hey,want to see my cats?!

[luis-e-sierra]

"Please. Defeat me." AI Professors Sada & Turo from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

[nekodatta]

Chapters: 29/? Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Human Futu-hakase | Professor Turo/Human Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Professor Turo/Professor Sada, Professor Sada/Professor Turo Characters: Professor Turo, Professor Sada, Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Futu-hakase | Professor Turo, Human Futu-hakase | Professor Turo, Human Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Sada, Turo, Director Clavell (Pokemon), Zinnia | Jacq (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet), Raifort (Pokemon), Pepper | Arven, Other Minor Characters, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel, Pre-Canon, lakehouseshipping, Fluff and Angst, Opposites Attract, Fluff, Angst, Made For Each Other Series: Part 2 of The Timeslip Saga Summary:

Year 2005, Central Paldea, Modern Era

 Clavell carefully adjusted his glasses, giving one last look at his image in the mirror before heading out. As he passed in front of the living room, he hesitated in front of the door left ajar, before hazarding a look inside. There, still asleep on the couch, curled up against each other, were the man and woman he had offered a place to stay just the night before. The two paradoxes from Area Zero.

[AU Where Turo and Sada are actual time travelers from a distant future and past. Now stuck in Paldea with no way to get back to their respective times, the two must learn to live in a time that's unfamiliar to both of them. Heavily suggest reading part 1 first!]

New chapter is out!

[sebdoesthings]

I wanna actually practice art (specifically anatomy) but I struggle to self study because i never actually know what to do? like "just draw" or "draw what you see" or "study anatomy" is so elusive, especially the last one. how do i study? how does studying work? in school i'd just read the material over and over and hope it sticks, which seems really inefficient. i need instruction. structure. a class environment, but i don't want to spend all that money to go attend art classes.

so i guess my question is, does anyone have like. work books? for art/anatomy practice? that have actual instructions and tasks and "homework" type things in them? videos or blogs? websites? any medium works tbh, my autistic brain just needs to be given clear instruction and tasks.

i tried studying with anatomy textbooks but they just talk at you about which joints connect where and what different muscles do and that's just not something that helps me.

[nekodatta]

That's it, that's my precious contribution to Futuuori/TuroxSada day, lmao.

[nekodatta]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 26/? Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Human Futu-hakase | Professor Turo/Human Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Professor Turo/Professor Sada, Professor Sada/Professor Turo Characters: Professor Turo, Professor Sada, Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Futu-hakase | Professor Turo, Human Futu-hakase | Professor Turo, Human Olim-hakase | Professor Sada, Sada, Turo, Director Clavell (Pokemon), Zinnia | Jacq (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet), Raifort (Pokemon), Pepper | Arven, Other Minor Characters, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel, Pre-Canon, lakehouseshipping, Fluff and Angst, Opposites Attract, Fluff, Angst, Made For Each Other Series: Part 2 of The Timeslip Saga Summary:

Year 2005, Central Paldea, Modern Era

 Clavell carefully adjusted his glasses, giving one last look at his image in the mirror before heading out. As he passed in front of the living room, he hesitated in front of the door left ajar, before hazarding a look inside. There, still asleep on the couch, curled up against each other, were the man and woman he had offered a place to stay just the night before. The two paradoxes from Area Zero.

[AU Where Turo and Sada are actual time travelers from a distant future and past. Now stuck in Paldea with no way to get back to their respective times, the two must learn to live in a time that's unfamiliar to both of them. Heavily suggest reading part 1 first!]

New chapter is out!

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

oh we are never getting out of the learned helplessness cycle are we gang

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

the only person responsible for you is yourself. this means it is entirely on you to:

check the tags on fic

block people/tags that cause you distress

look up trigger warnings for shows/movies/books

if you cannot find warnings, or something hasn't been tagged, make a decision for yourself as to if you proceed or not

register when something is causing you distress, and stop consuming that thing

If you have a severe nut allergy and are given a snack you've never tried before, you ask what the ingredients are. If you eat it without checking and have a reaction, that's on you, not the stranger who gave it to you who has no idea what you're allergic to.

[direhuman]

How much Bulbasaur fanart do you think exists because someone decided “I’m going to draw every pokemon in order!” and stopped after like a week

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[sandersstudies]

Played an improvisation game with the middle schoolers where a character who “didn’t belong” entered a scene.

Setting: nursing home with a nurse and patient. Nurse claims that a specialist will be arriving shortly to help the patient.

Pirate enters.

[dokushoclub]

The middle of September is the time for the Japanese tradition of moon viewing. It's said that the September moon is especially pretty and round in Japan and of course there are some delicious related foods for the occasion as well.

I've gathered some articles and blog posts about 月見（つきみ）that were written for learners of Japanese in simple language. Most of these stories have a reading level fitting for JLPT N5 and N4 readers. If you are interested in learning about the traditions in Japanese, have a look - all texts are freely available online!

