Avalon Woodard @Avalon@social.tchncs.de

Spending time with my (amazing) baby nieces has made me curious about a specific child behavioural thing: why are they so bad at answering questions about the recent past?

I've seen it over and over again with loads of under-5s, not just my nieces. Adult says "Where did we go this morning?" or "What did you have for lunch?" and they absolutely cannot answer.

But of course they will randomly bring up stuff about their experiences at other times, unprompted.

Have any experts written about this? I'm not a mum and I don't work with kids, so my reading about child development is pretty limited.

you don't gotta call it inktober if you don't have ink and you still want a drawing challenge... it's not homework just draw what you want who's gonna punish u the art police

idk i seen so many ppl make themselves anxious and sick over it, don't let fomo hurt u >-\o

"It's so strange to realize..."

"What?"

"I have too many bones in me."

"Did... did you discover some extra bones you didn't previously know about?"

"Technically."

There was a pregnant pause.

"I mean eventually they'll go off and do their own thing, but it'll be a while."

There was another pregnant pause.

"We're going to be parents."

"OH THANK GOD."

"Why what did you think?"

"You ate the neighbor."

"That bitter soul? No way!"

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

Found myself speaking with the parent of a small child I was amusing* at a restaurant:

"Are you an actor?"
"Nope."
"A comedian?"
"Not exactly. Why do you ask?"
"Well, you're very animated..."
"And yet, you didn't ask if I was a cartoon."

*OK, truth be told, we were amusing each other.

#SmallStories
#Clown
#CircusLife

bucket ball...

#bucket #axle #wheel #spinning #onebounce #bounce #ball #basketball #dirtroad #niceshot #animatedgif

How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-giving-up-refined-sugar-changed-my-brain?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#sugar #nutrition #calories #diet #congnition #health #weightloss

Did some art of my SnapDragons for the DA page. The species is owned by honey-chai on DA
#art #fluffy #digitalart #Procreate

Don't buy flowers at a monastery. Because only you can prevent florist friars.

Okay for every like this post gets, I'll tell you to stop liking this post, it's not very good.

Today marks the first time #git absolutely saved my butt on a collaborative writing process.

In one git checkout command, several hours of my partner's work came back from the abyss created by my stupidity.

Version control, for writers. Just do it.

#AmWriting
#TechnicalJiggeryPokery
#VersionControl

Script writing session took hours this evening.

Much coffee was slain, and I think the clowns and I might be on to something interesting.

Now the hard part, making the silly thing work.

#CollaborativeWriting
#Theater

So Shakespeare used to write plays, and he'd put on this big dramatic scenes with everyone sat around a table and a ghost of the dead father gets all spooky.

But then Will has a problem. He has to tidy up the stage for the next scene, so what does he do?

He has the lead come forward stage and writes them a monologue to fill the time while the stage is cleared.

What are the best parts of Shakespeare?

The monologues.

Good art comes from necessity and embracing problems.

This evening @Avalon made a handmade #decktet card deck out of index cards and proceeded to positively trounce me in an addictive little game called Emu Ranchers.

We found the idea here: http://www.decktet.com

Her deck was made using #tokipona symbols rather than Decktet's 'official' glyphs, leading us to call our newfound addiction "waso nasa".

There's a whole wiki full of games to explore.

#Games
#CardGames
#DIY

https://mastodon.art/media/tNT42Waarw2mI_KBn3g

@RussSharek @glimpse
Oh my goodness. The name is lovely and it has a good mascot potential.

But English is a mess. 😨

Hey @glimpse

My suggestion for the #glimpse project:

GNU
Handler
Of
Transforming
Images

Because we need more programs called fish.

#ClownWisdom
#WordGames
#FreeSoftware

If you want to make a softer, kinder, and better world, your best bet is to start be treating yourself softly, with kindness, and as well as you can.

It can be so easy for us to dismiss our own needs, to tear ourselves apart, and to treat ourselves far worse than we would dream of treating (practically) anyone else... but uhhh if you're working to hold up others? You are going to need a strong foundation.

That foundation is going to have to be you friend. Be fuckin nice to you.