Strong Sad is a fat emo trans man in a small town who cant bring himself to wear anything but grey hoodies. Homestar is an athlete with undiagnosed adhd and autism who peaked in high school and now works in a call center. Marzipan is a hippie who is at least not an antivaxxer but probably believes processed food is what causes depression. Strong Bad is a niche internet microcelebrity with nothing really material to show for it except for an exorbitant amount of special interest knowledge and Teen Girl Squad is his outsider art. Pompom is a rich failson whose nonverbality limits his friend group to the rest of the cast. The King of Town is one of those guys who won the lottery and lives a decadent but relatively lower class lifestyle so he doesnt have to work for the rest of his life and Poopsmith is there to make sure his body doesnt take months to be discovered when he dies. Bubs is self explanatory. Strong Mad and Coach Z are guys you can find working at any fast food restaurant.
Beans.
My partner and I have a running joke with a friend. Every time he goes on holiday we increase the quantity of beans in his flat.
The first time we bought ~30 cans of kidney beans and hid them around the house like some Easter egg hunt thing but with beans.
The Second time we bought ~6kg dried white beans and hid those in various places. Nearly every receptacle that could safely hold beans became the home of beans. My personal favourite was emptying an oat milk carton, very carefully washing and drying it, filling it with beans and then just putting it back among several other cartons.
He went on holiday again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously there is an expectation of bean-based shenanigans. And obviously we have to beat our previous efforts.
Our friend has (had) a mosaic on his wall of the famous Marilyn Monroe Pop-Art by Andy Warhol. He made the mosaic himself. Over the last couple of weeks we have spent hours and hours assembling a frame, drawing up a pattern and gridding out a 70 x 70 frame and gluing an untold amount of beans to it. I have spent over 21 hours gluing beans to a frames.
For the last couple of days I ended up going to bed at 5:00 am because I lost track of time whilst experimenting with which types of glue works best with different beans (I now have *opinions* on this, y’all). The day of our friend’s return we spent the morning and afternoon grouting the piece and wiping it down and wiping it down again and wiping it down again because grout is just like that. In the evening we went to install the mosaic, just a few hours before his return. Here’s a comparison between the original and our clearly superior replication, and the new piece installed in its rightful place.
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