#fortunechaos

[secondbeatsongs]

can we see ur spider please 👀

here she is!

my sibling and I found her in the garden, against our front porch. we knew we couldn't let her stay there, so we caught her and brought her inside until we figured out what to do with her.

at first we thought that I'd kill her and keep her as a specimen in my bug collection, but the more I researched how to preserve black widows, the more I realized that I just...didn't want to do that.

so I decided to keep her as a pet! that way I can enjoy having her around, without her being a hazard out in the garden.

(left is the bottle we put her in when we first caught her; right is the bigger jar she's in now)

she's so cool! I love watching her wrap up her prey before eating it, I love watching her carefully walk around her habitat, I just...love everything about her!

as for safety, I don't ever handle her, or put myself in a position where that would happen by accident. I open her jar to give her fresh air and to feed her, but otherwise it stays closed, and I have no contact with her whatsoever.

if you'd like to learn more about keeping black widow spiders as pets, this video is a good one! you can tell that the guy who made it is just as excited about black widows as I am.

@freakattack replied to your post “Which one of these things do you think I'm lying...”:

Aw what is your spiders name

her name is Lucy! ♥

#spiders #arachnids #black widow #black widow spider #asks #soxry #fortunechaos #pottertrekdaughter #freakattack #tw spiders #id in alt text #sbs polls #personal

[felixcosm]

Vibe check me Felix 🤠

While I think of you as CANNONBALL's number one fan, I don't think you give off Topher vibes, actually.

But you love Topher, you enjoy violent media, you've encouraged my hubris more than once, chaos is literally in your name and you personify it pretty well (lovingly), and you're gay af so

I assign you Ryan Gamerunner as well x)

#fortunechaos #woe.begone #asks

[falloutcoys]

🖍️🧭

🖍Post any sentence from your wip

"You have to let me do something, I don’t wanna feel like I’m taking advantage of you."

🧭An alternative title to your/ one of your WIP(s)

a possible alternative i've considered for my outlaw/tex WIP is in Texas, with you

x

#thanks for the ask! #my asks #my posts #fortunechaos

[stripesysheaven]

Christy I just noticed the Future Fandoms on your description that's such a fun way to set it up I should do that (actually I shouldn't my to be watched/read/listened to list is a nightmare). May I suggest Woe.Begone, we're mutuals so you've probably already blocked the tag or seen me go completely feral over it but it has many weird little guys that seem like your flavor of weird little guys fr.

Entirely unrelated question. Do you have any suggestions for where to find Lost to watch? May take the plunge once I'm free of this semester of school.

glad you like it! honestly its just as much for me as it is for everyone else, i need a list that i can’t lose of what i’m going to watch someday lol i’m always losing them. plus i do love finding new little shows and things to try out

i just looked up woe, its the podcast right? i have been missing having a podcast to listen to, i’ll try it out <3 thanks for the recommendation (also always looking for new weird lil guys 👀 good to know)

oh hehe yes join my cult. i watch it on freevee, which is free with ads using an amazon account (not the paid account but the free basic level version). its such a fantastic show, even outside of my lil guy ben, easily the best show i’ve ever seen. you won’t regret trying it out <3

#fortunechaos #asks #my posts #media recommendations

[justice-falls]

i drew a michael as a gift for @fortunechaos :)

#woe.begone #w.bg #mike walters #artists on tumblr #and yes that is ken's cowboy outfit from the barbie movie. #michael walters #<- is that a tag ppl use. i dont frequently wbgpost bc im not caught up yet so i have no idea what tags ppl actually post in #my art #art #oh and thank you to my rdr mutuals for peer reviewing my first cowboy art :)

[probsnothawkeye]

Tag game! nine people you’d like to get to know better

I was tagged by the lovely @podcast-bookclub and @thenightpost! Starting my own thread so I can tag them both and also so the threads don't get too long

Last song: Bend by AthansMusic off his debut album Limbo, an album I'm definitely normal about and definitely didn't write 5000 words on

Favorite color: Green! Forest green specifically (which I think makes sense since I'm Pine)

Currently watching: Rewatching all of Buzzfeed Unsolved (again)

Sweet/savory/spicy: spicy food my beloved

Relationship status: Trying and failing at Hinge

Current obsession: Limbo, that album I'm totally normal about I mentioned before. Also Stardew Valley. I play Stardew and listen to Limbo it's a great system

Last thing you googled: largest rodent in North America (its the beaver)

