#'inconsistent' ???? inconsiderate. hello

[moe-broey]

Random small talk event at the yard sard set-up, very nice lady, but ESP when asking "Oh are you still in school? ☺️" I literally never know how to say "Oh I graduated a long time ago. Yeah. I mostly do art now" and she says "Oh to sell?" and so far I'm having a reasonable and effective small talk conversation, when I hit that pitfall and lock up and I worry I'm becoming unfriendly bc I locked up. Because I REALLY don't know how to say, "Nah, I kind of do fuck all. I'm 25 and I do fuck all. For nothing." Like I can see the conversation tree in real time and I know that's the worst dialogue option. And there are no other dialogue options there's just Press B to get the fuck outta there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snifflesthemouse]

The Crown made Diana seem... awful and crazy.

Hello, to all you beautiful people!

This author hopes all is well with each of you! After two solid months of illness after illness, I am back for a new post. Slowly, I inch back into the habits and hobbies I enjoyed pre-illness. There are two things I want to discuss; I should really write out two different posts and include a story of the last time I spoke with my mother before she died when I was on the run back in the old days. But, this author would like to remind you of the ‘taking it slowly’ part.

Therefore, I will say this briefly before I move onto my main topic. Knowing now that Her Majesty the Queen had cancer the last few years of her life, yet Harry did NOTHING to take advantage of that time… well… let me just say. One day he will wake up, and it will be a miracle if the guilt from all his decisions doesn’t crush him whole.

With that, I now would like to discuss the fifth season of The Crown. I’ve watched all five seasons of The Crown, and I have never found the show to be insulting to the Monarch. If anything, I find the show makes it look like Her Majesty had a short stick and the people around her didn’t make it any easier. Diana especially. Before Diana, it was either her sister, her husband, or possibly even her heir.

The fifth season essentially suggests that Diana was too stupid and paranoid to listen to her brother when he called out the inconsistencies from Bashir. There is a literal scene where Diana calls Martin out on all of his inconsistences (re her brother’s appeals and begging her to not go through with it). She has him in the car and she tells him of how her brother had been keeping notes from all the conversations, that he was caught up in many a lie. And yet she was so paranoid, she couldn’t see the reason for the mania. (I’ve been there, not judging, but it is what it is).

The whole entire show makes it look like Peter Morgan is in love with Her Majesty, but everyone else is too selfish and inconsiderate to try and make things easier for the Queen. I’ve never been one of those who saw the show as a bad thing, as long as the person being portrayed was the Queen. But this fifth season explicitly left someone out, which I found odd.

REMEMBER, the show is utter fiction. My fellow AMERICANS, The Crown is a work of FICTION. It is loosly based on factual events, and that is being a bit too generous.

The show also highlighted the Romanovs, and it showed the introduction of Penny to Prince Philip's life. I do wish they'd not make the Queen seem so hysterical with the emotional side of their marriage. They either make her seem superficial, or like she is so good at looking the other way it hurts Prince Philip that she doesn't even try to catch a peek. Like Philip was so unfulfilled he needed the Queen to complete him. Puh-lease. Those two were each other's rock. And they did what they needed to make it work. None of our business how that happened, now is it?

If I were Netflix, and I had an ex-royal, especially the second son of Diana, Princess of Wales on the payroll, wouldn’t it make the most sense to remind people at every opportunity that I had the Spare on the payroll? I mean, the whole point is to remind people of the upcoming content, not the stuff they already put out, right?

So why is it that little Harry didn’t have more than a hand full of lines the whole fifth season, yet William is a breakout role? Diana’s character even says that “all the love the people have for me has transferred to William,” after the interview fight. It was horrific the way they portrayed Diana.

Diana came off as a manipulative woman who knew she was being used and used it to her advantage daily. Even when they cover the divorce, they have a scene where she’s asked to be silent post divorce. She tells the Mediator character essentially that her silence would cost eight figures and start with a three. She hangs out at a hospital and love bombs sick patients just to attract the attention of the Khan (who did surgery on her acupuncturist’s spouse). She uses her children to sow unrest and win favor with the Queen.

