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The name of the man who's been fucking with me is Sulayman Khan, his business is called Superior Squamata. Do not buy from him.
Even if he got back to me right now and shipped my new spider tomorrow morning, the damage is done. This whole experience has completely soured my feelings about wanting to reconnect with the hobby and the community.
What if you were bones? If there was nothing else left of you?
No lungs filled with sweet laughter. No blood rushing to blushing cheeks. No skin grazing against mine when you twined our fingers together.
What if there was nothing left?
If I cradled your ribs in my palm, haunted by the ghost of your heartbeat? If I caressed the line of your ulna, almost able to feel the light brush of overlarge shirtsleeve dipping past your wrist? If the back of my knuckle skimmed the cheek of your skull, so sure I could still feel golden eyes staring so gently back at me through empty sockets?
(Mother said I'd have to watch everyone I loved pass on, but I was promised more time.)
(I walk out of step with the world, but you joined me with a gait all our own.)
(What is that if not a promise?)
What if there was nothing left but bones, yet I could still see the shape of you in the remains? If I handled every piece with the gentlest care, rebuilding you from the inside out? If I held each phalange tenderly in my palm, as if this were a new way you'd chosen to hold my hand?
(I was promised more time. Not enough, but more than this.)
Healing hurts. Magic weaving through meat and muscle and sinew, knitting together a wound before it's ready to let go. It's beautiful and necessary. The pain. Healing hurts. Living hurts. Loving hurts. Love beats in my heart my throat my hands my staff, bleeding like a gaping wound with every forbidden word spoken and ancient symbol sketched into stone.
If you need skin, blood, lungs, then you will have them. If you need flesh and meat and beating heart, I will build you them with my two bloodied hands. I will sculpt your bones a home from the carcass of a beast, breathe life into your hearth with dragonfire.
Healing hurts.
What if I didn't care who I hurt, if it meant having you again?
I think you can understand the sentiment.
And one day soon, when you look at me in the light above and give that gentle smile, I can't help but imagine hooking my fingers between the slats of your ribs and tugging you close enough to hear your heartbeat.
I saw a video about Chopper's devil fruit and it made me think.
We learned recently that visualization and perception are the keys to how a devil fruit work. A fruit user gets stronger by becoming more creative with their fruit's applications. Luffy stretches because Nika is basically a Fleischer-era cartoon, but everyone (including Luffy himself) simply thought he was made of rubber. All of Luffy's powerups are based on that misconception but they work anyway because he thinks they should rather than because there's any scientific soundness behind them. Luffy was immune to Enel's lightning because he didn't think his body should be able to conduct electricity, completely ignoring the heat that could melt gold.
So Chopper, an ordinary non-sapient reindeer, eats the human-human fruit and suddenly has to visualize himself as a human. Obviously the result would be a crude facsimile, with fur and his signature blue nose. And then he got traumatized when actual humans saw him and thought he was a monster. Chopper on a deep personal level does think of himself as a monster, and that definitely influences the way he uses his fruit and his transformations. Plus, the post-timeskip heavy point is actually less human than it was before, implying the form itself isn't "pure". I would imagine that by this point Chopper is capable of becoming a human, not heavy point but an actual proper 100% human, but he's never felt any reason to. It would have no combat purpose, and his sense of identity is intrinsically tied to his hybrid forms- especially brain point which he treats as his default form over his natural reindeer body. It's not that heavy point is his human form, it's that heavy point is his human form.
The only other zoan-user animals we've seen are Pierre the bird and Onimaru the komagitsune, and both support this idea. Pierre's full horse form has never been shown, only his hybrid form which is the shittiest pegasus you've ever seen. Onimaru ate a model of the human-human fruit and his Gyukimaru looks more human than Chopper's heavy point, but he's had over a decade of practice as well as being a fox youkai which presumably had human-like intelligence to start with.
By the way, this is what I've been fighting for. This is what Aphonopelma mooreae looks like. It's basically like a darker, richer GBB that doesn't web up its tank and has a better attitude and lives twice as long.
In an amusing coincidence, Tom Patterson added the species to his portfolio of tarantula glamour shots at the same time all this has been happening to me
I'm going to be honest, I didn't understand the ending of the last Chucky episode at first because I didn't recognize Brad Dourif. Imagine dying at 38 and having your ghost continue to age. I mean, yeah, Charles Lee Ray is 74 years old chronologically, but biologically, they should have put Fiona in drag again.
Charles Lee Ray haunting the White House as a conventional ghost is certainly a twist, although I haven't really been a huge fan of most of what's happened this season. Where do we go from here? Is Charles' ghost going to get beaten up by the other ghosts in the White House? Is Chucky going to fight historical presidents?
There is complete radio silence so I am left to assume this moron *forgot* about me and the [redacted] dollar purchase I made. I asked in good faith if he has the tracking info, but I know full well he hasn't shipped it. I'm expecting to get some non-apology over a full day later saying he's just now getting ready. The only reason I know he's not some scammer is because he did send me my animal the first time. This is too much, man.
When I saw Frieren: Beyond Journey's End had 28 episodes I wasn't really anticipating half of that being taken up by a tournament arc that Frieren and Fern were doing as a formality.
