There is a Pokémon named Farfetch’d. It’s not one of the really cool ones either, Farfetch’d is literally a duck holding a leek. Behold, the legendary creativity of Generation I. Bulbapedia tells me that the name is a play on the Japanese idiom it’s based on, about a duck with a spring onion being a… Continue reading Farfetch’d Language
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Humanity, Hubris, and Canceling The Apocalypse
Did you ever read The Day of the Triffids? It’s by John Wyndam and was probably the first piece of proper post-apocalyptic fiction I read ten years ago. It’s typical of the genre. We’ve got the world impairing event, the monsters that begin wiping out humanity, and of course the few survivors who band together… Continue reading Humanity, Hubris, and Canceling The Apocalypse