Love.

愛し続ける。 彩乃ガブリエル。 Hi, My Name is Gabe. Asian. Secretary. Musician. Nerd. Martial Artist. 22. ABA Record: 54W, 2D, 4L (36W - RSC) Twitter: Myspace: Squad Members: 3DS Friend Code: 4167-5458-3997

[gabegabes]

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

Greek Nathan's foot long Yogurt Hot Dogs

[akimanart]

XユーザーのあきまんPLAMAX「GODZ ORDER」神翼騎士団さん: 「むかしかいたゼシカ https://t.co/tm4y3A4mK5」 / X

[mudkipsdaily]

mudkip.

[zaebucca]

Gold & Silver - Day & Night My Ecruteak City remake for Johto Redrawn

[mudkipsdaily]

mudkip.

[juuxzi]

[guerrillatech]

[gabegabes]

i’m

[whale4m]

EL BESO X SPY X FAMILY💛✨

[eldenturtle]

Tumblr is collectively doing this thing where we’re an old woman in the village minding our business and making our soup but the new gentrified neighbors want to come over and see if we’re interested in starting a Home Owner’s Association and so now we gotta pretend to be a crazy old lady who does devil sacraments and maybe will come to stand in front of their house at night and stare in their windows if they talk to us.

[zaebucca]

Afternoon by the river, early 2000s

[luxlightly]

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

[hirespokemon]

more 2003 illustration by the legend Emiko Yoshino 吉野恵美子, from the book "ポケモン えいごであそぶモン!", an English course for Japanese kids and even 4kids apparently could take some notes from Croconaw...

[polyglotplatypus]

some friends and i were joking about what would’ve happened if the mp100 dub had been localized 4kids-style, and this…. was the result

[holdtightposts]

New characters for the Pokemon anime.

Here’s Professor Sakuragi and his daughter Koharu with her partner Yamper. This is his research lab that he built in the Kanto region.

... oh boy. Here we go again.

[corsolanite]

[gabegabes]

family night 🤙🏻🔥 #rebelution #brothers #chulavista #saturday #reggae #weekend #family (at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BywTXoSHVGWM1AWprhVf4C4447RqB5m6eteYIc0/?igshid=13gy8joavsqyj