Frog Goes Red
It's three for three on anniversaries this week, with Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green, Richard Avedon's 'In The American West', and Sabrina Carpenter's Muppets?
I really have kept it to the knuckle today. This is partially because I was informed by more than one person that I went overlong on Saturday but also for some other unknown reason. I have been utilising tools that I had not understood were being discussed and termed as ADHD distraction / victory tactics, whereby when your spicy brain rails against unloading the dish washer, you go and empty the litter tray instead. This avoidance feels like a victory and also has the added bonus of being really damn productive. The logical extrapolation of this of course then offers one the opportunity to unload the dish washer as opposed to hoovering the lounge that is now covered in extraneous litter. I’m attempting to dual wield this weapon alongside a Just Do One Thing mantra. It might even be working.
They’re actually gonna do it. I mean, I don’t think anyone thought for a moment that we lived in a world where they wouldn’t because money as per but yeah…it’s happening. I only ever experienced these gen one games when they were not red and green but red and blue and/or yellow and/or ‘Let’s Go’ and the catching/nix battle system in those latter, more recent games did not grab me. While there seemed little to figuratively grab, the way my brain works prevented me from walking away from doing the thing they want you to do when it would be a sensible time to do so. I got stuck and I walked away and go I did not.
Of course because of the way that time works and the way in which I have personally fallen through it in a very physical sense, I originally experienced Pokemon Blue and Yellow on the OG Greyboy, hence I never got to see any actual colours and it wasn’t until a whole age of this world later that I even got to see them on an legitimate Gameboy Colour (eternal props to Canterbury’s legendary Level Up Games) and never these vivid iterations on the Gameboy Advance because by that point I was briefly over it. All of which is to say that they have me now and I am cranked up to the nines on Kanto’s finest.
I’d happily negotiate a deal whereby I give them whatever they damn well please in return
