#secret code

[s-l-martin]

My thoughts on The Beatles’ secret codes circa 2009:

[mister-carnival]

Houdini

[fab-faux]

If the songs = “secret code,” what’s the message?

I was thinking about the recent interview Paul did with “The One Show” (BBC) when he confirmed to the interviewer that the Lennon/McCartney songbook is “the secret code” he’s referring to in the song The Days We Left Behind.

So then I started thinking, if the songs are the code, what are the themes or messages across these songs that they were expressing to each other? And how does that relate to “the promise” mentioned in the same song?

So what do the songs in the Lennon/McCartney catalog really say? One read on the their philosophy might be:

We believed in love.

We believed in friendship.

We believed that ordinary people mattered.

We believed imagination and creativity could change the world.

We believed in each other and what we could do together. (We Two touches on this theme really well)

That’s the broad, public message to the world. And it’s a lovely one! But there may also be a more personal meaning as well.

John and Paul spent years writing songs side by side as teenagers, and later, young men. Many Beatles songs are essentially conversations between them. Even when written for the public, they were often trying to impress, challenge, encourage, or communicate with each other. This doesn’t end with the breakup either because they forged a shared musical language with years of intense partnership so they don’t know how to write in any other way. We see lots of examples of this “John/paul communication via songs” approach during their solo careers.

So when Paul says: “The promise that I made will never be broken”

I interpret that to mean:

I will keep carrying our vision and music forward because the world still needs it

I will will keep telling our personal story because that’s the magic behind the music

I remain loyal to you and what we created together and I will till the end.

Paul has spoken about how he and John promised each other, either implicitly or explicitly, that they were in it together. Not necessarily forever as bandmates, but as creative partners. They were ambitious and they had a long term vision that included both of them. There are a number of interviews where John and Paul state that after the “bubble bursts” they will continue to write songs together for other people. The Beatles and Lennon/McCartney eventually ended but Paul has spent decades preserving and celebrating that love, friendship and partnership with Lennon.

So if I had to reduce the “the code” and “promise” to a single message, it might be:

The things we believed when we wrote those songs are still true to me. And i will carry our shared dream forward till the very end.

…Or maybe not. Who knows, Yoko. I’m sure if we asked Paul what it all means he’d probably say, “I can’t tell you, the answer is in the music. Come inside my mind if you want the truth.”

[residentlesbianthesbian]

steph and cass have developed a code (a lot of it is gestural, but some of it isn't) that only they know, and they use it to talk to just each other in all sorts of situations (esp when they really shouldn't). the rest of the family knows about its existence, but none of them can crack it bc steph and cass are always changing things and adding weird inside jokes to it. steph very intentionally will obviously say something to cass in code in front of the other family members just to make them question if she's talking about them (sometimes she is, but sometimes she's just saying random shit bc it's funny, or even nonsensical things). cass thinks this is very funny, so she always goes along with it. they also use it while doing vigilantism, and if questioned about its existence, they're always like well it's very good for bat stuff.

[theworstbiscet]

HAPPy GAY MoNTH

YOu KNOW CAUSE WE'rE

gAY aND STUFF

AND THANK YOU FOR BEING GAy ANOTHER YEAR!

[i-eat-homeless-people]

calling all stranger things fans!

I recently got the stranger things eggos box and on the back, there is a code which i cant see anyone talking about online

I input all of the letters, which gives you this:

I put the text into multiple ceaser ciphers, and nothing came up. I would LOVE some help from anyone willing!! Thank you!

[unique-plural]

As a Trauma Thing, we've always been obsessed with secret codes — after all, it was one of the only ways we felt we could express ourselves freely at home. (Plus we're obsessed with secret organisations too, so that tracks.)

Nowadays, these codes are an inherent part of our communication. In the physical world, we use them in our notes so we can write in public and avoid being outed as a system. They rely on context only we have — inside jokes; references to personal memories and thoughts. Codes look like long "strings" of letters, symbols and numbers, some of which are words from other languages.

eg:etoP&ndora-d7m11y25 (example: this is a system secret from 7 Nov 2025. "eto" is a transliteration of "this" in Russian and "P&ndora" refers to the myth of Pandora's box; the ampersand signifies that the note is about plurality.) While some parts are easier to decode, it's hard to interpret the plural themes if you're a singlet.

The names of our digital notes are cryptic, but not coded. For example, Kintsugi is about our experiences as a traumagenic system, how society sees the traumatised as "broken", and theories on how the brain adapts to hardship. A file on our desktop called "On Traumatogenesis" would be suspicious; a file called "Kintsugi" is easier to explain away.

We had made our own alphabets when we were younger at school just to write whatever we wanted without others being able to read, and it was typically out of boredom, but that's unrelated to our plurality. Though we might've vented more often in those alphabets to keep it secret.

Maybe some other closeted plurals can relate to using codes and niche references to communicate with each other tho?

-Enber (Multifictive/"Veteran" /@enberneutral)

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[Son Of The Cipher AU]

Andy absolutely hates the idea of turning out like either of his parents, even though he’s so similar to the both of them. But he constantly worries about becoming mad or a monster…

((I hope y’all enjoy this ^^ feel free to leave any questions or drawing requests in my inbox about my gravity falls au, sorry this took a while to post I’ve been busy with my job lol))