MR MEGA- AGAIN?

Voices of the void is a signal simulator inspired video game on itch.io where you play as Dr. Kel, a curly haired dude who's assigned to a base in the swiss alps whose job is to tend to a ton of satellites and report back with signals that he's found throughout the day. However, despite seemingly being alone, you'll very quickly find out that you're far from it. So, first off when you first move into your base you'll notice these mannequin guys. like, the base is fucking full of them! They seem like normal mannequins, which most of them are, however sometimes there are these mannequins that spawn that are in a walking pose, and whenever you don't look at them they move closer to you Fuckin creepy! But then! So, you start out with a microwave in your bedroom, and if you microwave stuff for long enough it'll catch on fire. if you use this to then set the walking mannequins on fire, they'll start walking no matter if you're looking or not, and they'll push you over [as all the enemies in the game do] and you'll start taking fire damage. The only way to stop these mfs is to break them with your crowbar or somehow put them in a wood chipper if you've bought one. And that's just ONE of the bajillions of different things in the game! The game is so fucking chocked full of stuff, but due to how small the player base is its very likely that we're only scratching the very SURFACE! The game is still in development, and we're only at demo 6.1!! There's likely so much we've missed that got removed under our noses, and there's definitely SO MUCH MORE TO COME This game is so fucking cool i'm SOOOO normal about it [lying]

Very very random but I love how the Man With The Yellow Hat is always the bard whenever there’s a period episode of Curious George. He’s always just there singing a song and playing a random instrument (usually a banjo).

help i keep repeating the ‘united states canada mexico panama’ song but only up to like peru and it’s getting annoying 😍

Sorry not sorry for the pure south park x homestuck brainrot I will start posting over the next few weeks....starting here.

Vriska and Butters would best friends. End of story. Thanks for reading my mini Ted talk.

do you think ocean was worrying about how she had to get home soon because there was school tomorrow as she boarded the cyclone? do you think constance was super excited about finally going on her favorite ride after looking forward to it the whole day and the choir just went along with it because she wanted to so bad? do you think mischa was reaching out for his phone that was falling out of his pocket as he fell to his death in one final desperate attempt to contact talia? do you think ricky wished he could scream more than he ever had before as he watched the girl sitting next to him's head fly off? do you think in his final moments noel was worrying about his mom and how she would have no one left if he died? do you think ocean was the first one to notice how something was wrong with the track and could only listen as her choirmate's screams of joy became screams of fear? do you think about how hard mr and mrs blackwood probably cried when they found out their baby girl was dead? do you think that was mischas first time on a roller coaster? do you think about how ricky died the youngest of them all, having turned 17 only 3 months earlier? do you think constance was gripping the hem of her skirt, like she does in the show, as the cart was flying off the tracks out of pure adrenaline? do you think penny had brought ezra with her and he was on the ground, watching the ride his sister was on break and kill everyone in it? do you think he was desperately trying to tell the medics that the unidentified body was his sister and they brushed him off because of his age? do you think constance was laughing as she fell to her death, more focused on the beautiful sunset and memories than she was on her imminent doom? do you think about how because of the canadian school schedule, that was literally only their second week of senior year? do you think constances baby brother was scared when his big sister just stopped coming home one day? do you think about how mischa's final text to talia was probably a good night text and she slept through the love of her life's death, only to see no new messages from him when she woke up and "rest in peace" comments all over his social medias? do you think ocean was stressing about a quiz they had at school the next day in the moments before the cart derailed? do you think rickys cats felt his absence after he died and just knew something bad had happened to him? do you think, as he bled out, mischa was smiling because he would finally get to be with his mom?

hey, pssst. ride the cyclone fans.

you totally shouldn’t click on this link because it totally won’t take you to a google drive folder which totally doesn’t have a full copy of the 2016 production of Ride The Cyclone which definitely isn’t accessible to anyone with the link

because that would just be terrible

ride the cyclone PSA for you all:

a lot of people don’t realize that uranium city isn’t a fictional town. it is a fictionalized version of the real uranium city, a town established during the cold war era boom of uranium mining towns in the 1950s.

it was a thriving mining town, with business shining throughout the 60s and the town boasting a population of over ten thousand.

the sudden closure of its last mine in 1982 saw the population plummet from 4,000 to almost 400 people.

to most, it’s now considered a ghost town, with only between 50 and 90 residents depending on the season.

relics of when the town was thriving remain scattered throughout the area. candu high, built right before the population plummet, remained in operation for 4 years before shutting down.

