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rosameiwhitley · 4 years ago

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About Me (unfinished)

Hi, my name is Rosa, and I'm just a girl trying to relive her childhood and document it all to make the memories last. Perhaps I should tell you a little bit about myself and my history with this franchise first. I admit it's probably a huge risk to show so much information to people online, but hopefully very few people will end up reading this blog anyways, considering that I made it exclusively for my friends and more importantly, myself. Also most of this will be heavily edited from the original for safety’s sake.

My love of Pokemon began during gen 4, I want to say it was around 2009? (The year will forever remain a mystery because my trainer card on my old save file read June 20, 2000 since I was again, very young.) I saw a commercial for Pokemon platinum on TV, and I was totally enamored by Turtwig, who I chose as my starter and has remained one of my favorites ever since. I was like, obsessed with turtles as a kid.

I no longer remember which store it was exactly, maybe Toys R Us, but I walked into the store, and walked out with a Dark Blue Nintendo DS Lite, my first ever game system, and a copy of Pokemon Platinum, the first game I ever played. And later that Christmas, I ended up receiving a turtwig plushie! It's admitedly, not a toy that I have cherished much until as of late, where it seems I'm increasingly yearning to romanticize and dwell upon my childhood, but hey, at least it's still in serviceable condition after 12 or so years.

ALSO for Christmas, I got copies of Leafgreen, Red Rescue Team and Ruby for my DS' GBA slot. Since this is back when Gamestop actually sold GBA games for nongouged prices... I wanna say I got them the same year as that Turtwig doll? I would assume I got them before the release of SoulSilver anyways. Since I was a dumbass kid, I just wiped over whatever save files the previous owners had on these games, and in the case of Rescue team, I'm pretty sure the save file got corrupted or something. I also never really got far in any of these games when I was really young, I at most just used them as transfer fodder to send starters over to my SoulSilver copy.

Now then because I was quite young at the time, I was pretty much flying blind that first playthrough. In fact, it took me all of 260 or so hours over the span of...I wanna say four years? In order to finally finish this game. Yeah, I literally took 4 years to beat this game. And you know the crazy part? I beat several other pokemon games in the 4 year interval. Hell, I even beat fossil fighters (another franchise I have fond nostalgia for, as the idea of a turn based monster game with dinosaurs appealed so strongly to little me). It's also the only time besides sword (where i was intentionally playing with an underleveled team anyways) where i ever managed to actually lose a trainer battle. Except unlike sword here i didnt reset the game right as i lost so i ended up having to black out and lose my cash money. Heartbreaking. Think I might have even lost to Roark. I definitely did fail against Cynthia during my playthrough, but I had saved right before her so instead I chose to just suck it up and use my tms and candies.

Anyways, with that said, I do have memories of my first time playing through Platinum, foggy as they are. I remember when my turtwig first evolved into grotle. I was so shocked! I'd never before known about the concept of evolution, and so one of my family friends, who was like several years older than me, ended up having to explain the concept to me in full. I was honestly quite surprised and even a bit displeased by the fact that my beloved turtwig had transformed into something as decidedly un-turtle-like as grotle.

Funny thing is, when I was a kid, I assumed Dawn's Piplup from the anime was a girl, solely based on the fact that Dawn was a girl, and Piplup sounded feminine. In truth, her piplup is a male. Anyways, for some reason, my stupid kid brain had assumed that by the logic of me thinking Dawn's Piplup was a girl (I was the type of kid to think Samus was a girl when I saw her armored form in Brawl) that, clearly, the Pokemon games were programmed so that your starter will be the same gender as the protagonist! So, I reset my diamond profile to pick the girl, and sent a piplup to my platinum version. This is...probably not the most worthwhile anecdote for me to bring up, frankly I'm more than impressed with myself for the fact that I actually remembered it all these years later, but I swear on my life, this one fact will be important later for very good reason.

Anyways I ended up spending a fuckton of my time just derping around in Sinnoh. Fucking loved Amity Square, and I also quite enjoyed that one activity where you show some dude your Pokemon's foot, oh and I gave my torterra a fuckton of poffins. In fact, now that I think about it, Torterra definitiely got powerleveled to hell and back. Dude was like, maybe 20 or 30 levels higher than the rest of my team when I got to the end. Also for reasons I'll never understand, I taught it sleep talk. Anyways I played up until... I wanna say around Candice, before I dropped the game for a long while, picked it up again in.... I don't remember, probably close to when gen 6 was finally dropping (most likely because I felt that I needed to resolve this unfinished business of an unbeaten pokemon game) and played thru the rest of the game. Natch, I panicked and threw my one masterball at Giratina because I'm a bimbo.

Oh, speaking of Candice, yes! I did indeed fall into the same pratfall as most other kids did, and traded a Medicham for her infamous Haunter, Gaspar. And like, no joke, I cried after it happened. And you know... it wouldn't have stung nearly as much, if it weren't for the fact that I literally CAPTURED A MEDITITE WHO WAS ONLY LIKE PROBABLY LEVEL 16, LIKE MY GOD, WHAT WAS I THINKING, AND GRINDED IT FOR HOURS ON LOW LEVEL FODDER TO GET IT TO EVOLVE INTO MEDICHAM JUST TO TRADE IT TO MINDY. And yeaaaaa I know I could've CAUGHT a medicham but again I was like, a total dumbass as a kid.

