i went to the dentist today and my dentist honest to god said “can i ask you a question…….what the hell is in your mouth”
it was in awe lmao
then the hygienist and assistant all came over to look too and they were like “wooooow” and my ass was sitting there like
oh my god i posted this and then went to work, and
story time
okay so to preface this, my hometown where i’m originally from is a really fucking weird place. like from the outside it seems like a normal suburban town, but once you’re there for awhile you get the feeling that’s something’s not…quite all together. a lot of people are really fucking weird there — so much so that that was a running joke in school growing up, that people in the town were just like that. everyone knew not to go out to the farm lands surrounding the town especially at night, we called it “the cuts” and people used to disappear out there all the time or get shot at by the especially weird people that would live out there. the news was and still is truly a thing of horror. every time i come back i’m regaled with even more stories of crazy shit that has happened there.
to put it in perspective we generally never had “normal crime” like robbery or anything like that when i lived there, though that did happen sometimes. the news stories were always like, “a kid was kidnapped by local residents and tortured in a house around the corner,” “a random person was chased down and shot for sport in a really nice neighborhood,” “someone was gored to death by a bull while out car shopping,” etc. (these are all real, btw). everyone does drugs and the whole town is located really close to a government site where they test nuclear weapons and chemicals and shit. this is how i grew up, in this bizarre environment.
i need to preface it this way so that you get that it’s weird. it’s a fucking weird place. i used to listen to the welcome to night vale podcast and make comparisons from it to my hometown, that’s how weird it is.
i only say this so you know that this town is where i got my orthodontics from.
all the kids in my town went to this one particular orthodontist. i also used to go to a dentist in town that a lot of people went to as well. i had a permanent retainer put on my bottom teeth after braces and no one had ever said anything to me about the model of retainer itself or it being weird type of retainer at all. i saw a ton of other people (mostly other kids that were my age at the time) that had the same type of retainer as me too so i never thought about it.
so i kept my retainer in — it’s never caused me problems and it keeps my teeth straight, why not?
however i went to a dentist for the first time in a metropolitan area now, and when he saw it in my mouth his literal first reaction was to say “uh can i ask you a question….what the hell is that”
LITERALLY the words that he said
which in hindsight makes almost too much sense. of course my town of all towns would put these weird unnecessary contraptions in kids’ mouths, and of course it happened so much that everyone just thought it was normal. that sounds exactly, to a T, like my hometown.
my permanent bottom retainer is apparently this prototype that is so rare that he’s literally never seen it before in his life, not in dental school, nowhere. it’s not that it’s an outdated type, it’s just rare as fuck. they were still staring at pictures of it on my chart in wonder when i left the office.
so just know somewhere out there, in a weird ass suburban town where they test nuclear weapons and a good portion of the residents go fucking nuts, there’s probably hundreds of people still walking around with this same contraption in their mouth that exists nowhere else in the world thinking, “yeah, that’s cool. that makes sense. let me go drink the definitely not-contaminated water now and never move away from here.”
This sounds like an X-files episode
Okay, so I looked into it and I think that the town is Tracy, California.
I looked up the bull-murder thing OP mentioned and Tracy seemed to be only town that came up with a matching case. Though the man didn’t actually die from his injuries everything else matches up one for one. So just to make sure that it was the right town I looked to see if there was any murder-torture of young people in Tracy, and unfortunately there was. It was a 17 year old boy who escaped and survived the torture. And just to solidify that it was in fact Tracy I looked up shootings in residential areas and there was one of a 20 year old man who was shot and killed in a nice neighborhood.
Okay, but I decided to look into Tracy more to find out more information about it and the town is super suspicious. There’s been a lot of murders and shooting in the town. Back in 2009 an 8 year old girl, Sandra Cantu, was kidnapped and murdered by a Sunday school teacher who said she had no idea why she killed Sandra. Another case happened in 2018 when four underage boys were shot and one was killed by four teenage boys. There’s a lot of news stories on shootings, homicides, and drug busts in that town. It’s a really cute town from the outside, if you just look up Tracy, California there’s a lot of really cute businesses and nice articles on sweet things that happen in the town, but if you actually look into it the town is really sketchy.
So yeah, this sketchy town with a military base, multiple homicides and shootings is maybe Tracy, California.
………………..yeah, you guys caught me
i grew up in tracy
also i have to add another person’s tags to this since it’s honesty hour because they’re hilarious and true
Honestly I wasn’t even surprised when I found out it was in California. Even less surprised when googled it and found out it was near the Bay Area. That sounds about right.
Apparently the motto is “Think Inside the Triangle” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Im rebolgging just to add that it’s illegal to see the news from the city in UE. Like, LITERALLY:
it’s….what now
Please get out of this place
How did this post get weirder
Oh god my mom used to live in a town like that but like worse (not as far as weirdness, but like culturally worse)
So. Elk Mound Wisconsin. Very small population, very isolated. The water was neon orange, which is not uncommon in areas near mining. It’s because of the copper.
