fulllifeconsequences

....jokes aside it is a little weird the definition of a relatively simple concept has words like "deriving" and "distinguished." Who would know those words but not emotion? Is it a vast dictionary conspiracy contrived to make people buy more dictionaries to look up more words? And while we're at it, I'm really good at codes but I have yet to decipher the pronunciation guide. Do those letters even mean anything? Why not just write it out phonetically like a normal person?

Wowie! You're a huge nerd, huh?

Look at it this way, I guess. How do you define stuff like emotion without using really specific and long explanations? If you want literally everybody to understand what it means, then you can't use slang or compare it to something. Like... if you say blue is the color of blue stop signs, then that's useless to someone who doesn't live in a place with roads. There are no stop signs, right?

Like... how would YOU define emotions? Without just listing them or saying "I dunno, feelings." It's hard, right?

Dang I'm usually so good at hiding it

[YES HE IS A NERD WE ALL KNOW HE'S A NERD. That's a more serious answer than he expected, though.]

There certainly aren't blue ones. Stop signs are usually red where I'm from.

[What.]

It's definitely easiest to explain with examples. Or by getting extremely poetic, I guess, and that's not always helpful for actually understanding things.

[Joke's on you, Dipper! Chara's kind of a nerd too!!]

There are no blue stop signs where I'm from, either. See? Very hard to define things by comparing them.

It gets even worse when you start getting into things that maybe aren't capable of being understood. Too hard to think about. Falling back on fancy, clinical language is about the only way to parse stuff like that.

There should be a better way. But I guess the words are what people made up to try and explain them in the first place. How can you explain an explanation? Make up more words?

Monsters use magic.

They use words too, I mean, but magic is a way of expressing themselves directly from the SOUL. You should see their birthday cards.

Magic birthday cards? Are you teasing again?

You mean to tell me you've never received a bullet-pattern birthday card? You poor thing. You're missing out.

[A pause as Dipper stares at that and tries to figure out what they mean.]

You know it's really hard to figure out if you're joking or not sometimes.

I know. That's not a bug, it's a design feature.

You know I can just ask literally anyone else from your world right

Maybe they're in on it, too. Maybe bullet birthday cards are like drop bears for us, and we just like to mess with tourists.

Drop bears are real.

[DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO?]

And so are bullet birthday cards.

If you say so. Can't be much worse than excessively glittery birthday cards.

[He will NEVER get all the glitter off his skin and out of his hair. He's just accepted this is the price of being Mabel's brother.]

Golly, Dipper. I think I now know exactly what I should do for your birthday.

[...bullets or glitter? If they thinks glitter is going to make Dipper do more than roll his eyes, they clearly haven't dealt with Mabel enough. If they mean bullets, then Dipper sincerely hopes bullet pattern birthday cards aren't a metaphor for just shooting someone.

Probably better not to ask.]

Yeah if we even bother celebrating it. Think anyone will buy that I'm 14?

I bet I could hook you up with a convincing fake ID. Does Wonderland even use ID for anything? I don't think anyone's enforcing a legal age on much of anything here.

[Note to self: Try asking closet for guns and cigarettes and a voting ballot]

I mean the bartender was trying to get me to drink even though I flat out told him I was underage. Though if you can make one that'd fool my grunkles, that'd be pretty impressive.

Never underestimate the things sheer determination can do.

And also a closet that magically gives you just... whatever supplies you ask for, I guess. That helps too. Think your grunkles would be convinced by macaroni and glitter?

Mabel already made those. They were... more effective than you'd think. Though we didn't try them on our grunkles.

They also had googly eyes.

Googly eyes. Golly, she pulled out all the stops. I'll have to step up my game if I'm going to match that!

She's a master of crafts. You don't stand a chance.

I refuse to be out-forgeried. Forgeryed?

I'll have to launch a counterfeit counterattack.

[......it's good that they're having fun.]

And now we're launching epic craft battles. What have I done?

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