don't ask me, ask Black Mesa

i never thought i'd see a viral post, let alone cr-- [starts coughing extremely loudly as my mouth rejects its own words]

HE'S DOWN! BAH GAWD THIS COULD BE THE END

"oh actually that's our downstairs neighbors going at it, it's fine"

had to travel all the way across the country to go find it before realizing there's no basement at the Alamo

put it back on the shelf and walk away tbh

the thing about whimsy is it doesn't just randomly show up in the world on its own, people have to deliberately put that whimsy into the world. but that takes lots of effort and lots of money and lately everything deemed non-essential has been jettisoned the fuck out of existence

i'm sure it's really gonna bug them

penn and teller on "fool us" be like "what, you want us to explain the trick? you know, the thing we're famous for? nah bro this is broadcast television in 2025"

ts eliot: "ha ha i shall write some whimsical poems about my cats"
andrew lloyd webber: "i'm about to make the most incomprehensible thing you've ever seen"