Small Victories

Writer/Artist/Wizard/Geek

[lord-myk]

Here's a muddy turtle we saw today. We also saw what was probably a snapping turtle.

[giant1v1poketourny]

Losers Round 2, Match 112: Shuckle VS. Mareanie

Which pokémon do you like more?

Shuckle

Mareanie

Voting ended onAug 5

[lord-myk]

I like no Pokemon more than Shuckle. Mareanie just happened to be the sacrificial lamb. Or Wooloo?

[lord-myk]

Aw yeah, finished editing like a page of a story I wrote thirteen years ago. At this rate it'll be ready to go when I'm dead.

[oldgamemags]

PlayStation MAX #1, January ‘99 - news on 'Indiana Jones’ on the PlayStation.

[lord-myk]

Mr. Whippy is his name now.

[haveyouusedthispokemon]

Have you used Shuckle?

Yes, and would again

Yes, and might again

Yes, but wouldn't again

No, but would when possible

No, but might use them

No, and will not use them

I don't remember, but would

I don't remember, but might

I don't remember and will not

Voting ended onMay 1

[lord-myk]

I will use Shuckle whenever given the opportunity for they are my favorite.

[lord-myk]

Imagine, if you will, an Easter special about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ but done by Rankin-Bass. It could follow Jesus and his apostles from the Last Supper to his emergence from the tomb on Easter but be done with fun extra characters and filled with almost catchy songs.

I'm sure it could be done now, but I would specifically want the stop-motion wizardry they had at their disposal. That exact vibe of their specials, especially the second-tier ones that weren't quite as good as their major ones. You could also just do it full animated, like "Frosty the Snowman."

Did adult Jesus ever appear in any Rankin-Bass specials? Baby Jesus was at least a plot point in a few of them but did we ever see adult Jesus or did they just stick to the Easter Bunny?

[lord-myk]

Make this Easter weekend special for all your relatives by drawing or finding human-made art depicting the Easter Bunny passionately making out with Jesus Christ and then showing all your relatives how Christian and Pagan traditions can be merged with love and understanding.

Bonus points if you find fun holiday-themed ways to segue into showing them. During a viewing of "Passion of the Christ" smile knowingly and say, "I know about Christ's passion." Then show them your treasure. It will help alleviate what, by all accounts, is an absolutely grueling cinematic endeavor.

For those celebrating other holidays, or no holiday at all, do what you feel is right. This isn't your burden. You have a lot of other things to deal with but you can almost certainly vent some frustrations creating and showing art to those who do celebrate Easter.

[lord-myk]

It would have been higher had I not been forced to use my phone screen to control it. Also if I hadn't messed up.

[lord-myk]

I got a text from the plumbing business set up for the first Super Mario Brothers movie suggesting I add this contact. Does this mean my beloved ROB is going to be in the movie?

[lord-myk]

I cut open a red pepper and found this. I suspect it's a pepper that started growing inside the other pepper, but aren't sure.

[lord-myk]

I drew these for work but they were deemed "too dark for patients" and I can't imagine why.

[zorgnox]

#024 - Learnin' 'Bout Lore Stuff With Juancy: The Embodiments

The placement of embodiments in that third panel does not denote any sort of moral leaning, save for the Stupid and O-Prime who, obviously, are evil and good. Most of them are okay enough, it's their agents you have to look out for…

Anyway, that's it for this issue! Hopefully I'll be back with the next one quicker this time!

[lord-myk]

My girlfriend and I have been spending the past few months watching the Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films (with some outliers) and about a month ago we watched The Cat Returns. It's important to note that with most of these we did minimal research, usually content with the barest description of characters or plot, and so when we watched it we were unprepared for how charmingly strange it turned out to be. A week or so ago, we watched Whisper of the Heart, which we found out was where the titular cat of the other film was returning from, and so we were prepared for some sort of fantasy adventure where the main character would join up with Baron on some quests and the cover of the movie doesn't dispel this fact at all. I would go so far as to say that the marketing sort of promises such a thing.

