#(my bro prof already said it was ok so that's all good)

[thewritingpossum]

Seriously though, if i can just survive until monday i'm gonna spend the whole entire day writing and hopefully finish that one thing i'm working on because i'm getting sick and tired of only getting to write 2 or 3 sentences at the time when i can find a few minutes, it's lowkey driving me insane

[hypmicdaydreams]

I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT HYPMIC POKE AU... imagine if the protagonist was jiro and saburo was his rival, they pick their starters from rei (who would be the equivalent of dr. oak on this au due to his past as a scientist). i imagine gym leaders would be second-line members, just imagine rosho's gym being a school, or battling jyushi in the middle of a concert. ALSO, the elite being the main-line members and the champion of the region being Ichiro himself.... this is just the tip of the iceberg of what i have for the au so sorry if it was too long!!

omg wait anon I absolutely adore your thoughts; it somewhat coincides with my own too!! This got a little too long with my rambling so I put it under the cut!

I never really thought of having a protag or that it'd simply be the reader or whatever, but having it as Jiro makes sense! I personally had the idea of Jiro and Saburo being characters one would meet or battle like rivals but the two are constantly fighting and trying to decide who's the stronger trainer and will succeed Ichiro one day. Feel like they'd ask random trainers to battle them to prove which one between the two of them is stronger lmao. Also this is literally just me adding my own thoughts into this so skip the rest of this paragraph if you want lol but I personally see Jiro as maybe a fire or fighting type trainer and Saburo as electric maybe and Ichiro as fire? See I was thinking that since in canon we see that Jiro tries his hardest to be like Ichiro and just recently he's starting to walk his own path it'd be similar as he'd try to be a fire type just like his older bro but then he goes through that growth and all and picks up on fighting type and actually loves it! Idk just my thoughts idk if it's entirely accurate but!!

And Rei as the prof makes sense too omg. He's canonically a scientist I think too so him being a prof that studies pokemon makes sm sense, and there could even be a twist where he's not exactly a good guy but also not entirely a bad one y'know? Idk if that makes any sense lol

Ok but we literally had the same exact idea for gym leaders!! Great minds think alike 😤 I think the gyms/stages would be so neat too just like you said with battling Rosho in a classroom or Jyushi in a concert hall with all the colored lights and smoke machines (reminds me of Roxie's gym a little from black/white 2 actually!). Never really got too far into thinking about the gym leaders though but I have a few of my own thoughts as well that I'd like to share! I can see Rosho as a normal type gym maybe? I get Cheren vibes for some reason so idk but theres def more that can work for him. But I can see him as being one of the first gyms because I can see him trying to give guidance to new trainers, which ik is what all gym leaders are supposed to do, but I feel like, being the first one, he does so more? He could also like teach in a pokemon trainer school maybe but also be a gym leader too! Jyushi is somewhat difficult for me but my first thought was dark type though I'm not too sure if that's entirely accurate so tell me your thoughts on that! Haven't thought much of Jyuto though, but I see Gentaro as more of a ghost type (it took me a while to realize we already had a ghost type author though lmao) gym leader. Initially thought of Hifumi as like a grass type leader too (or maybe I'm just biased because I'm more of a grass and ice type and i love hifumi lol) and Doppo (ik he's a 3gumi but I so saw him as a gym leader) as a water type so the two complement one another and maybe it's just because I simply love their relationship but I can see their two gyms being near each other, like the next town over, and they'd often come to each others gyms and watch the other battle maybe! Idk i loved the thought and found it to be cute! Am not too sure where the rest of the 3gumi fall in but we'll figure something out lmao

Initially I had tdd as the elite four and didn't really have a champion in mind but I adore your idea of Ichiro being champion omg. It makes sense honestly, and the rest of the main line could be like the elite four, well, excluding one lmao. Ik in the main like games the elite four don't really get involved too much if I recall correctly but I can totally see them getting involved in events (maybe there's also an evil team or something) and helping others so I can see the protag meeting them early on as well! Honestly am also imagining the interactions between them as the elite four too and it's making me so happy lol. And Ichiro, although he's champion, travels around the region helping others and resolving conflicts like other champions too

