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I wish I was Totodile right about now!

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gladion has silvally AND porygon z on his team, two pokémon that came from experiments (one of which evolves via friendship), and then he's got a crobat and a lucario (BOTH of which evolve via friendship) just to drive home that he LOVES his pokémon and has always loved them as proven by how he literally ran off with type: null and was homeless for a couple years just to protect it from lusamine and the aether foundation's experiments. basically he has experience in caring for manmade & abused pokémon + he's really good with all of them. why am i bringing all this up you may ask? well in this essay i will be elaborating on how out of all the characters in the games gladion would be the best choice to be a pokémon trainer for mewtwo

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Mafia boss and Young Champion

Giovanni HC design + T!sk Ethan doodle

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convinced fandom doesn't know how to appropriately deal with misogynistic male characters. either it's "this man whom we don't like has been misogynistic, which is unforgivable, therefore he's evil" or it's "this man whom we like has been misogynistic, which is unforgivable, so let's all just pretend it didn't happen". which is really annoying if you are a liker of 1. the former category of characters or 2. genuine character flaws

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Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.

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Stan is forcing them to watch the Duchess Approves with him

I’m trying to get better at backgrounds so here’s pt 1 of….cozy summertime domesticity

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sorry i can’t go out tonight i’m at home sitting down

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Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.

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Some things will never change <3 Murdock will continue to hold his puppy like that and cuddle with it no matter what! Trust me! He told me that's true! <3 (That's my firtst time ever drawing Lycanroc so please bear with me)

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heartgold/soulsilver quiz book you will ALWAYS be famous

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my favorite silver quotes (from the main gsc/hgss games specifically)

honorable mentions:

also: this parallel between his first and final lines make me feel physically ill. im sick. clal the hospita l

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did you know that if we went by sprites only, silver's canonical height in HGSS would be approx 5'3?

lyra + ethan are canonically 4'11, as stated in the pokedex they also share the same height difference in pokemas ...

... which only further proves my point!

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A boy and his bat 🦇

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Now they both red heads

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tiny.....