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Mrreow

Another cat in the audience!? I didn't think it was paw-sible!!

(Don't forget to grab some paw-pcorn for the show, folks!) [audience_laugh.mp3]

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Wowzers!! Another cat in the audience!? I didn't think it was paw-sible!!

(Don't forget to grab some paw-pcorn for the show, folks!) [audience_laugh.mp3]

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i don’t feel like i’m old enough to be my age

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that tv show you used to love

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fun stuff

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do you guys think he liiiikes ittttt

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Whoa, this film opens up with the main character saying she rejects the idea that you need to fall in love/get married to have happiness and she isn’t interested in finding a partner, surely THIS time she won’t fall in love by the end of the movie

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random but my favorite thing about the Portal game is that Glados wasnt lying about the existence of a cake, she just wasnt going to actually give it to you🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

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',:)

Hey guys long time no see. Today I have for you an animation I've been working on since spring of 24. Its my Capstone animation for my college featuring Ghost in the Machine!

Please enjoy this animation which took over a year to make <3

(I would have posted it beginning of summer when I finished but I forgot lmao. Just turned it in for school and shared it with some friends.)

The characters Sanii and Misuta belong to @venomous-qwille

The song is Dramaturgy - Eve

Read Ghost in the Machine!

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JOINING LATE!!!

🦕 my artfight profile

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computer, show me "sad ant tenna with bindle"

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has this been done before

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All ships are better when you make them weird and aromantic about it I fear

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How Mordred lost his sanity to become Binary Bard?

HIIII okay this is actually a REALLY INTERESTING QUESTION and one im going to ramble about a lot a lot a lot so!!! more under the cut <3

ALRIGHT! SO! the question of how mordred turned into binary bard is actually one ive been thinking about for a while now! when i first started writing him, i was really stumped on his transformation, especially since its a really popular fan interpretation to say that mordred lost his sanity in space and turned into binary bard as a result!

so, i started researching if people really do "go insane" or if that was just an insensitive mental illness trope. one common explanation of insanity that i found is when a person experiences something that doesnt have a societal explanation for it. for example: imagine if you constantly heard a ringing in your ears but there was no diagnosis for tinnitus so no one knew what it was. youd probably feel crazy.

a lot of people headcanon that mordred probably has an undiagnosed mental illness as a result, and thats what caused the shift to binard bard (either that or like brain damage after the crash)! and TO BE FAIR, i do too to an extent (i think he has BPD) but! idk! i dont think he's insane if that makes sense

me personally, i kind of have trouble writing the classic "insanity" trope. its hard to track character motivation and what's going on inside their head (i feel like most writers just make the character do weird shit and write it off as them being "insane"). i also had a discussion with a friend about this and they brought up a VERY interesting point that a character "losing their sanity" kind of implies that their mental state is PERMANENT. that there is a line between "before insane" and "after insane" that they can never cross. which idk! i dont want to imply that a character is broken forever and can never change

additionally, i looked into what poptropica wrote for binary bard, like how he's portrayed canonically. and like. ngl. i dont think he's insane! i think he's within his right mind. i think he is evil and knows what he's doing! astroknights is a story that revolves around his hubris, how he was a greedy scientist who sought fame and glory and could NEVER be satisfied (his book literally has the caption "avarus animus nullo satiatur lucro" which translates to "a greedy mind is satisfied with no (amount of) gain").

^^ like to me this is the cadence of someone who knows what they're doing

PLUS. IN MY OPINION. it is a far more interesting character arc for mordred to become a villain once he isnt constrained by societal rules (hes in SPACE. he can do what he wants now) instead of insanity! in the former he KNOWS what he's doing and knows how his actions have consequences

essentially, i write Mordred as someone who felt very constrained and trapped on Arturus. He was limited by the whims of the King and Queen, unable to follow his passions and invent what he wanted to. I imagine he was under much scrutiny not just from the royal court, but also from townspeople! He hides away in his study a lot. He's strange to talk to. What he does is unnatural. He was treated like an outcast by everyone even before he was thrown to jail

(i also headcanon mordred as autistic so he's taught himself a LOOOTTTT of social cues in order to Fit In and gain the King and Queens favor)

Compare that to when he's in space! Yes, he is very much scared and alone and has to essentially rebuild himself after the plane crash, but also he's free. Free from Arturus, free from the king and queen, free from society. Once he's in space, he starts to realize how much he limited himself to appear "socially acceptable." Now that he's alone in space, he starts to embrace his ambitions and seeks revenge against the King and Queen for wronging him.

From Mordred's point of view, he is completely in his right mind. In fact, he's even more sane as Binary Bard!

TLDR: Mordred low key was always a dick and finally became Binary Bard once he was freed from societal expectation

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wanted to draw some of my fav tennas

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Trouble ᯓ★

Attack on: @vermeillll