Even one scene shows William and the Queen having tea, and the Queen reminding William that he is a child and shouldn’t be worrying about his mother. Then, she eventually has William with her when Diana goes to give her a small warning about the interview coming out with Bashir. Every time you see how Diana used William as a pawn with the Queen. Like she knew the Queen would see her using him, feel empathy for him, and show her favor. And it worked. It legit worked. If this is who Netflix is painting the Diana, Princess of Netflix to be, how can Harry even look himself in the eyes in the morning? I suppose with a LOT of exterior assistance.

And that reward is a threat, btw. I imagine that will be his official straw. Either that or King Charles III has already offered him a deal, and this is his way out. I.E. Old poppa will take me back now if I get rid of her… Harry was/is an addict. He needs frequent dopamine releases to stay interested. She is running out of interesting things, I am almost sure.

If Charles is waiting for the book re the titles, he shouldn’t. I keep checking often to see any changes, and there have been multiple updates to different biographies. Yet the succession withholds all titles for both of the kids. It says a lot. But then again, does it?

The Prince of Wales website still has Charles and Camilla on it as the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Netflix managed to come across very fair regarding Camilla and Charles. I am telling you, it seemed quite literal and quite personal. Like Netflix was getting revenge. But who am I? It was like they were sticking it to them both. They know Americans won't fact check, and they essentially made Prince Harry's childhood irrelevant in one of their biggest shows. Then, they painted William as the kid who had to parent his parents. How they continue to work with Netflix... wow. Just wow.

IT’S BEEN TOO LONG! Writing again soon, sending love! #royals #thecrown #princeharry

[fellowstrangetownappreciator]

Curious and autistic-coded

Hello there! April draws to an end and with that I think it’s high time to hurry up and write this. What does April have to do with anything, you ask? April is the Autism Acceptance Month. So what better month to do this?

Unfortunately I didn’t make it. I failed. It’s already 1. 5. when I’m posting this. But at least I tried to deliver on time.

In this mini essay I’ll present my case about why I think the Curious brothers from TS2 Strangetown display autistic-coded traits and my personal takes on it.

It’s basically your average headcanon post but with a funny top hat!

0: Preface: What do I mean by “autistic-coded”?

When a character is coded as something, it means that they have traits that are associated with the demographics in question to make the consumer knowingly or not link the character with the demographic, although the character's "label” is never explicitly disclosed.

In the nutshell, it means that there are canonical reasons to read the characters as autistic, although you won't find the word "autism" anywhere in the game nor in the developer's commentary.

In this particular case I do believe that the developer may not even be aware of the code, as there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. If there is, I’m not aware of it and I would be happy to learn.

So, let’s start!

1: “The white male who is very good at science”

Unfortunately autistic representation in pop-culture has a long history of being rather straightforward in which traits the characters often have. This stems from the belief that autism is “a boy’s disorder” (that’s why some autism charities to this day use blue in their symbols). Among popular examples of autistic-coded characters are Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper and Death Note’s L and Near. I’m sure you can think of more but you’ll find that most of them are men and either explicitly white or racially ambiguous white-passing. They also tend to be gifted in tech, logic or other science-y activities.

There’s nothing wrong with that! Nothing wrong with being an autistic with those “stereotypical” characteristics and there is nothing wrong with people being represented. What is wrong is the monotony and afab people/people of color being underrepresented which leads (among other factors) to harder access to diagnosis and resources for those people in real life. But! That’s a topic for a different day. (and not for a simbrl, mind you)

Back to the Curiouses! I just wanted to say that autism in media is traditionally associated with characters whose gender presentation, race and interests align with theirs. Those characteristic thus make a very convenient template for autistic-coding.

2: Inconsistent performance, huge gaps between strengths and weaknesses

Pascal, Vidcund and Lazlo are very skilled Sims by default, extraordinarily even for their age. Pascal has a skill maxed while his younger brothers both near maxing theirs.

But as you can see in Pascal’s default skill panel, apart from Creativity, all his other skills are extremely low, 0 points for Mechanical, Body and Charisma, 1 point for Cooking and Logic and his second best skill, Cleaning, has only 3 points. The same situation can be observed in Vidcund’s and Lazlo’s, except their strong suits are Logic and Cooking respectively.

Huge discrepancies within performance in different cognitive areas is a common trait found in those on the autism spectrum. We’re often talking extremes here and the scale of the difference is the defining factor. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, it’s just in neurodivergent people those tend to be unusually noticeable.

