#they collect shitty relatives like pokémons

[presidentofthelipglossclub]

IF the rescue bots ever met/meet megatron i fully believe he would be their shitty fucked up father who gets mildly redeemed but is still an asshole about everything. i feel like he'd meet them and be like "oh you're KIDS kids. ok. time to be responsible." because the rescue bots are chaotic as shit. like yeah they're very good at their jobs but like half the time they don't even make a plan they just improvise. they keep getting out of insane situations they shouldn't have survived. megatron would give them structure.

to be clear megs is NOT like mtmte megs, he's still like insane and a war criminal he's just on their side instead. he very grudgingly becomes attached to them but still makes sure to insult them and do crack. sorta like hightide is but more openly murdery. optimus does not approve at the beginning but he slowly realizes that the whole thing is actually going very smoothly and the rescue bots are kinda getting through to megatron and helping make him better.

[gluevah]

Do you know when flipping of Build a Bears got to be more out of control if that makes sense? I feel like it was around the time the pandemic began but maybe a few years before that. I don't remember seeing people on regular selling apps attempting to sell items they didn't have until recently, though.

I think it was a little before the pandemic started. I remember certain Pokémon selling for way more than retail the year before but people weren't like, buying multiples to resell as much as when the pandemic started. Which I guess makes sense, you gotta make money how you can. But I still think that making money by scalping children's toys is absolutely terrible. Like, the people who bought like 20 happy meals at a time to resell the cards? Awful. Completely awful. Ruining things for kids to make a quick buck is just not cool.

I wouldn't even have a problem with flipping if it was done differently. Like, buying one extra of a collectible toy that is popular, to hold on to and sell later when they're rare and the resell price is high? Cool. Smart idea, and relatively harmless if it's done in moderation.

Buying up as many of a limited or popular item as you can, to make sure nobody can find them to buy in stores, so you can sell all of them for exorbitant prices? It's just a really shitty thing to do. Especially when done with items that are mainly aimed at kids.

[arty-ffxiv]

10 Images That Define Your Childhood

I was tagged by @nemophilisty for this awesome meme she’s started! (sorry it’s taken me so long to do it! ♥)

I’m also tagging any and all of my followers who are interested in doing this- it’s a lot of fun!

1. Nibbles Barbie Horse: This was what caused my massive horsey phase when I was between 11-15 years old. I got my Nibbles- which I promptly renamed Charity- for Christmas when I was about 7. My best friend Amelia also got one but I accidentally broke it when I dropped it on our slate tiled floor; we glued the poor horse’s head back on but it never moved it’s head up and down again. My mum felt so bad that I’d broken it that we replaced Amelia’s with a new one and gave old Crusty (named for the superglue mark that ran down it’s neck) to my little sister. I still have Charity and Crusty, and I’m keeping them and all of the other million horse toys for when I have children.

2. Daekor Raccoon Plush: My old faithful teddy growing up, named “Raccoon”. This was my number one favourite toy and I (still) adore him to bits; he’s currently in storage but whenever I felt down or worried I’d give him a cuddle when I was really ill a few years back. My mum bought him from the Adelaide Zoo for me when I was a toddler. He looks much worse for wear than the one pictured- though you can buy a new(ish) one for $9.95 USD here!

3. The Emperor’s New Groove PS1 Game: This game practically raised my sister and I. Our dedication to this game is insane; we could act it out even now and we’ve got about 4 copies of the thing floating around our house (one disc doesn’t work, one is mine, one is hers and the other was sucked into a black hole along with our left socks). The graphics are shitty now but were awesome at the time and it just has so many funny moments as well as an amazing soundtrack. “DEMON LLAMA!”- That one guy before you destroy his statues.

4. The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series by Michelle Paver: This one is a bit later on in my childhood (I’d just turned 13), but this series really hit home with me and I fell in love with the characters and the setting. Eventually my grandparents found out that I loved it and since the author is English, they’d get me a copy of the new books when they’d travel to visit our relatives in the UK. This was also one of the first books I borrowed from the library of my new school; I made friends with the librarian and read heaps back then as I hadn’t made any friends at the time. I finally finished the sixth and final book in my final school year and it still makes me cry.

5. The Ranger’s Apprentice Series by John Flanagan: This is the second series that I was a huge fan of as a teenager; this one was recommended to me by the previously mentioned librarian. The series has finished now and has over 12 books in it, and I (again) loved the setting and the characters. I’ve wanted to re-read this series for a while now but sadly they are all in storage.

6. The Swan Princess Movies: (1-3, we don’t talk about the recent abominations incarnations) I made my family watch this so many times, I was such a sucker for this movie. Also I kind of wanted to be Odette when I grew up.

7. The Little Mermaid: Funny story here; my husband and I used to play Ariel and Buzz Lightyear when we were little since those were our favourite movies. Now that I’m older I kind of want to punch Ariel in the face because of how selfish (lol) she is, but I just wanted to be a mermaid. Part of me still kind of wishes I was tbh.

8. Quest for Camelot: Another amazing movie, my sister and I got this as a joint gift from our great-grandmother before she passed away. We still have the old VHS of it lying around here somewhere, and the VCR to play it on! I looked up to Kayley as a little girl and I think this movie is what sparked my interest in medieval stuff.

9. Pokémon: I started watching the Pokémon anime and collecting the cards when I was in junior school and in 2003 I got a gameboy colour with Pokémon Silver. My favourite was Eevee, but I also loved Poliwag, Ponyta and Rapidash.

10. Cadbury Yowies: This is an Aussie Thing™. Back in the day, Cadbury used to make these little chocolate monsters based on an Aboriginal myth. Kind of like Kinder Surprises, they had a little capsule inside them which had a figurine of an Australian animal and a little card that told you about the critter you’d gotten. As children my sister and I had a 5 litre ice-cream tub of all our Yowie animal figures (I still have one of my frogs somewhere!). They stopped making them but it’s a joint dream of all Aussie millenials that they bring them back.