#the night circus spoilers

[august-aches]

SHE GOT HIT BY A TRAIN

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Monty and TADC Gummigoo are so alike!

[jestercircus]

nothing bad happened to bonnie actually, he just retired from the glamrocks to bowl full time

[strawbubbysugar]

POV: you just walked in on your brothers new wedded partner meeting their totally normal sister for the first time. (background by @bittysteam )

Bonus:

[roxanneslosteyes]

If I had a nickel each time I liked a character that based on a reptile species, I would have two nickels. Which it isn't alot but it's funny how it happened twice.

(Also they both got "killed off" but not really "killed off" if that makes sense in their official debut too. So that's too)

[shinewonder]

[keiru-the-worm]

non art post + TADC EPISODE 2 SPOILERS + just me rambling lol

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i haven't seen anyone mention it yet but OMG

HE DOES CARE, HE'S JUST HOLDING IT IN

THIS LITTLE PIECE OF S*** OMG I JUST KNOW HE WAS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS

just letting everyone know that if they make his sarcastic persona crack with each episode I WILL BE COMMITTING A CRIME

[starleska]

so 'The Amazing Digital Circus' has all kinds of fun references and wears its inspiration on its sleeve...

from Popee the Performer (the environment, slapstick, and especially Gangle's masks resembling Kedamono's), to Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (the inside of The Tent looking very much like the Daycare), to Deltarune (Caine's eye-glitching looking very similar to Spamton's, and of course them casting Alex Rochon as Caine, who is known for his Spamton voice!). but there's also another neat little set of references which may or may not be deliberate: the nods to Toontown Online!

Toontown Online was an MMORPG where you play as Toons (slapstick-using, brightly coloured, animal cartoon characters) fighting Cogs (evil fun-hating robots based on corporate businesspeople). the game still exists now in fan servers such as Toontown Rewritten and Toontown: Corporate Clash, with a thriving community contributing to new stories and preserving the original game. i noticed a few similarities between Toontown and TADC:

the name generator! when you first enter Toontown, you have the option to choose your name via a random generator. although you can type in your own name, and the names are comprised of separate words rather than letters, the silliness and randomness of it seems very similar to Caine's name generator...additionally, if you typed your own name, you would have to wait to have it approved (ensuring that the name wasn't offensive), much like Caine's quickly-spouted rules about naming!

2. portal travel! one of the big gimmicks of Toontown is that you're able to move between areas by jumping through a portable hole, also known as 'teleporting'. this looks quite similar to the one Gangle and Kinger are pushed through/Jax jumps through to find the Queen of the Gloinks!

3. Jax's appearance! in Toontown, you create your own Toon by selecting from one of the available species, and then changing their colour, height, clothes, and more. a tall purple rabbit is definitely a type of Toon which could be created in the original Toontown game, and his whole playful nature reminds me so much of the game!

as an old fan of Toontown i'm delighted to see these references, and am sure they're on purpose. given that this is The Amazing Digital Circus, i think we're going to see a loooot of references to older online culture, like games and videos 🥰💖 everyone, please do go watch The Amazing Digital Circus pilot and support them if you can. they deserve to be funded to create even more wonderful episodes!! and i'd love to hear people's thoughts on this. were there any references you spotted? 👀

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

If I had a nickel for every time a little robot girl in a horror franchise killed their older human sibling and carved out their body to wear it as a skin suit, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

[idsfantasy]

The sheer number of Baby content in this game is crazy! From the plushies in several mini games to the Sister Location games, to the Helpy medical work, it’s Baby everywhere! She’s even behind us!!!

2 things that real stuck out to me:

1.) Boss and Office Worker is chilling, considering her connection to Afton! Like she’s literally playing as her dad a bit. And concerning that she feels “safe in here”, which is definitely not what she felt like in Sister Location (the game).

2.) Everyone talks about the MCI + Charlie Dolls, but not the ice-cream with a gloved hand!?? Same hand as the one giving out the dolls??? Or that she tells us that we could hide from her in fazbalst!

Imo, this sort of adds to the Vanny and Baby/Elizabeth connection!!!

Yeah, I definitely found that interesting! But the thing is the hand with the ice cream isn't Glitchtrap's, like with the dolls

Does look a bit like Vanny's though

EDIT: I don't think it's actually her hand, just thought it was interesting that it sorta looked like it from this angle. Figured I should clarify lol

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Adorable how excited Elayne already is for her and Egwene forming this world changing epic friendship, totally unaware or prepared for the utter disaster duo she will be with Nynaeve.

[psitaniumpsichosis]

Psychonauts 2 Spoilers

The circus isn't somewhere 13 and a half Gristol Malik ever foresaw himself, but after he was kidnapped and separated from his parents-- well, this little circus is the only place he's safe.

Taken in by 14 year old Augustus 'Gus' Aquato and his mother, Gristol now lives under the alias 'Nick Johnsmith', his saviour teaching him how to survive in these conditions and how to do the amazing stunts that he was now practically required to pull off.

But it's not all bad, Gristol-- rather, Nick-- is learning to appreciate what little the Aquatos can provide and learning to realize how horribly his parents treated their citizens. Plus, this 'peasant food' is really good. Who knew how incredible such a simple soup could be?

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YAHAHA! I'm back with another au! I drew a teen Augustus and it got out of hand-- as you can tell I got a new stylus lol

Feel free to send in asks about this AU, I wanna share about it because I love these kids so much. I gotta design the third kiddo, a young Caligosto Loboto who ran away from his procedure and joined the Aquatos.

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

What makes you so special, huh?

[jestercircus]

silly guy just doing its job<3

[kay-southpaw]

TADC Ep2 Theory

Okay, sooo since everyone lost their minds after the last episode (understandable) and many people now panic and think that one of the circus members might be an NPC (oh no), I thought I'll throw in my two cents... or however that American saying goes.

I don't think any of the members are NPCs. None of them. I do think that some NPCs had slipped through before, but Caine specifically said in this ep that he made the AI 57 times more immersive. Which sounds like a lot, right? So, I think older NPCs were kinda stupid, maybe in a cute and innocent way (this is a kid-friendly software, after all) and that made the humans grow fond of them rather fast, resulting in them mingling with the NPCs even after adventures. However, Caine - perhaps because of his nonexsistent people-skills, or because of the fact that he can manipulate npc and player sprites the same way - did mix up NPCs and players before. It's not about the fact that players can't tell themselves and AI apart, it's that Caine can't. And of course, in good old rusty Caine AI-fashion, he has no idea of the damage he had done.

[zebracorn-chan]

I don't really care who the Mimic is, this is just a design-only observation.