"Everybody move! I have Tourette's, it's about to get messy!" - Samuel Comroe Feel free to ask questions about Tourette I have dubbed myself the Tourette Big Sister, come to my with your worries little siblings
So here’s links to playlists for each of the states, plus Gov, DC, CDC, and Puerto Rico. (PR added 9/29/2022)
The videos are in chronological order of when they’re posted on Ben’s YT. If a state makes a physical appearance, no matter how brief the line, it gets added to their playlist.
Gov’s playlist also includes all the videos where his nametag used to read “DC”. Because he’s still the same character, a representation of the US government. His name just changed when Ben realized that if he was going to add in DC (the District of Columbia) things would get confusing
This is what world destructive weapons look like, be warned ‼️ I think my cat drawing abilities are a little better, but anyways this was just a little silly thing I thought about for like two days, these two are very sweet and fun in my head 😌
Can you draw contortionist Florida doing some real funky pose
TWO posts in a day and answering old asks? It's more likely than you think
Rambling and some HCs under the cut...
I was rewatching the episode "Green Eggs and Banned" and I feel like we're all sleeping on the fact that the first (and only) book Florida could think of was "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I love that about him. Occasionally he gives us glimmers of how smart/nerdy he *actually* is. My favorite Florida HC is that he's actually a genius with an unconventional learning style who has no idea how to apply himself.
...or is this just canon?
Anyway, I figured he would be the type who absolutely CAN'T sit in a "normal" position to do anything. And I also HC him as having been in the circus back in the day (I have a core memory of going to the circus museum in Sarasota as a kid tbh) so he would absolutely be something of a contortionist.
ANYWAY...
After all that, a super shitty comic that I couldn't even be assed to save properly 😂
Texas done took up dogsitting... Aka Alaska realized dogs don't usually get to ride horses and get cool handkerchiefs so he got Texas to give his pup the experience 🐶 Texas gotta be so goober over the dogs, gets them little cowboys gifts but refuses to admit he's so silly about them. Alaska's like pick one and go with it, damn
They’re gossip girl best friends honestly 😌 I’ve always wanted to draw these two in particular in a suit (Hawai’i) and a dress (Alaska) but I just simply never done it; this is just a little sketch cuz I can’t focus at all today due to reasons and things tho 💋 these two are duo that should be talked about more tho 🙄 did you know there were also native Hawaiians at Fort Ross to?? Alaska Cali and Hawaii trio is real
AND a really nerdy rant about a subject I'm passionate about (land surveying.)
...I know. I know. Hear me out here...
So while y'all are over here freaking about Gov's secret family I'm here cracking up at Tennessee describing his boundaries.
So my literal job irl involves land surveying and the description of Tenn's borders is not even an exaggeration for how completely fucked old land descriptions can be.
It's a historic European-influenced survey system called "metes and bounds" which relies on physical landmarks and--sometimes--local lore to describe boundaries.
[On TN's border with Mississippi]: "Okay, so you're going to go exactly 26 chains and ten lengths north of the Thompson's line, and..."
[On the border with Georgia]: Tenn: "So there's this rock, right? ...it's two feet high, four inches thick, and fifteen inches broad. You got to start there, then you got to find the sort of middle of the near town... and go near the top of the mountain nearby. And then you got to find where Georgia and Alabama allegedly meet. Oh wait a sec? Do you even know where John and David live? You're going to need to know that!"
That's the shit I deal with all the time in my job. 😂 it's not even an exaggeration: that's literally how they're written.
They replaced the metes and bounds system with the public land survey system, which divides the rest of the country into a rectangular grid. It's *slightly* less fucked but as you can imagine, drawing a 2D grid on terrain that's NOT at all flat is going to result in interesting and weird errors!
Map of the public land survey states and non-PLS states because I'm completely feral for this shit:
Colored states are PLS (rectangular grid) and white states have a different system. Most of the OG13 colonies (and Tennessee obvs) use the old metes and bounds system and most of the west (with one notable exception *coughTexascough*) use the rectangular grid.
Texas was surveyed by Spain and then Mexico first so they have their own system (because of course they do). So was the rest of the Southwest so there's massive Spanish land grants that the US grid just kinda... incorporated 😂
BUT long story short. If you look at an aerial view of like, North Dakota, you get THIS:
It's squares!!!!
This was how it was *supposed* to work.
But in places like Nevada that have mountains it's more like
There are lots of places where they were just like "fuck walking through this desert; let's guesstimate."
I definitely overthought this to make this work in my head 😂
It's Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, a celebration of the chonkiest grizzly bears.
California feels a bit left out of the festivities because he doesn't have any grizzly bears (whose fault is that, Cali?) and black bears don't get nearly as chomky.
Sometimes you gotta pick a cat up just to set them back down somewhere nearby. Remind them who calls the shots in your house. Oh you thought you were lying on the floor? Dead wrong fool you're standing on the couch cushion now staring up at me waiting for an explanation. You'll never get it. I'm gone. I'm walking away. I'm already in the next room before you can so much as mutter a confused "meow." later son. you're reexamining your place in the universe all by yourself. Consider my power in a empty living room
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