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SoMe fLaTlAnD sHiTt

Wtf did I made

some shitty doodles

I dont even know what is that

im tired of breathing my country blocked discord and my brain is dissolving

I h8 artblock

:: flatland art

wtf is this shi 🙏💀

idk how to use tumblr sorry

Yo objectum folks, what’s your thoughts on Flatland? If you heard of it before.

Hiya!

my about me post here we go

To start things off, hi! You can call me Mossy, Thing, or Zee. My pronouns are she/any.

This is my Main account, where I mostly post art about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. (It won't be uncommon to see other silly goobers make their way into my blog) (or really just anything else haha)

Speaking of Oswald, I made a community for him!

There will also be quite a few posts where I just kinda. yap. (without art/pictures attached)

Interests/Likes (very not sorted):

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Glockenspiel (the "it's a small world" clocktower) and his Epic Mickey counterpart

FNF

Evil Science

EPIC: the Musical

Worms on a string

Clover (album by OR3O)

Crochet

Gravity Falls

The Stanley Parable (and the Ultra Deluxe)

Cuphead (haven't actually played)

BATIM (played for like. 2s before it scared the wits outta me lol)

really just any early 1900s cartoons/media replicating it

Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)

more will be added later probably

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That Time I Gave My Philosophy Professor an Existential Crisis

At one point in the online spring semester of 2021, I received an announcement from my philosophy professor at 4am. 4am?!! Apparently, the discussion essay I provided with my perspective on the week's topic of Reality had given him a crisis. at least, a mild one.

I was thinking about that ordeal as I've been working on reading Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott again (lil shapes society inhabiting a 2D plane?? flat dreams brainrot UH) and the satirical book definitely loves to demonstrate that we can't fully understand true reality or other dimensions as we're stuck to own perspectives. We had covered Flatland in our philosophy class, and I had already been interested in it since 2020 :)

I dug up that year-old philosophy essay and I'm still proud of it, so I shall share it here. Initially I had absolutely-618%-for-sure procrastinated on writing this until the hour before it was due, so there were a few grammatical errors I fixed for its Tumblr debut.

With the context below it might be a bit easier to see why I've been fascinated by the concepts of Flatland and Flat Dreams for those familiar with it, though that stuff is still hecka cool on its own! And hey, if you wanna check out the essay below, maybe it'll give you an existential crisis too (uh kinda hopefully not I guess but at this rate Anything Is Possible)

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Oh man, this week's topic has me so hyped, I've been obsessed with Flatland, the concepts of reality & other dimensions for a while now. I absolutely enjoyed the 2007 Flatland: The Film, it's on YouTube and I highly recommend it :D

As for dealing with the concept of reality....

What if there was something embedded into your experience of reality that you were unaware of? And what if this experience was "abnormal"? 

Enter: positive visual phenomena. Such as hallucinations, palinopsia (seeing images after they are gone), and illusions. But specifically, visual snow.

Wikipedia defines it as "Visual snow, also known as visual static, is a condition in which people see white or black dots in parts or the whole of their visual fields." Nobody knows what causes this static, and it doesn't show up on any type of medical test. Sometimes visual snow can be a symptom of a migraine, or someone might develop the condition of visual snow syndrome and have it forever alter their vision and the way they experience reality. Or, some people might have had this condition placing static over their entire life, and likely don't realize it is abnormal - since it is all they have ever known.

Like me.

I accidentally stumbled across a definition of visual snow in November 2020 from the YouTube channel PsychToGo. (https://youtu.be/NssIITHZ28Y?t=129)

After giving a short description of what visual snow syndrome was, the video noted that "the majority [of those with visual snow] might not even notice it."

I paused the video and thought for a moment. I stared at the white page of my notebook, and yeah - there was a thin layer of static over it. Wait, not everybody sees like this? I just thought it was normal, like eyes not being able to fully process what is in reality around us? I also questioned my awareness of the static, how would I know there was static if this is all I've ever seen? When I was younger, I used to think there was dust constantly floating around a room (but it was static) and when I talked with my eye doctor as a kid about seeing dots, it's possible she mistook my description for floaters and brushed it off as "normal."