I think that skills, simplified as they are, are the closest The Sims has to possibly simulate that because they track the character’s performance and expertise in different areas and allow comparison. In real life, of course, this comparison is not nearly as possible and exact, nor desired, but for all our analysis-loving enthusiasm, here we’re still talking fictional characters.

3: Struggle with social cues

It is widely known that one of autistic traits are difficulties with processing social situations, picking social cues and successfully replicating socially desired behavioral patterns.

But these three are Sims, are they not? They cannot possibly display this trait, since they’re programmed the same way as others.

Yes and no.

It is true that there is no specific in-game feature that would allow Sims to behave with explicit neurodivergency in mind* but with the right combination of traits they can simulate behavior that really hits close to home for neurodivergent players.

*at least not in TS2, TS3 has traits that simulate some possible neurodivergencies but their names tend to be rather... ableist unfortunate and they’re not relevant to this post since they’re not autism related, and even if they were, we’re focusing on TS2 exclusively

Let’s take look at Lazlo here. He is, indeed, a playful soul. He likes to goof around, tell jokes, make others laugh. And since he’s very close to his brother Vidcund, close enough even to Tell Dirty Joke (an interaction that needs quite a high relationship to unlock), he autonomously does just that.

And oh boy, does Vidcund disapprove.

From my personal experience playing them, their relationship usually takes quite a hit from every cheeky joke Lazlo throws Vid’s way. They usually autonomously repair it very quick but it happens often.

But that’s a standard behavior. Vidcund’s very serious, he doesn’t take well to jokes.

No. I mean technically yes, Vid is definitely a grumpy old plant dad but, at least in my game, he tends to accept Lazlo’s jokes. All kinds of them, actually, except for the dirty ones. And Pascal, who technically has even lower Playful points (0 in comparison to Vidcund’s 4), doesn’t seem to mind Lazlo’s poor attempts at grown-up humor.

But! What is it that makes Lazlo try still? What drives him to attempt to make Vidcund laugh with a dirty joke over and over again? (and fail?)

I my interpretation, Lazlo doesn’t do that on purpose, he is just really poor at evaluating “dirtiness” of a given joke and frequently misinterprets Vidcund’s cues. The animation of a dirty joke being rejected even supports that as Vid doesn’t signal his discomfort with any exaggerated easy-to-read facial expression until Lazlo gets to his punchline.

No only that but as I mentioned, the invisible lines between spicy and too vulgar are often hard to thread. I can recall many times I thought I was saying a witty quip on an “adult” topic and was met with awkward silence or someone shushing me because “that’s not how you speak in public”. I can well imagine myself in Lazlo’s shoes.

A situation of social cues being misinterpreted or ignored can be observed also in Vidcund. Programming-wise, those are just his low Niceness and extreme Shyness showing but combined they again paint a picture of a very neurodivergent-looking behavioral pattern.

He often behaves like the concept of politeness or social rules doesn’t exist because the combination of the aforementioned traits makes him come off very blunt (lecturing and shoving telescope-peepers with no warning whatsoever) and distant (having a high chance of rejecting simple small-talk socials).

(That’s Jasmine Rai casting the “Summon Vidcund” spell.)

Yes, I am fully aware that it makes a stronger case for him being an a**hole than autistic but... there’s no reason he can’t be both. Not all autistic people are sweet cinnamon buns, all personalities you can think of can be neurodiverse and, for some their neurodiversity can even amplify their inconsiderate ways, as I believe it is the case with our dear grouch Vidcund.

4. Their bios

“No matter what happens, Pascal believes there is a logical explanation for everything. In his free time, he practices home psychoanalysis and collects conspiracy theories.”

(that’s how I imagine practicing psychoanalysis looks like, sorry Freud)

“Serious and exact, Vidcund strives to fit the universe into a nice tidy package. He has an unnatural fondness for African violets.”

(let’s collectively pretend those are African violets)

“Not as studious as his older brothers, Lazlo got his degree in Phrenology. He likes to call phone psychics and spends hours trying to bend forks with his mind.”

*error: screenshot of Lazlo bending forks not found*

(but here he is hanging out with Erin Beaker, the closest thing to “calling phone psychics” you can actually do in-game)

Both Pascal’s and Vidcund’s bios point to a pattern-focused worldview with a strong emphasis on rationality as the center-point that anchors the way they understand the world around them and build their principles on. This “pattern-ization” of thinking is a common autistic trait, with rationality being a popular theme because emotions tend to be difficult to access and asses for many of us.

