#a. sphere

[ciphercalamitiez]

[rjalker]

Well, have some memes about it.

Feel free to add your own versions of the characters. In fact, consider this an art prompt.

[ID: Three versions of the "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy" meme, showing different versions of A Sphere and A Square from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, with A Sphere saying "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Square", and A Square replying, "Damn.", while text below him indicates he is staring at Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 Flatland film. In the first version, the Sphere is a literal blue sphere with lighting on top and shadows underneith, and A Square is a thin line through the air with a bright point in the center. In the second version, A Square is the same, but the Sphere is now more cartoony, with thin black arms, a light green surface with soft lighting and shadow, yellow eyes, and a blue tongue visible as he speaks. The third version has the characters as they appear in the 2007 Flatland film by Ladd Ehlinger. The Sphere is yellow, with protruding red eyes, and a red mouth that goes across his whole front half, like a Pac-Man. A Square is now visibly a Square, with a blue eye on his perimeter that frowns upwards, with dark insides with lighter squiggles. End ID.]

Yeah unfortunately the creator of the 2007 Flatland film is literally a racist misogynistic conservative. So racist in fact that youtube has actually had to restrict videos he's made because they're that blatantly racist. He has literally compared government-funded healthcare and free lunches for school kids to slavery.

You are not a bad person for watching or enjoying his movie, but you should be aware of what kind of person made it, because his bigotry is in the movie, and the way he chose to gloss over and ignore all of the politics of the original novel.

These characters are public domain. They do not belong to this racist misogynist. They belong to all of us. You can design your own versions of the characters in any style you want and do literally anything you want with them.

How about to spite the conservative bigot, everyone takes this as a challenge to create their own designs for these characters, in this meme format, and add them on here?

If you cannot make your own image description, I will make one for you as long as you edit it into your original post.

Flatland is public domain and can be read and listened to and watched in so many different ways. Here is a post linking to a few of them.

Also, you don't have to draw A Square and the Sphere if you don't want to, you can do any Flatland or Flatland-Adjacent characters.

You can start your image description out with "The same meme format as above, but now..." And then describe what the characters look like in your version.

[meloncholicmonosodium]

sphere redesigns that was originally 4 a. sphere ,, but why not do more

( yes ill definitely do more )

[idreamofflatland]

Enter: The Royal Doctor, Doctor Vesuvius. You'll be seeing more of him very soon.

[commoner64]

They're both losers, baby!

[2d-dreams]

shapesphere always winning

[389]

lolita111000

[number-crimes-wizard]

CROWDSTRIKE TOOK DOWN THE SPHERE! FUCKING LEGENDS

[charlesoberonn]

[based on u/RabidFlamingo's post on r/Portal]

[blabberoo]

What if,,

[ciphercalamitiez]

[rjalker]

[Audio description: A short audio clip from the 2007 Flatland film, with A Square and A Sphere talking in a large room that makes their voices echo.

A Square says, "But…might I be granted a look at your insides?" "My what?" A Sphere exclaims. "Your stomach, brain, heart." A Square says. "What the devil are you talking about?!?" A Sphere cries. The clip ends. End Audio description.]

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Edit August 20 2024: Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 Flatland film, is disgustingly fucking racist and misogynistic. He is literally a proud conservative.

He made a political ad in 2011 that's literally so blatantly racist and misogynistic that youtube has literally restricted it so you literally cannot share the link outside of youtube.

Because it's that blatantly fucking bigoted. I wish I could say I'm shocked but considering how terribly the 2007 film handles the themes of the original novel, I'm not surprised in the least.

The ad literally has Black men chanting, "give me your cash bitch so we can shoot up the street", while a white woman, with the face of the politician the add is against photoshopped over her, pole dances as a sex worker

He runs a tumblr account so make sure you block him. His username is filmladd.

He's literally a racist misogynistic conservative.

For the love of all that's holy everyone please stop promoting this film immediately and make sure people are aware of exactly what kind of person produced it.

[marciaillust]

an Angel

[idreamofflatland]

Random Loredump

This is canon, I guess.

[2d-dreams]

A. Shape's Solution

[General Description: Two digital drawings with shabby black lineart in a gray background. Each panel has lyrics taken from the song "Cotard's Solution" by Will Wood and the Tapeworms. Rather than filling in the colored parts, they are colored through cross hatching and closely-packed lines. The drawings are featuring Flatland-based characters: A. Shape, a faceless cube with two tendrils (which have frayed ends and a bulb shaped tip), surrounded by floating squares with one eye each; and A. Sphere, a sphere with two noodle arms, a mouth and one eye. Half of his body and one of his arms is covered in black burn scars. /End GD]

[First Image Description: A. Sphere is in the center of the drawing, his face is not visible and his arms are stretched upwards as if he were falling or floating. Two of A. Shape's tendrils reach down to him from above, intertwining loosely with his arms. Behind A. Sphere can be faintly seen the silhouettes of A. Shape's squares and eyes staring at him, amused and intrigued. The background has a spiral and the lyrics follow it, starting below A. Sphere with the lyrics: "Rolling my third eye.." and spiraling all the way behind him and continuing with "..Into the back" /End first ID.]

[Second ID: Most of the drawing is in messily colored black, with only the upper left and upper right corners remaining gray. The black portion looks as if the gray part had been ripped in half, revealing the space underneath. A. Sphere is split in half, each half on an opposite corner in the gray space, with his eye looking into the black void beneath, as if he was looking into himself and into the Fourth Dimension. A. Shape's tendril tips can be seen just over A. Sphere's shoulders on both halves, barely peeking into the drawing from off screen. A. Shape itself, with white lineart and colored gray, is floating inside of the black portion, its tendrils stretching out past the visible part of the void. Despite having no eyes or face, it looks like it could be looking up at A. Sphere. The lyrics are in white text above A. Shape and continue off from the last panel: "-Of my head and squinting through the black" /End second ID.]

playing around a little with how i plan on describing big images or several images in one post .... i hope it works? pls ignore the "activate windows" text that appears below them sometimes lol