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What made me smile this week?

Monday, 10/21/24 - hey everyone today was supposed to be my wife's amazing 8-month Quad-iversary ♿ and while we still enjoyed it the best we could we ran into some major issues, on Sunday our Friend offered to take us to the Fair and we had just done homecoming we're pretty sore and I must mind you this was thrown at us randomly so we were a little adment at first, but we eventually asked and our parents we're uncomfortable with the idea since it was an hour away and I totally understand there concern and we weren't even mad willam wanted to get things off his chest and discussed it with them but he was so sweet about it. Fast forward to today and we had to deal with everything, they were cussing us out calling us “Gay skeleton B! tch” if not more, she was flaming William and Donny but I had stepped in because I don't like when people mess with my friends, she got mad at me and started cussing me out and I had done nothing, she was ignoring us and this all had to fall on Emmie's anniversary we felt awful and it was an awful day but we eventually got over it and continued with the rest of our day. But we had filmed Emmie's video late at night and got it uploaded. We are so sorry for this horrible day, Emmie. I love you, and happy 8 months ❤️ when me and Emmie were actually hanging out, it made me smile!

Tuesday, 10/22/24 - Today, Nichole is still ignoring me and Willam and Donny and Emmie, but we honestly ignored her; in the first period, I had done tons of work! I built a brain using clay or modeling clay and then I worked on several worksheets but got them all done I'm honestly shocked at how much work I'm getting done, then in the second period I worked on a unit 3 bonding short answer sheet for extra credit on my test, in the third period I worked on a review packet for a test I was supposed to be having today but the technology was being weird but that was ok! Then in fourth Nichole had previously changed her seat on Monday to sit away from us and had sat near Izzy and Izzy seemed she did not like her lol ( I don't blame her) so Izzy switched seats with us lol and we enjoyed it, but Nichole wasn't there even though she was there previously so I'm thinking she skipped. The fun, then, we went home and definitely enjoyed our day more. We laughed, and we chilled for a while, but we did have to clean out a very dirty trash can. Lol, it smelled so disgusting, but we got it done! Then we went to bed today was definitely a lot better! And it made me smile!

Wednesday, 10/23/24 - today we attempted to wake up at 4:00 Am safe to say we filmed miserably lol we woke up at 4:00 Am fell back asleep, and woke up around 7:00 Am which is not bad just not at the time we wanted to wake up, but we had continued with our morning like usual we got on the bus and stuffy ( donnys husband) tried to lift Donny's arm this ended in laughter and fear as Luz wasn't expecting his wrist to randomly spasm or stiffen lol it scared her! Then in the first period, I worked on an online assignment and built a whole neuron using modeling items! It looked alright, and I had basically done more than what's shown in the photo, but that was almost the fully finished product! Landon did a wonderful job tho! Earlier in the morning we were trying to get a photo of Donny printed out! Hopefully, it will work! Then, In the second period, I worked on a description for YouTube and worked on my unit 3 bonding worksheet and got it submitted to Mrs Mauney! Then I had to type out my answers since she couldn't see them but nothing big! Then I've been updating my documents and getting things pre-written ✍️! Stay tuned!

Thursday, 10/24/24 - today is the day Donny hits 1 Year with a spinal cord injury! It's been a hell of a ride and we are so proud of him! This morning, I woke up and just edited the whole morning (thankfully, not too vigorous editing as this week's vlog was very short!), and it will be uploaded today at 4:10 P.m. So he prepared today in first period I just got to chill since I got all my work done then shortly into first period we had to go to Mrs Lawson's classroom because mrs cox had to run an errand so we sat there until a random fire alarm started playing! And we had never been informed, so I thought it was out of nowhere, like an actual fire! But thankfully, it was not, and it was just a drill that we were supposed to have before October 31st! So thankfully everything was ok! And we went back where I talked about printings and donnys 1 Year spinal cord anniversary to Mrs Lawson and she was super proud of Donny! And me, which is awesome. Then I continued to the second period, where we did our big unit test, and I got 44%, which isn't good! But I'm thankful to get it over with them. I continued to the fourth period, where we did a notebook quiz, and I don't know what I got on that because she won't grade them till Monday! We went home and filmed a video for Donny's 1 Year celebration! On his channel (Donny & SC injury), stuffy surprised him with a lovely surprise of a nutty buddy and a few Jolly Ranchers. He was very grateful, and then Stuffy shared a scary and surprising story! Again which you'll find on his channel! We then just hung out for the rest of the day, and it made me smile!

Friday, 10/25/24 - today was a nice and chill day. Today, in the first period, I casually chilled on my phone because I had no more work, so I got to chill and update some descriptions and write my ALS post coming out in two days! And then, in the second period, I did a worksheet and some notes, then in the third period, I worked on a “Who killed Barry online assignment?” Thankfully I got that done just in the nick of time. Then, in the fourth period, we worked on some worksheets, and we talked with Nichole, but it was just for a few. But then we enjoyed the rest of our day and it made me smile!

