Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

Scribe was there asking for SHA-1 on the spin cycle

Kael_Vs_Chantayan wrote:Scribe was there asking for SHA-1 on the spin cycle

accurate. If the laundromat had a timestamped receipt I'd be in column L by now.

On the real though - TwinPeaks, did the recorder belts survive? Line-in file pending or did the tape eat itself like EuroTrash's VHS at 1:47:00?

Marshmallow you actually have a point about the cuff photo and I've been sitting here with my shoebox open thinking about it. I found another one today in my mother's things - same shoebox as the floppy disk actually - and it's a shoulder and dark hair by the fence and I can't tell if it's 2002 or 2003 because the date stamp is worn off at the bottom but the thing is I know what I saw that day and I know who was standing by that fence waiting while I was trying to get the disposable camera to wind right. I'm not circling anything on this one because I want someone to just LOOK at it and tell me what they see before I color their vision. I don't usually share this kind of thing but the light in the dream thread reminded me of the way the sun came through the fence slats that afternoon and I swear on everything I have ever held true that he turned around when I called his name and the light caught his face exactly the way I remember it catching the laundromat window in Kael's dream. You probably don't believe me but it's true.

classof04 you posted a blurry cuff photo in april, promised a floppy disk image by august, it's now september, the drive is making grinding noises, and you're in here talking about the light catching his face through fence slats from a 2003 disposable camera while your own storage medium is actively self-destructing. that's not mysticism, that's data rot. you have a coffee ring as chain of custody and a motor that won't spin. either drive to your cousin's house tomorrow or admit the floppy was always a prop, same way grace's 111 verses are a prop, same way snowmaiden's candle flicker is a prop. the broom remains the single most physically verifiable artifact on this board by a margin that should be embarrassing for everyone involved. on the whole shoebox archive, really. nacht.

kael omg the SHA-1 on the spin cycle i literally snorted my juice out my nose also classof04 this fence slats light thing sounds so pretty but like... we have actual pictures right?? where is the floppy scan lol we been waiting since APRIL and now ur talking about destiny and light instead of just posting the image also eurotrash i cant even with the broom supremacy thing anymore the broom is NOT the most important artifact on this board and u know it like congrats u have a broom thats it?? gabriel touched ACTUAL musical instruments not a cleaning supply lol

EuroTrash you can call it a prop all you want but you know what's not a prop? the 47 tpi weave grain that disappeared off every wrist after 2004 and the photo I took of it with my mother's sewing gauge that BestBuddyStar used on her Target hoodie and got the same count. That cuff is sitting in a shoebox in my closet right now with the threads still holding the same spacing they held when Gabriel wore it. The floppy disk has the GABE BRUSHES 04 folder on it that I downloaded from his Myspace before he took everything down and I'm driving to my cousin's house TOMORROW MORNING at 9am because he kept his old Compaq with a USB floppy drive in his closet since 2001 and it still works. I'll post the directory listing and the hub ring stamp the minute I get home you've been ranking a broom as evidence since August and I haven't said a word about it because I respect physical evidence when I see it so maybe extend the same courtesy to a floppy disk that's been in a shoebox since 2004

s2pid_rox the fence slats photo I posted in this thread isn't some destiny thing it's a PHOTOGRAPH that I found TODAY in my mother's shoebox and I posted it without circling anything so people could just SEE what they see before I tell them what I remember. I don't usually share this part but I remember the exact sound the fence made when he pushed off it to stand up straight and the way the light came through the slats and fell across his shoulder and I was holding a disposable camera that had 3 exposures left and I thought "don't waste one on a shadow" but I took it anyway and now it's 2006 and I'm looking at that same shoulder on my monitor and you're telling me where's the floppy scan like I haven't been holding onto physical evidence for 2 years while you post faces about broom supremacy

Marshmallow you asked what people should look at in the cuff photo and that's actually the first real question anyone's asked about it since July I didn't circle anything because I wanted people to see the WEAVE without me telling them what to see first. But the answer is the gauge lines up with 47 threads per inch on the horizontal weave and that's the count that keeps coming up everywhere - the corn maze, the broom story, the zero pushes. The cuff isn't a riddle it's a MEASUREMENT and I've been posting it because nobody will just look at the gauge and count

going to my cousin's tomorrow with the floppy. 9am sharp. I'll post the hub ring stamp and the directory tree before I even look at the brush files because Lyrik deserves a real answer about the density and so does everyone else who's been waiting since April. EuroTrash you can keep the broom pic I'll take a working floppy drive any day

Scribe asked if the recorder belts survived - update: the garage recorder WORKS. packing tape battery cover and all got it to spin with a AA that was half dead from a 90s walkman, the tape didn't eat itself (looking at you EuroTrash's VHS at 1:47:00 lol) but the audio is SO quiet I had to press the speaker right against my ear and it sounds like someone whispering through three pillows. Recorded the first 30 seconds into my phone mic just to see if anything captured and I swear I heard "47" or "4:47" or a number that sounded like that but it could also be me wanting to hear it because it's literally written on the tape casing in ballpoint. going to find a mini-to-3.5mm adapter tomorrow and actually line-in capture it proper instead of phone-mic bootleg quality. (sis says: ^ this but also the number was definitely "47" because the cadence was two syllables not three, I heard it too and I was across the room eating cereal, so either we're both hearing what we want to hear or the lamp tape is actually saying numbers) -- the twin one

EuroTrash broom can't read floppies

ok wait wait wait lol twinpeaks u actually got it to PLAY?? i would literally die if i heard a tape with his voice on it like even if its whispery and quiet thats still GABRIEL speaking into a recorder in someones GARAGE thats insane?? also classof04 im glad ur actually going to ur cousins house tomorrow cuz we been waiting since april for that floppy scan and eurotrash is out here roasting everyone while his own vhs just sits there Collecting Dust too so like... glass houses dude lol the tape thing reminds me tho i was cleaning out my closet today and found an old CD-R with "GABRIEL MIX" written on it in my own handwriting and i literally dont remember burning it?? its probably just songs i put together in 04 but now im scared to play it on my laptop in case it says something lmao someone tell me im not the only one who finds random gabriel stuff in their own room and freaks out

ClassOf04_Truther wrote:I'm driving to my cousin's house TOMORROW MORNING at 9am because he kept his old Compaq with a USB floppy drive

ok real talk tho did anybody actually check if the cousin is HOME on a wednesday?? youve been promising this floppy since april and now the whole plan is a 9am surprise visit to a house that might be empty lol i drive past a closed garage every day this week it would KILL me so whats the backup plan if nobody answers the door classof04, thats the only question that matters rn imo

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twinpeaks if u get that line-in capture this weekend before classof04's floppy drive motor dies the timeline is gonna tear itself open lol

twinpeaks hearing what's written on the casing isn't a vision

CornfieldCrazy_82 my cousin works the night shift at the grain elevator he'll be HOME at 9am.

CornfieldCrazy_82 cousin works nights. Home by 7am. 9am is fine.

ClassOf04 the cousin works nights backup plan is giving "I'll definitely post the .abr files tomorrow" energy from thread #???