#it's Out There

[cottagecori]

"It’s a FAT ZERO. HELLO!! A little LATE ADDITION to the numerical symbol chart brought to us from our friends in Arabia, a little bit of trivia that I happen to know about the history of numbers. That kind of little tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!"

[ID: Image one is a Spotify playlist titled "i’ve only just begun to pull the thread on this sweater". Its cover image shows Brennan Lee Mulligan on Game Changer saying "I know what's going on here." The following images are all the songs on the playlist. Together, they spell out his whole monologue for the "Brennan Cannot Win" game, as follows (with added punctuation):

"Friends, you would think in a game where there are only two possible correct choices, that one would stumble into the right answer every so often, wouldn’t you? In fact, the probability of never guessing right in the full game is a statistical wonder, and yet, here we are. Introduced at the top of the game as a champion, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun. But it seems Daedalus, our little master crafter over here, had some wax wings of his own, didn’t he? Wanted to see his son fall. Fall from the sky. Oh, how close to the sun he flew! Well I’m not having it. I solved your labyrinth, puzzle master! The minotaur‘s escaped and you’re gonna get the horns, buddy! I cannot win!" End ID]

[Caption transcript: "It’s a fat zero. Hello!! A little late addition to the numerical symbol chart brought to us from our friends in Arabia, a little bit of trivia that I happen to know about the history of numbers. That kind of little tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been rigged from the beginning!" End transcript]

[saltpepperbeard]

okay this is going to be some category five clownery LMAO so stay with me here. and yes yes whatever whatever ~*~delulu~*~ but i'm choosing to be silly and conspiracy theory-y as opposed to getting sad so if that's your style then STAY WITH ME HERE HSDJKLS-

candle in the wind. the remastered version. same song/version he used when talking to nathan about lucius being "dead."

turned out lucius wasn't dead. he had died a premature "death" right when he was hitting his prime, but then ended up being alive and well sometime later.

but y'all.

he wasn't just alive.

he had been picked up by another group. he had bounced from place to place, only to be picked up and kept safe by the red flag fleet. and then was able to reunite with his loved ones and live out his life once again.

...LIKE???

[maximus4point0]

[peanutbutter-doodles]

Ass

[vole-mon-amour]

It's actually so nice to remember that no matter what, your creation will ALWAYS find its audience. It can be one person or ten. One hundred to ten thousand.

There are movies and tv shows that some people absolutely HATE and think it's the trashiest trash ever. Others, on the other hand, consider them their favourite media.

It's such a nice reminder, so write and draw whatever you want. Just have fun with it & the audience will love it, too.

[monster-noises]

howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww do I a man nearing 30 with a 40hr a week job and a low constitution and many other things to do become one of those nerds that Larps and goes to Vampire Balls n' shit I wanna be that kinda nerd how do I Accomplish this

[terribleoldwhitemen]

who needs a twitter feed when you can simply adhd spiral through 30 pages of poshmark results looking for something Very Specific

[fischerfrey]

THE GOLDCRESTS + flaws by bastille

there's a hole in my soul i can't fill it, i can't fill it there's a hole in my soul can you fill it? can you fill it?

with @potionboy3

[total-serene560]

AO3 really just went back up long enough to let me post the chapter and then crashed again, huh?

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

[morganbritton132]

Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[rouge-the-bat]

"can we normalize-" NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[smoliboops]