Some PokeTubers I used to watch in the day were like, Marillland, Tamashii, JWittz, The Dex and SuperSkarmory (got remember this old shit?). actually, one quick tangent but, god, I SWEAR ON MY LIFE I remember there being this old TyranitarTube video where he somehow modded the following Pokemon mechanic into BW2 (or was it BW1?????) and hell I had a person even confirm to me that yes, it was planned!!!! So fuck me, there is just, god, somewhere deep in the bw2 files is the single damn thing that could've transformed these games into being like, from 10/10 to 11/10. Buuuuuuuuuuuut I digress. Maybe it was some other PokeTuber. Point is that video is lost to time and I don't have the time to swamp thru the crap to find it.

Also I did watch some old videos on like, guides and also rom hacks. Stuff like Ash Grey version and other things. The one that creeped me out most was this old video about a romhack that put MewThree into FRLG. Like, idk why, but I swear, that was so creepy when I was younger.

The first new Pokemon game, and the first game I ever preordered, is probably Pokemon SoulSilver, which I actually went to my local gamestop in-person to pick up. Cause it was a preorder, I also got that sweet Lugia figure which I still have to this day. Sadly, my original packaging has been thrown away because, AGAIN, I was a kid. Now then...god, truth be told, I am a fake Pokemon fan. For you see, I never actually BEAT SoulSilver, persay. Instead, what I did was I asked someone else to just play thru the entire game for me. So I.... really don't have that much nostalgic bias towards it as other people do? Like yeah I myself played thru all the Kanto stuff but the Johto stuff was all on him. At least, that is how I REMEMBER it going. Again, I don't want to make up memories that were never real. I didn't really use the Pokewalker since I was a very sedentary kid, I just shook it around and stuff. My only really notable memory would be when my dumbass wasted a masterball on a machop of all things, just because I really liked how machop had a tail. (Speaking of which, why DOES Machop have a tail???????????) I didn't even beat the Red battle until I sweeped thru it with an action replay that also kinda broke the game when I activated the cheat code. For fucking shame on my part. That said, Ampharos is definitely one of my favorites due to this game! I love my little wittle sheepy so much. Surprisingly despite having far more memories attached to platinum due to actually, yknow, PLAYING the main game of that one (still have not touched the postgame that much and due to recent affairs I kinda chose to hold it off even longer. Not that it even matters since for the longest time I had my platinum team sans the lucario brought into bw2 and needed pkhex plus homebrew to resolve that.) i somehow got 291 and a half hours clocked onto soulsilver. funny that. For some godforsaken reason my save says i begun on dec 21, which, good god how tf is that true if i have the lugia preorder figure to argue otherwise? Then again maybe it was a gaffe. That all said I do think HGSS had a bevy of great features, just. Bah, whatever I guess. Anyways alongside my preorder, I also picked up a strategy guide, and hoo boy, that thing's seen better days. That said the strategy guide is a load of bull since it omits THE ENTIRETY OF THE POSTGAME. yeah, you don't get a single fucking guide to Kanto. Yeah cool.

I.... never really bothered with any sort of events or mythicals. I remember seeing them mention regigigas on the old pokemon platinum website. But like, the process of going to a Toys R Us just to get Regigigas to get the other regis to get a 2nd regigigas is kinda, dumb?

I never could get into the anime, frankly.

In terms of spinoffs from this generation that caught my eye, it was mostly Pokemon Ranger. I have never played the original Pokemon Ranger, but I did buy both of the sequels. I remember being quite excited for Guardian signs when I saw an ad for it in a copy of National Geographic Kids in my school library. I ended up getting the game as a gift on my birthday after a trip to party city. Freaking loved those games, loved riding different legendaries, and most of all I really enjoyed Ukelele Pichu. It was so amusing seeing late-stage gen IV shilling for the little baby. Some of the missions really tick me off though. I still never beat the stupid sidequest where Murph (least I REMEMBER it being him!) asks me to catch a bunch of bird Pokemon, because that damn Togekiss always flew away before I ever got to it. So I sadly have yet to 100% that game. Oh well. I also was pretty freaking bad at one Shadows of Almia quest which required the player to swim thru currents underwater in order to chase some Pokemon that kept fleeing. It got so bad that, I shit you not, I ended up just deciding to take my copy of the game to gamestop and asking the gamestop cashier of all people to beat it for me. I was... a hopeless poor sap as a kid, I'll admit, still kinda am tbh. But hey, at least I got some forgettable rangernet upgrade from the whole ordeal. Personally I am more a fan of Guardian Signs than I am of Shadows of Almia, and I daresay I clocked an ungodly amount of time into Guardian Signs, more than is normal for any spinoff that isn't Mystery Dungeon.