My mom moved around a lot so she didn’t grow up there, just lived there for a few years, in a condemned house, which a lot of the houses in the town were.
90% of people in the town had inverted nipples. Incest was common. One family had a set of quadruplets that were not identical, but they all died in a car crash and a couple of years later the family had a second set of nonidentical quadruplets that grew up to be identical to the first set of quadruplets. The condemned house my mom lived in was haunted by a (benign) ghost, that at one point threw things off shelves. My mom initially thought it was a trick but could find no way for it to have been done, and the weird stuff continued. At one point my mom poisoned the crops of one of her neighbors bc they ran down her dog for fun (they had serious problems) and the neighbors in question thought she was a witch and burned a cross into their yard. In a separate, later, incident, she and her siblings were walking to school and fellow students and teachers kept throwing rocks at them (sizable rocks, and many) attempting to stone them to death. It didn’t work mainly bc my mom and her siblings hunted squirrels via thrown rock so they started catching the rocks and throwing them back. There was a summer camp on a superfund site (I don’t remember if it was in the town or just near the town) where kids could learn farm work and logging work and earn some money (like a dollar per day, but that doesn’t matter bc it was child labor anyways). The water there would seep up from the ground in neon green puddles and kids splashed around in it and drank from it. This was one of the bands in WI where those magnetic rocks could be found, but the overall magnetic effect in some places was like. weirdly strong. There was one area that you straight up couldn’t use a compass in and people used to disappear there all the time. Sometimes in “hunting accidents” that very clearly were not accidents, but other times these disappearances were unexplained or attributed to supernatural forces. Most of the townspeople had a much easier time believing in supernatural forces than magnets messing with compasses. Which I would blame on the inbreeding and contaminated water, but might not be so unreasonable to believe if you were also raised in a town where some people purportedly had psychic powers. If I’m remembering the correct town (there were a couple ones with really high death rates), the death rates were insane, there were 24 people in my mom’s school when she moved there, and 8 when she left (not counting herself and her siblings in either of those numbers).
I have no idea how much it has changed since then, so I looked it up out of curiosity and found out about the haunted tower that supposedly has a literal dragon under it (lol) so yea i guess the town’s still weird.
Y'all I thought the town I grew up at was weird because of the sky fireballs and the annual flood, but the USA really is dystopic. Like what the fuck with the witch-hunting and twilight zone retainers.
So I am treating myself to a day at Dashcon. Thing is I can only go one day and both Friday/Saturday have really cool things planned. Which day should I go? Please help me out.
Saturday has a ball pit and meet-ups soooooooo. ;D
My house is being haunted by Unown and they keep making fun of me. Just this morning I burnt my eggs while making breakfast and they lined up to spell “EPIC FAIL” in my kitchen. Can I convince them to stop? :,(
idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it
Actually forget what I said. This dream is more important than anything
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
It’s true that Homestuck contains a lot of things, and it’s also true that Homestuck fans lie constantly and fluently about what Homestuck contains, secure in the knowledge that it’s logistically impracticable to fact-check them. Like, what are you going to do, actually read it?
Homestucks in the notes are like “oh, we never lie, we just make technically true but misleadingly phrased statements which are calculated to lead those who lack the relevant context to draw incorrect conclusions” as though that’s different. =P
i cannot believe that i am only now learning about the dinosaur king drama
in case you’ve never heard of dinosaur king:
it’s
a pretty mediocre anime from the early 90s, that was pretty much just
made to market this dinosaur trading card game. the plot was extremely
boring (until stuff suddenly started happening around episode 35), and
for some reason they decided to have all the dinosaur fights with these
incredibly stiff 3d models, which was.. a choice..
all together it was so bad that it’s good (but not particularly good), and kinda forgettable
and
then they decided that it needed a remake. they were releasing some new
toys, and a video game was being worked on, so in 1999 they released a
fucking remake of that weird show
the writers and producers were these two austrian guys, suppenheimer and vemovich
the remake was planned to be two seasons
the original dinosaur king had two seasons as well, the first had 49 episodes, and the second had 30 episodes
the remake was 60 episodes total, and completely ignored season two of the original
suppenheimer
and vemovich only retold season one, expanded it a bit, reshuffled some
events (namely putting the twist from episode 35 way earlier), giving
the characters actual motivations… they actually managed to make the
show good
(they still kept in the weird 3d dinosaurs, and the card
game tie-ins, because at the core the show was still about marketing
the toys)
and then season two ended, neatly tying up the story, and it was genuinely good
and then the network renewed the show for a third season
suppenheimer
was done with the show at that point. they only ever wanted to make two
seasons, and they had told exactly the story that they wanted to tell,
so they were out
but vemovich wasn’t done yet, so he stayed on and wrote season three.
