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Back N Forth: Mink is a stuffed toy that talks and is missing an arm.
In response to an ask I got over on tumblr:
Initially offended, Mink (m_i_n_k) yells “WOTS WRONG WIV MY MISSING ARM?”
“CALLIN ME A STUFFED ANIMAL / WHY I OUTTA–”
…Ought to*
Did I spell it wrong? idk
CreatorScarf (scarf_and_glasses), the one who runs the ask blog, and is LITERALLY ME (hello)
says “Mink, dun worry. I got this.”
She, or rather I, will explain things for you, dear anon, using another example.
Toliki (toliki)was initially irritated at being randomly summoned for no reason, but then I made him feel happy by speaking his language with him, so he forgave me for interrupting whatever he was doing.
The conversation went something like this:
CreatorScarf: <It pleases me greatly to bring you to this room that Mink and I are in, to answer some questions for the sake of this tumblr anon. My friend and equal, was I interrupting something?>
Toliki: Mink, eh? He doesn’t speak my language, right?
Creator: Right, he doesn’t. <I may exclude him by speaking a language which is foreign to him, but my intention is to prove a point. Please continue to speak in this way and let me know if you need to get back to what you were doing.>
Toliki: <I was indeed involved in an activity, the likes of which could easily be returned to at any time, as there is no deadline or decay in my absence. I will gladly sit with you all … even if I don’t understand why we are being secretive with our communications.>
Mink: WHAT U GUYS TALKING ABOUT????????
Mink didn’t know what was said. But the reader does. You and I do.
You see, esteemed anon ... in a story, there are things the reader knows that the characters themselves do not know.
The reason Mink has one arm (and one eye) is because he was heavily injured one time in his life. Some of the characters know about this because they can walk into a room and he’s there.
The reason he is a talking stuffed monkey is because it’s a comic and I thought it would be fun to make the headmaster a talking stuffed monkey. The characters do not know they are in a comic. It does not occur to the students or teachers to wonder why their headmaster is a talking stuffed monkey becuase I have not written it.
Does a character drawn with no nose know that they have no nose?
If you give true awareness of surroundings to every single character, then one drawn on a white sheet of paper would feel like they are in a formless void, right??
(It might interest you to know that Dexter (somewhere_remembered_me) knows that he is in a comicstory.)
Anonymous asked:
Dont anyone find it series that their principal is a stuffed toy? That talks? And it's missing an arm??
Dont anyone find it series that their principal is a stuffed toy? That talks? And it's missing an arm??
Initially offended, Mink (
m_i_n_k) yells “WOTS WRONG WIV MY MISSING ARM?”“CALLIN ME A STUFFED ANIMAL / WHY I OUTTA–”
…Ought to*
Did I spell it wrong? idk
scarf_and_glasses), the one who runs the ask blog, and is LITERALLY ME (hello)says “Mink, dun worry. I got this.”
She, or rather I, will explain things for you, dear anon, using another example.
Toliki (
toliki)was initially irritated at being randomly summoned for no reason, but then I made him feel happy by speaking his language with him, so he forgave me for interrupting whatever he was doing.The conversation went something like this:
Toliki: Mink, eh? He doesn’t speak my language, right?
Creator: Right, he doesn’t. <I may exclude him by speaking a language which is foreign to him, but my intention is to prove a point. Please continue to speak in this way and let me know if you need to get back to what you were doing.>
Toliki: <I was indeed involved in an activity, the likes of which could easily be returned to at any time, as there is no deadline or decay in my absence. I will gladly sit with you all … even if I don’t understand why we are being secretive with our communications.>
Mink: WHAT U GUYS TALKING ABOUT????????
Mink didn’t know what was said. But the reader does. You and I do.
You see, esteemed anon ... in a story, there are things the reader knows that the characters themselves do not know.
The reason Mink has one arm (and one eye) is because he was heavily injured one time in his life. Some of the characters know about this because they can walk into a room and he’s there.
The reason he is a talking stuffed monkey is because it’s a comic and I thought it would be fun to make the headmaster a talking stuffed monkey. The characters do not know they are in a comic. It does not occur to the students or teachers to wonder why their headmaster is a talking stuffed monkey becuase I have not written it.
Does a character drawn with no nose know that they have no nose?
If you give true awareness of surroundings to every single character, then one drawn on a white sheet of paper would feel like they are in a formless void, right??
(It might interest you to know that Dexter (
somewhere_remembered_me) knows that he is in a