A L i V EE

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I started writing this about a year ago after a friend passed unexpectedly. It became a very needed way to process the confusion and sadness that came with that.

I miss you.

What I came out of that with was this animation: some distilled thoughts on death, our purpose in being alive and what traces of us stick around after we're gone.

I think life is beautiful and terrible. I think we're born out of cycles that started long before we existed and will ideally continue long after we don't. Death is a shitty part of that cycle, but in dying parts of me will be eaten by bugs and plants, also (hopefully) I've left some things better than I found them, and I think all that's kind of beautiful.

There's more to this short than all that, but you can figure the rest out. Thanks so much for watching and please be kind

Huge thanks to @littlbox for the extensive back and forths on plot points, animation notes, overall support, and also for your really, really good sound production on Brain of Glass (the outro of which plays at the end of this). Love ya, bud

Goofy title kerning is bc Newgrounds wouldn't let me upload this if it was just titled "alive", it's whatever but also kinda silly. Bless up, Tom ❤️, with the least amount of sarcasm possible, thanks so much for making and maintaining this website.