Saturday, 10/26/24 - today, it's the weekend! Today was a very lazy day. All we really did was do laundry, help Mom some causally open Pokemon packs, and chill on Instagram for the whole day we're thankful it was a chill day, and we also got our skeleton costume for the event that we're going to on October 31st! So we're excited for that! We continued to chill for a bit, and we had a great day even though it was so lazy lol. We enjoyed it, and it made me smile!

Sunday, 10/27/24 - today is the infamous day I hit 5 months with ALS today, which means I lost a % of breathing today, which is the most drastic month, and I woke up so early; I woke up around 5:55 Am, which is insanely Early! But I just chilled until our friends woke up; sadly, I had to edit all morning from the ALS video, and chemotherapy following that was a huge mistake we had made! And Emmie has never made this mistake throughout my entire cancer journey, but apparently, today was the day I had originally thought that I had to do chemotherapy today, but actually, I wasn't supposed to start it till Monday, October 28th! Thankfully, I got it done for the day, and I don't have chemotherapy on Monday!, and I will continue to be on the schedule! For the rest of the day, we enjoyed our day and just relaxed for most of the day! I got to writing and posting my ALS post to Tumblr, YouTube, and Instagram! There were so many apps lol. Then we continued till the rest of our day, and it made me smile that today was very chill. We also got a yummy big Mack and fries and a yummy caramel frappe! It was super good!

What made you smile this week?

Img desc #1: doc is seen smiling in a restaurant while wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and thin metal glasses on her face. She is seen in her electric wheelchair while her Atrophied arms are seen resting on her lap.

Img desc #2: doc is seen outside in beautiful fall weather; she is seen in her electric wheelchair with a pair of black shades on and a blue and yellow blanket over her body. She is giving a bright smile!

Img desc #3: shows a thumbnail of Donny in a tuxedo and a full grey outfit with text saying " injured 1 Year ago today..." With a large gray metal cart beside his image.

Img desc #4: shows Donny smiling with a group of people while wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt and grey shorts.

Img desc #5: Donny is seen smiling while wearing a long-sleeved white shirt and black blazer with a white flower. He is seen smiling with another person beside him.

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theangrypokemaniac · 5 years ago

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Since I rant enough about the wizening Ma and Pa received in Sinnoh it's only right to wreak bloody rhetorical vengeance elsewhere:

However harsh it may be, I'm glad Takeshi Shudo isn't alive to witness the hateful desecration of his legacy.

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In a universe where no one's allowed to age, why are the modern Jessie and James so withered and decrepit?

Dragon Ball has been on for more than three decades. Its stars were permitted to grow up, because the head can cope with the opportunities this offers.

Yet Goku, Krillin, Bulma et al bear a greater similarity to their younger selves than these gurning invertebrates do to Team Rocket, wearing a papery approximation of their skin.

Akira Toriyama is actually concerned about his life's work, still coming up with interesting concepts, brand-new characters, and most importantly, values his audience by keeping to the established canon.

If a Dragon Ball fan reads this, I am so jealous of you.

Consider yourselves fortunate not to have seen the thing you loved the most pulverised and the resulting glutinous mass moulded back into makeshift sloppy cadavers.

Look at the state of that man! That's a good picture these days!

Why have the eyelid lines turned into upside down bags?

And why has she collected her lashes for this particular screen shot?

On eyes with a strangely feline slant...

Has she had a face lift?

Get yer money back on that one, love.

And why has he marks under his eyes and round his flapping gob to add the hint of exhaustion?

And why don't her lips reach the edge of her mouth anymore?

And why must he display Beaver Toof, as if he's only got six pegs left?

Giving it to him but not her implies she's lost the lot, needing to gum objects for a result.

And why do her low-slung ears consist only of lobe?

And why can you see his featureless lugs? Why does his barnet stand outwards in tentacles like he's taken to wearing a floppy Starmie?

What's that's meant to be, purple dreadlocks?

And why is her hairline curved and absolutely straight, like a bad wig, apart from the perfunctory bits to the side, which I guarantee won't alter their position throughout the run?

Hair used to move about, now by law there's a set pattern which cannot change. Stamp that life out immediately.

And what's that flaccid growth between his weary peepers? Is that meant to be fringe?

PFFFT!!!

And why are her digits just as thick and oblong as his?

It ain't fingers. It's trotters.

And why's he got a back to his throat, but she hasn't?

And why are we forced to witness it? You can see all the way to his dangler!

The great gaping pink cave looks like the end of Looney Tunes when Porky Pig pops up and stammers: "That's all folks!"

Remember a lack of Beaver Toof? And triangular mouths?

