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Who is ‘the stupid one’?
I was looking at #thehaventhreads hashtag on twitter again tonight, when I saw a new account (the stupid one @thehandyouheld) pop up and go off with a whole thread responding to them as if they were the one the messages were written for.
I know this isn’t the first time something like this has happened, but usually they show up right after a new set of @RedRiot haven messages are posted. Not, like, a random day in the summer.
And…I don’t know. They seem legit? Maybe because they allude to things that are in the threads but, like, vaguely? They aren’t going out of their way to spell out what things mean in a ‘look at me being clever’ sort of way.
Anyway, did anyone else see this? I’d love to get others’ thoughts.
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haveninsidr • 10h ago
I wanna to believe there’s something to it. I really do. But if I’m honest, I think it’s because the wording SOUNDS like Bakugou. And at the end of the day, that’s all really want, isn’t it? For DynaRiot to be real?
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dyriot_luvrs • 9h ago
No fr. But also!!! Bakugou (if it’s Bakugou) (PLEASE be Bakugou) sounds like he wants to reconcile. So like, if this IS legit, then not only WAS DynaRiot real, but it might be real again????!!!!
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gummygator • 9h ago
The mac and cheese! 😂 Seriously! What is with the mac and cheese?
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kathycurated • 8h ago
Did anyone else notice the line about being worthy of it? Because Riot posted something just like that yesterday. Haven’t seen any good answers from RiotWatch about that one yet, but it’s got to mean something, doesn’t it?
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pinkyriot37 • 7h ago
I know you all want this to be real, but look at your calendars. Someone’s just drumming up extra publicity ‘cause that gala thing’s tonight.
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grouchycumulus • 6h ago
I’ve copied @thehandyouheld’s new thread, and pasted it here along with each of the the original Haven Threads that it seems to be referencing.
Personally, I also think the level of both detail and ambiguity make it FEEL legit, but then again, we’ve been burned before…
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the stupid one @thehandyouheld
Listen up, @RedRiot, you bastard. You gonna tweet about me? Then you’re gonna get a response.
Fuck, I don’t even know where to begin. #thehaventhreads?? Since when did you even read LOTR?
So. Five years of messages, huh? Five. And you never once thought of saying them to my face? Well, right back at you then.
RedRiot @RedRiot (5 years ago)
I was really angry wth you for a while.
I guess i stll am.
You went where i coudn’t follow.
Heh.Get it? You used to say i was your Sam.
So i probalby should have expected it, huh? THe foreshadowing was there, in those books you loved so much.The havens were alwasy calling you. Of course you were gonna sail. You were always gonnna leave me behind.
I knew it would end this way. Do you remember? I tried to tell you to leave it alone.
Told you i didn’t get to decide.
You said that I did.
You lied.
YOu asked me to be stupid with you.
I guess I was.
the stupid one @thehandyouheld
FIVE.
There’s too much to say. Too much I wanna fight. Like the fact you think I’M the one who did the leaving. Like the fact you fucking posted that on fucking twitter.
But then again, I AM the stupid one.
Like you said.
Must be, since it took me this long to find those fucking threads.
But I have now.
And yeah, there’s a lot I wanna say, but in the end it all boils down to this.
I’m sorry.
I never wanted to leave.
RedRiot @RedRiot (4 years ago)
Maybe all I can control are my own actions, but that means I have to own them as well. It took me too long to realize that I did have a choice. And I made it.
I stayed on the shore.
the stupid one @thehandyouheld
FOUR.
Took me a while, too. Took me way too damn long.
RedRiot @RedRiot (3 years ago)
I’m looking at the stars tonight, remembering that night.
I’m glad I didn’t look at them then, the way I’d planned. I’m glad we stayed right where we were.
It was an infinitely better view.
the stupid one @thehandyouheld
THREE.
Now this is where I have to absolutely have to disagree with you, Riot.
The best view was mine.
RedRiot @RedRiot (2 years ago)
We said a lot of things. I can’t remember them all. Stuff about the cabin, and a dog, and macaroni and cheese.
Props that didn’t matter.But we said some other things, too. Things that mattered a lot, to me at least.
I meant every word.I still do.
the stupid one @thehandyouheld
TWO
Are you seriously still hung up on the mac and cheese?
RedRiot @RedRiot (1 year ago)
Maybe I was right to have expected it.
Maybe the foreshadowing was there.
But even if the havens were always gonna take you, I can’t regret it. Not anymore.Because it was my favorite thing, being stupid with you.
the stupid one @thehandyouheld
ONE
You’re killing me, you know that?
Your words look too much like a hand in the dark.
I wanna take it.
I wanna ask the question again.
I wanna ask all the questions that matter.
But let’s be honest, I’m too afraid. That’s why I’m hiding behind a username. Why I’m tweeting at you instead of talking to you.
I was scared last time, too. You remember? I only asked questions. Made you say the words. You’ve always been braver than me. So yeah, you’re fucking worthy of it.
But I still can’t help but wonder.
What would happen if I was brave for a change?
If I asked again.
If I told you how I really felt.
What would you say?
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