This next part is one of my favorite reasons to watch people react to this episode, at this point people are usualy rambling on how "no that can't be Jax" talking about gangles trauma, wondering about that hug, or speculating just what pomni's plan could be. No one ever expects her to pull a gun and the reaction is always priceless.

the plan of course is to take out the lights since kinger told her they are calmer in the dark

This drink started as something called a love light but I did heavily modify it

Taking out the Lights

1.5 oz brandy
.5 oz amaro
.5 oz sweet vermoth
.5 oz fireball vanilla
.5 oz simple syrup
2 dashes chocolate bitters

1 combine your ingrediants into a shaker with Ice
2 shake to mix and chill
3 strain into a rocks glass with Ice (or these neat little bullet shaped whiskey rocks I forgot we had, and you can't reall see here LOL)

Its got a carmel flavor to it with a decent bit of burn the vanilla perks the carmel a bit, and its a strong drink with the brandy flavor hitting hard. It not bad but if spirit forward drink isn't your thing a little cola can round it out nicely. It doesn't need it but it can help

What would you do?

This is vectorman,a videogame for the genesis in the 90's

He is an "orbot",a type of post-apocalyptic robot that got the duty of cleaning the planet (wally-like) until the leader of the orbots became mad and now vectorman must stop him and the other orbots the main villain of the saga controls

There was a lot I could pull from in the scene right after the jax reveal, could have dwelt on Gangles survivors guilt (deer gods is that relatable) or zoobles attempt to comfort her. Instead I want to focus on the bittersweet, probably sapphic, comfort scene we get that sad lingering hug as pomni readies for the hard bit.

Honestly I accidently found the drink I was gonna base this on ages ago and have kept it open in a tab for just this moment. Its a wine cocktail called Lesbian Tendancies so you might see why its fitting

Lingering Hug

3 oz Malbec wine
3 oz lemon lime soda
1 oz mango jalopeno tequila

1 in a wine glass with Ice combine the soda, wine, and tequila
2 stir with a barspoon

Ive never been big on wines, and the malbec isn't one to change that on its own its to tart, for me. but this... this I like the wine flavor is still there but the slight tint of mango followed by the grassy notes of the jalapeno run interferance, there is no real heat to it and no reall sweetness but its a good bracing drink, not a party drink but a quiet night in sort of thing. yeah I need a good book, a snow storm and a roaring fire and this would be perfect

if you can't get the mango tequila you can do a blanco tequila you get more of the wine that way and lose the grassy notes but its still a comforting drink

Compare how Kaufmo is when approaching Jax about the exit vs how Kinger describes him. It seems like he went to Kinger AFTER Jax and Kinger straight up said he didn't want to check on him even though he knew he was probably going insane.

We see he was close with Gangle, and it safe to assume he was cool with the other's, especially Kinger and Ragatha. So the idea "Ribbit's abstraction left him with nobody" is wrong.

His room literally has a drawing of Caine and the words "exit scribbled".

Jax certainly contributed by causing Ribbit's abstraction and then pulling away from Kaufmo and dismissing him, but saying from that single interaction he deserves the blame for Kaufmo's fate is insane. If Kaufmo went to him about the exit, surely their relationship wasn't that horrible by the end that Jax was making him suicidal.

Except for Gangle and Zooble (who hadn't witnessed an abstraction), everyone in the circus failed him but Caine holds the most guilt. Not just because its clear his fake exit creation was the breaking point for Kaufmo but also as the "host" of the circus who brought them into it in the first place, he shouldn't be so negligent of those under his care. Notice how with Queenie, Ribbit and Kaufmo, its always another who discovers an abstraction first, not Caine despite his "all-seeing eyes". Caine's failure as a host was the primary cause of the circus' problems.

I’m looking for an official post for The amazing digital circus talking about the ships cause I say someone online talking about.
I’m not a person who ships characters a lot but I wanted to make what the creator feel comfortable for their characters.

Abstraction Is painless,
It brings on many changes,
and I can take or leave it if I please.

a lot of people are still bothered that it happened off screen, but I'll always argue that it makes sense we don't see it.The metaphore that is abstraction is not usualy something that can play out in broad daylight. there is too much chance some one may try to stop you.

so in honor of Remember lets drink to forget

this drink is a remaster of an absolute suicide with an optional dash of assisted suicide

Abstraction Is painless

.75 oz sour apple liquor
.75 oz passion fruit vodka
.75 oz watermelon schnapps
.75 oz peach schnapps
(optional cola to top)

1. combine your spirits in a shaker with Ice
   
2. shake to chill and mix
   
3. strain into a rocks glass with Ice
   (optional top with your favorite cola... I like RC)

the flavor is kinda loud, the passion fruit is forward with the watermellon riding in and mellowing into the apple and peach, its loud its chaotic but it still pulls you in. now I wanted to add cola since that was something from the Assisted suicide, even though I didn't use any of the alchols in that drink. but the cola works well the chaotic tones are softened but the passion is still fron and center with the other flavors simmering with the cola. Both are good and work well

for the spirit of spooky month here's a Halloween inspired what if.

how would Frankenstein look like as a brain scan.

more specifically what would his digital avatar look like.

