#because the og only works on toadette

[moon9931]

TWO AT A TIME

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[nickcitrus]

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🌻: The United States once transported 70 camels in 1856 to Texas spending roughly 900k (in today’s prices) to be used in a program called The United States Camel Corps. They were mainly used as pack animals but there was some plans to use them in combat (and way later mail). There’s a few reasons why it never took off but it’s basically because of the Civil War and that one of the major supporters was the future president of the C.S.A. Makes sense why the U.S. wanted to distance themselves from any camel plans though I’m still a bit sad we never had a Camel Express along with the Pony Express.

🌻: There’s a cryptid known as the Red Ghost or the Fantasma Colorado that’s a big ol’ red beast with a demonic figure strapped to their back. There’s quite a few people who witnessed it in Arizona for many, many years and it’s actually a true thing! Turns out the Red Ghost was actually a camel that must’ve been a part of the previously mentioned Camel Corps and the demonic figure was a human Skeleton strapped to their back. Still to this day no one knows who the rider was or what happened to the poor dude.

🌻: You know how tons of people type “!?” or “?!” as punctuation? Technically it’s actually a real punctuation mark called the interrobang. Some call it the exclamaquest, QuizDing, rhet, or the exclorative, but interrobang is the most used term. It’s specifically meant for expressing excitement or disbelief in the form of a question, or asking a rhetorical question. It’s only supported by a few fonts sadly. It does have its own unicode though and it was used by an U.S. Judge recently sooo I feel like it’s still holding on even if it was way more popular in the 1960s when it was created. Personally I wish it was more accessible because I’d use it constantly. What do you think‽

🌻: There was a long stretch of time when I was a kid where I’d wake up at 3 AM and bug my parents to let me watch TV in their room. At some point they refused to let me in and I snuck downstairs instead. BUT before that the main show I was obsessed with was a Canadian puppet show called Chicken Minute. From what I remember it was such an adorable show and I’d love to go back and watch some of them for the nostalgia buuuuut I sort of can’t. The majority of episodes are lost for everyone and out of the like, 15 episodes found there’s only a small handful in English.

🌻: I probably have way too many collections and way too many things… and yet I can’t help adding stuff to each one and forming new collections. One collection I’d love to work on more is my stop motion/claymation collection. I’d love to get my hands on as much physical media as I can. The more realistic productions are great buuuuut I’ll forever have a soft spot for the simplistic, innocent stuff especially when they’re low budget ones. (Also Gumby can be trippy as hell even more so when you’re watching it at 3 AM and you’re v sleepy.)

🌻: I absolutely love cancelled TV shows. Why? Beats me! Maybe it’s the potential? Maybe it’s because I like to imagine that there’s an alt universe out there where they get 8 seasons and a movie? Who knows! What I do know is that I’mma try my best to keep them alive as long as I can and watch the hell out of them.

🌻: Felix the Cat will be 100 years old in 2019!! He’s basically the oldest cartoon character still recognized today and would be the first franchised cartoon character to reach that age! I’m fairly certain there’s no plans for anything by the current rights holder and I feel like it’s undermining how important it is. I’d LOVE to see a new movie with a similar art style to the recent Peanuts and Captain Underpants movies.

🌻: Tons of people have been rightfully complaining about how Waluigi isn’t a playable character in Smash Bros Ultimate and yet I’ve seen almost no one complain about how Toad has never been playable. Y'ALL SHOULD BE MORE RILED UP ABOUT BEING TOADLESS!! We even have Captain Toad now! Nintendo could and SHOULD both have OG Toad and Captain Toad in there ASAP. Would love to see color reskins of the Toads that match Toadette, Professor Toadsworth, Toad from Super Mario Bros, and the two Toads from New Super Mario Bros. P.S. Don’t even get my started on characters like Birdo.

🌻: There’s tons and tons of comics/manga that hold a special place in my heart but there’s two that were there for me when I was anxious as hell, frightened, and sick. No joke, I honestly don’t think I’d be the same person without them. So I’d like to give a small shout out to Bone by Jeff Smith and Pluto by Naoki Urasawa for comforting me in my times of need.

🌻: The one factoid that I’ll never forget is that if a frog swallows something toxic like a bee then they’ll literally throw up their own stomach and will brush it off before swallowing there own stomachs.

🍊: Thank you for sending me so many sunflowers, bud! I hope you’re happy with what I said because I had fun writing them.