Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf – it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” – meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.
Another good post to read for those writing small human characters.
My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.
My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.
the hs characters as the mcdonalds meme (u know the one)
aradia: immediately pulls into mcdonalds to get these kids their food, almost crashes the car doing it, buys ice cream for everybody. after all, she d0esn’t see any reas0n n0t t0!
Tavros: joins in the chanting after about two seconds, buys a happy meal for himself as well and is very content with this development. mCDONALDS IS DELICOUS AND NOT BUYING IT WOULD BE SORT OF SILLY BECAUSE,,, wHY WOULDN’T YOU WANT ANY,,, iT’S MCDONALDS, FOOLS
Sollux: buys a black coffee and a very greasy burger for himself and nothing for anyone else (because 2piite ii2 a powerful motiivator). also gets a transformer toy so he can complain about how poorly it’s made and how randomly gendered mcdonalds is. Seriously what about transformers iindiicate2 that iit 2hould be for a boy Ii don’t under2tand??
Karkat: complains about it the whole time and acts like he’s not gonna get anybody food, but gives in very easily and buys the whole gang mcdonalds while griping about how THIS IS A CAR FULL OF UNGRATEFUL BRATS AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES, ASHAMED!
nepeta: buys the mcdonalds and roleplays as a fierce lioness hunting food for her cubs. hisses at the person at the drive through when they :33 < give us ketchup instead of sw33t and sour sauce!! how dare
Kanaya: is conflicted for about a second before joining in the chants enthusiastically. Rose Dont Be Ridiculous We Are Going To McDonalds. It Is Delicious And Oddly Crunchy And You Dont Want To Let Us Down Do You Rose? also buys an ice cream cone for herself bcause it looked very tasty and she just couldn’t resist.
Terezi: buys mcdonalds, gets about thirty different kinds of burgers just for her and Vriska. doodles on the napkins in ketchup and manages to get a fifty percent discount by trolling the manager. WH4T 4 COOL 4UNT SH3 1S!
Vriska: almost refuses to get mcdonalds bcause we don’t have time for this Terezi!!!!!!!! we are 8USY and we have food at home so there’s no need for this 8ull! No8ody even LIKES McDonalds anyway. eventually gives in to Terezi’s chanting and you’re lucky I love you 8a8e! eats about thirty burgers anyways. they just taste soooooooo good it’s not her fault!!!
Equius: bickers with nepeta for about fifteen minutes, D—> We have food at home this is 100dicrous. buys a childrens toy so he can mess with it later
Gamzee (pre-sburb bcause sober Gamzee doesn’t get to be in this post): joins in the chants and buys three happy meals. Not one. Not two. Three. almost gets arrested, twice. Karkat’s yelling at him about how he could’ve been THROWN IN JAIL, FOR GODS SAKE and he is LUCKY I WAS THERE TO BAIL YOUR GOOFY CLOWN RUMPUS OUT YET AGAIN! man, he thinks, karbro really needs to chill out. sure he cOuLdVe BeEn ToSsEd In ThE sLaMmEr but he WaSnT, wAs He?
Eridan: is a pompous jerk and refuses to go. pulls into Starbucks instead, orders coffee and says, see isn’t this just better. We’re kids, say the kids. We’d rather have mcdonalds. He ignores them.
Feferi: buys everyone happy meals while cheering MCDONALDS MCDONALDS MCDONALDS and tips the empolyees like, seventy dollars. can u tip the empolyees at mcdonalds I don’t remember how it works. oh well, it doesn’t matter if u can or not. Feferi does anyways. she also doesn’t listen to the kids when they say they didn’t get the right kind of sauce. Now now, c)(ildren! B-E )(APPY WIT)( W)(AT YOU )(AV-E!! >38/
yea. its the punchline of a joke thats been going since daves introduction. dave is terrified that cal is alive and watching him, but of course the readers know thats not possible, its just daves bro using cal to psychologically torment him. but then later its revealed thats not true, cal WAS actually alive and stalking dave. and finally it turns out that no, it was actually daves bro the whole time, persisting as a splinter and a fragment of the english-amalgamation living inside the doll
I was gonna do my laundry but when I turned the corner and saw this on the ground I stopped what I was doing and decided to make a snapchat story of science (I’m @thescalex on snapchat, if you want my username)
*cue Charlie Brown soundtrack of kids cheering*
There’s your science for the day. Go try it out for yourself!
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