This will probably be a hot take I'm only making because I'm blinded by obliviousness rather than nostalgia, but frankly I do not care much for Mystery Dungeon. Yeah, that's right, I said it. I tried getting into the games as a kid but my dumbass kept mashing the A button to perform the basic attack instead of actually doing something smart. The farthest I ever got in Explorers of Sky was Mt. Bristle, where I could never get past Drowzee. I eventually for god knows what reason decided to buy a second copy preowned just so I could play thru a completed file to get thru the shaymin stuff. And god even knows why I thought buying explorers of dark was a bright idea. Again, I was a stupid kid. Maybe if I weren't a literal child at the time, I could've learned to love PMD by playing it properly, but instead, I'm... well, i'm probably in the minority of people who played mystery dungeon as a kid and didn't come to worship it.

Considering I'm the person who took 4 years to beat Platinum.... I am so good at video games!

One of the oddest ducks from around this time, and one of the few games on the Wii I actually cared about, was PokePark Wii:Pikachu's Adventure.

Truth be told, I've always been more of a handheld gamer than a console player.I usually was more focused on the DS than the Wii or GameCube. I did sometimes buy Wii games that interested me, like Skylanders or Sonic Colors, but I generally sticked to the DS.

It also doesn't help that the Wii was kinda.... eh? A bit of a wagglefest? Plus given that I was a really small kid and some other stuff we will get into later, I probably just tended to focus more on Pokemon, especially with my crap reaction time back then and the jank of late aughts motion controls.

Also as a kid my dumbass just assumed disc based games saved to the disc itself the way pre-switch handheld games worked by saving to the cartridge. So yeah, sue me.

I mostly was interested in PokePark Wii because I was just so enamored with the idea of playing a game with 3D Pokemon battles where you could control Pikachu. Sadly... what I got instead was a game primarily about doing other pokemon's errands by playing wagglefest party games. Though that wasn't the only really unsettling thing about the game.

Yeah see much like Metroid Other M, PokePark commits the questionable act of making you play a fully 3D game with a sideways wii mote, and no option for nunchuk. I have zero idea why Nintendo was okay with the control scheme, honestly. Though admittedly considering the fact that PokePark was almost definitely designed with the minigames in mind, I guess it's not the biggest sin.

Most of the minigames were fine I guess, but the one with the spinning beyblade tops and the motion controls made me cry. I was also a bit disappointed since I was expecting a realtime 3D Pokemon action rpg and instead I got an overblown party game story mode.

So.... yeah, I would assume that wraps up my history with gen 4! Before we move onto Gen 5, I suppose I should talk about some other games and stuff that I was into around this age. I was definitely into cartoons, and it's about what you might expect someone like me to have enjoyed back then. In hindsight if my younger self had known Garfield would be appearing in Smash clone alongside SpongeBob I would have lost my shit. I mean I did buy that one Cartoon Network smash clone they made for the Wii and 3DS. But that's another story. I also had a bunch of garbage licensed games based on those shows which I snagged off of eBay. They're not that great, to be frank. Frankly besides Pokemon, Fossil Fighters and Sonic, most of the games I played as a kid during this era were licensed shovelware titles. And even then, it's not like I actually beat most of them. I sucked at video games when I was a kid, and I still suck at them now.

Ah, well, point aside, I would say that Sonic was definitely another fixation of mine when I was a kid. Which is actually rather odd now that I think about it, given most of the notable Sonic games out at the time were on HD consoles. I did get some of the handheld games, but frankly I am garbage at all of them. I still haven't beaten Sonic Rush or Sonic Chronicles (for some reason I brought that game with me on a family vacation one time). Of course, I did have a wii, so my dumbass played Sonic a lot in Smash Bros, and also I decided to buy Sonic and the Secret Rings, a game which I regrettably have sunk a brickton of hours of my life into when I was a kid. Oh, and My adoration for Sonic is obviously way weaker now but it was rather strong back then, which, given some stuff I know about myself now, it kinda checks out.

I also was... really obsessed with Sonic Unleashed back then. Frankly while I liked how the HD versions looked, I was too much of a Nintendrone as a kid to ever consider buying a 360. Also this was way before I got into any genre that wasn't "rpg" or "platformer". Anyways I watched a brickton of videos about the game online, and I definitely let it live rent free in my head for a while. Did you know that Sonic Unleashed had a JAVA MOBILE GAME?

Speaking of Java, remember when Sega used to release watered down ports of classic games onto phones? I mean, they still do, but at least now the screen isn't as much of an eyesore. Anyways, I remember downloading the mobile version of Sonic Spinball onto an old cherry red flipphone, and playing that for a while. To be frank, Sonic Spinball is such an odd duck of a game. Mostly because of the way Sonic can occasionally get out of the pinball table and there he plays kind of like you would expect? Except way worse physics. The controls sucked since you had to use the number pad instead of a controller, but hey, I'd still say it's more responsive than the touch controls you get on say, Sonic CD for most modern devices (I'm still impressed I made it to the Metal Sonic level in that game on my phone before I got a single game over). But I digress.

