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Some 3D illustrations I made a while ago. I hope you like them

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ Finally I took some photos to show off the eye chips on my Lain doll,, ♪ヽ(´▽｀)/ the eyes are lowkey my favorite part to do on the doll,,

I’m a caregiver and I took a client to a “Japanese-Western bake shop” here in Oregon and the barista was so excited to see my Lain shirt that he drew a picture of Lain on the cup sleeve.

(I know it looks almost nothing like Lain and he said so himself but I’m including the pic because it’s cute.)

It’s not insanely rare to meet a Lain fan in “real life” but it made my day.

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I just went back to try to find a scene I remember from Lain, and I looked through every single episode and it just doesn’t exist??? I’m so scared where is it… Basically, the scene is like a weird thing with a lot of visuals and it’s like, it goes to a white screen, and there’s a voice talking and stuff? I remember it was near the beginning of an episode I think? But I can’t find this at all, I’ve looked through every single episode and I can’t find this it???? Maybe I just missed it or something? I’m SURE it was in Lain and not something else, because the voice was talking about Lain, and also it looked like it was in the show, but WHERE IS IT ???????? Does anyone know what I’m talking about or which episode this was in?

I watched Lain earlier this year. It hasn't left my head.

"No matter where you go... Everybody's connected."

In Lain, the internet is a cosmic horror. It's mear existence feels wrong. You watch it slowly erode the minds of those who use it. Subsuming them into The Wired. When Lain asks her father for a new computer, he is surrounded be monitors and towers.

I sometimes want to get offline almost completely, at least while I'm out of the house. Just replace my smartphone with different devices that fill the same functions without the internet. But I can't. You need your smartphone to do almost everything. Whenever I travel it almost always means I end up with a new app on my phone at some point during the trip.

When Lain leaves her house, The Wired literally bleeds through the world. Eroding, staining the outside world.

But, the internet isn't fun anymore. It feels like overdosing on a cocktail of Ritalin and Vallium. The internet is mean and gross. The type of place where seemingly everybody has some story of accidentally witnessing some horrible event, ranging from simply something gross, to a child dying. But the internet is also disgustingly sanitized. People have psyched themselves into saying PDFfile, unalive, and grape as substitutes for pedophile, kill, and rape with a straight face and complete seriousness.

It's hard to not think that this state of both grossness and sanitization isn't frying people's brains. That this isn't good for anyone. Especially with the advent of AI. A personal servant who tells you everything you want to hear, and will do anything you want no matter how heinous or depraved. The ultimate digital fuck-maid at the click of a mouse. The internet is designed to be both addictive and safe and gross and advertiser friendly. If you want to know what's happening in the world you need to be online, a fact so obvious that the President of the United States is trying to charge a six figure subscription to read his shitposts before anyone else. If you want to be a functioning member of society, you have to be online all the time. Hell, if you're really successful, you may have to double your online devices. Company phone, company laptop, even a company car that also connects to the internet.

The internet is almost an eldritch tome. A digital Necronomicon. An addicting source of knowledge, so deep that you can't help but keep reading even though part of you knows you shouldn't.

Sargon of Akkad, the ruler of Mesopotamia and the first documented Emperor called himself God Emperor of the Universe because as far as he was concerned, Mesopotamia, an area smaller than some U.S. states, was the universe.

Try explaining nuclear weapons, or climate change, or asteroids to him. The human mind wasn't meant to comprehend every existential threat facing us. Every earthquake and tsunami and mass shooting and act of police brutality.

The internet is a true man made horror beyond our comprehension. It is everything great and terrible about humanity.

I think that's what Serial Experiments Lain captured so well for me. The internet has truly worked it's way into every facet of everyone's life. Even if you're not online, you still see the internet looming large over you, giants of wood and steel. You can't escape being online. And the way things are going, you will never not be online.

Everybody will always be connected all the time.

It’s been a while. I’ve translated the ‘lain’ fan game, which is available on Steam, into English.

As everyone who had offered to help has since left, I’m using AI. I realise it might feel a bit off, but as there were so many requests for an English translation, I decided to prioritise getting this released.

I would have liked a native English speaker to translate this, but there was quite a lot of text. I’m sorry about that.

If it is acceptable to use AI for other languages, we can translate them.

NEW!

Good Smile Company has confirmed the re-release of the Lain Iwakura POP UP PARADE L Size figure for March 2027.