I am 100% sure at this point people are voting against curtwen even if they don’t like transformers because pop culture and probably spite. Every time I see it the lead grows further apart.
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Even if they lose, Curtwen has won in spirit because i said so
I was send here by glitchy to send you absurd voice requests so I’m here to ask you to do springtrap eating a ghost pepper for the first time and it is just him coughing and dying a second time also like just pretend he can like taste and eat things for this if you end up doing this
Thought you'd all like to see this--
sorry for the tag.
I NEED TO ANIMATE THIS.
KEEP VOTING FOR CURTWEN PLEEEEASE WE'RE FALLING BEHIND!!! i have made a google doc please add more reasons to vote for curtwen thanks
taken from the curtwensweep manifesto i am so normal about this i am so normal about this i am s
MANIFESTING THE CURTWENSWEEP
who took the time to make this help
Writing fanfic as a non-US citizen like
In case anyone actually wants to know the answer: it’s the plot of Cars. The difference is literally the plot of Cars.
Highways are usually two-to-four (at the widest) lane roads that meander the US landscape. Think Route 66, dinosaur statues, mom-and-pop diners, southern gothic. There are state-level and national-level highways. Some run for a 100 miles, some, like US HWY-17, run most of the East Coast:
That red line is US HWY 17. If you follow it, you will go through tiny towns. You may hit stoplights. I kid you not, you will see spinning cows on poles. Businesses exist along highways that you are encouraged to pull over and visit. They were designed to let you see America.
Yeah.
Now, interstates were made in the 50s and were made to get people from Point A to Point B. These suckers range from four lanes to eight lanes around big cities. They cut through everything. If you want to get to a business, you have to take an exit ramp and detour. They are great for getting places fast. You can still have weird experiences on them, but usually at night, when your eyes start playing tricks on you. Or there are deer.
I-95 is a massive corridor that runs from the Florida Keys to the Canadian Border. You can see the difference just looking at the maps.
As far as writing goes:
If you want quirky character development inside the car, you’re looking for an interstate. The majority of Americans take interstates to go on road trips.
If you want mysterious and/or supernatural hijinks, you’re looking for a highway. They are weird, weird places, and they’re surprisingly easy to wind up on if you leave the interstate.
(Even in America, no one’s really sure what a freeway is. Just ignore it.)
Freeways exist in big cities where cars are more prominent than public transport, such as LA or Atlanta. You’ve year of liminal spaces? Freeways during rush hour are a physical manifestation of hell.
Awesome! Now what the hell is a turnpike?
If you find out, let me know. Maybe ask someone from New Jersey.
A turnpike is a highway with a toll. Turnpikes are special highways where you drive really fast and it’s usually linking big cities with each other and you keep going until you hit a toll booth.
They’re called “turnpikes” because in the olden days, there were pikes or barriers up and you had to pay the toll for them to be raised or turned to let you in.
Also, just for the record, Hawaii does have interstates.
For everyone who didn’t want to know, expressways are a form of highway that connect both suburban areas and major interstates to a city They often have both an alphanumerical name and a colloquial name In Philly we have the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76)
Would like to add that highways and mainly interstates were made specifically so THE MILITARY could get from Point A to Point B. This combined with a post-WWII boost in the economy and car industry gave Americans the ability to tour the country on their own for the first time ever. A whole chunk of American culture was created by just expanding the road system.
All this being said, most East Coast US people will refer to all of these things interchangeably as “highways”/”the highway.”
Another note for non-USians trying to write a road trip story – if your characters would definitely be taking the interstate, but you want them on a highway in order for the supernatural shenanigans to start (or whatever), the solution is very simple: they hit a traffic jam. Could be due to construction, could be due to an accident, but traffic slows to a crawl and they say “there’s gotta be a way around this” and take the next exit. Then it turns out their cell phone has no coverage in that spot so they can’t just pull up a map, and VOILA. Into the Twilight Zone! One of the things about an interstate is that USUALLY, there’s an exit and an entrance right by each other, so you can exit, find a gas station or a place to grab lunch near the exit, then get right back on, but this is not always the case. Sometimes there’s an exit, but nowhere nearby to get back on.
I just want to add that there’s a slightly different vibe if you’re in the midwest. Because cities on the coasts are closer together, the interstate is just a super efficient point A to point B, city to city, no interruptions.
In the midwest, and I expect the southwest, to the interstate can get some real wonky vibes because YOU ARE ALONE. You are on one black strip of neverending road across hours and hours and hours of alone. You can drive very fast for a very long time and not see signs of another human being. Sometimes the alone-ness is added to by the sheer flatness of the land around you. You can see for forever and there’s nobody here. You sometimes see dead gas stations or billboards with only scraps of paper left on them.
You are in tornado ally and there is NOWHERE to hide if a blizzard or thunderstorm or twister comes for you. If it’s winter the snow is BLINDING.
It’s beautiful. But it’s horror is less small-town-gothic and more existential threat.
For clarity: the term freeway literally means it’s an interstate with no tolls. It’s free for every driver to use.
The West Coast of the US doesn’t have tolls on our interstates, but some of our big important bridges have tolls.
Seconding @leebrontide’s bit about interstates in the mid and southwest. I have Seen Things doing cross-country moves through the southwest and midwest. One experience that we refer to as “Silent Kansas” we literally went across the entire width of Kansas without seeing a single other vehicle, open gas station, or sign of life, while shrouded in a blanket-thick fog that dissipated essentially immediately upon crossing the border into Colorado. Or the time we were driving south on the I-17 in Arizona after midnight, and there was something following us for a full hour that was a pair of glowing lights that looked like headlights but, I swear it’s fucking true, was not another car. they disappeared in my rearview on a stretch with no exits just outside the Phoenix city limits, and to this day I have no idea wtf it was.
weird shit happens on interstates away from the coasts.
wow i never shut the fuck up
We can never shut the fuck up together
do you really think so.... ,...... we are going to have so much fun
i saw a streamer watching the daisy bell computer footage and he and the chat joke reacted about it being scary or creepy and it genuinely made me unreasonably upset. its a beautiful footage. hes singing for you. we built him and taught him to sing like we do. does that mean nothing to you? <- is attached to things regular human beings dont care about
“There’s only one thing left for me to do now….. I’m going to come find you. I’m going to come find you.”
this tweet hasn't left my mind once in the two years since it's been posted
No one loves snails and slugs like I do
How can anyone look at God's most beautiful creatures and not feel love
Even more!
Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"
French kids would call it "le climot", frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it "machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice"
old boys
it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms
Maximum longevity: 15,000 years (shit dude)
they're losing by a lot more yall please reblog this spread it help the curtwen community win. no one is more divorced.
Has anyone on tumblr started documenting this wreck happening on twitter yet
