COTALand in Austin, Texas
Fun Spot America: Kissimmee in Kissimmee, Florida
Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana
Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky
Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia
SeaWorld San Diego in San Diego, California
Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri
Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota

Yknow, for as infamous as that part was where Sonic rails at Porker for wanting to quit, he winds up nicer about it than I remembered

I’m slightly annoyed now because my memory of how it went was messed around by peoples’ outrage. Sure it was a massively dick move on Sonic’s part, but it’s also realistically flawed of him to act that way, he did apologise for it in his own ways and he was clearly trying to make amends. So idk man

Not only a rare species for Sonic characters (pretty sure she's the only gerbil in the whole franchise) but peak failgirl too.

the sonic the comic uk recap podcast i listen to took an unexpected turn into discussing the origins of Yerf, and as interesting as it is to see the original zines and con posters from the 80s, there's something really neat about hearing about the things we just (relatively speaking) missed

it was 2003-2004 ¹ where we started lurking around the fandom, and by that time yerf was a name we never heard over places like VCL and then FA as far as general art sites went

1. I've realized while writing this we could probably get a more exact date by looking through something awful's awful link of the day archives, because some of those links definitely served as inspirations... but that would also mean looking at something awful, and nah, not today