Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

its not the location of shit, its stuff like my subscription page now has videos like twice as large in the feed as before and they don't scale with window size.

Asked by poniesonpaper

Full disclosure, I don’t even use YouTube that much (so I don’t pay attention to every little detail on the site) and they gave me this layout months ago, so I’ve gotten used to it anyways.

And I get mad about people getting mad about changes all the time for show, tbh. I’m sure there are legit concerns about usability and priorities in play, but for real, some people just think every time a site updates it’s like someone shat down their throats and they act all mad and borderline offended for the pettiest/most dumb-ass reasons. Then they repeat the same shit the next time the site updates.

And that gets me acting all mad and borderline offended for the pettiest/most dumb-ass reasons too. <_>

Speaking personally, as a dinosaur, I wonder what your opinion is on the poor representation of prehistoric plants in media and the focus on prehistoric fauna over prehistoric flora

Asked by autumnbramble

That’s just a result of animals being biased towards other animals in media. Animals want to know where they came from and who their ancestors were and love to create stories around these giant lizards because their bone casts looks cool af.

Your okay, right? I do hope things get better. I'm worried about you. Just take a small break. I just want to make sure things are alright.

Asked by Anonymous

I’m fine. I’m just tired.

Educate me about pollination please.

Asked by Anonymous

When a mommy plant and a daddy plant love each other very much, they dance in the wind and let this weird dust stuff fly around and cause humans great nasal suffering so they can laugh at their pain together.

Then they bang.

I'm sure you could hop on someone else's table if you're desperate enough, but I don't know who would have the space for it.

Asked by piratedashmod

Ehhh, it’s not like I suddenly want to vend or anything like that. I just had a weird idea of selling or giving away little prints or something that I wanted to toss around. Probably not a good idea, really.

Man, thank you so much. I haven’t gotten a message like this ages, and it honestly warms me up so much to just receive this out of the blue. ;-;

On top of that, I’m sure my brother would appreciate it as well. We recently went to the meeting I mentioned before and it feels so refreshing to hear that the school has his back. Hopefully he’ll be getting the right support he needs.

And it’s also good to see my mom get some sense slapped into her =2=

It’s been a stressful situation, but I’m confident that we can make it out of it. Thank you again for your support and kind words. I’m glad someone out there cares that much ;u;

As for PC, I do plan on continuing for as long as I can. And boy, that will probably a rather long time.

Do you worry that your audience doesn't get the same story out of the one you're telling?

Asked by Anonymous

Absolutely.

But that’s just how it works, I guess. What one person sees and reads out of a story can be quite different than what someone else sees. And whatever they think is fine with me as long as they can enjoy it somewhat.

Why is Sweetie Belle such a bitch in Post-Crusade? Sorry if I offend. It just seems a little ooc, I guess.

Asked by Anonymous

Ahhh I love this question. Mainly because the answer is terrible.

I attribute it to writing evolution. I made the first PC comic as an in-joke between me and a friend and the Sweetie I used there became the base of what she’d become later. My intention was for her to be an inverted and exaggerated form of her canon self.

Back then, the assumption was that Sweetie was airheaded and naive. So I made her more clever and uh, a bit more, suggestive? Deviant, maybe?

After the Desert Sub-arc, I started opting for a harsher Sweetie. Direct and definitely not her bubbly self, essentially. The show progressed as well and I grabbed some of canon Sweetie’s new traits, like her manipulations and always having some sort of plan.

The result is what you see here.

Here’s the terrible part. As for the in-story reason, that’s kinda protected at the moment. I’m saving that for a flashback scene in some time.

Hey Cactus, I think your recent redesign of PC broke the click-expanded-image-to-continue function, meaning that clicking an expanded image now just closes it without opening the next one.

Asked by Anonymous

Whoops. The theme author pushed an update that kinda broke that function. But it’s fixed now! Thanks for the heads up.

Well for one, you make depressing attention seeking posts on tumblr like a faggot. But I'm sure that's not the reason. We're all sad, get over yourself.

Asked by Anonymous

Right right, gotcha.

Wow I’m not sad anymore, it worked! Thank you very fucking much, Sir Anon.

Moving on :V