#slightlyembittered

When theater people or stunt people critique a film, play, or movie, they are often much more kind and forgiving.  This is because they understand the difficulty that goes into making the piece.  When they are critical, It is very well informed and focuses on specific points.  (More than just, “It was terrible.”)

A similar amount of respect exists among scientists.  The essence of Science is to better understand the world, and we do that through evidence and experimentation.  Science is always learning new things and so is always growing.  Hence, no matter how smart you think you are, you can always learn more.  

I’ve long wanted to make a fusion of the three legendary beasts (Raikou, Entei, & Suicune) which I refer to as “the fourth beast”.  He is heavily inspired by the mythical “Pixiu” from China.  The Pixiu is a god of wealth, which goes nicely with Pokemon “Gold” and “Silver”.  

As you can see I used elements from each of the three beast:

Raikou:  I kept much of Raikou’s face along with his stripes.  

Entei:  I kept Entei’s cheeks and repurposed with back spikes into the wings of a Pixiu.  

Suicune:  I repurposed Suicune’s horns to resemble that of an Chinese dragon.  Suicune’s spots combine with Raikou’s stripes to form rosettes.  And lastly, Suicune’s ribbon tail gets turned into long Chinese dragon whiskers.  (Which isn’t shown here)

(Ironically, every time I look at the drawing on the far right, I think of a water dragon.)

For a high school art project I made architecturally sound fairy house.  It was big, it was beautiful, and I was very proud of it.  Eventually, my mom convinced me to make a Fairy House Kit because so many people liked it, and I sold them for a while at fairs and stuff.  

However, I would occasionally have Adults customers come up and ask me, "Do you believe in Fairies."   Now, whether Fairies exist or don't exist is something I really don't care about.  I made the fairy house because I thought is was cool and beautiful, not because I believed in fairies.  Hence, whenever someone asked, "do you believe in Fairies,"  It would get really....  Awkward.   I have a similar reaction to conspiracy theories.  I couldn't care less about them, so talking to people who are really invested is really.....  Awkward.   Now there are plenty of things wrong with conspiracy theories.  They have little to no evidence.  Most of them revolve around speculative reasoning.  And they generally involve some power trying to suppress the "Truth".   But in reality, people really just don't care.