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hey ppl who know ASL

do you ever see normies do hand gestures for funny words by accident

like ur havin a conversation with an italian american and u wanna focus on the conversation but their hands are like “big egg fart 420 420 aeiou aababrbrbrr”

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With all the others heading to Acadia for the holiday party she simply couldn't leave New behind, and after all it would be a great opportunity to see their older adoptive brother. A boat was charted for three (in case Venetian did choose to go, if not she'd ask Myth), and the rout to Acadia sat(Lynda even managed to get New through the port without an Allen encounter). Along the way she told them of everything the place had to offer, promising a tour after the festivities if they so wished.

The boat went swish through the water, going up and down and up and down and up. It made the floor wobbly, so they had a great time running up and down from ‘bow’ to ‘stern’ (the nice girl at the seaside house had told them what all the boats parts were called) just to feel everything get heavy and light.

But they soon calibrated for the difference, so that got really boring.

Then they hung over the side, dipping a hand into the white foamy water churned up by the vessel. It sprayed their face and tasted salty, like the water back home had done. They liked it, but Lynda had ‘had kittens’ when she spotted them leaning so far over, even though they’d had a rope in their hand just in case. They weren’t stupid! But she was scared and they didn’t like to make her scared, so they didn’t do that again.

Poking around in the engine room had been brilliant until they made the boat go round and round in tiny circles until everyone was dizzy. New had found it funny, but they read the fuel guage and it said they didn’t have enough to keep doing that for long, so they fixed it and everyone was back on their way.

Boat rides were good fun.. until they weren’t. It had started to rain, there was no land to see, and New was boooooored.

Are we there yet? They asked Lynda for the first time, but certainly not the last.

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Chasing seagulls was LOTS more fun! They were trying to eat the stinky fish the man with the funny voice was chopping, so they had chased them away and the man gave a thumbs up! Said it was better than having a guard dog, so New took that for permission to keep doing it.

They were still chasing seagulls when Lynda came out of the place they weren’t allowed into with an old white haired man behind her. She said he was a ‘guide’, which sounded like ‘guard’, so they’d asked if he wanted to team up to help chase the seagulls away.

When it had been translated the old man had laughed so hard he choked. New went to pat him on the back and the old man patted them back, saying ‘you’re alright kid’.

Well of course I’m alright! New thought with an exasperated ‘sigh’. I ran my diagnostics today!

Lynda beckoned for them to follow the old man out of town, so they held her hand to stay close like they’d promised and gave the man with the stupid hat the ‘you’re bad’ sign on the way out. It made the old man laugh again. New decided they liked him, he was funny.

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It was a long loooooong walk, but interesting! ‘Old Longfellow’ told them lots of things about the island and the people who lived there. He seemed to be really worried about fog, which was silly, but when they walked through thick patches of it New heard a tick tick tick going in their head, which they knew was bad. They didn’t think it was silly after that.

The mountain was huuuuuuuge, bigger even than all the big trees that had been living for even longer than Nick had, which was A LOT. New wanted to race Lynda up the path, but their toe fell off when they tripped on a tree root so they decided it was a bad idea.

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‘Uncle’ DiMA spoke to them! With his hands! New had spent a long time talking with him that way, and found out that there were lots of ‘synths’ here, like Lynda and Venetian and Nick and Myth and New and Tato.. they wanted to meet Tato! Lynda had said he would be like a big brother and he was excited to meet them, so they were excited to meet him too.

But first they’d had to go with the man in the white coat to get their toe put back on. The man didn’t talk hand language, but he’d been really nice, explaining all the shiny things he had on his desk when they had picked them up.

They’d gotten a bit too excited though, taking a carburetor apart while the man was distracted. They’d thought the man would tell them off, but the furry bits over his eyes had just gone up instead and he’d asked ‘can you put it back together again’, which was a silly question! Why would they take it apart if they couldn’t make it better again?

They’d done it just to prove they could, and the man seemed pleased. He’d offered to show New around more once they were ‘settled in’. New didn’t want to settle in, they wanted to look at more things now! But then they remembered about Tato.

They thanked the Faraday man, then hopped off the table they’d been lying on and ran off to find Lynda again. Maybe she’d have found Tato in the big building by now so they could say hi!

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Woooooooooowwww! Another metal person! This one looked a bit different, with skin on their face rather than the big smiles they both had - the nice lady and New - but those yellow eyes were the same! New shook their hands without making any proper shapes with them, too excited for ‘words’.

But the other metal person was staring at them, so they thought they should say hi. Without letting go of the nice Lynda lady, they waved big and happy.

‘I’m New!’ They made the signs, the same ones they’d made for the nice lady.

They thought this must be the ‘Mister Valentine’ they’d been told about, who could help them, so they thought they’d better be really good so Mister Valentine would want to. They stood up tall, prim and proper, and put their hand straight out in front of them. It seemed silly but that’s how the people at home had said hello to other people they didn’t know very well.

Journey to Big Diamond

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‘I want to learn about aliens!’

