#startalk

last book read? - the house of my mother by shari franke, already a pretty harrowing look into life as a child youtube star and i’m not even halfway through yet. next on the list is in the heart of the sea, nathaniel philbrick’s chronicle of the 1820 wreck of the whaling ship essex! big nonfiction fan

last series watched? - nirvana the band the show, but specifically the web series. me and some friends just finished watching it over discord and we’re moving onto the tv show and movie after that

last movie watched? - invasion of astro-monster (1965). not necessarily an amazing movie quality-wise and certainly not a serious one but that just made me love it more. it’s the one where godzilla does his goofy victory dance!

last song listened to? - araik babajanyan - “ashkhen”. really like the instrumentation and what i can only describe as a synthesizer jumpscare around the 33 second mark

what are you working on? - job hunting! and also getting back in the groove of making art regularly… i think it’s working

sweet or salty? - both! i like them even better together though, like with salted caramel… yum

[feb 27, 2025]

ok so i was thinking

the main goal of tadc is for everyone to escape the circus right

but thus far we're pretty much halfway thru the show and not much progress has been made on that

one thing the show does pretty well tho is setting stuff up in the first minute or two of the episode and then using that again later in the episode, around the climax

ep1 did it with pomni arriving in the circus and being told she can't leave, then at the end with all the exit doors and being shown she can't leave

ep2 did it with pomni clipping into the cubes after falling off her bed, then at the end it was called back by the truck clipping into the cubes and ricocheting her and gummigoo out to escape

ep3 did it with pomni holding her breath at the beginning and being told what happens with everyone else, then at the end when she and kinger walk thru that hallway and hold their breaths

ep4 did it with gangle's mask breaking immediately and then zooble giving her the plastic one, then at the end with her throwing the mask away bc it didn't break and that made gangle feel almost trapped

so then what if in the last episode, they use everything they learned about the digital world to escape - set up the same way they're informed of stuff in the beginning of the episode and then call back to it later in the ep?

[dec 13, 2025]

HEY BITCHES GUESS WHO WAS KIND OF RIGHT???

episode 7– they bring back the key gag from episode 1 and the cube collisions in episode 2

[march 20, 2026]

I AM SO RIGHT. I AM SO RIGHT AND I FEEL SO FUCKING AWESOME.

episode 8– essentially the entire episode calls back to the pilot, with pomni bringing back that monitor and the music being very much reused from the pilot as well. the beginning scene also explains the whole plot of the episode in about two minutes: the red dot is caine, representing how he has everyone's memories as well as the knowledge about c&a (he's red because in episode 7 it represents wanting to stay in the circus). the red dot spits out shapes that get progressively more irregular, just like how caine creates worse and worse adventures. the red dot is trapped--caine sees himself as the one who is trapped in the circus as opposed to everyone else being trapped. the blue dot represents every human who has ever been in the circus--blue because they want to leave the circus. the shapes the blue dot spits out are perfect; there isn't a singular irregularity between them. the red dot consumes the blue one, they fight it out, but the red one wins in the end--but is glitchy. just like nearly all of this episode. and in the end, the red dot--caine--is the only one left trapped in the circus.