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Page 42! Boy howdy is this getting long af.  I hope everybody had a good Christmas. Everybody in the world. Not one bad Christmas. Even the atheists. Santa loves all his children.

I watched that new Christmas film, Red One. It has the rock and JK simons in it. Sorry, I mean The Rock. I guess without the capital letters it just looks like I'm talking about a boulder or something. Anyway, JK simmons and The Rock are a weird pair. Because JK Simmmons can act but the Rock...well he's fine but like...he's a wrestler, y'know? Anyway. Jk Simmmmons is barely even in it (I don't know how many Ms are in his name)...also he's playing santa but he's jacked for some reason?

The point is, the film was terrible. Worst Christmas film I've ever seen. And that's a genre I generally don't expect much from. But I tell you what, would've made a decent video game. So there's that. Also it's a 12A. 12A? 12 year olds are too old for films about Santa Claus. That's just ridiculous. I feel like this film exists to ruin father christmas for little children, or worse...to make santa claus cool for adults. Disturbing stuff.

I don't actually care about Red One or Santa Claus, but as you know I am legally obligated to write something here every week and less brain power goes into it with every post. That being said, I now have a mailing list people can subscribe to.  I mean...I don't know why you would, cos I'm just posting old Tuft Luck pages. But you can! The reason I bring it up though is because I'm copy and pasting the original bits of text under each page but I've just realised the one I've written today is pretty tied to a specific time and place. That and the edinburgh fringe one (blogger just tried to correct the word 'edinburgh' to 'breeding' thought I'd share that).

Anyway, share my mailing list with your friends and subscribe to it HERE to re-read about my thoughts on Red One in June 2025.

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Gotta race to post this one today because the internet is veeerrrry precarious. I'm using that word correctly right? Sometimes I say big words but I have no idea if I'm using the properly. I don't know why I do it, they're just the first word that comes to mind usually. But I'm sorta guessing what it meant. It's weird that the first thing that comes to mind when saying something would be a complicated word your not even sure that you can spell or understand.

I feel like in general my diction has always flipped between very 'South London colloquial' and '...long...word...english'. It's something I catch a lot and I'm not sure what triggers me to go back and forth. It's kind of weird when writing dialogue as well cos sometimes I'll write a big word and then it's like...wait...would that character actually know that word or am I just doing that thing again?

I try my best to sort of know off the jump how a character speaks but some of them slip though the cracks. I would argue actually that Tuft is one of those characters. I don't know what accent he's speaking with or really even what he sounds like yet. And I'm not 100% sure that I've been consistent in his uhh..dialect. That's another fancy word I assume I'm using correctly. I guess that means that I just write Tuft how I talk/think, so I guess he just kind of sounds like me? But more like a cat. Whatever that means lol.

Maybe he's voiced by Antonio Banderas, like Puss in Boots.

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I did an online test to see if I showed signs of autism. Why? I was procrastinating.

Anyway it said that I am not autistic, which is what I thought lol, but it did say that I have more autistic traits than the average person.

So I'm not autistic, I just have vaguely autistic vibes. Cool.

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I forget I have to post this comic every Tuesday. Every. Single. Week. I always know it's coming the night before...but then I start my day off and then a few hours into the day I'm suddenly like...OH YEAH I HAVE TO POST THIS WEEKS PAGE! Usually it occurs to me around the time I'm about to make lunch. But guess what? I skipped lunch today! And now it's 5pm.

That was the one benefit of my old system of posting. N when I say 'system' I mean lack thereof. I used to never have these pages ready in advance and so every Tuesday my day would start with finishing it as quickly as possible then immediately posting it. It was stressful, but I never forgot! Although actually, I don't think it effected the timing at all. It was maybe even more chaotic because sometimes finishing the page would take half a day. Hmm, so scratch that. There is no scenario where I do this consistently. Well, unless I set an alarm or something. But who wants to live like that? People who have it all together that's who. I'm not ready to be that person just yet. Emotionally. I'm too attached to failure.

Anyway, I think at this point you're all used to the chaotic nature my upload times. At least I haven't missed a day yet. I've definitely been told that some just wait 'til Wednesday to check. In fact some of you just leave it for months and then do a binge catch up. Which is fine. I'm not judging. Kinda makes me feel like you're not as committed, but it's fine. I'm not judging.

Anyway, the clock is right about to strike 5 officially- oop! just struck 5. So yeah, time to stop blabbering and upload.

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Not much to say this week. Not that it's not been an eventful week. If anything, it's been TOO eventful. That makes it sound like I'm lying but I'm being serious! For real! My life is super interesting! Oh, forget it.

The New Year is coming up and I have no resolutions...except, I guess to do my Christmas shopping earlier in the year. As someone who is stressed out by schedules and timed obligations, I think in the future I should really just do my shopping all year round, so when it gets to this time of year I don't have to think about it so much. Because also, the pressure absolutely effects my ability to buy good gifts. I am a person who just cannot function under pressure...like at all.

Not timed pressure anyway. Pressure that has no end in site I actually seem pretty adept to. Weird. And maybe terrible for my life?