Astronaut Readjusts To Life Back On Earth

Sounds about right

Whenever I’m making something based on an american recipe, I have to cut down the sugar and butter content by at least half

how are you guys alive over there???

This Friday's meme is: evil transformation

I find it really interesting how the Alola and Galar regions’ games have completely deconstructed the traditional gym challenge - and relatedly, the role of pokemon training in society - in completely opposite directions. Taking the basic premise of “ok so people over a certain age can go around earning merit badges from local leaders/celebrities/weird hermits” and then spinning it off first into “this is an ancient coming-of-age ceremony with both practical skill-building and deeply spiritual components” and then immediately swinging back to “they’re professional athletes. the challengers, the gym leaders, everyone. they all have corporate sponsors and their job is to be entertaining”? It’s very good. 

It’s also, I suspect, partly to blame for a lot of people’s problems with the writing in the Gen 7 and 8 games. Like, yes, Gen 7 was fairly railroady and Gen 8 feels a little shallow. Gen 7 is guiding us through an extended ritual ordained by the gods while gently pointing us toward places where that tradition fails to care for people and asking us to question how, or whether, the traditions can survive modernization and contact with dominant global cultures. Gen 8 has a lot of interactions with other major players that are literally kayfabe while raising questions of where the posturing of the public persona stops and the hard work of the person behind it takes over, and also showing us places where that tradition leaves whole communities in the dust. It feels awkward, and in some cases is genuinely poorly executed, because we’re not used to a pokemon narrative that asks us to consider whether the gym challenge itself is a public good.

My friend Oliver (Check your amazing art @capi974) inspired me with the idea of holding a Sharktober! We created the ideas for the list together, to inspire people to illustrate good content for our dear sharks! ✨🦈

It is also an interesting way I found to finally dedicate myself to my abandoned Twitter account (@requinoesis) where I will publish my Sharktober art!

I am very grateful to my friend Rebecca (Check her amazing art also @msbunnat) who helped me edit the video! ✨🐠

The texts were inspired by the very cute Frogust art challenge created by @bunzorg.art! ✨🐙

I hope you like it and can make a lot of creative and positive art from our sharks! Remember to tag your art with the hashtag #Sharktober so I can see your amazing artwork! ✨🐟

Music: Lu Over The Wall Opening

who wants to go to the aquarium with me i want to stand in cold rooms for two hours straight and look at jellyfish and maybe pet a small stingray

Eagle Fight, Alaska

positivity post 😁😁!!!!

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it