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after playing with the swift swim team a lot (i've had runs die around battle 70 three separate times today. oh my god. this team has a little bit of luck dependency bc of my pokemon choices </3) i have come to realize that nimbus just does not need hidden power ice. i fucking Never click it Ever. so much for all that effort breeding hidden power i guess (lighthearted)

instead i have gone back to the moveslot i originally put on this jolteon when i drafted this team sick as fuck like a week ago. magnet rise. because there are some cases where it can allow me to set up rain dance and get a yawn off when i couldn't otherwise, allowing stratus (floatzel) in the back to get off a substitute.

this is the most ridiculous fucking jolteon set ever made i swear to god. but like it actually works pretty damn well

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no one saw this yesterday. watch my battle video boy. you can even download it to ur nintendo ds with pkmnclassic

i beat palmer 2 with the shitposty swift swim team :)

getting so unlucky w the cresselia sleep turns really sucked because if gorebyss didnt take damage i wouldnt have died to earth power from heatran except for crit and therefore i could have taken out both with gorebyss and probably gotten damage off on regigigas right into thunder KO with jolteon, but no crits + no brightpowder procs = nice

i continued this streak until losing at battle 70! this team is not optimal at all lol, floatzel is not an incredible team choice, but i’m playing with my favorites on purpose. point is i’m happy with battle 70 and am currently tiering again bc i feel like it

all three of these guys ended up exactly how they were in my pokepaste except nimbus because when i gave him defense investment to live a rock slide crit from aerodactyl i didn’t realize that i had doubles/spread damage turned on 😭 the defensive investment didn’t end up being worth it, so he’s just 252 speed and 252 special attack. but yeah

now that i’ve used the team tbh i think i could have put hp grass on jolteon instead of hp ice but it’s not a huge deal and i’m attached to nimbus how he is. i have certainly had enough hidden power breeding for one week anyway. hp ice is still useful!

oh yeah i also wanted to mention i hatched nimbus in Foreign Building bc i soft reset back to when the egg wasn’t hatched in soulsilver and traded it over to hatch in platinum for my platinum OT. so i could easily pick a hatch location. and i picked Foreign Building bc that’s still one of my fav gen 4 trivias

breeding and training this team powered me through this shitty ass period i’ve been on so thanks cloud gang

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i am very tired because last night when i was about to go to bed i found out there’s been a mouse living in my bedroom dresser. me and my mom spent 3 hours trying to catch it manually in a bowl before finally giving up and setting down a trap. i have almost no sleep

i’m okay + i’m not actually scared of rodents At All (even though he jumpscared me super bad because i thought it was an electrical issue or something when i moved my dresser to check the outlet. i screamed so loud just in surprise) it was just stressful last night and also i’m sad because since we failed to catch him in the bowl he’s gonna die in a mouse trap :( we have pretty humane ones all things considered but i still feel bad…

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i beat palmer 2 with the shitposty swift swim team :)

getting so unlucky w the cresselia sleep turns really sucked because if gorebyss didnt take damage i wouldnt have died to earth power from heatran except for crit and therefore i could have taken out both with gorebyss and probably gotten damage off on regigigas right into thunder KO with jolteon, but no crits + no brightpowder procs = nice

i continued this streak until losing at battle 70! this team is not optimal at all lol, floatzel is not an incredible team choice, but i’m playing with my favorites on purpose. point is i’m happy with battle 70 and am currently tiering again bc i feel like it

all three of these guys ended up exactly how they were in my pokepaste except nimbus because when i gave him defense investment to live a rock slide crit from aerodactyl i didn’t realize that i had doubles/spread damage turned on 😭 the defensive investment didn’t end up being worth it, so he’s just 252 speed and 252 special attack. but yeah

now that i’ve used the team tbh i think i could have put hp grass on jolteon instead of hp ice but it’s not a huge deal and i’m attached to nimbus how he is. i have certainly had enough hidden power breeding for one week anyway. hp ice is still useful!

oh yeah i also wanted to mention i hatched nimbus in Foreign Building bc i soft reset back to when the egg wasn’t hatched in soulsilver and traded it over to hatch in platinum for my platinum OT. so i could easily pick a hatch location. and i picked Foreign Building bc that’s still one of my fav gen 4 trivias

breeding and training this team powered me through this shitty ass period i’ve been on so thanks cloud gang

