rollypolyclover | SEVEN ⌘ Yotsuba and Outer Space [Video]

This is really important okay? It's super serious so you need to listen to me!

[Just in case there's no one listening she smacks the journal a few times to make sure she gets everyones attention. Or she hopes that's what hitting her journal around will do.]

Yotsuba is going into space. [Stay serious. This isn't fun... But oh my gosh space?! She's been star gazing and talked about aliens and Sailor Moon- Will Sailor Moon be there?! GFDKHASGK-- Okay no, no. Serious face. She might have cracked a smile there but she's doing her best to take this as seriously as she can manage.] Space is really big. And really far away!

[She turns away for a moment, only to come back with this thing in her arms.]

Someone needs to take care of him whilst Yotsuba is gone. He likes eating leaves and crackers, and he sleeps a lot but you need to take care of him anyway. He still needs looking after even if he's lazy!

[Yes. She's being sent off into space and one of her top priorities is making sure the stuffed toy Otonashi gave her is kept safe.]

Yuri can't look after him, she's busy! [Or she imagines she will be, SSS stuff and what not.] And Naoi can't do anything! ... Ohhh, is space cold? Yotsuba will bring the fluffy pink coat, it's really warm.

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Depends, does it get to be a tidal wave? [ Yuri's okay with this. ]

Yeah, it can be a tidal wave, the best tidal wave ever! We can swim on it together Yurippe! [What's a tidal wave.]

[ Swimming on tidal waves... Whatever. ] On top of the tidal wave is a better place to be than under it.

What happens if you go under the tidal wave, do you go splash and fall over? Ohhh...

Tidal waves are like 100 foot tall waves, Yotsuba.

[Oh shi- WAT.]

That's taller than Yotsuba! [...] Taller than Jumbo!! [...] Five and a half Jumbos!!! Too tall!

Exactly! They're ridiculously tall.

Don't want to ride on the tidal wave! Yurippe, you don't ride on it too! No one can ride on it, too tall! [Except Naoi. He can.]

That just makes us braver to conquer the hardest of tasks!

But it's too tall?! [WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING ABOUT THIS.] What if we fall Yurippe?! No tidal waves! Gyaaaaaah!!

We're awesome, right? So it'll be fine. [ CONFIDENCE IS KEY, YOTSUBA!! ]

Ohhh... We're awesome, yeah! It's okay, don't worry, tidal waves are easy! [NOW SHE'S GOING TO GO FIND THE BIGGEST WAVE SHE CAN. AND DROWN. GOOD GOING.]

[ DON'T WORRY, IT'S GOOD PRACTICE TO REACH FOR THE STARS AND YURI WILL COME SAVE HER, SOB. ]

As long as they're metaphoric ones.

Yeah! As long as they're--! [That word! What does that mean, should she even hazard a guess.

Her mouth stays open for a little while as she mulls this word over a little and then carries on talking like it was nothing.]

Ahaha what?! Yotsuba can't remember that word! Meta!

It means that something represents something else without actually being it. Like when you call someone that's really tall the Tokyo Tower. Tokyo Tower is a metaphor for them being really really tall. [ That's a good way to describe it to a kiddo, right? ~~Incidentally, this post was 333 comments long until this comment was made, which is the same height as the Tokyo Tower-- which Tay only noticed after typing up the metaphor.~~ ]

Like something, only not something. Ohhh, that's deep.

[~~The more you know-~~ That makes sense, she can get behind this explanation. She just needs to think up her own metaphor to test it now.]

... Nowy is mean like Yanda, he is such a Yanda.

He is such a Yanda whatever that means is correct. If you use "like" it's a simile, okay? Which is the exact same thing, just using "like" in the sentence.

[If they're the same then why are they two different things? Talking and saying things is really hard sometimes.]

Nowy is a Yanda. [Metaphor.] Like a Yanda. [Simile.] Right? What if Nowy is a big smelly Yanda, what is it then?

[ Because it's dumb! ]

That's still a metaphor, it just has more details. Your turn, what's a Yanda?

Ohhh, big metaphor!

[It's hard to put into words what Yanda is to Yotsuba, however she's willing to take a brave stab at it anyway.]

Yanda is really mean and he better never come back! He took a bite of Yotsuba's ice cream and he was all grumpy for eating poo!! He's a bad guy, hopeless!!

Ooh. That seems to be pretty accurate for Naoi. Generally for a metaphor you want to use someone or something famous though, so that a lot of people get it. Like you could say Naoi's a reverse-banana. He used to be bad, but now he's ripe but still weird and stringy and everything that comes from him is something made to make other people slip and fall on their faces.

Ohhh, a reverse-banana because he was ripe and now he's bad and stringy and you can slip on him and fall on your face. [...] Naoi isn't yellow.

[What's a metaphor again. She's lost it.]

[ Not remotely close Yotsuba, but that'll work. ] Some bananas are green.

Like my hair! [...] Like Nowy's hair!

[There we go, she gets it now. Maybe.]

Yotsuba isn't a banana.

No, you're not stinky, stringy, or try to hurt people so you're not a reverse-banana.

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