I still had the google search for ‘blue whale’ open in a tab and clicked on it accidentally and ahh I need to hide now. T_T;
Month: January 2016
18, 22, 39 :3c
18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
Oh gosh, I think you know exactly who I’d like to punch in the face. There are actually SEVERAL candidates, but you know the #1 choice. Not that I would EVER actually hit someone, but…
22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?
I uh… I don’t actually know. I tend to talk a lot, so you all know that I can cook, sing, draw, write, that I’m a decent graphic designer, novice photographer, voiceovers, ‘read’ people, etc… I don’t think that there’s really much else to me. Uhm. I’m good with animals…??? Wait I think I’ve talked about that before, too.
I GUESS I DON’T REALLY HAVE SECRETS AND/OR TALENTS THAT ARE SECRET.
39. What type of music do you like?
Tons of different kinds, but I guess alternative pop rock is my jam?
1, 37, 47? I think I know the answer to 23 :3
1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?
Yeah, actually… once in a while. Which is always a weird feeling. It usually happens when I’m super stressed out and will wake up in the middle of the night and it’s just… EXISTENTIAL CRISIS TIME!!!
37. Have you ever built a snowman?
Yeah! I used to when I was kid all the time. I think the last time I made one was a couple of years ago… and it was tiny.
47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?
“Was it worth it?”
23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?
*SCREAMS*
27, 45, 57, 62
27 already answered, so I will move up to:
31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
My dad dying, but only if that meant he would get to come back. Otherwise, maybe… hmm… IDK, a lot of my horrible experiences taught me valuable lessons. Like not putting up with people who are going to be demanding jackasses with unrealistic expectations.
45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would be much thinner. Not like, super thin… but like “I could buy jeans at walmart if I needed to instead of online or at a plus size specialty store” thinner. I would love to be a size 12-16… anywhere in there.
57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?
I drew a werewolf on the train last night. Not sure what happened to it…
62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?
K, probably. Or R.
25-30
25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?
Food, probably. Sushi. Mm. With Aaron, of course. Otherwise, I’ll buy a bunch of art supplies that I may or may not use.
26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?
I don’t have any money until tomorrow, so I guess I should go somewhere with family… like Seattle or Missouri… so that I don’t starve to death. If I had money, though, I’d probably go to… uh… London? IDK. I’m too fat to enjoy Disneyland right now. :/ Otherwise I’d choose THAT in a heartbeat!
27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?
Mike’s Hard Lemonade, obviously. Mostly because I can’t remember what that cider I had in London was called.
28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
“Everyone better clean up their own damn messes.”
29. What is your favorite expletive?
I’m torn between ‘dammit’ and the f-word. Which I can’t even write out, so you can probably guess how often I say it.
30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?
Laptop. It has all of my Dangerous Cute print-res files on it. Though, I guess we have crashplan now… so that stuff would be safe… I GUESS I should be responsible and get our binder of important legal documents- birth certificates, marriage certificate, tax information… kind of important, yeah.
This is why I asked #WheresRey. This is why I think it matters, and why it irritates me that I was lectured by “true fans” about how Star Wars cheapened itself by having a more inclusive, diverse cast.
“Cheapened.”
No. You don’t understand. This is absolutely invaluable to me, as a parent. This means the world to my little girl, who sees herself in Rey, and to so many others.
So the Nerdist was right.
This is amazing.
And not just for my girl, no matter how cute she is in her fangirling (I admit a small amount of bias). It’s amazing for all the kids who can see themselves as heroes of this story with Rey, Finn and Poe now.
“and now she gets to be a Jedi just like her big brother.”
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
Sailor Moon faces
I wanted to practice facial expressions in this style, so I did it with sailor senshi. Because I can.
there is a problem with the american education system when
when getting 6 hours of sleep is a “really good night’s sleep” because you spend so much time at school, then doing homework, and (god forbid) any hobbies/extracurriculars
when the only “counselors” available to you have little or no psychological knowledge and will contact your parents and tell them you were there
when school lunch tastes, looks, and smells like cardboard, and is often unavailable to lower income students, but we are reprimanded for not eating healthily enough
when kids can not eat lunch for every single day of the year and not a single adult will ask them why
when anxiety is interpreted as “nervousness” and depression is interpreted as “laziness” and any sort of disorder or disability, mental or physical, is utterly ignored or ridiculed
when you have to fake sick on multiple days throughout the year because school takes so much out of you that on some days you cannot tolerate it
when you are forced to be around people who are toxic to your mental/emotional health, and if you ask to switch to a different class because of those people you’ll be told to “just ignore them”
when students are forced to participate in activities they are not comfortable doing such as presentations in front of the class in which failure to comply results in a zero
when teachers assign an hour (sometimes more, especially for advanced/AP classes) of homework for you to complete and most of it is nothing but “busy work” (work that serves no purpose other than to take up time)
when tests can count for 85% of your overall grade so no matter how much effort you put into that class, a bad test or poor test taking skills can result in bad/failing grades
when you miss school due to illness and have to complete 3+ days worth of work and turn it in the next day or in 2 days and if you don’t complete/turn it in the teachers act like “well you shouldnt have gotten sick then”
when sports teams get new equipment practically every year and the music/art/drama/etc departments are literally using costumes/instruments/supplies from 10+ years ago and can barely afford to purchase music or supplies or pay for repairs
when a teacher can give a bad test that everyone fails and its our fault
when a teacher can put up notes but not actually teach at all and blame us for failing
when teachers are forced to base their entire class around a certain curriculum but the standardized test is completely different
when a standardized test determines your value
when a student is struggling and no matter what theyre struggling with, its their fault, they should just work harder
when pretty much any student in high school will tell you that they do not like school
when a student’s hopes and passions are discouraged as being impractical and if ur not good at math/science ur basically told that youll never have a decent job and treated like hopeless, pointless waste of space
when teachers/staff can discriminate based off of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, WHATEVER, and reporting it will only put u into a worse situation
when school dress codes are ridiculously unfair towards girls and lower girls’ self esteem and teaches girls that her body is something to be ashamed of
when sex ed classes was nothing but teaching us statistics about STDs and that “abstinence is 100% effective”
when without a scholarship college is nearly impossible to afford
when we’re expected to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives and where we want to go to college by the time we’re 16
when students are so stressed that they turn to drugs just to keep their heads above water
when students are taking their own lives and nobody notices or cares
What isn’t wrong with our education system?
