17776 - Blog Posts
are you
older than you favourite fictional character
younger than them
the same age
idk if they’re older or younger than me
i don’t have a favourite fictional character/results
juice he4dc4nons??
im not really great at headcanons 😭😭 i guess the closest thing would be that i think juice would be good friends with spigot from bonequest/jerkcity. maybe even friends with everyone from bonequest/jerkcity.
17776 is like, the best ever
question: do you know what 17776 is
...yes?? the web thing by jon bois
i in fact made this blog because i know what 17776 is
can you imagine. 17776 but instead of juice we get. jimo. jim-o. jim
Mmmm. 17776 might be one of the few utopian pieces of fiction I can actually see as beautiful and a world I wouldn’t mind living in. I think it’s because tragedy exists within it. And it’s mundane tragedy and also tragedy that is physically incomprehensible to us, who WILL die one day, but very much emotionally comprehensible because it stretches out tragedy’s scope and bounds and who can be considered tragic (the sunken city of New York, where everyone survived but the city is still gone. The lightbulb which stayed on for hundreds of years. The concept of being in love and having to be away from each other for 100 years, even though you are quite literally immortal.) like taffy . And still joy exists, and joy- mundane, pleasant, playful joy- is the force pushing continued existence, pushing the sentience of space probes, pushing the desire for us to pointlessly, happily, play
gonna start describing 17776 to friends as "big football"
maybe even big football and the sentient robots
ok reposting this here on my 17776 dedicated blog
i genuinely wanna make like a 17776 version of golf now
like golf but its crazy huge and has weird rules
i might make a computer game for it but thatd like suck to fully develop
maybe ill use google map data to procedurally generate a world
i could also like spend months making a map generator but i dont fell like that jaja
easiest method would be to make like a topdown golf like in 8- and 16-bit games
big golf coming
Genius fucking idea right here
ok so im putting together a video essay and ive been rereading 17776 and 20020 for it and i just got the best idea
so an online football videogame where each person is a player and yall all got proximity chat and stuff and its like football
like theres a ball and you gotta like run it and get to the goals n shit
but each player is an individual human and the field is really fucking long
there should probably be obstacles too just so you arent running through miles of nothingness
but basically every day you and the GANG have a 1 hour schuduled long football time where you play the football one hour
and then do the same thing next day
idk how many players youd need and get rid of all of the stupid football rules and make it simple n shit so you don't have to really worry about stupid stuff but mainly just runball
but long too
its like 17776 irl
i want it
sorry its late and i cant sleep
oh yeah and if you havent read 17776 or 20020, first, this is american football but actualy euro football would work too. and second, READ 17776 AND 20020 ITS SO GOOD
ight so, being a genuine football fan as well as a 17776 fan is pretty weird right...not to mention it's getting pretty close to the time where we're all gonna be immortal supposedly (2026 hehe) so seeing some of these stats is interesting.
according to this paragraph here, the cleveland browns had a 3-15 score in 2026 right. pretty fucking bad right?
well. the score ain't even a joke now. IN THE 2024-2025 SEASON. THEY HAD STANDINGS OF 3-14. ALMOST THE SAME. FUCKING. SCORE.
I CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP. ITS ACTUALLY HILARIOUS. I HATE TO WISH ON A TEAMS DOWNFALL (esp one that belongs to the literal state i live in cuz i live in ohio but yk im a bengals fan anyways so what does it matter...) BUT LIKE FUCK. IF THEY GOT 3-15 SOMEHOW NEXT SEASON OH MY LORRDDD.....god we can only hope.
do you think NASA’s clipper likes football?
hey it's me jon bois i got logged out of my account if u could paypal me 20000$ so I can finish 20021 that would be great
Wanna watch some football?
I gave nine two colors bc I was using the space craft and the text color from the narrative :,]
Follow up to the previous post-
I'm very proud of this edit, and I hope y'all enjoy it too
Not sure why timing is off on here but oh well
This one is mostly abt commisioner Juice and I LOVE HOW THE LYRICS WORK OUTT AH
Something is terribly wrong.
been rereading 17776 with an online book group, and it truly is a masterpiece. i don’t think it would ever work as well as a print book, but i wanted to give making the cover a go!
[ID: A digitally illustrated cover for "17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future" by Jon Bois. The title "17776" is written vertically over a football which a pair of dark-skinned hands is holding out, and the overlap of the numbers and football is colored in swirling blue with red, green, and yellow accents. Above the hands float the satellite forms of Nine, Ten, and Juice in space. End ID]
Salmon Run
A HEFTY VOICE MESSAGE FROM LOUISE CARRIGAN TO HER WIFE, ANNE DAVIS, FALL 17770.
Immortality’s a funny thing. I think—I think I forgot how to struggle. Before us, I mean. You know, back home in Alaska. Yeah, of course there was always some kinda crap, but mostly it was the same stuff day-in-day-out. I’d go to work in the morning and leave work in the afternoon. My job was important, sure, but I’d been doing it so long it just felt like busywork. The day I got my position, though, it felt good. That was what, almost sixteen thousand years ago? Way before we met...
Isn’t that crazy? I lived almost a hundred and sixty lifetimes before I met you.
It definitely didn’t feel like it.
Anyways, on with the message—sorry, this one’s gonna be a devil to listen to. Tell your brother I say hi, by the way! I’m only about 9 hours to Asheville now. Might be a tad more, ‘cause the truck tire just popped. You know, it was just some nail lying about on the road. And the thing is, the roads here are real nice!