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guys oh my fucking god jolteon's gen 4 backsprite is SO FUCKING CUTEEEEEEEEE THAT'S MY FAVORITE EEVEELUTION RIGHT THERE

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I’M FREE

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not hidden power ice (it’s dragon lol) but i just hatched a timid outstanding eevee with a bonus perfect IV in defense 👀 all my eevees that i’m hatching have the egg move yawn too so this is a pretty cool breedject. maybe i’ll train an espeon or glaceon later

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back at it again

my period is almost over and before i feel well enough to start preparing for my gf to come over i really wanna finish breeding this damn swift swim team lmao. yesterday i managed to get my eevee breeding parents like this:

hgss male timid x/x/x/31/31/31 power anklet female timid x/x/x/31/31/31 everstone

platinum male hasty x/x/x/31/31/31 female timid x/x/x/31/x/31 everstone

so now i just have to hatch eggs until i luck out and get what i want, which will probably still take a while but whatever. if i happen to get a timid female that's x/x/x/31/31/31 then great i can replace the one in platinum but it was already very lucky that i got that once. 1/8th female gender ratios my beloathed

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my period is almost over and before i feel well enough to start preparing for my gf to come over i really wanna finish breeding this damn swift swim team lmao. yesterday i managed to get my eevee breeding parents like this:

hgss male timid x/x/x/31/31/31 power anklet female timid x/x/x/31/31/31 everstone

platinum male hasty x/x/x/31/31/31 female timid x/x/x/31/x/31 everstone

so now i just have to hatch eggs until i luck out and get what i want, which will probably still take a while but whatever. if i happen to get a timid female that's x/x/x/31/31/31 then great i can replace the one in platinum but it was already very lucky that i got that once. 1/8th female gender ratios my beloathed

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Just one detail out of the many great ones in episode 100 of pokemon horizons, but I feel like the last two episodes really solidified the parallels between liko and orio narrative roles in regards to friede.

Even before the arc began and the new designs for the trio have been revealed, aside for roy's direct similarity to friede, something I noticed was liko's new design's similarity to orio's. Their hairstyle is very similar, both having two strands of hair at the front and tying the rest up behind, and it was a particular enough choice for me to keep in the back of my mind and not chalk up to a coincidence, as almost nothing in this series is coincidental.

The opening two parter of terastal debut frame liko's grief around her bottling her feelings up, as she tended to do before her journey began, which I feel after the last episode surrounding orio, create direct parallels. Both of them were heavily shaken by the loss of friede, likely more than the other rvt members - friede was orio's childhood friend who roped her into building the brave asagi, and friede was the first person to swoop liko into her life-changing journey, and was a true, impactful mentor figure for her. In response to that loss, both liko and orio tried returning to the guise of normalcy - adopting a somewhat unhealthy "out of sight out of mind" mentality, because thinking about what they could have done and could do at present is too painful. Even more parallels can be drawn by their relationships with ann and karna respectively, as their outside figures from their grand adventure and their sole companion in their attempt to return to normalcy. Both ann and karna point out to orio and liko that their behaviour has changed, both try to understand what they go through, and both liko and orio resort to bottling those feelings up so as to not worry the other/prevent the painful feelings from resurfacing.

Resorting to a sort of routinely stagnancy, abandoning the days of journeying in order to try to, unsuccessfully and against their deeply seated desires, to reintegrate into an un-thrilling and socially normative life, was a nuanced and very realistic writing choice for both of these characters. Similarly, both of them are spurred back from inaction to action by roy's urging, while initially turning him down in a very similar manner. For both of them, the renewed encounter with roy spurs memories of friede - liko and her first encounter with friede at the indigo academy's roof as a direct mirroring, and orio seeing a grown up roy fade into an image of friede in her mind. And after the prolonged encounter, both of them tap back into their desire for adventure and taking action against the rakurium, continuing friede's will.

