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askdacast · 1 year ago

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Martyn has stated numerous times the Watchers/Listeners/Speakers trio is a pretty obvious “hear no evil see no evil speak no evil” reference

As someone who has to study Japanese religion/history as part of her degree and roughly knows the origin of that phrase, that one factoid has been sending my brain at 120 km/h

Yet I STILL cannot think of a good name for my funny mcyt death game theory “orz

#the og phrase in Japanese is mizaru kikazaru iwazaru #見ざる聞かざる言わざる #and the pun is ‘zaru’ sounds like ‘monkey’ in JP #hence why the three iconic monkeys represent the phrase #and are seen as guardians in Hie Shinto/Tendai Buddhism and Koshin rituals #so I was this close to trying to find a title related to monkeys like the watchers see their human experiments as caged monkeys #dancing for their amusement #but nothing good is coming up yet orz #Japanese religion #trafficblr #eyesandears #eyes and ears theory #inthelittlewood #traffic smp #traffic series #THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE STRANGEST CONVERGENCE OF MY INTERESTS YET

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