the only remaining school only serves students from kindergarten to grade nine, meaning that the only way a high school education can be pursued is through private means. there exist no cafes, and the few hotels and apartments that existed in the area have since shut down.

uranium city is a lot more than a dead-end highway town in real life: it’s almost completely abandoned. assuming the musical takes place in 2009, it wouldn’t have been big enough to host a fair and a cafe wouldn’t have enough customers to maintain business. part of uranium are fictionalized in ride the cyclone but the town itself met an even worse fate than the fictionalized uranium.

just an interesting bit of history i wanted to share :)

they teach eachother their native languages because the warehouse is boring as fuck (PUSHING MY SPANISH SPEAKING RICKY AGENDA)

example.

ricky: there’s gender rules too… like… uhhh beach is la playa while uh… the waiter is el camarero

mischa: this shit is too hard

ricky: misch, i am learning an entirely new alphabet for you HOW THE FUCK IS Н PRONOUNCED N…

mischa:

ricky:

mischa: magic

if she’s YOUR girl then why are we making love in zero gravity?

I wish there was a capital version of the exclamation point. Like- just going “!!!!!!!!!!!” In the tags isn’t enough to properly convey my excitement.

Gonna make a post where I do the thing and pin it so y’all can navigate this pile of randomness:

Me: Ricky/Shawn (they/he)

My AO3:

AU stuff (in the tags):

Claire & The Winchesters AU

Glamrock Freddy Through The Ball Pit AU (master post) (ask the FazFam questions!)

GUYS GUYS IM GOING TO AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE IF I CAN GET GENDER AFFIRMING CARE TOMORROW AAAH!!

i woke up and went "yeah sure i'll do this" @kaleidescopic

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OK, but hear me out

Say Ride the Cyclone were to be adapted into a film; imagine how much fun it would be to see it animated.

Because for the main plot, like the intro song and the mostly dialogue scenes in limbo, you could easily do a stylistic, but still grounded in realism style that a lot of modern animated projects are doing right now (think Arcane or Into the Spider Verse). But once each of the kids go into their respective songs/fantasies for what their life could have been? What if those were done in completely different styles?? Imagine the additional, visual storytelling that would tell about who they are as characters?

Like say, for Ocean's number, WTWN, everything became more simplified, and the characters (especially Ocean herself) turned into a more rounded, chibi-like style to enhance just how cutesy and likeable she's trying to portray herself throughout that number.

Or for Noel's Lament, everything goes black and white, and the characters become even more 2D stylized, and the film scales down to a smaller millimeter frame, more reminiscent of cartoons from the early 20's, when animation was just starting out, to enhance his idealization of "the olden days" (as Ocean puts it).

Mischa's song, This Song is Awesome could be animated with a more choppy frame rate, and the character designs turn a little more jagged around the edges, kind of like animated music videos (I'm thinking a Gorillaz band vibe). But as he transitions into singing about Talia, the colors start to bleed out over their lineart, and become more paint-like and Talia herself moves like a rotoscoped character (think Loving, Vincent that came out a few years ago) to enhance the sense that she's somewhere between a real person and a fantasy Mischa's built in his mind.

Ricky's song would, of course, be stylized after those sci-fi cartoons from the 90's, like X-Men or Captain Planet.

For the Ballad of Jane Doe, I would love to see something like what Wolfwalkers did back in 2020, where most of the characters (in this case, the other kids) are for the most part, animated like traditional, 2D characters with very clean lines and neat movements, whereas Jane herself stands out for having messier, sketchy line art, and looks more and more unfinished in her animation as the song goes on, because she can feel more and more of her own identity being lost.

Constance's Sugar Cloud I could see done in the classic 2D Disney style (i.e., the Renaissance era of Disney, like the Lion King or Little Mermaid days) because not only is it really smooth and colorful and just all around nice to look at, but it reminds the average moviegoer of their childhood growing up with those movies (among others, obviously), which ties in nicely with Constance's preceding monologue about remembering her own life, and the good that came with the bad.

I'm even tempted to envision the first half of the finale song in a different style, when the stage production would show a quick projection of Jane/Penny's life after she returned to the world of the living. Imagine watching this animated film, and for that segment alone, it becomes that really hyper-realistic, almost uncanny valley CGI animation style, to show that she really has joined the world of the living, i.e. our world, among us, the living breathing movie goers watching this, and watching the other kids still in limbo fade back to that main art style for the final number.

I don't know; it just feels like something that would be so engaging to see from an already compelling storyline and characters. Especially with more experimental animation projects on the rise right now