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{{quote|''Some officer, or agent, or whatever you want to call the uniform, came by and tried to question me today.
''I was "on my way to work" - he said they'll gladly be back soon.
''I'm starting to feel sick again. I probably shouldn't have gotten rid of all my medicine.
''{{spoiler|I shouldn't have made friends.}}'' }}
[[Can You See the Words]] is a Tumblr blog. It's initially a weird collection of literature quotes, photographs, and links to songs--all dealing with {{spoiler|water}}, rain, and {{spoiler|flood}}s. The writer begins alluding to some kind of problem bothering her and linking to songs about, say, monsters, or being stalked. After this it segues into a somewhat more orthodox personal blog, and the writer is revealed to be a female art student who has suddenly transferred from the Alabama School of Fine Arts to Princeton. Whatever that problem is, it persists, however, and she's been seeing a doctor and taking drugs to deal with "trauma". She refuses to elaborate on her ordeal, [[Speak of the Devil|insisting it would only make things worse]] and that she doesn't want any newcomers getting sucked in on her conscience. All the while, readers continue to pry about the paintings visible on her webcam videos--[[The Slender Man Mythos|one of a foggy wood, another of a pale-faced man in a tie and shirt...]]
It eventually comes to light that the writer is connected to another group of people with the same problem--she's friends with the girlfriend of one of the three creators of a [[Everyman HYBRID|YouTube fitness series]]. And to make matters worse, she's gone missing...
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Start reading at [http://canyouseethewords.tumblr.com/archive the bottom-most and right-most entry of the archive page] (titled "From the Book of Genesis"), and read your way back from that oldest post by going right-to-left, top-to-bottom; trying to read by navigation from post to post will skip a few embedded Tumblr videos and slide shows (stupid, stupid Tumblr). Once you're past the [http://canyouseethewords.tumblr.com/post/727606551 second Tumblr video] and the [http://canyouseethewords.tumblr.com/post/730130869/for-you-since-youre-all-curiouser-and-curiouser slide show] (June 23rd and 24th) you can resume using normal navigation without missing any plot-important stuff. And by "normal navigation" we mean "press the 'previous-post' link to look at the next-newest post", because this is Tumblr.
See more words at her [http://twitter.com/youseethewords Twitter account] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726081705/http://canyouseethewords.tumblr.com/ask ask if you can help her/yourself/them/us.]
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* [[Alternate Reality Game]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: One of the posters ("blackandyellowandred") asks [in Russian]: "How does he see without eyes? How does he breathe with no mouth? He is. He waits. We're all dead." Her response? [also in Russian]: "Ashes, ashes. We all fall down."
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