the <^> game | v. twenty-three

[Cosmonaught]

my oartner..... but if you mean like. an inanimate object. itd have to be psyche :) my million year old chromebook im using to type this. she cant even run roblox. i love her

^ YOU HAVE TO BE SUS
> phighting brainrot. also im listening to noels lament and im considering watching the ride the cyclone musical bc ive heard good things....
v favorite musical? :P

[cowboylikeme]

mean girls on broadway, it's perfect and amazing in every way and the movie adaptation that just came out of it was also great. saw it the day it came out

^ don't fight the brainrot just let it consume u... also watch it!! why not!!
> went to the mall td, it's a 2 hr drive there and a 2 hr drive home. painstaking. but it was worth it tbh, i got some new clothes and a vinyl and some new jewelry for my septum :thumbsup: it looks so cool. it's a hinged hoop w three spikes and the one in the middle is longer. u get it
v got any cool piercings or tats? if not, would u want some?

[star star.]

i do not have any!! i've thought about getting a tattoo or two - one for my cats & another maybe being the big dipper (or both) bc it's my favorite constellation but that is a) expensive and b) i'd want it on my inner wrist and i've heard that can Hurt.

^ i'm glad the trip was worth it at least!!! the jewelry sounds sick. also. points. swiftie. i see you.
> my mom is gonna help me figure out healthcare crap & we're gonna go on a walk in the snow with the dogs. excited. might convince her to swing by the hotel i work at so i can chuck a snowball at my coworker. // my cat climbed onto my lap and screamed at me when i hugged her. doofus.
v how's your day been? anything been on your mind recently that you're excited about or dreading?

[viles]

• okay. i got to leave work early, which was nice. but. idk. everything is just...a lot right now.
  
  ^ your cat sounds like my cat.
  > nihil novi sub sole.
  v what's on your mind?

[angelfangs]

i'm so thankful to have moved out. i don't hold onto negativity as much anymore. now that i am responsible for myself, i've gotten better, but i still struggle. i want and need to eat more greens. i want to lean more towards a veggie-forward diet <3

^ pretty looking text
> maow maow reading the imaginary friend by stephen chbosky can't recommend enough ^^
v what's the last book u read ?

[trilli]

It was a comic book I thrifted. The characters and story were pretty cheesy, but it was very entertaining.

^ Thanks for the recommendation. Moving out is a big step, I’m glad it has proven beneficial for you.
> Since moving, I have a total of three outfits I can find. At least it cuts down my options.
v If you had to pick one event in your life as evidence to show that fate exists, even if you don’t believe in it, what would you pick?

[LokiToons]

Oh I got a really cool story. Reserving so I don’t get ninja’d since it’s a bit of an explanation. But I know my dog sent our current dog after his passing.

