I'm having some woven blankets made for ECCC! I tested a few last year and adore their naturalistic color palettes and lovely texture--so it was time to design some new ones! There's a pre-order in my shop!

Quick Ian’s Shiny Hunting Corner, random shiny Zizagoon while setting up my Ralts hunt?? I don’t have one, so happy to take it!!

Phase 2 for Shiny Ralts, a POOCHYENA! Luckily Yellow is level 4, so I can use it during my hunt (using a repel trick to increase Ralts encounters)

Phase 3 for shiny Ralts, another Poochyena! He’s lucky his shiny is really good

Phase 4 for shiny Ralts, another Zigzagoon. I completed the line at least, that’s pretty fun!

Phase 5 for shiny Ralts, a Wurmple, BUT THE GAME FROZE!! I was fiddling with the console trying to get a good picture angle aldjkfjdla The only thing I could think to do was save state (a feature of the analogue pocket!), but the save state just leads to a crashed game LMAO

Don’t you worry, I’ve still been grinding for shiny Ralts 😇 I found two Wurmple since failing the last one (both evolve into Cascoon/Dustox) making them Phase 6 and 7

PHASE 8

PHASE 9

PHASE 10

Happy to have a Silcoon this time tho!

GIVE IT UP FOR PHASE 11

PHASE 12

pink in the night

babe are you alright? you just reblogged eunnieboo’s pink in the night comic again

[ you meet god and she is mostly dead fish. ]

a comic based on this post:

I was today years old. That is disgusting.

No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to ever be incentivized in schools. It was signed into law when I was 14. Reading Rainbow was my show as a kid. LeVar Burton played a big part in why I became an avid reader to date. The joy of it. It's an adventure around the globe and through different time periods without stepping on a plane or time machine.

Children parrot behavior. In grade school, I always wanted to read the same amount of books as my teachers (50 books) and managed to double that each year. Before No Child Left Behind, book fairs and Scholastic catalogs were a serious matter like your grandma's Fingerhut catalogs. Libraries were (and still are) a wonderland.

Reading comprehension and proficiency in schools has been declining for decades. A crisis. The joy of books isn't pushed anymore and I'm always saddened by it. It's one of the reasons why I post my book reviews and recommendations on here, as well as posts from others to encourage reading and (novel) writing. Kids will parrot your behavior while the education system sadly fails to return as that example.

For those of us who aren't from the states, what - apart from apparently a shitty law - is that?

A law passed by Bush that cut funding to public schools whose students didn't improve every year on a set of standardized tests- meaning not that each student was supposed to improve during their time in school, but that this year's first graders had to do better on the tests than last year's first graders, and next year's had to do better still. Obviously this was really difficult over the short term and completely impossible over the long term.

This concentrated schools and other education programs entirely on those tests, especially schools with students who were already struggling, at the cost of art and music programs, home economics and shop type programs, and any in depth exploration of pretty much anything that wasn't on the test, which were pretty narrowly focused. Reading Rainbow was a relaxed encouragement to be imaginative and curious. It didn't teach kids the answers to questions on the test. So it didn't make the cut.

The program also incentivized schools to cut their losses on struggling students, expelling or encouraging them to drop out to bring the test averages up instead of being able to spend the effort to actually help them.

No Child Left Behind was an absolute disaster for education, poorly hidden behind an insidious name. The real goal of it was not just to defund education (in order to reallocate those funds to appease Republican lobbyists), but to stop teaching critical thinking. Not only did struggling students get left behind, but by prioritizing students who did well on standardized tests, the focus shifted entirely to teaching students memorization without understanding context, and how to guess their best on a test in order to pass. The focus became passing tests, not actual learning. In the process, students were taught that they don't need to understand the material, they just need to know how to follow directions and give the answers deemed correct by the school boards. They were deprived of agency in their own educations.

This widened the gap between public and private school educations significantly, because students in public schools learned mostly how to regurgitate information, while students in private schools learned how to understand it, analyze it, think critically about it, and apply it - in short, if you could afford to go to private school, you still got to have agency over your education. And sure, many public school teachers were dedicated and still taught their students more than the curriculum demanded, but they were under a lot of pressure and scrutiny and their hands were often tied. Many of them couldn't sustain the effort it took (and how little they got paid) and changed careers. Meanwhile basic necessarily skills disappeared when arts and non-academic budgets were slashed into oblivion - you used to be able to learn how to sew, mend, cook, budget, do woodworking, fix a car (hell, build one), paint, draw, do pottery, and so much more in elective classes. What's mostly remained is performing arts programs, which struggle to continue existing, but since you can charge admission to performances they've had a better chance than shop class and home ec.

You have no idea what it's like to have watched all that happen under the Bush administration and now see the second emerging generation of young people who were deprived of the education they deserve and don't understand critical thought or media analysis. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Bush era are frustrated, but not at all surprised to see how reductive and binary fandom discourse is, or that critical media analysis has diminished significantly and turned into fandom discourse instead (ie. that being a child during the "what you feel is more valid than facts" Bush administration has led to the second emerging generation of people who struggle to separate their personal feelings about a piece of media from the idea that fiction is social commentary, who struggle to understand nuance and are more concerned about judging others for their even slightly divergent political views than about what makes for effective activism, or that fandom has become a way for people to judge and condemn others).

