#puppet MATHEMATICS

[softboyscully]

HIS GLASSES WERE TRIANGLES

[arconinternet]

The Learning Treehouse - five tapes plus bloopers (Videos, 1995/1996)

Starring the Schiffelly Puppets. You can watch them here.

[ace-of-hearts3301]

Anyone remember that villan from prodigy?

He was deffinately my first crush, no doubt ♡♡

I really need to actually draw him sometime soon..

[maniaeofmadness]

I am a firm believer that Stan and Mabel are not the "dumber" twins. They just aren't as interesting in 'nerd' stuff like Ford and Dipper are.

Stan was able to rebuild like 90% of the portal with only the 1 of the journals, most likely having to teach himself advanced mathematics and scientific theories to even understand what the thing is. It barely took him a few weeks to get the portal up and running after getting the other two journals. Not to mention how he was able to create a business and keep people entertained at his day job. The man is smart.

Mabel is able to create sweaters at the drop of a hat. If you don't know anything about knitting, it takes a lot of math and planning to be able to make a sweater, and Mabel is constantly making them for everyone around her. She made a full 2 act puppet shows with musical numbers and sets and well made puppets in like a week. She may not be interested in the 'nerd' stuff like Dipper, but she's creative and thinks in innovative ways.

Both of them are amazingly charismatic. They can make friends and bond with those around them easily, whether it be for business purposes like Stan or simply childlike positivity like Mabel.

They aren't dumb.

[ozzgin]

content: gender neutral reader, NSFW

More mathematical monster nonsense: Having your abstract partner control your peaks with disturbingly accurate precision, to the point you feel like a puppet strung along by his whims. He seems to know exactly when to increase the pace, or when to take it teasingly slow, observing as your features increasingly twist in pleasure.

Truly a mystery, this skill of his. You're preoccupied with his four-dimensional shaft, when a thought suddenly occurs to you; your brows furrow, and you look up to the beast with mild indignance.

"Wait a moment, are you adding my data to a Fourier transform for the optimal fuck?"

He stops, mid-pounding, and smiles awkwardly. Ah, he's been caught.

[reachartwork]

re: "outlawing AI"

i am reposting this because people couldn't behave themselves on the original one. this is a benevolent dictatorship and if you can't behave yourselves here i'll shut off reblogs again. thank you.

the thing i think a lot of people have trouble understanding is that "ai" as we know it isn't a circuitboard or a computer part or an invention - it's a discovery, like calculus or chemistry. the genie *can't* be re-corked because it'd be like trying to "cork" the concept of, say, trigonometry. you can't "un-invent" it.

even if you managed to somehow completely outlaw the performance of the kinds of linear algebra required for ML, and outlawed the data collection necessary, and sure, managed to get style copyrighted, you can't un-discover the underlying mathematical facts. people will just do it in mexico instead. it'd be like trying to outlaw guns by trying to get people to forget that you can ignite a mixture of powders in a small metal barrel to propel things very fast. or trying to outlaw fire by threatening to take away everyone's sticks.

the battleground is already here. technofascists and bad actors without your ethical constraints are drawing the lines and flooding the zone with propaganda & slop, and you’re wasting time insisting to your enemies that it’s unfair you’re being asked to fight with guns when you’d rather use sticks.

as a wise sock puppet once said; "this isn't about you. so either get with it, or get out of the fucking way"

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Attempts to prohibit AI "training" misunderstand what is being prohibited. To ban the development of AI models is, in effect, to ban the performance of linear algebra on large datasets. It is to outlaw a way of knowing. This is not regulation - it is epistemological reactionary-ism. reactionism? whatever

Even if prohibition were successful in one nation-state:

Corporations would relocate to jurisdictions with looser controls - China, UAE, Japan, Singapore, etc.

APIs would remain accessible, just more expensive and less accountable. What, are you gonna start blocking VPNs from connecting to any country with AI allowed? Good luck.

Research would continue outside the oversight of the very publics most concerned about ethical constraints.

This isn’t speculation. This is exactly what happened with stem cells in the early 2000s. When the U.S. government restricted federal funding, stem cell research didn’t vanish, it just moved and then kept happening until people stopped caring.

The fantasy that a domestic ban could meaningfully halt or reverse the development of a globally distributed method is a fantasy of epistemic sovereignty - the idea that knowledge can be territorially contained and that the moral preferences of one polity can shape the world through sheer force of will.

