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ask-the-rag-dolly · 6 months

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// Why do you like Ragatha

(Unleash it. Type out the essay.)

// ... the essay warning tag really is going to apply here ^^

ragatha became my favorite character almost instantly the moment she appeared on screen . like i could remember even around the teaser for the show i was pretty fond of her , though i could chalk that up to me liking Any design that is remotely based off raggedy ann

she perfectly fits that oddly specific character type only I love , which is 'grown woman keeps failing no matter how hard she tries and it's marvelous to witness' , like i'm not sure how to explain it too well - she's not really a girlfail or a girlboss in my eyes ... she just . never wins ! and i love that , please keep fucking losing ragatha the amazing digital circus

to break it down , what's apparent in her approximately less than 7 minutes of screentime is that she's a goofy goober who's essentially the voice of reason . she's not emotional like gangle , unreliable like jax and zooble , or out of her mind like kinger . she was essentially the only one who tried to ease pomni into the circus instead of hard-hitting her with the reality as if that won't make her abstract on the spot . it's clear through her interactions with the other characters and how she talks to pomni that she acts like the Pillar of the group , with how compliant she is with caine's adventures and has a comforting presence .

the problem is ... that all of those 'positive' traits are ... Detrimental to her own wellbeing . like i'm sure a part of her positivity is genuine , but her optimism clearly hinges into toxic positivity and her selflessness is taken to the point of people-pleasing and neglecting her own needs . it's clear that she sees her own emotions as a burden that she doesn't want to put on other people .

and . she's dishonest . my girl is dishonest . she often brushes off things as not being as bad as they actually are , she picks her words to cause less conflict as possible , and it doesn't seem like anyone else is aware of her internal turmoil ... even when she's in Literal Pain she still brushes it off as being okay - and she stayed quiet instead of telling pomni that she's upset .

which is ... hilarious . there's just something about nice characters that tell the most lies to me . bonus points if it seems like they're the one who tells the most truths out of the entire group . everything about ragatha is Dishonest .

and it's funny yet again that these Really don't help her at all ! i think it's clear just from promotional material to the pilot that ragatha is meant to be a punching bag . her teaser shows a cleaver Being Thrown At Her , was tripped by jax and Literally Most Of Her Screentime In the Pilot Is Being In Pain , and that's not counting gooseworx's doodles . my girl's fucking Losing .

and it fits her avatar well since she's a Rag Doll ... she's basically never meant to win from the start . she was never the main character .

it interests me so much on how all of these will be taken in the full series since they're all very interesting setups , especially for the setting that the story is set in . i just need to see more of my girl and i wish that a lot of her content isn't limited to ship art . you guys do not understand how desperate i am to see content of ragatha interacting with either caine or zooble . i am Not normal about them .

also i want to kiss her on the mouth //

#[ ooc ]#[ ESSAY WARNING ]#ragatha tadc

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dangopango00 · 13 days

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The Amazing Digital Circus and Escapism

A/N: Just watched and I LOOVEEEE cooking theories for these kinda of Youtube Series even if they turn out to be wrong so Heres the incomprehensible youtube comment I made just now bye

I like to put preliminary theories for series like this and my theory for this is that the circus is some kind of representation of escapism and/or maladaptive daydreaming

1. There's a shit ton of religious symbolism, maybe suggesting that the circus is supposed to be “heaven” although it has underlying hellish elements. For example, cain being portrayed as god and the fact that he doesn’t seem to really get why anyone would want to leave. In contrast, his name references the brother of abel who was cursed by god for his jealous rage. Not only this but, how everything is generally upbeat but there are momentary mental breaks when they are brought back to reality.

2. Reality is often blurred: The characters are real people but its suggested the lines are easily blurred like in the fact that pomni gets attached to a character that was never real to begin with or the fact that cain hints that it can be hard to tell the difference between real characters and npcs

3. Anecdotal but the fact that everyone seems to have a different vision for how the adventures should be played out: Jax wants action and violence, ragatha just wants something stimulating and pomni wants something comforting; the fact that jax gets upset when his vision isn't fulfilled feels very similar to mishaps when maladaptive daydreaming

4. Glitches and the video game setting overall: Idk if its just me but in maladaptive daydreaming its very easy for the mind to wander or mess up, causing a “glitch” in the story which I think is very similar to the glitches in the show

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5. The concept of VR itself is pretty much one step away from active escapism and although a bit of a stretch, I think the fact that the characters can’t take off their headset references their unwillingness to live in reality rather than actually being forced

6. Character behavior: How pomni goes from extremely weirded out to accepting and even slightly enjoying the circus feels very reminiscent of how it feels to first start maladaptive daydreaming as its an entirely odd thing to do but when you get into it it turns out to be fun and you keep doing it for hours. Ragatha is also interesting because she seems to ignore reality in favor of keeping herself sane, even ignoring devastating truths she realizes when she moves on from her mental breaks so quickly which is pretty much what maladaptive daydreaming is.