Pretty sure the only reason why I even bought Secret Rings is because I deluded myself into thinking it was "close enough" to Sonic Unleashed because again I was a stupid kid.

Okay, enough of the dillydallying, let's move on to talking about gen 5! Hopefully I can edit these blogspot posts later anyways.

I hated gen 5 when it first came out. Okay I admit that was a bit of an exagerration, but yeah, point is, despite having literally only been a Pokemon fan for all of like, one year, I immidiately decided I wasn't a fan of BW1 because they didn't have any of the old Pokemon in it (ironically, that seems to be one of the things everyone praises that game for doing nowadays, the Zorua events notwithstanding), and so I didn't buy it, sticking with my other Pokemon games. And, to this day, Pokemon Black and White 1 remain the only main series games released after I became a Pokemon fan, which I have never played through to completion (though SoulSilver remains a dubious 2nd option since I more or less asked someone else to beat the majority of that game for me). I will likely pass on BDSP, but since the games are still so freshly new, that's not set in stone yet. If I do, I'll probably pick up a preowned copy before the early order bonus ends.

That all changed when the animated trailer for Pokemon Black and White 2 came out.

Oh my god, that trailer, I don't think any other trailer has ever gotten me as hyped for a new game as the trailer released for Pokemon Black and White 2 has. It was freaking epic, and I was all the more excited at finding out that old Pokemon were returning! Including Lucario and Ampharos, who're still some of my favorite Pokemon to this very day. The best part about the trailer was just seeing how cool Nate looked, he ended up becoming my favorite male protagonist, and honestly the trailer really did a good job playing up his coolness. I didn't really have many thoughts on the many thoughts on the scene from the trailer with Rosa and Serperior though, which, to be frank seems rather ironic given what I know now. I really enjoyed that scene where Nate fights alongside Hugh and Cheren on the airship and how it transitions into his chase against Shadow Triad alongside his Lucario.

I ended up preordering the Black 2 version as soon as I could (Zekrom's just cooler looking than Reshiram, y'know?), and got it on it’s release day in the west alongside the strategy guide (I used to be a scrub okay?) from (at least I remember it being) GameStop. It was also very close to my 10th birthday, which, to be frank, is kinda fitting.

Sidenote but, while my memory of this is definitely super hazy, I somewhat recall picking the game up from the same gamestop where I got Explorers of Sky, PokePark Wii, and maybe even a few of my gba games? But anyways, the interesting thing about that GameStop, was the fact that it was directly connected to a Barnes & Noble. Yeah, funny thing is, Barnes and Noble used to own GameStop, from 1999 to 2004. So like, this store was directly connected to the Barnes and Noble, like, they straight-up had an archway inside of the building leading from GameStop to Barnes and Noble, my god. Granted, I bought Black 2 in 2012, however it is possible that this location simply kept the setup from the time when they were under Barnes and Nobles. The location did eventually close, and, rather disappointingly, I think it got converted into some kind of album store? It's also now fully integrated into the Barnes and Noble, no longer a separate store like it was before. Granted, I might just be manufacturing false memories, it could've been a GameStop next to my house. But I am almost certain that it was a GameStop, if only because the strategy guide still has that gamestop sticker plastered over it, and I'm sure that if I tried to remove it now, it would permanently damage the book. I used that strategy guide a lot when I first played the game, embarassingly so. I even ended up following their specific instructions for Coballion, right down to the moveset they recommended. Honestly, why would you ever teach a fighting type volt switch?

So anyways, I booted up Black 2, pretty sure it was on the car ride home from Gamestop, in fact! And started up my new game. Unfortunately, because I was a dumb kid at the time, I ended up picking Nate as my player character instead of Rosa. I really enjoyed the game, it was core to my childhood, and it's a game near and dear to my heart.

To be frank, I really liked Nate as a character, he felt so cool looking, and I kinda think that, as a kid, I sorta identified with him, or rather, I wanted to identify as him, because of how cool he was in the trailers and how cool he was in the game. I definitely had a lot more imagination back then than I do now. I guess you could say that I used to wish I could be Nate (which frankly given my current identity, feels like extremely ironic/hilarious foreshadowing in hindsight). This actually leads into my next point, and it's

one of my favorite games of all time. Would still be my #1 if it weren't for my changing tastes, and the fact that I generally don't replay a Pokemon game after I beat it; I just derp around in the postgame areas to my heart's content.