Anyway this was long and rambly but I have a lot of thoughts just like you!! I'd love to continue to develop and discuss the au as well since I think it's just *chef's kiss* Thank you sm for your thoughts!! They were so nice to read and gave me some of my own ideas!! Thanks for sharing 💕

[lesyah]

guardian watchthrough stream of consciousness ep. 1

I just started this show and I am going to react to it because I’m like three minutes in and already have thoughts to think

Ok first of all, this dude who’s reporting for duty is so awkward it makes me feel embarrassed

Also the professor was so sweet I like him

When I saw that lady’s tail.................

Idk what to say about that

Someone just turned into a cat

He passed out omg

Very confused rn to say the least

He passed out again omg

They have an office full of people who can do this stuff and just hired some random guy???

BRO the girl died???

Dang

This animated cat HAHA

“Stop vomiting”

Ok let me just stop that’s easy

The way he SPUN to just let it loose sent me tho

WHY IS HE HANGING FROM THE WINDOW LOL

ok that look between them was PACKED

What’s the tea folks

That cat is so cute

What is going on rn

“Dead fatty” HAHAH

I’m very confused.

Those looks said “I know you and am impacted by this exchange.”

And their mouths said “idk u”

Why did the business card say mark Stewart

HUH?????

Oh the girls alive??????????

I thought she was the one who died

Oh I see. Yikes. Poor thing.

Her outfit is literally so cute

Why did he take a picture of her unprompted

The cat is 1000 YEARS OLD??????? literally that’s fire 🔥

Did he just subtly but not so subtly accuse the prof of killing that girl lol

His name is shen wei right????

And the special investigator is zhao something????

MANS REALLY SAID “as a normal person in this crazy world, none of my business”

Shen’s glasses are tight

Why are their interactions so weird

It makes me tense

Also Shen Wei is so CUTE??? Baby face.

UNTRUSTWORTHY

Wow

This kid is not subtle in the slightest

Anyone would know he’s following someone

And he also lost them lol

I love that he took the elderly lady home

Good kid

OH MY GOSH

WTF

ummm that ghost got cake tho 👀🎂

Hold on.

Wtf just punched the ghost

WHAT THEICNEKC

WHAT IS THAT

HAHAGAGA

He called him Pinocchio Hahahaha

Omfg

Cool dude tho

Grandma just went to sleep

I am very very confused

B R O

Bro

BROOOO they knew each other TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO???!!!!?!!????!!!!!!!!

BROOOOOO

“I hope u still remember our pact”

Cut to 2 mins ago when zhao said “untrustworthy.”

HAHA yikes sorry shen wei

The people in this show aren’t very subtle

He was very clearly spying on Li Qian

Shen Wei even turned around and looked directly at him and he tried to act like he just happened to be there and abandoned his motorcycle hahaha

I love how even 10,000 years ago this dude was still eating lollipops. An icon.

“I feel like we know each other from a long time ago”

Shen Wei:

Shen Wei: maybe we really have met before.....

Zhao: *laughs*

Shen Wei: ...👁👄👁

Zhao: bye

I love how that guy’s impulse when he bumped into the goth was to just wrap his arms around him

When Shen Wei saw that necklace, it got so intense omg

Omg that thing chasing them is so creepy

YO HOW DO YOU JUKE A GHOST????? ICONIC

That hand thing.......creepy. I love it.

“I won’t let it hurt you”

Punches through the door

Freddy Kruger vibes

Where did he go

He just disappeared after getting thrown from the roof. Wtf.

The dude taking pictures and filming LMAO

Ummm prof where did u go

I miss u

Who just flew from the sky with a freaking scythe

Where did shen wei go

The kid clutching the goth guy hahaha

“Where is Professor shen”

He’s just lying there dead like thanks for noticing

Ok episode 1 complete. Thank u for tuning into my brain.

[championfrita]

Pokémon Sword and Shield Review

So...I've taken some time to fully play Pokémon Shield. Now, I know this is pretty delayed, and I got the double pack so I wanted to play Sword first to see if how I felt was really accurate or if I was being too harsh. That said, let's talk about my experience with the Galar Region.

