I do not know what I am doing. I'm some kinda millennial and still on tumblr. they/them; Ace Here there be: -Mostly funny things around -Cool things around -Puns and wordplay -Fanstuff: Ghibli, Lupin III, Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, Jojos, comics, assorted anime and other vidjo games, SCIENCE, and other cool stuff..... Yeah, you could look through there... See what's up -Sometimes I draw. -Stuff 'bout my life. -Maybe dragons Check out my tags tho. Everything is queued unless tagged "p"
Coinciding with the anime release, I planned and cooked a meal alongside an episode every week. This post is a collection of all those recipes in chronological order, but all the related posts can always be found on my dungeon munchy tag!
✨Food is ready trumpets✨
Season 1
Roasted Basilisk and Mandrake Omelet - (Leftovers+)
Living Armor Soup, Bake, and Stir fry
Cabbage Soup, Turnip Salad, Bread, and Spicy Chicken
Bug Snacks and Holy Water Sorbet
Cursed Paintings and Mimic Boiled in Salt Water
Barley Porridge and Kraken (and) Parasite Kabayaki
Raspberries and Yakiniku
Tentacles with Vinegar Dressing and in Stew
Tentacle Gnocchi with Frog Leg
Bonus: Dragon Slaying Cutlet
Rewind: Scorpion and Mushroom Hot Pot and Man-Eating Plant Tart
Red Dragon Feast: Roast, Dragontail Soup, and Pizza Bread
Rewind: Kakiage and Giant Bat Tempura
Good Rations
Dryad Fruit Potage and Bud Sautee / Eisbein-style Cockatrice and Bud Sauerkraut
Cockatrice Ankake and an Eastern Style Meal - (With Brick addition)
Harpy Egg Tamagoyaki
Fifth floor Pilaf, Piccata, and Sweet Dryad - (Reblog with prep and commentary)
Hyorogan, Mushroom Risotto, and Sake Steamed Nightmares - (Hyorogan Prep)
Ice Golem Fish (and) Chawanmushi, Sweet Simmered Mandrake, and Barometz - (Process [CW fish fileting])
Soul Eggs Benedict and Golden Kingdom Feast - (WIP Reblog)
Golden Kingdom Breakfast and Skyfish and Chips - (Leftovers+)
Griffin Soup and Handmade Dumplings - (Leftovers+)
Changeling Dumplings and Seed Tea with Bacon and Eggs
hey! I love the art and world building youre doing with Pokémon, but I will admit I'm a little lost on the setting(?) Or story of it all, and hearing that some has been rewritten i dont want to completely rely on your old posts in the tag
Could I maybe ask for a small summary of what pokemon DA is?
Yeah my bad, turns out it's very hard to write slice of life "recovery fic" when both my writing sensibilities and the conceit of this being a mainline-pokemon-game type of setting keeps pulling the point of focus onto Typical Game Plot Stuff
At the core of it, pokemon DA is about learning to see the wonder of the mundane pokemon world after a long period of depressive isolation. Timeline wise, the first Game Plot happened 12 years ago, and the second Game Plot is yet to come. We're in the space between XY and Legends ZA, so to speak. The child protagonist is not in the picture yet, the new big bad is not an imminent threat, and everyone are still getting into position.
...that said, at this rate I'm not gonna get to some of the plot and setting before someone ask about it, so I'm gonna put a longer, more detailed summary below the cut. This will include stuff I haven't shown or implied anywhere, which might cheapen the organic discovery down the line, but lbr pokemon has never been about the twist
Overarching setting
Sommei's legendary is a Cresselia who, every full moon, blesses the region with One Good Rest to offset the burden of living. Something to look forward to.
12 years ago, the 1st evil team, thinking that people should get more than just one night every month, captured it and attempted to extract this blessing. They killed it.
Nowadays, every full moon in Sommei is an ominous but harmless new moon instead, put there by its partner Darkrai to remind people of what happened.
Within this - major characters
Vanilla (the champion) was the child protagonist who took down the evil team last time. She has been using her position to ensure this cannot happen again since. Nobody wants her job.
