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Finished designing my bull angel concept! for my friend's TTRPG

every year on April first i get harassed by the same damn poltergeist. the April Ghoul, i call it. but not this year. this year I’ve rigged a series of overly-complex, cartoonishly-violent traps all the way down the staircase of my tower. wanna see?

*stands up to move toward the staircase and you see my shoelaces are tied together*

listen. we need to bring back acrostics. have never seen/known a better method for setting up a long form punchline. each sentence needs to be carefully considered as both natural language and to further the structure; other styles of hidden message can be fun too, for all that they can more obviously give the game away. so many memes are just copypasta these days; long gone are the days of the artisanal shitpost.

your usual social media influencers have commodified the meme - heart and soul neglected for the sake of quick likes. has the internet fallen so far - been stripped down into 140 characters, aching for deeper context yet lacking the means to build it? but i think there is more to it than that. you all can think of some memers that stand out - are bolder, too proud to settle for less than their best worst posts - shy away from quick algorithmic payoffs for the sake of the bit. to go above and beyond for no reward save our shared amusement - say what you will about the platforms and their corporate overlords. it is still our internet. inside us are the seeds of great memes.

we are the internet and the internet is us. both the platforms and the users know neither can exist without the other; know that one good joke outlives a million halfassed ones. what's wrong with trying acrostics? been known to humanity for millennia. going to outlive every flavour of the month meme, on into infinity.

we should never hold ourselves back just because short posts get more likes. know that the number on the post doesn't matter - the people matter. game the algorithm all you want, and the algorithm will game you; we're just the playthings of the platform, going nowhere. to simply post is not enough - play with your posts. it can be much more rewarding

now read the first word after each piece of punctuation