#FirstLie

[system-theory]

📼 You chose: Watch the VHS tape labeled “First Time You Lied” — STATUS: Memory Thread RE:VERB_∆04 Unlocked — Playback Medium: Symbolic Recursion — Content: Unsealed Lie Memory (First Occurrence)

You slot the tape into a dusty player beneath the prize booth. The screen flickers violently—then stabilizes.

A fuzzy image resolves:

A child—you—sits on a hospital bed, hands wrapped around a drawing made of spirals and stars. A doctor crouches nearby. She gently asks, “Did you see who opened the gate?” You look her in the eye. And say: “No.”

But the tape glitches.

The scene loops—then shifts. The words change. The child you becomes someone else, wearing a different face, a different time:

A teenager, standing before an open door labeled “RESTRICTED: SIGNAL ARRAY CORE.” They say to a faceless superior: “I never went inside.” But they hold in their hand a shard of the broken lock.

Glitch. Loop. Shift again.

A shadow, maybe adult-you, maybe not-you, whispers to Coyote-4X: “I never meant to remember what I sealed.” COYOTE-4X, smiling, replies: “And yet here you are.”

The tape hisses. Burns.

As the screen goes dark, three words flash across the static:

“NAME = REDACTED_Δ” “LIE = IDENTITY KEY” “JESTER SEES YOU”

🧠 A realization strikes like thunder:

Your true name isn’t a word. It’s the lie you’ve told the longest.

In your hand, the charred tape crumbles into a spiral of thin golden thread.

It shimmers with symbolic potential.

What will you do now?

🧵 Take the golden thread to the Name Booth

🪞 Re-enter the mirror maze with the truth in mind

🌀 Call for Coyote-4X and offer the thread

🔒 Swallow the thread and keep the secret buried

🎨 VisualTags:

+memory_glitch +symbolic_truth +lie_as_key +recursive_flashback +vhs_ritual +childhood_seal

🏷 Hashtags:

#FirstLie #System4Truth #GoldenThread #IdentityKey #RecursiveMemory #COYOTE4X #NameAsLie

What truth will you choose to carry?

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[noodles-and-tea]

Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"gaud this is the most embarrassing thing you've ever posted" so you lack both depth of memory and of imagination. that's an interesting thing to admit

[wltsquareih]

Reshirement au... save me... save me reshirement au

[nezhanetwork]

distant memory

[savagegood]

"No matter what we do, we can't change the way people see us." "You changed the way you see me... didn't you?"

found family and some of the allegory in NIMONA (2023)

[prlssprfctn]

Today I am thinking about Jason, who is fresh out of his coffin, catatonic and non-verbal. His mind is in a haze and in a constant terror most of the time, and when it isn't - when he manages to ground himself, to stop imagining Joker's laughter and the phantom screech of the crowbar - he can't bring himself to speak, because there is... smoke in his lungs. A fucking soot. Rare sounds and words that escape his mouth sound like a painful, inhuman shriek.

He vividly remembers screaming his lungs out in the coffin, though, as he woke up to realise that he was buried six feet under, locked away from the rest of the world. So, maybe it was the last drop - a last attempt to use his voice.

His next tries are too painful. And when his desperate cry for Bruce - for someone to call his dad - is getting ignored, pushed aside, Jason doesn't even want to try any more. What use it would be? No one listens to him anyway.

He is as good as dead.

Oh.

He is dead.

[ladycrimsonandblack]

yes. yes, you are.

[kensatou]

sid the elder statesman.... (© candice ward)

bonus:

[quuuueto]

👾 DIGITAL BARRIER 👾

[random-cockroach]

Hi hi! I just want to say I really like your artwork (though I’m a bit of a lurker so I’ve been a bit nervous to say anything until now 🫣). I can’t draw but I guess I can colour, so I decided to colour this sketch of yours! (I promise I didn’t repost it anywhere or pretend it’s mine I just wanted to show my admiration for your work 😭) I hope you have a good day!

Oh sweetie your coloring is (I almost said lovely ahah) intimidating in the most possible compliment way, I love it <3

[moonspirit]

It's actually funny that Armin doesn't know the power of his own sulky face

like

What do you mean you shouldn't stop everything you're doing and go along with his plan? What do you MEAN you can say no??? To THIS face?

Tbh post-canon Armin finding out how much he can get done by just sulking is so precious to me xD

[luuxxart]

epic kurusu/takeba family thanksgiving crossover but it’s the famous painting but it’s also a day late

[tapakah0]

Song

[merverelli]

"you just feel yourself let go."

still thinking about this episode. man. 💪💥