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some guy: instinct just memes around uselessly, i hardly see any of their gyms

me: holds ur face gently listen to me you little shit

"I'M DOING THIS FOR US" PART 1.

The Butterfly Boy: a Fairytale.

Buried City - Inktober project by Konstantin Vavilov

JAWS 大白鯊

Roy Scheider got slapped 17 times to get this shot. Bruce has gotten a lot of the glory over the years, so I wanted, for a change, to celebrate the incredible characters and their small town New England drama that make this movie what it is.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of JAWS. In 1975 JAWS was the highest grossing movie of all time, and was released overseas in dozens of countries. But you won’t typically find Taiwan on that list, because in 1975 Taiwan was no longer recognized internationally.

But it was released in theaters there in 1975, known in Taiwan as 大白鯊. My Mom personally watched it during its release, and even remembers billboards of it. But because of the complicated history of Taiwan, it’s not well documented.

I wanted to fix that and give Taiwan the flowers it deserves, so I made a retro Taiwanese JAWS poster. All text is in Traditional Chinese, which is distinct to Taiwan, HK, and Macau. My mom is always asking, ‘How come you make all these posters in Japanese? Can’t you do a Chinese one for once?’ So this one is for my Mom.

I want to give a big shout out to Rob Jones for art directing this. Thank you to my Mom for helping me translate and format everything Taiwan-accurate. And of course, thanks to CODA for having me in their official JAWS 50th Anniversary art show.⁠

(With pictures)

With the anime release of Saiyuki Reload Blast, and the rise of new fans, I’ve seen a lot of questions concerning what Saiyuki animes and OVAs came out before Saiyuki Reload Blast, and how best to watch them. Ergo, I’ve made 2 lists here, one list for the chronological order of the events in the animated series, and a second list for the viewing order in which I think it is best to watch Saiyuki. 

Please keep in mind that the manga of Saiyuki is extraordinary, and well worth reading as well, if you are interested. I came across Gensomaden Saiyuki first, picked up the manga afterwards, and have never been able to put the series down since. That was in 2006. 

Also, know that the animes Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock can be frustrating to watch, and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock in particular is riddled with “out of character” behavior. So, if you would like to skip Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, it will not be any great loss to you. 

Finally, if you are a fan of dubbing and do not care for subtitles, the dub cast for Gensomaden Saiyuki, Saiyuki Requiem, and Saiyuki Gaiden is excellent. However, Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock were both dubbed by a different set of actors, and to get a better experience, I would recommend watching those latter two shows with subtitles.  

Chronological Order of Events in Saiyuki Animes:

Saiyuki Gaiden: Tokubetsu-hen – Kouga no Shou [1 OVA]

Saiyuki Gaiden [3 OVAs]

Saiyuki Reload Burial [3 OVAs]

Gensomaden Saiyuki [50 Episodes]

Saiyuki Premium [2 OVAs]

Saiyuki: The Jade Pearl [1 OVA]

Saiyuki Requiem [Movie]

Saiyuki Reload [25 Episodes]

Saiyuki Reload Gunlock [26 Episodes]

Saiyuki Reload Blast [12 Episodes] 

Suggested Order for Watching Saiyuki Animes:

Gensomaden Saiyuki [50 Episodes] 

Saiyuki Premium [2 OVAs]

Saiyuki: The Jade Pearl [1 OVA]

Saiyuki Requiem [Movie]

Saiyuki Reload [25 Episodes]

Saiyuki Gunlock [26 Episodes]

Saiyuki Reload Burial [3 OVAs]

Saiyuki Gaiden [3 OVAs]

Saiyuki Gaiden: Tokubetsu-hen – Kouga no Shou [1 OVA]

Saiyuki Reload Blast [12 episodes]

You may notice that, in my Suggested Order list, I do not cite all the shows as they were released. Saiyuki Premium came out before Gensomaden Saiyuki. However, the reason for this order is that I  believe  a new viewer will have a more engaging time watching Gensomaden first, getting to know the characters there, and then going back to Premium. I also put Requiem after The Jade Pearl, even though it came out first. This is because Requiem is the more impactful and dramatic of the two, and a better sendoff to the artstyle of Gensomaden, The Jade Pearl, and Requiem. 

"It feels like if that storm catches me, I'll be gone."

