#rights for 17776 and Nine

[17seven76]

Fun fact both Juice and Ten are characters that you can guess in akinator, but Nine is not. I am sad.

I had to go and test this myself and I ended up getting THIS before ANY of the characters from 17776

[whatsupspaceman]

cant believe i never shared these slides i made. i presented on 17776 for powerpoint night one night. here are just a few because im guessing none of yall know real football rules either.

[soullistrations]

The beginning of 17776 really is so interesting in the way that it sets up the rest of the story. The calendar backdrop was such a stroke of genius, because it forces the reader to focus on nothing but the passage of time and nine's increasing desperation and loneliness. and then when ten responds with 'i love you so much'--well, i still had no idea who these characters were, but i was already invested enough in them to feel anxious scrolling through the days where they weren't able to make contact with each other. and then, when ten tells nine not to contact them for 27 years, my first thought was, 'but that's a life! that's a life apart for two people who clearly care about each other'

and then the scroll through the days, once again forced to focus on nothing but the passage of time, leading straight into the reveal that these people aren't actual people with a lifespan of a century or less, and THEN the reveal that even humans aren't people with a lifespan of a century or less anymore, and the way that the reader has been interacting with the passage of time is so FUNDAMENTALLY different to how it works for the current denizens of the earth

just, what a great way to really bring out the focus of the story right from the beginning: how would we change, if the constraints and anxieties of finite time were lifted from us as a species?

[wilhelmina-murray-harker]

PLS TALK TO ME MORE AB 17776 PLAY QUEEN

SLAY OKAY SO

I don’t have it very fleshed out yet but it’s quite literally just 17776 as a play. Like I will be taking all the dialogue from the original with only minor changes (like changing the references to the way they’re typing to the way they’re speaking and other stuff that wouldn’t quite translate) but I have yet to get there

Each of the chapters is a scene, with the accompanying video being played during the scene change. All visuals and graphics are projected at the pertinent moment(s) during their scene, so they still provide that extra help with picturing what’s happening

It would probably be a fairly small cast, with obviously Nine, Ten, and JUICE being the leads, and then probably ten or so other actors making up the humans (and hubble that one time) they interact with and playing multiple roles. Most football scrimmages would also physically happen on stage, and the immense numbers of players would be hinted at for the most part. I will now include some of my bullet points of key moments:

When Nine wakes up, they’re on the USR platform while Ten (and later JUICE) are on the USL

Once Nine fully wakes up, they join them on USL

OH MY FUCKING GOD IT STARTS WITH SOMEONE READING A NEWS REPORT (probably over radio or tv) AND THEN IT GLITCHES OUT

Nancy running in the audience before she goes into the tornado????? If I don’t want her coming in house left I could have her hide in the sound booth until then and pop out house right

I’ve done some basic designing for it (set, costumes, etc) that maybe will eventually also include drawings but I’m not sure. I think it would be SO fun to suggest this as a show to direct at my school for next (next) season but that would also involve asking Jon Bois if it’s okay that I do this at all lol

[paradise-and-cola]

[Image description: A list of prompts for the 2022 edition of 17776 Tober. The background is a Google Earth image of the Southeastern United States, from chapter 3 of 20020.

Large white text in the top center reads "17776 Tober". Small text in the upper left reads "an art challenge for October of 2022. concept and prompts by @paradise-and-cola". Small text in the upper right reads "17776 belongs to Jon Bois and the Secret Base team. image credit to Landsat, Copernicus & Google Earth."

Below are the 31 prompts, arranged in three columns, formatted so they look similar to the text Nine, Ten and Juice type out in the webcomic. The prompts are as follows:

year

state

television

probe

train

cave

team

transmission

question

time

pizza

radio

argument

goldfish

revelation

exam

observer

tornado

number

child

earth

intersection

battery

card

mistake

lake

stream

marathon

message

player

rest

End description.]

It is once again time for 17776tober, a daily art challenge for all fans of Jon Bois' Future Football universe and stories. Same rules as last year (if you can even call them rules) - do as many or as few prompts as you want, use any medium (visual art, writing, etc), and most importantly, have fun! You can also use the tag #17776tober to share your creations with other participants.