But the only way such containment could succeed would be through:

Total international consensus (YEAH RIGHT), and

Total enforcement across all borders, black markets, and academic institutions, at the barrel of a gun - otherwise, what is backing up your enforcement? Promises and friendly handshakes?

This is not internationalism. It is imperialist utopianism. And like most utopian projects built on coercion, it will fail - at the cost of handing control to precisely the actors most willing to exploit it.

Liberal moralism often derides socialist or communist futures as "unrealistic.", as you can see in the absurd, hyperbolically, pants-shittingly mad reaction to Alex Avila's video. Yet the belief that machine learning can be outlawed globally - a method of performing mathematics that is already published, archived, and disseminated across open academic networks the globe over - is far more implausible. literally how do you plan on doing that? enforcing it?

The choice is not between AI and no AI. The choice is between AI in the service of capital, extraction, and domination, or AI developed under conditions of public ownership, democratic control, and epistemic openness. You get to pick.

The genie and the bottle are not even in the same planet. The bottle's gone, Will.

[wanderloveshater]

Two smart guys with 80’s tech can only do so much. It took them years to make the portal, one that breaks down everytime it activates.

For Commander Peepers? He can make a portal in a quarter of that time that’s stable.

It wouldn’t break down and would be able to control the excess energy that emits from it.

Peepers is the perfect pawn for Bill. Socially outcast with a crippling insecurity about his height, the desire to be praised and hold power over others, painfully lonely with a brilliant mind- he mirrors Ford in this way. I believe one of the WOY crew members emphasized him being different from the watchdogs.

It’s so easy for Bill; what do we have here? A smart guy who builds evil planet-destroying devices? Handling complex machinery?

He’s got a high IQ- misguided by his adoration for his stupid leader. The need for approval is crippling. So what can we do? Our little song and dance-

Bill’s experience speaks for itself. It would take very little effort, no questioning or anything- kind of boring, really.

Oh and Peepers has just been WAITING for someone to realize his true potential!

It’s all the same with Ford. He wants to feel special. The way Peepers would cling, claw, ride the high of the teensy bit of praise Hater gave him months ago…it makes Bill laugh. Such a sucker. A mathematically talented genius with more weaknesses than anyone can count.

So here we are, Peepers wants power. He wants respect. He wants to be seen. Bill promises Peepers a sense of social validation- to be adored- and eventually feared by his peers, and in extension, the galaxy. In return, Bill wants a portal- instead of spinning it as a “gateway for infinite knowledge of the universe” he can actually be a little more truthful. He’ll tell Peepers it can be used as an unstoppable weapon of destruction, better than what Major Threat had, better than what Lord Dominator had. The Peepers empire- I mean- The Hater empire would conquer the galaxy. Bill can come into this plane and they’ll rule everyone, side by side, Muse by Painter.

It’s a win win! Come on Peepers! Take the deal! When was the last time you played chess with someone that was actually smart enough to compete against you?

Infatuation: We saw how easy it was for Ford to be a Cipherholic. For many others to be. Peepers would unfortunately fall for his flattery. Under the assumption that Peepers is in love with Hater- (idolization if you wish) this prevents him from fully going evil, betraying everyone at once, I think.

But Peepers does get a little tired here and there putting up with Hater’s stupidity. Everyone’s stupidity, actually.

But Bill?

Bill has a lot of knowledge of the universe and intelligence.

Peepers would feel so intellectually stimulated by their conversations- likely about quantum theories, astrophysics, how stupid everyone is. There’s one thing Peepers has going on instead of Ford. Ford isn’t directly malicious or evil (besides the revenge fantasies), but Peepers is. He’d find Bill’s sadistic humor to be funnier than Ford ever did. Bill likes that.

Planting these seeds in Peeper’s brain- like the portal- Peepers would reach worship levels faster than Ford.

“I want to feel tall.”

“I’ll make you feel tall.”

Possession: This one is funny to think about, Bill’s unhinged behavior is exponential. He uses his charisma to gain social approval with the watchdogs and Hater’s favor in Peepers’ body. He probably wouldn’t have to complete all the calculations that Ford needed help with- really the possession is just so Peepers is more likable.