Hi, Rosa here. If you're reading this, then it's because this blogpost is very, very incomplete and im calling a raincheck for the holidays. I think tumblr lets me edit posts so I really hope I don't regret it

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groundramon · 8 years ago

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Cartoon asks: ALL OF THEM

THANK YOU SO MUCH OMFG

also i totally didnt fill all these out in advance and twiddle my thumbs in anticipation, hoping someone would send me this ask, nope not at all

1. A cartoon you remember that nobody else does.Back at the Barnyard. That fucking show…oh my god

2. A cartoon you like but nobody else seems to.Well technically I remember liking Back at the Barnyard but I haven’t watched that show since I was like 8 or 9 so idk if I’d like it now akjsfkfkgjh I kinda doubt it now because my bullshit-tolerance-meter for television has significantly shortened. Uhhh the only other cartoons I can think of that I liked that don’t seem to be liked by a lot of people are like…the DreamWorks cartoons (when they were on Nickelodeon and CN that is, I don’t have Netflix rip) and the Lego cartoons (except Ninjago because apparently that has a fandom?? what??) like I thought they were okay at the time at least. (Also I guess the HTTYD cartoon wasnt hated, because it was fucking HTTYD, but //shrug)

3. A cartoon you don’t like but everybody else seems to. ADVENTURE TIME and like everything on Cartoon Network except Steven Universe and We Bare Bears honestly. Like Adventure Time isn’t my cup of tea but I’m like “alright, some of those plots actually seem kind of interesting, I guess I can see where people are coming from” but like… shit like Clarence and Uncle Grandpa?? I’m all for people having different opinions but I don’t know how you can even get past the art style, let alone the writing style and some of the voice acting ;-; you are a stronger person than I’ll ever be if you can get past that lmao

4. A cartoon you wish would be forgotten.Uhhh pretty much everything on Nickelodeon from 2010-2014 (besides the dreamworks cartoons basically) and the shit reboots that CN’s been pumping out (namely TTG and the PPG reboot, but the Ben 10 reboot looks REALLY lazy, so at least it doesn’t annoy me [or I haven’t seen anything from it that annoys me] but…)

5. The worst cartoon you’ve ever seen, and why?Fanboy and Chum Chum, as far as cartoons I’ve actually watched go (because hoo boy, worse cartoons exist out there). Everything about that cartoon is…wrong and broken. It has one style of humor and that’s toilet/gross out humor. The “straight man” so to speak, basically an emo teen version of Squidward, is actually…not Squidward in-show?? Like in the intro he’s very clearly set out to be a grouch who hates the main characters, but in the show he’s just…an introvert that gets wrapped into their plans and only snaps at them when they actually hurt him. The protagonists are annoying as fuck and are psychopaths that deserve to be locked up in a mental institution. It’s not funny. The voice acting is annoying as hell. And the animation is disgusting. I didn’t know it was even possible to make 3d animation look this rendered yet still look so bad, but apparently it is. Like they took extra effort into making the show look WORSE. I will say that its impressive that they managed to get such tooney designs to exist in a 3d space, but that doesn’t do you shit good when the animation is gross.

6. The worst moment you’ve ever seen happen in a cartoon.Directly, as in I was watching the show? Something in Fanboy and Chum Chum. Indirectly, as in I watched a review where they showed the scene or I read about it? Something in Family Guy, or the self-insert in the PPG reboot. Yeah there’s a self-insert in the PPG reboot. Every time I think it cant get worse…it does.

7. The worst thing you’ve ever seen happen to a cartoon that ruined it.I was really neutral on Teen Titans Go (some of the jokes made me laugh but others were really cringey, but it was at least funny some of the time and the art didn’t hurt me as much as other shows on CN, so whatever) but then I found out that they’ve actively attacked their critics in-show and have generally responded very poorly to criticism and…asdf. Like its one thing to stay quiet, it’s another thing to embrace it and say “yeah we know its stupid, but it made us laugh!” (which they did do, kinda), but it’s another thing to spit in the face of everyone who has a problem with it (and not even address their criticisms, like they act like they did but?? no they fucking didn’t??). Like the problem I have with the show is not that it’s stupid. The problem is that the writers say “yeah, it’s for kids, so it should be stupid” (its not even “well it made us laugh” from what I remember), the problem is that the writers never watched the original show and completely ruined the legacy of a show that actually took itself seriously, the problem is that the writers are so fucking high on their horses that they respond to the haters IN-SHOW and LAUGH AT THEM. My problem is not with the show itself, my problem is with the culture it embodies. It embodies the worst of Hollywood entitlement, cheap shithole cashcow shows, cheap reboots that disappoint fans of the original, “stupid because its for kids” cartoons, and basically the worst Hollywood has to offer.

8. A cancelled/forgotten cartoon you would bring back to television.Uhh if nothing happens with Infinity Train then that, but besides that…another series of Avatar (like following a new avatar) would be fucking great but I don’t want to put the creators through the hell that is Nickelodeon lmao. I also thought Harvey Beaks looked nice, like I never watched it but it looked okay, so I’d be okay with bringing that back too if it made the creator happier (honestly the poor creator…nickelodeon treated him really badly too)

9. An animated character you remember but nobody else seems to.Pete from Steven Universe lmao like where did he goJoking aside (SU is too relevant to count for this) uhHHH fuck I guess the characters in the Monsters vs Aliens cartoon? nobody remembers that movie but the show kinda cemented the characters in my mind (I would’ve said back at the barnyard but honestly I don’t remember the characters until you show them to me, besides like the main cow guy, whoops)