The Japan Foundation Kansai

This text is 8 pages long, graded as A2 and is available as a direct PDF download through the link below.

https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/kansai/clip/images/page/yomyom/002_tsukimi.pdf

Hirogaru Nihongo

Hirogaru Nihongo's article is only a few sentences short, but they also include a video on Tsukimidango and there's a reading comprehension quiz at the end.

https://hirogaru-nihongo.jp/hoshi/article/tsukimi/

Meika Sensei's Blog

Meika Sensei's blog for beginner readers has short, simple sentences that each add a bit more information. There is also a version for intermediate readers.

https://meikasensei.com/beginners/night-of-the-full-moon-and-moon-viewing-2/

Nihongoschool Nihongoblog

The blog post by Kazue Ono has two parts, one aimed at beginners and one for intermediate readers. It's a good practice to start with the beginner text and then try and read the more difficult one as well.

https://www.nihongoschool.co.uk/post/%E3%81%8A%E6%9C%88%E8%A6%8B%EF%BC%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%8D%E3%81%BF%EF%BC%89-the-moon-viewing

Matcha Magazine

Honorable mention for Matcha Magazine: Their article isn't only for Tsukimi, but all Japanese traditions and celebrations taking place from September to November. Their articles include some translations in the main text to help with following along.

https://matcha-jp.com/easy/1348

[sistertaxon]

my mantra in favour of calling everything slop while not getting all "downfall of society" about it

[nebulations]

[ID: The Wikipedia article for "Stugeon's Law." It reads: "Sturgeon's law (or Sturgeon's revelation) is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap". It was coined by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic, and was inspired by his observation that, while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, most work in other fields was low-quality too, and so science fiction was no different." End ID]

[athelind]

Sturgeon's Revelation has been one of my guiding lights for half a century now. When I find a genre or a medium that doesn't immediately grab me, I try to make an effort to find that other ten percent that isn't -- and frequently, though not inevitably, I will discover a New Favorite Thing.

[worldwithoutmiracles]

ok sturgeon

[tzikeh]

Ted Sturgeon wrote "Amok Time," the episode of Star Trek that created "fuck or die." We owe Ted Sturgeon EVERYTHING.

[chillyfeetsteak]

from this article, which is well worth the read, if only for the fun of seeing zuck get dunked on

[k-eke]

Be careful princess  🌸

[grotusrinocerose]

[heatandapathy]

I just love that multiple people not only though “the black one is a princess and those are her bodyguards” but also came to the conclusion “they’re also, obviously, samurai.”

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[stitchposts]

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

[rabbitindisguise]

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

[stitchposts]

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

[the-dragongirl]

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

[stitchposts]

Don't you dare malign my girl again

[languagelvlup]

東京ばな奈 (TOKYO BANANA)

Do y'all know this popular souvenir from Tokyo?

It's a soft, fluffy cake filled with a sweet banana custard!

But today I wanted to talk about the name itself. In English, it's pretty straightforward, but in Japanese, there's a bit more to it.

Typically, banana would be written fully in katakana (バナナ) or maybe full hiragana (ばなな). But for the name of this snack, it's written in a mix of hiragana and kanji: ばな奈。

Today I learned that it is because they wanted it to sound not just like the fruit "banana" but to also make it sound like a girl's name. In Japanese, a lot of girls' names end in the kanji 奈（な）、like 杏奈（あんな）　and 玲奈（れいな）。

Reina-chan! Anna-chan! Banana-chan! Cute.

That is also, apparently, why they have the ribbon on the banana.

[atthebell]

go to settings > dashboard > interface and turn on show timestamps. please. do this for me i'm begging

[atthebell]

i'm so serious about this. without timestamps you don't know when a post was originally made. every day on this website i see people reblogging years-old articles, freaking out like something is recent news. i see people getting slammed for shit they long apologized for that's getting dragged out as if it just happened. old outdated science and history posts, recall warnings from five years ago, politics discussions that make no sense now.

this isn't just an issue with tumblr's settings, although the fact that timestamps are opt-in is fucking bonkers. people do not read dates on posts, on articles, on anything, and behave as if everything they see on the internet, now over 30 years old, is brand new and currently relevant. look at dates! remember that things from 2022 are not as relevant as they might appear to be! stop mindlessly repeating things you don't even pay enough attention to to know when they happened!

[atthebell]

this is the only post of mine i've ever actually wanted to blow up please use your big beautiful brains to actually know when something happened

[znj]

[trickstertime]

I know I just reblogged this but the idea of recreating art from your ancestors FIFTEEN THOUSAND years later is quite beautiful. Like, imagine someone in the year 17,025 recreating art you did just cuz they like it.

You may have liked your artwork or you may have been like 'meh, not my best work', but literal hundreds of generations after you died, a person speaking a language you cannot understand, living in a future so alien to you that you couldn't possibly imagine it, made a sculpture of your art and shared it with thousands and thousands of people on a communication network that uses lightening inside flattened rocks and invisible waves of light that travels to where the stars live and back. And they all love it. Everyone who sees it is like 'aww, that's nice' or 'holy shit I love this'.

They never knew. They, their kids, and their kid's kids never knew that this would happen to that art.

Much the same as you'll never know if your fun little bits of art may survive a crazy long time and be loved by future people.