Bill’s feelings: Peepers was the easiest pawn to entrance. Bill finds this rather boring. There’s nothing to sink his teeth into- nothing to tear. Just a hollow puppet. He isn’t weird enough for Bill to enjoy, he seems rather logical and put together. Sure he’s shorter than everyone but was he born with any extra features that makes him an anomaly? But he’s certainly the most efficient puppet, so he’s gotta keep that going.

Peepers would also catch Fiddleford and Ford’s mistakes with the portal’s code.

Sort of like, “Oh haha, whoever did this code is so stupid, have they considered their calculations would blow up the entire room?!”

Bill being Bill, filled with bitterness, would agree in tandem at first. “Haha YEAH my last guy wasn’t up to par!”

Before uh, Peepers gets carried away and Bill’s own complicated feelings about Ford arise.

“Seriously, have you seen this derivative answer?! A traffic cone could have done better-”

“That’s enough”

Ford: I don’t have a set story/timeline for these two in mind, but I would like to imagine Ford’s reaction. Being unable to stop the vicious cycle repeat chokes him. Warning Peepers and all, oh don’t fall for it, he’ll betray you, promise you a galaxy, yadda yadda…

But Peepers only hears that last part.

“My own galaxy…?”

“Yes, he’ll make you ‘one of them’ and promise ultimate power with no law or restrictions- everything you could dream of- but DO NOT fall for it!”

Peepers falls for it. Or rather embarasses himself- Bill does not care for Peepers in this way. He’d never offer this unless it was for gain, so what does Peepers do? Throw himself to Bill and the Henchmaniacs- pleading to be a part of them. All that results from that is being laughed out of the room. Doesn’t help that he's the shortest.

Peepers doesn’t fit in with the watchdogs, or even the crazy weirdos/freaks.

He is truly alone.

[stevenbasic]

Growing into the Job, Post 436: GRWM Marta

Marta Vacek aka “Marta Walker” aka Agent  0GGB004 had not been able to get Melissa Monroe out of her head since she had visited WGGB last weekend. Though she had known Melissa was to come in preparation for the special interview and meet the team, Marta, Channel 5’s newest Sports Reporter, had not been prepared for the involuntary reaction she’d had to the brunette bombshell. Her sister had been right.

Over the past year-and-a-half, both in Russia and in her native Poland, the Vacek sisters had been prepped, conditioned, and ultimately put together, developed and assembled into proper agents for the company. Injected with their Program and fully indoctrinated into their ranks, trained and fashioned, Marta had grown four inches in height, ballooned into a GG-cup, and could now bend steel bars like it was a party trick. She knew she had been chosen for her current on-air assignment purely due to the mathematics of her new figure: scientifically proven and formulated to be the most captivating to the American male gaze. In both its ratios and proportions, it had been perfected to hold a male's attention onscreen, while at the same time, being just this side of acceptable for a general viewing audience without being relegated to the porn channels or MSIT. 

The only thing Marta felt moderately unprepared for in her new role as an eyeball-magnet sports reporter was, well…sports. American sports still flummoxed her - what was this ‘football’? This bassball? Silly little games for silly little American men. Whatever it was, it was something she could blithely breathe through on air, feeding her viewers with whatever the teleprompter showed her as a side dish to her hourglass torso. Her real purpose was to keep the American eyeballs in the local viewing area plastered on her 5’11”,  44-26-36 figure while she kept her own eyes on Alicia Ray, the provincial former beauty-queen chosen to be the center of this WGGB Channel 5 hive, that would, soon enough, be moving on from their small local stage on to a much larger one. It was all thrilling, exciting, and though this was just an assignment, yes, she figured she could have some fun here while doing it. 

Like tonight. Marta had this event to go to, a grand opening for a new puppet facility. She’d been briefed. Coronado had sent a new platoon of Program girls, one of the largest yet, to work this new outpost medical center. Like Marta with Alicia Ray, these girls should be largely immune to the more invasive psychological tendrils of the Monroe woman’s influence, but, with the feelings Marta was dealing with now, how being in that tall brunette’s presence for just those several minutes last weekend had affected her, it made her think they would want her to keep a watchful eye on everything going on tonight. As tedious as that seemed though, she knew there would be vodka, and cameras, and her breasts were enormous…so she couldn't help but be excited. 