10. An animated character you hate the most, and why?Onion annoys me. Like…he’s that kind of character that has no rhyme or reason behind what he does. He’s the kind of character whose entire personality just relies on the kind of Adventure Time-esque humor that I just don’t get or enjoy. The kind of humor that just creeps or grosses me out or bores me instead of making me burst out laughing. The kind of humor that’s physical-based, but just too slow and poorly paced to be funny like slapstick. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s exactly how Onion seems to me and that’s why I dislike Onion. In Doug Out, for example, Onion has no gross out or creep out jokes, and I don’t mind him as much. Like he’s not a GOOD character, he still doesn’t bother insisting that there’s something else out there when the others disagree with him, but at least he isn’t scaring me. OH AND MARCUS FROM DIGIMON DATA SQUAD I immediately thought Onion because he’s a cartoon character, but since this is just for animation in general…aksdhfgfkj i dont know why I hate Marcus so much, I dont want to hate Marcus so much, but I do. His response to everything is just to punch everything and he’s so entitled and annoying and hotheaded and aAAARG HES JUST INFURIATING, I DIDNT THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BE THIS MAD OVER A CHARACTER THAT ISNT FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN BUT HERE I AM

11. A non-animated property you would like to see as a cartoonidk if this counts because it’d have to be an anime probably but FOSSIL FIGHTERS CHAMPIONS!!! LITERALLY I WOULD CRY IF THIS WAS MADE INTO A MANGA OR ANIME PLEASE @ NINTENDO MY FAMILY IS STARVING but seriously can you imagine like….you could have a mute main character (its implied that the protagonist talks a few times but they could be selectively mute or just mime and the dialogue could be rearranged appropriately) and if you choose the female protagonist you could make her gay for Pauleen??? Like I refuse to accept the male protagonist as the “canon” main character bc I want gay sorry. BUT LIKE!!! You wouldn’t have to write that much bc its already written!! and its really fucking ridiculous and would probably appeal to like…TTG-loving kids because its so silly asdf BUT ITS ALSO GOOD, IT HAS HEART, PLEASE THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA like its not a good idea for manga/anime because it IS kinda ridiculous and childish but?? it would fit so well as a western cartoon??? Hey Nintendo can you please give me a license to produce this because I swear to god I would if I could

12. A trope or trend in animation that you dislike.Well there are a lot but they aren’t exclusive to animation…? "Blonde popular bitch" and “damsel in distress” have been two of my personal most-hated for all my life because of who I am/was, but there are others I dislike too. I also really hate the kinda…style that Adventure Time set up in cartoons. Like I guess AT isn’t really responsible for ugly-looking cartoons and the type of humor that I dislike, because looking at CN before it aired there were already shows like that (Chowder, Flapjack…) but I think AT really popularized them and :/ it also reworked the same concepts in Chowder and Flapjack and people were like “WOWEE CARTOON RENAISSANCE !!!” and I just kinda….idk. I have a lot of personal baggage against AT lmao sorry AT fans, like I don’t even hate the show and not all of its effects were bad (not in the slightest) but like TTG I have issues with some of the things it popularized.

13. A currently airing cartoon that you know is going to be forgotten about in the future.Hmm, We Bare Bears maybe, or like Mighty Magiswords. Like CN plasters Mighty Magiswords everywhere but nobody gives a shit about that show so I feel like its only a matter of time before it disappears yknow?? but maybe im wrong. WBB doesn’t get the attention it deserves so yeah. Also maybe that Bunsun is a Beast cartoon over on Nickelodeon? im not sure man

14. The best episode of a cartoon you really like.The Southern Raiders (that’s only one of my favorites tho, like?? The Puppetmaster is tied for first in that season, and that’s just in that season, not including the other two seasons of ATLA)

15. The worst episode of a cartoon you really like.Rocknaldo or any episode centering around Onion, e u c k

16. A cartoon you feel deserves more recognition than it gets.Uhhhhh fuck everything I watch is mainstream cries WBB isn’t that popular and like its a cute, perfectly fine show, but its not like…revolutionary

17. A cartoon you feel deserves less recognition than what it gets.ADVENTURE TIME, also s/o to Regular Show, Clarence, Uncle Grandpa…like those last two aren’t even universally liked but sorry I still think they get too much praise asdf

18. The worst idea you can think of for an animated series.It already exists and its called One Ounce Mouse, but honestly adult cartoons in general are…a bad idea. Like if you’re just gonna use your adult rating to offend people instead of using it to be insightful or using it to be ACTUALLY FUNNY, what the fuck are you doing with your life? You should be fired tbqh

