InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Forty-two."

Audrey Jensen (fknaudrey) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-06-16 23:00:00

Entry tags:

inactive: jughead jones, inactive: stiles stilinski

Rule of Horror #81: Always ask why the house is being sold so cheap.

I'd consider $200 rent falling into that category, which puts us potentially in the supernatural sub-genre, particularly the sub-sub-genre dealing with entities rather than creatures. Among the surprisingly short list of paranormal horror films set in New York City is Rosemary's Baby, Dark Water, and the Devil's Advocate, as well as Dario Argento's 1980 cult classic Inferno which, due to its connections to Suspiria and the not-really-a-twist ending, could also be considered paranormal.

So here are my questions: Has anyone checked the water tank and has anyone found any strange old books written in Italian yet?

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	machinesrus 2019-06-17 09:35 am UTC (link)
	If you’re after another data point, my universe was about to crash head-on into another one and wipe them both out. I’ve been wondering if I was thrown clear somehow. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fknaudrey 2019-06-17 09:45 am UTC (link)
	Have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-06-17 09:59 am UTC (link)
	~~I’m a member of a think tank of some of the best non-evil scientific minds in the world~~ Once or twice. I’ve done a bit of work with neurology. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fknaudrey
2019-06-17 10:07 am UTC (link)

What if it's like that? Only on a massive scale. It's not just remembering a few details here and there being different, like a book title or when someone died, but it's remembering everything being different. Some cataclysmic event happened and we all got shunted to the nearest overlapping dimension from all of our other respective overlapping dimensions.

Does Shazam exist in this world?

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-06-17 10:38 am UTC (link)
	The Mandela Effect is a fault in data encryption. It's a glitch in the brain's software caused by running a highly advanced OS on a Babbage machine, you can only simulate perfection with that kind of mismatch. Interdimensional travel's physical transportation. The music identification service? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fknaudrey 2019-06-17 10:45 am UTC (link)
	Sure, that's one theory. I'm not sure I'd agree that the Mandela Effect is only a software glitch, but until we figure out how consciousness works it's kind of the least of all the points? Also, I got a C in Biology, so we're nearing the extent of my knowledge. It's a movie but that answered my question. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-06-17 10:50 am UTC (link)
	"How life works" is kind of my thing and I'm not even close, so I think it'll be a while. I don't know about this world. Mine hasn't been huge on innovative cultural production lately, especially with California trying to secede. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fknaudrey
2019-06-17 10:59 am UTC (link)

I'm not sure I'd want to know how it works? I just don't have that kind of curiosity? But I respect the people who are going after those answers. Mostly, though, in terms of figuring out what's going on around here, I'm just throwing pasta at a wall and seeing if anything sticks. I have zero concrete ideas.

Well, it was either going to be California or Texas, let's be honest.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-06-17 11:06 am UTC (link)
	Science leads down some dangerous paths. Both, actually. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fknaudrey 2019-06-18 12:47 am UTC (link)
	If history has taught us anything, it's mostly that. Wow. Does Alex Jones exist in your world? Cause I could see him leading a Texas succession. That seems right up his alley. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

machinesrus
2019-06-18 05:14 am UTC (link)

Taught most of us, anyway.

Don’t think so. I can’t remember the names of those guys but they basically pulled out and went “hah, we have all the nukes” until Cap went in and punched them into submission. West cost were useless libertarians who didn’t have a clue how to handle a refugee crisis, New England was under the National Guard, the Great Lakes... they weren’t officially out but they were kind of doing their own thing and no one had time to deal with it until later because they didn’t have all the nukes. The states all came around when they realised running a country is actually hard.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fknaudrey
2019-06-18 05:21 am UTC (link)

God, the mental image of Captain America punching Alex Jones just added ten years to my life. I feel rejuvenated. My skin is clear. I have a sudden desire to drink more water.

But yeah, the sounds like the dystopia we were all promised. I shudder to think about how the Deep South coped. Badly, I assume. There are plenty of things to like about my little piece of the world, but considerably more to not like.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

machinesrus
2019-06-18 08:12 am UTC (link)

He may have threatened to call their mothers or something too, I dunno. He can be an intimidating guy.

Oh yeah, the states around Texas were pretty much a no man’s land for a while. Hence the refugee crisis in California. There were Sentinels going around hunting down the mutants and possibly getting some of the humans as well, then the libertarians tried to police their borders with drones. That didn’t go well. The investigations into what actually happened won’t get finished now unless someone pulls off a miracle, but I have a feeling me even being here means it’s already too late for that.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fknaudrey
2019-06-18 07:12 pm UTC (link)

I mean, that's what I do when dudes send me unsolicited dick pics, so if it works for one unwanted dick, I suppose it'd work for all of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds right. Depressingly unsurprising. There's a whole area of study about what might happen if America descended into another civil war and this sounds pretty on par with their assessments. Militia groups, succession, refugee crises, all the weird preppers descending into their bunkers and screaming across the radio/internet about the Endtimes. Yup.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -