A drawing of Sandi the trapinch every day! Feel free to submit your own snaps, Sandi loves friends! Most posts will be queued, so don't worry if your ask or submission isn't posted right away! (click the header for a surprise, mobile users!)
I just rediscovered this blog, which has been completely inactive since 2017. If you're still following me, I'm so incredibly grateful that you've stuck with it through the long silence. Truthfully, I'd forgotten about my dear Sandi in the rush of life, you know how these things go. But I have so many fond memories from running this blog, at the peak of the daily pokemon hype! I truly hope all the folks from back in the day are doing well.
After losing both the email and password to for this blog, I managed to crack the code to get back in. I don't really know what I'm going to do with it now, but rest assured, I won't be deleting anything.
The last post on this blog was about getting to know me, so I figure it's about time for a life update. Pardon me for getting sentimental for a moment.
Since this blog went on hiatus, I have entered and graduated from my university with a Bachelor's in Marine Biology, with honors, and a minor in Chemistry. I traveled abroad and swam through coral reefs, rescued stranded sea life, and cleaned up beaches. Out of everything, I'm proudest of the time I spent building oyster reefs and restoring our shoreline habitats. I've met so many amazing people, and we've made a real difference in this world. Through working with oysters, I discovered a deep love of the little things, the tiny humble creatures living in crevices, within mud, and on rocks of the seafloor. There are miniature worlds of infinite wonder there, if you take the time to look.
I met the love of my life, nearly got engaged after five truly divine years, and was promptly dumped before I could propose. I still have the ring. At the same time, I moved across the country to an unfamiliar city, where I thought I would be with my love, but instead was completely on my own. Things have been hard. Things have been very, very hard. There are good days and bad days, but I am picking myself up, pulling myself out of the dark. I am building myself a home here, and it is so worth living in. There is so much beauty in this world. There is so much love in the hearts of the people around us.
Art has settled into a pleasant supporter in the background of my life. I don't draw nearly as much as I used to, and my sense of creativity has changed a lot over the years. But I always know that the art will be there for me whenever I decide to pick up pencil and paper again. This blog from years ago taught me the joy of silly little doodles, and I'm so so so grateful for that!
I go by Frankie, these days. They/them or xe/xem pronouns. Currently, I'm in graduate school, preparing to get my PhD in Marine Science. I study little marine worms - how they move, how they affect their environment, and how important they are to the whole ocean. Ask me about my polychaete pictures, I think they're really cute! Honestly, I wish I could go back and tell my 2017-self just how much we've accomplished. Back then, I never thought I'd make it this far. I could never have imagined the breadth of experiences life had waiting for me.
There's still so much more out there to experience. If you followed me in 2017 and you're reading this now - I hope life has treated you well. I hope you've had so many good days since the last time you saw my dear Sandi. And I hope you have so many more good days for years to come!
Some of you may notice that when I went on hiatus, I left some loose ends unresolved. Unanswered messages and asks, comic ideas, that kind of thing. I promise that I didn't do it on purpose at the time! I was a lot younger, didn't understand exactly how to handle my blog getting this big. But I hope you will respect my decision to leave these things alone and not reopen a bunch of threads from seven years ago. Thank you <3
Hey guys I know it’s been awhile, I promise I’m not dead!! I was tagged by a follower for the get to know me tag! SO uh here I go I guess?
Rules: tag 20 followers you’d like to get to know (honestly dont even have to follow it tbh)
Tagged by: the lovely @uberwooper !
Name: Uhhh how about Gracie, you can also call me Emma or Satsuma, whichever you like
Nickname: Fish, Emmie, some people call me the crazy fish girl or ‘the one with the fish blog’??? can’t imagine why hahahaha
Gender: female, she/her pronouns please!
Star sign: Pisces babe!
Height: 5′4 I’m pretty sure?
Sexuality: Bisexual, but tell nobody ;P
Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff! Not so surprising, isn’t it lol
Favorite animal: FEESH. fish. poissons. bettas. kuhli loaches. angler fish. sharks. corydoras. plecos. any fish you can think of!!
Average hours spent sleeping: 7-9 hours depending on how much I need to do!
Dogs or Cats: I like both, but I could probably only take care of a cat.
Number of blankets I sleep with: one over me, one underneath my feet, and one bunched up under my head lol
Dream trip: Take me to a beach in France. I’ll never leave.
Dream Job: I want to become a marine biologist! I love my art, of course, but I don’t think I could stand doing it for a living 24/7.
When I made this account: uh. i think. a little less than a year ago.
Why I made this account: I loved the daily pokemon trend and wanted to get in on it with my favorite pokemon! plus, I though it would help me draw and improve on a more consistent basis.
# of followers: at this moment I have 1,061 followers, and I love every single one of you! I need to get around to doing that 1k event thing hahahaha
Reasons for my url: it’s on-theme and easier to read than dailytrapinch, don’t you think?
Ok I know I'm technically on hiatus, but in lieu of art I had a good idea!!
I'm officially declaring today Mod Selfie Day for all daily pokemon blogs and pokemon ask blogs!! Post a selfie and tag it #PKMNmodselfieday and make sure to tag me in it!! I want to see all your lovely faces!!
If you want, reblog this post to spread some positivity!!
I'm really sorry to announce this and I had hoped I wouldn't need to do this, but alas, the time has come for daily-trapinch to take a tiny break! (◇^^^^◇) I (mod) am still in school, as you might have guessed, and right now life has done everything it can to throw a monkey wrench in my schedule. As soon as things balance out and routine goes back to something manageable, I'll be back! Hopefully this hiatus will only last a little while. I'll miss all of you! I may be able to answer asks on occasion without art, but other than that and reblogs this blog will be on hiatus. See you soon!!
I’ve heard a few people say they want to illustrate this - and in all honesty I actually wrote this thinking that it would be fun if people decided to work together to create an actual illustrated story. So if you actually want to do that, I’d love to hear from you - I think it’d be a lot of fun!
Either way, I appreciate you reading my little parody of a pretty neat book :)
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