"APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS!"
This is a quote from my mother. And I know that Pokémon in my icon is Psychic type, not Ghost, so it would be weak against an attack from one of these, but I do not have a suitable Gengar icon at this time, so I am making do. I remember there were a bunch of icon communities around LJ in the past, but I am not a member of any of them at this time.
It's just my favourite Psychic-type Pokémon. I remember raising up a Kirlia from a Ralts. (If you're still paying attention, the one pictured is actually a Gaardevoir, the last evolution of this sequence.)
I MEAN, although Mewtwo had been my favourite for a looong time (I remember being pleased as 3.141587 with my Mewtwo Happy Meal toy, hahaha, enough to make the college try to make things better for me and my family), it was suppressed a long time ago. I mean, there are a couple of other nifty ones the people at Nintendo designed, too. I like Missingno the most. It screwed up my cartridge when I tried to catch it and look at it too much.
And in any event, real-life animals are more important to be cataloguing, so it doesn't matter what my favourite Pokémon is so much anymore. (The real answer might change almost every time I'm asked because I got screwed up too. My eyes are all screwy, like the guy Usagi is friends with who has funny glasses. His name is Gurio Umino!)
I just got my start in "catching them all" when I "caught all 150 Pokémon" when I was a chibi. ^_^ I think it happened when I was fourteen but it could have been when I was younger, maybe eleven or twelve and watching Sailor Moon everyday with my sister. I think when I was younger I mostly played a bunch of trading card games, which was my first encounter with harassment, in elementary school.
My doctors have verified my succeeding health conditions are unrelated to the many hours of gaming I had played.
I would have liked to meet a bunch of you when I was that age! ^_^ We could have made castles, forts and played better versions of rock, paper, scissors together! (Tilly on my lap is into it.)
My business email from nine years ago reminds me not to let side projects take over - what is my main project as opposed to my side projects?
At the moment, I have been trying to make sure there is enough free wildlife out there to be eaten by the limited predators that are still alive, free and roaming the world, by just watering what I have and keeping my cats indoors now while it is so hot, though they beg me to wander around outside in the mornings. (I think they have a territory that ranges about three houses around mine, plus the back field - I do not believe my cats' territory spans as far as the Chinese restaurant which is just past a terribly dangerous freeway so it's pretty hard to walk to (I only recall doing so successfully once) maybe nine houses away - that food is generally not acceptable for feline consumption in any event - I don't think... I think even chancing white rice could be risky, though I read guidance a year or two ago about this very subject. I think it said to favour something official over something invented, although cats may eat rice.) And also birds. [I heard loud tweeting out the window that reminded me to add this!]
My updated bird guide verified it was a pair of dark-eyed juncos! Tilly is envious of them.
I wonder how long it might be until I'm compelled to work for that Chinese restaurant down the road, myself, much as many around me have...
In any event, the smooth earth snake lives nearish me according to this range map, though... I did not confirm or deny the iNaturalist sighting I noted because the observer said it was of a "rough" one and my book said it was a "smooth" one.
I commented such. So, that must mean I just denied the sighting and claimed I saw something better from a well-known source that catalogues wildlife.
Um... I had noticed years before that they say I'm supposed to be an earth snake? In Chinese astrology? Ergo, I thought it might be interesting to look into what those are really supposed to be like, since I am not, in reality.
I am Claire-chan! I am thirty-four years of age, and although I didn't check to make sure it was properly zeroed, the scale said I was 120.5 pounds. I am trying to seek a better life for my dependents and myself.
Since Tilly was coughing, I turned the air conditioner on, to thermo-regulate this house to 72 degrees F. As she is a dark-furred cat, I think it is too difficult for her to stay cool by herself.
I don't know this song, it just sounded interesting and I like Michiru.
I think it has a weird, inconclusive ending. I have not seen all of BSSM yet, but it is out there, and my friend Lauren was watching some of it with me. ^_^ (They're making more now so that might be an unquenchable desire. It might be more realistic to just cut my losses and just go to Cambridge as originally planned, even though I'm in total disgrace now as a scholar.)
67 hits until an even 1500 on my collective Archive of Our Own output! Ooh, an even hundred on Shaky Noodles! (I finally named what I have been doing since age 14 or 15.)
I'm semi-mindful of what is said to whom.