backstory to my new profile picture !!

like probably every kid growing up in the 2010s, i had what you could describe as a mild obsession with pokémon cards :’)

in my quite honestly oversized card folder, one type of card always stood out to me, being yuka morii’s clay modeled pokémon - those ones sat in real world environments, like forests and shrubbery. i went CRAZY for these things growing up 😭 i think i must have traded away piles of rare cards to get a hold of as many of them as possible (still regretting that one)

sooo, i’m pretty sure you’re gonna be asking me why on earth this is relevant to my new profile picture - so i’m gonna get to that now.

one of the many things that has been wildly inconsistent with me has been my profile picture. to begin with, i didn’t even go by oniflora, i actually used the name p1xelat1on for about a year or two before realising that oniflora was way cooler and just fit me way better ^^ (might do a post later on why exactly my name is what it is)

my first profile photo, i believe, was a singular blue pixel on a gray background (creative, i know…), before i promptly changed it alongside my name rebrand to a cursive “o”. it took about a year before i changed my profile photo again, this time finally incorporating the little white blob that i’ve been consistently using since, in variations. i’ve had a few people ask me in comments sections what it’s meant to be, and in response, my answer has always stayed the same. i have no idea. i just randomly drew a blob one day, liked the shape, and decided to stick with it 😭 since then, i’ve had an idea stuck in my head, for the perfect profile photo - a yuka morii style clay-modeled blob sitting in some undergrowth. (because oni-flora, get it?)

part of the appeal of the blob is how easy it is to recreate in clay/plasticine.

that is what i would say, if i was an absolute liar.

i spent approximately three months trying to get the perfect design for a physical recreation of the blob, before completely giving up.

this may or may not actually have been the most humbling thing in my life. there is no way it should be that hard to make a tiny plasticine figurine, but here we are i guess 😭

after a lot of thinking, i just decided to make a card version of the blob and use that instead, and you know what? i think it actually came out pretty well!

moral of the story: don’t ruin your mental health over an obsession with trying to create a clay model.