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Coffee and Local Politics

Peggy
September 19, 2016

So a few years ago I drew a header image for the Seattle board on Reddit: “Snoo”, Reddit’s mascot, wrapped up in a scarf, drinking coffee.

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After a while it got tweaked to be in the average colors of all of Seattle’s sports teams.

Today I got a username mention notification: the Seattle subreddit has redesigned, and people are debating if the new generic “material design” Snoo head is a suitable replacement for the old hipster Snoo.

Said hipster Snoo seemes to be loved enough that the new SeattleWA subreddit’s header contains someone’s traceover of it. This made me pretty happy to see!

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So I decided to knock out a new one:

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I drew this new version of the little guy in about a half hour. And now I get to decide if I want to offer it for the old Seattle subreddit, or the new SeattleWA one – there’s a whole bunch of drama around really aggressive mods using the Seattle subreddit to promote their own businesses and delete a lot of local event posts and whatnot. If you mention the new subreddit your comment will probably get deleted and you’ll get banned. Which is really just kinda shitty. Dunno.

oh hello seattle

Peggy
April 10, 2013

I open the blinds and look out the window. Grey skies. Rain. Wind. Oh man it's gonna be cold out isn't it.

I open the window and lean out. And it's a little chilly – but I can also hear the rain now. And I can smell all the ozone it's carried down from the sky. And suddenly, I'm happy about this weather. Now I kinda want to go for a walk.

I may have gone native here.

Though on the other hand if it was ten degrees warmer it'd be a perfectly normal New Orleans spring day. And the sound of cars shoooshing by on a wet street is a comforting noise to me, after growing up on a moderately busy street down there. Maybe this is triggering childhood memories despite being about as far from home as you can get in the continental US.