#Fault Line

[artemistorm]

Silly Game Time: What was the most recent internet search you're comfortable with sharing?

Slickensides! Slickensides are rock races that are polished smooth by rubbing against another rock at a fault line (source of earthquakes). We found one on our field trip (and I looked them up online to see what other look like).

This polished surface was so smooth and hard that it felt like porcelain. It's just crazy to think that this was caused by rocks rubbing against rocks.

[daisyswift3]

The Elevator 🌔

I think I know what this message from 🌋 is referring to. Lizzy McAlpine just released the deluxe version of her album Older today and she titled it Older (and Wiser). I’m pretty sure Older is related to Gracie’s song Older on TIWIFL (see this post for more on the Gracie Lizzy connections). Lizzy’s Older and Gracie’s Older are both related to the Peter Pan metaphor. I think the deluxe album being titled Older (and Wiser) indicates that Peter is getting ready to grow up -> “I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser.” Taylor is no longer going to be an anti-hero, she is instead going to be a hero.

(x)

The first track on Older is The Elevator and the lyrics of this song match perfectly w Labyrinth (and Labyrinth is related to the Bejeweled mv bc Taylor takes an elevator from the 1st to the 13th floor):

“It wasn’t slow it happened fast” -> “You know how scared I am of elevators, Never trust it if it rises fast, It can’t last”

“And suddenly the only thing I (Peter) saw was you (Wendy)” -> “Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love, Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again”

Also, the plane -> The Tortured Poets Depart 🛫🛬 -> “I thought the plane was going down, How'd you turn it right around?” -> LWYMMD mv where Taylor clips the wings of her TS6 plane (karma the lost album) -> Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (which is referenced in the Karma mv) using the same plane metaphor: “When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land?” This song is abt Elton choosing to walk away from fame which is also what the Bejeweled mv is abt (Castles Crumbling).

If you look at the Spotify canvas for The Elevator, a calendar is shown w several dates and this is where the math comes in. Some of the dates are 11/10, 10/28-10/30, 11/6, 11/7-11/10, 10/24, and Oct 28. 11/10 mirrored is 10/11 like @lyricstoojesus said, and 10/11 is the first quarter w 58% illumination which is mentioned in the 🌋 message. The waxing gibbous phase 🌔 starts on 10/12. The Elevator calendar has some very interesting things written on it. One of them is “Piano Taylor” which is on 10/11-10/12. This could be what that 🌋 message was trying to point us to. Perhaps this is a hint that we should pay attention to Taylor’s next piano surprise song. Plus 12 mirrored is 21 which is one of Gracie’s songs (see this post for more on the 12 and 21).

Another thing that caught my eye was “Richter.” This could be referring to the Richter scale which measures the magnitude of earthquakes. Gracie just recently played Fault Line as a surprise song on Oct 2. This song uses an earthquake as a metaphor for a relationship falling apart. “I know you're a fault line, but I'll break too, Crackin' at the same time, does it shock you?” Interestingly, Aaron Dessner described the song “us” as “an earthquake of a song.” So putting these easter eggs together, they could be saying that “us” (that is the tortured poets + us true fans, "you + me = us") is the earthquake in the song Fault Line; the relationship that's falling apart in Fault Line is the one between Peter/James (the tortured poets) and Wendy/Betty (us true fans). It could also be saying that this relationship will be the thing that burns the lover house to the ground and starts the revolution, the "volcano." The Elevator calendar may be foreshadowing when the first cracks from this earthquake will start forming, 10/10. Ginger anon mentioned the cracks in the facade that turn into a chasm.

The last thing I wanted to point out is “Codesmith” which is written under “Monday, Wednesday, Thursday” and next to “Oct 28” which is a Monday. The wk of Oct 28 is the same wk as Halloween which is on a Thursday. I have no doubt sth big will happen this wk since this was the whole purpose of the 🎃 messages.

[t13shoots]

[responsivethoughts]

Roughly 10 million years ago, the formation of this stunning valley commenced as a result of tectonic forces. The separation of the Eurasian Plateau and the northern China bloc initiated the creation of the Pinglu Rift Valley along the boundary of these plates.

[quasarlasar]

I had someone tell me every time they see a picture of the San Andreas Fault they expect his head to pop out.

So I quickly doodled this in my planner.

Not gonna lie this would be a lot less cute in real life than I have drawn here.

Like imagine you’re just flying over the Carrizo Plain and you’re taking photos of the obvious fault trace there and somehow the fault just kinda rears up like a snake and looks your airplane in the eye. Like it has a face—it is alive!— and it knows you are there…

…and then it just goes back down into the ground, leaving you to never be able to convince anyone of what you just saw.

So I guess San Andreas is just another one of my characters that’s secretly an eldritch abomination (along with Tartarus, 1900, and Cascadia). Out of all of them he’s definitely the friendliest to humans…

…well…most of the time.

[doingthewritethings]

Hey tag it’s ur fav from instagram i made a tumblr. 🫶🫶 i still cry over living on a fault line once a month and i’m considering rereading it again rn! also xoxo ty for the new gtau chapter im gonna eat it up tmrw instead of doing my schoolwork! its amadeus from the gram btw i just like being anonymous but i’ll give u my tumblr if u text me there ^_^

the amount of emotional impact that that fic has had on my audience and you personally is well worth the emotinal turmoil of creating it.. it's an honor to hear from you mx amadeus sir. also if i get my shit together this weekend itll be TWO new gtau chapters

[keokyoko]

so um... happy 13th anniversary to enemy 585

[cadaverre]

fault line is literally my song holy fuck

[flamekingmaven]

A Good Riddance art made by a huge fan, me.

[sadbeautifultragicstan]

all my imaginary friends are scared of you

[bloomandbutterbakery]

[medicine-and-molly]

fault line doesnt get enough credit for being the toxic-est relationship ever

[lyrics-planet]

Crackin' at the same time, does it shock you? When I'm down, I fall right back to you, it happens I know you're a fault line, but I'll break too

Gracie Abrams, Fault line

[prdzx]

Chris Liebing - Fault Line (6AM Club Mix) [Official Audio]

[gnarpsoda]

at least he tried

[doingthewritethings]

coming here a couple of years late just because it’s been a Day for me really and i was looking back at my ao3 comments and replies and found your response to the monster of a comment i left on the final chapter of Living on a Fault Line. and god i cried again? a very cathartic, long cry i think i needed. a lot of things i’ve been pushing down but rereading that fic and reliving the experience and the end that leaves hope that things may not always be so terrible, and your response to me? i really needed that. so thank you for being you, thank you for writing that fic and thank you for the hope you’ve given me again and again. i hope you’re doing well and i’m sending you all the best vibes i can <3

this is SO sweet, thank you so much for sending this over.

i'm so proud of the effect that fic has had on people who i don't know and will never meet - teenagers who are just like i was when i started that fic, who don't think it's ever going to get better.

what i really needed was someone who had seen it, who had FELT it get Really Bad, and i needed them to tell me It Will Not Be Like This Forever.

because it won't! because i can't conceive of being that sad now. because it does get better, and then it gets worse and then it gets better again, but it never gets That Bad again.

do what you need to do. be who you need to be. feel what you need to feel. and it's scary - probably the scariest thing you'll ever do. which is why you need to do it scared, or else you'll never do it.