Remember when Meowth was a cheeky, spirited little cat, not a middle-aged human midget, an emaciated wreck bored of it all?

Remember when it wasn't deemed necessary to expose us to internal organs?

And when James was a handsome, hysterically camp dandy, not a creepy, snot-ridden science dweeb?

And when Jessie was a beautiful, stylish young girl, hot-tempered but loyal, not a sullen, cold, reptilian, Botoxed-to-the-gills gorgon?

Remember when Team Rocket were fun? And attractive?

Remember when they had joy in their hearts in spite of their poverty? And vim? And hope?

Remember them acting with flair and imagination?

Remember when their schemes had variety?

Remember when they had more than a single disguise per era?

Remember when they had many occupations? And were good at them?

Remember when they'd have a go at everything and weren't reduced to flipping condemned meat in a grotty burger van FOR THREE YEARS?!

Remember when those in charge didn't despise them, when they got happy endings?

Remember split screens? And face faults? And background tones? And purple streaks down your cheeks?

Remember big, bright open eyes, not shrunken, sagging and empty holes afflicted by glaucoma?

Remember when Jessie had eyelashes?

Remember when Pokémon was an anime?

And when James had a fringe, not a bent swelling like a balloon animal?

And when the artist could be arsed to draw Meowth's Charm properly?

Remember when the voices weren't nails down a blackboard?

When Meowth didn't sound like a wedge of coal grinding beneath an oil-deprived door?

When Jessie's dulcet tones had a wider range that just screechy, and weren't reminiscent of a cacophonous banshee clawing her way from a bog, using her own mug as a shovel?

When James speaking didn't suggest he was at best, suffering sinus difficulties, and at worst, constantly battling to swallow his own sick from looking at her?

Mind you, I'm grateful the 4Kids cast are no longer here. They deserve better, and their presence would only validate the crude bastardisations.

Every time the guttural howls reach my poor ears a chill runs through my system, and reminds me of The Pokémon Company sacking the real dub crew in preference for a job done on the cheap.

Remember speed lines? And Pokéball-throwing animation?

Remember a new motto performance in each installment, not the same stock footage reused again and again?

Remember when it rhymed?

It shows.

Remember remembering it?

Remember when Team Rocket would walk down the street in their uniforms and no one took a blind bit of notice despite the organisation operating there?

And they didn't fanny about in one scabby polyester costume every minute they were travelling, even when NO ONE KNOWS WHO THEY ARE?

Since Unova, whilst confronting Ash and this era's soon-to-be-forgotten companions, you get this exchange:

Moron-Of-The-Week: "Who are Team Rocket?"

Ash: "They're bad guys who steal other people's Pokémon."

EVERY SINGLE BLOODY TIME!!!

WORD-FOR-WORD IDENTICAL!!!

The writers have such deep appreciation for their work they're sending in cut-and-paste scripts.

Remember blasting off when something blew up, not an explosion from nowhere, or giving it the slip with a jet pack, or abduction by a Care Bear?

Remember when the eyebrows matched the hair?

Remember when he wore it long?

Remember blue shock? And sweat drop? And hammerspace? And comedy violence?

Remember her jagged hairline? And it being RED!!!

Remember proper highlights to it, rather than the odd white lump now and again, as if sweating like a pig, or their heads are infested with giant space ticks?

Remember when they were in all the episodes? And were main characters? And on the introduction sequence?

Remember when Jessie and James used to hug? And hold hands?

And bicker as only a couple can, but you knew they'd never cope alone?

Remember when they'd fly into each other's arms under the flimsiest pretext?

Remember when they meant more to one another than just being a pair of unconnected and disembodied wraiths coincidentally walking down the same road?

And they had more than civil interactions?

Remember when she loved him as much as he loved her?

And no one else could ever take his place?

And canon wasn't infected with the ruinous depiction of her as a hard, heartless bitch barely tolerating him until someone 'better' came along, at which point she'd fuck off without a backwards glance?

'Better', as in a scabby, satchel-mouthed, gormless cretin, just to add surly insult to merciless injury.

Never has such a life-long and hardcore defender of the faith flipped into an ardent Rumishipper as I did after that episode, once I'd swept up the fragments of my soul.

Remember when they were sympathetic?

Remember when they showed human warmth?

Remember when they cared about each other?

Remember when they weren't just a jangling, distorted mess of half-recollected traits?

Remember when they weren't really evil?

Remember Rocketshipping? That was a thing once, believe it or not.

Remember when they had a conscience?

Remember when actually wicked characters turned up, and Team Rocket ALWAYS sided with Ash, rather than the nauseating spectacle of suddenly being best buds with the Boss?

Remember when they had contact with the Twerps?

Remember when Team Rocket and the Twerps loved each other in secret and would endanger themselves to save their 'enemies'?

