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Five Pebbles, the Idea vs. Five Pebbles, the Iterator: Everyone knows Five Pebbles is rude as fuck. ((horrible opening)) But who knows what he’s thinking? Who knows why he has cancer spaghetti? ((from trying to find the solution? also gross)) And why do we think about him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent?) Void Fluid? ((???)) Perchance. ((You can’t just say “perchance”)) / I believe it was Kant who said “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Five Pebbls exhibits experience by getting cancer spaghett ((stop)) all day, but he exhibits theory by stating “You’re stuck in a cycle, a repeating pattern.” Keep it up, baby! ((?????)) / When Five Pebbles leaves his place of comfort to get cancer he knows he may Die. And yet, for an iterator who can easily create lives with time, a life becomes a mere store of value. ((OK?)) A tax that can be paid for, much as a rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. ((Fine)) We think of Five Pebbles as reckless, but he is simply a powerful robot ((why are we saying this)) of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. ((who)) Perchance.
#rain world#five pebbles#rain world spoilers#rw spoilers#rw five pebbles#five pebbles rw#rw#rw fp#fp rw#5p rw#rw 5p#oh also if you saw this in the rw server#yes that was me
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HNNG I WAS RIGHT, MAGGOTS.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. SPOILERS BELOW FOR GOOD OMENS S1.
FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I WILL BE PROUD THAT I REALISED CROWLEY AND AZIRAPHALE HAD SWITCHED APPEARANCES. I THOUGHT IT WAS A SEASON 2 THING BUT THE COLOUR SCHEME, AND DAVID AND MICHAEL'S ACTING.
CROWLEY'S DISMISSIVE LOOK ON MICHAEL'S FACE. HIS QUESTIONING THE ANGELS. THE CASUAL ASSERTIVENESS.
THE POLITE PROTECTION OF THE JACKET FROM DAVID. THE HOLY WATER THREAT AT THE TRIAL. THE QUIET FLUSTEREDNESS.
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT.
Y'ALL TRIED TO SHOOT ME DOWN AND HONESTLY EVEN NOW IM QUESTIONING IF IT TURNS OUT THEY DIDNT SWITCH APPEARANCES OR SOMETHING IN S2, BUT DESPITE THAT, I PREVAILED. I'M QUESTIONING IT AGAIN NOW. BUT SO FAR AT LEAST, THE SHOW AGREES.
SO. YES. YAY. STILL SICK AND ON MEDS, HENCE THE VAGUE SCREAMING ON THIS POST, BUT I AM RARELY SMART IN THE WAY NORMAL PEOPLE PERCEIVE SMART, SO I WILL TAKE THIS WIN. THANKS APOLLO.
#good omens#good omens mascot#good omens fandom#crowley#aziraphale#lgbtqia#neil gaiman#aziracrow#aziraley#azirowley#good omens prophet#YES THAT WAS ME#HELL YEAH#ngk#ineffable husbands#anthony j crowley#good omens s1#good omens season 1#good omens spoilers#ineffable idiots#gomens#ineffable fandom#weirdly specific but ok#asmi#adopted child of divorce#maggots#BAHAHAHAHAHA#good omens livestream
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Did Taylor and Matty meet on Myspace? (And other early coincidences!)
Early on in their careers, Taylor and Matty both utilized Myspace as a way to promote their music. Taylor, specifically, would message with other teenagers on Myspace:
"I'd post my songs on my MySpace and, yes, MySpace, and would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music, but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective."
Matty, too, described himself as "King of Myspace" when he was fifteen. But he brought it up more recently on the Ion Pack Podcast, even mentioning his age as seventeen at the time. And here's a retro clip of Taylor talking about how she wasn't some corporate entity on Myspace, if you messaged her account, you were talking to her! She also filled out her profile in her own words.
She has some things in her profile that might've caught Matty's eye, a fellow teenage country fan and fan of American music specifically, that might've emboldened him to message her:
"I love people who like my music. I love people who are nice to me. I like people who are excitable. I think it's endearing when people cry when they're happy. I'm pretty excitable too. Guys don't ask me out because they know I'll write songs about them. But I'm also the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there -- fully equipped with great hair and an immature sense of humor. I'm fascinated by black and white pictures. I like people who can be sarcastic and laugh about tense situations. I'm a fan of fans."
