Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable boy who loves making friends. August's son.
Hannah - Goat - A highly competitive kid. She strives to be the best and to be helpful to others. Daryl and Seth's daughter.
Liam - Capybara - A quiet and introspective boy. He enjoys writing and learning about things. Ember's older brother.
Transcript
Panel 1
Gustopher is showing off his new shirt to his friends. It has a big smiling face that's supposed to glow in the dark. Its eyes stare into your soul and the knowing smile reflects the terrible terrible secrets that it's learning about about you.
Gustopher: Check out my new shirt. It glows in the dark.
Panel 2
Gustopher and his friends have moved to the bathroom so they can turn off the lights and get a proper look at the shirt in the dark. The shirt continues to smile, it mocks the tragedy of the world with its perpetual grin.
Hannah: Is it bright?
Gustopher: Let's find out?
Panel 3
The lights are off. Everyone looks down at the shirt so they might witness its brilliant glow. It is glowing, but it's faint and hard to see. The shirt continues to smile. It has witnessed the secrets of the universe and must smile to hide its sorrow.
Panel 4
Liam: Is it doing anything?
Gustopher: Just ruining my day.
The shirt is satisfied with this series of events. Every disappointed child is one step closer to the glowpocolypse. The shirt smiles at the thought of that glorious day of glowmageddon.
The shirt is satisfied with this series of events. Every disappointed child is one step closer to the glowpocolypse. The shirt smiles at the thought of that glorious day of glowmageddon.
Fifth panel: August walks in with a UV flashlight and charges the shirt. It now glows with the intensity of 1000 suns.
Shoulda gone with a nice new pair of light up sneakers Gus. Those things can be seen from space.
Nothing more disappointing than something you were excited about just ...not working out. It's almost as if that smile on that shirt is mocking the group
Whaat? Here in Europe they just worked. For years. Only activated on when you stomped your feet though... Is it that time and what customer protections do your country have, because that sounds like the shops problem... From every day normal use everything should be intended to be working for a product for a year and it should be on their dime that it gets repaired anytime it doesn't work
A Florida Man in the 90's made a homemade atomic bomb with paint scrapings from clocks and old chemistry kits specifically because he couldn't do it with the newer stuff.
Radium cannot sustain a chain reaction because it isn't fissile. You would need to split about 31 billion atoms every second just to power a tiny 1-watt LED bulb. Chain reactions are important for bombs.
I got a glow-in-the-dark skeleton-print apron at Joann's a few years ago, and that mf is BRIGHT. I'll be painting or doing something in the kitchen, step outside for a moment (say, to take trash to the dumpster) and then upon stepping back inside from sunlight to a more 'comfortable low-light' indoors environment, be reminded that indeed yes my silly skeleton apron GLOWS.
I also got some of the culture-hustle glow powder for mixing with pigment, and similarly, that shit puts out some LIGHT when it's charged. I like to mix it with clear acrylic and apply it to patches and such to hide secret glow messages or features (eg, light-up eyes).
Yeah, my partner's mom bought a pyjama for our daughter without realizing it was glow-in-the-dark, and it's crazy how bright it is. Makes it easy to spot her at night though!
Similarly my sister got us a really big set of glow-in-the-dark stars that included a giant moon, and if I hold a book close to it when it's "fully charged" I can actually read it, and I've woken up a few times at 3 AM with the stars still mildly glowing.
Unless you forget the shirt does that and only remember when you stumble in the bathroom with the lights off and get fucking jumoscared looking in the mirror
I do have a full collection of the Nintendo Pikmin plushies, one of them glows in the dark, and since the live in my bed, it has startled me in the middle of the night
Man I never had a glow in the dark shirt, those always seemed so cool.
I did have one that changed colors with temperature. But it only really worked when I forcibly exhaled hot air directly onto my sleeve and was not very satisfying.
Glow in the dark tshirts are cool until you wash them a few times and the next time you want to show it to people it doesn't glow anymore. I had a super cool HTTYD one where it's the black dragon during the day and the white dragon appears in front of him at night, but now he's alone all the time 🙁
A UV flashlight will charge up glow in the dark in record time. I actually carry a small rechargeable UV light in my work kit so I can charge up the glow in the dark markers I used to identify equipment or as administrative lights. I use them a lot on zipper pulls.
I usually don't need it, sunlight exposure is usually pretty effective, but it can still be handy if a marker was in a pouch all day. The UV flashlight is also incredibly small, keychain sized, and topping up a glow marker uses a minimal amount of power. It's much less disruptive and more power efficient then to using one of my high candela or high lumen lights for the same purpose.
I had a inverse moment once as a teenager. Bought a shirt because it had a sick ass skeleton and was pleasantly surprised when I once wore it in the dark a couple months later and the skeleton was glowing
Don't worry Gustopher, my glow in dark Zippo lighter glows so brightly I swear you can see it from the sun, by night. Glow-in-dark is still awesome, not matter age. I miss those glow in dark ceiling stars from my childhood.
I had a pair of light up sneakers as a kid that actually caused the opposite issue. In normal light they were super fun but in the dark they were a straight up epilepsy risk, so if the lights ever turned off in my class I’d have to walk like I was creeping through a minefield lol
my hello kitty sweater i got claims to be glow in the dark but the only thing that glows on it is the hello kitty text. none of the characters, just the damn text
Glow in the dark stuff takes hours to charge up enough to actually glow (about 3-4 minimum). It's kind of funny, I wore one a couple months ago, had completely forgotten it glows only to be surprised when I turned off the lights.
The only glow in the dark thing I remember actually working well was the Nickelodeon flash toy where it was a big wall sized photosensitive screen and a flashbulb wand to make silhouettes and draw stuff on it
Many years ago I had a decepticon logo t-shirt where the ink wasnhighly reflective. Inwent clubbing and near every damned photo had it floating in the background in the gloom. My luminous ones look good under UV (black light) but that t was visible at a hundred yards.
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u/FieldExplores Gator Days 2h ago
It Glows - Gator Days
Characters
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable boy who loves making friends. August's son.
Hannah - Goat - A highly competitive kid. She strives to be the best and to be helpful to others. Daryl and Seth's daughter.
Liam - Capybara - A quiet and introspective boy. He enjoys writing and learning about things. Ember's older brother.
Transcript
Panel 1
Gustopher is showing off his new shirt to his friends. It has a big smiling face that's supposed to glow in the dark. Its eyes stare into your soul and the knowing smile reflects the terrible terrible secrets that it's learning about about you.
Gustopher: Check out my new shirt. It glows in the dark.
Panel 2
Gustopher and his friends have moved to the bathroom so they can turn off the lights and get a proper look at the shirt in the dark. The shirt continues to smile, it mocks the tragedy of the world with its perpetual grin.
Hannah: Is it bright?
Gustopher: Let's find out?
Panel 3
The lights are off. Everyone looks down at the shirt so they might witness its brilliant glow. It is glowing, but it's faint and hard to see. The shirt continues to smile. It has witnessed the secrets of the universe and must smile to hide its sorrow.
Panel 4
Liam: Is it doing anything?
Gustopher: Just ruining my day.
The shirt is satisfied with this series of events. Every disappointed child is one step closer to the glowpocolypse. The shirt smiles at the thought of that glorious day of glowmageddon.