Lazlo’s biography is an outlier. But it still has something significant in common with those of his brothers: All three of their bios allude to a potential special interest of sorts.

Special interests as an autism-related term are very specific, in-depth and long-term hobbies or areas of expertise that make an autistic person happy and they tend to go to seemingly exhausting lengths, often at the cost of other areas of knowledge and most likely the person’s ability to talk about anything else for a long enough time. (a loving hyperbole, no disrespect meant) Mine are my characters and cats. An even more intense but a short(er)-term passion is called a hyperfixation.

Them potentially having a special interest is yet another possible autistic-coded feature.

5. Wait. Why does it matter?

Right. What does it matter if a Sim (A SIM) (or two or three) is autistic? What do I hope to achieve, pushing my autistic Curiouses agenda down your throats?

I got to write a long rant-piece about some of my favorite TS characters and I feel like I can finally die satisfied.

Apart from that and me sharing my happiness of finding some good pixels I can relate to, it is a matter of representation.

Remember by the very beginning I wrote how most of the representation our community gets in media tends to be just a one specific type of character?

And how the Curious brothers seem to fit the stereotype to a point?

There is something I omitted, something I saved for the last on purpose.

The role. The role in their story, the role in the society the piece of media portrays.

We often see neurodiverse, autistic or autistic-coded character as children, students, villains, lone savants, victims in distress, comedic relief sidekicks, either very vulnerable and needing protection, or detached and having their role defined only by their academic prowess or their special interest/profession.

What we rarely get to see them as, are... parents.

That’s what many of us autistics are or plan to be someday in the future. The dogma around autism has started to dwindle relatively recently and there are little to no examples of autistic adults being the care-givers for once in the media around us.

The Curious brothers are just that. They are chaotic, they are eccentric, they can be a little too much... but they are dutiful and loving fathers/uncles to their little aliens they raise.

They make it work. Even if they face difficulties, even if they don’t exactly fit the standard.

“Sometimes, a family truly can be three brothers raising alien babies, and it’s beautiful.”

It encourages us to define family by love rather than traditional structures and it shows us that portrait of a functional neurodiverse family we need to see.

And goodness, is it a powerful sight.

[mafaldaknows]

But you’ve never come down this hard on anyone calling him a twink or those who post the manips you don’t agree with. Also the origin of fuckboy is avve and has nothing to do with fucking at all. The meaning white people gave it is wrong and inconsistent so it seems strange to be so sure about how the anon meant to use it or how we understood it.

Hello Anon:

I have no reason to come down hard on the word “twink” since it’s not a slur, or the amazingly gifted manip creators who are so good at what they do that sometimes I feel like a voyeur peeping through a window.

The manip privacy thing is my own personal issue to handle, and I don’t ever want any single one of these talented artists to think that I don’t admire and appreciate them and their incredible work, because I absolutely do.

I learned the history and origins of the word this morning in my research, so I also don’t understand why that is where this discussion went, Anon. Except that it provided a convenient opportunity by which antis could attack Charmies, logic and reason notwithstanding.

This all started from me saying that it was inconsiderate of Timmy’s feelings to be called a fuckboy by total strangers in any sense of the word, since all the forms and variations of it are intended to be insulting. The original post used it in the sexual context.

It’s been a very weird day, Anon.

Thanks for your comment. 😊❤️🧿

[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hi! I love your posts and this blog! I want to ask you about the Karvachauth episode. Did you like it? I thought Arnav was a little inconsiderate of Khushi. Teasing her with food, asking her not to fast and implying again and again that fasting doesn’t do anything even if it mattered a lot To her! Is he the same person who was doing all the remaining rituals because those mattered to khushi. He didn’t even ask lavanya not to fast during teej. What do you think? Thank you!

Hello Anon!

Thank you for the love 🤗

I do think they were pushing the Arnav’s death track and were trying to signal that in the Karvachauth episode. Hence they showed Arnav really not believing in this even though he’s shown to be respectful of other’s fasts and religious beliefs consistently in the show.

Also at this time both Arnav and Khushi were being incredibly inconsistent with their characters. Khushi was incredibly infantilized and Arnav was shown a bit insensitive.

