A return to Huntington
Jun. 6th, 2026 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessSo today I had tickets to see The Amazing Digital Circus's finale in the movie theater. But if I had to drive 65 miles down there twice in three days I wanted to do something else. I had decided on the art museum as I have not been there in eons (once to see some of my friend's art that was there, once with another friend) So I wanted my camera....and I can't find it.
I know it made it home. I had it on the side of the chair and I remember picking it up so I wouldn't trip on it and I swear to you that I put it on the desk top area but it's not there. Nor is it by the chair. Or in my bedroom. So where the fuck is it? All my KC pictures are still on it. Yay....
Now it's a full hour after I wanted to leave. I give up. I'll use my phone. I get all the way to the top of the road and realize oh right, my flashdrive with music isn't in the car because I took it to KC but ironically I wasn't able to use it because new cars have the itty bitty ports (eye roll, wtf for?) The flash isn't in my purse. I come back home. It's not in my lap top case (I remember putting it in either of those places leaving KC) I have another musical flashdrive on my desk next to the computer. It's not there. Nor is my box of flash drives. UGH. I take my big flash drive but it turns out unlike the newer car my 10 year old one can't figure out document folders from music folders so now I'm stuck with radio,
I knew that the art museum was not downtown but I had forgotten the country road that makes you swear you are nowhere near one of the biggest cities in WV. And I apparently forgot everything about this museum. And I never knew it had a plant conservancy too. in fact the only one IN WV (how is that possible?!?)
ticket lady - you didn't know?
Me - not until I looked it up last night. It's been a long time since I've been here.
ticket lady - must be. It's been here since the 70s
Me -(in my head) how the fuck old do you think I am?
It's not a big museum but I love that they have a section that is the art from the people who come take classes there and one whole room is juried art from the area (which my friend had been in in the past) There was a section of cool guns, a section from a local Iranian (Turkish?) doctor and his wife and then there is the large, multi-room Daywood collection. It started with a wedding gift of art but somehow ended up enough art to have a rotation collection in one full half of a small museum.
Boy that was good for a haunted object story. Imagine being able to curate a private collection donation like that? Imagine ending up haunted.
The conservancy is small. It's about two of my university's green house. They did have poison dart frogs (none visible), two axolatals in another tank, Glowstick who has the jellyfish gene and another one (no name that I saw) who was upside down on the bottom (He's not dead. He's blind). I was chased by a female turtle. They have no males and the girls are running around trying to find one.
But since this was out in the middle of a freaking woodland there was no lunch. Fine. I'll get it at the mall where the movie theater is. No, I won't because I can't find a parking place. So I get a panera bagel (in theory toasted, in reality handed to me toasted but already fucking cold) and shove it in my purse to eat in the movie theater.
You can tell I'm old. I'm nervous about sneaking in food and drink (because damn it in the 80s and 90s they checked your bag) so I have it layered and hidden at the bottom of my purse and my ticket in my pocket so I don't have to open my purse. I go in and there is no ticket person. You buy it from a kiosk but I have mine. I get in the popcorn line. I don't want it. I want the movie exclusive popcorn bucket. They don't have it so screw the popcorn. I go toward the theaters. No movie ticket taker. I can see the TADC theater but I'm like...do I just go in. I go back to the popcorn people and ask. They say just go in.
WTF? I could have just not bought a ticket and strolled in like I belonged there. How is this a system? So I go in. Now the first two days the theater was sold out. I expected mine to be sold out and I was thrilled that there was no one in my seat that I had picked out online. I sit. And...no the theater isn't sold out. Good. BUT there is a couple two seats down from me and a group of friends right behind me.
