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I am thirty -three years old. At that age Alexander had conquered the world; at that age Wolfe had completed his reputation, and expired in the arms of victory. Well, it is not my fault, if I am not as great a man as Alexander or Wolfe. I have as good dispositions for glory as either of them, but I labor under two small obstacles at least — want of talents and want of opportunities; neither of which, I confess, I can help.

^ my friend tone who's just like me for real

Today is Theobald Wolfe Tone's birthday!! Why not help him celebrate by reading his latest dispatch?

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Look who arrived this week... New kitten her name is Dot cause she's just a little dot. she can use her litter tray most of the time and she mews a lot for any reason

kitty.......

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This was a test. Everything was a test. Everything was a competition. Life put them in front of you every day. You watched yourself all the time. You had to make choices. You never got told which ones were right. Oh, some of the priests said you got given marks afterward, but what was the point of that?

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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i’d say “sorry for swinging a bat at the hornet’s nest,” but i’m not, actually! it’s been almost five years since harrow the ninth was released, and i STILL see people insist that harrow isn’t schizophrenic; she’s just being haunted. fandom takes representation of an intensely stigmatized mental illness (that the author candidly says she has!) and ignores it!!!

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Instead of saying "do algebra" or "distribute, combine like terms, and isolate the variable" I say "unleash the algebeast" and my students Hate it its so funny

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practice for their sprites

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A little while ago I made a server for me and anybody who wanted to hang out and infodump about their ocs or their special interests or whatever, it was a little experiment for me!!

I didn't really go as far with it as I planned, but I'd like to keep it up, so if any mutuals or anything want to join, let me know and I can send a link! o:

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Ex-Trainer Stories: Rehoming My Scizor

I've been lurking for quite a while, but I finally decided to sit down and write up a proper blog post for this Pokéblog!

I used to compete in League battles as a bug-type specialist, but chronic illness & life stuff led to me leaving the competitive scene and getting more into breeding & husbandry. So what happens when a team of battling Pokémon need to be retired?

Sometimes a Pokémon can just be retired as a pet, like Shuckle or Foretress. In the wild, these guys are naturally docile, slow-moving, and don't need a lot of stimulation. They still need lots of battling and socialising compared to the average pet, though! After all, they've spent years surrounded by people and play.

These kinds of Pokémon are good League rentals, so they get dropped off for "daycare" at the local gym, who use them as teaching Pokémon at the local trainer school. if you're ever lent a Pokémon by a gym, it probably belongs to a trainer like me!

However, some Pokémon aren't suitable to be rentals, and one of those is Scizor.

To be honest, you do not want to encounter a Scizor unless it's very very very well-trained. In the wild, Scizor are:

carnivorous

aggressive

up to six feet tall

very, very territorial (with big territories)

Which is not really very good to give to a ten-year-old ever.

When a Scizor like mine retires from competitive, it's going to be a working Pokémon forever. It may be very well-socialised and polite, but it's got chainsaws for hands and it's gotta use em for SOMETHING.

It is also quite intelligent, which is bad because it's a solitary bug-type with a natural urge to attack. If you don't give it a job, it will give itself one. Bad idea!!!

So, when the time came I contacted my local Pokémon professor and asked: Do you need a big deadly steel machine of death? She can slash all the trees in a moderate radius and is very talented, her name is Snapdragon.

And the answer was: Yes, absolutely! Please let us meet Snapdragon!

Because while Snapdragon is a territorial attack beast, she is a trained territorial attack beast who -- this is important!! -- assumes every person she meets is a Trainer.

So, when she sees an unfamiliar person, she will approach them, stand at a moderate distance, and start making a "challenge" display, waiting for them to send out a Pokémon.

This is pretty scary, but it's way better than if a wild Scizor (or another big wild Pokémon) who did not recognise trainers saw an unfamiliar person. They would see either prey or a threat -- in both cases they try to kill you!!