7. Exit: When pomni makes it to the exit and sees the desk setup with the headset, she began to lose her mind and instead of going forward to the next door she started going back (i think). I think this was her momentarily remembering how she felt like nothing in real life but in the circus she could be the main character (i think she struggled with feeling like nothing in the real world because of how much she brings it up and sympathizes with gummigoo, probably feeling like an npc irl) though either way she leaves the scene, likely not wanting to remember how her life was before.

8. Abstraction: Since we haven’t seen much of it Im still not completely sure but if I had to guess— I think abstraction is when you completely separate yourself from reality and live in a daydream full time since abstraction means “The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events” which is pretty much what escapism is; I think abstraction is likely a state of complete delusion as is hinted in the show by saying people who abstract are crazy

Overall I think the digital circus is probably either about escapism in general and/or a commentary on how we distract ourselves from serious topics almost as if we are children protecting ourselves from real life.

#the amazing digital circus #digital circus #amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #tadc #tadc jax #tadc ragatha #tadc theory #tadc caine #tadc gangle #tadc kinger #tadc zooble #ITS SO GOODDDD #I need a new episode NEOW (i just watched the new one)#I didnt research much into this but #just watching for the first time this is what I thought

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sam-dugesian · 7 months

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Had my mind blown away by a shocking revelation about the Digital Circus and Microsoft Office 98's animated assistant

Each avatar has a parallel in the show

in one avatar there are a pair of masks one laughing and one crying with a red ribbon below them and the only real animation they have is on the faces which somewhat aligns with the way gangle is animated in the digital circus if you take gangles slumped posture and slow movements as the best they could really do with a body that doesn't really move though the face does animate in exactly the way the faces do on the avatar character however their name is "Tragedy and Comedy" owing to the expression on each mask being reminiscent of the theatre masks representing these two forms of theatrical plays

there is also a clown that looks exactly the same though unlike how we see them in te show they are very happy in the avatar obnoxiously so i might add maybe being abstracted is when they start acting out of character

there's also an avatar that looks just like moodle and they have much the same character in the way they act and are animated even including the way they fall apart

yet again there's a ragatha analogue yet again they look very much the same and yet again they act very much the same

there's a barrel of monkeys again it's the same

there's even a wooden posing doll which we see several of in the show

there is a character just like kinger though they are animated differently their avatar exudes a lot of confidence and they generally rather slow and deliberate when it comes to their movements something that the character in the show seems to be the exact opposite of but they did say in particular that he had become deranged

on the doors there is also crossed out a yellow dog that may be reminiscent of rover makes sense since they were a hand me down an avatar that featured in assistant but was made for microsoft bob a forerunner to the program

likewise there is also a ringleader avatar which would match their counterpart apart from them being different at everything above the shoulders however there was also another avatar that was just a pair of false teeth so omitting the eyes for a second (we'll get back to that later) it does seem to be a mixture of the two things put together but weirdly enough their animation and very much their character in general is completely different to either avatar however it does directly correlate to one avatar in particular Clipit almost as if clippy ripped the ringleaders head off stuck the teeth avatar in their place and started controlling the pair of them like a puppet from the inside

now there is a rabbit avatar but they are wildly different to te character we see in the show in fact Jax looks a lot more like a certain rubberhose animation character from a certain rather well known company who canonically has a way of entering fictional worlds they don't belong in and causing a lot of chaos by doing whatever they want for their own enjoyment much to the distress of the characters of said world but in doing so causes said world to break down which they try to cover up to avoid being detected as an outsider

even pomni has an avatar analogue though this might require you to stretch your imagination a little since there is no jester character but there is a beach ball that has 6 segments around it that alternate red and blue and if you looked at it from the top down you would see the same pattern that can be seen in the character's eyes which also explained the stripey design the rest of the character has but just a minute here the face of the character looks exactly like another avatar a character called "The Period" that is a.. red.. dot... oh dear

one obviously absent character in this entire lineup is einstein but there may be a copyright issue on that

merlin the wizard is also absent which is distinctly odd since there's no reason they should be

even the gloinks feature in a fashion there are random 2D shapes the same shape and color as the things we see in the show but they are just background pieces and have no eyes but move in very much the same way

of course you might ask what the bubble is well you might have to twist your brain a little but the assistant character communicates to the user via speech bubbles now hold on there's more to this if you take the way the dialogue is structured and the way the software progresses and interacts with the user's input then the way the bubble is acting is very similar to how that opperates being helpful but controlling in a way much like how it interrupts Caine while he is trying to make a length dialogue oh i think we can relate to that also that line Caine says "oh bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence" would definitely make sense in this context

back to Microsoft Bob, the forerunner to the assistant in that game there is a world that very much resembles the overworld of the game we see there is a lake there and a fairground but where Bob's house is supposed to be there is now the bigtop tent

also in Bob are various set pieces that can be found around the tent the building blocks with the rainbow arches the corridor where the characters' bedrooms are a door that leads to a carousel a door that leads to room full of water a door that a punching glove comes out of and a door that leads to a bathroom not to mention that Bob's house has lots of framed pictures on the walls and both the moon and the sun can be seen through windows in Bob's house and if that's not a coincidence i don't know what the hell is

