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I love tumblr cause I just looked up ao3 to see if the site had went down and I just saw 2 different posts made within 10 seconds of one another losing their minds we are all so brainrotted

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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some ddlc redraws but also adds Amanda-

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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TEOS Text Posts: Part 8 (Datie)

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The apocalypse’s most tragic couple

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starrstarted watching yellowjackets s2 again and I'm having jackieshauna thoughts again

base/poses by @mellon-soup

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reblog if you need a hug

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Figured it was high time I drew the her

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really jealous of rhiannon lewis in sweetpea who gets to scream and kill people I wish I could do that rn

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Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

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TEOS Text Posts: Part 6 (Katie)

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just starting the edge of sleep podcast and omg why did we not get Linda screaming in the car I love her so much

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just starting the edge of sleep podcast and omg why did we not get Linda screaming in the car I love her so much

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okay so

when the Elephant brings back all the people who died in their sleep, they get revived, so that the body's motor skills are still working, rather than the Elephant using the body like a messed up finger puppet

while the Elephant is conscious in the body, the person's actual consciousness is essentially buried in their own mind, trapped in a dream. Except this time the dream is different. It's essentially a recreation of the person's life based on their memories

so, the person just exists in this fantasy like they would in their real life, living day to day like there's nothing wrong, because to them nothing is wrong. most people died peacefully in their sleep before they knew anything was wrong, and those who didn't assumed it was a nightmare. so, life goes on. until people start noticing things that are off. maybe it's the lack of a reflection, or a familiar face in the street, or maybe time doesn't seem to be moving right, but things start adding up. eventually, someone notices that they are in a dream

unfortunately, just realising your in a dream isn't enough to wake up, and since the Elephant is still conscious in the body, it's doing everything it can to keep the person compliant, so what does it do? it resets everything back to how it was. everytime someone comes close to finding out something, the dream is reset, and the conscious person is none the wiser

but, subconsciously, the person now knows that something is wrong. and this starts to show in the dream. little details just not being right, time working oddly, things that shouldn't happen suddenly being normal, forcing the person to think about where they are and why it's so wrong. and thanks to this, not only does the person keep figuring out the dream, every time the dream resets, more is wrong, so the dream gets easier to figure out each time, until it gets to the point that the person just kind of has an immediately feeling that something is wrong (this is after hundreds of resets though, it takes a while to get to that point)

but, when the Elephant realises that the illusion no longer works, it uses a different tactic. that's when the dream becomes a nightmare. it starts twisting the person's memories in order to scare them into submission, that's when the next step of waking up needs to happen

to wake up, there's two options. 1, the person can basically force the Elephant out of their mind. because a part of the Elephant's consciousness is trying to keep the person asleep, if the person dreaming can overcome the version of the Elephant in their own head, this could cut the connection and let them wake up. or 2, they can force themselves out of their own dream by dying. this one is more sure to wake them up and sever the connection completely, but if they die the wrong way (ie, getting killed by the Elephant) they will just die

and while all this is happening the body is still just being controlled by the Elephant, but as the person becomes more aware and starts fighting the dream, the Elephant has to devote more time to keeping them asleep, so the body can do less

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havent put that much thought into it yet but i keep thinking of an edge of sleep au where the people that died in their sleep are actually brought back to life by the elephant so their motor functions and stuff are working (rather than what im assuming is just the elephant moving them by itself), but they aren't conscious theyre trapped in their own minds in the dreams that killed them. and the only way they could wake up is by 1. realising theyre in a dream and 2. defeating the version of the elephant thats in their own heads pretending to be their loved ones and stuff

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[EDGE OF SLEEP SPOILERS]

havent put that much thought into it yet but i keep thinking of an edge of sleep au where the people that died in their sleep are actually brought back to life by the elephant so their motor functions and stuff are working (rather than what im assuming is just the elephant moving them by itself), but they aren't conscious theyre trapped in their own minds in the dreams that killed them. and the only way they could wake up is by 1. realising theyre in a dream and 2. defeating the version of the elephant thats in their own heads pretending to be their loved ones and stuff

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do gaming youtubers ever do that thing where they pretend to be doing a lets play while just playing a game in their free time or is that like a doctor describing what they're doing aloud while they play operate