Edit:
Our very first family dog, Bear, passed last year at the age of six very unexpectedly. He developed IMHA (Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia) symptoms over a single weekend and didn’t pull through the week. There was nothing anyone could have done, and it was a terrible shock for the whole family. I’ve got this little beanie baby of a black dog that resembles Bear and started using it as a coping mechanism. After a month, my family was really missing the little guy and the guilt and heartbreak about getting another dog was starting to wear off and we were getting anxious to have another dog to fill the new silence and emptiness in the house. There was a little chihuahua mix at the local pet rescue. He was tricolor and looked like a puppy at the age of 1, so my family decided to go and have a look but by the time we got out there, he had just freshly been adopted out by another family. I’m not one to channel the energy of “oh it wasn’t meant to be, there’s another destiny” but it really felt that way at the time so over the weekend I sat down in the privacy of my room and spoke with the beanie baby that resembled Bear- I’m not crazy, that’s how I chose to cope with his sudden passing- and I told him that we were looking for another dog, and I trust he would know better when it came to finding one so I asked that he send me some suggestions, because we were all getting restless at this point. About a day later I saw an ad on Craigslist for these Pomeranian mix puppies in a town about a 30 minute drive from our home. I had been showing my mom ad after ad but we live near the border and a lot of dogs are smuggled and traumatized out of Mexico so it’s a risk with all these ads that claim a dog is a certain breed or has been updated on vaccines and such. But this ad was legit, and one of the puppies was a tricolor just like the chihuahua mix we missed at the shelter. So I reached out and contacted the lady and said we were interested in that guy. We worked out the payment and meeting time the next day, but I was met with radio silence by morning. My mom worked that day and wouldn’t be able to go see the pup, and I can’t drive the freeway so my sister and her friend were going to be in charge of going as they were housesitting in that area. This is where it gets too coincidental.
My mom almost never gets out early. And with the radio silence from the breeder, I figured it wasn’t going to happen. I ask that my sister text the lady instead and explain she was available to meet her up to see the puppy. Again, it was radio silence until about 11:30 AM. She agreed to meet up somewhere at noon and gave my sister an address. My sister goes and as fate would have it, my mom miraculously was given the rest of the day off at noon, and her workplace was a five minute drive from the meeting location. So she met my sister there, and they were able to see the puppy together, which worked out so much better than my sister having to drive all the way back home and back to the house she was watching (would’ve been an hour worth of driving to drop the puppy back off at home). Literally everything fell into place perfectly, you could not have even planned something as well as it went. My favorite part of this whole thing is that the breeder had named the puppy Teddy, which is the exact same name I ended up getting attached to because it was a homage to Bear. Teddy Bear.
And if none of that convinced you enough, I have a picture of Bear taken 7 years ago when he was a puppy of the same age, sleeping in a unique position. The night we brought Teddy home, he fell asleep on my bed in an exact position as Bear did. To this day I think it was Bear confirming he sent Teddy, I can’t explain how else all those coincidences perfectly aligned any better. Also, the cuddles is what we all missed most from Bear and Teddy is about as cuddly and lap dog friendly as you can get. Bear covered all our needs.



^ Oop, only three? Gonna have to get creative and mix and match.

> Finally slept through the night and might actually be awake during daylight hours for once??? I’m terrible with my sleep schedule.

v Do you have any cool ghost stories? If not, what’s something strange that happened that you just can’t really explain?

[Kayara]

TW: forensic case, but no details
Okay um not a ghost story but something interesting that happened recently in fact.
There’s a very sad case I read about over two years ago involving someone who had yet to be identified but it stayed with me on account of the mysterious circumstances and how sad it was as they were very young. I hadn’t thought about it in years but early (3-4 am) on the 13th I thought about it and everything I remembered off the top of my head about the circumstances. Much later in the day, I decided to look it up, if not to refresh my memory, at least to see if they’ve made any progress. Turns out, in November of 2022, they did, and one of the things they were able to find was his birthdate. January 13. And I just happened to revisit his story.

^ay good for you! If you couldn’t already tell from the story, some days I’m basically nocturnal.
>went to sleep at like 3ish almost four but I’m waiting for class to start at 11am rn. Small mercies
v what is a mystery you can’t help but think about? Trying to keep with the strange/cool stories but alternatively, what’s a memory you like to revisit?

[.:Haru:.]

a lot of text but i listen to too much true crime lol. the disappearance of andrew gosden bothers me SO much. long story short hes a 14 yo boy from the uk who boarded a train to london, (breaking his usual routine by skipping school) and never came home or was seen again except for a sighting at a pizza hut a few hours after he left the train station. he had zero online history to suggest he was talking to someone who could have potentially lured him, and he told no one where he was going. the police didnt pull the security footage from that day until it was already deleted and too late, so the last known footage of him is of him leaving the train station. no body has ever been found, he basically disappeared into thin air. there are truly no answers in his case. there are a few other similar cases of missing people that i can think of, but andrew's bugs me the most.

^good luck w/ class! hope you can get some more rest.
>scared to drive in the snow tomorrow (the roads are plowed and im ten min away from work im fine)
vhave you ever had an experience that you cant explain? (glitch in the matrix, deja vu, paranormal etc.)

[vi‎ ‎]

when i was about 11, i took a walk alone in my neighborhood. i ended up cutting it short because i saw two older boys behind me who starting following me. i think they just thought it would be funny but i remember i took several turns and they were still behind me... so that would be what i can't explain
^ hahah same tbh. im always nervous driving in rain/snow too. u got this, be safe!
> studying
v how are you? what are you looking forward to?