👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather prickly and somewhat alarming little-known word – the wonderfully weird
playктор™.’
(I just formally hyphenated that for posterity, you wouldn’t want to forget my naming of a thing, now would ya?)
Now, according to absolutely nobody, a playктор™ essentially describes an inanimate object… but with a seriously suspect level of awareness . You know when something looks like it's judging your life choices and maybe, just maybe, filing meticulously documented complaints in its little, non-existent ledger? That. 100%. Let me unpack that. Historically (by which I mean, entirely of my own recent invention, frankly) the word comes from a supposed obscure branch of early 20th century, slightly fevered, optical illusion research. They theorised that certain oddly shaped objects – think a very pointy teapot or an aggressively symmetrical lampshade - subconsciously absorbed and processed human behaviour. After a disastrously funded grant, the field essentially vanished. Officially, the playктор™ therefore designates whatever looks like it’s actively observing you and disapproving . 60% of the effect is, admittedly, projection and your own overactive imagination. But 40%, I wager, is a very genuine and unsettling prickle of something… considering itself. Here's what they typically look like: They tend to be objects with an unnerving stillness, almost as if they