Yes, she’d been told to keep an eye on the new girls, each an agent, on their first real night of exposure to the Monroe pheromones. Marta would keep an eye on Melissa herself of course, try to glean if the rumors about her were true. It was being said that she was not only ballooning in height, figure, and strength, but that she’d been developing unpredictable abilities they hadn’t foreseen. There were those overseas, she knew, that were starting to consider Melissa an unwitting threat, that possibly feared what her growing influence might accomplish. Marta knew that she would be called on to report what she saw tonight, possibly directly back to Kazakhstan, so she needed to stay vigilant, but that didn't mean she couldn’t look good while doing so. She admired herself in this perfectly too-tight red dress procured specifically for that purpose. 

As she studied herself in the mirror her mind inevitably went back to Melissa, this odd fixation as of late. Yes, there was part of her that was wary of Melissa Monroe, though, there was another part that pitied her. If what she’d read in the briefings was correct, Marta felt for the girl, understanding how hard it must be for someone to endure what she had been raised through, and from the youngest of ages. She was not an unwitting nor necessarily an unwilling participant in the whole experiment, but her road had clearly not been easy. 

Beyond all the sympathy and pity she felt though, or maybe just buried deeper, there was another part of Marta that was lured to the woman, that wanted to be close to her and to witness her, and maybe be witnessed by her in return. She understood now what Katarina had been telling her, how powerful the magnetism of Melissa was. Strange, these urges; as much as they thrilled her, she knew she would need to keep them leashed as tight as she could. She could speak to her sister about them tonight.

Marta knew that her own complicated feelings reflected the entire viewing area’s feelings as a whole. Some fear, some curiosity, and…something deeper, something magnetic all clashing and the only way for her to sort it all out was to see what happened tonight.

At least I’ll look good doing it, she concluded, admiring herself one last time in the mirror…

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[weaselandfriends]

do you know of anything with a similar "clockwork storytelling" style of plot development that you used to described act 5 in hymnstokes?

I'm glad you asked this, because this is a concept I've kept in my mind for a long time.

The most obvious well-known examples of clockwork storytelling that come to mind are the films of Edgar Wright, with Hot Fuzz in particular standing out. Edgar Wright's style is that every detail and line of dialogue, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, comes back later to mean something more than it initially seemed. There is no wasted space, nothing extraneous or unneeded. It is all extremely tight and extremely satisfying to see play out.

Film in general, having significant restraints in terms of length, is often subject to this style, though at differing levels of complexity. What is so exciting about Act 5 of Homestuck is that it manages this style while juggling a zillion different characters and plot threads, so when the pieces all slot together it has the sprawling sense of a symphony with hundreds of individual performers working together at once. But I would argue that even something like, say, most Pixar films follow an ethos of extremely tight plotting with minimal extraneous elements. Pixar operates at a smaller scale, so it doesn't overwhelm with magnitude the way Homestuck does, but it still creates that feeling of satisfaction via structural perfection.

Another good example is Rick & Morty. Dan Harmon is an Edgar Wrightian who has his own personal "hero cycle"-style plot structure he likes to stick to, and that level of plotting is on display in most episodes of the first few seasons of the show. What makes R&M an interesting example, though, is the intrusion of Justin Roiland's influence. Roiland is like, a dumbass stoner whose storytelling ethos seems to be to adlib goofy noises into a mic, which is completely at odds with Harmon, but it complicates the otherwise simplistic story template and wound up creating some of the show's most quotable moments (wubba lubba dub dub).

I like works that fuse intricate and satisfying plotting with bizarre and difficult-to-grasp or even contradictory aesthetic decisions like that. My two favorite anime, Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Blood-C, both fall into that camp, and both times it's due to the utterly opposite aesthetic dispositions of the show's respective directors and writers. Madoka, for instance, balances Gen Urobuchi's tight, almost mathematical plotting (the show has a major plot development nearly every 3 episodes on the dot) with Akiyuki Shinbo's surreal and eccentric visual style. The visuals wind up complicating what would otherwise be a perfectly-composed but possibly quite dry narrative. Blood-C, a less well-known show, similarly combines a rather simple narrative by CLAMP -- where every event and line of dialogue gestures toward a major twist revealed at the end of the show -- with a manic, sleazy gorefiendery from Tsutomu Mizushima, the director of Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.

