issue #2 | text

[survivorsguilt]

so, uh. question for anyone who's reading, i guess. these little picture things that that are in our phones


most of them make total sense to me! the cats are even pretty cute. but can someone please please please explain this


what the fuck am i meant to do with a picture of a can of salt

[Go easy on her, memers of Hadriel.]

Comments

[liveasmyself]

Maybe it's for protection from the monsters. I think some people use salt for that.

I'm not sure what good having it in the phone would do. Perhaps you show it to the monster if you're attacked?

[skelebro]

pretty sure it means irritation at something.

[Buuuuuut your guess is as good as his. These wacky humans and their human culture, right?]

[edibles]

Ignore it. It's pretty stupid.

[iustitiae]

okay remember how you felt when everyone was like "oh my world is worse!! dystopian future sounds like a tuesday!! you don't have it that bad!!"
and you werent like sad
but you were like angry
but also annoyed
angry-annoyed

that bitterness like an old man sitting on his porch complaining but not doing anything about it
knowing youre right but other people are wrong but it's not #worthit to deal with it

all of that is feeling salty
so the emoji is a can of salt to represent feeling salty

its a useful term

[beanstalk]

[ Is there really.... Give him a moment while he looks.

..Yeah, there's a can of salt there. W H Y??? ]

Good question.

[save_theworld]

Maybe it's for cooking.

Or for when you're at the dinner table and you don't want to talk. You can just send someone and they'll pass the salt.

[Are they fucking with her?

Whoooo knows.]

[text]

[thechoiceisyours]

Being salty's like being kind of bitter/pissed off; not like super mad about something, but sullen-mad. It kind of started as a joke to make an emoji for it, but then Em and I decided we totally needed it in this place since like half the population's salty 24/7.

[pellameno]

I'd wondered about that picture too... it didn't seem to fit with the rest. But I've learned something new from these replies, so thank you for asking.

[quacked]

maybe they forgot to add the fries to go with it

[fourthsaken]

other people've got you covered with what it means, but i'm not sure why anyone made it a priority. that's the real question.

[survivorsguilt]

where I come from, the only way to use salt to protect yourself from monsters is maybe to unload some of it into their face via a shotgun. but uh. I guess it's a possibility

[survivorsguilt]

I don't get it. how does salt equal irritation?? aside from like how its sorta irritating ME.

[Right???? Because she's totally not a human. At all. What weirdos.]

[survivorsguilt]

guess I just kinda feel out of the loop

[survivorsguilt]

woah! ok this might actually be useful? what the hell

i'm gonna find that one person and just send them like 50 salt pictures

i mean emojis

[survivorsguilt]

so my friend connor just explained this and i SWEAR its only half as dumb as it looks. its based on slang i guess??

[It's only after she hits send that Ellie realises she's called Connor her friend. Well. That's probably fine, right?]

[skelebro]

correlation don't seem to matter.
human culture sure is fascinating, huh?

[survivorsguilt]

[She can't tell if this kid is being a shithead or oblivious, but it's honestly cute either way.]

so how would you use it for cooking?

what if it's a secret code though?? what if when i send you salt it actually means something else

[text]

[survivorsguilt]

i guess there sure are plenty of reasons to be uh salty in this place

wait so did you guys make all of them??? the emojis I mean

[text]

[thechoiceisyours]

You can definitely say that.

Yeah, Em drew them all and I did the coding to make the program work.

[save_theworld]

[They'll never tell.]

Skeleton At Large, Timmy?

[beanstalk]

What kind of slang uses a can of salt....

[survivorsguilt]

look at that! we both learned something today

...even if it was something kinda dumb

[survivorsguilt]

welllllll, maybe you should make one

[pellameno]

It wasn't the most useful thing I've ever learned, but still, it counts.

Does your world not have phones, either?

[liveasmyself]

Weapons worked on them? With the lingered back home, all you could do was hide from them.