I swear I’m going back to stick figures after this, but just wanted to make sure you saw my very helpful and strangely cropped version of this tutorial for the #purplepinkypromise Join it! It’s a hashtag! It’s so fast and easy to do! #aortaed #aortasupporta #johnritterfoundation #johnritterfoundationforaortichealth
Gary (2009/2019) #10yearchallenge
These are just some of the things for auction to support this year’s @johnritterfoundation event on Thursday. See if there’s anything you’re interested in, if you feel like supporting us! There are other ways to help and donate if you want on the website as well! Here is the link to the auction: https://shorturl.at/osyD1 Maybe you can’t click links in captions? Is copying and pasting allowed? I guess I’ll find out! Thank you for reading this!
Just a quick merminder to centaur yourself before you go out trick-or-treating! And have a Happy Halloween from Wanda, Gary, and the entire Wörning family! (2019)
I guess the last one got cut off! Here’s this one #purplepinkypromise #aortaed #aortasupporta #AorticDissectionAwarenessWeek
🚨hashtag wars🚨 #MyKidsin3Words it’s take your child to hashtag wars day
Sometimes the faces of the 39 people Trevor feels like he disappointed or let down in some way over the course of his life appear before him. Usually only one or two come at a time, but every once in a while, when he is feeling particularly useless, all 39 will come at once and try to convince him that his very presence on earth is a detriment to mankind as a whole. It’s not very helpful. He thinks maybe he could exorcise these faces from his mind by finding each one of the people they represent, hearing what they have to say, and doing whatever it takes to make it right with them. But what if he can’t, he thinks. What if it makes things worse. “You’re too much of a coward” says one face, who looks a bit like a mix between his grandfather and his junior varsity baseball coach. Deep down he knows that’s not true, but he’s too exhausted to make the effort to prove it. He shifts his focus to his sister Wanda, the only face among the 39 who he knows loves him unconditionally. It’s almost more painful to look at her than any of the rest. He heads to the corner store, determined to once again drown them all out for the night. They’ll be louder tomorrow, he knows, but maybe tomorrow he’ll be up for the fight. He knows one day he will be. He’s right. (2004)
The rules of each dream seem to vary, but in this one, she’s back for an indeterminate amount of time. She looks happy and healthy, and seems to be only slightly confused by the overwhelming emotion pouring out of Randy. He instinctively knows that he cannot let on that she is gone, or that he misses her, or anything that might tip her off that she is merely a visitor in his dream, and no longer in the material world. He tries to keep it together and enjoy the limited time he has with her. The hugs, after all, feel real. They walk around, he tells her about his life, and she listens peacefully. He wishes she could tell him how she is, where she is, what she does when she’s not in here with him in his dream, but it feels almost like she is also dreaming somewhere, and a question like that could wake her up, wherever she is, and end the dream for both of them. So he tries to concentrate on the feel of her hand in his, the comforting and once familiar tones of her voice (is that even what she sounded like? Sometimes it’s hard to remember), and that look in her eyes that always made him feel seen in a way he has never felt since. It really does feel like they are together again, and when he starts awake, it almost feels like she’s gone for the first time all over again. He knows the attempts to fall back asleep and re-enter the same dream are fruitless, but Randy tries his best (how could he not). But soon the blanket of grief overtakes him, and he can’t tell if the tears that come are from the old familiar forever pain of losing her, or from the gratitude he feels for being able to see her again, even for such a short time (2021)
sympathy has its limits
Did this work?? I don’t know how to do any of this, I’m used to posting stick people help
Gary’s never been an expert at the art of seduction, but he’s also never offended by Wanda’s laughing outright at his “moves”. He knows she prefers him to have as serious a face as possible, but does not enjoy when he bites his lower lip, so he has diligently removed bitey-lower-lip-face from his reservoir of serious expressions. Missing from the dance for good is the once very popular with Wanda facing-away-and-looking-back-over-your-shoulder-very-quickly move, ever since it put a serious crick in Gary’s neck that lasted for quite a while. Little does Wanda know that Gary held onto that neck brace and all these months later it’s about to make its first appearance as his primary wardrobe piece in tonight’s show. (2011)
After telling his friend Tara that he really liked the very same movie he told Glen that he hated, Allan cannot tell which of these two seemingly opposed opinions is his own. He begins to feel like he has no true opinion of anything, since he felt like he was being honest with each of them, and experiences his first identity crisis. If Glen and Tara compare notes and confront him about his differing opinions, he thinks, he’ll just say “Well, there were some good things about it and some bad things about it.” He’s not very comforted by this solution, plus OH MY GOSH HE FORGOT WHAT HE TOLD ISAAC. “Who have I become?” he mumbles to himself, and wonders if his mom will let him just stay home from school tomorrow to strategize. 7th grade is much more complicated than he ever could have imagined (2009)