When it comes to clockwork narratives at the scale of Homestuck, it's harder to find examples. Of course, Homestuck is itself faking being a clockwork narrative, which I think I talked about in my old Hymnstoke posts. Homestuck's style is to simply toss out so many details that even by calling back to only a third of them it creates the impression via volume alone that it was all planned out and deliberate. A great example is John's toy chest. It contains some items like the Sassacre book that have a recurring purpose in the narrative, some items like the trick handcuffs that have one notable callback use (when John's Dad escapes captivity using them), and some items that only briefly reappear in the background of later panels. It also contains one item, the fake blood capsules, that never show up again (at least John's fake blood capsules don't; there are some fake blood capsules used by Dave's Bro during the whole puppet Saw misadventure). Hussie has only really meaningfully called back to a few of these details, but has created the impression he has called back to a lot of them, because there are simply so many.

In reality, Homestuck, even Act 5 Homestuck, is laden with extraneous and useless details. Most of the trolls are useless, which is why so many of them are glibly killed off. I used to think the only truly important troll to the narrative was Vriska, and by extension any troll that was important to Vriska, such as Terezi. Now, though, I realize that Vriska's breaking-the-game-for-personal-satisfaction shtick was hijacking Rose's whole bit. Rose was constantly seeking ways to break the game or exploit its boundaries. This ultimately culminates in nothing. Rose goes "grimdark," a completely meaningless state that causes her to be goth for a scene or two, and then that's over with and she becomes an essentially ancillary character for the rest of the story, useful only for a few bits of exposition. Even if we ignore the Act 6 part of that, it's a completely pointless set up with no payoff. Rose questioning the game and trying to break it leads nowhere. All the important game breaking is done by Vriska.

I think you could easily do a troll-less rewrite of Homestuck where the only major difference is that Rose is the one who creates Bec Noir instead of Vriska. It's true that the trolls frequently give the kids exposition that guides their actions, but the story has so many sources of exposition -- the sprites, random writing on their planets, Doc Scratch, their own future selves -- that you could easily fill the gaps they leave. That's the other way Hussie fakes a deliberate and satisfying clockwork narrative: redundancy. Hussie can have 100 characters who all "feel" like that have a role because many characters are all basically doing the same thing. I think I once said, in a spiel about database-driven storytelling, that Hussie wrote similar to how he coded. If you ever looked at the HTML of the old MSPA site, I might have been more right than I knew...

This all probably sounds quite harsh on Homestuck, but I think even creating this illusion of unity at such a large scale is impressive. Compare to a lot of the long-running shounen, which accumulate hundreds of characters who are relevant for their introductory arc and then become part of an increasingly gigantic crowd of tagalongs who are lucky if they even get to say a line now and then to remind the audience they exist. Hussie used the (at the time) brand new concept of the "meme" to accomplish a lot of this aesthetic clockworkery. The most common callbacks in Homestuck, after all, are repeated lines from Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. The redundancy in characters and details helped the work's internal meme language because memes tend to disperse by being templatized and reused in a variety of similar-but-different contexts. In a normal story, you might see stairs several times, and not think anything of it. But in Homestuck, the concept of "stairs" is memetically meaningful. If stairs show up, you better be sure you'll soon get a memetic callback. A bunny? There's a bunny? Oh shit. You better put it back in the box. In this paradigm, a character being similar to another character, almost to the point of redundancy (i.e. Dave and Davesprite and Dirk), is aesthetically unifying, rather than pointlessly promulgating.

[ravstars]

Sweet Motivationᡣ𐭩

⌇Wanderer/ Scaramouche x Reader.ᐟ

જ⁀➴Fluff: Wanderer helps you study for an upcoming exam

a/n: rushed!! I'm sorry!!

You watch the time pass by, as the clock ticks and tocks infinitely, your agonisingly difficult study material on the desk waiting for you to finally pay attention to it. Studying only felt right for you one or two days before the exam but a certain someone made you sit down and lose your head over complex mathematical problems.

You distract yourself with your own thoughts for a while, the numbers and letters starting to swim on the worksheet, which your professor had printed out for the class as preparation. But this strange blend of boredom and surprisingly peace doesn't last long as you hear the door creak open.

His steps are almost silent but you've gotten used to them, recognising him at the lack of sound, turning your head back to him. You pout and get ready to complain, before your eyes set upon a cup in his hands.

"What? What are you looking at?" He scoffs, rolling his eyes as he sets down the cup of tea on the desk. You're still silent, awaiting an explanation at the unusually benevolent gesture from the puppet.