19. At what point did you realize a cartoon, any cartoon was starting to get bad?I can’t remember when I realized SpongeBob was starting to get bad, but it was sometime around 2010 or so. I remember getting really sick of the show when it went to HD/fullscreen because for some reason, all the new character designs got…significantly worse?? Like the season premiere of that season (cant remember which season it was, don’t care to look it up) had three new characters and they all looked…so fucking ugly? It was really hard to look at? Like seriously they looked like something out of Sanjay and Craig, not SpongeBob. Even the main character designs just…looked too smooth and rounded and not good to me. It reminds me of like Family Guy and i dont like that overly smooth, “we have too much money so we blew it on extra in-between frames instead of good-looking art” style. I think the final breaking point for me was Squid Baby and the episode where Gary got overly attached to a ball, and realizing that after an episode that actually was kinda legitimately nice (it was the one about Plankton getting a pet) they were never going to bring up Plankton’s pet again and ugh. Like lack of continuity is nothing new but I really wish he had kept the pet, it was the best thing to happen to the show in literal years. Like seriously that episode was the best new episode in years, it was legitimately cute even though I had a beef with some of the character designs (as I always did in that season)

20. An experience with a cartoon you thought you were going to like but turned you away from it.I tried watching Bee and Puppycat the other day and it really….put me off….because it had more of that Adventure Time style humor and I legitimately thought it interfered with how the plot should’ve progressed. Like Bee was way too okay with everything and we didn’t get any explanation for anything because instead she just made weird noises and bit a monster’s tongue off. I’m still gonna watch the other episodes for the heck of it, so maybe I’ll change my mind, but eh

21. Something you would like to see more than anything in a cartoon.It already exists and it’s called Avatar: The Last Airbender + The Legend of Korra

22. What do you feel makes a cartoon forgettable?That’s….actually a really good question. Because like, I would’ve forgotten about Adventure Time years ago if it hadn’t been drilled into my head that everyone else thought it was the best thing ever and I didn’t. I might be off my SU high by now if I didn’t keep reblogging/reading SU-related stuff on tumblr lol. I guess blandness is what makes your cartoon forgettable. If its not so bad that it’s funny/everyone needs to insult it, but its not good enough that it gets good reviews, then there’s just…no place for your cartoon, especially if its not profitable so it gets cancelled quickly.

#stormy answers #thank you so much omfg

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Answer them all

I should have seen this coming, in retrospect

1. What’s your middle name?

Caroline

2. What are you listening to right now?

As per the last ask; The Violence by Rise Against

3. What was the last thing you ate?

A candy hug (I haven’t had breakfast yet)

4. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?

My Dad

5. Do you drink?

Occasionally, but not heavily

6. Do you smoke?

Gd no

7. What is the first thing you noticed in someone?

Their excitement about whatever it is they’re talking about

8. What is your hair color?

Brown

9. What is your eye color?

Hazel

10. Do you wear contacts/glasses?

Yup

11. Dogs or cats?

Neither

12. What’s your favorite animal?

Living? Orca whale. Extinct? Maiasaura

13. What’s your favorite television show?

Orphan Black

14. What’s your favorite movie?

Jurassic Park

15. What’s your favorite band/singer?

Rise Against

16. How old are you?

17. Do you have a crush on anyone?

Since I’m in a fairly serious long term romantic relationship, I dare say I do

18. What’s your sexual orientation?

Pansexual

19. What’s your favorite color?

Aqua

20. What was your most embarrassing moment?

As per the first ask:

At one point I was trying to get Max ( @plokool) to get a new hobby and I wanted to talk about putting ships into bottles

What I said was “putting jars into bottles”

At any rate, Max still makes fun of me for that

21. Do you ever wish you were someone else?

All the time, to be honest :/

22. What were you like when you were a kid?

Quiet, I read a lot; very much a know-it-all; got bullied a shitton

23. What would your dream house be like?

Small, with lots of books and birds; and lots of windows so I can look outside

24. What last made you laugh?

Max saying something cute

25. What is your favorite word?

Compassion

26. What is your least favorite word?

Oligarchy. I don’t know why

27. What turns you on?

As per the first ask: Kindness, empathy/sympathy, passion about one’s hobbies, getting excited about things, being nerdy; some physical attributes

28. What turns you off?

As per the first ask: Cruelty, a lack of willingness to understand, an inability to modify one’s opinions, willful ignorance; not listening to me when I talk

29. What is your star sign?

Leo

30. What are your favorite books?

Harry Potter (the whole series); Pillars of the Earth; Ishmael/My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

31. Do you have any siblings?

5 (4 older sisters, 1 little brother)

32. Do you like to dance?

Eh, not really

33. What is your definition of cheating?

Doing something romantic or sexual in nature with someone other than your partner, and you have not agreed to an open or polygamous relationship with them. Having feelings for someone else, but not acting on them, doesn’t count. You can’t help feelings.

34. Have you ever cheated on someone?

35. Do you regret anything?

Tons of shit. Lots of things.

36. Do you have any phobias?

Spiders

37. Ever broken any bones?

Nope

38. Ever come close to death?

Yeah

39. What is your religion, if any?

I was raised Catholic. I am currently not Catholic, and am converting to Judaism through the reform movement.

40. Have you ever been to a psychiatrist/therapist?

Yeah, since my freshman year of high school

41. Are looks important in a relationship?

Eh, they’re important in initial attraction, but not really after that point

42. Are you more like your mom or your dad?

I like to think I’m an even mix of both

43. What is your favorite season?

Fall

44. Do you have any tattoos?

Nope

45. Do you have any piercings?

Earlobes

46. How many boyfriends/girlfriends have you had?

Just the two

47. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

All the fucking time

48. Who is your celebrity crush?

None?

