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note: some of this is disjointed, some of it is just random thoughts. this is just how I like annotating

Title: Hitting on 16 Annotation Dump 

Speaker: "Las Nevadas" as told by c!Wilbur (this is because all of the lines open with "I am" and the last line is "I am turgid Las Nevadas") 

Side Note: throwback to when you had to do those poems in high school/secondary school

Side Note 2: themes of artifice, healing, pain, and corruption?

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First Line: I am the gilding of the gold 

gilding with gold: covering up appearances to look good, hiding (reminds me of Gilded Age) 

gold: power, righteousness, wealth

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Second Line: I am the painting of the lily 

painting: artistic, passionate, 'higher class'/elevated, sophisticated, not real, imitation of the real thing 

lily: purity, death...

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Third Line: I am the crushing of the sand 

crush: violent connotations 

crushing of sand: sand is already crushed. overdoing it? overcompensation? tryhard? grind down to dust? dust = death 

 Side Note: lol sand

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Fourth Line: I am the tirading tide of bland 

tide: ocean = change, purity, vast 

tirade: long angry speech: c!Quackity DID make Las Nevadas as part of his defiant attempt to reclaim agency and power...

bland: c!Wilbur sees all of this and deems it boring... uninspired. tasteless. (which he doesn't actually because he wouldn't have wanted to join if he truly believed this) -> plays into the burger empire, bland food haha

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Fifth Line: I am the taunting silver light which penetrates and scars the sky 

The Needle! Or the Effiel Tower, not sure 

taunting: reminder that c!Wilbur is rejected from Las Nevadas... He can probably see this from the Burger Van. 

silver: pure, holy 

penetrates: occupies his mind.

sky - mind, reminds me of c!Quackity's wings scars: reminds me of c!Quackity's scar... maybe equating Las Nevadas sky to c!Quackity? or maybe c!Quackity is the embodiment of Las Nevadas... also the fact that c!Quackity has his office in the Needle, and he bases his operations in there, so if the scar = the needle then it's like his actions stem from his trauma and pain... (percieved by c!Wilbur?) Additionally, scars are signs of healed over injuries... c!Quackity trying to heal from the past and move on even though it hurts sometimes. But if Las Nevadas is "artificial and fake", does this mean that c!Quackity's healing is fake? (c!Wilbur thinks c!Quackity isn't actually healing?) Alternatively, the light/tower is doing the scarring, so maybe this is hurting c!Quackity rather than helping

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Sixth Line: I am the remnant hopes and dreams of all good men that come to die 

remnant = ghost: relates to "come to die" 

hopes and dreams: c!Quackity wanting a place to belong and call a home/reclaim agency & power 

good men: the corruption of c!Quackity Sadge

come to die: people gamble in hopes of winning it big but just end up in debt, maybe saying that c!Quackity is gambling on Las Nevadas making his dreams (previously stated above) come true, but it will ultimately fail (RUDE)

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Seventh Line: I am the surgeon's chromium dagger 

surgeon: precision, skilled, career with a high percentage of sociopaths, able to ruthlessly do what others can't/maybe saying c!Quackity/Las Nevadas has no empathy. Maybe a callback to the healing in line five?

L'Manburg was made with the intent of being a drug empire and later prioritized being a home, Las Nevadas was made to control the economy on the SMP... maybe c!Wilbur feels like it is heartless in comparison to L'Manburg?  Even though they were both started as financial projects, Las Nevadas is on a very different scale... maybe some jealousy? 

chromium: shiny 

dagger: different connotation from sword, sword is more affiliated with knights and daggers are more associated with thieves = sneaky/cunning

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Eighth (Final) Line: I am turgid Las Nevadas 

turgid: reminds me of turd not gonna lie 

swollen: infection? rotten, corrupted? impure intentions compared to L'Manburg? 

pompous: c!Wilbur thinks it is stuck-up 

Concludes that Las Nevadas has these qualities

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Theory: self-projection by c!Wilbur. Might feel like he is putting on these ideas of grandeur but is actually investing into false hope and grasping at dreams to hold onto. Blandness... being tired... sounds like depression. Taunting light, he wants that healing for himself?  But he recognizes that it is unhealthy... unhealthy coping mechanisms? Jealous maybe? of c!Quackity who seems to have it together and wants that for himself while putting down c!Quackity/Las Nevadas because he wants them on the same level, to be kindred spirits. But he also recognizes that c!Quackity doesn't entirely have it all together, which is why he keeps poking at him to see the ugly, the anger. He doesn't want to be alone in his pain. Misery loves company and he is misery. He wants this shiny exterior to be fake, and to some extent he is correct. c!Quackity is in pain and he is hurting- he's trying to hold on and pull himself together and move on because if he doesn't it'll ruin him. Reminds me of c!Schlatt's ghost in the lore teasers...  c!Wilbur recognizes maybe that Las Nevadas is a place born from trauma and pain, and identifies with it. I am Las Nevadas, born from pain.

extras notes (created march 26th 2022): ADDING TO THE THEME OF ARTIFICE !! the fact that the desert is manmade!

inserted link to the following tweet

https://twitter.com/linktoo_craft/status/1507429054072471560

transcript of the tweet thread by @linktoo_craft (originally created march 25th 2022):

literally will never get over how poetic it is that quackity's las nevadas is an artificial desert

(addition march 26th 2022) The way it was originally a snow biome. Quackity rebuilt it by himself to his own vision of his city as a means to make it his own. It's a fake desert. Nevadas is translated to snow in spanish. Embellished and beautiful in its artificiality, a city of lights.