Sunday Sundries: The Saga of Gary the Falsely Accused

And his children, the Not Yet Accused

Hi folks! Welcome back to another Sunday Sundries, where I talk about whatever random topic falls out of my head.

Today, here's a mere sampling of the way my brain latches onto things and turns them into stories.

Cuddles can make me pull entire and complete universes out of my…head…by firing questions at me about it, or just encouraging me by laughing so hard she forgets to breathe.

Other times, it’s just me doing the thing while she…laughs so hard she forgets to breathe.

And sometimes, like this one, we pit ourselves against each other in a battle of increasingly ridiculous nonsense, and both wind up laughing so hard we forget to breathe.

For example! The Gary of the post title!

Look at poor Gary, how could anyone accuse this face?

A good couple of years ago, maybe a bit more, Cuddles was playing Minecraft. Not unusual, she does this a lot, solo and with friends. I think another friend might have been playing too, I'm not sure.

She decided to build a big aquarium in the building she was making, and then filled it with fish, and also a random turtle.

She asked me to name the turtle, and I decided it looked like a Gary. And so it was named!

A short while later, Cuddles realised all the fish were gone from the aquarium, and that only Gary was still in there swimming around.

So, Cuddles decided Gary ate them, and levelled accusations at him, before casting him out of his home!

I fought Gary's side, but Cuddles was determined, and sent him back into the sea in disgrace.

Then she refilled the aquarium with fish.

Aaaaand the fish disappeared again.

Clearly, Gary did not eat them.

So I pulled out an improvised impassioned speech all about how cruel Cuddles was, and how she had ruined the reputation of a good and loyal turtle, and I renamed him Gary the Falsely Accused!

And just as we were all out of breath laughing, we realised Gary had baby turtles!

And so the legend became: The Saga of Gary the Falsely Accused and his children the Not Yet Accused.

And every game now that has turtles, the joke returns. Usually through me—because I will not allow Cuddles to defame more innocent turtles!!

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It’s been a long couple of weeks, and I’ve gone and strained the ligaments in my hand, so I can’t type too much right now! But I’ll be happy to tell you about the weird and wonderful worlds of evil grass, stoplight siblings, and more, if you like.

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That’s all for now, see you next time!