THE PHRASE "HEALTHY AS A HORSE" IS INTERESTING CONSIDERING THAT A HORSE WILL BREAK ALL THEIR BONES AND SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST IF SOMEONE IN THE AREA THINKS TOO HARD ABOUT GHOSTS
My partner Della’s health has been in decline since November with mystery neurological symptoms and it looks like after extensive testing we’re either dealing with (most likely) Multiple sclerosis or (jfc) a brain tumor - and the costs keep going up.
If I’ve ever posted a photo you like or a piece of art that’s brought you joy or a song you’ve vibed to and are in a position to help out, anything is appreciated. Even if you aren't in a position to be able to help financially (BELIEVE ME I GET IT), sharing this could be a huge help.
It’s maddening to work full time and have ostensibly “good” health insurance and still be underwater with medical bills and not have any answers.
Della's written a beautiful update that I recommend reading through the link above but I did want to give some updates here:
We're still no closer to having a diagnosis for her but with all of the help we received from this campaign (holy fuck thank you all) we've been able to get many of the tests done, scheduled, or covered financially. And to top it off, her symptoms have done the 'getting better in some ways and worse in others' dance.
Now - usually the two of us make a big to-do around the end of July / early August because it's the anniversary of when we met (July 31st), her birthday (August 1st) and our wedding anniversary (August 1st, 2005). We call this Birthdaversay.
If you click through the tag you'll see some fun selfies and stories from previous years.
We didn't do anything super exciting this year because of the above medical situation - I took a week off from work, she had a doctor's apt, we got a cake with forty individual sparkle candles (which she tried to blow them all out and they re-lit and nearly set off the smoke alarm), we played a fuckload of Mario Kart and started a rewatch of Veronica Mars - it was perfect if I'm being honest.
but this means y'all are due for some cute recent selfies and adorable unearthed high school photos of us at some point, don't think you've dodged that bullet. It'll just be a bit delayed.
Anyway - thanks to everyone who helped out, either financially or through sharing. We're fucking blown away by the support. It sucks being sick, sucks worse being sick in capitalism, and is incredibly heartwarming to know people can help each other out like this.
i'm a little baffled that people are still so worked up over the fact that mother 3 never got an official english translation. like. it's really simple. we don't even have to debate if it's a music rights thing because of sampling/songs referencing other songs/etc. (which didn't stop earthbound from getting rereleased multiple times, or mother 3 from getting rereleased in japanese). nor do we have to wonder if NoA just doesn't know what to do about certain content that may be more "objectionable." these may be factors, but there are simpler explanations
it's just a gba game that released in 2006, a year and a half after the launch of the ds, when gba support was winding down. it has a huge script that would've needed a lengthy localization process, which would've pushed the overseas release even further into the lifespan of the ds. and also it was a sequel to a game that didn't sell all that great in america. then the problem became that nintendo didn't have a good place to release a new gba game after the end of the system's life cycle. and then by the time they started doing gba virtual console releases in 2014, the fan translation had already been out for years. by now most of the people who really care have already played the rom, so NoA probably doesn't think it's worth the cost of localization. and i know tomato offered to let nintendo use his work for free, but nintendo is never going to do that in a million years, let's be real. the famously litigious nintendo, canonizing a product of emulation and piracy? come on
("oh but what about fire emblem 1? they randomly translated that in 2020!" fire emblem is now one of nintendo's flagship franchises that makes billions of dollars worldwide. mother is not)
like yeah, it'd be nice if we did get an official english release someday and more people could play it, but come on. there's no reason to expect this. it's been almost 20 years. i don't know how people even have the energy to get worked up at this point. just keep playing the fan translation. it's great, and also free
also NoA would probably rename it "earthbound 2" or "earthbound forever" or something so in a way we dodged a bullet
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