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If you are still taking requests I got a sweet one! Since it’s the holidays which is not just a time for friends…but also family….

How about Volo and Cogita just having a much needed sweet moment..I think Volo needs that after all the shit he’s been through

An extremely rushed sketch today since I had to finish a ton of work before the year ends but I couldn’t resist the temptation to draw them

Old habits die hard

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Quick question—are your gifs of pokemon walking with you in platinum made via pixel art or a screenshot of a mod? I want to walk with my besties so bad I can’t even express it, I need to know if this is possible in DPPt

it may be possible with a modded rom

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If you're still taking requests, could we get a laventon or a volo please? Your art style makes everyone look so precious 🥺❤️

I couldn’t choose between them, I decided to draw both and it went exactly as you can imagine

I keep torturing Volo with horrible things like friendship and such

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he got coal

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pokemon is extremely underrated in terms of how good its cartoon bugs are. in this awful age of fleshy human faces on cartoon bugs pokemon is the last bastion of hope

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99% of liars quit before everyone absolutely believes whatever they say forever keep going king

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FMA is fascinating because there aren't many works about what it means to be an atheist and a heretic to a god that you can not only see, but who has personally snatched body parts off of your living body and made fun of you for it.

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funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

i'm going to kill god

i'm going to delete my blog

i'm going to explode

i'm going to blow up this entire website

i'm going to become the joker

this is going to be my villain origin story

i'm being so brave about it

fuck it we ball

god had to nerf me because i was too powerful

i'm too pretty for this

all according to plan

feel free to add on

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I finished Legends Arceus recently but I have not finished sketching stupid things

Playing Legends for the first time years after it was released I of course knew about Volo and his cute little mischiefs. I still ended up in this situation due to my brilliant idea of creating a perfectly round team and a bunch of other bad decisions. Believe me or not this didn’t end well.

While I was prepared for Volo I certainly was not prepared for Kamado and his unique ways of making decisions and solving problems. I was not prepared for the whole exile situation or the last cutscene where this amazing man just gracefully plopped all his responsibilities on Cyllene’s shoulders. The woman is two piplup tall and probably one mishap away from murdering someone, give her a break.

I’m a little sad now because it’s time to say goodbye to my morning routine of sketching whatever questionable ideas visited my head while playing.

But if you woke up today thinking “wish there was a children’s book illustrator somewhere on the other end of the world with half an hour to spare so I can ask them to sketch my favorite PLA character or pokemon” then hi hello i’m here welcome to my ask box. Apart from PLA i still have some residual knowledge of gen 2, 4, 6 and 8 (I’m also allergic to odd numbers apparently)

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okay man we get it you’re being tested by god

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Are you trying to kill your mother? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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Maybe the game spells this out at some point and I’ve just forgotten, but was talking with a friend about how Volo’s job in the Ginkgo Guild is very likely as a courier. Responsible for personally delivering orders to clients throughout Hisui. He outright states he’s doing this for Gearic when you meet him in the Alabaster Icelands. Volo is also encountered outside Iscan’s house at an earlier point, and while he doesn’t state why he is there (well he sort of does but outside the house is a weird place to go plate hunting), a reason that would fit would be that he was delivering supplies to Iscan. Iscan does appear fairly isolated so he needs supplies somehow. And yes, Volo was for sure stalling in that area to meet with Rei (since the more I replay the game, the more obvious it is that he’s keeping an eye/ear out for any news about Rei and intentionally meeting up with him to keep tabs on his progress), him being there to deliver goods would fit. Good cover story if Rei were to press him on what he’s doing there outside hunting for plates (but Volo doesn't want to talk about his job, he wants to talk about plates, thus that's why he states that's the reason he's there).

With how dangerous Hisui is considered and the fact Volo clearly travels alone, I imagine that being a courier would actually be considered a fairly undesirable job. If something were to go wrong, who knows how long it would take the Guild to realize something was off and send out someone to help. Volo likes it since gives him lots of free time to research/explore/scheme/etc while he’s traveling around. But I’m convinced that part of the reason Ginter puts up with him (there’s no way Ginter doesn’t know Volo slacks on the job) is because it’s a job very few people want. Volo does ultimately get the job done and since no one else wants the job, he puts up with him even though I imagine they gripe at each other about Volo’s productivity fairly often. Volo plays innocent that he’s always hard at work with only the occasional detour and while Ginter ain’t buying it, can only get on him so much before it’s a waste of his own time. As long as Volo is still ultimately doing his job…

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writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

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A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

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