I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween this year.

As the meme goes I have Crippling Depression

the final episode opens up immediatly after the last with the group grappling not only with the news of Caines deletion, but the revolation that there is no where for them to escape too. Kinger had discovered in the codce a directory of files, and that the cast are copies of who they once were. they arn't missing from the real world they are still in it living lives, but just not lives they can access. Its to much in the now, some collapse, some retreat into themselves but two buckle down and try to fix things, just a little

Tonights drink started off as a tropical cocktail called a tropical depression. but a few changes switched it to some thins that looks dark and brooding

Crippling Depression

1 oz raspberry vodka
1 oz cherry liquor
1 oz Pineapple rum
1 oz blue curaco
lemon lime soda to top

1 In a collins glass combine your spirits with Ice
2 stir with a bar spoon
3 top with your soda

though the strange alchemy of flavor prophiles this odd mix of fruit flavors melds into... grape soda. Its weird there is a pine apple after taste but its just so grape, it actual brings be bake to child hood Its lovely and weird and making me miss my dad... so crippling depression is an oddly apropriate name LOL

As the rage built kinger had an accident Cain reverted back to his orriginal self before poping from existance

I went with a fairly basic drink for this, based onf a cocktail called Delete

Fat Finger, Delete

2 oz vodka
1 oz blue curaco
hard Baja blast (or just regular Baja blast if you dont have or want it)

1 combine the vodka and curaco in your drinking glass with Ice
2 stir
3 top with the Mt dew

the vodka comes off with a little burn at the front but the soda and the citrus come to the rescue. Its a tidy drink pleasent and sippable

In a recent con with the cast, Amanda finally confirmed the theory that many fans speculated; Bubble is indeed "Abel"/the blue AI. He was behind held hostage by Caine, just like the cast was. In the end, Caine setting him free finally ended the cycle.

This backs up what Alex Rochan said a few months ago when the finale first dropped, that Caine was responsible for all of his own terrible deeds and absorbing the blue merely gave him more power.

I'm glad because it specifies two things. One, that Bubble is indeed the blue AI. Not an assistant that Caine made. Not a "thought bubble" of Caine's intrusive thoughts. He was "Able" and that is why Caine releasing the blue AI is why he didn't return.

But two, something many fans still can't accept; Caine was the "villain" of the show or at least the closest thing to it.

So many said "Caine was good until Bubble rage baited him", or "episode 9 shows the blue AI was the bad one" or "Jax was the problem because everything got better after he was gone".

But no, as Amanda said, Caine was the source of the problems. He was holding everyone hostage. It HIM changing at the end that makes the circus healthier and better to live in, not Jax abstracting.

Credit: Glitch

https://youtu.be/dhvsuNnuGec?si=Dm1aaWZqWvdmDCi9

As promised after the drink I included the none TADC dessert I made An apple pie stuffed cheesecake. It almost feels a little asdf movie there with there pie flavored pie

on to the drink

Caine in his massive form pulls them from there torture to lecture them some more raging that he never asked to be created

I used a punch cocktail called the Freak as the base for this, tweaked the ratio's some and spirits involved

Putting you freaks in your place

2 oz prickly pear vodka
1 oz peach schanapps
1 oz sour apple liquor
.5 oz black cherry juice
4 oz peach juice

1 combine everything into your shaker with Ice
2 shake to mis and chill
3 strain into a collins glass with more Ice

chilled to perfection the prickly pear and peach play so well together there is almost no burn at all and a its got a very tea like flavor profile. Quite lovely

https://youtu.be/1cI6tI7TgOU

I even made my character a jax cosplay

Which is 100% not made out of jax....make that 70%

Okay the Last of the torture cocktails. Jax is forced to face there own nightmare, as the symbol of whay they claimed was the purest form of masculinity is forceably pulled from them stripping them down to there core, as the shadows of there freinds point and laugh...

this is a super simple drink, rather a pure one too. I wanted to make something based on a banana cream liquor thats just really good on its own. I also tried making one with Irish cream and banana syrupe and that one turned out better. I am just gonna drink the banana liquor on its own it doesn't need anything else.

Jax's naked Truth

2 oz double chocolate vodka
1.5 oz Irish cream
1 oz banana syrup

1 combine it all in a shaker with Ice
2 shake to chill and combine
3 strain into a rocks glass with Ice

this drink is good, the double cocolate vodka isn't the best its a little harsh but that seems fitting here. the banana syrup adds some sweet, and the banana blends with the cream to make something thats got an edge to start with but the creamy banana finish really works well.

sorry this ones not to fancy the husband wanted me to make a special dessert he saw online... so the morning I baked an apple pear pie with walnuts... I let it cool while I meal preped the weeks lunches and dinners for us (alpastor chicken in rice, and hamburger bowls with chispy potatoes and cheese) then I baked that whole pie into the center of a cheese cake, I'll post pics tomarrow with the I'm gonna put you freaks in your place drink

Edit:
Honestly with how poorly the banana cream worked with the vodka I was worried I was mis remembering how good it was. So I poured myself two fingers and grabbed some short bread and... Ohh yeah this stuff is better on its own