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I got a great response to part one of AETU, and it was really encouraging having that many people praise it and wanting it to continue.

Someone commented that this would make a killer XCOM style game which made me happy as a big fan of the franchise.

These are the storyboards for part 2 of Association Experimental Tactics Unit

usernamedgaia

I was working for big corpo when I got my brain injury. A lot of things changed but what I didn’t think about was how it would affect my art. Fortunately my drawing ability didn’t suffer too much, but my ability to write was damaged to a degree that it took me about 15 minutes to write this sentence.

Writing used to come so easily for me, but I was determined to make the project I had been working on a reality, despite the brain trauma. So I wrote what I could, slowly. Very slowly.

Eventually I had enough written for a few pages. I have difficulty parsing information, and I can’t really tell if what I’m writing makes any sense unless I receive confirmation from an outside source. So I went online to get feedback. I got back one of the best comments I’ve ever read.

”I know a brain injury is a very frustrating thing--needing to relearn a skill you had before and being forced to do it in a new way is incredibly difficult and sometimes scary. But I think working on this sort of thing will help that process a lot. Even if your new writing has a slightly different voice or a different feel than your old writing, you can develop that voice and make it into something just as effective.”

There was more to the comment, but this section in particular was something I needed to hear at the time. It gave me the hope that I could continue, and possibly recover a little of what I lost. And even if I can’t, I can still use what I have to make the things, despite knowing they’re different than how things used to be.

With that said, here are the story boards for the opening of AETU

ozempicofficial

girlnephew

monidoll

Tip: you can microwave stale croissant for 15-20 seconds and it will become soft and warm and nice. Cut it open, put butter in it. Peace and love

evil-tips

Tip: you can refrigerate stale croissant for 3-6 hours and it will become mushy and cold and unpleasant. It won't cut well, so just put a big clump of cold, hard butter on it. Strife and hatred.

maidthings

Tip: you can do nothing to a stale croissant for any arbitrary length of time and it will remain as is. Do not cut it, or add butter. Stasis and stagnation.

kosmogrl

devoid-of-love

me, on lantern control @ my opponent

pizzaback

“nobody in miami knows how to drive” “nobody in austin knows how to drive” “nobody in chicago knows how to drive” maybe we shouldnt have cars

tweedlebean

Maybe we should find people who are good at driving and give them really big cars, and then people can just pay a small fee to be driven around the city. Maybe in a regular loop so people always know where they'll be at certain times of the day.

red-twist

But what if those really big cars were also really long and fast?

anexperimentallife

And what if they ran on electricity? But what to call them?

inthefallofasparrow

Fantabulous Looping Electromnibus!

tragicallybeautifultiger

I like the way you think

kaity--did

Hey what’s the weirdest, morally neutral parenting hack thing you do? For us our 2.5 year old refuses to take any kind of medicine so we mix her meds in sugar free root beer and call it magic root beer

deadmomjokes

I do a lot of what I call Reframe and Rename. Literally it's just calling the Hated/Dreaded Thing something else that doesn't carry the Evil Associations. Yes it will sound dumb at first and anyone who overhears is gonna think you're nuts, but you can't let the child know you think that or they'll see through it.

It's not time for a shower (evil herald of bedtime or going places), it's time for Inside Rainstorm (fun defying the laws of nature playtime).

It's not "you have to ride in the shopping cart today so mama doesn't lose you in the crowded store" (cruel affront to autonomy), "let's do Buggy Racecar Obstacle Course today" (powerful chaotic zoomies time).

Soup or stew (wicked disgusting food that will surely kill us all) becomes "veggies and glorpy sauce" (mysterious and fun!).

"You want some meat/beans/tofu/[insert actual food name here]?" = meltdown freakout "You want some protein for your big ol' muscles?" = holy crap she actually just ate a protein of her own volition

When in doubt, just describe the thing, preferably in the most bonkers way possible.

hannagoldworthy

Calvin: I'm not eating this green stuff. Yecchh! Dad: Good idea, Calvin. It's a plate of toxic waste that wil turn you into a mutant if you

There’s always a Calvin and Hobbes comic for every parenting situation lol

lilyrose225writes

my mother called spinach pasta Green Pasta until I was 13. I did not know I was eating spinach until the first time I helped her make it and literally took the spinach out of the fridge myself.

(we still call it Green Pasta at home)

sashaforthewin

You can still do this as an adult, too. I share pictures of my salads to friends and call it Leaf Snack and I'll have a pile of vegetables and call it Plant Feast or a bowl of berries and cherry tomatoes will be Round Feast (which was a particular favorite of many) and people will reply saying they now want to get a Leaf Snack. And you can do this with anything throughout your life to make it more fun and exciting and engaging. Time to exercise? No, it's Flail Around Time or time for walkies!

jenroses

It varies by kid but for my eldest I would give them a small serving of a new food and say, "you will probably hate this but you need to eat one bite to try it."

And my contrary child would take a bite, indignantly announce, "I do too like it!" And it worked even after they knew why I was doing it.

My youngest, this approach would not work at all as he would just agree with me.