It's been a rough day today, for personal reasons that are somehow even too personal for a personal blog. So I won't tell you about them. Instead, I'll tell you about what made my day better after going through these aforementioned "personal reasons": ASDFMOVIE 15!
As a longtime enjoyer (and semi-scholar) of classic Internet animation, I hold the asdfmovie series, created by former Eddsworld writer/showrunner/actor Thomas Ridgewell, in very high regard. It's been going since 2008 and usually gets a new installment every couple of years, though this one's taken a bit longer than most. The series has a simple premise: it's a series of short, darkly comedic sketches animated in a minimalist style stitched together. The sketches are surreal and hinge on a vaguely Pythonesque appreciation of unexpected and nonsensical outcomes. Expect explosive turtles and lots of cartoonish gunshot wounds.
The new one is a formidable addition to the franchise, even better, I may say, than the last couple of entries. So many great gags are packed into three minutes, from a sentient truck that nobody can escape from to a rainbow with a knife. It's classic asdf through and through.
I turned it on right after a very emotionally difficult experience, and it lifted my spirits almost immediately. Do I still feel pretty crappy? Absolutely. But thanks to TomSka and his utterly twisted sense of humor, I feel like things are gonna be okay.
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