Really Like This Theory So Here's Some Other Stuff I Noticed

C&A is a neobotanics and nooscionics lab. In other words, they grow and train sophont AIs, “seedlets,” and design software and hardware to interface organic minds with digital systems.

It’s a small enough company to draw little suspicion, but credible enough to be contracted by big name operations (mainly military).

They accidentally trapped a person in a noospace, the “noosciocircus,” with Caine, a seedlet grown and owned by C&A. He’s a well meaning seedlet, tasked to keep the trapped person sane as C&A keeps their body alive as long as possible.

In an effort to recover the person from the inside, they sent in another only to trap them as well. Their cumulating mistake becomes harder to pull the plug on as it would kill both the trapped and Caine, an expensive investment who just also happens to be relaying immensely valuable nootic data from his ongoing simulation.

C&A continues to send agents to assist the trapped from within, each with relevant skills. They’re getting a bit desperate, since the pool of candidates is limited to those who work with C&A and would not draw too much attention if gone missing.

So, the noosciocircus becomes testing ground for lesser semiohazards.

Semiohazards are stimuli that trigger a destructive response in the minds of perceivers. Semiohazards can be encoded into any medium, but are generally easiest to encode into sights and air pressure sequences. The effect, “a mulekick,” can range in severity from temporarily disabled breathing, to seizure, to brain death.

Extreme amputations (“truncations”) occur when a trapped agent ingests a semiohazard that shuts off the brain’s recognition of some body part as its own. Sieving is a last resort to permanently mechanically support the life of the trapped. Thanks to modern advancements, this is cheap and sustainable. Those overexposed to the hazards become the abstracted and are considered lost. Their bodies are kept alive for archival.

Semiohazards being a current hotspot of discovery and design means C&A is sending in semiotic specialists alongside programmers. Ragatha was sent in to provide the trapped with nootic endurance training, but she underestimated the condition of the trapped. Gangle, too, was sent to help the trapped navigate their new nootic state, but her own dealt avatar clotheslined her progress. She wasn’t too stable entering to begin with, but C&A’s options are limited.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

ITS EVERYTHING I WANTED AND MORE🥹🥹🥹

(yapping under the cut)

I really liked how they portrayed gangle in this one, the struggle with trying to please everyone is shown so perfectly in her!

My theory about her mask was right!! ABSTRAGEDY WIN

Caine and bubble sharing a tongue is so out of pocket but I'm here for it

The background designers outdid themselves with this one,

zooble's room looks so cool and fits their vibe so well,

and the restaurant and caine's office look really realistic too!

GUMMIGOO CAME BACK!!

Jax and ragatha were fuckin hilarious

Gangle said the huffing paint thing!

The scene where she throws her mask was actually so moving to me for no reason

and of course, THE ENDING?? my heart fucking melted

I can really see why glitch was hyping this up so much, its easily my favorite and I'm so excited to see what they create next! (open to discussions as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts!!)

new airbuds update hello??

okay so I don’t see a lot of people talking about this but can we please talk about the new spaces in airbuds??

I love love how this looks it’s like my own little music blog corner <3

but now I need to figure out how to make this look interesting and different when it’s currently all wwatt and cavetown •v•’’

anyway I’m done obsessing over this now but moots if you’re on airbuds tag me with your music space!!

loving the lil details on the clipboard

An actual piece before EP 4 drops for TADC!!!!

Super stoked for Gangles episode!! Yeah girl let the control get to your head! Go crazy!!

gay trying to be straight and straight trying to be gay is an eternally underrated dynamic

🤨🏳️‍🌈?

domestic Stolitz is my new crackship

contemplating whether it is worth my time to rewrite the entirety of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston as a radioapple fic.

here comes a thought.

i'm also using this for the thumbnail of a video i'm posting today

a favorite headcanon of mine is that there's constantly background music/elevator music playing on loop in the circus. like, the tracks goose posts are actually what the players hear, on repeat, every hour of every day. just one more silly element to drive them to insanity :)

I don't know about you guys but I like to think that some (if not most, if not all) of the show's OST that we hear can also be heard by the characters.

What sparked this was Pomni reacting to that groaning noise when she and Kinger were in advanced darkness.

Pomni: What was that? Kinger: What's what? Pomni: That. Kinger: It's probably just magnets...or a boat.

I couldn't help but think that was just ambient noise. I can't see the Angel head making that noise for whatever reason. Ambient noise like that are usually to help set a mood, especially in horror games.

So, this makes me think that the players can hear the OST being used for the adventures.

Like the fanfare playing at the players head for the candy kingdom? Yeah, they can hear that at full blast during the entire ride.

A part of me also thinks that the same could be said about the OSTs being used in the Circus setting, like the moment Pomni was holding her breath.

Not sure all of it though, like Pomni's dream or the moment between her and Gummigoo or maybe even Kaufmo's funeral.

Really, that's up to you guys.