These similarities are further highlighted by the cinematography choices between episodes 90-91 and episodes 99-100. Both liko and orio are often framed at the side of the frame and out of focus, with only half of their face visible - highlighting their complex emotions in regards to the loss of friede, and both of their tendencies to bottle them up, trying to maintain a facade of being alright for the sake of those around them, not to burden them with their personal feelings:

They both first appear in the respective episodes with their faces at least partially obscured, and similarly reflect on the traumatic event of the past year in shots that mirror each other perfectly:

The out-of-focus framing is similarly used to highlight their internal emotional turmoil in both episodes, when they're confronted with their own stagnancy - liko watches roy and his newly acquired partner pokemon, lamenting about her own inaction and paralysis, just as orio opens up about her inability to move on - their faces are obscured for us as the viewers, just as they try to shove their feelings lest others will see.

It also leads me to believe that liko's knowledge of friede being alive is especially impactful for her as it is for orio, considering the similar framing - out of focus, barely in frame:

Which is also why I think it is no coincidence that in the previous episode, the one to truly convince orio is liko - she knows how she feels, because she's been in a similarly grieving headspace for the past year. She knows how it feels to sink into self imposed melancholy and becoming, as Karna said, "a bit of a stick in the mud". But with reinvigorated spirit, liko recognizes that friede wouldn't sit still, and so they must do the same.

Liko and orio are constantly highlighted in regards to one another in these two episodes - orio firstly points out liko's growth and change of look, further reinforcing my belief that the design similarities aren't a mere coincidence, and as orio decides to join the renewed rvts, liko specifically comes excitedly hugs her. It's a sweet gesture of warmth, but also highlights, to me, their narrative and thematic bond, and similar positions.

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my swift swim babies are ready… i have to breed eevees today, wish me luck cause it’s gonna be by far the most difficult of the three to breed (unless i get lucky)

i trained stratus last night before falling asleep

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i'm ngl losing my best friend who i shared all my art with and had a positive creative relationship with back in december really killed my passion for art (and other forms of creativity) this year. i'm clawing my way back, it's just really slow.

i'm trying to get back in touch with what i fell in love with last year in the first place - depicting queer (specifically lesbian) love - instead of trying to mechanically churn out the vague notion of "fanart" which i've found myself doing, like trying to serve social media/what's expected of me instead of drawing from the heart. i'm excited about this pride month art piece i started because i am trying to make something with an emotional core that i care about of the lesbian variety... i'll admit it's a little bit inspired by my girlfriend too. just a tad

i've gotta be kinder to myself man. i'm so mean to myself about not the quality of my art but just... my relationship with it. i constantly feel like i'm not passionate enough or i'm a terrible artist in terms of being able to make things i care about or not being able to just output enough artwork and i have to slow down because like. girl you are trying to pour from a completely empty (and traumatized) cup. anything you so much as doodle is a miracle this year. and like i keep worrying that my love and consistency for art will never come back, but it always has. i've been drawing since i was 10 years old. i'm just having a rough time right now and that's okay

idk this might be kinda word salad-y, it's storming outside (ptsd trigger) and i'm having heart palpitations real bad but i just had to get this off my chest

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i chipped away at a likodot pride month art project i started this evening and i'm trying really hard to consider the little bit of work i did a Success instead of beating myself up for needing a break. i'm having heart palpitations and my relationship with art is still really bad and i need to lie down but like. grrr i wish i was working harder

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my bribe worked (still not the final buizel i’ll be using but so much closer with this as a parent…)

bribing my buizel with mango slices to please give me 3 perfect IV offspring i’m asking so nicely

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bribing my buizel with mango slices to please give me 3 perfect IV offspring i’m asking so nicely

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breeding buizel. still coping with this awful period lol

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since my period’s been kicking my ass i decided to build the team… i prepared gorebyss first bc i just felt like it

don’t ask me about what i went through to get modest hp grass clamperl with good ivs (i ended up with 27/x/22/30/31/31)

obsessed w this fish… i might breed buizel next just to take a break from old gen hidden power breeding

this might take the cake for the stupidest gen 4 singles tower team i've ever concepted

i don't even know why i did this. i felt sick as fuck last night and was having ptsd flashbacks and couldn't sleep but eventually i passed out and when i woke up this lead damp rock jolteon was on my screen. and i was like sure. whatever. yeah. i can build a team around thatmsdkfsfdj

i don't even know if i'm actually going to build this in-game. some other time i guess LMAO