Rose Thorne(She/Her)

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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • I think I single-handedly funded a complete overhaul of the Kantonian Safari Zone just to get Scyther in Pokemon Red.

    I lost count of how many times I reset to actually catch Chansey. “You missed the Pokemon! Chansey fled!” over and over again, when I actually got one of them to spawn!

    Then it was flying all over, since I had the Good and Super rods, finally, to do all of the fishing. Now it’s leveling up some of my catches while pushing through Saffron so I can grab Lapras, snag Hitmonlee from the dojo, get everyone evolved and caught up, and then finally take down Koga.



  • I remember my first time finding the ceiling path in the Pyramids in SML1. I just decided to try to see if I could jump up to the ceiling tiles, skip passed the enemies.

    It blew my little mind when it worked. I could do that. Where else could I do that‽ The entire game just changed! I lost hours trying to make the stupidest jumps, just to see if I had found another one.


  • As someone who spent a good part of their teens to early adulthood in a coal town, this really hit me. The towns absolutely tiny, and dying. You had 3 jobs there. Retail, mechanic, or the mines. Kids were told all their lives that underground was their future.

    Now, people genuinely don’t know what to do. This has been their entire lives, their livelihood, and there’s very few in the area doing anything at all to help. Sure, you have the ones who saw the writing on the wall and found something, got out of that town, but for so many, there isn’t anything else. What resources they have are a couple hours away, which is too far for people barely able to make ends meet, and they can’t afford to lose hours at whatever they’ve found in the now to get re-educated into a better field.

    There are so many small towns, nestled far away from the interstates and highways across the US, that are absolutely forgotten, slowly rotting away out of sight, with nothing left. Even those who will gladly say the change needed to happen, that we needed to stop, are bitter, because they look at how it happened and feel absolutely fucking abandoned by the people who told them things would get better.