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also i say nobody has written about this but actually Makomaragi on AO3 gets it: archiveofourown.org/users/Mako

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if you're curious, the known relationships are:

• the player’s mom is “old friends” with Professor Juniper
• Professor Juniper is a college friend of Dr Fennel
• Dr Fennel is a college friend of Professor Burnet
• Amanita is either Dr Fennel’s younger sister or lover
• Amanita is also “old friends” with Bill in Johto

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pokémon black has like five different people who all canonically knew each other in college and it's like the marauders only they’re all milfs or cat ladies in the present day

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(the answer is because nobody else has, for some reason)

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why do i want to write about lesbian Gen Xers in pokémon graduate school in the 90s

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« I think I'll have a little ice cream to cool my head... Ice cream... That ice-cream cone Fennel brought was sure delicious. » this is clearly a prompt

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i can’t believe there is not a single Professor Burnet / Fennel fanfiction

you CAN

a) play pokémon in an emulated version of games released prior to the publication of ECMAScript 1.0, and

b) transfer those pokémon into a game released in 2022 and use them like any other mon

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the previous pokémon data structure, which IS as old as (standardized) javascript, was later made forwards-compatible (with the virtual console releases of red and blue on the 3DS), but since there is no way to get a pokémon from a game boy game into the current ecosystem i’m saying that the original pokémon data structure as present in the original physical games still doesn't qualify

but you COULD argue it does

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this is not as old as javascript, css, or xml, but it is roughly as old as the first JSON and YAML libraries

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the pokémon data structure has been forwards-compatible since November 21, 2002, over twenty years

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