Say whatever you will about Matty, but that man is a genuine fan of Taylor's music. When he became a fan is open for discussion, but let's just pretend, for fun, that he found her via Myspace early on in her career.
Now, here is the old Myspace page for The 1975 back when they were known as 'Drive Like I Do' in 2008. Note the James Taylor in the list of Influences! (as well as the Jamie Squire in the top 8! How sweet, I'm sobbing!)
Taylor was a bit of a firecracker on Myspace (and not just there, there's a whole conspiracy theory she used to troll 4Chan!). A few of her comments were screenshotted and you can find them around the internet. Here are some. The one from October 31st, 2005 about a queer fellow ("I'm sorry that I'm kinda queer, it's not as weird as it appears") with a Sex van ("take your shoes off in the back of my van") really caught my eye, anyway…
"Listen my queer fellow. I thinketh we shall hangeth out sometime soon, eh? yes, I do believe I am growing fond of this idea. drive over in your sex van and come pick me up, farewell knave."
Notice the spelling here, too. Thinketh? Hangeth? Knave? Feels a little bit Shakespearean, at least for say, a fifteen-going-on-sixteen-year-old girl (as we would later discover, Love Story and Robbers were both inspired by Romeo and Juliet, both written around the same time so far as I know, but it's hard to find exact dates!)
Matty, by the way, used to refer to himself as the "Prince of the Tyne". He's also got some old Drive Like I Do lyrics from 'We Are the Streetfighters' that are suspicious to me: "Well in four thousand miles we'll meet you" (The nearest airport to Macclesfield is in Manchester, and the distance between Manchester and Nashville? Roughly 4000 miles)
Two months later on December 21st, 2005, just after turning 16, Taylor says she's in England.
Did they meet? Who knows! But there's enough weirdness there to make me wonder. Speaking of weirdness… we're going to go on a side tangent about Fearless, but that's part of the puzzle, so bear with me…
I don't know about anyone else, but when I saw Matty's Fearless Love Gaze™, I was rocked to my core! Men do not look at women like that, but especially not brand-new flings. They're too concerned with trying to look cool and unaffected. For most men (stereotypically), romance and love are "dumb" and "stupid" and perceived as a "woman thing" that men can't be bothered with. But not Matty. Matty was utterly transfixed by her. Something about that touch of mischief in the lip bite when she says the bit about "absentmindedly making me want you", the way he just barely mouths along to the words at the end of the clip, well… sirens started going off for me. So, I followed my intuition and started researching all of this.
Now, Taylor wrote the song 'Fearless' sometime in 2006. The hidden message liner note for Fearless? "I loved you before I met you". Taylor describes 'Fearless' as a song she wrote about a perfect first date she hadn't had yet, about something she didn't have but dreamt of. She debuted it for the first time on April 6th, 2007 in Reading, PA (if you don't already know it, that's two days before Matty's 18th birthday). At this show, she debuted 'Sparks Fly' (yes, in 2007! Original lyrics were brown eyes rather than green eyes, by the way) and 'Tied Together With A Smile'. She also played a cover of John Waite's song 'Missing You' which seems to be about a long-distance relationship: "And it's my heart that's breakin' down this long distance line tonight"
Speaking of Matty's birthday, the release of Fearless TV happened to coincide with Matty's birthday! She dropped a sneak peek of Fearless on his birthday in 2021, and the album would release one day later on the ninth (perhaps because albums release on Fridays and that's as close as she could get?)
Taylor describes the Fearless album as her diary from when she was seventeen (misplaced my source on that quote, d'oh!) That said, 'Love Story' interests me as well. There are some interesting facts about Love Story:
Hidden message: Someday, I'll find this. Taylor wrote this song in a very short amount of time after her parents had told her that she couldn't be with the person she wanted to be with. And in her own words:
"'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! For the first time, I could relate to that Romeo-and-Juliet situation where the only people who wanted them to be together were them. That's the most romantic song I've written, and it's not even about a person I really dated."