Caine's dialogue is also very reminiscent of exactly the way the assistant avatar actually talks in the software including nerding out on the legal issues and chastising you for entering a name that has a curse word in it

Caine also mentions a ball pit which was a hidden easter egg in Microsoft Bob

Also, on the release of Windows ME they removed the assistant character after many negative reviews and there was a magazine article calling for its return that had the following image as the front cover

though it's not exactly what we see in the show the grime is indeed very similar looking and the bust out and burned drive can also be seen on the computer in the show not to mention the mouse being split open but just to confirm it even more the warped power strip is also in the shot

now if you look at the headset in the image it looks very similar to this specific headset by Microsoft that was supposed to be available for use in Windows 98

but it never came to fruition and wouldn't you know it but the reason it never did is because the microsoft assistant popups crashed the software it was using

also if you'll look to the right you'll see the old design of pc tower ibm used to use or somewhat an approximate to it and wouldn't you know it but that itself was the very first iteration of the microsoft assistant

now we are still missing some specific characters those being a 2x2 jigsaw puzzle but as that was the logo for the assistant i can understand why it's missing

a 3D model of the planet earth well that's just kinda boring

bonsi buddy well that might be to avoid vinesauce fans

but there's seemingly no reason why the avatar known as F1 should be missing

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except.. maybe the name..

you see in windows 98 when using the assistant by typing the button combination F1, F5, F9, F4 quickly in succession you unlock a game known as "software developer hunter" where you basically play spyhunter except you are hunting down the developers of the assistant software while playing as one of the avatars killing them in a cartoony explosion while they scream a very familiar scream in fact it's this one that pomni makes after seeing the computer just before going through another door

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not only that but when you play this game the avatar characters say specific dialogue on killing the developers

WE ARE SPECIAL TOO

YOU WILL RESPECT THE RECTANGLES

DONT SKIMP ON THE DATA

WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE DO AGAIN

SO YOUR NAME IS MISSPELLED WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT

CIRCLES ARE GOOD TOO BUT THEYRE NOT RECTANGLES

PIVOT PIVOT PIVOT CANT GET ENOUGH

MALICIOUS PIXIES

A CHART SAYS SO MUCH EVEN THOUGH IT DOESNT REALLY SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE IT CANT TALK

THANKS FOR SHARING

LAST BUT NOT LEAST BUT ALSO NOT COMPRESSED SPAM

and if you wonder why i mention these in the episode one of the characters says each of these lines maybe with a couple of words changed here and there like Gloink in place of rectangle for example although interestingly Pomni is the only speaking character that doesn't and of these lines Jax says most of them

and even more interesting than that considering the connection to the assistant software being phased out around the turn of the millennium take a wild guess when this particular easter egg game was actually released

in fact all of the stuff we've seen not only includes stuff in a version of windows 98 set just before the millennium and just before they were phased out but it noticibly does not include one particular piece of software and this might be the clue that reveals the whole thing

at the turn of the millennium there was a big fear of that when the clocks rolled over to the new century it would cause a bug in the software that would break people's computers and so there was an update that was sent out to all PC's to change the software and prevent this from happening

said software made certain changes to these assistant programs and those changes are completely absent and not only that but in the office space when Pomni is running through it the yellowing computer is the only one of a design that predates when this feature was made as standard

not only that but in the various rooms she runs through you can see the exact tech used specifically for updating PC's to prevent them from the millennium bug almost as though they had just been preparing for such an event moments before whatever happened to Pomni

and on a side note i wonder what else microsoft released just before the millennium

yep a computer watch not quite the design of Caine's but it is also roughly square which in case you didn't know was very unusual at the time

and why yes that is the case for the watch sitting on the mousepad on the computer desk with the keypad for it sat on top of it in case you didn't notice (in not exactly to scale)

so i think i'll take a sip of my wine here for i do believe i

but that's just a..

Mat? wanna play me out?

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journeysintowebcomics · 5 years

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Girl Genius Liveblog #199

UPDATE 199: Everyone vs Evil Train

Last time the Beast – apparently that’s the name – was released. Thanks a lot, Margarelotta. Now it’s going around, destroying everything in its hunger for metal. Let’s see how everyone deals with this!

