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The Amazing Digital Bible Studying: Never Worship False Gods (Pilot)

This is my first fan-made digital circus episode pilot of a bible teaching lesson featuring the digital circus characters, join them on their religious adventures to teach the whole world

Today's Lesson: You shall not worship false gods, only worship the one and true god

This video adheres to all community guidelines, It features only funny, stylized graphics, creative fan animations, and educational storytelling, this is an independent fan creation and is not affiliated with the official franchise.

Either learn how to actually draw and take the time to grow as an artist or get the fuck out of here. We do not tolerate ai generated SLOP over here.

2. You have other tools you can use. Like a pen and paper. If you have to use ai to generate anything, nobody wants to see it because you’ve put no effort into it. If you don’t want to take the time and effort to create something, why the fuck should anyone give you the time and attention you’re craving?

Ai is morally reprehensible, and as a result you are morally reprehensible for using it. You deserve whatever hateful comments get thrown your way.

Also, come on… are you a literal child? That whole “I looked out the window and it’s beautiful out so I can’t be harming the environment” response is the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen. It’s worse than climate change deniers who say “but there was snow in December, so it can’t be global warming!”

“Jax is dead. What more do you want?”

Which is why I don’t view abstraction as suicide. It has a lot more in common with a severe mental or physical health issue that is beyond your control. Jax doesn’t willingly choose to abstract, the way people who commit suicide willingly choose to do so. His final words to Pomni are “I don’t want to go.” It’s not something he can control anymore. He’s too far gone.

The tragedy is that he HAD opportunities to get better. People who could’ve helped him. And he chose to push them all away. That was his decision. People who are suicidal are very rarely in positions where that mental anguish is unjustified. There’s always something external that made things worse. But for Jax… he made it worse for himself. By all accounts there was nothing in the circus pushing him to behave the way he was outside of what he brought in with him. Again, he could’ve done better. He could’ve grown and changed. But he didn’t want to. He chose to stay. And his negative decisions affected everyone around him until it swallows himself up.

As Jax says: “I did this to myself.”

I guess it’s hard for me to logically piece the idea that acknowledge of your own wrong doings is a consequence. At least to the extent Jax does.

If anything, I view at as a start to self reflection, and in another story, self improvement.

I don’t find his statement nor his monologue too meaningful when every word from his mouth circled around himself.

“You’re not supposed to love.”

“I did this to myself.”

Just two instances of his speech. His focus lies within himself, he doesn’t really reflect too much on the damage he caused others. That’s why I say I’d rather him have said sorry, which wouldn’t change anything he’s done, but it’s better than not saying it at all.

And while I don’t blame you for not viewing abstraction as suicide, it’s what Gooseworx intended for the story. Abstraction is the narrative’s metaphor for suicide.

Now is it a good metaphor? In my opinion, no. You make good points about abstraction being out of one’s control but I think that is just a result from one of the many shortcomings of TADC—leaving more questions than answers.

You’re right in that the hard cut to Jax abstracting without us seeing it is definitely meant to be felt like the sudden unexpected loss of a suicide. That was intentional. That’s meant to be an emotional gut punch. But that’s about the only real tangible comparison to suicide. And that choice was done because you’re expecting to see it. Jax has been teetering on the edge for several episodes now, so we expect to eventually witness it happen. But that’s not how life is. And him abstracting off screen is horrifying because no one knows when it’s going to happen. Even Pomni was surprised.

Once again, I think it would be cheaper if Jax did apologize and say he’s sorry. I genuinely don’t think that’s needed to understand how he’s feeling in his final moments. I get wanting to hear him acknowledge what he’s done, but we get that in other ways. His refusal to look at Pomni, the quivering of his voice, the tears and choked line delivery… he’s saying one thing, but the acting and direction is saying something else. Like when he says “I hate you” as he’s hugging Pomni. He doesn’t mean that, and you know it. Why does he need to say he’s sorry? We know he’s sorry and that he regrets what he’s done. That’s what, like, acting is all about!

“Jax is dead. What more do you want?”

Which is why I don’t view abstraction as suicide. It has a lot more in common with a severe mental or physical health issue that is beyond your control. Jax doesn’t willingly choose to abstract, the way people who commit suicide willingly choose to do so. His final words to Pomni are “I don’t want to go.” It’s not something he can control anymore. He’s too far gone.

The tragedy is that he HAD opportunities to get better. People who could’ve helped him. And he chose to push them all away. That was his decision. People who are suicidal are very rarely in positions where that mental anguish is unjustified. There’s always something external that made things worse. But for Jax… he made it worse for himself. By all accounts there was nothing in the circus pushing him to behave the way he was outside of what he brought in with him. Again, he could’ve done better. He could’ve grown and changed. But he didn’t want to. He chose to stay. And his negative decisions affected everyone around him until it swallows himself up.