Tagging (if you want!): @souloperatorpod @grottopod @jaz--hands @winterstaryu @felixcosm @fortunechaos @baseballboots @fenraheart @moookar

[solipsistful]

@fortunechaos:

oh shit the edgar's lack of council being related to Edgars lack of future 0_0

yeah!!

now i don't think that's literally the case (except insofar as councils seem to largely be driven by older iterations, which Edgar lacks), but there is a thematic resonance that's fun to explore

see, when people talk about "gay/queer temporality", they mean a few different things. one is the way that lgbtq+ folks often hit those big Life Stages at different times than straight people. you might go through a puberty at 30 because that's when you figured out you were trans. you might not start really dating until 50 because things weren't safe for you before then. you might never get married.

and that, especially the last part, has some implications beyond "oh huh, never thought about it that way." like, what happens to our societal structures if we say "hey, sometimes people don't get married or have kids"? well, elder care looks pretty different for starters, but on a more abstract level, things like "work hard, do capitalism right, so that your kids can inherit your wealth!" start to fall a bit flat. you might literally have a different concept of the future if you never really cared for "fantasies of a comfortable middle class lifestyle with 2.5 children" stuff (and yeah that's classed and racialized as well, for starters :V). you might even start to ask things like "wait, why try to make things better for our children when we can make things better now?"

and so: Edgar. who doesn't have a future (aneurysm) or a family (council), who goes a bit off the hook on learning about this fate, because why sit around making money for your superiors when you can fight to make life better now. Edgar, who looks almost selfish the way he'll toss other iterations of himself under the bus (and put that next to how non-child-interested people are regularly considered selfish, either by their families who want kids or by society in general).

im sure you could also say something about the OVER iterations jumping to get married after learning about the aneurysm, rather than waiting for the "natural" Mike-time-period for the engagement. but sheesh look at how long this post is already im done

- ace

#push back the hands of time #woe.begone

[spaceoperajay]

you two dont even know each other yet i watched in real time as you both booped me to hell & back together like i am some littol tennis ball @fortunechaos @fightthesun

[orchidbreezefc]

the real problem with propagation: observation collapsing potentialities

time for another theory about the mechanics of time travel in woe.begone! the first one is [here]. i'm pretty confident that we've really cracked the case this time. thanks @solipsistful , @fortunechaos , and @whirlwindsworld for helping hammer this out!

let's talk about schrödinger's cat; the actual proposal, in which the cat literally is both dead and alive until the box is opened. both outcomes are actually, literally real, so long as you don't know which one it is. once you open that box and find out for sure, that becomes the only real outcome; the alternative is erased. the very observation of a state is what ensures it.

i believe propagation boils down to being such an observation, and that's why it's dangerous. knowing about an event prior to its occurrence sets that event in stone. knowing the outcome makes it the only real outcome; the alternative is erased.

some events in w.bg appear to be inevitable in every timeline. history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. you can change or remove the causal factors that lead to certain events happening, and circumstances rearrange themselves so that the event happens anyway. even if you take away the instigator, 357A still explodes, and hunter still receives a scar. even if you take michael out of the timeline, cowboy influence still leaks in. even if you take mike walters out of the timeline--well. it seems like you can't.

i believe these inevitable events, these cross-timeline constants, were each caused by propagation. mike gets the cauliflower ear in different circumstances than the ones in which michael got his--we don't know how different, but michael's circumstances didn't involve two other mikes present, so, definitely different. the cauliflower ear seems inevitable. it's also an example of propagation--mike sees michael with this injury before it happens to himself. the awareness of this injury is propagated into 2022 through michael's mere visibility, and so becomes inevitable.

consider also edgar's death. michael is excruciatingly clear that it's inevitable--there is no way to prevent it with time meddling, because if there were, he would have found it. he spent 2 years trying. he probably dragged edgar to an MRI every month to pinpoint the exact day the brain bleed manifested, and then tried every form of treatment, catching it as early as temporally possible. nothing worked. michael is very clear that this will happen to the other mikes' edgars as well. it is a certainty in every timeline.

and we know the awareness of edgar's death was propagated! mustardseed's scheme was prompted by learning about his own death. the fact of learning about it is what set the outcome in stone. that's why edgar's so strict on propagation and michael is uncharacteristically studious about following this one rule. it's what made edgar's early death immutable fact.