ANYWAYS, for real this time, I was finally doing something to give back to the environment. Lord, we really fucked everything up. When I took the job, the chinook runs were really bad. I mean, so many of those salmon were dying during the run or before the run and it was just hell at the fishery. It got better, of course. It all got better, but then there wasn’t this constant stress anymore. After a while they were fine. Still needed management, but it wasn’t as crazy as it used to be. No more fighting with the fishermen ‘cause they didn’t live off of it, you know. Most of the people who fished then were just hobbyists and families—didn’t need much management then. So I went to work and I picked up any book I had lying around the house. This was before I went to college for the first time, so it was just everything I had from high school.
So I started reading Catcher in the Rye, you know, with Holden Caulfield and that hunting hat of his? And I was reading it at work and he said something that kinda snapped me out of everything. He said, “mothers are all slightly insane.” And you know what, that really got me thinking. My mom had been gone a while and I’d been at peace with it a while, too. There were hard days and there will always be hard days, but what I really missed was something she used to do when I was in high school. You know how much of a shit I was then, I took nothing seriously, and you know, she’d always tell me, “God’s watching, Louise.” It wasn’t in too serious a tone, but man, she said it all the damn time. And whenever I fumble one of your absolute dimes, I hear her in my head, going “God’s watching, Louise.” And she had that real thick Appalachian accent too—if you thought mine was bad, you shoulda met her. And I’d tell her right back, “Oh I know he’s watching. Bet he’s cracking up watching me stumble ‘cross the field.”
Anyways, back then when I worked at the fishery, I never did anything that would make her say that. Nothing that was crucial—you know, critical, in-the-moment stuff that God would wanna be watching. I had so much time there. I still have so much time here. And so one day I went out to one of the rivers and I looked at all the salmon, swimming upstream and strugglin’ forever against the current. And I said to myself, I wanna do that. I wanna feel anxious again. I wanna be embarrassed again. I want to trip over my own shoelaces in the middle of the big game.
And it’s kinda funny, cause after that happens, you’re like, “good Lord Above, I never wanna experience that ever again.” But it’s a lie, cause when things get too good, then they’re not good anymore, you know? And I guess that why we do it. Why I keep going back to college even though school’s always my least favorite thing in the whole wide world. And why I keep trying new sports even though the only one I’m good at is that damned football. Hey, I mean, hockey’s fun, but Christ am I a crap skater.
And I guess most important, it’s how I met you—Lord do I remember that! Spillin’ my water and all that fuss. Damn near our whole relationship was swimming upstream, you know that? But shit if it wasn’t worth it. Everything was worth it. I mean, I’ll probably use that radiochemistry knowledge somewhere…
Well, I don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore. I was just thinking and didn’t want to forget anything. But now I’m rambling again. Sorry bout that. Now this thing’s gonna be like an hour long. I’ve gotta quit while I’m ahead. Love you, babe. See you tomorrow.
This damn football bs won't leave my mind
Got soooo many 17776 things that i'm thinking about. Finally drew Louise's wife, Anne. She's a QB from Asheville, NC. They met while playing for Washington and have been married for 3600+ years (as of 20020).
P.S.: I'm working on a website for all my 17776 lore and art stuff. Gonna release it as soon as i'm done!
Lore details about some games below the cut cause it's kinda beefy
About the Arcade League:
It's a league i created that focuses on National Park Games as well as fast-paced exciting events. Very nature centered. In the lore, it was thought up by Louise after watching her wife compete in the 17850 Smoky Bowl (see my other post for the flyer). More info about this will be on the website!
On the new games!
Mammoth Cave NP Game idea suggested by @cloudyishdays! I kinda went crazy about this concept and so at the moment i'm writing a rule book for the game. In its current iteration it's a two-team (Bass vs Cardinals) possession game (sort of like Halo's oddball). I'm still sorting out a couple of rules. The full edition will be on the website i'm working on.
Both Louise and Anne compete for the Bass in the MCG!
Joshua Tree NP game idea suggested by @rollerb1rdie (good god. i realized my mistake after like two months. i'm sorry omg!!) I was so excited when i saw the suggestion in the tags since one of my favorite musical artists got illegally partially cremated there (gram parsons!!!!!!!!). Did some research and the date of the start of the Joshua Tree Game is August 10, 19360! over 17,000 years to the day of JTNP's creation on Aug 10th, 1936.
On my next idea:
I'm thinking about a football game on Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. The game would initially be on the Pontchartrain Causeway bridge but when the ball inevitably goes out of bounds it would commence a second game on the actual lake (which will involve speedboats)..
Sooo that's my yap for today.... more coming
More Louise 17776!
yes the first graphic is based on the blues traveler song... whenever i hear it it reminds me of game 96249 and then i get to thinking about Louise again
+ Delivering on the NC flyer. Save the date!!!
(mountain images i used r all under cc)
Got into 17776 and just finished 20020. My mind is buzzing. so i made an oc. I love nothing if not sports
A bunch of stuff ft. Louise and a little flyer i made for my made up Alaskan all stars series.. North Carolina coming next cause i gotta represent my state ✊
here they all are!
pioneer 9 patch i made for my pants! im currently working on 10, and JUICE is next.
pioneer 9 patch i made for my pants! im currently working on 10, and JUICE is next.
HI i bet youve seen these images before…
i just wanted to i just wanted to just wanted to draw the the silly and practice at same time
the 2 photo of the cool football/jupiter duo you probably already have saved r maybe underneath???(just in case)
