#Giants Tickets

[isogenderskitty]

ted going “if you don’t like what we’re doing here there’s the door!” to charlotte in HER HOUSE is insane

[kedreeva]

Sark took me to the Otherworld art installation in Columbus, OH today, and I gotta say, it was awesome actually!

You can touch absolutely everything, take pictures (no flash) of anything you want. There were a few dozen rooms with various themes, all of them with interactive mechanics, and half of them had puzzles as well. This is what I think people expected that Willy Wonka disaster of an event would be, or something similar anyway, but Otherworld actually delivered really well!!

You get your wristband at the door and then you can take one of several entrances, but all the rooms are interconnected so it doesn't matter which. If no one's told you, you don't necessarily realize there's going to be puzzles, but I realized something was up by the end of our first room, and figured out what it was by the end of the second room, so it's very easy to catch on to, I think.

If you can solve the right puzzles, you can activate the end mechanic for a light and music show! Unlike an escape room, you're not locked in, you can leave at any time, but it very much had escape room vibes. I had a TON of fun figuring out what we needed to do, and watching other people try to figure out what to do.

There was one group of kids (young teens it looked like), who were trying to figure out one of the puzzles and after watching them for a bit, we offered to give them a clue since it was one we solved already. They were so excited to find out it actually WAS a puzzle with an answer. I just pointed out one of the panels to watch and let them go from there and they solved it with a lot of yelling. I hope that they continued solving the rest of the puzzles- we went in the opposite direction, because of the yelling.

In fact, all the kids we saw were having a blast. There were also plenty of adults wandering about. Because of the way tickets are sold by time slots, it should not ever get super crowded, and there were hand sanitizing stations all over, and staff lurking to clean stuff and assist as needed if someone struggled with a puzzle. They were happy to tell you whatever you wanted at the entrances and exits, so you never had to stay stuck if you didn't want to. They've also named the creatures you see.

There was also a Rick Roll in one of the rooms, which was hilarious.

Anyway, super fun experience. If you have the ability to make it out that way, consider checking it out!

[astrocassette]

fuck it i'm reposting milo's ref sheet to add a little bio + full story summary

milo elloway (they/he)

a casual trainer who works at a quilt shop in nimbasa

a pretty lighthearted + easygoing guy, on the quiet side + shy, but is also goofy + enjoys making people laugh. they can be awkward at times, but try to make up for it with politeness + sincerity

❤️: hard rock + metal, quilting + sewing, horror fiction, rpgs, casual battling, retro aesthetics

❌: driving, cooking, large bodies of water, waking up early, bitter foods, the competitive circuit

more notes can be found on their toyhouse profile

and now, story summary under the cut

so!

as it says, milo's originally from (an) earth! they fell asleep on the metro on their way back home from visiting friends, and woke up on the nimbasa subway. the earth they're from doesn't have pokemon, even as a franchise, so they've got NO idea wtf is going on

ingo + emmet find them incredibly confused + speaking no known language with a phone map that doesn't match the world, rightly figure maybe dimensional shenanigans are about, and take them to the interpol. while a case is opened up for milo, the nimbasa trio adopts them as a sort of interdimensional exchange student, showing them around, and then helping them get their footing in the pokemon world when the interpol isn't able to find a way to get them back home.

milo has to grapple with the language barrier (learning galarian from scratch) and culture shock for a while, plus mounting guilt as they slowly realize they prefer the pokemon world to their earth, but have no way to let their loved ones know what happened and that they're okay (they eventually come to terms with it, but it takes a couple years)

in between language lessons, they hang out a lot with new friends (the nimbasa trio + a whole host of ocs i am slowly drawing), and pretty much everyone encourages them to give training a try. so they do! they do their own little gym run, and earn a few badges before tapping out and heading back to nimbasa, content with being a mid-strength trainer.

as they get further settled in, they pick quilting back up, and after showing a few projects to the local quilt shop, get hired there! they make friends with many old ladies + the shop sewaddle and gain a reputation amongst the regulars for having a good color sense.

there's a good stretch of just peaceful life for them, happily working, getting to know ingo + emmet + elesa + various ocs better as their language skills improve, and traveling around the region in their spare time. they even nearly start building a romance with ingo, but this gets interrupted when the interpol find another person from earth in hoenn, and milo ventures abroad to meet them + see the region! they extend the trip to see a little bit of johto, but that gets cut short when ingo goes missing.

it takes over a year, but milo + emmet manage to get to hisui with the help of a celebi, and are able to find ingo! but, arceus is miffed at their meddling and removes celebi from the premises, stranding the three of them in the past for a couple years. during this time, the events of legends arceus happen, with milo + emmet joining ingo as npcs. ingo does what he does in canon, emmet helps laventon with the pokedex + manages the training grounds with ingo, and milo apprentices at the clothier's in jubilife!

i'm still working out how the three of them factor into the canon storyline of pla and how big a role i want them to play, but they for sure join the wider party of people supporting akari. and, post-rift-fixing, milo does get together with ingo :]

that's everything i've written out so far (my document is so fucking big. this is as concise a post as i could make it lmao), but i'm considering bringing in elesa with jirachi for the post-game of pla, and i do intend to get everyone back to the future

if you read all this, god damn, i appreciate it!! if you found this interesting and want more, here's the tag i've got going for this au!

[shreksstepfather]

okay so it's been likeeeee a Hot minute since i last read ur comic an i rlly gotta reread it soon so i'm not lost but also PONTUS GIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING.YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS SHIT YOU SHOULD BE AT A PETER PIPER'S PIZZA TRYING TO GET A THOUSAND TICKETS SO YOU CAN BUY THAT COOL DINOSAUR HEAD

SHE SHOOOULD SHE'S LIKE 25 AT THIS POINT IN THE COMIC!! Seriously girlie, get your life together! You don't even have the excuse of being a child anymore!! Truly the ultimate "she should be at the club" :|

In all seriousness, I'm glad you're invested in the comic and Pontus's shenanigans! I promise that she'll earn that giant dinosaur head someday after all her silliness is done :)

[catbuspass]

Ok if u want my priv / n sfw blog it's gonna be in the replies I used my old url

[immanentise]

I just really fucking love queer people

[cloboboo]

Late night stuff,,, train 🚂 guy with a really big dude 🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️

[krafterwrites]

GODDAMNIT

[cookinguptales]

ohhhh there are some GOOD movies playing at the film center over the next few months... rebecca, casablanca, best in show, blade...

(look, I contain multitudes, I will go see all of those films with GLEE)

[missathlete31]

Thursday Night Football Anyone?

Looking for Chad Powers

[hballegro]

[full of turkey and deviled eggs, half asleep] I don't think this story is sad enough actually I think I have to make it worse

[faunandfloraas]

just occured to me ive never been to that football stadium bc i dont care about football and Ew 😭

[wlw-cryptid]

U need someone to paint minis with? 👀👀

yes oh my god 😭 I don't think I'll ever be really playing with them but I love wh40k minis. I want to get some age of sigmar things too

[trickstarbrave]

i miss trains in europe. we hardly have any fucking trains in america. i wanna go upstate to visit my old college town and my options are a greyhouse bus for 7 hours or driving an hour to the city to take a train that has very few times it boards and take one from there up to the town. if i have to drive an hour and wait around for 6 hours what is honestly the point. but i hate driving too UGH so i just dont go

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

just found 3 approx 12oz bottles of organic vanilla extract in the back of a cabinet from years ago when I made my own vanilla and I feel like I struck gold. that's worth about $100 today.