Initial Impressions

Overall, I was excited to play Shield at first. Everything was bright and exciting and the characters were easy to recognize and not overly generic.

The first few hours of this game, well it's a slow burn. And I do mean SLOW. Even with the text set to Fast and me taking things at my own pace it took me at least a good couple hours to reach the Wild Area. Furthermore, this game has an infernal amount of handholding, even when given the option to say "I know all this already" it still gives a brief explaination for almost anything and STILL makes you sit ALL THE WAY THROUGH the catch tutorial.

It's 2019 and older players still don't get the option to skip this. Come on GameFreak.

That said, the longer I played the more I began to notice...how should I put this? Blatant laziness?

The Wild Area

Now, the CONCEPT of the Wild Area in theory is amazing. It's still not too bad as is, but there are definitely flaws. For starters, the same tree has been copy pasted all over the place to make up 90% of the foliage.

More than that, though, despite the Wild Area having a good selection of Pokémon and a fairly varietied environment (desert, lakes, forest) it feels oddly...empty. There are no real secrets to speak of, no hidden areas, no easily missed items. Everything is all right out there to see and spread pretty far apart. I don't know if it's a lack of Trainers or the fact that I don't have an Online membership so I played alone, but the Wild Area feels like it just needs something MORE.

Dynamax Raid Battles, even when done alone, are fairly fun and sometimes challenging with the turn limit. Radiant AI Trainers spawn in to assist you if you're playing alone so there's no worries about having to take one on with just one Pokémon.

Camping, which can be done anywhere but is introduced to the player here, is an absolute treat. Have YOU played fetch with a unicorn? I have, and I love it. The wide variety of curries you can make with different ingredients is nice, and your Pokémon even get EXP boosts if you play with and feed them while camping.

The Pokémon

Honestly, I'm really not impressed. The Galar Dex of new Pokémon feels painfully small, so much so that playing Pokémon GO and catching a few Unova Pokémon made me yearn for the days when we used to get regions completely FULL of new Pokémon. Remember when you had to wait until AFTER the main game to start catching Pokémon from past gens? I...well, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I LIKED that.

That said, using a sparse selection of Galar Pokémon and Galar Regional Variants on my team definitely made the Gym Challenge more difficult. I picked Scorbunny, because Fire Types, and honestly didn't really care for it or its evolutions at first. Cinderace has really grown on me though and I like Pyro Ball as a move. It's flashy and powerful and that suits me just fine. Most of the new Pokémon's DESIGNS were good and I liked them, there just really weren't ENOUGH of them.

I'm fairly pleased with the regional variants as well. It was difficult to adjust to Ponyta and Rapidash being Psychic Type, but I really liked having them on my team. At the same time...Meowth not evolving into a Persian doesn't really sit right with me.

I'm all for branch evolutions, but Perrserker honestly just looks more like a giant Galar Meowth than anything. I played this with only the info given in the few scattered trailers I'd seen, so I was genuinely excited to see what a Galarian Persian would look like only to end up with Perrserker. The Typing is phenominal, and I think it's great to see a Steel Type Meowth for a change, but I just don't like where they went with it. Eh. Ces't la vie, moving on.

The Story

It's weak. Straight up, the story in this game is poor. There were so many directions they could have gone. I really liked the idea of Rose being this charismatic chairman hype man for the League and being the bad guy. I saw it coming, but it was a nice change to see just based on his personality. Still, it feels rushed. His motivations are really one dimensional and glossed over. Like, "Oh, here's the bad guy. Go get him." It worked in Gen 1 because Giovanni was a MOBSTER. He was MEANT to be a bad guy straight to the core in general, but Rose just doesn't have that vibe.

Not only that, but the "Bad League Members" are kinda meh. That feels REALLY lazy. They didn't even really get a decent uniform change when they started taking on the name Macro Cosmos in Rose Tower. They got black glasses. That's it. Just that. The fight with Eternatus feels painfully rushed and shoehorned in too, almost like they thought "Oh no, we need to give them a big nasty boss to fight! Let's just throw a random monster at them and say Rose summoned it. Seems like a solid plan."

