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The AvA "Secret Gift Exchange" 2024 Registration is OPEN!

Hello again! It's that time of year again! It's the annual Animator vs Animation Community "Secret Gift Exchange"!

For those who don't know, the AvA Gift Exchange is a celebration event centered around crating and sharing gifts across the Alan Becker Stick Figure Tumblr community. I'm so excited to see what everyone makes this year! 8D

[What is a "Secret Gift Exchange"?]

If you'd like to participate in this event, please follow the link below and fill out the registration form!

Either an Email or Discord is required to participate so I can send you your assigned prompts!

Registration will be open from

Nov. 18th until Nov. 27th at 11:59 pm EST

Please follow this blog since on here is where I'll be making any important updates in the future!

I will also be making a Masterpost with all the important dates and links that will be pinned soon!

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the way I need to write something about Orange's sense of protection over his friends, I'm gonna–

Orange has solidified himself as his friends' protector– he feels an intense feeling of protectiveness over his friends, going so far as almost dying for them repeatedly.

He is the one who basically bargained for their lives on day one, it is because of him that they are all alive right now. However, I'd like to highlight a specific aspect of his protectiveness, and a way it manifests– his tendency to be the braincell of the group.

In "Skyblock", the CG discover a grouping of Nether portals. RYGB want to explore, but Orange resists. He leaves them to their own devices and goes home. After a while he comes to the conclusion that a) it is super lonely without them, and b) they are definitely in trouble. (Whether you think this was a lucky guess or some sort of precognition, it doesn't matter. He was right)

Now, Orange didn't exactly save them, but he became the de facto leader as they made their way out of the caves. He did end up saving them a bit later, however.

Moving on–

RYGB act as a unit; they often have the same ideas on how to deal with problems, and when one wants to do something, the others will more-often-than-not-follow suit. Orange is the outlier. Not to say he's smarter than them, he simply has the advantage of being an outside opinion.

When Purple tries to bring them all through the Nether portal, Orange objects because they've been through strange Nether portals before and– no offense to Purple– it didn't end well. (Purple may have been involved, but I genuinely don't think Orange was suspicious of Purple right then)

Orange tries to keep them on track. He tries to keep them safe. Which I think is part of the reason he snaps so hard on Red. He was doing this for them. To keep them safe. And now they're all in danger and it's Red's fault.

Orange absolutely gets involved with shenanigans and the other silly things the sticks get up to, but there is also a layer of protectiveness that he can't seem to shake. (and in the end, I think that is a good thing)

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I love it when the little kids I’m teaching online have complete and total misconceptions of what’s going on. So far, I’ve encountered the following:

1. I had been teaching a little girl for several months, when one day she said to me: “My mother says you’re a real person, not an app. If you’re a real person, show me your husband.”

2. I was about to end a class, but the little girl I was teaching didn’t want the class to end. She turned to her mom and asked if she could please watch one more episode. Turns out she was under the impression that I was a very interactive TV program.

3. I couldn’t find my marker in class today. The boy I was teaching was like, “What’s your apartment number? I’ll come up and help you find it!” The boy lives in China and I live in the United States. I guess most people he knows live in the same building as him, so he assumed I did too.

4. I had been teaching a kid for quite some time when I mentioned my age in class. She was like, “Wait, you’re an adult????” She’d thought I was twelve.

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spider eye arrangements

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this is so fucking funny I love sharks

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Found this on an old post by a seemingly-deleted account and it is my very honest reaction:

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OK SO I WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN THE RAIN AT 2AM AND I SAW AN ANIMAL RUNNING DOWN THE ROAD AND SO I GRABBED IT AND

IT WAS THIS

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i wonder what it's like to be emotionally stable. anyways [thinks about fictional character to survive] i am fine

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adds your laugh to my spreadsheet

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So @untitled-tmnt-blog surprised me with maybe the coolest birthday present I’ve ever gotten:

A hand bound book of my fic!! Full of fanart!

The book is BEAUTIFUL. Untitled did an AMAZING job!! And everyone’s art looks so nice!!

I’m truly touched by this gift. This is one of the nicest and coolest things I’ve ever received, and I will cherish it forever!!

I’ve tagged everyone whose art is in the book under a read more as another thanks!! If anyone would like to see their individual pages, lemme know (I just couldn’t fit pics of all of them in one post |’D). It came out wonderfully!!! Everyone’s art looks so good!

Thank you again, Untitled!! I will cherish this ;A;

Thank you to:

@v-albion

@manga-toons

@azucar-skull

@skcirthinq

@gejnialne-arty

@boxfullaturtles

@javatello

@intotheelliwoods

@wraenata

@rbtlvr

@e-turn

@minkschasijasi

@teainthesnow

@dragon-ducky

@princesskkfish

@ivoryrisuet

@spectra-bear

@reineydraws12

@luxtoony

@disastertwins9000

@lallelol

@thatkoiboi

@sad-leon

@its-the-chicken-nugg

@its-wabby-stuff

@cupcakeslushie

@elishortforelliott

@kirasigncomics

@burdytheoneandonly

@icequeenabby

@burritello3000

@blubun0309

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No marriage required.

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New dream after a while, kinda weird tho???

Basically, I was in this post apocalyptic world setting???? I could tell because I was in this HUGE waterpark place that was overgrown and yet had the most pristine and clear water ever???? Idk, I then proceeded to look over the railing and saw like, a bunch of ppl(?) in the pool below

I jumped off the little ledge with my bunny plushie that I sleep with which I was holding onto in the dream and sort of bounced on the ppl(?) who felt more like the bouncy castle thingy, I finally tripped near the edge of the pool and got out but lost my plushie in the process

So after that, I climb up the WALL next to it that's part staircase, part pathless and I reach the top area again, this time I see a bunch of toy pits with plushies and what not so I was searching for my bunny plushie

It was kinda surreal because I was partly aware this wasn't reality??? Only partly tho since I didn't question it at all

It's just weird because I remember seeing ppl, they were colourful, almost plastic and balloon like in the beginning when I first saw them in the pool all compressed like that one nightmarish situation of having too many ppl in a wave pool(btw the pool I jumped into was like a waterfall+wavepool thing) but then all the ppl suddenly became desaturated and more like those blacked out ppl and it looked like night time even though it was literally dawn earlier

It's been a while since I had a dream so sorry if my description skills have worsened lol

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oh, what a good story idea

Hey, that's an even better story idea

Wow, that would be amazing to write

*Stares at screen*

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nothing more disappointing than a shower with low water pressure. i don’t want to feel like a wet sad beast left out in the rain i want to be power washed.

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features