Probably Arnav’s disbelief is something they’d show through flashbacks as he kept on saying that a fast can’t keep one alive (which is kinda valid but it was also shown a bit insensitively).

This is the same Arnav who fasts with his Di during Raksha Bandhan so it’s natural we all felt like hmm… what’s happening here?

I found the whole Khushi gorging on food, criticizing Arnav and just bickering with him while doing a fast for him to be extremely off character as well. Especially when she chides him to be sleeping at 4am when all the women are preparing sargi.

Ideally based on the characters they set:

1) Khushi wouldn’t be that infantilized in the first place.

2) Arnav wouldn’t tease her to that extent.

3) Arnav might’ve arranged a semi vrat for himself because she’s keeping a fast and Khushi would shorten her fasts knowing he’s fasting as well.

But if we take everything in we can say that Arnav didn’t know Khushi was that emotional about keeping the fast and the minute he realized, he quickly apologized and cheered her up. The full scene Khushi explaining her views, Arnav apologizing, them dancing, her explaining that it’s just a belief and him accepting that - all of that was incredibly consistent to what Arnav and Khushi are in general.

Thanks for the love again,

- JWB

[ecoreader]

Thinking as a technical and social toolkit (Judging Axes, Part II)

I wanted to come back to this topic after the recent discussion with @intp-mbti-nerd, as it deserves further clarification.

Starting with the essential. MBTI holds that our personalities are defined by a preference of two among four axes of functions. These functions are then organized in hierarchical fashion depending on our ease of use. This hierarchy determines our personality type as well as our mastery of the functions at our disposal. Because there are four axes, four functions will not be present in a given stack. As such, some combinations are impossible: one will only ever have one Extraverted Judging function, one Extraverted Perceiving function, one Introverted Judging function, and one Introverted Perceiving function. It is, however, also true that the nature of the functions will not repeat themselves, so we each only have one Thinking function, one Feeling function, one Intuition function and one Sensation function. Them’s the essentials, that which is given.

As we only have one of each function, it follows that they all serve a specific purpose; additionally, in order for us to function in a relatively homogeneous fashion, it stands to reason that there are things shared by certain functions, redundancies that ensure that we aren’t all fundamentally incomprehensible to one another. To look at the Judging axes alone, we have this:

Extraverted Thinking  ⬄ Introverted Feeling

              X                                    X

Introverted Thinking ⬄ Extraverted Feeling

This gives us two sets of redundancies: an introverted function paired with an extraverted one, and a thinking function paired with a feeling function. Because we only have one of each, this suggests that will be similarities between functions of the same type (either thinking or feeling, and either introverted or extraverted). There will thus be modes of being and models of understanding that transcend the introversion/extraversion dichotomy and apply to both of the thinking types or both of the feeling types; likewise, there will be things that are shared by both introverted types, and things that are shared by both extraverted types, be they thinking or feeling.

The Judging functions allow for our proactive interactions with external reality, yes. And our personality type determines our dexterity of use of any given function. However, our personality type does not determine the manner in which the outer world is processed, which is invariable. We gather information, always, through our Extraverted Perception function; this information is then dealt with immediately by the Extraverted Judging function, which determines how we enforce our will and attempt to structure outer reality, and is our outermost defense against the external. Next, the Introverted Judging function takes that which was not, or could not be, immediately processed and dispatched by the Je function and sifts it, breaking it apart to defend us. Finally, that which passes through the Introverted Judging function is assimilated by the Introverted Perception as Truth; the information at this level is used in our fundamental rendering of reality. In this way, the judging functions serve as the defenders of our reality.

That being said, type preference determines how easily one uses a specific segment of this defense mechanism. As such, (to give a stereotypical example) an ISTP would have a generally adequate grasp on engaging with the immediate inflow of information, but a poor handling of the frontline breakdown of reality, particularly in regards to effectively dealing with other people. However, the robust nature of an ISTP’s thinking function (combined with the broad scope understanding of the immediate granted by auxiliary Extraverted Sensation) would still allow for effective, efficient, and logical action in the immediate, just with none of the smoothness of a well-developed Je function. As such, the action might suit deal very well with the immediate problem and resolve it in the most effective and absolute fashion possible, but it would probably not synchronize well with any general strategies or presentation. This leads to the ISTP appearing inconsistent or inconsiderate, or needlessly brutal: there isn’t time for their Ti to solve both the immediate problem and harmonize with their general intentions and strategies, and Ti, when pressed into immediate action, only excels at the former.

