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A misaligned pixelated image of Son Goku in his Super-Saiyajin Blue form, overlayed with rainbow comic sans text, reading, “super cyan.”

I slipped this guy into the Rainbow Pass-It-On with one hour left to spare on the timer (and a visitor due any minute), which means I hit the 16 icon limit. Yay for spam! 🙌🏽 FYI, number 15 was an icon of Xie Xing, the 10k Escape Plans gyaru leopard, so I even managed to do an icon related to figure collecting. Chibi illustration of a blonde girl winking under her sunglasses and giving the finger. Yay for organized hoarding! 🙌🏽

Thing is though… I have to make a confession. A confession of stolen valor, because I… am not a Dragonball fan.

In fact, I have never seen a single episode or read a single chapter. My knowledge of this seminal multimedia work is entirely based on pop culture osmosis.

I am a fraud. A swindler. A disgrace.

In all seriousness though, I always feel awkward about making pop culture references I’m not directly familiar with, but the pull of a bad joke just waiting to be made is simply too strong for me to resist. I was so mad when I googled “goku super saiyajin” and saw he already had a Bunsen burner form—turns out this dude has more power up levels than a Winx Club fairy, my god—meaning I didn’t have to/wouldn’t get to give him a shitty bucket fill dye job anymore.

I kind of wish I’d deep-fried Goku a bit more; looking at him with fresh eyes makes me think he does not have enough sharpening artefacts.