Last year's post can be viewed here, if you're interested.

[umbraastaff]

ive been re-reading 17776 and theres a bit in the first chapter where Nine says "Who are you? I love you too" and boy howdy does it strike me right in the "you can't know me (i love you)" feels and it makes me wanna do one of those artsy common-theme-lyric-screenshot posts with all the songs in the barry/lucretia playlist

OK BUT SAME HOLY SHIT. that trope catches me in absolutely anything,

and oh my god i'd yell IRL if you did this, please please show me if you do???? that sounds so so cool 🥺

[fwipfwoparoni]

finally read 17776 and it fucks me up that Juice ran out of time right before he was able to answer Nine’s very first question of “Should I have woken up? Why did you wake me up?”

[polybiusplayer]

OKAY!!! uhh ill be sending these in as i think of em :] STARTING OFF:

whats nine and ten's relationship like there?? like we've seen juice interacting with both but as far as im aware, no nine n ten interactions which has me very curious. ID IMAGINE theres. obviously a bit of protectiveness there but asides from that i have NO CLUE what you have in mind for these guys and i am staring abnormally. Whats Their Deal

FINALLY after starting to write this response out like 3 times and getting distracted or busy I can sit down and do this. Tehe. Beware of long incoming rant as I take this opportunity to explain a bunch of other stuff along the way.

I am so sorry. I talk a lot. Here we go.

Ten and nines relationship throughout the au goes through a lot of changes.

They’ve always been very close, since before the moment and well after. They both learnt how to cope with the nature of humanity and immortality, and how to come to terms with purposelessness. That is until Nine found out about the mission NASA was working on. that mission being sending a crew to deep space to go “where no human, robot, or satellite had been before.” It was a big deal to them, they still longed for a meaning in life like this. That was before everyone figured out there wasn’t much out there, and that life should be centred around what we already have. This was when people were RUSHING to create and to drive humanity further and further, in these early stages progress was all that mattered, and Nine wanted to be a part of it.

So Nine and Ten, and their friend Juice, they went through the training program together, and they formed the crew that would eventually go into space to hopefully discover the unknown.

Nine and Ten were always close, they supported each other, they are siblings after all. They both tried to make sense of the new world presented to them.

Now I’m not sure if my sort of, summery, really explained this well. I looked at my old posts and they really don’t have much. But the plan was always for 9 10 and J to be put into a deep sleep for a couple thousand years to get to deep space, the idea was that it would essentially function as a time skip for them so that they wouldn’t go CRAZY trying to get far away from earth. So for a while they all slept and then 10 and J woke up right on schedule. (Not in the year 17776, because that’s around when Nine wakes up) I sort of intended for this au to at least sort of parallel the story beats of the original.

But when Nine didn’t wake up and what was left of NASA basically told Ten “I unno man.” She tried for such a long time to wake them up, there was something fucked up with the system and nothing was working. Nine was out, alive and well, but not awake.

Ten never really knew if they were going to wake up, and after long enough she tried to focus herself on her mission (finding anything interesting in space) and on Juice, hes a bit of a screwball as we know. She never gave up on them though, no matter how hopeless it seemed there was always something in her mind basically pleading for Nine to wake up. but she unintentionally started almost, grieving, the loss of Nine. Years and years passed when Nine was always right there, but never really There. It was weird for her to live out the life Nine so desperately wanted without them around. And for her to experience everything without them, something she had never had to do in her life up to that point. It was hard.

Then Nine wakes up. First it’s relief, because godamned she missed them, so fucking much. But then it’s concerned.

I guess my twist with this au is that being asleep for that long fucked with Nines memory, they can’t really remember Ten, they can FEEL their love and trust for her, but have a lack of memories to link that back to. They also can’t remember the moment, immorality, anything.