The Beast has already claimed victims. Some of the unfortunate guards at the armory had armors, and it sucked everything. I don’t think the evil train would care about sparing the guys inside the armors, so...yeah, they’re as good as dead. What will be its next move? Go search the engines, perhaps? And in the meantime catch more people with armors?

An option to have stuff to fight back is to use stuff from the vaults. You know, the things and beings the monks are keeping locked down because they’re dangerous. That’s bound to go well. If it was anyone other than Agatha, I’d be very worried, but since it’s Agatha...she’ll know what to do. I’m looking forward to finding out what she’ll do.

The vaults look pretty fortified, but the train got through with no trouble. Brother Ulm tells everyone not to touch anything and also to keep an eye out for Margarelotta. It doesn’t take long to find her.

That’s a shame. I liked her, even after she turned out to be calculating and definitely not as defenseless as she made herself seem. She also caused the current plot afflicting Agatha and pals. I’m glad she did, this seems like an interesting one! But yeah, it’s a pity she’s dead.

She sure seems to be largely intact despite being, you know, attacked by a train.

What Margarelotta did was search through the vaults to try to find whatever it is she was looking for. The vault she was opening so smugly didn’t have what she was looking for, it just held a silly-looking reptile. I’m sure it’s very awful if it’s locked here. Frustrated, she ran to every vault, opening them and possibly letting free a lot of horrors. Thanks, gal, way to go.

That’s the book she stole! Interesting! I see a couple initials (?) on the cover. They don’t fit either Tarvek or Tweedle’s last names. Or Seffie or Margarelotta or her husband’s last names, either. Hmmm...I can’t think what this could mean. Perhaps the key would give further clues?

Agatha claims that book is hers. Oh, of course. Those are the initials of Ragatha Rheterodyne, how could I not know that. It’s possible she’s telling the truth, that book was shown in Agatha’s property before and I just forgot. I sure know my memory isn’t the best. Still, how did Tweedle get his hands on that book?

Before Agatha can give some much-needed explanations, Violetta arrives, announcing she found something. She also enters in denial when she sees Margarelotta’s dead body, and takes off the handkerchief off the corpse’s face. It can’t be a pretty picture.

I still question how the evil train killed her and only mangled her face. Either the train somehow dodged her just enough to leave her mostly intact, or she got unlucky when it sped out of the vault.

The only reason why Violetta is denying so much she’s dead is because she treated her in a nice manner...in the very twisted standards these families have.

This family is the worst family ever, hahaha

Apparently now there are more pages in the book. Perhaps Margarelotta or Tweedle wrote more pages to put in the book? I wonder what they added.

Time to start planning how to capture a relatively intelligent train who is evil and wild. Using the same tricks that captured it before are unlikely to work, they’ll have to think something new. For example, how about using a freaking magma train! Violetta vetoes it because she’s too reasonable. Instead, they’ll modify the stuff used to lure it, instead they’ll trap it. When put like that it’s a rather intelligent plan, I’m all for it.

If it has volcanoes it automatically is great. Lighten up, Violetta, this is the world of MAD SCIENCE. This is almost a requirement in a volume in this world!

When they note some of the doors to the vaults resemble cells...it makes me wonder how many may be sentient beings. In a way the basement of this fort is like a prison for some really dangerous creatures, it’s likely the train isn’t the only resident of this area.

Despite the threat of the Beast eating everything and possibly having razed all over the yards by now, Agatha isn’t worried, because she’s already plenty experienced with all kinds of nasty things and unexpected events, it’d take something really bad to throw her off her groove—oh my god it’s Tweedle.

As expected, her friends aren’t very happy Tweedle is here, Zeetha tries to attack and gets intercepted by Tybalt, while Agatha demands to know what Tweedle will do after they all work together to defeat the Beast. Tweedle’s answer isn’t what I expected, admittedly.

Hmmm...is he telling the truth about helping Agatha get to Paris? There’s a chance he’s lying or there’s a catch here. Perhaps he’d take Agatha to Paris as long as she stays with him? I imagine that, if he wants to let her do her thing, the one condition would be to have her nearby so he can control her. No way he’d let her go away if there was a risk she wouldn’t be under his thumb. Once he tells her in a very condescending manner to not worry about his motives of doing so right now, they get started. You fool, Tweedle, I’m sure Agatha can multitask! She can work on stopping the train and worry about your motives!

Tweedle is having the idea everyone else had by now: use the stuff here in the vaults to catch the train. Then he gets a more original idea: what if, by using magnetism. They can affect how the train thinks? I’m not sure that’ll work because if magnetism could change that then it’d risk changing its own thoughts every time it attracts metal, but it’s worth a try. You never know what will be useful.

I’ll end the update here for the time being. Thank you for reading!

Next time: in six updates

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