And I'm quickly reminded why I don't go to theaters. So this release was episode 8 of TADC plus the hour long finale. The idiots behind me unwrap snacks thru ALL of E8 and most of the finale. Now most of the audience has seen E8 so naturally the people behind me wait until E9 (which no one has seen) to start talking while they unwrap twizzelers and wtf else they had in god damn wrappers. And then one of them keeps sneezing and saying I hate allergies (well sweetie, right now I hate you)
THen halfway through the finale the guy next to me starts snotting and hawking and snuffling (and as we're leaving he says 'as soon as those people behind us left my nose cleared up') and if that's not that bad I look over and he's blowing his nose IN HIS SHIRT. It's too dark for me to get up and move (and there is enough people it won't be easy). I wanted to throw my tissues (in case I cried) at him but I didn't want to get any closer.
I stay to the end to get the QR code for movie exclusive TADC merch (because I can't resist merch) only to learn my purse charms have somehow slid in between the chairs and are stuck. Fan-fucking-tastic. I get it free but Husk is gone. I sit back down and feel around. He's lodged in the chair housing. I do manage to pry him out unharmed (other than the jump ring) This on top of my Kinger pin that I put on in the car and was poking me by the time I found my seat. The back is gone. I put him on the purse and nearly lose him again. OMG why?
The theater had a claw machine filled with ALL the Glitch shows plushies. I can't work a claw machine to save my soul so I gave it a pass. it was hard. I did come home (my phone can't do data right now) to open that link and bought merch I don't need but wanted. I'm kinda glad they didn't have the popcorn box. I thought it was supposed to have Jax/Kinger/Pomni on it but it was Pomni's head and you ate out of her mouth. Ew.
Took back the used lotion they sold me at Home Goods. Went for dinner at my favorite mexican place there but they gave me rice instead of elote (boo) and the black beans tasted honestly spoiled so the entire basket of chips and salsa was my sides . At least my pineapple/avocado/shrimp tacos were good. AND I beat the storm home, one so bad it was on the emergency alert.
So here are my spoiler rich movie thoughts under a cut
My biggest thought about the finale was hey I was right about who they really were and man the Jax haters are going to be SO pissed about this finale. Do remember several weeks back Gooseworx was actually getting death threats because she dared to say Jax and Pomni were the main characters?
On the other hand I do think that maybe it was a bit heavy on them and I didn't quite get everything I wanted about Gangle/Zooble/Ragatha but I got enough to be happy.
Things that worked for me: Jax actually abstracting and Pomni being able to go in and see all the lies he told about himself to himself.
Getting to see Ribbit (and to a lesser degree Kaufmo) and finally getting Jax's backstory. I was glad it wasn't as horrible as some fans thought. I was right. Jax wasn't running because he hit a child. He was a child escaping (well 16 year old at any rate) He was an emotionally/mentally abused kid and hurt people hurt people does really happen.
I liked finally seeing why Jax has issues with being hugged.
Caine's epiphany and apology were very good. (and I had missed during the opening of E8 when I saw it online that the red AI kept making wonky shapes and the blue AI kept making normal ones) but there was something missing. I'll talk about it later.
Kinger- Pomni interactions. I'm there for all of them.
That everyone was reduced to tears
I loved the explanation that they were literally just brain files and their real selves are out there living their lives. That was my hypothesis because I couldn't figure out how anyone could get sucked into a video game for real. I know it's a big subgenre but I don't like it usually.
That Caine turned the circus over to them.
The ending with the bus stop was cute.
The ending in general was sweet and satisfying.
Things I didn't like:
Gangle's guilt. I couldn't figure out WHY she was feeling it was all her fault, including Jax abstracting
Caine's inner self. It's not that I disliked it and him ejecting it (was that Bubble?) I just thought we didn't quite get enough of what happened there and why is Caine less powerful without him.
Things I wished could have happened:
Them learning how to restore the abstracted people, not just Jax, all of them, Queenie especially. I liked that they kept Jax in a huge blanket fort and that they turned the cellar into a dark aquarium for the other abstracted people and Kinger could watch Queenie. (I did love we got confirmation Kinger is a girl dad) I was hoping that they could have pulled an Owl House to reverse the bad things.