49. Are you a virgin?

Nope

50. Do you get jealous easily?

Eh, only of people who’s lives I wish I had, not of like, friends of Max’s or anything

51. What is your favorite type of food?

Italian

52. Do you ever want to get married?

I’m iffy on the concept but Max and I are eventually going to get married, yes

53. Who was your first kiss with?

My first boyfriend

54. Have you ever been cheated on?

As per the first ask: Probably? The first person I dated was a chicken who refused to break up with me even though they wanted to be with someone else, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they cheated on me before breaking up with me.

55. What is your idea of the perfect date?

Going to the Field Museum or some equivalent and spending the whole day together looking at fossils :D Alternatively, the zoo, but looking at birds

56. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

I honestly have no idea. I need alone time to “recharge,” but too much alone time makes me ridiculously depressed, so both I guess.

57. Do you believe in aliens or life on other planets?

Decidedly.

58. What talent do you wish you’d been born with?

Eh, I don’t think we’re really born with talents. People may have more of a propensity for this or that, but in the end it’s all about what you stick with.

I wish I had stuck with piano playing more, or with drawing, but I didn’t, which is my own fault.

59. What is your saddest memory?

Some stuff that happened to me in High School. Or another, equally terrible event in college. I don’t want to bum everyone out about it.

60. Do you believe in love at first sight?

Gd no. Lust yes, but not love.

61. Do you believe in soul mates?

A part of me does

62. Have you ever dyed your hair?

I dyed the end of it blue last summer! I kind of want to do that again sometime

63. Has someone ever spread a nasty rumor about you?

A lot in high school, sadly

64. Would you go against your moral code for money?

Right now, given money is very tight, probably :/ But otherwise no

65. What are three things most people don’t know about you?

- I fucking love trigonometry - I enjoy reading the Foxtrot series of comics - I have an unfortunate caffeine addiction

66. Who are you jealous of?

As per the first ask, Various internet personalities who are actually making decent money from their work in science communication; actual paleontologists

67. Do you sleep with a stuffed toy?

Too many of them. I have an addiction to stuffed animals

68. How long was your longest relationship?

Max and I have been together for over four years now

69. Is the glass half empty or half full?

Half full

70. What is the sexiest thing someone could ever do for/to you?

I feel like the correct answer is not appropriate for this blog; buuuut honestly just taking an interest and listening to me when I talk about the things I enjoy and am excited about? is a PG answer I suppose

71. Who is your most loyal friend?

Probably Max? But also my friend Sara, whom I’ve known since the sixth grade. We went to different high schools and colleges but we’re still best friends.

72. Are you in a relationship?

Yup

73. If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, what is your favorite thing about him/her?

How excited he gets when he talks about his hobbies

74. Are you a bad person?

I like to think I’m not

75. Are you a lover or a fighter?

Lover

76. What did you do on your last birthday?

Went to the zoo with friends!

77. What is your favorite quote and why?

“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

78. If your best friend died, what would you do?

Oh gd. Since my best friend is Max, I don’t really want to think about it. It wouldn’t be good.

79. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?

How I handled my mental illnesses.

80. If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do?

Spend it with Max

81. What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had?

I once had a very long and elaborate set of dreams in which I angered the Capitol and as such had to design a Hunger Games in which all my loved ones were the competitors. It went on for like, a week, and spawned various inside jokes, as @a-sleepy-dinosaur can testify

82. Are you happier single or in a relationship?

I’m happy in my relationship

83. Who were you in a past life?

Probably some sort of bird

84. What is your happiest childhood memory?

Watching dinosaur documentaries with my mom

85. Have you ever experienced unrequited love?

All the bleeping time

86. Have you ever had an imaginary friend?

Yup!

87. If you were the president, what would you do?

Prioritize science & environmentally friendly policies

88. What is your ideal career?

Honestly? I’d like to be the bird/feather-evolution equivalent of Neil Shubin, if possible

89. What is your political affiliation?

Generally liberal. Most of my opinions are similar to that of Bernie Sanders. But I hesitate to call myself a Democrat.

90. Are you conservative or liberal?

Liberal

91. Is the male or female body closest to perfection?

This is a very stupid question given trans individuals and the fact that gender =/= biological attributes.

92. Do you like kissing in public?

Definitely!

93. If you could change one thing in the world, what would you change?

Make people better able to consider the humanity of those not in their in-group

94. Where would you like to live?

Edinburgh

95. Where would you go on your dream vacation?

Scotland XD

96. Describe yourself in one word.

As per the first ask, Tenacious

97. Describe yourself in one sentence.

As per the first ask:

(I know this is a double negative but it’s a stronger statement than doing the positive equivalent)

There has never been a subject I didn’t want to explore to it’s completion.

And I guess I won’t answer any more of these xD

#about #not dinosaurs #long post #Anonymous

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