#A box talk

[lazy-l]

Seen people on Twitter getting all mad because the official Pokémon Japanese account didn't post anything about Ash on April 1st and posted about the 1-year anniversary of Horizons today, and people on the quote are like : "The account forget Ash like he never existed"

"Shame on you for having the audacity to post"

"They really hate Ash, don't they"

Or simply saying to cancel Horizons and bring back Ash. I bet that the moment Ash returns, people will be like "Ugh!, Why the make him so childish!? This isn't MY Ash, booo" It's ok to miss Ash and Pikachu, everybody grow up watching him trying to become a Pokémon Master, and nostalgia can make us blind, and still, you can watch 25 years worth of content about Him and Pikachu on the internet or if you are really desperate, Fan Fiction.

What I like about anipoke is that if you miss Ash, you can go and watch the OG anime, but if you are searching for something new, then you have Horizons, and I see that as a win-win.

With that said, Happy One-Year Anniversary, Pokémon Horizons!

The adventure so far has been so interesting, and I can't wait for seeing the next episode every week, love the characters and how the writers are handling the plot... Yeah, sometimes can be really hit or miss, but overall the story is really solid, and the animation is consistent or top tier, and I love it. This series, and sun and moon, are my favorites from the anipoke

Thanks for reading this rant/opinion on the anipoke situation and Horizons.

[mead-iocre]

Khelif advances to the semi-finals and is now guaranteed a medal in Paris!

[tipsywench]

This wonderful fan account on instagram Imane_Khalif_10 has been translating interviews and this is the funniest one so far (edit: apparently she's deleted her account or switched to a different name)

Imane Khelif, patron goddess of punching the shit out of bullies

[hijinks-n-lowjinks]

there are tears in my eyes

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

while we wait.

may i offer you all a pubby?? lil bby barns?

[cowardlykrow]

Stop light shenanigans

Extra:

[yardsards]

people are pushing against the overly ~wholesome~ fandom culture of the 2010s but they're going too hard and swinging in the opposite direction. now for something to be considered *good* it has to be Dark and Edgy and Complicated and Toxic. and ppl feel the need to justify their liking something with "no it's actually like suuuper dark".

...and that's how you get people calling farcille "toxic yuri".

[r0semultiverse]

The code at the end of the credits in the FNAF movie spells "COME FIND ME" btw for those without captions.

[wildrbst]

Orv doodle comic time

[slavhew]

look at this idiot not aware that his body is warm and his touch comforting everyone point and laugh

[krysmcscience]

Narilambs your goat

Get adopted, idiot

[foldingfittedsheets]

What's your opinion on purple™ mattresses?

No one is allowed to come for me about this take, got it? This a safe place for my personal opinion which I was just asked for. Okay? If you disagree just move along. If you love your Purple I’m not saying that’s wrong.

So. I personally really dislike Purple. It’s not just Purple but they were one of the first bed in a box, for which they have much to answer for. Their catchy branding opened up a new type of mattress market. But making a bed cheap enough to roll up like that and still meet fire standard plus providing back support is just a unicorn.

As I previously mentioned I don’t think beds in boxes can provide good long term back support. But the target demographic of broke 20 somethings is robust enough to deal with the lack of back support for a while based on their general vitality.

However a huge part of my clientele when I sold beds were people returning their bed in a box, most frequently Purple, who had horrible experiences. So I’ll admit I got an extremely biased view of them from that standpoint.

But the really shady thing is that Purple won’t disclose their fire retardant. See, mattresses in the US (and many place internationally I think?) have to adhere to fire safety protocols. Why? Because before that was a thing beds would go up like bombs and were considered extremely dangerous in the event of a fire.

Most major bed brands use like Kevlar fibers. There’s chemical treatments that can work too and some folks get pretty worked up about it. The fact is that cheap mattresses basically always have a really dicey flame retardant which brings us to-

Fiberglass! Now, Purple, along with a ton of other bed in boxes, has had a slough of customers pissed off because they’d taken off the cover and suddenly all their stuff including bodies were covered in fiberglass. It honestly makes sense because they have to use something and at the price point it has to be cheap.

Now, Purple swears up and down that it doesn’t use fiberglass but really damningly they don’t say what they do use. A reputable company will just say what their flame retardant is because it’s common enough that consumers want to know.

Their insistence that it isn’t fiberglass while silent about its actual nature is highly suspect. I expect it’s either a thing so close to fiberglass that branding is the only thing keeping it separate or it’s a shady chemical they don’t want to divulge either.

TLDR: Not a brand I’d recommend.

[mead-iocre]

Women's Welterweight Gold Medalist, Imane Khelif.

[yrsonpurpose]

I love that representation because I don't think anybody is just one thing, especially in 2024.

[eky-13]

Guess who's back into his MCR obsession..... (Me!!!)

[szynkaaa]

I think that would sum up their travel-relationship pretty well.