#decoding symbols

[presswoodterryryan]

The Secret Code of the Pharaohs! 🏹🔑

🐰 By Mr. Fluffernutter, the World’s Fluffiest Codebreaker! Picture this: a grand pyramid, filled with golden treasures, hidden tunnels, and walls covered in mysterious symbols. 🏹✨ The air is thick with the scent of ancient papyrus and warm stone, and every sound echoes through the vast chambers. That’s where I found myself today, standing in front of a puzzling wall of ancient Egyptian…

[burning-beneath]

The Library Encounter

Mia hesitated, her fingers twisting the edge of her sleeve as she took a breath. The room was quiet except for the faint hum of the bedside lamp. Sam sat across from her, waiting, the golden mark on her palm pulsing with a gentle warmth, as if it, too, anticipated what was about to be revealed. “I have a secret too,” Mia finally said. “I have a gift for languages. All of them.” Sam frowned.…

[chickenndogg]

This was Bill’s symbols by the way lol, type in ‘oroborous’

It reads ‘Chonky boi’

[aria-greenhoodie]

Decided to redraw that lovely Bill Cipher Circle (does it have a proper name?) to act as a cover image for my Bill Cipher playlist…

+ sticker-friendly colored version! ↓

Click for Quality!

[kathegoose]

feeling quite summerful today

species for nerds:

[katherinakaina]

Symbolism in Pathologic is admittedly pretty vague and Rorshah-testy. But I do not believe it was made to be this way deliberately to undermine the meaning of the metaphors, to say that there is no true way to decode them or even narrow the realm of interpretations down. I believe there is a variety of opinions within the narrative on what each symbol represents because that’s exactly how it works in real life.

To pick a random example, public education. A utopian dream once, a norm in most countries today. When it first appeared, it basically created ‘teenager’ as a separate social class. Whereas before children were glued to their families, now they were spending most of their time together, developing their own identities. The entire industry of entertainment targeting children emerged and many many more unforeseen consequences, maybe including revolutions.

But if you pretend to explore our world as a game where your only way to make sense of it is conversations with random NPCs – you’ll get variety of opinions on education ranging from ‘an oppressive system of government indoctrination that tears families apart’ to ‘the beacon of enlightenment, the most crucial pillar of civil and democratic society, the main engine of progress and the source of everything good in the world’. You can get a lot of nuanced critiques from its supporters who wish for it to be better. You will even hear subdued praises from its opponents who pretend to be balanced and reasonable. But how do you, you know, discover what’s really the case?

In reality you do science and discover the facts. But sometimes, often even, facts aren't the most important thing. Whether a given crisis is really happening can be not important at all if you just don't care, ask any oil baron.

The truth is that everyone might be right from their point of view. The problem is not necessarily that people are lying. After all, people who hate public education will often oversell its actual effectiveness. And people who love education can spend all day tearing it apart for not being effective enough. The disagreement is a value judgement. Do you want an educated society? Do you want a right for self determination for young people? Or do you want for the institution of family to reign supreme? For tradition to live on?

Pathologic, in my opinion, is the same. Everyone might be right about Polyhedron, even if they oversell their opinions, emotionally charge them. It doesn’t mean you are free to choose which version is correct and which is a false narrative, not necessarily anyway. I think it calls for you to make a value judgment of your own.

In my case, I grow suspicious when I see a character who is incensed by the idea of children congregating together, doing their own thing. Who starts complaining that this New Thing tears society apart, pulls children from their families, destroys parental authority. Who targets parentless children trying to ‘guide’ them and specifically call them ‘her children’ and herself ‘their mother’. Who assigns these children positions in society because god forbid they decide for themselves. When I see a character like this I ask, who is this, what are their motives? Ah, it’s a white rich girl who’s inheriting a position of immense power, that makes sense. Cool that she got to destroy that one New Thing that bugged her so much, that’s surely for the better, that sounds like a good ending.

So, yeah, I’m not sure that ‘I choose this NPC's interpretation of events as the true one’ is such a get out of media literacy free card as it sounds. I think it is still revealing who you choose to believe and why. And it may be an indicator of what type of demagogues can trick you in real life.