As Jax says: “I did this to myself.”

Some of y'all are WAYYY to fucking critical of and unwilling to give indie creators any grave especially if they fuck up something they had no choice in on the pilot. Y'all genuinely do not understand how egregiously expensive animation is and it's a miracle teams are able to scrape up enough money for even a slightly rushed but fully animated pilot. 22 minutes of animation costs around 100k USD. Pilots are SUPPOSED to fit as much in as possible and not be an episode one. They've only been episode ones for indie animation because that's the best way to use the limited budget.

But then I saw her descend into the worst aspects of the fandom and started contributing to all the same bullshit she claims she’s tired of now. She actively participated in all the same bullshit hate and “cancelation” of gooseworx and the cast that plagues the fandom right now. She did videos talking about all of the “controversies” and joined in with condemning stuff that didn’t matter and wasn’t actually an issue at all. She contributed to hating on glitch for not being perfect in getting the final episode in theaters and criticizing them for stuff that was out of their control (like film rating censorship board requirements in other countries).

Oh and NOW she’s tired? She gets to opt out of participating after everything she helped kick up with her popular videos? Rather than try to mitigate the damage she’s done, or try to use her platform to condemn the worst aspects of this fandom… she’s just quitting?

Little contribution before pride month is over

Lesbiangatha wallpaper(?

I got more art of this coming but I wanted to post at least this one today💕

Since I saw her in her credit scene outfit I haven't stopped thinking about it like I needed any other reason to crush any harder on this dyke 😭💕

Soft spoken redhead dressed in full PUNK

Then when they actually start getting into the actual source, they are angry/disappointed the source material isn't the same as their "fave" fandom work.

Fandom blind has been a thing for ages, not a problem.

But like it was mentioned, fandom entitlement is a huge problem, and it seems that in the case of fandom-blind people, those feel entitled to get fed exactly why they got interested in THE FANDOM (Not the source), which till then has been nothing but fan works and art. It's that really weird disconnect, where they don't even seem to understand that fandom creations can be different from the source media.

(It becomes even more ridiculous when the fandom does feature very similar works to the actual source, but the fandom-blind people only consumed the AU style stuff, and avoided, or even downright hated the more "canon compliant," fandom works.

And I don't think being fandom blind is the main problem at all! But I wouldn't be surprised if some, SOME, of this entitlement has been further erroding fandom etiquette and growing that entitlement, and has had a part in how people "consume" media, rather than actually enjoying source media or fandom, or both (duh) for the sake of community and enjoyment, rather than just a quick fix and their fast lived appetite.

Just generally in fandom: Etiquette, and just basic human decency seems to have gone out the window, and instead every little original artist and writer gets treated like a content machine rather than a human being, who should ask "how high" when entitled fans tell them to jump.

These are actually very good points and they bring to mind my own interactions with series that I don't actively get into.

A commonly used phrasing was 'Fandom-Osmosis' to explain how people were able to experience the basic building-blocks of other fandoms and their core IPs by nature of just being online. Major examples being the heyday of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Undertale, and D&D.

An off-shoot of this was using fanworks to get into an IP while not actively engaging with the IP directly. For example, when MTV's Teen Wolf was popular on Tumblr, I was somewhat interested because, hello, werewolves, but I wasn't encouraged enough because I knew that the bulk of the series was actually teeny-bopper drama. So I mostly sought out Teen Wolf fanfic on AO3 instead.

However! It needs to be noted: I never did this with the mindset of 'oh, because I'm engaging with fanwork, I'm getting the same level of depth as people who actually watch the show' or even 'the fanworks are better than the main show anyway, so...'.

Those last two mindsets are what is currently another issue with modern fandom because, as you mentioned, you have people opting for fanworks/fancanons and then getting upset when, upon actually engaging with the core material, they don't see the fancanons on the screen.

then someone gets brave and makes a character who is a real bastard and makes all the wrong choices and is maybe even malicious at times and they make this character explicitly queer. and then fans are like "this is what you think of us?? worst representation ever" and the creator gets absolutely lambasted, ESPECIALLY if theyre queer themselves

then everyone else sees this and either thinks its too risky to include a queer character, or wants to make sure they're only doing the good and nice representation with no flaws or mistakes

I think this attitude we have about children’s media that it needs to be sanitized and safe is why we have so many kids who can’t handle the truly adult presentation of some of these themes and concepts when they get older, and why the vast majority of children’s media coming out currently is frankly bland, boring, and borderline condescending. Because as a culture we’ve okayed this talking down to children as if they cannot comprehend certain concepts like culture clash, or the passing of a beloved pet, or the sudden loss of a parent, or the feeling of powerlessness, or the idea that evil exists period.