Taylor's UK television debut (like first time ever performing on TV in the UK) was on Loose Women (Matty's mother's show). Now, Denise was not there during this period as a host, but she had been before that and would be afterward, so maybe there's some significance? Maybe not. But if Taylor and Matty knew each other, he would definitely get to be in the audience to see her if he wanted to. The song she chose to perform was 'Love Story'.
Now, 'Robbers' is also based on Romeo and Juliet (and also written circa 2007), and Matty describes that here in a fan video from 2015. We'd see Romeo and Juliet imagery pop up again in 2014, both in Taylor's video for Blank Space (where she's on a balcony looking down at her lover) and in November where she stood up on a balcony at Matty's show as he serenaded her with Fallingforyou (visual comparisons here)
Blank Space, too, might reference Fallingforyou. There's a scene where she rides bikes with her lover inside her enormous house, perhaps reminiscent of Matty's lyric: "All we need's my bike and your enormous house":
Matty even dresses a bit like the lover from 'Love Story' music video at the 2017 BRITs:
When you fall down the Myspace rabbit hole, you start noticing other strange similarities in their lyrics - like Matty referring to a "girl on the screen" in 'If You're Too Shy', which perhaps parallels Taylor's "guy on the screen" in 'Karma'. In 'The 1' (another song that lyrically parallels 'Robbers'), Taylor imagines "the 1 that got away" meeting a woman on the internet and taking her home, which might be another reference to Matty, perhaps lyrically paralleling The 1975's 'Playing On My Mind'. This theory, of course, makes the entire album 'A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships' suspect, especially given that 'Be My Mistake' is a song Matty wrote "about Nashville", the striking similarities between 'Sincerity is Scary' and 'Me!', a song called 'Mine' that references the year 2009, and the inclusion of a Drive Like I Do track Matty wrote when he was just fifteen years old, '102' (the same age he was when he was "King of Myspace"). Considering 'Love Story' was written for someone who Taylor's parents disapproved of, it makes this lyric all the more striking:
"I hope this song will remind you I'm not half as bad as what you've been told."
Lastly, if Matty is the confirmed 'Cardigan' muse and if 'Willow' is the continuation of 'Cardigan' (based on where the music video begins), the scene where she gazes into the water at her lover could perhaps represent a visual metaphor for looking through a screen, no?
Back to the NYU commencement speech! I recommend listening to the FULL clip. She talks about: feeling lonely, chatting with other teenage country fans on Myspace, and then segues into her motivation behind protecting her private life:
"Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties, but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely."
All of this seems correlated to me (also why it's hard for me to reconcile this whole football charade! But for me, it's easier to believe Taylor here about privacy being important to her, and not assume that some boyfriend kept her locked away in a dungeon against her will or something)
Now, to tie this all into a very nice bow, here's a quote where Taylor talks about how she uses easter eggs:
"Easter eggs can be left on clothing or jewelry. This is one of my favorite ways to do this, because you wear something that foreshadows something else, and people don't usually find out this one immediately, but they know you're probably sending a message. They'll figure it out in time."
What shirt was she wearing during her pap walk with Matty? Think of the "He lets her Bejeweled" meme… She had on an NYU sweatshirt.
Now, could be just a giant coincidence, trust me, I know, I get it. However… maybe she's really hinting about an old Myspace pal that she has protected fiercely. I mean, she did seem to use that speech to easter egg/foreshadow YOYOK & Labyrinth lyrics…
Speaking of 'Bejeweled'… On July 15th, 2023 Taylor flubbed the lyrics: "Sapphire tears on Myspace", and then she giggled. Freudian slip, perhaps? But this is the woman who assures us that "nothing is accidental"... and in a song that mentions a "Top 5", no less! (reminiscent of a Top 8, perhaps?)
