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whateveryoueatliveitspart[The feed comes on to show a forest, mostly clear of snow save for some stubborn drifts that have taken shelter beneath the evergreens. Exactly where this is isn't clear, though the music is that of the Lake of Rage, so that at least gives a general area. Apollo's voice comes from off-camera.]
It's almost spring now. I think that spring is my favorite season. You don't need to shelter from the cold and snow all the time and you can watch all the plants start to bud and the seeds sprout after being buried under the snow. Everything's beginning fresh. The best part about this spring though is that it's warm enough again that I don't have to wear shoes anymore. My feet have been sore wearing boots all the time, even worse than just putting on shoes to go into a store or work at the Pokémon Center. Covering your feet makes sense if you're going out in the snow, but I still don't understand why people keep wanting me to wear shoes to come inside where the floors aren't cold, or why anyone would want shoes to have such thick bottoms. I can't feel the ground when I'm wearing shoes and they seem like they're shaped to make me walk differently. They aren't comfortable.
[He suddenly realizes that he's off on a tangent about one of his pet peeves with this world and forces himself off of the topic. Unfortunately for the viewers, he fails to provide a segue.]
Once it gets warmer and the ground softens, I'm going to try planting some of the berries that I got from the berry orchard in Pallet Town. They're supposed to need to be kept warm all the time in something called a "hothouse". They don't look like they're hard to make. I'll just need to find materials to make them out of. I can probably find something useful in Goldenrod City.
I think I've figured out what kinds of places the berry plants on the routes grow best in, but the people at the berry orchard couldn't tell me much about where the plants that they were growing grow naturally. Has anyone else tried to grow berries?
It's almost spring now. I think that spring is my favorite season. You don't need to shelter from the cold and snow all the time and you can watch all the plants start to bud and the seeds sprout after being buried under the snow. Everything's beginning fresh. The best part about this spring though is that it's warm enough again that I don't have to wear shoes anymore. My feet have been sore wearing boots all the time, even worse than just putting on shoes to go into a store or work at the Pokémon Center. Covering your feet makes sense if you're going out in the snow, but I still don't understand why people keep wanting me to wear shoes to come inside where the floors aren't cold, or why anyone would want shoes to have such thick bottoms. I can't feel the ground when I'm wearing shoes and they seem like they're shaped to make me walk differently. They aren't comfortable.
[He suddenly realizes that he's off on a tangent about one of his pet peeves with this world and forces himself off of the topic. Unfortunately for the viewers, he fails to provide a segue.]
Once it gets warmer and the ground softens, I'm going to try planting some of the berries that I got from the berry orchard in Pallet Town. They're supposed to need to be kept warm all the time in something called a "hothouse". They don't look like they're hard to make. I'll just need to find materials to make them out of. I can probably find something useful in Goldenrod City.
I think I've figured out what kinds of places the berry plants on the routes grow best in, but the people at the berry orchard couldn't tell me much about where the plants that they were growing grow naturally. Has anyone else tried to grow berries?
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Date: 2013-03-13 10:06 pm (UTC)[Maybe it's because of his viewpoint, but the idea is kinda boggling.]
They're mainly designed to protect your feet-- not just keep them warm. Thick bottoms? Well, if you step on sharp rocks, nails, or broken glass, they'll shield the bottoms of your feet.
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Date: 2013-03-13 10:37 pm (UTC)I just pay attention to where I'm putting my feet. If I end up missing something I feel it on the sole of my foot before I've put my foot all the way down and I can step somewhere else before it cuts me. I am the only person who looks ahead at where I'm walking?
[The last line isn't said sarcastically. He's genuinely wondering if that can possibly be true. If you don't look where you're walking you must constantly be stepping in Pokémon droppings, right?]
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Date: 2013-03-13 10:51 pm (UTC)[Or somebody else, for that matter. He probably should've used a better example in hindsight.]
It's good to stop and look every now and then, but unless you sprouted another head or extra eyes, you can't really take in everything at once.
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Date: 2013-03-13 11:28 pm (UTC)That's why if you can feel the ground through the soles of your feet before you put all of your weight on them you only have to look out for big things in your path.
[Different solutions to the same problem is what this is.]
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Date: 2013-03-13 11:56 pm (UTC)I mean, a part of it's definitely insulation-- they keep feet dry and warm, especially if you've got socks to go with them. Open toed shoes are a little different, though, and you see a lot of those on the islands. They're definitely easier to slip into and out of, but for running? They're way too flimsy for my liking.
[He could go into details like arch support, but no need to bombard the guy with too much in one sitting.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:13 am (UTC)Keeping your feet warm I understand. Back home I normally use animal skins to cover my feet in the winter. They're thin enough that I can still feel the ground, but they keep my feet warm enough that I can go outside in the snow for a while. I can't get any skins here though, so I can't do that here.