My mind was blown and I kept questioning reality - that is, how every person experiences it. The fact that my eyes experience reality in a slightly way than the majority of everyone else is insane. And there is no way for me to experience a visual reality in the "normal" static-free way... right?

Here's an even crazier part about all of this. Several people with visual snow discovered that when they watched television static for a bit and looked away, their own visual snow disappeared temporarily. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Watching static helps get rid of static, even if just for a few seconds? On another YouTube deep dive, I discovered a video of just static for "Visual Snow Relief"

Out of curiosity, I decided to watch it a bit.

After about three minutes of staring at static, I got bored and looked away. AND MY VISION WAS CLEAR. It felt like upgrading from an HD TV or a 4K TV or something - the static was gone for mere seconds and I could see the beautiful, clear picture of the world that everyone else experiences. A glimpse of the "normal" visual perception of reality.

Soon my static came back into view and I was back to my regular visual snow perception of the world. But I got to thinking: What if there was some way we are able to remove a limitation in our perception and better experience reality? We may never know.

lolll year old fanart/meme thing from the peak point of my flat dreams / flatland obsession

oddly information gained did end up helping me with a philosophy assignment i got later on, hah

LMAO NOT THE BILLFORD REFERENCE.now I want a version of this using squaresphere lol

I did it… I saved the town

So, I finally read flatland and decided to grab snippets that stood out which turned into using my entire work lunch break to explain flatland to two of my co-workers the amount of energy that goddamn story rattled my brain with is too much

flatland reference spotted (now that i'm looking for them) anyway the rest of this is the reactions i had to reading it the first time enjoyed spamming @falsekingfrancis about it and i think i'll put it down here too

probably get some shit wrong but anyway (tw: mention of eugenics among the other fucked up shit in flatland)

maybe later i will rant more about this- probably a sticky note on what might be similar to Euclidea and Flatland and the differences (like bill and his parents having arms and legs whereas flatlanders had no limbs, that kinda thing)

i don't think i'll watch the animated versions of flatland tho, the story had enough to tide over my thoughts for a while

A sphere

OMG IS HE!!!!!!!!💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

Silly bastard tiny❤️ i love he

flatland❤️

i'm so dead lol

Happy About publishing something again after a year😭 hell i'm so lazy *Disappears*

they aré so sillys :3😋

A anomation random

scare history

Scrawls

Why A sphere and A square are animal

😋 idk

Posting overdue drawings

Apart from the unserious drawings

And a rare one

A good Kitty!🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

No i'm evil Kitty🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is having a lot of free time😭👊

The princess looks pretty xd

oh right, I can post things on tumbly :D So, uh, I had my first year of art fight :]! And it was absolute banger to meet so much cool peeps, I think I attacked a reasonable amount but wish I did more xP. In any case, revenge for coolest bat fren out there @chiiroptereh with Teddy, Bob and fluffy thang named Pillow :]. Dunno why kitty is not so happy, he's just politely knocking on the window in the middle of the night, you should totally open it, that's just basic manners!

I love @charseraph  ‘s Artyom  BUT I just image like somebody turn off their levitation, then remember this video and.... (I’M SORRY)  

uhhjj idk Bill doodles and my flatland linesona sneak ig (also Bipper doodle)

10 followers away from 400!!! If you like Gravity Falls, Flatland, etc etc, Please follow me! I hope to get to 400 before my birthday on the 24th of Jan! :D

Live reaction-

Can I give Dayo a necklace made of purple alexandrite gems? It's supposed to bring wisdom and.....protection... Yeah, that's all!

-Author

Dayo: "It's so pretty!!! Thank you!!!"

One of two pieces I did for Art Fight this year xDc Better than nothing, and I had fun! Focused on going with the flow and exploring.

This is my dear friend @mintytrashcannot's character Albert (and his alien dog Spluty)! I felt he seemed like a rather traditionalist guy who would stand by his country's greyscale palette even after color was legalized, so this is kinda meant to highlight that contrast between his natural color and his conservative values

(Hope that makes some kinda sense...the lore is a bit complex)

flat dreams sketches!!!💥