Another Bitsy game from me! This time you play as a delivery drone in a ruined city. It takes place in the same world as Grow Light, with a little cameo, but can be played on its own. Playtime is 8-10 minutes. Music by Laurent Désautels-Séguin.

>DELIVERY

NEXT >>

I’m gonna make a comic with the story of the latest Steven Bomb.

I had another idea with it, and I think it’ll be fun to share some ideas with you :>

It’s an alternate timeline thingy, so there will be quite a few changes.

Currently working on page 3.

For those wondering what I’m talking about, I meant this raven from the behind the scenes Sandman video.

If Bandai wont bring them back, then fans will, but completely updated for the twenty first century! LapinRose and TeamBlackSeraph on Twitter are a power couple that are bringing two beloved Tamagotchi from the 1990’s into one modern device thanks to their programing and 3D printing skills. We must say this project is rather impressive, and we’re so lucky to have such savvy members in the Tamagotchi community!

LapinRose has been collecting Tamagotchi’s on and off since they were seven when the P2 Tamagotchi Original was released. As a big fan of Gigapets and all pets in general, anything with a digital pet was adored. Virtual pets were gifted to them for good grades, a lot of the ones that were in their collection (of roughly twenty) have sadly been sold or lost. Interestingly enough LapinRose’s husbands is not a Tamagotchi collector, but more interested in the technical and programing side of it.

Why create project Geminitchi? LapinRose has also been interested in Angelgotchi and Devilgotchi and older gameplay in legacy Tamagotchi’s where your actions and care determine the outcome of the pet but in a slow paced and difficult gameplay. The Devilgotchi price point was too high for LapinRose to consider purchasing.

That itch to play it was so strong that LapinRose and husband found a java file and emulator for the Devilgotchi for a phone, and was ecstatic about the possibilities. The phone application wasn’t too practical as LapinRose would forget to take care of their Tamagotchi. From there LapinRose and husband discussed making a keychain Tamagotchi, and LapinRose’s husband explained that it could be possible with a bit of programming a Pi Zero and some parts!

TeamBlackSeraph said he would program it for LapinRose’s birthday and LapinRose was blown away at the idea. LapinRose’s husband was in charge of pogromming, and building it, where LapinRose was in charge of 3D design, precision modeling and printing. This is the first time that TeamBlackSeraph and LapinRose have collaborated together, this sounds like couple goals to us! The name Project Geminitchi was born then born out of the dual boot added and both from LapinRose and husband zodiac signs being Gemini.

The hardware is based around a Raspberry Pi Zero, which is the first generation and can easily be found either used or cheap with a Waveshare 1.44” LCD and UPS hat. To produce sound, they’ve butchered a cheap USB sound-card dongle which in turn is soldered to a tiny speaker.

The software is based on a heavily trimmed 32bit version of Raspbian running a custom version of the FreeJ2ME emulator combined with a keyboard drive in the usual three button Tamagotchi layout. The FreeJ2ME emulator is the most important part here LapinRose explains, as the official version hosted on Github can’t produce playable frame-rates which also emulating sound.

The custom emulator comes down to the MIDI files using in Tamagotchi’s, and this one takes care of cropping the image to the screen properly as well as swapping the MIDI file playback for pre-rendered WAV variants of the corresponding sound files. The modified emulator also adds multi-button shortcuts for features Tamagotchi owners got accustom to, like muting and resetting the Tamagotchi. There is also a button shortcut to easily switch between Tamagotchi Angel & Devil.

Where does this project go from here? There really isn’t much more on the software side to do LapinRose explains. Future projects might include additional Tamagotchi porting, they even tried porting over the Tamagotchi Original programming, but weren’t too happy with the state at he moment. This project is more a hobby for them than anything else. On the hardware side of things, they’re testing batteries with different capacities to see what will work best including 1000mAh and 3000mAh batteries. Which resulted in 2 hours of continuous gameplay, and 12-13 hours of gameplay respectively.

alright i’m making a masterpost because i’m so tired. these never get notes. please give this one notes. i’m going to run through every single parroted argument. i’m going to run through every thought anyone engaged in this discourse has ever had. please give me notes. not because i want clout, i’m just so tired. so many of my posts get notes. i would trade them all for this post to get notes.

How old are Team Rocket?

25. They’re 25. 

But I thought they were teenagers? Lots of people have told me they’re 15/16.

so i’ve heard! i’m pleased to tell you exactly where that comes from.

