I'm pleased to announce that the Mary Anning PSA is now available on merch on Teepublic!

I was unable to sell the design on Teespring because their website policy does not allow graphics containing likenesses of any real person, alive or dead. Which is frustrating. There's something called publicity rights which is the inherent right of a person to be in charge of how their likeness is used, but publicity rights expire when a person passes away (unless that person has an estate that manages their publicity rights), which is why nowadays you can go into any science museum gift shop and buy t-shirts and posters with Einstein on them. And while I totally respect the publicity rights of living people, if someone is dead, it's not like you can ask them if you can make a t-shirt of them.

Thankfully, the awesome Amanda Perry came to my rescue and recommended Teepublic, which she uses to sell her designs, and so far that's going better. I'd like to make my Teepublic store my official one-stop shop for my merch, but making the transition is going to take a lot more time and energy than I have today. I'll get to work on spiffing up the Teepublic shop and moving links around tomorrow.

Ugggghhhhh business stuff is so exhausting. I'm going to go eat some chocolate.

They actually color-coded the locations in Pokémon Yellow and when playing Red and Blue on the Super Game Boy peripheral for SNES. It was glorious.

 On the very same Virtual Fossil Friday as the one that inspired the previous graphic, Ashley, Maggie Jo, fellow VFF regular Amanda Perry, and guest speaker Dr. Kirk Thompson concocted a fantastic idea for a public service announcement poster about fossils featuring Mary Anning. I got the okay to create it, and I had so much fun putting it together.

 Today on Virtual Fossil Friday, Ashley and Maggie Jo got to talking about pickled specimens in museum collections, and Maggie Jo coined the slogan "We Can Pickle That" and said she wanted it on a t-shirt. I asked her if she wanted me to make her one, she was very excited about the idea, and so here we are. (Always great when I can get an excuse to draw a squid.)

You can get the design on apparel, stickers, and other stuff in my store!

 In Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, where Legendary Birds can be found roaming in the sky on the overworld, this could actually happen!

 Just how rare and difficult to obtain HMs are is kind of up for debate in the Pokémon world. Yes, you can't buy them in stores. But you also seem to just be able to obtain them for such trivial reasons that it's like people are trying to get rid of them. 

I'm kinda glad HMs have been phased out in more recent games. They were a clever method for gating player progress in the early days, but it also meant you were stuck toting around a Pokémon (or several) who knew the requisite HMs to get you where you needed to go.

 Those times when grownups try to be cool and get in on a kids' fad and just end up embarrassing themselves. (Of course, according to my nieces, I'm still cool, so.)

I remember the 90's, when it seemed like no one over the age of 18 could pronounce or spell "Pokémon" correctly.