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My Teeth Are Moving Out

One night a young man's teeth pack tiny suitcases, ride the toothbrush cup — now a bus — down the plughole, and move into a town made of sugar cubes. He follows them. In the morning they are all back. One of them has a door.

Style Two-colour risograph (fluorescent pink and teal)15 keyframes7 ghost framesModel Qwen-Image 2.1 · fast

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    15 keyframes. 7 ghost frames — the one-change-per-edit steps between them — are hidden; switch them on at the bottom left.

    Late at night, he is brushing his teeth.
    01

    Late at night, he is brushing his teeth.

    On the edge of the sink stands one of his teeth. It has packed a suitcase.
    02

    On the edge of the sink stands one of his teeth. It has packed a suitcase.

    Then all of them. A queue of teeth, each with its own little suitcase.
    03

    Then all of them. A queue of teeth, each with its own little suitcase.

    They are waiting at the toothbrush cup, as if it were a bus stop.
    04

    They are waiting at the toothbrush cup, as if it were a bus stop.

    It is a bus stop. The cup has become the bus.
    05

    It is a bus stop. The cup has become the bus.

    All aboard.
    06

    All aboard.

    The bus drives down into the sink, headlights on.
    07

    The bus drives down into the sink, headlights on.

    It goes down the plughole.
    08

    It goes down the plughole.

    He follows them. He is tiny now.
    09

    He follows them. He is tiny now.

    At the bottom of the drain is a town made of sugar cubes. The bus has arrived.
    10

    At the bottom of the drain is a town made of sugar cubes. The bus has arrived.

    Every tooth moves into a house of its own. The street is empty.
    11

    Every tooth moves into a house of its own. The street is empty.

    He knocks on a little pink door. A tooth in a hat answers.
    12

    He knocks on a little pink door. A tooth in a hat answers.

    It invites him in for tea, served in thimbles.
    13

    It invites him in for tea, served in thimbles.

    In the morning, he smiles at the mirror. They are all back.
    14

    In the morning, he smiles at the mirror. They are all back.

    All of them. Only now, one of them has a door.
    15

    All of them. Only now, one of them has a door.

    Cast, props & sets

    The dreamer
    A tooth (every tooth is this one)
    The tooth in its hat (variant)
    The toothbrush cup, as a bus (variant)
    Set — the bathroom
    Set — the sink, close
    Set — the sink, after the cup has gone
    Set — the sugar-cube town
    Set — one house, street level (from the town)

    Thrown away (16)

    frames/D04.png — camera crept in: the cup was pushed to the frame edge
    ghosts/D05a_windows.png — the transformation happens at the cropped edge of the frame; risograph grain compounding
    ghosts/D05b_wheels.png — same — cup off-frame, washed out
    frames/D05.png — same — the bus is barely visible at the edge; image grainy and desaturated at depth 7
    ghosts/D05b_wheels.png — camera crept left from D05a
    frames/D05.png — camera creep pushed the bus half off the left edge
    frames/D06.png — bus half off-frame
    frames/D07.png — the toothbrush cup is still on the counter after it BECAME the bus
    frames/D08.png — plughole too small for a bus — the model invented a second, bigger hole beside it
    frames/D09.png — inconsistent with D08's hole; cup still on the counter
    frames/D07.png — the bus came out boxy; D05's round bus is its canonical state
    ghosts/D07b_widens.png — built on the boxy bus
    frames/D08.png — built on the boxy bus
    ghosts/D08b_gone.png — grain compounding at depth 5; the ringed hole became a smudge
    frames/D09.png — inherited the smudged hole
    frames/D12.png — the knock is tiny in a corner of the wide town — 'a closer view' kept the town sheet's high camera