1. this post, for some reason:

i have been on tumblr for 10 years now, and i never saw anyone debating their ages before this post started circulating. as you can tell by the low res memebase screencap, it was screenshotted and reposted all across social media until it became legend.

the ages you see in this bulbapedia screencap were edited. bulbapedia has either omitted their ages entirely, or put them at 25 for reasons we’ll discuss at the end of this post. 

because i’m a petty bitch, i googled the tumblr username of the person who added that bulbapedia screencap, found what their current URL was, and searched team rocket’s names on their blog. here’s what i discovered.

OP claims it wasn’t them who edited the ages–that they just found it like this. NOT sure i buy that, because I looked into it, and right around the time this post was made (January 8th, 2014) there was a random, unprecedented edit that erroneously put their ages at 15.

this resulted in mods locking the page, because this person was relentless. they would go on team rocket’s pages every day and try to edit the ages back down. again, i can’t prove this is the same person, but these edits happened within 24 hours of them adding to that post. this is, in my professional opinion, the biggest shift i ever saw in people talking about team rocket’s ages. but there are other things people bring up…

2. “Jessie said she was a teenager!”

she does this sometimes. here are the times she does this.

- In episode 218 of the original series, Plant It Now… Diglett Later, the following exchange happens:

This would make Jessie 12. This is a joke. A running gag in the show is younger characters calling Jessie variations on ‘old lady/old bat/old hag,’ and James gets this treatment to a lesser extent. Jessie, however, is incredibly vain and obsessed with youth/beauty, so she often lies to great extent about her age. When Jessie says something like “Oh, I’m 13 years old ;3c” it is meant to carry the same feeling as “Aren’t I the most gorgeous creature walking this very Earth?” To Jessie, calling her old = calling her ugly. Calling herself young = calling herself beautiful. This trope is common with her particular anime archetype–it is more of a Japanese thing, so while I understand it being lost on american audiences, it is NOT proof of her age. 

Right after this, Meowth calls her out on it, asking her where she learned that math, and Jessie angrily threatens him. It’s a joke.

- In episode 56 of the original series, The Ultimate Test, Jessie is in disguise at a Pokemon League qualification exam. When Ash starts giving her the ‘she looks vaguely familiar’ side-eye, she panics and starts muttering information about herself aloud. I will be using the original Japanese line for this one:

This is quoted constantly as proof that Jessie is a teenager–but she is blatantly stating false information about herself here because she’s in disguise and Ash is onto her. This is a false identity she’s crafted, marked even further by “I work as an idol.” That’s an actual profession she’s talking about, one she doesn’t work. Since Japanese Idols weren’t widely unknown to westerners at the time of this dub, her dub line is simply “Age: 17. Profession: Diva.” which makes it a little harder to read that she’s lying about who she is, but she is. The information she’s stating here is that of an alias. It is not her actual age or profession.

3. You literally just posted a screencap of James saying he should get a driver’s license. 

Okay, smart guy, that’s also jokes. The joke isn’t that he’s too young to drive–the joke is that he was a runaway at five years old and had his childhood & all his milestones taken from him because he defected from his abusive family in kindergarten. Also, he’s in the mafia and he just drives his damn balloon everywhere. The joke is that he’s a criminal driving without a license. The joke is breaking the law because he’s James. Its the same as when Jessie will casually say things like “Oh, that’s a good book! I’ve been meaning to shoplift one!” (EP157)

Also, it’s a dub-only line.

“Okay, I guess I see where you’re coming from. But why are you so sure they’re 25?”

Glad you asked!

You might notice the Bulbapedia article up there says “as of M02.″ M02 is the fandom shorthand for the second pokemon movie: Pokemon the Movie: 2000. It’s referring to one scene in particular, one that had its dialogue massively changed in the dub. Here, Jessie and James are addressing Ash & co.:

The subber condensed the point of what James/Kojirou actually says here–his sentence when translated literally is more like:

Jessie: You’re ten years too early.

James: And us, your elders, are five years too late.

this is… a very Japanese expression, but because Ash & co. are 10 years old, Jessie’s basically saying “You really don’t need to be thinking this deeply about romance until you’re 20.” and James is saying “And we’re past our prime at the tender age of 25…”

Some other times this expression has been used, regrettably, is when older men are perving on the female kids in this show–they’ll say things like “I’ll look forward to you in ten years.” Gross, I know, but the point is it’s a thing people say. 20 is considered the age you’re supposed to settle down and marry. 25, especially for women, is considered the age when you’re “off the market”–you missed your window and now no one wants you.