I DID like the after story with Piers though. It really solidifies that older brother sort of nature with him, even if he tries to hide it most of the time.

The Characters

I liked Hop. As a character he's really fun and I like how they gave him this over excited very grand gestured sort of personality. He's really just happy to be ANYWHERE as long as it's with his Pokémon and you. His admiration for his big bro might come off strong and make him seem a little flat at first, but he's overall portrayed as a good kid and I like him.

Leon on the other hand...well I hated him for most of the game. His design is great and he looks fabulous, but he just has the most cocky, obnoxious, pandering personality 90% of the time. Still, I have to give credit where credit is due and recognize that he IS actually a multifaceted character. He showboats not just because he's too confident but also to give the crowd a show and put people at ease in times of danger. Not only that, but his recognition of his little brother's accomplishments and his graceful acceptance of defeat when you beat him reveals a really well written character.

I don't DISlike Sonia, and I have no problem with Prof. Magnolia sitting on the sidelines, but she can be a little...irritating at times with the way she speaks about and to people. The Gym Leaders, aside from Piers, feel a little...light.

I mean, most Gym Leaders don't have detailed backstories, but these ones feel paper thin personality wise as well. I had to look at the official GUIDE just to be sure what the relationship between Melony and Gordie even WAS because you only seem him in her Special League Card in Shield and that tells you nothing about him. The only real leaders that stood out to me were Piers and Raihan, and while I was iffy about his design at first I LOVE Raihan. He has so much more personality and ferocity than any of the other leaders. And the social commentary about him needing to constantly take and post a selfie, even after losing, is a nice touch.

The Galar Region

Is very linear. Like, VERY linear. Even when you take a branching path it either loops back around or gives you a free ride to wherever you have to backtrack to. I hope you like Hammerlocke, cuz you're gonna be visiting there several times.

I know that the region is based off the UK, and maybe my Americanized idea of cities is different (idk, I've never been to the UK), but a lot of the towns in this game feel really small. Like, almost smaller than some of the towns in Hoenn small. Maybe it's a lack of significant interactable buildings, but despite many of them having multiple floors you typically can only access one and that's kind of a disappointment. The hotel in Wyndon won't even let you get in the elevator, and while I get that Alola also did that, it's kind of jarring when the hotel in Motostoke WILL let you see other floors.

That said, I kind of expected more than ONE Wild Area. The one we DID get is fine, and I appreciate what it is and lets us do, but I honestly thought there would be multiple places to really explore outside the standard straight lines. Pokémon has never been a franchise to shy away from puzzles before so I expected this to not be any different. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Moreover, many of the environment pieces are just UGLY. A lot of the ground textures are reused 3DS assets, and those copy pasted trees I mentioned earlier? Also 3DS assets. How do I know? They're pentagonal instead of round. In other words, they have five sides. Why? Because the 3DS hardware couldn't handle complex environmental shapes that well so they could get away with it, but now that we have nice round berry trees the contrast becomes painful. The Wild Area is so ugly the first time you see it is at NIGHT. They were so aware of what they did they hoped making it darker would hide the lazy flop instead of showing off how bad it was.

It isn't like they COULDN'T fix it either. Look at Ballonlea and Glimwood Tangle. They're absolutely beautiful and very well done. The modeling with them is fantastic and I love the glowing effects. They absolutely could've made the poorly done areas look amazing, but for some reason they didn't and the game suffers some as a result.

Other Thoughts

The Gym Challenges...they were not fun. Like, honestly some were ok. Herding Wooloo was easy, but they really didn't feel like anything I would expect from a Gym. The water puzzle in Nessa's Gym was fine, and I personally liked the spinning cup ride, but the rest just felt like agonizingly long padding because they couldn't come up with anything. Look at Circhester's challenge. It's a dowsing rod gauntlet where you have to avoid falling in pits in an artificial blizzard. It. is. SO. SLOW. That said, Spikemuth having just a Trainer gauntlet instead was kind of awkward. I reached the end and asked myself "Was that it? Is this it? Is this all there is to Spikemuth? Just one giant alleyway and a Pokémon Center?"

