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I want to read...

But I don't want to read...

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You're next,

-the lesbian

?????

Note: it previously read “the king is dead”

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NEW HYPERFIXATION!! its bbc sherlock

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I'm always up for an encryption to break and you do seem to need one so sure

Of course you would have, of course, but this message does seem quite urgent. Any idea what it's referring to or who sent it?

Jlhspotn, zw pvqmp kfwwjrg Tkimvuqaj wymv ziai? Dd M lozikhu? Mw’t fevq jyfi e lfqx xlni. I ydmi jjjtj ifv hwirprei.  Ropy wrlv gbcs kr xs, wjqe zv kmflmnx.  Wzgn, uscb. Wzgn, uscb.

Another code? The structure suggests it's not random gibberish. But without the cipher, even I can't make sense of it.

SH

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Then maybe the one mister Holmes should brush up on his cryptography.

What am I even talking about, this was a mere lucky guess.

Since upon closer inspection, it depicted some inner sense, especially the singular M and the Mw't, the only combination of letters for that would be 'it's' which makes sense for M = I since I is the only capitalized standalone word in English, I thought it would be a homoalphabetic chiffre (a chiffre where one letter always translates to an encrypted counterpart) and after a lot of trial and error... no it wasn't. The thing above still was true, but it was actually a polyalphabetic chiffre, one where one letter, for example A, can translate to different encrypted letters.

How I found this out? After being very somewhat frustrated at not finding an answer, I just input the message into a Vigenère decryption program and, just on a whim, chose Sherlock as a password. This produced this output which left me... surprised, to say the least.

Then, of course, I knew I was on the right track so I put in Redbeard as a password, which gave me the following message:

Sherlock, is mummy hosting christmas this year? Am I invited?

It's been such a long time. I have gifts for everyone.

Only four days to go, time is ticking.

Tick, tock. Tick, tock.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah you might wanna do something about this. Good thing I was in dire need of a riddle since this message seems quite... urgent. Good luck figuring this one out, but that's more your area of expertise, Mister Holmes.

I have some 8th grade school notes, should Mister Holmes be interested in expanding his very limited knowledge of cryptography.

Sincerely, the local cryptography nerd,

LL

Jlhspotn, zw pvqmp kfwwjrg Tkimvuqaj wymv ziai? Dd M lozikhu? Mw’t fevq jyfi e lfqx xlni. I ydmi jjjtj ifv hwirprei.  Ropy wrlv gbcs kr xs, wjqe zv kmflmnx.  Wzgn, uscb. Wzgn, uscb.

Another code? The structure suggests it's not random gibberish. But without the cipher, even I can't make sense of it.

SH

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Your yearly reminder to

Write letters to your future self! I just got one from a year ago, and it was so fun looking back and seeing how far I've come and having answers to the questions I asked myself back then.

You could just write a physical letter and stash it away for some time, or you could use something like FutureMe so it's done automatically

Have fun and take care everyone 🤍

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I need motivation soooo

ok amount of notes equivalent to me doing stuff that I have to do anyway or my mum will be annoyed

5 notes I'll tidy my desk

10 notes I'll tidy my sofabed

20 notes I'll tidy my floor

30 notes I'll hoover

40 I'll clear out the box of STUFF

50 I'll tackle my wardrobe

Please don't go to 50

I can procrastinate some more

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journaling in notes app or on any other digital device doesn't feels as it feel writing on paper.

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OK BUT

So we all know Sherlock was very sad and in love at John's and Mary's wedding.

So

I propose: The melody he made. Surely, the one Sherlock Holmes would have given this one more thought.

I've read the idea that Sherlock taps 'I love you' in Morse code so he doesn't have to say it and gets it off his chest which inspired me to think: Did he, somehow, in some code, some form, include a hidden love confession for John in that melody.

Like

How cool would that be???

Maybe he wove the Morse code for 'I Love you' into the melody, or used a much more personal manner

Just-

These idiots I swear

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WAIT i just rewatched episode 1 and ivy was found "near gristle" and the grizzly bear was found "up in gristle" COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT ‼️

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Did I spent like... two hours on these? Maybe.

BUT They're DONE and SO pretty

The game the character sheets are from is called 'Lilliputians: Adventure on the open seas' and the picrew maker is this one.

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taylor swift albums as summer moodboards

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What we could have had WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD

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Every single frame of this show could be put in a museum

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Whitepine theories

Pretty big spoilers for Whitepine 4 and the ARG under the cut

So while watching the new episode, my friend and me came up with a few theories/thoughts and since figuring stuff out is a community effort, I thought I'd share them.

The detective

As my amazing, perceptive friend Bee ( @mossybee-exe ) pointed out, in this shot, while Ivory is walking back from the cabinet where she's supposed to find the cot, there is a pair of legs on the staircase.

You know who has black pants? THE DETECTIVE, who we later see in the manor.

That in itself is already kind of a theory, but I think this subtle detail makes sense for both explanations we've come up with.

Option I

The detective has something against Ivory and literally stalks around the manor to interrogate her, which would mean in this shot, he's watching her go about her day

Option II (the one which makes more sense to me)

The detective isn't actually in the manor. Instead, he's a figment of Ivory's imagination, a reflection of how badly the interrogation impacted her. That would explain why she's the only one who ever sees him at the estate and no one else does. When she mentions him to Serapter, Serapter hasn't seen him, and we don't have confirmation that Prince Zam sees him after going to find him in this episode.

This would mean that him standing atop of the stairs is a reflection of her mind, a sign that the memories of the interrogation are always ready to pounce on her in the form of the detective (which happens later in the episode).

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A different theory which is pretty much unattached from this one

Lop was in the new ARG video

While I'm not all that familiar with the ARG videos and the backgrounds, I've watched those which have been found with a playlist someone else made.

In those videos, Epony (the mirror image or counterpart of Ivory) leads Ivory to a room in a bedrock box and traps her there. Then, Ivory tries to break out, but the whole room is surrounded by bedrock.

What is interesting to me about this part of the ARG especially, is the voice Ivory hears, because to my friend Bee and to me, this voice seems like Lop's. This would mean that this whole sequence of videos took place at the end of Whitepine 4, meaning we know at what time they happened.

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It's possible these theories aren't actually what took place, but I thought sharing them might help the overall community 🤍