oh and the ending title is supposed to be like those caving videos where he was reduced to... a shape...

citing things again:

look outside and ozzie's world tree audio
charan's animation was meant to be that one baby eating the camera, but it didn't really turn out that similar
final segment uses audio from 'you can't grow concrete'. inspired by the chatter that said sybil knew how to grow concrete

since i cited things last time, i figure i'll make a habit of it in case anyone is interested:

main inspirations were of course look outside and the ozzie's world tree story
the birds are supposed to be opilabode, tarta, and kazooie
at first the squirrel was gonna be conker but i gave up halfway

(realized i should probably specify that this is based on 'Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan' by Ilya Repin, in case anyone who sees this doesn't know of the original)