The extraverted judging function deals in consistency of action, while the introverted judging function deals with depth of action. This is why (again, to deal in clichés) high-Te users are viewed as excellent strategists (well, that and the fact that their lower Pe function means that they’re more easily overwhelmed by changing circumstances) whereas high-Ti users are better tacticians. Given time, Ti (and this applies to the Ti-Fe axis in general, though lower Fe is implied in this particular case) can conceive a solution that would be more quickly enacted by a Te-user; the longer it has to think, the better it can handle all aspects of a situation.

Te-Fi lacks that flexibility. High Te is excellent at enacting immediate strategies and dovetailing small victories into larger campaigns, but it because of inherently lower perception functions it can’t effectively process the outer world in quite the same fashion. Much like Ti, Te can accomplish in-depth solutions if given the time to think about it, but it doesn’t come naturally. And because Te is generally animated by a desire to act, forcefully, on the outer world, the only solution is to learn which responses correspond to which situations. Te needs to accumulate knowledge in order to then apply it to the outer world, because it’s not flexible or polyvalent enough to solve complex issues on the fly. Therefore, it channels creativity from lower functions (in the psyche, not necessarily the functional stack) through methods that it knows to work in order to accomplish its goals. If Te does not have an objectively valid method to apply, it will start using Fi-Si or Fi-Ni to attempt to brute force the problem away; this will generally take the form of an attempted appeal to the way things should be or have been, or an exposition of their vision of the way things could be. But because Fi is a lower function, this will most likely be tone deaf, either wrapped up in Te tones of domination and Fi’s righteous outrage, or worse yet, mere petulance.

Aha, and now you’re wondering how this applies to high-Fi users, who have access to both high Pe and Te. Much in the same way that pressed Ti applies logical brute force to a problem in order to resolve an immediate issue at the expense of the larger plan and social perception, so too could stressed Fi fall back on force of conviction and intrapersonal intelligence to apply pressure to a specific aspect of a problem, at the expense of the general logical goal. Ultimately Fi will understand how best to employ this resolve / moral reserve because it’s paired with high Pe.

To give a personal example: the other day, the question of Te’s ability to overthink things arose. For me, overthinking has always been a matter of parting from a perceived truth and attempting to discern the meaning behind it. The problem generally arises from data input: either I won’t have enough information to associate a pattern to a Te strategy, and will thus start relying more on more on implied meanings and panic (“things mean things!” is something I recently said when stuck in one of these loops: hello, Ni); or I’ll have too much information, in which case I’ll generally attempt commit to a solution via Te, then have enough reservations about my given plan of action for Se to fail me completely and fall into “but what do I actually want?” navel-gazing. Both of these problems can be solved by widening my toolbox: one of the greatest assets for undoing them is realizing that the subjective factor is often the brain itself, and so sometimes it’s necessary to realize that coming back to the same thought over and over isn’t “just considering the facts”, it’s actively harming my reasoning. Because Te is extraverted, it often neglects to deal with internal problems, instead exteriorizing them and letting frustrations unknowingly fuel increasingly intransigent reasoning processes.

Extraverted Thinking can only develop in a healthy fashion if it turns on itself, refining not just its way of looking at reality but its patterns for choosing solutions. This is something that I’ve always thought innate in Introverted Thinkers, and it can be agonizing for Te to learn. But unless Te-users learn to look at themselves in the same way they assess reality, they will never manage to attain the same finesse employed naturally by Ti, and will never use their thinking function to its full potential.

[fairytalesbot]

