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Nemona, 0.1 seconds upon finding out about the Z-A Battle Royale

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the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

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Love them✨

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Your adventure in Lumiose City begins on October 16, 2025!

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has this been done yet?

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I’ve only just started Oxventure’s Deadlands first season and I’m already obsessed I can’t even begin to explain. Every single character rocks and Andy is doing an absolutely fantastic job as the Marshall. I forgot how much I love a western setting and am just eating up every minute of the podcast currently. I’m so excited to get to know these characters further and eventually catch up to season 2!

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🌿

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my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information

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the days when we were young.

quick doodle of some silly teenagers (they will be the leaders of unova in 10 years)

(closeups + assorted ramblings under cut)

the time period i originally used as a reference point in terms of fashion styles was early 2000s, but after adjusting the designs repeatedly i'm not sure how obvious the influence is. all the kids have slightly different styles.

burgh's paint colours match the others in the picture, more prominently elesa, skyla, emmet and shauntal - maybe he was painting them each at some point?

burgh also has some stitches on his sleeve - his baby bugs ate his clothes, but his leavanny helped him patch up the holes :D

his shoes are also filled with doodles.

look closely at the colours of the scarf connecting burgh, elesa and emmet :)

the only two instances of skin-to-skin contact are emmet trying to shove his brother away (from dragging him by his hoodie)... and skyla and elesa holding hands. hmm. it's almost june.

emmet's trousers are painted (or at least there was an attempt) with train tracks and triangles.

the colour of ingo's trousers, as well as the metallic chains and splatter pattern on his shirt, allude to excadrill (no repeating references to the same ace pokémon).

shauntal's stockings have a blueish gradient towards the right as a nod to her chandelure's flames.

the ends of the drawstrings for marshal's hoodie reference conkeldurr's pillars, while his armband is the same colour as conk's... veins? the pink part.

marshal's undershirt is also orange-red to reference alder through volcarona.

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Blue hoodies! 💙✨

I can't be convinced that Liko's Mega Voltage design isn't meant to be a loving nod to AG, haha. Look, even the front part of her hair looks similar to May's!

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maybe one day we'll get some sinnoh redesigns... until then, i cope

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Isekai just seems like a profoundly sad genre of fantasy by design. Yes you have rad JRPG powers now and you get to hang out with big tiddy elves who love you but do you not have like. Friends that you mourn. Family that you miss. Habits that you can’t practice now without tripping. Familiar sounds and smells you’ll never know again

Either you did and you don’t care in the face of JRPG powers and elf tiddies, or you didn’t, and both options are profoundly sad in their own ways

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"Why are you so afraid of that small child?"

Also known as the moment when I realised that the showdown with the episode's villain is going to be great

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giovanni

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I like to think they are out there doing field work to this day