Scita (the pkmn da protagonist) was so terrified by that event that they abandoned the gym challenge and tried to live a normal life instead
Yogurt (Scita's old partner) wanted to Do Something about it all so it joined Vanilla's team
Ela Joy moved here because he got tired of the politics surrounding pokecenters and Alolan Traditional Values. He's a good Nurse, but he's starting to find research more fulfilling
Mewtwo got dragged here by Kaleido because it's got better protection laws, while he works to make sure Mewtwo is legally recognized as an uncatchable legendary. It's gonna make friends :3
Cloning and gene modification technology has improved greatly due to the work done on Mewtwo, and the new evil team hopes to make Cresselia 2.0, now with more power and less free will
The leader of the new team could have stopped Cresselia's death from happening, but it was Scary. To her, she betrayed her sense of justice, and she's regretted it since
Within this - minor characters
Mette (the little psychic girl) got responsibility drilled into her since she's an even younger child and she thinks that it's stupid and unfair and befriending this weird duck pokemon embryo cannot possibly be that important
Kaleido (guy with the evil looking service gardevoir) is champion of another region. He's always off pulling people together and forming teams to solve problems because he just see people as weird pokemon. Somehow this works
Tan (bodega owner and Mewtwo's current caretaker) is the sole owner after her parents finally retired and moved back to the countryside. She likes having Mewtwo here because as quiet as it is, it still makes her home less empty
Minna (woman with the Mew) has an official job as a battle arena inspector. Cats are her one weakness. Found Mew under a truck and she's trying to see if 'disturbing fetus thing' is its default look or if it's actually sick from living under a truck
Ex-commander Saturn of Team Galactic rebranded the team to JSM Labs, refocuses on energy tech, and is honestly just here to do work while on his vacation. Might have taken a little girl too seriously and now she's imprinted on him like a duck
Mewtwo's storyline/Pokemon characters
There's more pokemon than this, but these are the ones that are relevant to Mewtwo as of present
Trubbish came in Scita's trash-covered apartment one day and the two of them has been together ever since. Possibly the most friendly character in the setting
Zigzagoon (Galarian) got Scita yelled at by their boss, felt guilty, and stuck around because this 20sth is clearly helpless and needs it around
Roastberry (Swellow) escaped its competitive trainer's place several times with burns from the Guts + Flame Orb + Facade strat and Scita more or less stole it after the third time they found it
Rush (Unown E) got summoned by Miette, ran into Scita, got smacked with a broom, then proceeds to stick aroudn and be their problem
Rose/Rotisserie (Combusken) is Tan's rather sheltered and idealistic pokemon. It knows a lot about the local cultures and city life, but it hasn't ever seen a mountain or a beach before
Blunt/Blunt Force Trauma (Alolan Persian) is Ela's first head trauma case after he failed to save a mudbray at 18, and keeping it alive gave him the will to go on back then. Enables Mewtwo in the art of playing with your prey (they invented something called the Rattata Centrifuge)
Clarinet (Gardevoir) has been through hell together with Kaleido, and upon the first hour of being around Mewtwo, has decided this thing needs Clarinet mandated therapy. Mewtwo is Wary™ of it
Insommei (Darkrai), contrary to what people there believe, did not go mad with grief and stole the moon as punishment to humanity. The lost new moon really is supposed to just be a reminder. It is grieving and would like everyone to leave it alone
The next time you feel bad about taking shortcuts in your work, I want you to think about how the face of one of the most legendary movie studios in the world, was photographed holding a plastic lamp with extension cord dangling while standing on a cardboard box.
This will be a somewhat brief introductory post to flat reed basket weaving, these two patterns are provided. Below are SOME websites you can buy supplies at:
Basketweaving.com
Peerlessratten.com
Thecountryseat.com
Explore these websites, as you learn basket weaving there's different materials you can learn to use and replace others and these websites will often provide the tools you will need too. You can use dyes or stain for flat reed, I have more experience with dyeing which basically involves boiling the color and then dunking the reeds in it.
Flat reed is literally that, flat reeds. Many flat reeds used are commercial but some traditional ones will be made of splints from trees such as Ash or White Oak. They are soaked in water and then shaped and woven into the craft desired.
Source
These patterns will tell you how you will need to cut your reeds. You will need a water source, preferably a tub of some kind, an awl, measuring tool, and a flat workspace.
Tips:
Do not let your flat reeds stay wet for too long! Let it dry in an open air space when you are not working on it or when it is complete, FLAT REED CAN MOLD.
If you soak flat reed for too long it can become mushy and unusable, at the very least if you soak it for extended periods be careful with how you bend it.
Flat reed tends to (not always) have a 'rough' and 'smooth' side, you want the rough side to be on the inside of your basket.
If you're a flat reed has started to split trim it as close to the split as you can as quickly as you can or it spreads.
Starting is the most difficult part and no basket will look like the end result in the beginning. Getting overwhelmed is normal, come back to it, these are not projects you do in one sitting.
If I can I'm going to see about getting better scans of these and possibly uploading a step-by-step post. These websites provided also often have more basket weaving patterns and even kits.
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
