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This is based in the way the alphabet was put together!

Third from the right in this chart is the Phoenician alphabet, from which all the others in the chart are descended. There's some handy arrows and colour-coding to show how every letter after T really was ripped off from an existing letter! (Except X, which was made by the ancient Greeks)

T is basically the last great letter before the alphabet completely goes off the rails

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@derinthescarletpescatarian said something about The Wiggles doing a version of this, and I had to investigate, and it's amazing.

(via the wiggles)

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There's an art challenge trending on other platforms and it's this

So here's mine 🙂‍↕️

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The platform announcement called this a "South Western Railway Arterio service" to Shepperton. Making the platform announcements tell you what kind of train is about to pick you up is a wild branding exercise.

Pretty train though. I mean, it's another Aventra, but I really like Aventras.

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So Irving B was fired in quarter 882, which puts the show's events 220.5 years after *something* happened.

Kier Eagan was born in 1841, and founded Lumon in 1865, so some possibilities are:

- Kier's birth marks the beginning of the Lumon calendar, and the show is set in 2061

- Lumon's founding marks the beginning of the Lumon calendar, and the show is set in 2085

- The show is set in "the present day" (around 2022-now), and Lumon's calendar begins from some point before Kier's birth (???)

Or SECRET FOURTH OPTION:

- The timeline of history in Severance isn't that important to the plot (boooooriiiing)

The first two seem most likely, except the outside world doesn't reflect that. Irving's outie putting coins into a payphone seems like it'll be totally unsupported by 2061 (last time I used a payphone, it was definitely card-only). Also, the cars don't exactly look new by present-day standards, and everybody needs to replace their car every few decades.

I guess it's already clear that the severance world must have had a very different 20th century from our own, but to the extent that everyone in the 2060s is using basically the same stuff we were using in the 2020s or earlier? That would seem weird.

So what could have happened in 1802 (or earlier) that Lumon considers so important?

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tw: theft, body horror, facial disfigurement

Hee hoo I got your nose!🫰👃

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I love my new fucked-up Torchic

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not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

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Big fan of these fucks

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Railway platforms on a bridge!? Who came up with this???

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This scared the life out of me

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More Steam Trains - guest appearance from WMR

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soooo today was kinda crazy!! I don't talk about my love of trains very much publicly, but today I finally got the opportunity to see my all-time favorite train since childhood, the absolutely MONSTROUS Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014, in person for the very first time!!! 😭🙏💗

JUST LISTEN TO THIS BEAST ROAR, HOLY SHIT... I'm completely shook, literally worth every moment of the two hour drive to get there

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Jeremy Clarkson has become MAOIST

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She copper on my nob til I Furness.