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dreamcatcher-faux · 5 months

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Guess who watched The Amazing Digital Circus~ :3

I got inspired by @sm-baby 's Carnival AU to make my own swap au :3 (I think him and Ragatha would get along nicely :3)

Kinger swaps with Pomni due to their shared medieval themes (Pomni being a Jester and Kinger being a King) and because I thought it'd be fun if the newest and oldest members swapped :3 (Pomni is a Pawn Chess Piece in this au :3)

I imagine Kinger's robe works similarly to Mario's hat in some games? Where if the hat is away from him, Mario will be dizzy? I might be misrembering, but that's what happens if Kinger's robe is away from him. He can take it off just fine, he just needs to be touching it to keep the dizzy effect away :3

Below the cut are the flats and Kinger's first pass design :3

#faux art ✨️#the amazing digital circus #the Amazing Digital Circus au #tadc au #tadc swap au #the Amazing Digital Festival #tadc kinger #festival!kinger #Queenie is a Queen of Spades Card btw :3 #i love his cotton candy hair and heart eyes so much >w<

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it-came-from-mount-ebott · 4 months

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Alright. TADC AU idea.

The Amazing Digital Festival.

This was inspired by the Undertale AU Storyshift.

Might make some art for it later.

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc au #tadc festival au #the amazing digital festival

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kyri45 · 6 months

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I fucking knew I heard that song somewhere

Song is "Next Up Forever" by AJR

#the amazing digital circus #the moment i mixed them together in the editor and they MATCHED PERFECTLY #I'm so normal about this show #btw the whole Neotheater album vibe fits the show go check it out #tadc #tadc edit #tadc pomni #taiwan festivals

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putting-pomni-in-places · 5 months

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Put Pomni (maybe) enjoying the cherry blossom festival in Washington DC

She IS enjoying it

#pomni #tadc pomni #the amazing digital circus #tadc #pomni in a place #request #cherry blossom festival #real life

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neon-nick · 3 months

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FREAKSHOW FESTIVAL AU

Inspired by @hootbon

After looking at hootbon Freakshow au, I wanted to take my festival au and combine making the Freakshow Festival AU.

These designs are concepts and might change later.

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #freakshow au #tadc freakshow #tadc fanart #freakshow jax #freakshow pomni #freakshow ragatha #freakshow gangle #the fantastical automated festival #festival au #pawner #minmi #paul #dangle #oodle #agatha

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kassidyin · 3 months

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“Come on wake up!”

I’ve been obsessing over a hazbin hotel song while drawing this lolsies!!

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc fanart #tadc jax #lol #paint festival au

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hollybluberry · 25 days

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Uh..

have Art Academy AU!Jax, and enjoy the meal ig.

alrighty some lil info about this boi:

Jax is a another student in the art academy of Ablevale, and the art he makes is Graffiti. (lemme tell you, graffiti art is fire AF, change my mind)

#the amazing digital art festival #traditional art #the amazing digital circus #tadc au #TADC Art Academy AU #artists on tumblr #traditional drawing #tadc jax

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sigilandinsanity · 14 days

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WE HAVE THE BOYS OUTFIT FOR THE FESTIVAL

LETS GOOOO

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #sigils #ooc post #art #eclipse festival #taocc

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daulliriton · 1 month

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14 апреля поеду на фестиваль один гиковский, и буду в косплее Джекса)

Остались совсем штрихи, я заказала эластичный бинт, чтобы уменьшить грудь, ибо я же парня буду косплеить всё-таки😂

Ну и базу для теней, чтобы грим выдался красивым)))

#гик #фестиваль #фест #косплей #уцц #удивительный цифровой цирк #Джекс #tadc #the amazing digital circus #jax #cosplay #fest #festival

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somerandomliquidonline · 4 months

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A silly little rabbit who likes to play around!

Here’s everyone’s favorite rabbit (at this point there is like 6 people who’s favorite isn’t Jax at this point) Jax! His sugary inspiration is taffy with his striped ears and pants, his outfit comes from the traditional candy sales man but he’s still the same dumb rabbit! With a bit more trauma, can’t go wrong with giving character trauma!

#the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #the amazing digital circus jax #tadc au #the sweet digital festival

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dreamcatcher-faux · 5 months

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"Relax Yarn Head. I have keys to everyone's rooms."

Screenshot redraw!! I went with this scene because it has the characters standing side-by-side and I really liked the expressions from it :3

Next will be the supporting characters! Starting with Pomni :3

Below the cut are the flats and background :3

#faux art ✨️#the amazing digital circus #the Amazing Digital Circus au #tadc au #tadc swap au #The Amazing Digital Festival #tadc gangle #festival!gangle #yarny #tadc kinger #festival!kinger #kinger #tadc zooble #festival!zooble #bin #and I guess technically #festival!ragatha #Mannequinn #you can tell who I had the most fun with

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glitchyk · 2 months

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Other people making their Jax’s hot in a way they knew the rest of the random would like it, meanwhile I’m just making silly goofy guys, as a simp myself.

Digital hallucinations Jax: Would fucking kill you. Even if he’s——

Quests of the ringmaster Jax: Just a chaotic rpg-er

TA Digital Festival Jax: Would fucking kill you he’s insane he would kill you-

Circus of creativity Jax: He is a living sketch, I’d rather not think about it.. even though technically everyone who’s ‘real’ would be a sketch there too— shut the fuck up

Arcane AU Jax: Smug bitch

Don’t fall asleep: He’s a fucking sleep paralysis demon-

Pretty much just everyone else deciding to purposely feed into the fandom’s simping, meanwhile me, a Jax simp in a way, just puts in no effort since I’m just here to vibe

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begouristore · 3 months

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Event details: 2.1-2.5 Choice Day-BR Up to 60% off Ship to: BR Promotion Period: 01-02-2024 - 05-02-2024 👇

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 months

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2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:

https://www.2600.com/

2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:

https://www.2600.com/meetings

And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:

https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76

When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:

https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.

Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).

Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions

Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.

But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL

Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.

Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.

This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:

https://www.hope.net/

Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."

The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.

A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee

You can submit a talk to HOPE:

https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

#pluralistic #2600 #hackers #magazines #publishing #kindle unlimited publishing #kindle #enshittification #monopoly #end to end #competition #events #nyc #hope #hackers on planet earth #amazon

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neon-nick · 2 months

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NEW:

A redraw and a more finalized design for the festival au characters. OLD:

#the amazing digital circus #the fantastical automated festival #festival au #pomni #zooble #gangle #kinger #Ragatha #Jax #tadc #tadc fanart #the amazing digital circus fanart #pawner #minmi #paul #dangle #oodle #agatha

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kassidyin · 3 months

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ITS THE DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS, POMNI!!

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc caine #tadc fanart #paint festival #lol #hehe :3

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