#used a lot of dots this time

[poliffwoog]

The guide fweheuhuieheueuhehehhehehiheh

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

[zarla-s]

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

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[heartorbit]

SPARKLE ON ✨✨✨

[seagull-scribbles]

Happy Ides of March

[mitchmotch]

day 3 of 30 minute sketch mondays with @revalito! this time with jack zimmermann ^^ (he's 100% looking at bitty)

[velociraptorsaurusrex]

1x02 Tempered Steele // Casablanca (1942) // 1x18 Steele in the News // 2x03 Red Holt Steele // Reborn, Susan Sontag // “Divers,” Divers, Joanna Newsom // 1x17 Steele Among the Living // “Kingfisher,” Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom // 1x11 Steeling the Show // 1x10 Steele Trap // 1x07 Etched in Steele // combined translations of Ovid's Pygmalion // 3x05 Blue Blooded Steele // 1x12 Steele Flying High // 3x01 Steele at It // Pygmalion and Galatea, W.S. Gilbert, Act I, pp15 // “The Creation to the Creator,” Mildred Pluma Foulke // 2x04 Altared Steele // 2x19 Dreams of Steele // Genesis 1:27 // 3x06 Steele Your Heart Away // Genesis 2:23 // 3x21 Steele Trying // Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, pp179 // “To Helen,” Frank Marshall Davis // Herman Melville letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nov. [17?] 1851 // 2x01 Steele Away With Me // “Act,” León Salvatierra, trans. Javier O. Huerta // 4x01 Steele Searching // “Corpse Song,” Margaret Atwood // Job 10:8-9 // The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov, pp?? I only have an ebook // Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, 2.2.46-55 // 4x02 Steele Searching // 4x07 Premium Steele // Dark Passage (1947) // “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman // “Now I Become Myself,” May Sarton // “Sacred Emily,” Gertrude Stein // “Recreation,” Audre Lorde // s1 intro voiceover

[callmewishful]

Just when you thought I’ve abandoned you, here I am to ruin your dash

[i3utterflyeffect]

Idea for that thing with Sec struggling with object permanence as a baby

Like I know you said selkies can recognize each other, but consider

Tiny Sec might be able to recognize Alan as a fellow selkie, but not as "dad"

true true! generally selkies i think get a particular 'vibe' from specific people but i could see that tbh....

[bitegore]

if your ocs were bosses in a video game, what do you think their boss fight would be like?

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

liking south park (and having a BLOG or other account for it thereby engaging in fan art and fanfic) and then acting like you’re on a moral high ground for openly proclaiming your hatred of kyman and its shippers is like being in hell and saying well im better than that guy because he did something worse than me to get here!! like. who gives a shit we’re all in the same hellscape can we please play NICE with each other??? good god i know our favs are fourth graders but that doesn’t mean we have to act like literal children too

[nudibutch]

had to quietly square off with two men 4x my size for 20 min at the club last night w my sister and cousin bc they were big mad i was guarding drinks and clocked them as predators immediately and i just really need a femme to hold me right now bc i am so tired after my adrenal response kicked in for what felt like half an hour after and didnt get back home till 1am and got shit sleep

[w0rmyz]

another one of fish and 9-ball

[unhhhhbelievable]

[amelikos]

PR account posting about Spinel before tomorrow's episode (here). I wonder if we'll get to know a bit more about Spinel's motivations since they mentioned "what could his goal be...?".

They also posted about Amethio (here). A recap featuring a scene from HZ045 where Amethio uses Terastal. I wonder if this means he could possibly use Terastal in HZ064. Also liked the mention that the battle against Rayquaza led Liko and the others to attempt Terastal training. (Witnessing Terastal against Friede motivating Amethio to eventually do the same, which in turns motivates Liko as well and introduces the Terastal arc, etc. One's growth leading to another's.)

And a final tease of Sango and Onyx (here). Happy to see they'll be around too! I was wondering if they'd have some kind of winter outfits, but it seems like maybe they don't get too cold in this kind of weather.. Sango does have an Ice Pokemon as her main partner so she is probably resistant to cold? And since Onyx is always with her, maybe he is used to it as well now.

[skeletalheartattack]

"BLJ" actually stands for Biden Long Jump <isnt sure if youre aware of mario 64 speedrunning technique backwards long jump

and if joe biden was put into half life 2 he'd do an "ABH", as in: Accelerated Biden Hop