It really is a beautiful series though. Elves live for so long that humans are like mayflies to Frieren, and spending a year somewhere is like wasting a couple hours by her standards. Because of this, she has immense difficulty forming personal connections and having emotional stake in the world around her. After saving the world with her adventuring party, she makes plans to visit them to see a meteor shower in 50 years. By the time this happens, the legendary hero Himmel is old and frail and on his deathbed. Through flashbacks, it's made clear that Himmel was in love with Frieren. The series proper takes place almost 30 years after Himmel dies and is about Frieren adopting the apprentices of her other friends into a new party as she retraces her journey. Along the way, she comes to realize just how much that adventure 80 years ago really meant to her, how every little thing she does now is keeping the memory of Himmel alive, and that she might have loved him too. There are moments of action and comedy, but most of it is very character-driven and emotional, almost melancholic. Frieren spends months seeking out a specific flower that Himmel loved so she could create a whole field of them around a statue of him in some random nowhere village she happened to pass by.
When you think about it, it actually makes thematic sense. The first episode has time skipping ahead by decades. Then Frieren gets roped into raising Fern which is a montage that spans years. Then when they start traveling together, we have months pass by. Stark joins the party and it turns into weeks. It's like now that Frieren is actively getting involved in the world around her, time is slowing down. Things aren't just passing by in the blink of an eye for her anymore. The more lives Frieren touches and allows herself to be touched by, the more grounded the series' pacing becomes. Choosing to take the exam for becoming a First Class Mage- engaging with human society and customs despite how arbitrary and ephemeral she considers it- has caused single days to take up multiple episodes.
What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.
The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.
Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.
The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.
Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.
So yeah bit of a fucked up name for a clothing store ngl
These companies still exist btw. Standard Fruit is now the Dole Food Company, United Fruit and Cuyamel merged and eventually were renamed to Chiquita Brands International, and the Guatemala coup is barely scratching the surface of the fucked up shit they did over here.
In 2007 Chiquita admitted to financing far-right paramilitary groups in my country as recently as 1997.
Yeah the weirdest part is that "banana republic" never had a more innocent meaning or anything. The store chain was named in 1979 long after the term was coined and people knew exactly what it meant then, they just also thought that was a cheeky joke to make.
Unfortunately, I did have to sacrifice my Charizard herba mystica farm by connecting to the internet. But my stockpile is more than enough to do whatever hunts I could possibly want.
Some of the Violet exclusives have really fucking good shinies, like Clauncher/Clawitzer. But the Masuda method is basically a form of self harm. I can tell you right now I would never have the same luck I did with Eiscue, shiny charm or not.
my hot take about homestuck is that describing the plot is incredibly easy (several others have done this, so i won’t on this post), it’s the STRUCTURE of homestuck that’s impossible to explain simply
and THATS why homestuck references are the most batshit confusing things ever. because they aren’t about the fairly simple plot, theyre about the weird amalgamation of computer coding, chess, billards, zodiacs, fucking LUCKY CHARMS, etc that make up the building blocks of the background elements that barely have anything to do with the core plot
it’s one thing to say homestuck is about 4 friends that play a game at the end of the world to try and design a new world, it’s another to explain why betty crocker is a pisces alien fish dictator that takes the place of the black queen in the third intergalactic chess game of the series
I've been talking a big game, but honestly I don't have the emotional bandwidth for a crusade against some guy just for being an irresponsible shithead with poor customer service etiquette. I just want to get my new pet. The chances of something else going wrong are frankly minuscule, what happened was basically like getting struck by lightning. I only need this thing to not be getting ready to molt when it's put in the mail, and everything will work out. Aphonopelma are nearly indestructible. I've had an Aphonopelma arrive in a tupperware that wasn't padded properly. I've had at least two that fell victim to shipping delays and had to wait over the weekend to be delivered.
I'll drop the guy's name once the package is secured, but honestly it wouldn't take much digging to find out who he is on your own. Judging from the other high-end animals he's selling, he's not someone the casual hobbyist should be too worried about.
When I saw Frieren: Beyond Journey's End had 28 episodes I wasn't really anticipating half of that being taken up by a tournament arc that Frieren and Fern were doing as a formality.
It really is a beautiful series though. Elves live for so long that humans are like mayflies to Frieren, and spending a year somewhere is like wasting a couple hours by her standards. Because of this, she has immense difficulty forming personal connections and having emotional stake in the world around her. After saving the world with her adventuring party, she makes plans to visit them to see a meteor shower in 50 years. By the time this happens, the legendary hero Himmel is old and frail and on his deathbed. Through flashbacks, it's made clear that Himmel was in love with Frieren. The series proper takes place almost 30 years after Himmel dies and is about Frieren adopting the apprentices of her other friends into a new party as she retraces her journey. Along the way, she comes to realize just how much that adventure 80 years ago really meant to her, how every little thing she does now is keeping the memory of Himmel alive, and that she might have loved him too. There are moments of action and comedy, but most of it is very character-driven and emotional, almost melancholic. Frieren spends months seeking out a specific flower that Himmel loved so she could create a whole field of them around a statue of him in some random nowhere village she happened to pass by.
It's actually really funny my first hunt with the shiny charm ended with finding a random shiny and not my target.
It's done. All three pokedexes are finished and I now have the shiny charm and mark charm. I've never actually completed a pokemon game before. But since I only still play Scarlet to shiny hunt, you could say that the real game is actually just beginning.
I miss how they did it on the 3DS where you could send a pokemon to a hub asking for a specific pokemon. That was a really sensible way to get version exclusives.
I joined a random tera raid and it was for a 6 star Ceruledge, so that takes care of that. And I completely forgot that Passimian is in Sword so I could have gotten it at the same time I got Clauncher and Morpeko. So now it's down to Gulpin/Swalot and the future paradoxes including Miraidon.
Free trial of Switch Online, who's helping me finish my pokedex? Ceruledge, Passimian, Gulpin, future paradoxes besides Iron Bundle