"I know that you're incredibly dim, so I thought I'd prompt you to work that brain of yours." His expression speaks of indifference to anyone else, yet you can see the slightest reveal of concern in his eyes, making you smile a little bit.

"Wanderer, you didn't have to!" You tease, letting your small smile turn into a grin as you elbow the dip of his waist. He flushes, pulling his hat down harshly and jerking away from you

"Stop acting so childish." He scowls and you can't help but giggle at the way the tips of his ears turn pink.

Once settled, though, he clears his throat and trails closer to you, standing right behind the chair you were sitting on. Your back now presses against his torso and you’re calm at first, thinking he’d make distance between you two again after feeling you against him.

But he doesn’t.

Instead he leans down, now looking down over you, his eyes narrowing in on the paper you were supposed to focus on. Your stomach churns in embarrassment at both the intimacy and your lack of progress of the worksheet. You bite your lip getting ready for the lecture and scolding.

You hear a sigh and he speaks

“Are you really having a hard time with this?”

His voice is now much closer, right by your ear. Much softer than you expected too. You only hum, nodding and he chuckles softly.

"Hmm.." He muses, now with new-found confidence

"I'll help you then, understood? Get up."

You do as he says and he sits down on your chair, but before you can protest you feel his hands on your hips, pushing you down onto his lap.

"Pay attention now, yeah?"

[clarisimart]

A promise and a threat

Chapter 20 - The Reunion

It was the early days of their partnership, a couple of months since Cipher had first appeared in front of Ford, shining and divine, promising all of the knowledge in the universe.

Cipher was biding his time with his adorable human pet, helping him with banal questions and equations (all the while herding him closer and closer to the answer Bill wanted him to find, to the portal) and acting like a respectable colleague would. But today was the day, he would nudge the door open, to see if Sixer would open it wide. If his pet would become his puppet.

It had been the sixth time that night, in their shared mindscape when Ford's eyes would unfocus, and his figure would blink in an out of sight light a candle. Stanford Pines was running on fumes and caffeine. He would spend his nights chatting with Cipher, and planning, and doing complex mathematical equations in the mindscape and then his days feverishly writing down on paper all that he had learned and looking for ways to take the theoretical to the practical. Both these things meant Ford was not in fact getting any actual sleep, his brain falling directly into REM and never going through the full sleep cycle. This had been going on for so long Bill was surprised Sixer's brain hadn't turned to mush, and not for the first time he wondered if his pet scientist was entirely human.

The bed was made, he was going to make sure Sixer lay on it.

[trashworldblog]

major puppet history s7 spoilers

these are my opinions and interpretations from the season. im not explicitly saying this was shanes intent, just some parallels! (but if this was his intent i think he nailed it and i love it a ton)

a big part of this season is phorgotital sponsoring the season, leading to the watcher office being drugged and taken over by pythagoras. one of the reasons watcher tv exists is so they didnt have to do these sponsorships anymore. We all know that didnt end up happening, and we live with one foot on each side, one on the streamer free from sponsorships and one on youtube, tied to sponsors, advertisers, and the algorithm.

There was a lot of backlash following watcher tv's announcement with much of the outrage unfairly landed on steven. shane was seen as "innocent" and ryan fell somewhere in between. Looking back at the season, im seeing some of these ideas come up.

Shane dies first right out of the gate and everyone freaks out. He's shot to death in the street like a dog. He was just getting to his car. Everyone mourns for shane, and ryan takes drugs to forget his death.

Ryan and the professor die second. They were planning on killing someone, elmer. But do i think that was actually evil? no! he literally was a killer! they wanted to stop a mastermind from drugging everyone, nonconsentually marrying dorthy ruth, and continue his murder spree. but they're caught up, they trusted sprat when they shouldnt have. the audience could see this as morally questionable or their death being partly their fault.

With shane, ryan, and the professor dead, puppet history dies with it, landing in the arms of pythagoras. cut to a mouse who is a fan of puppet history. the mouse hates puppet mathematics and has made a meuseum for puppet history from all the discarded puppet history props. and what does the mouse do with these props? bring back a fan favorite. cue substitute.

that bit is so interesting. it shows how when a show is taken over by a brand and strays from where it started, the fans abandon it. but they keep the love for the old show, and in this case, bring it back from the dead.

this is what i have so far feel free to build on this but keep it in replies and reblogs under read more so we dont go spoiling things. also keep it kind :3

i love how art lets us express things like this. and i love how our brains are able to connect things together like this.