That makes Pokémon like Snapdragon useful for habitat control. Anywhere close to people, there's a risk if powerful wild Pokémon live nearby. By rehoming a trained, naturally aggressive Pokémon along a border between human and wild habitats, you have a natural defence against wild Pokémon who might otherwise move in.

So Snapdragon lives on the edge of my professor's research area, where she's marked a portion of woods as her territory. We regularly check in and monitor what she's up to, and she keeps the area clear of any other dangerous Pokémon who would compete with her, like wild Beedrill or Yanmega. That keeps her busy and provides the enrichment she's used to from competitions!

The prof & the local rangers know Snapdragon and regularly check on her, but I'm still on call if they need someone to handle her in a dangerous situation. If I wanted to "give her up" entirely, I'd have to find another trainer who I trusted to handle her in my place.

When they say a Pokémon is for life, this is what they mean!! A lot of people find the idea of having a very strong, smart battling Pokémon around really cool and exciting, but the reality is, it's a lot of responsibility to take on.

By raising Snapdragon, I'm responsible for what she does with her strength and her training, even after we're done battling together.

But responsibility is cool too! It's good to find ways to contribute and give back, and it's worth it so have people and Pokémon living happy and healthy lives, where they don't kill each other.

Don't be discouraged from training if you're passionate and willing to commit. I love my weird cryptid who terrifies the local children.

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you've got a point. we're right and they're wrong

so apparently labubu is NOT a tiktok word like delulu. it's a branded object. I thought it was short for Labia

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so apparently labubu is NOT a tiktok word like delulu. it's a branded object. I thought it was short for Labia

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When I was ~14 on deviantart, I helped run a group called "Sonic Tails Brothers NOT Lovers". At the time my favourite thing to do was make cute things about Tails being adopted and looking up to his bro, so it was mostly just a collection of platonic fluff.

Then I got older, and moved to Tumblr, and the question eventually rose in my mind: was it internalised homophobia that I was so ardently against SonTails?

After all, when I was eleven, was not the first written work of romantic literature featuring gay men I ever read was an angst fic where they're all grown up and Sonic is marrying Amy and Tails is in the closet gay and working through his lifelong crush on Sonic? And, you must understand, for a brief time this bleak haunting tale of heartbreak was the most nuanced thing I had ever encountered. This work of art could not be wrong. Had I forgotten?

Then fandom discourse matured, and the view emerged that this would be an arguable form of incest, classifying the ship as a "proship", validating my younger self. Thus, the philosophical conundrum was addressed by the people, and I moved on.

Now I am grown and jaded, but somewhere somehow there is a preteen with autism and a deep fascination with the family bond between Sonic and Tails, who will pick up where I left off and resolve the question for good. Such is fate.

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He drinks a whisky drink (action) he drinks a vodka drink (bonus action) he drinks a lager drink (hasted action) he drinks a cider drink (action surge)

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The FULL VERSION of Chao tales is out now, in widescreen! Please enjoy!

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commission for @witchy-rook !!

this character was so fun to design and colour and i love how it turned out, thank you for the comm ^^

[ID: an anthropomorphic moth character stands against a light teal background. she has white fur, with beige accents and black spots on her wings. her antennae are a dark gold and she is wearing round glasses. she is wearing a mustard yellow sweater, dark green skirt, black boots, and has a pin of the pokemon vivillion with the nonbinary colours on its wings affixed on the sweater. she poses with her skirt and winks at the camera.

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i enjoyed the cat from this doodle sheet so i drew them enjoying a delicious burger cause ive been very into burgers as my ouid meal lately 🍔 🍃

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I'm in an art club where every week we have a new random prompt and we all post together what we drew on Fridays, this is the blog where we reblog everything posted to tumblr if you want to see how others interpreted the prompt @theweeklyprompt

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i hurt myself with Big Jack by Pet Foolery (can find on instagram) again and no one seems to have posted the whole comic so. here. someone reminded me of it and i tracked it down. gonna go cry in a corner now.