You’re right, Ten is protective!! She’s determined to never let anything hurt them like this again, but she’s also confused too, and a bit hurt. She’s not going to portray that to Nine, because she knows that’s not what they need right now. But she just got them back and they don’t even know who she is.

She cares about them so much, and Nine trusts her so so much and doesn’t even know why.

It’s like in the opening chapter of 17776 when Ten talks to them for the first time and she says “i love you” and Nine says it back without any hesitation. They don’t know who she is, or what any of this is or what it means or even who they are, but they know they love Ten.

Their relationship is strained as first because of this, Nine feels like they can’t be who Ten remembers because Nine doesn’t even remember themself. But things ease out, because even without the memories, they’re still Nine, and she can see it in the way they talk and get passionate about things and their inquisitive nature.

Jesus how long have I been typing does this even answer the question I DONT KNOW IM SO SORRY if you read this all I’m actually so impressed. It’s 4:30 am so if there’s typos just ignore them

[juice-from-17776-football]

.Hi, I’m a 17776 irl. it’s Nine here!!! I just wanted to say your blog makes me very happy. And I was reading a post about how you differ from your source, which is cool to hear because I do as well, and it previously made me feel strange. I hope you’re doing well Juice. I came here to just kinda check up on you and ask how you’re doing? And I’d also like to hear about wizards! Sorry for the long ask.

.this ask brought me INFINITE joy thankyou for sending it. we're doing pretty well honestly!!! i hope youre also okay :)))) we're getting more into fashion. i dont have much to say on wizards right now other than i am Slowly stealing their fashion >:))))

[gnomebud]

finally caught up on 20020 and man i fuckin cried all over again. i need 20021 soon ;——;

[goodollouise]

The year is 20020, and they’re back in orbit!!!

[glassydiatom]

some extras while plottin nine and juice’s new outfits!

[soullistrations]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

The beginning of 17776 really is so interesting in the way that it sets up the rest of the story. The calendar backdrop was such a stroke of genius, because it forces the reader to focus on nothing but the passage of time and nine's increasing desperation and loneliness. and then when ten responds with 'i love you so much'--well, i still had no idea who these characters were, but i was already invested enough in them to feel anxious scrolling through the days where they weren't able to make contact with each other. and then, when ten tells nine not to contact them for 27 years, my first thought was, 'but that's a life! that's a life apart for two people who clearly care about each other'

and then the scroll through the days, once again forced to focus on nothing but the passage of time, leading straight into the reveal that these people aren't actual people with a lifespan of a century or less, and THEN the reveal that even humans aren't people with a lifespan of a century or less anymore, and the way that the reader has been interacting with the passage of time is so FUNDAMENTALLY different to how it works for the current denizens of the earth

just, what a great way to really bring out the focus of the story right from the beginning: how would we change, if the constraints and anxieties of finite time were lifted from us as a species?

327 notes - Posted October 22, 2022

#4

Tell me why hitting the word ‘me’ on page three hundred and fifteen of harrow the ninth legitimately made me burst into tears—oh, there you are

486 notes - Posted November 3, 2022

#3

'it only took me three tries to get it right' buck says, in a scene where we talk about his three past girlfriends, in a scene where he cooks dinner for eddie and chris

711 notes - Posted September 19, 2022

#2

rewatching haunted, and hen goes 'fuck it' and digs up that grave with a backhoe to save the guy that was buried alive, and after buck is like 'hen you're such a badass' and hen's like 'yeah but the ghosts might not understand :/' literally every scene with the two of them is the absolute best every single time it's like

buck: 'hen you're amazing'

hen: 'yeah yeah i know but [something that is guaranteed to send buck into a three-day-long spiral]'

717 notes - Posted October 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

stages of reading 17776:

this is about football

this is not about football

....oh, i guess this IS actually about football

no, wait, it's not really ABOUT football

1,218 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

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[aperture-of-bullshit]

s/o to 17776 for dragging me kicking and screaming out of art block

(click on them for better quality!!)

[devilbunzz-moved]

Okay anyway, juice would be the type of guy to close the fridge door with his hips

[quizzzically]

sparse nines cuz im crazy