To my astonishment I am still alive, after working security for a week at one of the biggest music festivals in my country. I haven’t looked at my inbox yet, or any of the comments on the last couple of posts; I just wanted to let everyone know that I am here, mostly healthy, and will get around to it just as soon as I finish sleeping for twelve hours straight.
In the meantime, go and read this article. Friend of mine posted the link on Facebook. It has absolutely nothing to do with Pokémon, at all, but it is exactly the point I was trying to make when I defended PETA in this post a little while back. It is rather well-written and, whether you agree with it or not, the ideas it discusses are relevant to anyone who regularly engages with fiction (that is to say, absolutely everyone).
http://gyzym.tumblr.com/post/39004853136/just-shut-up
Also happy new year. May your new year’s resolutions briefly illuminate the bleak misery of your lives with a ray of hope before their inevitable failure causes you to descend back into the neverending drudge of existence in this cold universe.
Look, I don’t do happy. It makes me ill.
Pokémaniacal 