mike talks about collapsed potentialities. he says how at one point in your life you could have become an astronaut, but eventually the potentialities collapsed until that outcome became impossible. you lost your chance. and you know it's impossible--not in a literal time travel sense, but maybe intentionality counts for something after all. you know you won't be an astronaut. you won't pursue that path. and so the potentiality collapses. the 'not being an astronaut' outcome becomes inevitable.

in my previous post i touched on the fact that the boulders and continuous corrections technology seem to be the exception to the general implication that only one timeline can exist at once in woe.begone. we are given to understand continuous corrections can briefly bring alternative timelines into being without overwriting the current timeline, and the boulders can be used to send information to iterations in timelines that shouldn't currently exist.

we know little about those two technologies, but what we do know is that both of them are used for sharing information and making observations. edgar uses continuous corrections for the specific purpose of observing alternative scenarios. edgar says intentionality is an uncertain hypothesis but that it's the best model they have to explain certain things; i think observation is a form of intentionality unto itself. how else do you classify the complete certainty something is going to happen?

#woe.begone #woe.begone meta #w.bg #w.bg meta #sage speaks #sage original post #mike walters #edgar woe.begone #contains spoilers through.... idk let's say 118 i don't wanna check #long post

[sandybrett]

WOE.BEGONE Character Playlists, Part 2

Here are all my character playlists for WOE.BEGONE characters who are not, have never been, and will presumably never be Mike Walters. Listed in order of first appearance. Cut for length and possible vague spoilers.

Matt

"The Magician" by Dizzy "The Winding Stair Mountain Blues" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Cuyahoga Canal" by The Taxpayers (suggested on the Discord) "Down Here" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Research Me Obsessively" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Anne

"She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)" by The Judybats "A Shot in the Arm" by Wilco "Bravado" by Lorde "We Can Build a Fire" by Autoheart (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Shot at the Title" by Curtis McMurtry "The Bonnie Dell House" by Sarah and the Safe Word (from @fortunechaos's Cowgirl Anne playlist)

Ryan & Cannonball

"Turn The Lights Off" by Tally Hall (suggested on Discord) "Blast Doors" by Everything Everything (from Percival's playlist)

Hunter

"So-Called Friend" by Uncle Tupelo "Hanging Tree" by Tim Easton "Heel Turn 1" by The Mountain Goats (suggested by @solipsistful) "Chaplinesque" by Curtis McMurtry "Harvest" by I See Hawks In L.A. "Heel Turn 2" by The Mountain Goats (from @solipsistful's playlist) "Burning Bed" by The Backsliders "When Will You Die?" by They Might Be Giants "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Can't Cheat Death" by The Ballroom Thieves (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist) "my tears richochet" by Taylor Swift "A Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith

Chance & Shadow

"Emmylou" by First Aid Kit (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Trouble's Here" by Jann Browne "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist)

Marissa & Charlie

"Old Slew Foot" by Rose Maddox "Miss Marissa" by Reckless Kelly "The Girl I Can't Forget" by Fountains of Wayne "Wilder than Her" by Dar Williams "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist) "it's time to get good at darts" by Brian David Gilbert

Edgar

"What A Heavenly Way To Die" by Troye Sivan "Flaws" by Bastille (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "FOOLS" by Troye Sivan "Don't Ask Me Why" by The Backsliders "Body Paint" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Out of the Picture" by Son Volt "When Anger Shows" by Editors (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Happiness Will Ruin This Place" by San Fermin (from @ante--meridiem's Mike/Edgar playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "A Lifetime to Find" by Wilco "In Our Bedroom After the War" by Stars (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Mesa, Arizona" by Jeffrey Foucault "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "Ours" by Joe Pug (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Somewhere in Time" by Reckless Kelly

Ty

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Erase" by They Might Be Giants (from @solipsistful's playlist) "I Love You for Psychological Reasons" by They Might Be Giants (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "My Ugly" by Cloudfodder (from Scholastic Arson's Ty/Mike playlist) "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Panoply" by WOE.BEGONE (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Otters" by Ryan MacIntyre (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "Pot Kettle Black" by Wilco "Outlaw Ty" by WOE.BEGONE "Jenny" by the Mountain Goats "It's All Part of the Plan" by the Punch Brothers "Sway" by The Rolling Stones "Blood Orange Morning Light" by Andrew Montana (from finch's Tex/Outlaw playlist)

Felix

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys "Parallel Universes" by Dan Warren (from @ante--meridiem's Mike playlist) "3 AM" by Matchbox Twenty "Working for the Knife" by Mitski

