Offtides

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Offtides

adj.
beginning to suspect that you’re living in a bizarre alternate reality, as if you had stumbled into a shimmering “What if?” thought bubble that somehow kept going, episode after episode.

After off, the state of being not quite normal or sane + offsides, a sports offense in which you find yourself on the wrong side at the wrong moment + tides, the normal ebb and flow of time.

Apolytus

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Aesthosis

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Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Trumspringa

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Loss Of Backing

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Fitzcarraldo

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