65 Questions You Aren’t Used To
1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?
2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?
3. The person you would never want to meet?
4. What is your favorite word?
5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?
6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?
7. What shirt are you wearing?
8. What do you label yourself as?
9. Bright room or dark room?
10. What were you doing at midnight last night?
11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?
12. Who told you they loved you last?
13. Your worst enemy?
14. What is your current desktop picture?
15. Do you like someone?
16. The last song you listened to?
17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?
20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)
21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?
22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?
23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?
24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.
25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?
26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?
27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?
28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
29. What is your favorite expletive?
30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?
31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!
33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
34. What was your last dream about?
35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?
36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?
37. Have you ever built a snowman?
38. What is the color of your socks?
39. What type of music do you like?
40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?
42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)
43. Do you have any scars?
44. What do you want to be when you graduate?
45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
46. Are you reliable?
47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?
48. Do you hold grudges?
49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?
50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?
51. Are you a good liar?
52. How long could you go without talking?
53. What has been you worst haircut/style?
54. Have you ever baked your own cake?
55. Can you do any accents other than your own?
56. What do you like on your toast?
57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?
58. What would be you dream car?
59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.
60. Do you believe in aliens?
61. Do you often read your horoscope?
62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?
63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?
64. What do you think about babies?
65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.
The new Pokemon ad is here to remind you why Pokemon is important.
If you are in your mid-20s or younger, and have any experience with video games whatsoever, it is extremely easy to presume that Pokemon is in your cultural lexicon. Ever since it exploded onto the scene in 1996 (or 1998 in North America), it has both captured and enraptured people’s imaginations, in addition to resonating on an extremely personal level with children and teenagers of the time. A universe of intelligent monsters that cohabitate with humanity became a limitless playground for these kids and teens–a universe where a ten-year-old could strike out into the world, fiercely independent, and stake a claim towards their destiny: not only becoming Pokemon Champion, but Catching ‘Em All along the way.
A similarly-sized goal in the real world would seem insurmountable to most adults, let alone any single youngling. But, within the world of Pokemon, it not only felt like anything was possible, but it felt like everything was doable.
“I can do that.”
It’s the very first mantra in the new Super Bowl ad celebrating Pokemon’s 20th anniversary. If you have played a Pokemon game, you have likely felt this exact feeling: limitless possibilities, endless potential, and the anticipation of the upcoming journey.
In the ad, that tagline comes from four very different young people. A youngster, just beginning his training after being inspired on the street; a precocious girl with immense strategic know-how; a football captain, who appears to be a true motivator to his team (and, almost definitely, his other team); a city kid, ready to strike out and become the next big thing. They live in a world that is just like ours, but the presence of the Pokemon inhabiting the world permeates the entire setting in the small details. The Nidoqueen chess piece. The Fire Badge emblazoned on the helmets of the football squad. The Pokemon battle happening in a sold-out arena, televised to an entire region, allowing a father and son (and Pikachu) to bond. None of these things feel out of place because that’s how many of us imagined this world to be all those years ago. Realistic, but not gritty. Powerful, but not cataclysmic or apocalyptic. A world of immense size, full of hope and determination.
The ad constantly reminds us that these trainers are big time, too. All of these young people are all over breaking news. They are social media sensations. Holographic billboards are proclaiming their winning ways. They are extremely important and worthy of becoming the collective center of attention, just like the player character in the Pokemon games.
Just like you.
The minute you as a player step out of Pallet Town (or any of the humble beginnings introduced along the way) and into the world to start your adventure in the Pokemon games, you are important. That feeling of self-importance is vital to the Pokemon franchise, and has been every step of the way.
By breathing life into the world of Pokemon that we all imagined while immersed in our own personal tales of triumph, Nintendo has reminded us why Pokemon has stood the test of time as a cultural touchstone in a way that no other video game has thus far. It’s a teaching tool that gives two invaluable lessons:
You are important, and you can do anything.