August

"Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Seven Shells" by Fred Eaglesmith "Almost (Sweet Music)" by Hozier "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "The Curse of the Blackened Eye" by Orville Peck (from Icarus is Falling's Michael/August playlist) "Mostly Major Chords" by Shayfer James (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist)

Jam

"Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant "Fun" by Troye Sivan "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Tonight's the Day" by Wilco "ilomilo" by Billie Eilish "Ours" by Joe Pug "The Ballad of Cowboy Jam" by WOE.BEGONE

Eagle

"Kill a Man" by James and the Shame (from @auxilion's playlist) "Eye" by The Scarring Party (from @auxilion's playlist) "War on War" by Wilco "Epithet Erased: Countdown" by plasterbrain and Dawn M. Bennett (from Percival's playlist)

Songs that I desperately want to put on *someone's* playlist but I don't think they currently fit anyone

"Leavin' Yesterday" by John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff "Tired of Walking" by James McMurtry "Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..." by Arctic Monkeys "Man Out of Time" by Elvis Costello "Broken Bed" by James McMurtry "Twist the Knife" by Neko Case

#woe.begone #matt lastname #anne wbg #ryan wbg #hunter jeremiah hartley #chance and shadow #marissa ng #charlie wbg #edgar wbg #ty betteridge #felix wbg #sylvester august baxter #jamilla gardner #eagle wbg #and now for something completely different #that time travel podcast #playlist

[nicholaswaters]

Idea credit goes once again to the brilliant @fortunechaos

#my art #woe.begone #w.bg #Mike Walters #Mikey Walters

[felixcosm]

21 (1) and 8 for the system questions (w.bg plural gang w.bg plural gang)

21) Tell a random fact about yourself

Emdubya is probably the closest w.bg character we can relate to and, to be honest, @solipsistful's fic Double You Doubled really hit home how some experiences we've felt seemed to correlate to what Plural MW was feeling, so thanks to them for writing the fic and kicking off this line of questioning!

8) What's something you consider yourself good at?

Alex is very good at being the responsible adult. She is not the quote "caretaker" but she could be if need to. If things are going bad, she's able to step in and focus solely on what's necessary.

#fortunechaos #wbg plural gang!! #plurality #asks

[falloutcoys]

6 and 42 for Spotify wrapped :3

send me a number 1-100 and i'll tell you the song it corresponds with

Epiphany by [Sweeny Todd Revival Josh Groban album]

(my musicals were hidden just below the cut off lmao)

Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier

#ty <3 #my posts #my asks #fortunechaos #spotify wrapped

[stripesysheaven]

Happy birthday!!!!! You were born! Congratulations!!!!!

I LIVE!!!!!!!! CHRISTY ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#thank you hehe <3 #fortunechaos #asks #my posts

[ante--meridiem]

WIP TAG GAME

rules: make a new post and post the latest line in your WIP & tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

I got tagged by @nikita-not-nikola, thank you!!

Did not have an active WIP to take a line from when you tagged me, but today I actually got the time sit down and write a bit for the first time in for-fucking-ever, so now I do!

Footsteps. He’d better hope he remembered correctly, and that his hands weren’t shaking so badly as to slip. Or else that wherever this sent him would be a quick death. 

tagging: @felixcosm @networksupported @fortunechaos @elias-rights and anyone else who wants to!

#tag game #for anyone who recognises the fandom and knows what I mean by this: yep the line is Mikey trying to transport himself out of danger

[probsnothawkeye]

using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people (i was tagged by my beloved mutual/brother @jaz--hands)

Gonna be a Fall Out Boy girlie (gender neutral) on main once again <3

1. what's your gender: Fake Out

2. how do you feel: The (After) Life Of The Party

3. if you could go anywhere: Heaven's Gate

4. fave mode of transportation: Sunshine Riptide

5. your best friend: Alone Together

6. favorite time of day: Saturday

7. if your life was a tv show: 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)

8. relationship status: Hold Me Tight Or Don't

9. your fears: The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years)

No pressure to complete, but I'll tag @gender-void-partially-stars @fortunechaos @felixcosm @magnetarmadda @totcoc0a and @taytayheyhey

Editing to tag @clansocreations and @winterstaryu <3

#tag game #this one was fun! #some of these the title is the answer #while others the lyrics are #and in a few its just the vibes #pine throws thoughts into the void of tumblr