times, seeing her lover die, then coming back 20 years later to die again, having her son bleed out in her arms, and having no one she loves in the physical world, for her to create her own universe via massive computer powered by the sun where billions of simulations run and become a god

That one little flicker...

!!may contain spoilers!!

P A N T H E O N

"You can't stop the future."

Lil s1 movie-esque style poster to brainwash u into watching Pantheon! CRIMINALLY underrated sci-fi adult cartoon about Uploaded Intelligence (literally uploading your consciousness to the cloud) and it's effects on society starting from the intimate level of family and friends,scaling to the whole entire earth and beyond.

Rare w, 2 illustrations in one month 😳 I recently watched this on my husband's whim, and I am not even being a little bit dramatic by saying this show changed my life n altered my brain chemistry.

AMC fumbled the marketing on release in 2022, but it's now on NF! It's only 2 seasons, 8 eps each. Stream it NOW bc I need more fanart and peeps to talk to about it!!