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the burned tower burned down 150 years prior to the lake of rage incident which makes that almost exactly contemporaneous

breeding cyndaquil while exploring ecruteak city and the burned tower and those are the vibes

not sure i believe that hisuian typhlosion wasn’t also in johto at that time

sometimes if you are lucky you can find a single saint candle in the mexican food section of the grocery store

while i am sympathetic to the e·g Sedgwickian “Christmas is everywhere and all‐consuming” types, in fact what is everywhere is only a highly specific, extremely American Protestant interpretation of Christmas

apparently target doesn’t know about advent

never has it been more obvious that most people on the internet have never tried to create something in their lives

every single one was like “yes this is completely normal for folklore but isn’t it WEIRD that game freak wrote it? also don’t worry it is NOT CANON”

the number of clickbait sites i scannef to see if they had done any amount of research before i came upon this one is depressing

typhlosion myth analysis https://riverside-wings.com/2024/10/23/on-the-tohoku-roots-of-the-typhlosion-tale-analyzing-the-pokemon-leak-part-one/

for each route, order the pokémon available to catch in that route by pokédex number. let the number of pokémon in the route be m. let n be {your trainer ID} mod m. you can only catch the {n+1}th pokémon species available in the route

SCRAPPY GIRL
BABY BUG

« §2 A Shift From Allies to Detached Supporters

There has been a significant decline in overall comfort and acceptance of LGBTQ people, as reflected in a meaningful shift from “Allies” to “Detached Supporters.”

To better understand how support for the LGBTQ community differs across society, GLAAD has split non-LGBTQ Americans into three segments based on respondents’ comfort levels across the seven specific LGBTQ-related interaction scenarios. GLAAD's segmentation is defined by the following categories:

Allies: Non-LGBTQ respondents who were either “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in all situations.

Detached Supporters: Non-LGBTQ respondents whose comfort level varied across situations.

Resisters: Non-LGBTQ respondents who were either “very” or “somewhat” uncomfortable in all situations.

Segmentation definition has been consistent each year, but this year the
proportion of non-LGBTQ Americans who are either “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in all situations has abruptly declined, sliding backwards four percentage points. »

https://assets.glaad.org/m/303a760e7d2fe94/original/Accelerating-Acceptance-2018.pdf

to be clear i have no problem with pokémon self-insert fic but you shouldn’t pretend your self-insert is the canon character; have more creativity than that

but i DO want to read about the 11 year old girl who caught rayquaza and flew into space and because best friends with a dragon girl, in a non-self-inserty way

sword and shield was the closest pokémon fandom got to this but that’s mostly because people loved being horny about gloria

i want to read stories about the pokémon protagonists where they are NOT self-inserts (never gonna happen)

anyone who talks about their “MC” gets a hard no from me; i don’t write cape comics and even then you have the Avengers

yes this is yet another of the self-inflicted ails of literature

i should probably talk about writing more, in that one of the things sorely missing from writing as an artform is a nurturing community of practice, but i find the kinds of people who talk about their writing so annoying that the desire not to be associated or conflated with them usually wins out

it worked out