Things I'm glad didn't happen: That fan theory Jax killed a kid didn't happen. That fan theory Jax killed gangle didn't happen
Overall I'm happy with the ending. Looking forward to rewatching it in a couple weeks without food wrappers, talking and people using their shirts as a snot rag
I know it made it home. I had it on the side of the chair and I remember picking it up so I wouldn't trip on it and I swear to you that I put it on the desk top area but it's not there. Nor is it by the chair. Or in my bedroom. So where the fuck is it? All my KC pictures are still on it. Yay....
Now it's a full hour after I wanted to leave. I give up. I'll use my phone. I get all the way to the top of the road and realize oh right, my flashdrive with music isn't in the car because I took it to KC but ironically I wasn't able to use it because new cars have the itty bitty ports (eye roll, wtf for?) The flash isn't in my purse. I come back home. It's not in my lap top case (I remember putting it in either of those places leaving KC) I have another musical flashdrive on my desk next to the computer. It's not there. Nor is my box of flash drives. UGH. I take my big flash drive but it turns out unlike the newer car my 10 year old one can't figure out document folders from music folders so now I'm stuck with radio,
I knew that the art museum was not downtown but I had forgotten the country road that makes you swear you are nowhere near one of the biggest cities in WV. And I apparently forgot everything about this museum. And I never knew it had a plant conservancy too. in fact the only one IN WV (how is that possible?!?)
ticket lady - you didn't know?
Me - not until I looked it up last night. It's been a long time since I've been here.
ticket lady - must be. It's been here since the 70s
Me -(in my head) how the fuck old do you think I am?
It's not a big museum but I love that they have a section that is the art from the people who come take classes there and one whole room is juried art from the area (which my friend had been in in the past) There was a section of cool guns, a section from a local Iranian (Turkish?) doctor and his wife and then there is the large, multi-room Daywood collection. It started with a wedding gift of art but somehow ended up enough art to have a rotation collection in one full half of a small museum.
Boy that was good for a haunted object story. Imagine being able to curate a private collection donation like that? Imagine ending up haunted.
The conservancy is small. It's about two of my university's green house. They did have poison dart frogs (none visible), two axolatals in another tank, Glowstick who has the jellyfish gene and another one (no name that I saw) who was upside down on the bottom (He's not dead. He's blind). I was chased by a female turtle. They have no males and the girls are running around trying to find one.
But since this was out in the middle of a freaking woodland there was no lunch. Fine. I'll get it at the mall where the movie theater is. No, I won't because I can't find a parking place. So I get a panera bagel (in theory toasted, in reality handed to me toasted but already fucking cold) and shove it in my purse to eat in the movie theater.
You can tell I'm old. I'm nervous about sneaking in food and drink (because damn it in the 80s and 90s they checked your bag) so I have it layered and hidden at the bottom of my purse and my ticket in my pocket so I don't have to open my purse. I go in and there is no ticket person. You buy it from a kiosk but I have mine. I get in the popcorn line. I don't want it. I want the movie exclusive popcorn bucket. They don't have it so screw the popcorn. I go toward the theaters. No movie ticket taker. I can see the TADC theater but I'm like...do I just go in. I go back to the popcorn people and ask. They say just go in.
WTF? I could have just not bought a ticket and strolled in like I belonged there. How is this a system? So I go in. Now the first two days the theater was sold out. I expected mine to be sold out and I was thrilled that there was no one in my seat that I had picked out online. I sit. And...no the theater isn't sold out. Good. BUT there is a couple two seats down from me and a group of friends right behind me.
And I'm quickly reminded why I don't go to theaters. So this release was episode 8 of TADC plus the hour long finale. The idiots behind me unwrap snacks thru ALL of E8 and most of the finale. Now most of the audience has seen E8 so naturally the people behind me wait until E9 (which no one has seen) to start talking while they unwrap twizzelers and wtf else they had in god damn wrappers. And then one of them keeps sneezing and saying I hate allergies (well sweetie, right now I hate you)
THen halfway through the finale the guy next to me starts snotting and hawking and snuffling (and as we're leaving he says 'as soon as those people behind us left my nose cleared up') and if that's not that bad I look over and he's blowing his nose IN HIS SHIRT. It's too dark for me to get up and move (and there is enough people it won't be easy). I wanted to throw my tissues (in case I cried) at him but I didn't want to get any closer.
