I should start a YouTube channel
Sep. 21st, 2025 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI'm currently writing an original piece of flash fiction called "In This House We Love Hello Kitty," which is about an aging Millennial who's doing some urban exploration and comes across an old CRT monitor that reminds him of how his grandmother used to defend him against his homophobic parents before she got numerology brainrot from Facebook.
For this story, I had to come up with some original numerology rants, and it was surprisingly easy to do.
So the guy is walking through an abandoned apartment complex, and his internal monologue is going:
"Okay, so. Apartment 103. First off, 1 is the number of beginnings, right? The first step. 0 is the void of infinite potential. And 3? We all know this one. It's the holy trinity, past-present-future. But here's the crazy part: 1 + 0 + 3 = 4. And 4 is the number that people are superstitious about in a lot of cultures, like the death number in Japan and China. So this apartment? It's not just 103. It's secretly a 4. The 4 is telling you that the people lived here had some serious unfinished business, maybe worse."
Which reminds him of the last thing his grandmother told him before he stopped talking to her:
"All right, so let's break down the name Gary. People sleep on how powerful this one is. G-A-R-Y. Four letters, which is significant because 4 is foundations, like the four points of a square, but also the spooky number 4, meaning death and transformation.
"And here's the really spooky part. If you look at each letter’s place in the alphabet, the name is 7-1-9-7, which reads like a date. So July 1, 1997. That’s only four numbers away from when you were born, July 10, 1993, or 7-1-9-4. See that 4 again? That means be careful, boy. The foundation of your name is death."
I'm good, right? And I could do this all damn day.I'm sure this has nothing to do with ADHD
For this story, I had to come up with some original numerology rants, and it was surprisingly easy to do.
So the guy is walking through an abandoned apartment complex, and his internal monologue is going:
"Okay, so. Apartment 103. First off, 1 is the number of beginnings, right? The first step. 0 is the void of infinite potential. And 3? We all know this one. It's the holy trinity, past-present-future. But here's the crazy part: 1 + 0 + 3 = 4. And 4 is the number that people are superstitious about in a lot of cultures, like the death number in Japan and China. So this apartment? It's not just 103. It's secretly a 4. The 4 is telling you that the people lived here had some serious unfinished business, maybe worse."
Which reminds him of the last thing his grandmother told him before he stopped talking to her:
"All right, so let's break down the name Gary. People sleep on how powerful this one is. G-A-R-Y. Four letters, which is significant because 4 is foundations, like the four points of a square, but also the spooky number 4, meaning death and transformation.
"And here's the really spooky part. If you look at each letter’s place in the alphabet, the name is 7-1-9-7, which reads like a date. So July 1, 1997. That’s only four numbers away from when you were born, July 10, 1993, or 7-1-9-4. See that 4 again? That means be careful, boy. The foundation of your name is death."
I'm good, right? And I could do this all damn day.
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Date: 2025-09-29 10:51 am (UTC)This slaps so hard. You ARE good at this, and I WOULD read this all damn day, lol. Interesting detail that no matter how different each number or name is, or however auspicious they might be on their own (103, for instance), his grandmother keeps finding a way to tie it back to 4, and to transformation and death. It's very reminiscent on how a lot of people get fixated on symbolic frameworks with the intent of anticipating ill fortune, to the point of obsession and having it colour everything in their life and the lives of those around them. Very unique, very intriguing! Very pertinent, too.
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Date: 2025-09-30 01:32 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly. This is why I deleted my account on Facebook back in 2020 - I saw it happening to people I knew in real life via Facebook Live, and it was super creepy. Apparently this sort of nonsense has only gotten more popular on TikTok, which isn't great. Now Gen Alpha can get Boomer brainrot too! Fun times.
At the same time... it's kind of entrancing? I recently listened to some of the numerology behind the theory that the rapture was supposed to last Tuesday (Sept 23), and it had a really nice beat to it. Kind of like Hypertrap hip hop for insane people, I guess.