aw. I'm sitting at a bus stop, waiting, and suddenly a group of kindergarten children emerges with their two teachers and joins me at the bus stop. and because it's small and they're children, they just literally surround me (being very curious about my bag and my clothes and whatnot). and the teacher just goes "can you please not surround the nice lady like you're a gaggle of geese please!"
which just made all the kids giggle and make goose sounds. and duck sounds, admittedly. incredibly adorable
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Your last name is a joke. (Scherz means Joke in German)
Hello yes I do in fact know what my own surname means. I am half German by descent and grew up in Switzerland and speak fluent German and lived in Germany for almost ten years and married a German (who for some strange reason didn’t want to take my name 😅).
Try being taken seriously on the phone when they ask who it is and you say anything followed by ‘Scherz’.
Ironically, nobody in my family—as far as I’m aware, and we’ve traced part of our family tree back several centuries—has ever run a joke shop or had any other on-brand occupation.
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online buddy of mine (born in 2004) said “i strongly suspect the vast majority of ‘I'll always remember where I was on 9/11’ stories are not true. I simply don't believe that 75% of people were watching the news live at 8:45 in the morning on a Tuesday when the strangest thing happened.” and like. okay. we can talk about the aftermath in the 22 years since 9/11 and the horrific and evil jingoism that ruined countless lives in decades-long wars all we want. but i cannot overstate enough that 1) we still very much had a monoculture in 2001. most americans would watch either the today show or GMA. 2) as soon as that first plane hit every news station in the country was covering it. schools and businesses and break rooms turned on every tv. every radio. anything that had the ability to broadcast the news. (smartphones weren’t a thing. cell phones and the internet existed but they were new and fragile. unreliable. your best bet was still to sit there and watch. or listen.) and we all sat there and watched the second plane hit and the pentagon hit and the towers collapse and flight 93. so, yes: basically everyone who was alive and old enough to form lasting memories in 2001 remembers that day and the coverage. even people who weren’t near a tv or radio in real time remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. they probably even remember the reason why they didn’t hear about it in real time. i was 5 years old in my first week of first grade and i remember it. it was like. the biggest thing to happen in this country since fucking. pearl harbor. bigger. there’s no need to downplay that.
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"autistic or just homeschooled" gameshow considered "most difficult of all time"
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had my first art school related traumatic experience yesterday
low quality pic but. i wish i could finish this sketch but now it's ruined lmao. whatever it's okay i'm fine it's alright
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You're allowed to dislike children, but you still have to be polite and reasonably kind to random ones around you for the same reason you're passingly polite to random adults in you're daily life: Because they are people
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How do you make art so fast, is it just practice? It seems like you post art weekly or even daily so how??? Fully with line art, colored and rendered? You have to be a wizard
i think it probably is just practice but also
1. i work from home and have no other hobbies and no social life
2. i’m an animator and a webcomic artist so i’m just used to getting stuff down really quickly
also when you just. draw the same guys repeatedly it helps with muscle memory
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