I stay to the end to get the QR code for movie exclusive TADC merch (because I can't resist merch) only to learn my purse charms have somehow slid in between the chairs and are stuck. Fan-fucking-tastic. I get it free but Husk is gone. I sit back down and feel around. He's lodged in the chair housing. I do manage to pry him out unharmed (other than the jump ring) This on top of my Kinger pin that I put on in the car and was poking me by the time I found my seat. The back is gone. I put him on the purse and nearly lose him again. OMG why?
The theater had a claw machine filled with ALL the Glitch shows plushies. I can't work a claw machine to save my soul so I gave it a pass. it was hard. I did come home (my phone can't do data right now) to open that link and bought merch I don't need but wanted. I'm kinda glad they didn't have the popcorn box. I thought it was supposed to have Jax/Kinger/Pomni on it but it was Pomni's head and you ate out of her mouth. Ew.
Took back the used lotion they sold me at Home Goods. Went for dinner at my favorite mexican place there but they gave me rice instead of elote (boo) and the black beans tasted honestly spoiled so the entire basket of chips and salsa was my sides . At least my pineapple/avocado/shrimp tacos were good. AND I beat the storm home, one so bad it was on the emergency alert.
So here are my spoiler rich movie thoughts under a cut
My biggest thought about the finale was hey I was right about who they really were and man the Jax haters are going to be SO pissed about this finale. Do remember several weeks back Gooseworx was actually getting death threats because she dared to say Jax and Pomni were the main characters?
On the other hand I do think that maybe it was a bit heavy on them and I didn't quite get everything I wanted about Gangle/Zooble/Ragatha but I got enough to be happy.
Things that worked for me: Jax actually abstracting and Pomni being able to go in and see all the lies he told about himself to himself.
Getting to see Ribbit (and to a lesser degree Kaufmo) and finally getting Jax's backstory. I was glad it wasn't as horrible as some fans thought. I was right. Jax wasn't running because he hit a child. He was a child escaping (well 16 year old at any rate) He was an emotionally/mentally abused kid and hurt people hurt people does really happen.
I liked finally seeing why Jax has issues with being hugged.
Caine's epiphany and apology were very good. (and I had missed during the opening of E8 when I saw it online that the red AI kept making wonky shapes and the blue AI kept making normal ones) but there was something missing. I'll talk about it later.
Kinger- Pomni interactions. I'm there for all of them.
That everyone was reduced to tears
I loved the explanation that they were literally just brain files and their real selves are out there living their lives. That was my hypothesis because I couldn't figure out how anyone could get sucked into a video game for real. I know it's a big subgenre but I don't like it usually.
That Caine turned the circus over to them.
The ending with the bus stop was cute.
The ending in general was sweet and satisfying.
Things I didn't like:
Gangle's guilt. I couldn't figure out WHY she was feeling it was all her fault, including Jax abstracting
Caine's inner self. It's not that I disliked it and him ejecting it (was that Bubble?) I just thought we didn't quite get enough of what happened there and why is Caine less powerful without him.
Things I wished could have happened:
Them learning how to restore the abstracted people, not just Jax, all of them, Queenie especially. I liked that they kept Jax in a huge blanket fort and that they turned the cellar into a dark aquarium for the other abstracted people and Kinger could watch Queenie. (I did love we got confirmation Kinger is a girl dad) I was hoping that they could have pulled an Owl House to reverse the bad things.
Things I'm glad didn't happen: That fan theory Jax killed a kid didn't happen. That fan theory Jax killed gangle didn't happen
Overall I'm happy with the ending. Looking forward to rewatching it in a couple weeks without food wrappers, talking and people using their shirts as a snot rag
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Date: 2026-06-07 07:41 am (UTC)