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Well… I held out long enough, I guess I’m gonna get the Switch 2 at launch. I’m still using an original switch from 2017 so I think it’s about time for an upgrade.

trying out a new brush, have a kieran :]

An onion in these trying times

I recently discovered brushes that make it look like I drew in flipnote studio so have a Juliana

Sometimes I worry about a new Pokemon game coming out and having my interests shift away from Scarlet and Violet but then I remember I literally took up and finished a minor in English at my college because the storylines inspired me so much. (And also so I could write better fanfics, but that’s not the point)

Listen. I know that they’re doing the whole “rival is opposite gender to the prorag” thing, but if gamefreak does not let me be gay with Urbain I will RIOT

Watch out Lumiose

Came out of my tumblr hibernation to draw this

patron request for RAYQUAZA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

moonlit knight

okay but if the professors succeeded, what would the odds of zygarde scaling that wall between paldea and kalos be

i might start posting more of my instagram stories on here my tumblr followers and mutuals need to also know my lore

first rotom phone

GUYS LOOK WHAT FUCKING ARRIVED TODAY IM GONNA EXPLODE

Dude it’s so hard. I know deep down that I’m writing straight fire but then the awareness hits like

Stupid question but how does one write and NOT go "Ugh this is so cringe" or something

Asking for a friend

THIS FUCKER

Are there any Pokémon that y’all are scared of? If so, which one(s)? I am absolutely terrified of Galarian Mr. Mime. The minute I saw one tap dancing toward me in my first play through of Shield I knew it was an automatic no from me lol!

I do agree with the vast majority of this, but I think there’s an argument to be made that sometimes it’s nice to do it for fun in cases where there’s no harm in it. Mostly I’m talking about the games that no longer have internet connectivity, so everything from the 3DS to before. I don’t necessarily hold the belief that “shinies only have value because they’re rare”. If somebody wants a shiny starter just for the hell of it while doing a nostalgia playthrough or because it looks nice, I mean why not. Sometimes the only reason is because a black charizard looks sick as fuck and that’s ok.

Pokémon Discussion:

What do you guys think about hacked Pokémon? Because I have a couple of opinions on it.

First, I don’t like hacked shinies. The thing about shinies is that it’s only an aesthetic change and nothing changes gameplay-wise. There’s no reason to hack one, unlike, say, a perfect IV competitive Pokémon. The thing about shinies is that they only have value because they’re rare. That’s it. Meaning, hacking a shiny takes away its value.

Where my opinion differs is on hacking shinies for competitive purposes, that being because it actually affects gameplay, and there’s actually another reason. As mentioned above, shinies only have value due to their rarity, and thus hacking them completely defeats the purpose of a shiny. On the other hand, you can pretty easily get a max IV or EV Pokémon in scarlet and violet. I’ve seen some people claiming that maxing out a team takes them 3 hours, but with a decent amount of money it takes me, like, an hour at most. At the end of the day, it’s not that much time or effort to max out a team and thus hacking doesn’t really matter. If you honestly care that much about hacking competitive Pokémon, then I honestly think you’re overreacting.

Those are my thoughts, anyway. See ya!

Pokémon emerald (2004)

My favorite thing ever when writing Pokemon fics is taking common idioms/metaphors and replacing whatever animal in them with the closest approximate Pokemon.

Like “hold your Mudsdales” or “Not my circus, not my Mankey.”

For some reason otherwise it makes me think of the character saying the normal one and going “wait what the fuck is a horse?”

I love this guy

I cannot even begin to understand what his haircut is supposed to be

He deserved much better honestly.

Accidentally pulled up my Pokemon fanfiction in front of a remote proctor while taking my final exam. Think I might just go cry now

I felt so hesitant putting my fhsona up on artfight because for some reason I thought that it was gonna be too niche. I’ve now had two separate people include them in multi-character attacks and I feel like I could cry of happiness

Semi-hot take: I think that a lot of people who thought Scarlet and Violet were boring just. Didn’t read it.

I’m obsessed with watching people’s play-throughs to see what their reactions to certain story beats are and legit half of them would button-mash through the dialogue and miss important stuff. This then translates to people who watch the videos that can’t afford/ don’t want to buy the game not getting the opportunity to read it too so… yeah.

To me MandJTV did the best job of really getting into and reading the words out loud to get people immersed. Granted he has a lot of experience with the rest of the role-play type Pokemon videos that he does.

Maybe it’s just the English student in me but I genuinely think that these are my favorite Pokemon games to date purely due to the story. The performance issues suck (especially while I’m still using a day-one release switch), but I think this genuinely makes up for it.

Idk if I’m just in an echo chamber or not but is it feasible that there’s scarlet and violet merch at artist allies this year? I would die of happiness if I could find anything that has any of the zero crew, kitakami siblings or BB League.

Starting scarlet and violet over as the default player character because I’m at that level of brain rot where I feel like they’re their own person and I CANNOT mess that up for them. No customization for me

You ever have a really dry period where you’re not really into anything super hard but suddenly a character appears and now you’re just constantly rotating them around in your head like a washing machine

I have become extremely obsessed with the DLC, Maybe next time I can draw Kieran once I figure out HOW THE HELL HIS HAIR WORKS