Maybe James and Betty were involved in a "teenage love triangle" for a reason, and maybe TTPD references "teenage petulance" for that same reason… or maybe it's nothing but a bunch of eerie coincidences! Who knows! In the meantime, I'll keep on clownin'! 🤡
#theory: myspace#early timeline speculation#if you saw this on reddit five months ago in a private subreddit#yes that was me#been clownin' this theory since last july tyvm
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To the newly out nonbinary kids who are worried they’re not trans enough and aren’t sure you’ll be able to confidently refer to yourself as trans: give it time. one day you’ll be shouting off the rooftops that you love being transgender and you’re not even sure if that’s the first time you’ve ever even said it
#yes that was me#im like shocked that i ever really struggled with that#thats what happens when cis people smack you down over and over. you become emboldened and determined#your trans friends and loved ones help you feel worthy enough#those silly insults and attempts at gotchas flow off of you like water#we’re the strongest mfs alive and they have no idea#yes even if you dont decide to transition whatsoever you’ll gain the strength and courage to call yourself trans
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Finally gonna read your fic because I realized I hadn't and was like "damn I should be a good internet mutual"
But then I saw the chapter amount and went "ah" and then the word amount and screamed "AH."
It's okay I will read the fic
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haha yeah. I update like once every two days or so. Writing helps me stim, you are looking at the fidget toy that keeps me sane. I actually have to re-read to make sure everything has continuity, and I myself am overwhelmed. That said, :D thanks for giving it a look dude! No worries if it isn't your thing- just checking it out was really nice of you.
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WHY IS EVERYONE REBLOGGING MY REALLY OLD AMPHIBIA I MADE WHEN I FIRST JOINED THE FANDOM IM LOOSING IT
#i think its so funny#the stuff i make on here is like. ICONIC apparently#i got people being like THE ORIGINAL???#Yes that was me#im so funny
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Guess who started crying after @roachthefish showed them qsmp fanary found on Twitter.
#yes that was me#I wanted to make a good first impression on a new player#I obviously failed#qsmp#q!slimecicle#juana flippa
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Hey at my old school I was bullied relentless and was jumped by a group of 20 people attempted murder
If you killed them I'm at a new school so I'm safe from their even crazier friends
You're welcome
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How it feels when your mutuals like & reblog your posts
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"I mean, why even have 'no' as an option if we aren't supposed to pick it?"
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It’s their greatest invention as of yet
#the idea came to me when I looked over at my shelf and saw my little Hexbug#and yes it is a reference to the Jinx and Isha scene thanks for noticing#the glorious infestation#my art#arcane#jayvik#art#viktor arcane#jayce talis
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When was the last time you ate something green and NO GREEN M&M'S DON'T COUNT
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@moronic-validity 's fic
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please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!
do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!
#i am so sick of writers having to anticipate the most boring#bad-faith readings of their work. i am like - if you use cheese as a currency#okay! as long as the world makes sense to me: cool. cheese tax. moving on.#my job as the reader is to suspend my disbelief and say okay! i am so sick of like#fanfiction authors having to write dissertations#because they had an interesting idea they'd like to try out!!!#just write it! if it doesn't make sense that's someone else's problem!!!#PS OP is autistic. yes sometimes i take things literally at first glance. then i think about it lol#this is so clearly not about accessibility etc. it's about like. girl even i an autistic person#am able to understand ''they probably didn't mean his eyes darkened LITERALLY''
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drawing happy viktor is hard because there's like no references... at all 😭
#jayvik#arcane season two#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane fandom#arcane fanart#arcane#viktor league#jayce talis#jayvik zines if you ask me to join i WILL say yes#arcane zine#fanart
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interaction i have with shocking regularity is when someone’s complaining abt someone they know and theyre like “ughh they’re 21 and dont have a job and refuse to learn to drive” and then they remember who they’re talking to (me. 21 cant work cant drive) and go like
#text#‘ur situation is different’ Do u know Their situation enough to say that lol#also like. be srs if u didnt know me ud think the same way abt me. Do u think this abt me subconsciously?? guessing yes#The only person who HASNT made me feel like this and has actually articulated what they meant in a way that didnt feel like a dig#at me was 💫 last night hence why its on my mind
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