[Apollo uses his arches for arch support. That's what they're for after all. It helps that he's had 13 years to get used to not wearing shoes though.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:17 am (UTC)But if you're looking for a substitute for skins, have you thought about just using fur or hair? Farmers shear sheep to make wool-- I'm sure something like that would be perfectly legal, even here.
[Even if working with a Mareep presents interesting risks, like electrocution.
Granted, all this is coming from a guy who really takes for granted his modern conveniences and sees them as a fact of life, anyway.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:24 am (UTC)[I guess Mareep farmers have to take good care of their flock. If they don't then shearing day would suck.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:27 am (UTC)[Maybe the secret is rubber gloves. Or rubber body suits. Or both!]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:39 am (UTC)["Strange" like makeup, toilet paper, and bathing suits.
And now I'm picturing the Rubberobo Gang from Medabots shearing sheep. XD *dies*]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:42 am (UTC)[Not exactly convenient for a guy up in northern Johto.]
You'd probably be better off checking one of the other towns. Goldenrod, Ecruteak... Maybe even Mahogany, given how close the ice path is.
[And clearly this means that Route needs some Medabots characters. It would be beautiful.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:52 am (UTC)I'm going to have to visit Mahogany to get money to buy more food soon. [Stupid Johto not letting him just eat Pokémon even though other Pokémon can.] I'll look in the stores while I'm there.
[It would be. It's been years since I even thought of that show, let alone watched it. No idea if I can get any muses from it.]
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Date: 2013-03-13 11:21 pm (UTC)Wouldn't it take a long time to grow a berry plant from the seeds?
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Date: 2013-03-13 11:38 pm (UTC)I always just pay attention to where I'm going and don't put all of my weight on my foot if I feel something sharp under it. What about inside, though? There aren't usually any rocks or sticks there, so why do stores always want me to put on shoes before I come in?
I don't know exactly how long it will take. Most plants that size will start producing berries by the first fall that they've seen. A few of them have to see a winter first before they produce anything. Trees take longer, but I don't think that berry plants will take that long to grow.
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Date: 2013-03-13 11:49 pm (UTC)[ shoes that is. ]
Hm...so you'd probably have to settle down somewhere for that, wouldn't you?
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:05 am (UTC)[He's... not going to say anything about the ladylike part. He still doesn't get why males and females have separate washrooms. Cultural expectations for different genders are a bit beyond him right now.]
I don't wear them unless I have to, but no one will let me inside stores or Pokémon Centers without them.
[Not saying anything about the "cute" comment either, because he's not sure what she means and doesn't quite care enough to ask.]
I have a cave that I've been living in, so I'll plant them near there.
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:29 am (UTC)If that's what they wan't there's not much you can do. Just take them off when you leave?
Oh, you live in one place. That makes sense then! I thought everyone was running around doing... [ she has no idea what. ]
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:44 am (UTC)Before the winter I was traveling around so that the Pokémon who are with me could challenge some of the gyms and I could get some of the HMs. I'll probably travel some more to see other places now that it's spring, but I like having a place to come back to.
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Date: 2013-03-14 02:46 am (UTC)So it's okay if you plant them and just leave them? They don't require any special care?
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Date: 2013-03-14 02:57 am (UTC)As long as I make sure that everything they need is nearby they should be fine. Plants can take care of themselves. If they couldn't, then there wouldn't be forests. I'm just not sure if I know everything that they need. I think I do, but there's no way for me to know yet, especially for the plants that I haven't seen growing on the routes.
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Date: 2013-03-14 03:47 am (UTC)So the place you got the seeds from wouldn't tell you?
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Date: 2013-03-14 03:53 am (UTC)They only knew about how to grow them with humans taking care of them all the time, not how they grow on their own.
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Date: 2013-03-14 04:58 am (UTC)...that's really weird, wouldn't they have to know how they grow in nature before they can grow their own?
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Date: 2013-03-14 05:04 am (UTC)Maybe they weren't the people who figured out how to grow them? Someone else could have figured it out and told them how to grow it themselves, but didn't tell them how they grow in the wild.
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Date: 2013-03-16 03:37 pm (UTC)Maybe they don't want other people to be cultivating the same plants.
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Date: 2013-03-16 04:07 pm (UTC)I don't really get it, but there were some things like that back home.
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Date: 2013-03-16 04:20 pm (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2013-03-16 04:27 pm (UTC)[All he understands about money is that he has to do things for people to get it and that he can trade it for things that he actually wants but can't find or make himself. How prices are determined is far outside of his understanding, nor does he particularly care.]
