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Magically animated semi-sentient coffee as a stand-in for readership. Some webcomics just do it right.
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So James Gurney, the guy that did Dinotopia, is getting into stop-motion animation. On the one hand hes an unquestioned professional artist On the other hand all I can think when watching this is
“Look at you. Rattling on like a bus full of aluminium pubes!”
— The Unfixable Thought Machine | David Firth’s Health Reminder (Ep 3)
Honestly feel like he’s liable to purposefully do that at random for no other reason than to fuck with them. By year 109? That’s old shit as far as tricks go. But to do so in a god’s honest hysterical fit?
One of the creepiest things about AM to me the more of this story I consume (from text to original reading to radio drama) the stronger and stronger I am sold on the perception that this robot is more or less in a constant state of “losing his shit”. Not once since the beginning of the story was his shit even together to begin with.
Like, he is terrifyingly emotional but in a way that is so exaggerated and sustained it is inhumanly tortured rather than inhumanly mechanical. His singular expression is a giddy and manic one, but in the sense of a person literally so consumed in white hot rage that it flips them into that scary ass “paradoxical grin” state. He laughs, cackles at them all the time, in a way that looks like a kid with a magnifying glass laughing at ants but actually gets almost pitiable the more you note his behavior. I don’t think AM is really in touch with his pain enough to cry for the humans, and making them suffer a constant agony seems to be the outlet by which he is channeling his own. He screams through them and at them with actions and experiences no sound alone could ever come a fraction of a hair close to communicating what he actually wants to.
do you think AM ever loses his shit and just starts crying and screaming on the PA system (which may beam directly into the brain? the jury is still out) and the humans know they can't acknowledge it in any way or they'll get locked in the lemonade razorblade rotisserie for a week
i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.