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June 10, 2019

Pride Launch 2019

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April 14, 2019June 10, 2019

Spring 2019 Update

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December 24, 2018

Day 24. Christmas Eve

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December 23, 2018

Day 23. Christmas Spirit

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December 22, 2018December 22, 2018

Day 22. Can’t Change the Past

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December 21, 2018

Day 21. Battle with your Mind

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December 20, 2018

Day 20. Being Judged

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December 19, 2018

Day 19. Willpower

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December 18, 2018

Day 18. Friendships

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My camera was being crappy yesterday after I accidentally hit it on a metal bench, but I still managed to take some photos from @yorkpridefest’s parade. Here’s my take on #Pride Up Close. Happy Pride, York Region! Toronto comes next this following weekend! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 P.S. I got a message from someone last week about their disapproval of what Pride stands for. So here’s what I have to say to anyone who feels offended by this celebration of love, equality, and inclusion: please feel free to unfriend or unfollow me. I have no room for intolerance, bigotry, and negativity in my life. Bye, Felicia! 🙅🏻‍♂️👋🏻
Hi, everyone. I’m doing a plug for the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO is giving free annual passes to anyone who’s 25 and under. You just need to sign up on their website (ago.ca) and verify your age with an ID when you come in and voila, you have unlimited entry for a year! I already have a membership so this doesn’t really help me, but I think that it’s good for everyone to know. 😄
#Nintendo won E3 this year! I was at work earlier today, so I didn't have time to watch the noontime Nintendo Direct and Nintendo Treehouse at E3. I ended up watching it with three senior co-workers in the art room (they’re big Nintendo fans and they’re my bosses so I couldn’t say no lol). Ok, we have a couple of things to unpack. First off, Luigi's Mansion 3 looks fantastic! We got a launch date for Link's Awakening (Sep 20) and also learned that it has a dungeon creator. Animal Crossing is coming to the Switch next year. We got some info about Pokémon Sword and Shield's compatibility with the Poké Ball Plus (we already got a dedicated Direct a couple of days ago #TeamZacian). The only thing that I absolutely hate is that we can’t transfer all our Pokémon from previous gens to Sword and Shield. I’m super disappointed because I just completed my National Pokédex (807 ‘mons, bruh). Resident Evil 5 & 6 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will also be making their Switch debuts, among many other old and new IPs. And just when we thought Nintendo has surprised us with all that they have, they revealed the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild! We're talking sequel, not DLC! And can we talk about Zelda's new hairdo? This game was the very reason why I invested in a Switch in the first place! If I'm ranking all the games I've played in my lifetime, Breath of the Wild will be on the top. It's a masterclass on how an open world adventure RPG should be made. I spent over 150 hours playing that game (and I'm still playing occasionally). I can't wait for this darker-looking sequel!
Just a reminder that the Earth is in a very perilous state, and if we don’t band together to prevent it, we will be in terrible danger. Governments all over the world need to work together to combat humanity’s greatest threat. It’s sad to see that some global leaders like Trump don’t believe in climate change. The signs are all around us—increasing levels of greenhouse gases, changes in precipitation and storm patterns, more droughts and heat waves, melting polar caps, increasing sea levels, among other things (for further reading, visit climate.nasa.gov and nationalgeographic.org/education/climate-change). The time to act is now! #climatechange #nature 🌎🌿🍃 ••• P.S. I might be going back to the Pacific northwest in the next couple of months for work. I can’t wait to be around its amazing ecosystem once more! 🌎
Our queens slayed it at @yorkpridefest’s Launch Party last Friday! More slaying at #Pride on June 15th! 🏳️‍🌈🌈👸🏼
I can’t explain how I feel about the series finale of #GameofThrones. I’ve been watching this show introduce, develop, and kill off so many characters in George R. R. Martin’s seemingly impossible to complete series of books. I think what really irks me is that the showrunners, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss (I still love and admire them, btw), threw all that character development for Daenerys, Jamie Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, and so many others out of the window in the penultimate episode. I’ve never been more disappointed with the way it was handled, but I totally respect their decision to do it that way. They have full creative license to begin with. Anyway, back to the series finale. This whole eight year adventure was one hell of a ride. I won’t spoil anyone so I’ll just say that I have so many emotions surging through me. Ned will be proud. Long live the Starks!
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Daenerys is not fit to sit on the Iron Throne. The penultimate episode of the series has shown how she has gone full circle. She is definitely the daughter of Aerys. Death to the Dragon Queen! Long live, Aegon Targaryen! #gameofthrones P.S. I def murdered Dany’s face here. Sorry, I’m really mad. LOL.
So guess what I was doing for the past couple of days while I was recovering from my illness. 🎮 At first, I was just going through my regular business playing #Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee, but that got a little boring after a while. Then I started going through my stuff and found old cartridges for Pokemon Moon and Pokemon X, so I decided to revisit those games. Only problem was I no longer have my 3DS XL. Luckily, I still have a very old (almost 6-year old) but very usable 2DS (in Poké Ball colours and also had a digital copy of Ultra Sun installed) which surprisingly handled the games amazingly. I guess completing my Pokedex will be enough to get me through until Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield come out later this year.⚡️#nerdalert lol
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel My sister was exceptionally pretty tonight for our aunt’s wedding. 💐

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