"Your eyes, they are like orbs of spiritual essence in the fog of night.. they are almost unbelievable. I wouldn't believe that such perfection could ever exist, but I am looking into them right this second.."
You don't need eyes to see such beauty, sometimes the heart leads the way.. and sees just fine. I may not be able to see your eyes, but I know they must be lovely - eUë
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Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Robyn)
Riverdale Episode 612: In the Fog
by the Afictionados Podcast Network
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I'mm baaaack (can we normalize 3 days on, 1 week off work schedules; I am very tired. And while we're at it, free college. I want to eat more too)!!
I've been a fan of Dead by Daylight for quite some time. So unsurprisingly, I made a possible trainer card for my favorite survivor: Zarina Kassir. I chose to focus on dark type pokémon since they are unfairly and inaccurately considered "bad" in most media for their type and their typically intimidating looks. It's suitable for her own story in which she is keenly aware how she is seen as the "other" more often than not. So I connected her pokemon to her story, unique perks and origins.
That all said, it's time to enter the fog...
Mightyena is named after the hyena—an animal found in Lebanon. How precious would it be if she received a poochyena from her father? My heart melts at her having a strong bond—even investigating her father's death—with a Pokémon that was given to her by him when she was still a child.
Zoroark, like Zarina, knows how to maintain a disguise. A key part of her lore is that she would cover her Lebanese origins by changing her name, appearance and diet. While eventually embracing her Lebanese roots, her line of work could still require disguises. I imagine she knows from experience that disguises can be necessary for investigative work. Zoroark can help with that part of her work.
Absol with the ability "justified" won this spot*. Absols are misunderstood as harbingers of disaster, but really they seeks to protect people with their acute sensitivity to terrible happenings. Plus it has entries referring to mountains, such as the range Mount Lebanon where they could natively live.
Liepard for perk "Off the Record." It's a sneaky Pokémon so it gives off the same sleuth-like quality as the perk. And it keeps to a trend of dark types. There also is record of leopards in Lebanon at one point. If reading serves correct, they are referred to as Arabian leopards due to their geographical distribution. The more you know.
Wishiwashi for perk "Red Herring," where herrings are related to sardines (so generally small fish). Zarina is quite the activist. She would think that, like wishiwashi, more is achieved when together than alone. Bonus points that it looks so intimidating when schooling, much like dark type pokémon tend to.
Shaymin for the perk "for the people" (learns healing wish). Lebanon, like many places, is naturally home to many beautiful flowers. Notably the Madonna Lily, which is prominent in Lebanon and that I think would look quite lovely for a shaymin. I don't care if they are canonically mystical because it's a perfect pair: a beautiful flower in looks and a warrior at heart.
And it wouldn't be me without saying this: stay magical, friends~ ✨💖✨
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*I will mention that there was a close tie between Lucario, Arcanine or Absol. All are 4-legged (I wanted to avoid too many humanoid qualities), plus all of them can have "justified" as an ability. Zarina seeks justice, so it's only fitting that she has a pokémon with an ability to match. An arcanine and a lucario were considered to give her team more type variety, while Absol was for type consistency. I ruled out Arcanine due to their association with officers in both the games and anime. Lucario was too humanoid—and I saw too much about lucario and zoroark that I never want in my mind again. So only one choice remained.
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A pair of corvids are observed perched silently atop a street light during a misty morning in coastal California. ♡
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Please do things to strengthen your attention span. It stresses me out so much when people just accept their small attention spans and cater to them without any acknowledgment that they are making it worse by doing that.
There is a reason attention spans are worse now and it didn’t just happen by chance. Media and the internet designed it that way and we went with it because it was easier.
Some of us with ADHD and brain fog need to meet ourselves where we’re at and exercise our attention span by watching a two minute video instead of a one minute video. Some of us need to sit down and read a novel with our phones turned off.
Wherever you’re at, just realize that not doing things that feel hard will keep making your attention span worse.
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I love it when farm animals in strategy games have their own little pockets of visibility in the fog of war, because the fog of war is ostensibly a visual abstraction of military intelligence-gathering, which implies that the goat is submitting intel reports.
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