I Made A Bunch Of In-universe Memes For Some Reason And They’re Completely Incomprehensible. Can You

The day Alfred got his Model T

I did give them matching sweaters, you’re right!

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alright so im thinking about america--

i dont really think of him as a sexual entity

i think he's had sex before, he's used it to gain advantages, but he doesn't have it often-- doesn't need to or want to

he's puritan at heart, and i can't help but feel like he'd still feel a shame around sleeping around a ton-- yes, he's had one night stands, but they've been few and far in between

especially when growing up-- i think he had so much going on w him that he genuinely didn't think about it much.

hes such a romantic (in the artistic sense) that i think he's more intrigued by the idea of relationships-- of the emotions and the trials, of the way people prove they're in love than actually being in it himself.

in this way, i think his isolationism manifests in his personal life-- unused to intimacy (in both sense of the words), he doesn't have any real desire or thought abt being so thoroughly known by someone else.

-> he's not usually scared of the unknown, throwing himself headfirst into physical things, but emotionally? the guy is stunted.

Sketches that I actually like enough to share here

Ngl I think I’m tentatively now in the “Yao had short hair for most of the 20th century” club 🤔. It’s true this certainly isn’t wholly a novel thought, given the irl politics of Chinese men’s haircuts in line with the end of the Qing dynasty and shift to China becoming a republic. But in the past, I kind of swung between headcanoning that he soon grew it out again by the 30s (if only because he’s kept long hair for thousands of years before and it feels like such a integral part of his character) and that he didn’t until much, much later (90s and onwards?). And I think I kind of like the latter option now, if only to reflect how much of the 20th century involved China cycling through all kinds of different ideologies and crises very tumultuously— just this constant stage of remaking and at times trying very hard to cut ties with the past and his old life and its perceived weaknesses (the whole thing about destroying the “Four Olds” during the cultural revolution even led to the vandalism of Confucius’ tomb amongst other historical sites).

And precisely because keeping long hair was one manifestation of his old self and traditions, I think I like the idea of him finally coming back to it only after much soul searching, and a sort of rebalancing of himself between the old and the new. I don’t think he ever feels absolute equilibrium and the weight of the tumult and tragedies of the past century are still being felt and negotiated, but I think I can see him being comfortable with growing his hair out again by the late 90s or early 2000s. For a nation as old as he is, it’s part and parcel of existence to live many lives and to find yourself changed—but there are always some core threads of his being that he eventually returns to.

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reposting this because I forgot his hair clip lmao

yes sir 🫡

First art in this year just dropped 🌟

And yeah, it's micronation pyjama party 👕🧦