That ties back into Jessie’s thing about youth and beauty and how other characters call her an old lady. What they’re calling her originally is usually some variation on ‘oba-san.’ This term is so widely used in anime that there’s a TVTropes page on it. An english equivalent would be rolling your eyes and sarcastically uttering ‘whatever, grandma’ or, if you really want me to one-shot kill you, ‘ok boomer.’

Another derogatory term you hear in Japan for this age is ‘Christmas Cake.’ Simply put: Delicious to a point, but no one wants it after the 25th.

Yeah.

“That line is still super vague. Their ages could still be ambiguous.”

I regret to inform you that I am very autistic and I have prepared timelines and flowcharts for you.

Allow me to introduce you to The Birth of Mewtwo, an audio drama that released alongside the first movie and was never given an english localization. TBOM (the book of mormon) was about Mewtwo’s Origins that weren’t expanded upon in the movie. But, in order to get to the bottom of Mewtwo, the story had to get to the bottom of how Team Rocket got their hands on Mew’s DNA–and that all started with a Class-A Rocket Agent known simply as ‘Miyamoto.’

if you didn’t know, she’s Jessie’s mom.

TBOM is fully translated and available to listen to in multiple parts on youtube. It opens with Giovanni placing it in the timeline:

Twenty years prior to Pokemon: The First Movie, when this radio drama is said to take place. It then goes into a flashback, where we get to see Jessie’s mom in her pursuit of Mew.

Jessie’s already been born by the time of this flashback, meaning, with 100% certainty, that Jessie is at least 20 years old.

As time passes, Miyamoto stays on her quest to find Mew. Lost in the Andes mountains, she never stops sending reports back to Rocket HQ. Every few years, they trickle back in, detailing her progress. She keeps a picture of Jessie with her, often meandering aloud about what she anticipates Jessie is doing–the milestones Jessie is hitting, the life Jessie might have that her mom was never able to see. The last report she gives says “The daughter I left behind’s an old hag by now…” the word she uses here is, again, ‘oba’–25 years old and unmarried. Again, this is Jessie’s mom. She might be stranded in the mountains with little concept of time, but it’s clear Jessie is the one thing she never truly loses sight of.

“Okay. That sure is a lot of convincing evidence about Jessie. But Team Rocket has another human person in it you’re ignoring.”

Yeah nah I was prepared for that. I actually could’ve just whipped this out at the beginning but I am feeling incredibly spicy so I wanted to lay the law down and not deal with easy arguments about my special interest tonight. Here ya go!

- In episode 87 of the Sun & Moon anime, Filling the Light With Darkness!, Necrozma places an aura across the Alola Region. This blight makes Alolans lethargic, depressed, and unmotivated. This aura also ONLY affects the adults in Alola–leaving the burden on the kids & pokemon to figure out what’s going on. Ash & everyone in his class–including some who can be argued as teenagers–are entirely unaffected. 

Of the afflicted?

“Alright, one last question…why should I care?”

Because ever since that tumblr post started circulating, it’s been Stressful as all hell to be a Rocketblogger. I know that we all had a lot of fun watching the pokemon anime when we were kids, and we probably all have a lot of shared and fond memories of it. But, weirdly enough, because of that shared joy… Pokeani is the only fandom where people who don’t even watch the show anymore will try to explain to members of the fandom what our own lore is. And a lot of the time, they won’t listen to us when we correct them on their misinformation.

The reason this matters is because Rocketbloggers still to this day get called pedophiles & perverts for drawing/writing smutty art of our funny bad people. And when we try to shut them down pulling all this evidence out, people who have seen a handful of episodes of the show but understandably don’t have the time to watch 1100 episodes will pull the doth protest too much card. It’s annoying but more than anything, it’s exhausting.

So this is a masterpost I made with my autistic superpowers. I hope that, in the future, this one gets spread around more than the one claiming them to be kids. And I hope that maybe, if you’re a rocketblogger, when someone comes in your inbox trying to explain your favourite anime to you… you can quietly link them to this post and no longer have to rehash all the arguments we’ve been rehashing for years.