Raihan's three trials of worthiness challenge? It was more difficult than the battle AGAINST RAIHAN. Speaking of, I beat Hop, Marnie, Bede, all the Gym Leaders, Rose, Oleana, and Leon on my first try every time. While it was more difficult with my specific Pokémon choices, it really wasn't much. And can I just say that the Gym Badges are kinda lame? I get what they were going for, but the designs of each piece could've been really unique and intricate and instead we got glorified stamps.

I liked a lot of the general features of the game. Camping, clothing shops, League Cards. I love designing League Cards, even if I'm the only one who's ever gonna see em. That said, the clothing choices were really narrow based on what we got in Sun and Moon. The variety of different items was pretty small, though I loved all the punk leather stuff but WOW IS IT EXPENSIVE. Like Lumiose Boutique expensive. AND WHY IS THERE NEVER A REDHEAD HAIR COLOR THAT ISN'T JUST AUBURN RED? There are actually A LOT of redheads with LIGHT RED hair (that's more a personal gripe than anything, I know).

A lot of the music felt almost like rehashes of older BGMs. Like, Postwick, Route 1, and Wedgehurst all sound like they have remixed Hoenn music. A lot of the other music tracks just don't feel fitting for the areas or for Pokémon games in general. I like parts of the Slumbering Weald music and I like the Gym Music, but the opening of Slumbering Weald feels awkward and like it doesn't fit a mysterious forest we're not allowed to be in.

I know I've complained a lot, but there were some things I genuinely liked. A lot of the Pokémon designs, place names, and other radiant decor and parts of the region are actually subtle and not so subtle references to cultural points of the UK. Skwovet and its evolution for example are a gray and red squirrel respectively and are a nod to invasive species, which is neat.

In Conclusion

Is Pokémon Sword and Shield amazing? No. Is it bad? No. Sword and Shield fall into that mediocre middle ground of being ok but nothing to write home about. Could I have done without them? Sure, they aren't some world ending imperitive must play. They're ok, and they make for a fine jumping on point and a fine little adventure if you have spare time. Have other mainline games done it better? Heck yeah, but that doesn't mean Sword and Shield haven't done a few good things too.

Overall, it sort of feels like GameFreak bit off more than they could chew, or were afraid to make changes because of unfamiliarity with the Switch's hardware and software limitations. Pokémon Let's Go had a lot more effort, but it also was much safer and had a much easier to work with art style to everything. Chibi proportions are a lot easier to fake than a more realistic counterpart. Things can be not perfect and it's less noticable than with more realistic proportions, and I think they were afraid to push back the deadline any further for the inevitable backlash despite that being what they likely needed. The DLC may change my mind, but as it stands, just the fact that they feel they can JUSTIFY their laziness with DLC packs really upsets me.

I give Pokémon Sword and Shield a 5/10.

It's just, OK.

[seoschangbin]

hehe totally understandable!!! also i forgot to compliment your mobile header!!! its super nice and pretty😊💞man i'll be wishing you best rachel n will be hoping those marks are better than you expect!😭💞and thank you! only got one more final left!!! luckily yes i enjoy my major, it's doable!!! omggg microbiology and immunology!!! Respect😤💞i have a cousin who majors in micro bio too so i know how tough it can be! so always wishing you the best with it😚do you enjoy your major? :0 -🎁💫

omg thank you msdjgsdkg things i do to avoid studying haha sorry for my late reply btw!! 😭 aah no hopes for those marks just want to not think about it 😩✋ you finished tuesday right! how was the last one! are you graduating soon? :O i enjoy parts of my major!! some parts i could do without (@biochem. Die) 

also i saw your final moodboard n recent text post ; ^ ; i hope you're doing well and that tomorrow is kinder to you!!! i'm cheering you on and sending you positive thoughts🙇🏻‍♀️💓and goodness that just makes the intros a lil more special then!💞oh you're right! :0 i remember seeing that interview!!! i hope felix can indulge in more song writing since he clearly seems to have a passion for it!💞gremlin rap i djsakjslka😭n oh gosh voices is so!!! beautiful n so emotional🥺-🎁💫