Anyways sending love to steven shane and ryan and everyone at watcher you guys are the best. <3

[arconinternet]

Count Us In and Take on Technology - several episodes (Videos, 1999/2001)

Australian educational shows starring the Muppet-esque Flynn and Dodly. You can watch them here.

[yuki8563]

IDEA:

[A Queen Bee] Imagine that after AC died, AW was sitting on the chair. The other anti-fairies came forward to show concern, but found AW's expression - empty and cold. Then she made a gesture of stroking the armrest and said, "Can you help me find the remote control?" Then the anti-fairy's subordinates bowed and even knelt: "You are back, our majesty." "Yes, our anti-fairy will not be without a king." AW put her finger on her chin and smiled seductively. -- She doesn't sleep in the bed anymore. The bed was too big. Sleeping on the chair allows her to hold Plushie, which is more comfortable. How great would it be if one day she opened my eyes and heard that person scolding: "Hey, that is my seat!" When she was suffering from insomnia, someone suggested that she count the stars. Before she knew it, she began to know how to look at astronomy, do mathematics, and even philosophy. She began to play chess and strategize, and finally during the game she noticed: He was always with her.

Anti-Wanda is an uncut diamond. Her leadership is a gift. She guides her people with wildness and elegance like a lion. She is a calm mother spider next to AC, but when she begins to imitate AC's characteristics, she will become a majestic queen bee, elegant and cool.

I put some of my headcanons for AW below (for backup, in case I forget in the future)

The design idea is: She deliberately trimmed her hair and used magic to adjust her appearance (pointed ears), and wore her husband's relics (glasses + coat, the coat is a bit too big but it doesn't matter)

She would make herself look like AC, not only for herself (the AC in her mind), but also because she believed that the anti-fairy king could only be that person.

During this period, she kept looking for ways to get him back, and she sculpted many puppets to fill the void. However, she would tear them apart and eat them with her own hands because she knew that defective puppets could not replace her husband.

AC's castle was filled with fragments and residues, but the desk and chair (where AC often stayed) were still kept clean.

And Here are some ideas I think about when I drawing AW: (MEMO...)

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I agree that Anti-Wanda has evil talents (but since I am not familiar with PartB, most of my creative content is based on OG, But my language barrier also limits my understanding of this character….)

I like wild female characters and describe Anti-Fairies through my imagination of Cthulhu creatures.

In my HC, she likes to tear or chew things that interest her with her bare hands because she is curious and learns from it (she also plays pranks on her husband, It’s exciting and fun to test the boundaries of “Will he be angry?”)

She sometimes seems to have no idea what she is doing but the truth is that people can‘t keep up with the way she thinks (Include me. So I can only try to profile this mysterious character from AC's perspective.)

Of course, you can see that my art is divided into "normal" and "serious”.

What JP anime fans like most in the Heisei era are humorous short daily dramas. Forgive me for treating FOP like mirumo… 😩 I admire people’s fan art as a multiverse…

I always want to talk about the thoughts of many characters, but the only place that can activate my expression ability is Tumblr mailbox. (Although I often cannot reply to them through the app due to UI glitches)

I've been thinking lately about how I can draw the way she eats a sandwich in OG by my artstyle!! but I haven't decided yet whether I should give her demonic legs or, socks? (Because in the OG artstyle , the character's feet are connected to her pants… but she doesn't look like she's wearing shoes, so I'm stuck!)

Based on a book about bacteria I read before, "Can You Eat Cookies That Have Dropped on the Floor?" (to be honest, I only remember some microscope images), I actually wanted AW to see the bacteria. She ate them because she saw tiny ”somethings“ on them and thought they were condiments.

The protagonist of another old anime I like very much (moyashimon) also has the same superpower, I mean, he can communicate with bacteria.

By the way, the reason I love this comic is that At the time, few people had written a male character who could accept the personality of the woman-self he liked. (In today‘s terms, mean s… accepting that you are trans…?)

If you are interested in moyasjimon, please be sure to watch it, it will allow you to learn a lot about bacteria in a relaxed way!

