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The 27th pre-Hartnell Doctor

I'm gay and autistic and will not stop thinking about superhero comics no matter what

I am a transgendered pervert and freak and will block any self-described "antis" on sight

ACAB and Free Palestine


hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

thisman.org is a fascinating web artifact about a shared dream figure known only as This Man. You may recognize the face through a series of fliers posted online asking people if they've dreamed of This Man. People share dream encounters, sketches, and more while hunting for This Man.

Now, obviously, this is a hoax, though I really appreciate the aesthetic it's going for. The face itself is just strange enough to be intriguing, leaving the viewer unable to tell whether it means good or ill. I love the low-quality black-and-white website, and the vibe throughout is one of bizarre desperation to find This Man.

Also, while searching for information about This Man, I found a delightful article from a paranormal news outlet which was outraged at the hoax, claiming that it was making real paranormal news seem unbelievable.

A paranormal news article, whose text reads: "Andrea runs a company called Guerriglia Marketing. This company stages “subversive hoaxes” and creates pornographic, political, and advertising art projects. The problem with this is that the paranormal community already has trouble getting anyone to believe anything we say. A lot of us feel like we have to preface any paranormal experience we have with something like “I could be wrong..” or “I was probably just seeing things, but..” when telling our stories. For someone to make a story like this, and have it go viral is damaging because it causes people to second guess us, say we’re dumb, call us liars, and etc. It also makes paranormal fans look dumb, and reinforces skeptics opinions about us when the paranormal community accidentally shares an article meant to trick everyone. Even a respectable news site like Vice got duped by this. They had to publish a second article talking about it. For the first article, they even conducted an interview with Andrea and he duped them even further by telling them he saw the guy in his dreams, too, prompting him to make the website! After reading what I have to say in this article, I hope at least some of you will share paranormal information with a little more caution. No, this mole man has never invaded our dreams, but he has invaded our conversations and media tricking most of us by the way of people spreading anything they read."


JuniperTheory
@JuniperTheory

where it's implied the reason a guy like that keeps showing up in your dreams is because it's doremy sweet, ruler of dreams, who started a Pillow buisiness and then snuck into people's dreams to do customer feedback surveys while they're asleep

here's a song about it


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