and season four.
and…
the entire remake turned out to be twenty seasons long
and it got weird, lemme tell you
the
very first thing vemovich introduced in season three of dinosaur king,
the anime about dinosaurs and traveling to the ancient past, was alien
space pirates
which i guess makes sense, because they can travel through time, so the future is technically also viable
and
then season six was all about one of the main characters becoming a
werewolf? which was never fixed, but they also just never mention it at
any point after the season six finale
season eleven was all about
the love story between one of the supporting cast and one of the
antagonists (who had a redemption arc early in season two, but vemovich
cast him as a villain again anyway starting in season four)
season
sixteen only had one episode where any dinosaurs appeared?? in a show
called dinosaur king? and i’m pretty sure they said the word “dinosaur”
zero times in that entire season
it was weird, okay, the entire remake was weird after season two
meanwhile,
on the forums (and later on twitter), suppenheimer has completely
divorced themselves from the show’s production, but they are definitely
still watching, and loudly complaining
suppenheimer and vemovich
were actually said to be on pretty good terms during the production of
the first two seasons, but after that suppenheimer got mean
[id:
a tweet by @ cimminimmi from december 2016 that reads “what was the
worst show you guys watched this year?”, with a reply from @ suppi_sr
(suppenheimer’s twitter) that reads “dinosaur king. for the 5th year in a
row.” end id.]
we never really heard anything from vemovich.
he was never on any of the forums, and he had a rule of never publicly
interacting with any hate whatsoever
so we had suppenheimer just
tearing the show down at every point, calling for people to stop
watching, and even making several petitions to have the show cancelled,
none of which ever went anywhere of course
because we then got
season seventeen, which introduces vemovich’s author insert. they are
absolutely not subtle about it, the character pretty much goes “hey, my
name is vemovich, i’m the guy who is writing this story”
and he just occasionally pops up during the next four seasons
and then season nineteen and twenty are building up to this great unseen danger that is threatening to wipe out the universe
and at the very goddamn end of season twenty, the finale of the entire show, the big threat is finally revealed
so, i’ve said that this entire thing is an anime with weird 3d dinosaurs inserted into it
the big bad, the last villain that was threatening to destroy the fabric of reality… was suppenheimer
a live action suppenheimer, who is greenscreened into the anime world
he
is of course stopped by vemovich’s author insert, who up to that point
had been 2d animated, but now he is also greenscreened into the show
so
the goddamn epic finale of the show is a live action suppenheimer and
vemovich fighting, using 3d animated dinosaurs, on this 2d animated
battlefield
it looked bad
and then the show is over
but this story is still going
because
suppenheimer has spent the last eighteen years tearing apart the show
and tearing apart vemovich publicly at least once per week
and then, two years after the show is over
those bastards tweet out that they are married
[id:
a twitter conversation between vemovich, suppenheimer, and twitter user
abblycidre from october 2021. vemovich is replying “love you, babe” to
suppenheimer. suppenheimer replies “love you too.” abblycidre replies
“don’t you two have beef?” suppenheimer replies “we can have beef and be
married at the same time. it’s fine.” abblycidre replies “married?!” in
all caps. vemovich replies “last i checked we’ve been married for 13
years now, yeah”. end id.]
so i guess the tweet where suppenheimer threatened to divorce vemovich wasn’t a joke after all
[a
tweet by suppenheimer from june 2012 that reads “@ vemovich. if you
don’t stop ruining dinosaur king i will divorce you.” end id.]
suppenheimer
and vemovich have been living together for the entire goddamn run of
the dinosaur king remake, while suppenheimer was constantly starting
shit about the show online
they’ve been dating since before
the show even started, and they got married during season nine, and
they’ve just been keeping up those personas for twenty fucking years
and i just kinda don’t know what to do with my life now that i know that
what the fuck did those guys’ home life look like?!
You should give these sources a good read-through either way because in all honesty, OP missed out on some prime groundbreaking material. For example, the fact that this show’s depiction of an ankylosaurus is thought to be the most accurate depiction of ankylosaurs in the 20th Century. Or how those first 2 seasons somehow have the lowest overall score of the series on IMDB and other rating systems, despite the controversy of later seasons (which might not seem like much, but it at least explains why none of the aforementioned petitions had any effect).
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Like yes the marriage Twitter reveal was really something, but it should not overshadow these absolutely mind boggling stats that come from such a niche 90s anime.
thank you for this addition. you actually mentioned some stuff that i didn’t find during my research (i did not know about the ankylosaurus thing), so kudos for that
there are a few things in the wiki article that i wanted to include, i just couldn’t find a good place to mention them in a post that already got a bit longer than i meant for it to be 😅
you know what maybe i did miss tumblr a little bit
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