my final tomorrow morning.. prayer time... looked my prof in the eye as i left and i felt kinda like 😒 but thank u for your kind thoughts!! me too!! i feel like he wrote his own lyrics for the song they did on immortal songs and 😯 felix bls write more rap lyrics hehe .. i said what i said! he’s Gremlin! + i agree.. voices (also hellevator) always makes my heart hurt 😩

side effects!!!!! nice to know you're a cultured stay😎i loveeee side effects!!! i'm gonna have to say miroh is my favorite title tho bc it was their first title i listened to so i'm gonna remain sentimental about it for a while! even tho i reallyyyy love levanter🥺💓i feel like binnie would pull off plat blonde... but true who knows😣and wow we got even More changbin selfies yesterday... hes really blessing us huh🥺the binnie drought... she improving!!! oh and the group before was got7! -🎁💫

njasdg i love side effects.. the choreo... i’m always 😭 omg that’s fair!! i love miroh too it’s what brought me back into skz after a while so i’m always like ~hype~ about it too 😌 binnie drought back again.. winning 1st for levanter and bin only posting a hyunjin pic.. ok changbin.. i see how it is.... 

oh interesting got7!!!! hehe i had a phase w got7 too they’re lovely 😖

from all the things i've seen skz really are such sweeties🥺i'm SO slow tho i really gotta start watching more of their variety omg... tired of being a fake stay😔i watched that video the other day n i swear the transition to changbin getting his punishment sent me😭this may be too much wishful thinking but i am desperately wishing when they go to LA they can go to buzzfeed n see some pups or kittens🥺oct 2017!!! truly an og stay pls thats so cute😭💕happy late anniversary! -🎁💫

they really just are the biggest sweeties :( me watching their vlives just 😭 don’t be sweet i’ll.. i’ll fall in love with u boys stop that... if you haven’t already you should watch their reality show finding skz!! they’re so funny 😞 omg i would DIE for a buzzfeed interview now i want that too 😭the monsta x puppies one was so cute bls skz.. bls do one.. also thank u!! i’m ancient 🤦‍♀️

binnie's rap truly takes me out all the time... the talent inside this little man i just😳😳😳when i first saw the matroshyka perf i was!!!!! mind blown omg. i've always loved rappers in groups but changbin really won😭and ofc! take time with your list n do it only if you want!!!😊felix and hyunjin as wreckers!!! so cute i totally get it hehe since truthfully ot9 always gets to me! -🎁💫

omg “this little man��� msdgj it’s true .. i always think abt how felix was like “yeah when i heard changbin say maaaatroshyka on the survival show i knew we won” like bro. ur right.. me too! changbin 🤝 changkyun best rappers. nd ur right! i rly cycle so much through ot9 wooj was rly climbing to the top and then the News 😫

so cheesy but when i heard channie singing to tenerife sea i just Knew he was the one🥺🤲🏼and when i saw a video of him just being his sweetie self in chan's room n talking about how we can always come to him n skz!!! i just admire his sweetness so much, idk he just inspires me a ton!💞hehe do you think chan is my only bias though? i'm not sure if its obvious, i feel like it is, but i'm double biased!!!😎💞even tho all of my friends say i should just claim to be ot9 biased🙇🏻‍♀️-🎁💫

omg cute!!! he rly is the sweetest boy :( his recent-ish live w felix sent me they’re just so pure nd just the goodest boys 😔💕 omg! double biased!! who’s the other! :O ot9 bias goes too hehe 

also hope you're doing well rachel!!! i'm doing okay🤗💞don't apologize for the late reply bc i totally understand! please take your time, its all good!💞💕(also dont mind the paragraphs at all! i send bunches too! its nice talking to you🥰💞)-🎁💫

me and chronic lateness.. terrible smh! but i guess you’d be on break now, do you have any fun plans? 😊