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Follow @ultrafacts for more facts!

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nordhagen beach - 7am

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Pretty? New hadn't ever been called that before, but they'd heard Leon say it to Angie once and she'd seemed to really like it. She'd fluttered her eye hairs at him and said he was 'handsome'. They couldn't say handsome, but they could blink their eyes really fast.

Blinkblinkblinkblink.

There, hopefully that was the proper way to thank the nice lady for her compliment. She was being helpful so they wanted to be on their best behaviour.

'Look honey, I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me, but I’m figuring your voice box don’t work so well no more?'

There was no need to sign 'yes', all they had to do was nod, kind of slow and sad. Sometimes it bothered them that they couldn't talk, even though mom said it didn't matter. She said they could still do anything they set their mind to, but New sure wished they could just open their mouth and make sounds like everyone else. It seemed a lot easier.

But this lady didn't seem to mind.. in fact she was offering to help! Just what they'd asked for! They put their arms above their head and waved them in a way that meant YAY!

Her hand was almost as rusty as theirs was when they took it, making them wish they had their full tool-kit so they could give it a spray of the tasty slick liquid. Buttercup carried some tools, but not many. They felt their 'yay' get less a bit, wishing Buttercup could have made the journey to Big Diamond with them, but they would have gotten all dirty in the stinking tunnels.  

They'd go back for Buttercup when they found more people who could help, like the nice lady.

Lynda's hand wasn't squishy like Penny's, but they still clung to her side the same as they would have done to her. The city had some scary people in it, even if they stopped being scary when she'd come around. They didn't want to lose her and end up getting yelled at again. Hanging onto her side like a lost puppy, they shuffled through the open mouth of the monster gate, then stopped, stunned, turning around slowly to try and look at everything at once.

It was.. beautiful! More lights than they'd ever seen in one place, and more people too. There was a lot of noise and smells, some of them good, some of them.. not so good. New cupped their hands behind their audio sensors to hear it all.

A brahmin bellowed beside them, making them jump. Their handler looked cross, and they realised they were blocking the door. Holding their hands up to say sorry they quickly pressed in against Lynda again to let them pass, getting their 'head out of the clouds' in the process.

The city was 'pretty', but they had a job to do before they could have a proper look around. Everything they passed seemed to be more exciting than the last thing, but they were a 'good kid' and didn't run off once. Penny would be happy when she found out.

They went wherever Lynda had a mind to lead, wondering the whole time who she was taking them to and why they'd like them.

Journey to Big Diamond

Name? They didn’t have one, all they’d ever been known by was a set of letters. AS-L9, Penny had called them, but they’d heard lots of names by now and none of them sounded the same. Or looked the same when they were written down. That couldn’t be their name then. Names were words assigned to people so you could tell them apart, or call for them.. not that they could do that, but this lady was asking for one and after the way she’d sent those men to bed, they thought it would be a bad idea not to have an answer. She’d called them ‘sugar’, but they didn’t know the sign for that, and besides.. they didn’t taste sweet. They tasted of metal and rust. The new droid, new project, new scheme.. they’d heard these things before, when people had spoken about them when they thought nobody could hear. New. Were they New?

They signed, slowly, because people hardly ever knew how to talk with their hands. Then they pointed to their own chest. Some paper and a pen to write with would have been better, but they had none.

The new lady was taking off her kitty mask. She’d promised she would, and now she was making good on that promise. They were pleased, because Penny had warned them that some people might be tricky so they could steal their caps, but this lady was honest. They liked honest peopl-

One hand clapped over their mouth, and they bounced on the balls of their feet while frantically waving a hand in the air, babbling nonsense words. Her face was metal too! Her eyes were glowing yellow! It was like looking into a mirror! They were the same!

They pointed to her, then signed, then pointed to themselves again, three times over. Penny had told them there were other metal people around, but they’d never seen one until now. Now they knew they could trust her! She was family!

Maybe she’d even seen their mom! They lifted their hands, but when they tried to think of the signs they wanted it was like trying to find a 12mm spark plug in mom’s messy tool box. Messy!

They pointed at her, then signed, then pointed to themselves, then drew a biiiiiig question mark in the air.

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The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo del Toro

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Splashing out of summer and into fall. vans.com/classics

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Japanese modder, Higeyosi added Thomas the Tank Engine faces to Fallout 4 robots

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Consider: books should be readily and affordably available in large print, audio book, and braille.

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Are you a fan of comic books?

https://www.signingsavvy.com/signs/mp4/5/5912.mp4

https://www.signingsavvy.com/signs/mp4/6/6505.mp4

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What kinds of people would you like to meet the most and least?

/Most/

/Least/

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What 3 objects/possessions do you love the most?

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What was the very first sound you heard?

https://www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=4774http://www.signasl.org/sign/strangerhttps://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/CLOSED/4972/1https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/DOOR/788/1

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For anyone else who goes nonverbal an easy ASL phrase I use a lot

I can’t speak