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Paul_IPv6

@talia_christine

yup. we thought we were getting richard scarry. all we got was scary...

Deripteridan (he/him, plus)

@paul_ipv6 @talia_christine

I'm here literally to hear what was actually awful about richard scarry.

TC 💖

@Skepticat thanks! Happy holidays to you too ☺️

Mike But Slightly Frosty ❄️⛄

@tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine I beg your pardon. He's not hiding. He's proudly driving that pickle car, living his best life.

Woodswalked

@mikey

He is definitely not driving. Clearly a passenger, but smiling and enjoying his life.

I wonder if Dingo Dog ever catches up or if Mistress Mouse will have to be called to save the day.

cc: @tezoatlipoca @talia_christine

Andrew Benedict-Nelson

@mikey @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine there’s a bug-sized pickle car in there, also a bug film crew…

Nuncio Bitis ✷ ✅ 🏳️‍🌈

@tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine
Where did society go wrong that we don't have pickle cars at this point?!?

Adriano

@nuncio @tezoatlipoca @Woodswalked @talia_christine I think it was lobbying by Oscar Mayer and Truly Nolen.

DELETED

@talia_christine if my town mayor isnt a fox, I dont want it

Tanya Kasim

@talia_christine Hahaha...relatable. 😆 I expected that when I went off to the States to start college. 😂

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@talia_christine @the_etrain We'd all be much better off if we lived in Stardew Valley.

#2RR - 2 Ruote di Resistenza

@kroltanz @MichaelPorter @talia_christine
cw cannibalism
well, you put up with Daisy Duck serving turkey all these years...

ЯØ81И

@kroltanz @MichaelPorter @talia_christine I came here to say "It's people" but you already go in there first.

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@MichaelPorter @talia_christine this is like a Norman Rockwell painting of a typical American citizen in 2023.

VK Nask

@MichaelPorter @talia_christine reminds me of a quote from Casual Geographic's recent video: "animals are only as vegetarian as their options"

Michael Porter

@vknask @talia_christine Interesting, I wonder if it’s true… I guess animals’ diets are determined by what’s available and the equipment they have to catch/consume. We’re lucky birds are small 😄

Andre

@talia_christine Looks pretty reasonable -- the post office is run by a bunny and there's a fat cat in the town hall.

Privatised Sentient Water

@PCOWandre @talia_christine I think he's a fox. Cats seem to run the cafe next to post office.

Andre

@sentient_water @talia_christine That explains no chickens in the picture. Local Government ate 'em all.

Todd on :mastodon: ain

@talia_christine

Such memories of one of my first books! Mine was The Supermarket Mystery.

Ecstatic Cling

@talia_christine Someday I will be able to only have this car.

t3

@talia_christine if you can’t imagine a little pig or other animal doing your job while wearing lederhosen, it’s not a real job.

Cy
Curse you Richard Scarry, curse you for making me think that construction work is for our benefit, that the police are on our side and never violent, that automobiles are a healthy and innocuous boon to our society, that companies and industry are natural and nothing to be afraid of, and that no one ever goes hungry or has to sleep out in the cold. And curse my parents for feeding me this poison as a young, vulnerable child. Couldn't you give me a bible or something if you wanted to brainwash me into being a fucking tool?
Curse you Richard Scarry, curse you for making me think that construction work is for our benefit, that the police are on our side and never violent, that automobiles are a healthy and innocuous boon to our society, that companies and industry are natural and nothing to be afraid of, and that no one ever goes hungry or has to sleep out in the cold. And curse my parents for feeding me this poison as a young, vulnerable child. Couldn't you give me a bible or something if you wanted to brainwash me...
Juho Mäntysalo

@talia_christine

Worth pointing out that Richard Scarry was born in 1919, and the small-town world he descripted in his books was one of 1950s in its latest: that is, a world where cars were a luxury, not a necessity, and thus services had to be accessible without cars.

The Cars and Trucks and Things that Go from 1974 was in many ways one of his more "modern" works, and even there the autobahn where the action happened was in vacuum in context to the small-towns that the autobahns destroyed..

TC 💖

@iju was it really?🤷🏻‍♀️

Juho Mäntysalo

@talia_christine

Could you rephrase the question?

But ofc this is just a hypothesis based on my academic studies as contextualised by books dear to me when I was a kid. Scarry had an impressive bibliography: I haven't read all of his scores upon scores of books.

Schiffskatze

@talia_christine that's all there is to say and this is STILL MY EXPECTATION BY THE WAY *stares at world* 😡

StarkRG

@talia_christine The worm driving his apple car was on every page and I have yet to meet a single worm driving a vehicle of any kind.

Charlotte Walker

@WorkWithKirk @talia_christine I certainly expected things to more brightly coloured

Pia Herself :v_lesbian:

@talia_christine For the real talk: I didn't really expect happy cartoon characters, but people just having some general decency and will to interoperate with each other.

Instead we grew up to a world where people are encouraged for unnecessary conflict for reasons ranging from political to purely business.

Every commercial social media practically lives off the fact that they can promote negative or polarizing content so people would interact with it more.

And then there's the case of people just hating each other because 100 generations ago someone's grandpa disagreed with someone else's and now they're 2 warring factions with hate for each other taught from birth.

@talia_christine For the real talk: I didn't really expect happy cartoon characters, but people just having some general decency and will to interoperate with each other.

Instead we grew up to a world where people are encouraged for unnecessary conflict for reasons ranging from political to purely business.

JR

@talia_christine Doesn’t Mr Pig always have a crumby day? Flat tires ,accidents, the poor guy always has something happen.

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