If you hesitate about what I mentioned, it's also fine!!

because the protagonist is just an ordinary boy who likes to talk to bacteria. Haha, making friends with bacteria is very similar to Timmy talking to fairies, right? XD

Let's get back to the topic of Cthulhu! I know Dungeons & Dragons is popular in the Western community, but I only came into contact with it through Baldur's Gate (if we just talk about the theme, I like Bloodborne),

90% of my TRPG game experience comes from COCTRPG (many of my OCs come from there).

Since the scripts I play are from Japanese writers, I can't be sure that my interpretation of their perspective will be accepted by everyone, so I'm not sure if people here can understand what I want to express…

This is a bit confusing, but to put it simply, I think anti-fairies are creatures that require a little SAN as a price to touch.

(And about Pixie, I still need to sort out my thoughts before I can write about it)

[crispycreambacon]

Hey puppets hear me out

This is gonna sound really crazy, but let's say my theory about Dr. Sprat being Pythagoras is confirmed, and with it, my other theory that Dr. Sprat wants to revive the Pythagoreanism cult.

Do you think this scene is foreshadowing a potential takeover from Dr. Sprat? That the reason why both the Professor and Ryan are targeted with the Phorgedytol is because he wants to incapacitate them and even send them to Purgatory so that he can remake the show into one about mathematics and push his Pythagoreanism agenda to a wider audience? This would also explain why he would want to kill Estranged Producer Shane Madej because this would allow Dr. Sprat to take over the executive producer spot without anyone protesting or Shane questioning it.

[waywardmillennial]

PH 7x06 Reaction

yes, this episode aired on Watcher TV weeks ago but my life got complicated soon after that, then I was in limbo about do I post or not? so I decided to wait until it aired on yt for everyone

WARNING: spoilers for the finale and the whole season under the cut!!

THAT FINALE THOUGH!! What an incredible season!

The reveal that Sprat was behind not only Shane's murder but also Dorothy Ruth's?! T_T

Ryan and the Professor being sent to Purgatory!! OMG!!

shout out to those captions - truly a masterpiece

So who is going to tune in next season for Puppet Mathematics! /j

part of me wonders if Dr. Sprat is wearing a hat to appeal to viewers, after all the discussions we've had around the updated Professor not wearing his hat

I would like it on record I pretty much nailed it with Sprat being Pythagoras, but didn't feel like we had concrete clues to really think it was going to happen and not be a red herring

I was so close on some of the theories and directions I was looking into! I feel a little like Dr. Sprat being Pythagoras was obvious but also not? The only time he's referred to as Hoagy in the 7x02 I thought it was spelled "Hoagie" so didn't put the anagram together

Only found this spelling on a rewatch. Turn on those captions y'all!

At least one other Watcherina found it!

I was close though, mentioning the triangle glasses and trying to find a name anagram, but I digress

There was a lot of Lore in that dumpster with the rat, including the hat from episode 6x02 (Wu Zetian) and the foam finger from episode 6x03 (Nika riots). And of course the genie lamp! Sprat may be a genius but he threw away a genie lamp? Lame!

and of course seeing the generator that the Substitute used is so exciting!!

Seeing the Substitute again would be so cool. And it's such a big tease, it's practically guaranteed now!

So what happens next? I've been asking myself that for weeks and I don't know

Open Questions -We never got confirmation on who was leaving messages on Ryan's board in 7x02 and 7x04 and I'm not sure we ever will

-Also, Shane shared this sketch on March 1st on Instagram (which has since been deleted/archived...hmmm) that shows the Triangle from 7x01 in front several other previous puppets, making some of us think we'd revisit Purgatory this season, but we didn't

-Sprat seems like he'd be a main character next season, which has me wondering how they'd make that work with Sam Reich doing the voice work? Maybe they'd defeat him in an early episode and then carry on as normal

-I'm kinda hoping for a 2025 Christmas-ish episode that wraps up a lot of the s7 Lore (like the Wondrium Arena episode) that's not a regular trivia quiz show and that'll get us a little closer to our normal setup 🤞

-We also got this lore drop in 7x06 about the Professor being an eternal being and someone on yt did the math for it

I have my fingers crossed that this means that HISTORY will never die and that we'll soon see the Professor, Ryan, the dino parents, and past puppets rescued from Purgatory!

💙💙💙

Major kudos to Shane and Garrett's writing, Charlie's editing, and Adam's cinematography!! Season seven was so much fun and very high quality!

hahaha remember when the trailer aired and we were all wondering about Liza Minnelli and nothing else? simpler times