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Date: 2013-03-14 03:21 am (UTC)Yeah. I'd never worn shoes before I came here.
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Date: 2013-03-14 05:37 am (UTC)...Was it...by choice? [Because from what he saw in Africa, a lot of things weren't.]
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Date: 2013-03-16 03:33 am (UTC)I think you might be wearing the wrong size.
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Date: 2013-03-16 04:05 am (UTC)[Video]
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Date: 2013-03-19 02:36 am (UTC)[He can't be more specific for "how long". The concept of time that civilization uses is still something that he doesn't fully understand. He has a vague understanding of how long minutes and seconds are from people talking, but he can't read a clock and doesn't really get why you'd need to. The most specific that he normally is when it comes to time is "predawn", "dawn", "morning", "noon", "afternoon", "evening", "dusk", "the first half of the night", "the middle of the night", and "the second half of the night". Telling time is simpler when you don't have to give exact numbers.]
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Date: 2013-03-19 03:14 am (UTC)[He gives the bottom of his ear lobe a quick scratch.
Hm, this shouldn't be too farfetched by now. Young kid who is accustomed to simpler, natural ways of living doesn't feel comfortable in the shoes of a postindustrial society. That's fair.]
That happens when you walk nonstop without taking a breather. They tell you to go with a pair that fit the most comfortable. What does that mean? I couldn't tell you. It's different for everybody.
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Date: 2013-03-19 04:09 am (UTC)[That about sums it up. The only reason that Norman doesn't have the same problem is because he (presumably) started wearing shoes when he was only a few years old, thus the constant wearing of shoes has reshaped his feet to fit in them and he's forgotten about whatever discomfort he may have had.]
I usually take breathers whenever I need to, but when I'm wearing shoes my feet start hurting even more if I stop for too long.
I didn't choose the ones I have right now. The shoes were in my bag when I came here and when Yamask was controlling my body he tried on a bunch of boots and decided that the ones I have now were the most comfortable.
[But then, Yamask was in denial about being dead and was thus rather confused by the strange reactions that "his" body had to what he did to it - for example, becoming nauseous after eating pizza because Apollo had never had grains before and his body wasn't sure what to do with them. Not realizing that "his" feet hadn't had much experience with shoes before was just another oversight in a long list of them.]
Are the bottoms of all shoes the same thickness? Or are there some that are thinner than others?
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Date: 2013-03-22 04:06 pm (UTC)Eat your heart out New York.]
...Depends on the kind of shoe you have. Boots are a lot thicker than others shoes because they're built to be durable for the outdoors. The shoes I have on are meant for more casual things like walking around the city.
[A beat.]
What's this about a Yamask though?
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Date: 2013-03-22 04:33 pm (UTC)I would have thought that it was usually the other way around, since the ground in the towns is harder than the ground outside them. I think that shoes with thinner bottoms would be more comfortable.
Back before winter started, a Yamask accidentally got his mask on my face, and somehow that let him control my body. It turns out that Yamask are the spirits of dead humans, but he didn't remember that he was dead and thought that he was in his own body, so he went around doing the things that he normally did and talked to people about fighting "The System". After two days he lost control of my body and vanished, but I found him in my PC Box the next time that I checked it and one of my pokéballs was missing, so he must have caught himself somehow. He won't come out though. Every time I take him out of his ball, all he'll say is that he's afraid of forgetting something and that he wants to go back in the PC Box, then he goes back in his ball.
[All said with some concern for the Yamask but otherwise as if there's nothing unusual about what happened.]
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Date: 2013-03-25 04:21 am (UTC)[Maybe for next fall/winter. Who knows? It's hard to imagine anyone walking around with nothing to protect their feet. Then again, that's just the postmodernism talking.]
[But Norman takes the liberty to look up what exactly these Yamasks look like. He's seen puppies spit fire and pink elephants "eat" dreams but pokemon possessing bodies? That's a real stretch.]
A little thing like that? How could those possibly be human spirits? I thought the story was that humans can't die here.
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Date: 2013-03-26 03:12 am (UTC)[Sneakers are actually what he has right now, he just doesn't know the name of them. Oops. If he ever finds anything he can deal with it'll be something like moccasins, or those Vibram FiveFingers things, if those exist in Johto (they probably don't).
And he's had 13 years to get his feet used to having no protection. Though he does wrap bandages around his arches, probably because of how in canon he crouches on branches a lot and sometimes seems to let his feet slide off them as he moves. The bark would probably tear open his feet if he did that completely barefoot. Still, there's nothing on the rest of his feet.]
I don't know. But I remember everything that he was saying and doing while he was controlling my body, and he acted like he was used to being a human.