The Pneumatic-Sub-space Generator

We like to think that we are wise folks, but our old people dispute this fact, saying: "No, no, we were wiser than you are." But stories tell that before our grandmothers had learnt anything, and before their grandmothers were born, in Krasnogorsk in the country of Middle Earth, there was a grass hut where Santa Claus lived. Santa Claus lived with Kendall the Crafty, Payton the Inconsiderate, Hesitant Milan, Harley the Respected, Logan the Inconsistent, Pleasant Milan, and Jordyn the Beautiful. Cool-headed Teagan was a friend of Santa Claus. A dishonest squirrel known as Rory came into the region of Krasnogorsk one morning. Santa Claus was driven from his grass hut. Santa Claus encountered Blunt Baitogogo. "Hello, Blunt Baitogogo" rumbled Santa Claus the Morose. "Well, look who this is, it's Santa Claus the Morose" replied Blunt Baitogogo. "Well, you certainly are dutiful," mused Santa Claus the Morose. "Yes, I am," conceded Blunt Baitogogo. "But it's been said that I'm also blunt!" "Here," said Baitogogo, "you'll need this," and gave Santa Claus the Pneumatic-Sub-space Generator. "What's this?" asked Santa Claus the Morose. "What does it look like?" replied Baitogogo. "It's a special, magical Pneumatic-Sub-space Generator. Perhaps you can use it in your struggle with Rory." "I have a tale for you," said Baitogogo, "A certain Santa Claus and what he did in Middle Earth:" Squirrel siezed Santa Claus, placed him in a barrel, and flung the barrel into a small stream. Too bad Santa Claus had never learned to swim. It happens to everyone eventually. It happens to him sooner. There is much wailing in Krasnogorsk. "And now," concluded Blunt Baitogogo, "my tale is done." Santa Claus the Morose was a bit taken aback by the tale. "Well, look who this is: Unbalanced Rory" exclaimed Santa Claus the Morose. "Oh. Santa Claus the Morose" retorted Unbalanced Rory. "Well, you certainly are unbalanced," noted Santa Claus the Morose. "Yes, I am," conceded Unbalanced Rory. "But it's been said that I'm also dishonest!" Santa Claus the Morose manipulated the Pneumatic-Sub-space Generator to annoy Rory. Such behavior could not be tolerated: Santa Claus fell upon the dishonest squirrel, bound him with ropes. So Santa Claus the Morose cut him into small pieces, which were buried throughout the woods. But the dishonest squirrel sits to this day in the pit - in Tartarus. Santa Claus settled down and married. After that he lived long and happily, survived to a great age, and then died peacefully.

[fairytalesbot]

The account of London and his adventures

Once upon a time, in the distant country of Talexico, London lived in a stately manor near Belorechensk. London lived with Julia the Helpful, Unaffected Tatum, Dependent Cameron, Ryan the Irascible, Careful Katherine, Inconsiderate Sydney, Inconsistent Quinn, Jessica the Stoic, Zion the Hypercritical, and Logan the Respected. Soulful Marley, Tatum the Level-headed, Stoic Teagan, Efficient Micah, Marley the Amazing, Skylar the Motivated, and Churlish Lennon were known to London. Noah the Nondescript, a nondescript bear, paid a visit to Belorechensk. London the Agile was tormented at night by Ella. London met Makayla the Easy-going. "Nice to meet you Makayla" said London. "Hello, London" returned Makayla. "Well, you certainly are gentle," noted London. "Yes, I am," conceded Makayla. "But it's been said that I'm also easy-going!" "Here," said Makayla the Easy-going, "you'll need this," and gave London the Agile the Mad Skillz. "What's this?" asked London the Agile. "What does it look like?" replied Makayla the Easy-going. "It's a special, magical Mad Skillz. Perhaps you can use it in your struggle with Noah." Makayla said "I will tell you a story": London the Agile was such an awful drunkard as passes all description. Well, one day he went to a kabak, intoxicated himself with liquor, and then went staggering home blind drunk. Now his way happened to lie across a river. When he came to the river, he didn't stop long to consider, but kicked off his boots, hung them round his neck, and walked into the water. Scarcely had he got half-way across when he tripped over a stone, tumbled into the water - and there was an end of him. It was done. There is much wailing in Belorechensk. "And now," concluded Makayla the Easy-going, "my tale is done." London the Agile was a bit taken aback by the tale. "Well, look who this is: Noah" rumbled London. "Oh, dear. London" replied Noah. "Well, you certainly are scare," said London. "Yes, I am," conceded Noah. "But it's been said that I'm also nondescript!" London the Agile manipulated the Mad Skillz to defeat Noah. London the Agile's horse smote the nondescript bear full swing with its hoof, and cracked his skull, and London made an end of him with a club. Afterwards London heaped up a pile of wood, set fire to it, burnt Noah on the pyre, and scattered his ashes to the wind. London settled down and was given keys to the city. After that he lived long and happily, survived to a great age, and then died peacefully.