Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Mandarin's How-to-do-stuff-thing

In the collaborative notebook I do with my friends (We've talked about this, right?) I do a regular little bit in it called Mandarin's How-to-do-stuff-thing. It's a rip-off of my friend Taylor's  thing called Taylor's Tutorials. Mine is the cheap knockoff version you can get for cheap at Walmart, while hers is the real deal. Anyway, here is a recent one.
HOW TO START A GANG
1. Find people- watch the people you are nearby. Their coolness will begin to manifest if you watch them long enough. Approach them and if they truly are cool they will react well. Hopefully. Just don't talk about how you were watching them too much unless they do too.
2. Make stuff together- This is the ultimate bonding experience. Spend enough time with a person collaging, writing dumb fan-fics, or putting stickers on stuff will change your relationship with them.
3. Host a meeting- Now that you have people, invite them to a gang meeting. The following is how to host a beginners meeting. Change and edit it as you need to.
  1.     Find a hideout- Anywhere where everyone will be comfortable will be good.
  2.     Bring supplies- This is INCREDIBLY important- Food, pens, stickers, notebooks, cameras, more food, blah, blah, blah.
  3.     Chat about the gang- come up with a name if you want, a manifesto, a code, a tattoo done in pen ink, a handshake, whatever.
  4.     Chat about the world- This can be about the world that is around you but maybe not as directly related to you. This is optional- environment stuff, equality, feminism, politics, blah blah blah.
  5.     Chat about life- Growing up, being you, family, friends, enemies, crushes, projects, less blah blah blah- this is important.
  6.     Document it- This is what the camera and notebook is for. Document whatever seems important or not.
  7. Close it up- Recite your just written manifesto and plan your next fab meeting!
Gangs are great. Depending. Mostly.

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