It turns out that while Baron is in the movie, most of the time he's simply a statue except for brief scenes where the teenage protagonist is writing a story about him. Most of the movie is, in fact, about said protagonist trying and failing not to get a crush on this one boy she meets and then falls so deeply for she writes a novel for him. A cute movie, but not at all what we expected. Baron's friend Muta/Moon is also in this movie but never talks even though there's at least one scene where it seems he's going to be introducing the protagonist to lands of amazement and wonder and cats but actually just goes to bother a dog.

Anyway, we have one movie left (we're pretty sure) and that's The Boy and the Heron which damned well better have a good helping of heron in it. Other things that have surprised me about Miyazaki movies: -Totoro is, in fact, a neighbor of the main characters -Tales of Earthsea has far fewer dragons than one might think and far more plowing -Miyazaki seems to gravitate towards stories involving curses and/or ships of various kinds. Also pirates. -A lot of the American dubs have comedic actors in more serious roles and it's interesting to see how well they do

[abocode]

The Boy and the Heron seems to be a divisive one, but watching it as Miyazaki passing the animation baton to the next generation of creatives, I really enjoyed it. Have you seen When Marnie Was There?

[lord-myk]

We did watch it and I did like it. It hit a good balance between silly and sincere and evoked a lot of the locations of his other films.

I haven't seen that one yet, no.

[lord-myk]

My girlfriend and I have been spending the past few months watching the Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films (with some outliers) and about a month ago we watched The Cat Returns. It's important to note that with most of these we did minimal research, usually content with the barest description of characters or plot, and so when we watched it we were unprepared for how charmingly strange it turned out to be. A week or so ago, we watched Whisper of the Heart, which we found out was where the titular cat of the other film was returning from, and so we were prepared for some sort of fantasy adventure where the main character would join up with Baron on some quests and the cover of the movie doesn't dispel this fact at all. I would go so far as to say that the marketing sort of promises such a thing.

It turns out that while Baron is in the movie, most of the time he's simply a statue except for brief scenes where the teenage protagonist is writing a story about him. Most of the movie is, in fact, about said protagonist trying and failing not to get a crush on this one boy she meets and then falls so deeply for she writes a novel for him. A cute movie, but not at all what we expected. Baron's friend Muta/Moon is also in this movie but never talks even though there's at least one scene where it seems he's going to be introducing the protagonist to lands of amazement and wonder and cats but actually just goes to bother a dog.

Anyway, we have one movie left (we're pretty sure) and that's The Boy and the Heron which damned well better have a good helping of heron in it. Other things that have surprised me about Miyazaki movies: -Totoro is, in fact, a neighbor of the main characters -Tales of Earthsea has far fewer dragons than one might think and far more plowing -Miyazaki seems to gravitate towards stories involving curses and/or ships of various kinds. Also pirates. -A lot of the American dubs have comedic actors in more serious roles and it's interesting to see how well they do

[galacticcrash]

Do you remember the first RANDOM* shiny Pokemon you've found?

Yes (tell me :V)

I think so? Maybe? (tell me anyway :V)

No :(

I've never found a random shiny

I don't play pokemon

Voting ended onNov 17, 2025

*by random i mean non-scripted, not hunting for it actively, you're just wandering around in any game and you just found it somewhere

(tell me the game too, not just the pokemon :V)

edit I'm muting this I didn't expect this to get attention where did all of you come from /silly

[lord-myk]

The first shiny Pokémon I saw out in the wild was in Pokémon Gold. I was sitting in the library after school and playing the game when I happened upon a shiny Tangela. Unfortunately, my attempts to catch it failed and it ran away. I didn't see another wild shiny until X/Y.

[lord-myk]

Watched a movie with this in it last night.

Some of the cats in the movie walked bipedally. Like this.

It was an extremely bizarre movie.

[lord-myk]

It's fun when you're working on a task at your job and it reveals a time of great darkness at your place of employment.