movie day | a-flyleaf/art-2026

Four characters on their way to see a movie. Left to right: 1 marches along, declaring “I think this will give me an existential crisis!”; 2, shrugging away, grumbles “you’re always having an existential crisis.” (“Touché!”, says the first); 3, holding the popcorn which 2 is picking from, adds “Mm. Personally, I think the pertinence of its themes makes it all the more relevant to—”; 4, interrupting, “will u slowpokes /hurry tf up?!!!/”. Last one is walking backwards, as to better yell at the others. There’s a poster in the background of a jester on a cross.

In 2018 I played Doki Doki Literature Club! and got so fixated on the concept of an incomplete-reality!glitched-game!world (with people stuck in it!) that the whole thing turned into the original project 404. It launched briefly as a web-based ?comic-site-thing, then petered out when I got stuck on a scene and became dissatisfied with the story in general.

Anyway, it sounds like The Amazing Digital Circus does everything thematically that I wanted to accomplish with 404 and then some. I haven’t watched it yet because I don’t like getting into things that are still in progress. The finale premiered on YouTube a few days ago, it continues to sound extremely relevant to my interests, and rather than start watching it I drew this.

time taken: ~3 hours. Background Pomni crucifixion (a delightful string of words, that) from a neat article about the series. Follow-up art TBA, maybe. For now, here’s a 2019 doodle of the crew being horrible movie theater patrons.

aforementioned doodle, the four in a row in theater seats. Two of them are blabbing, much to the annoyance of the others. — I don't remember why the seating order changed here. It benefits no one.