Everything that was once good and winning about them was sucked out, degree by degree, to leave the corpse, hollow and dead, strung up on wires as a grim marionette.

I'm sure most who see this will vehemently disagree, that I'm completely wrong, that THEY like them.

Yes, you like this three, but you don't like Team Rocket. This is not them. You have yours, and I have mine, but let's not pretend they are the same.

Why, if there is no difference, would I be so hostile, when they meant so much too me?

Did you ever wonder where the original fans went, why they all departed en masse? It's not because they 'moved on' or 'matured'.

They didn't leave Pokémon. Pokémon left them.

As the makers rely so heavily on repetition (sorry, nostalgia) they arrogantly expect us to still be here, having blithely welcomed our memories minced and our canon ripped up or ripped off, apparently.

We're intended to put up with watching them lay waste to ťhe series's body, clinging on for when a rotting bone is pulled up now and again and waved at us, before they chuck it aside to continue the dismemberment.

It's been eaten from the inside out, explaining the facial collapse. Behold the beauty on show:

You see what I mean, don't you?

Don't you? No, because otherwise you'd say the same.

How anyone feels able to describe three deformed freaks as 'hot' or 'cute' I will never comprehend.

The uniform collar protrudes like a solid pipe, emphasising the pencil necks.

It gives the impression of wrinkled, leathery tortoises peering out of their shells to secure a tasty lettuce treat.

Is that pretty? No.

Is it so surprising I don't care for my favourites to resemble melted waxwork skeletons of their own dæmonic counterparts?

S&M is a most fitting name, for this is torture.

In the film Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn vie for the attention of Bruce Willis, both taking a serum giving everlasting youth and slimness.

The catch is it confers immortality, but not invulnerability, so when pushed down the stairs Meryl survives but is dead, her neck broken, thus she's zipped up in the morgue fridge.

When Goldie is shot with a canon she too rises, internal organs blown out.

The rest of the adventure involves the pair losing the war against time, patching up and painting over peeling grey skin, holding onto loose limbs as their bodies fall apart.

This obviously is the case here. The trio lapped the potion up at the close of Sinnoh, experienced a fatal accident and are now steadily crumbling to mush before us.

According to grave-diggers the head always goes first, so there you are then.

I have a suspicion that Giovanni lured all three to his crypt, experimenting on them to engineer his ultimate super soldier, which explains their flat, plastic appearance. Those since Unova began are the cyborgs, the real ones locked in his cellar.

You may notice I have about the lowest opinion possible of the current writing team, as they deserve.

Why should I have any respect for vindictive halfwits like this, who hate Team Rocket so much they're going out of their way to distort and uglify them, expressing the resentment in celluloid?

Jessie, James and Meowth lost their only defender in Takeshi Shudo. From that point they descended from loveable, hapless tragic figures to self-parodies (Hoenn) whiney, irritating divs dumping one another at every interval (Sinnoh), robotic, amoral scum (Unova and Kalos) and now physically repulsive minor additions (Alola and Galar). Is that trajectory all accidental?

It not that it's a new 'style' (for want of a better word), as were that the case, this hideousness would apply to the entire cast, but it's only done to Team Rocket. How could that be unless motivated by malice?

Given the sub thesps are obliged to prostrate themselves in the dust, begging fans to make their appreciation known, it smacks of desperation.

They wouldn't need to ask that were the trio treated as an integral component. They must sense the objections and are thus drumming up support to avoid the dole queue.

Are those in charge so resentful of their presence it manifests in mutilating them, keen to do anything that may alienate the fanbase, so at the first sign of a dip in popularity they can leap upon it as the perfect excuse to write Team Rocket out?

Why be surprised? These are imbeciles who reject their own canon at the close of every generation, so why care about someone else's?

If people have to harangue the writers with grovelling praise of their retcons, rehashes and all-round twatting about, butter 'em up sufficiently, with the implied threat of deserting the franchise should Team Rocket be ejected, taking their purses too, all so the smug, avaricious berks deign to put the trio in the next generation, that proves they don't want them, so how can what they write for their characters be objectively of any worth?

Team Rocket would've departed by now, were there not a palpable worry their absence might ring the death knell of the whole thing, turning off the financial tap, which is what matters.

Therefore they are retained, grudgingly, and only so long as the clamour continues at its current decibel level. If that drops it's over, and don't expect a romantic resolution. Why should pleasing you be a concern when you're to leave with them?

Ask yourself: how much of your devotion is based on what they are right now, and how much is from who they used to be?

How long can they live off past glories?

The offences done in Unova and Kalos were bad enough, but remarkably Game Freak found further depths to plumb, therefore it can only get worse.

I have of course retained the loveliest for last:

Be still, my beating heart.

No, really, be still. Stop infact.

Planet of the Apes.

#Team Rocket #Jessie #James #Meowth #Alola #GIFS

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