Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9
I don’t post sketchbook art much anymore but here’s a leetol marichat sketch I did during class today because I was SO excited after seeing that trailer
SKZ studies part 1 (4/8) Lino, Chan, Hyunjin, Felix.
I realized I had never posted any of the studies I've done for the past (almost) 2 years x'D I was finally able to finish Lee Know's study recently, which is the fourth out of the eight members, so here they are!! I'll do the rest of them sooner or later :3
©Lawleighette 2021-2023
went to see if my late package maybe showed up without being scanned
but the post man yesterday said it would be here at ooooooooooone
is 9…………. post office closing time……. no pkg……………………………………………………… >:C
well at least i can skip my post office visit tomorrow
i mean what did i expect really
a package?
too unrealistic
amazon sent me a replacement for my lost package and it “arrived” today
omg she recognized me immediately and got nervous with me while checking the system using my name
she was just as distraught as me when it turned up “arriving tomorrow” again but then she had another idea
one-pearl-point
mail is dumb
builtfjordtuff
The mail lady saying “NO. I REFUSE to say it again” was more climactic than the Braveheart speech.
national-shitpost-registry
oh my gosh, op’s bio says “The package was a laptop” which gives SUCH a new perspective
#026: Alolan Raichu
Alolan Raichu has a rounder design and a lighter palette than Kantonian Raichu. The fur on most of its body is now a lighter orange, but its belly is still white. It also has rounder ears and a rounder lightning bolt shaped tail, both colored yellow, just like its cheeks. Its ears also have a brown section. The slender part of its tail is also brown. Its hands and feet are white with yellow lines between its fingers. Although not pictured in the art, it also has two white stripes on its back and a white circular marking on each heel. Additionally, it now has blue eyes with yellow semi-circles on the bottom. I really enjoy this design and palette way more than Kantonian Raichu's, probably because the former is more recent. Its palette feels like a tanned Pikachu, which is pretty nice.
Shiny Alolan Raichu is a big improvement from Shiny Kantonian Raichu. I really like how its fur turns brown, and its ears, tail, and cheeks turn orange. The yellow lines on its hands and feet also turn orange, though they are lighter than the other features. The yellow semi-circles on its eyes also turn orange, but it seems it is a bit paler. Apart from those changes, everything seems to be the same. This shiny palette is great, in my opinion. The nice orange colors make it feel like it's still Raichu, yet the brown fur retains that Alolan vibe.
8/10
On the 29th of November, 2022, I began the stupidest odyssey of my life.
Now. It's not hard to get a shiny Alolan Raichu. You can use SOS chaining on literally the first route in Alola to get a shiny Pichu or Pikachu, and then evolve it. But I wanted a shiny Alolan Raichu that could be transferred to Pokémon HOME. And Pokémon Bank is currently broken for me, because my subscription ran out and I can't purchase another, because the 3DS Store isn't accepting new payments. (It will become free to use in March, when the 3DS Store officially shuts down altogether, but I don't want to wait that long.)
There is only one way to shiny hunt Alolan Raichu in a way that lets me transfer them to Pokémon HOME right now.
The process of trading a Raichu to Psytrice and getting an Alolan Raichu back takes about 15 seconds. 15 seconds for 1 encounter.
It's statistically likely to get the Raichu within 2,839 Raichu traded.
Over the next 27 days, I traded
16,779 Raichu.
AbsolBlogsPokemon, a famous shiny hunter who does full-odds shiny hunts for fun, took 6111 trades — and he was using two Switches. It took him less than a quarter of the time it took me.
I spent my December working on final projects, studying and stressing over finals, going to family events for the holidays, going on a family vacation —
and all the while, I was pressing a button on my Switch over and over, then checking my Pokédex when I ran out of Raichu to trade to see if I had registered the shiny form.
It felt pointless. I started wondering if I was doing something wrong. I kept track of my stats to see what percentage of people would have gotten this far without seeing even one shiny. The statistical likelihood dropped below 40%. 25%. 10%. 5%. 2%.
And then, on Christmas, at around 10 PM, I got it.
16,779 trades. That puts me in the 1.662%.
This is the worst hunt to go this far over odds on, because the time to encounter one Raichu is so, so high.
It was all worth it, though, because now I have my dream shiny.
Pretzel came home for Christmas.
I'm never doing a full-odds hunt again.
the funniest thing GameFreak ever did was add a shiny variant with near-impossible 1/65536 odds where the only difference is that the sparkles are a different shape
*SxF ch83 manga spoilers*
One of my Twitter mutuals pointed out the different positioning of Twilight when he was disguised as Yuri and how we’re seeing more of Twilight’s raw emotions in the second panel.
So I got curious and checked all the other times Twilight was in disguise and Twilight is always shown to be behind his disguises:
But in the latest chapter, when he made the choice to spare Yuri and walked away, we see Twilight at the forefront with his disguise behind him. His true emotions are breaking through his facade:
Gah, Endo-sensei is just so good at using disguises/masks to show Twilight’s emotional state!
finally a descriptor for whatever the fuck american animation studios have been doing for years