It’s too much of a coincidence… This has got to be some sort of sign #KevinProbably
DUUUUUDE WTF PULL OVER RIGHT NOW I’M GETTING OUT YOU ARE THE WORST DRIVER (2016)
Zzzzzzzz (2016)
Gary’s first and only performance of his experimental puppet show “Hello, I Am Gary’s Hand & This Is Gary’s Other Hand” does not go over well. Some claim there simply was no story, while others point out the show’s complete absence of puppets as an odd creative choice for a puppet show. Gary maintains afterwards that his hands were meant to be naked to make a point, and if people have a problem with hand nudity, that’s on them, he’s glad they walked out. Despite keeping a brave face amongst friends, he is heartbroken and embarrassed to admit how much he believed in it. If only they had stayed for the third act, they would have understood, he thinks. That’s where it all really comes together. Gary’s Hand and Gary’s Other Hand meet Gary himself (pictured), and are forced to reckon with their undeniable interconnectedness, despite arguing bitterly with each other for the first two acts. Wanda is one of five people who sit through it in its entirety, fascinated by this person’s commitment to something so strange (1992)
It’s Valentines, and all day Allan has been working up the courage to ask his classmate if she wants to see a movie with him. He can feel his hands shaking, and he knows his voice will probably catch, but he persists through his anxiety and asks her. The way she looks sort of surprised and says, “You mean, tonight?” is confirmation of Allan’s worst nightmare, and he immediately begins to fumblingly backpedal, including the lie that “he forgot what day it was” and that “it would probably be weird” and “maybe some other time.” He retreats and is doused with shame and self-loathing. It’s here that he discovers there’s a physical component to this kind of pain. Years later, he’ll reconnect with her, and jokingly ask her if she remembers this horribly awkward moment they shared. She doesn’t, but says she totally would have seen a movie with him (2011)
This is in two days! On Saturday! I’ll be joining @PlayPer_View to help raise funds for the wonderful nonprofit @Vidiots with a reading of a new play by @BillCorbett Live on September 18th or watch on-demand until September 22nd! Tinyurl.com/PPVMedieval
Sometimes during lunch, when Allan is feeling particularly overwhelmed by the social pressures of high school, he’ll excuse himself from his group of friends, go lay on the lawn, close his eyes, and pretend to sleep. This is reconnaissance for him; having removed himself from the game, he listens carefully to his peers during his nap, internally documenting how they’re all faring. Ooooh, Jerry went for a joke that didn’t go well. But his best friend Ted saved him by tacking on a new ending. This has strengthened their bond, Allan thinks. He makes the social calculation that saving a friend from twisting in the wind after a badly timed joke gains you more friendship points than the few you may get by throwing them under the bus for a couple of “cool” points. He often wonders if others think like this about friendship, or if he’s some kind of weird human robot. The fact that he’s unsettled by that thought is strangely comforting, as robots probably don’t spend much time being unsettled, he reasons. His friends never tell Allan that his eyes don’t look as closed as he thinks they do, or that only cartoon characters snore like that (2011)
Even in the middle of a great party, surrounded by friends and loved ones, Allan will suddenly and without warning feel himself disappearing. Some internal switch gets flipped, and all he can think about is how embarrassing it would be if someone looked down and saw him just hovering there, drink in hand, carrying on a conversation. No one ever looks down, of course. He swallows his fear and hopes the feeling won’t overwhelm him and make him disappear completely. The moment passes, and he is whole again, with no one the wiser. His extreme discomfort and self-awareness at these moments keeps him from noticing that every party is filled with awkward floating human torsos trying not to disappear (2016)
Whoa, dude, careful, please pay attention to the road, Allan (2016)
Two weeks after Randy’s wife Laura’s funeral, Gary takes him to an outdoor cafe. Caring for Laura had been Randy’s main focus for the last two years, and the last three months of her illness had been particularly brutal for the family. Gary knows there’s really nothing he can say to make his oldest friend’s pain go away, and they often fall into silences. Randy is simply grateful for Gary’s presence, which is enough. (2012)
Gary, overworked and on little sleep, is shocked at the horrific fantasy that leaps into his mind while he takes a drink of water. He reassures himself that no one can see inside his mind, but hopes if anyone could see his thoughts that they would understand it was more about getting out of work and not at all about anyone getting hurt. And because he’s just really, really tired. Walking back to his desk, he wonders to whom he just felt the compulsive need to defend and justify his thoughts, but he never questions the necessity to do so. (2015)
Any minute now, Allan is going to get a call or a text, and he’s going to be invited last minute to the New Year’s Eve party of his dreams. This year’s going to start out exactly the way he foresees (2015)
