Kinda ad hoc

I occasionally draw things.

[mrsplitfoot]

In the USA next month for a couple of weeks. Anyone know what’s good to do in Denver? :OO

[mrsplitfoot]

I’m still trying to decide whether I look bored or psychopathic when I’m doin’ sports. 

[zoneofendos]

Remember tegaki and when we drew on each other’s avatars and “about me” pages?

@mrsplitfoot, @scarfarmed, winny where ever you are~, @orlofsky i think you make an appearance in some, @chubbyalien, chi and brother coffee pop up, and a few others I don’t quite recognize.

[scarfarms]

Legit one of the bestest best things on Tegaki, it’s so nice to see so many in one place! I wonder if I saved any others…

[zoneofendos]

When TE was being shut down, I went on a mission to save a lot of Tegwarts related posts (not just mine?). One of these days I’ll rummage through my unorganized archive and see what I can find to share!

[mynameisimmaterial]

This was so cool

[mrsplitfoot]

Oh man the memories

[vintar]

i was at the zoo and just kind of vagueing out leaning on a rail and watching the duck pond and in the background a kid started yelling “he’s coming for you! he’s coming for you!!” and i thought it was some game she was playing with her family or something up until i felt a little hand grab my elbow and looked down to see this tiny wide-eyed child staring up at me with the world’s most serious expression and she said in a solemn voice

“he’s here for you”

and something reached out and grabbed my other hand

it turns out that a resident cockatoo has figured out that if it just waddles back and forth along the rail it can get the maximum amount of attention and headskritches with the minimum amount of flying and objectively this is very cute but at the same time this was very nearly the way that a grown adult died of a heart attack at the zoo

[vintar]

# wait wtf is that the bird from the adelaide zoo??? # I CAN’T BELIEVE THERE’S A POST ABOUT MY SWORN ENEMY # he literally chases after you if you ignore him fck that guy holyshti

lmao yep that’s the one!

i love bird tumblr so much, where else could you go “hey look at this bird” and have a complete stranger not only know where it lives, but declare that it’s their nemesis

[mrsplitfoot]

I have been to Adelaide for all of 3 days and I too have scritched this bird

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Throwback to the time my poor German teacher had to explain the concept of formal and informal pronouns to a class full of Australians and everyone was scandalised and loudly complained “why can’t I treat everyone the same?” “I don’t want to be a Sie!” “but being friendly is respectful!” “wouldn’t using ‘du’ just show I like them?” until one guy conceded “I suppose maybe I’d use Sie with someone like the prime minister, if he weren’t such a cunt” and my teacher ended up with her head in her hands saying “you are all banned from using du until I can trust you”

[deflare]

God help Japanese teachers in Australia.

[languageoclock]

if this isnt an accurate representation of australia idk what is

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me. 

Australians could not be trusted with a language with ingrained tiers of formal address. The most formal forms would immediately become synonyms for ‘go fuck yourself’ and if you weren’t using the most informal version possible within three sentences of meeting someone they’d take it to mean you hated them.

[hollowedskin]

100% true.

the difference between “‘scuse me” and “excuse me” is a fistfight

[fozmeadows]

See also: the Australian habit of insulting people by way of showing affection, which other English-speakers also do, but not in a context where deescalating the spoken invective actively increases the degree of offence intended, particularly if you’ve just been affectionately-insulting with someone else.

By which I mean: if you’ve just called your best mate an absolute dickhead, you can’t then call a hated politician something that’s (technically) worse, like a total fuckwit, because that would imply either that you were really insulting your mate or that you like the politician. Instead, you have to use a milder epithet, like bastard, to convey your seething hatred for the second person. But if your opening conversational gambit is slagging someone off, then it’s acceptable to go big (”The PM’s a total cockstain!”) at the outset.

Also note that different modifiers radically change the meaning of particular insults. Case in point: calling someone a fuckin’ cunt is a deadly insult, calling someone a mad cunt is a compliment, and calling someone a fuckin’ mad cunt means you’re literally in awe of them. Because STRAYA. 

[mrsplitfoot]

I'm pretty chuffed that my club was a part of this. Beat transphobic rules / insurance regulations by calling them out on their bullshit.

[mrsplitfoot]

As Dave put it, Peter is now a Yu-Gi-Oh playing Pokemon Go.

[mrsplitfoot]

That feel when you verse one of the best coed derby teams in Australia and win a mvp (・ω・)ノ

[prince-vegeta]

*doesnt talk to tumblr friends for 6 months*

*thinks about them and hopes they are okey dokie*

[mrsplitfoot]

Looking through old photobooth pics and this popped up.

Simpler times.

[mrsplitfoot]

I made dango coz I’m a weeb who got cravings after seeing people eat it in my animus

[awildmareep]

Kit or a recipe o: ? Sometimes I just want to eat mochiii

[mrsplitfoot]

Recipe! 100g each of rice flour and glutinous rice flour, 2/3 a cup of water and 2 teaspoons of sugar for the mochi. This one is mitarashi dango so not very sweet - the recipe is probably different depending on what you're making. :u

Managed to get all the ingredients from Coles, though had to substitute katakuriko/potato starch for tapioca starch since for some reason Coles has corn and potato flour but not starch?? Madness.

[mrsplitfoot]

I made dango coz I'm a weeb who got cravings after seeing people eat it in my animus

[mrsplitfoot]

For that six selfies of 2015 thing. I had about seven to chose from, some of which have already shown up here. 1. Just prior to haircut 2. Mysterious eye blood thing?? Still dunno what that was about 3. Peach and I on zoo date. DATING START 4. At work, being the dirt lord 5. In Japan, having just climbed a little mountain thing to get to a monkey sanctuary 6. Today! :) I won't tag but it'd be neat to see everyone else's

[mrsplitfoot]

Many thanks to the guy who decided to walk backwards up the steep, narrow ramp down today, who freaked me out and made me brake hard enough to throw me over my handlebars. Top job.

[mrsplitfoot]

This is the kind of thing I wanted to find in Japan.

[mrsplitfoot]

I joined a roller derby team recently, but can’t think of a name for myself weh

Halp

[mrsplitfoot]

Some ideas so far: any strike you as good? :UU Hurly-burly/ Shirley burly Shock n ore Kerscuffle Em-faseema (or some spelling variation thereof. My brother suggested it, along with the idea of coming onto the track wheezing)

I liked the idea of doing Lucy goosey but someone in America has taken it :(

[mrsplitfoot]

Scratch that, they just ended up dubbing me beepity boop.

[mrsplitfoot]

I joined a roller derby team recently, but can’t think of a name for myself weh

Halp

[mrsplitfoot]

Some ideas so far: any strike you as good? :UU Hurly-burly/ Shirley burly Shock n ore Kerscuffle Em-faseema (or some spelling variation thereof. My brother suggested it, along with the idea of coming onto the track wheezing)

I liked the idea of doing Lucy goosey but someone in America has taken it :(