In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
I'm so glad that Hawlucha is a capable and viable pokemon in Champions. I'm not so glad that they're pretty much a "meta" that will have everyone hate and try to counter them. My goat is both peak and washed
Final concept art of the eel from Iron Lung I got to make early on! I'll hopefully be posting more of her, from unused ideas to wips and the like! So amazed at this crazy opportunity! Thank you to @markiplier
and @iceddarkroast for trusting me!
#ironlung
This season was really fun. Sad it was cut short due to it being a mini season, but it was an enjoyable and memorable time with my friends. Times like these makes me glad for having people like them and all my other oomfs in my life. Thanks so much, guys, if you're reading this.
You know what, I may be late, but I'm gonna show my favorite moment of the Zero Hour event. This whole thing was an incredible couple minutes and had so much fun reacting with my friends. I honestly doubt something like this will come by for a long while