[uncontrol-freak]

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[clegfly]

Stupid Puter au shitpost I put a littleeeeeee too much effort into. Original below cut

[the-lonelybarricade]

"We can fix it in post" except it's me typing the worst sentence possible and expecting future me to miraculously be better at writing

[delicioustarong]

GUYS IM GOING CRAZY!! THE SITE IT UP NOW AND I IMMEDIATELY WENT BATSHIT CRAZY TRYING TO SOLVE MYSTERIES AND SHIT.

Typed in Conspiracy and watch the whole video when I suddenly realized that in the top left corner of the website you'll see words that appear whenever there's a flash of lighting.

Spent 15 mins trying to screenshot it and when I did I immediately typed it in the computer AND GUESS WHAT?!?

An image of baby bill with two triangle silhouettes (one with a top hat, his father?) holding him. They're all static-y and shit. The creepiest part is that you'll hear a distorted "Why did you do it?" Keep repeating itself... Over and over

ALSO HAHAH a little fun Easter egg, if you type in "LALALA" this will appear

THIS GOT ME WHEEZING AHHAHAHAHA THE FACT THAT DIPPER (as implied by the note left by Ford) BROKE IN PROBABLY TYPED THIS AND SAW THIS MESSAGE IS KILLING MEEEEEE. bye I'm drawing this ASAP.

(idk if anyone saw this already and made the connection?? If they did then oh well-- I had fun figuring out all of this by myself so AYEE 🤙)

[freelyenvolving]

Okay I know this may be a lot but I think these videos are magnificent for decoding the deeper meanings of the movie Sinners. Truly the best out of all the decodes I've seen. I adore this woman 💚 The first link is for better understanding of the Hoodoo culture. Hope this helps.

[kiwiaok]

since my aftg hunger games au is still in the making and it’ll probably take at least a few months more till I start posting imma just throw snippets in here every now then. just to remind anyone interested that I haven’t given up yet

for now, the very beginning of the very first chapter

[cchallucination]

Introducing the two main characters of my original story, Twisting Fate!!

Their names are Hagan Grimwood and August Fairbourne (I’m actually so proud of these names)

Hagan Grimwood is a 16 year old assassin (it’s medieval times, obviously) He alone has to care for his younger sister, Aria Grimwood because their parents left them years ago, leaving them in crippling debt. Stuck doing odd jobs, he managed to get looped into assassin work.

August Fairbourne is the 16 year old Prince of the Elarith Kingdom (name may change) He’s resentful of his royal status and yearns to lead a normal, royalty free life, dreaming of being a traveler since he was young.

One day, when Hagan had almost considered giving up assassin work, he’s given the mission of killing the Prince, and the reward is well over enough to pay off his debt and live comfortably. He takes up the mission, but he has to find a way to befriend the Prince first to make his job easier.

(Which obviously leads to them falling in love)

Still working on exactly where I want to go with this story but yeah!!!

Hagan and Augusts + their ship Pinterest boards! (If you wanna check them out)

[ninakaina]

hey everybody if i ever finish or publish the novel im working on you have to make fanart and analysis posts ok. i promise ill put a readers guide with questions in the back

[inkspottie]

Not sure if this was intentional, but I noticed that swap!Gabe has orange in his design and orange happens to be on the opposite of blue on the color wheel, and blue is OG Sebastian's primary color; and swap!Anzu has purple in her design, with OG Sadao's primary color being yellow, with the two colors also being opposites on the wheel...

Me just thinks that's neat :3

Hehe Gabe and Seb were definitely intentional. I love color theory and stuff so I was like wouldn’t it be interesting…good eye!

As for Anzu and Sadao that was unintentional lol

[asanee44]

Your Ancestors Are Sending You a Message—Are You Listening?

Have you ever felt like something was trying to get your attention? Strange dreams, repeated numbers, unexpected obstacles—these may not be coincidences. When the ancestors speak, they send messages through signs, synchronicities, and sudden disruptions. But many people overlook them, dismissing these moments as chance. What if the very thing you’re ignoring is trying to protect you? What if…