You have no idea how terrifying it is to have watched No Child Left Behind unfold in your early 20s and have thought "this is going to lead to generations of kids who will be ripe for manipulation by propaganda" and to now watch how hard it is to get Gen Z and Alpha to understand the ways they're being manipulated by fascists. Believe me when I say the very real purpose of forcing education to focus on tests instead of knowledge was to create generations of people whose brains are trained at an early age to accept information unquestioningly. That's what I see when people reblog screenshots without sources and base their political opinions on tumblr funnymen.

No Child Left Behind was devastating. We knew it then and we see it now.

team rocket?? ultimate symbol of solidarity between a gay man and a lesbian

What in God’s name is meowth wearing

He’s their straight friend

Pokemon Heritage Post

Who wants to hear me lore dump about my little guy?

Rusty is a kobold from deep in the Underdark. While actually from a little village called Ring's Hollow -- so named for silver translucent mushroom rings that grow in the area -- he often visited the nearby "big city" growing up. The city was called Iskternesj or "Star Stone" in draconic, named for the glittering mineral that made up the whole space, like sparkling starlight in the void. Towering spires of the curving, otherworldly black mineral arch and bend, creaking and whistling as dry winds from deep in the cavernous pit send gusts of cold air spiraling through. Homes and businesses are carved into the rocks, glowing from within with soft golden light -- although most prefer to remain in darkness, learning to ply their trade by touch and memory rather than sight. Treacherous rope bridges cross over the spires where kobolds leap and scamper in the shadows. In the center of the city, a sheer cliff-face stands, only a single narrow staircase carved into the ancient rock, crumbling and in ruins, leads to the very top. There, a great shadow dragon sits, idly swishing his tail and watching the citizens travel about their little lives. Rarely does he come down, barking orders from above for new conquests, new territory, more, more, more. His red eyes always watching. Always.

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Some more art for my kobold character Rusty. He may be small but he is mighty

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making a new D&D character, his name is Rusty

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the last of my three submissions to the pokemon illustration contest 2024! this one didn't place, but it was honestly my favorite out of the three

my other entries: feraligatr and absol

!! DO NOT SIGN UP FOR NOSPACE/NEW MYSPACE APP !!

okay so I did some digging into that MySpace app called nospace and turns out it’s acctually just some new social media set up by crypto/nft ppl hoping to get more people into thier bullshit by specifically marketing to gen z >__> so whilst they’re *probably* not going to like directly steal ur card info or smthn they’re still trying to drag ppl into tech bro pyramid schemes so I’d absolutely stay away

sources:

WOO its finally done :33 my sparklearmy...

[plz reblog]

is that none pizza with left beef

Guy who has only seen none pizza with left beef seeing his second divided pizza order.

none pizza with left beef

It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef

ive missed you

Posted Oct 9, 2012

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

the first post ever on tumblr

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

rapid-fire reblogging 10 times in a row in order to torture my followers

REBLOGGING BECAUSE THIS POST IS BEAUTIFUL AND IT’S A RARE THING TO SEE THE ORIGINAL ONE

Everytime i see this im like “ok this is either the og one or the red dead redemption one i need to prepare myself”

always gotta reblog the og

ALWAYS REBLOG. I WILL TAG IT SO I CAN REBLOG AGAIN

AAHHH THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IVE SEEN IT AND ITS STILL SO PRETTY

I have no idea what the story of this anime is, and it’s pretty obvious who the protag is, but I’m gonna add character to the girls to the left with no face

introducing these two background characters in this slice of life romantic comedy/drama - they love each other a lot, and the girl to the left is grumpy because her girlfriend to the right forgot to give her her good morning kiss.

taller girl on the right is oblivious because she was so excited when they got up because she’s treating her girlfriend to a surprise date at the amusement park that she forgot to give her a good morning kiss. they’ll have their first smooch of the day at the very top of the ferris wheel 💋

the guy to the right of the protag (with the glasses) is a simple office worker who loves his family very very much and cannot wait to get back home to his children

The guy on the far left is wanting to get home to make dinner. He lives alone, but he promised his kitten they would have some grilled fish as a treat! He loves her very much.

The tall one behind the two girls just got back from a job interview. He didn’t get the job but he’s confidant he’ll get the next one. He needs to provide for his son and two daughters after all.

Person to the left of the pink hair girl is a retired hit-man struggling to adjust to a normal life but hes recently found a woman that works at a cafe down the street from his new job and things seem to be going well.

the man on the far far right is anxious as it’s his and his boyfriend first date aniversary and that’s the longest he lasted in a relationship, he is confident that this one will last tho

This is so pure.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own story.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own story.

Can we have an anime series like this?  where every episode starts on the same group of people in the train car and we follow a different protagonist from that group each episode?

like, here’s the premise: each episode opens on an image like the one OP posted, with one person drawn as a typical anime protagonist while everyone else around them is in that faceless minimalist background style.  However, when the train stops, the camera follows one of the background characters out of the train. Over the course of the episode, we are shown a day in that character’s life, the people with whom they interact, the ups and downs they go through, etc, and as we learn more about them, their features gradually become more defined, until the episode ends with them fully drawn and all necessary details present.

Each episode focuses on a different background character, and the protagonist is never given the spotlight until the final episode, when it is revealed that they are just a cardboard cutout that one of the train’s occupants has been tasked with delivering

and there are subtle hints throughout the series that foreshadow this reveal; a figurine on a shelf in the foreground, a video on a screen in the background, a magazine cover, etc., but we don’t notice because our focus is on that episode’s character.

so it symbolically demonstrates how everyone is intimately familiar with this fictional character, hence their being drawn fully detailed from the beginning, but you have to take the time to get to know the actual people that you encounter on a daily basis, and that everyone truly is the protagonist of their own story.