#Stoutland is not happy

[factual-fantasy]

While I'm here I'll post the close ups of Milotic and Stoutland!

With the first one I tried to mimic Milotics official pixel artwork. I was really happy with how it came out! :))

[housecow]

What would your pokemon team be if they were real? •3• and can I draw them for you?

very good question honestly…

stoutland

tyrantrum

furfrou (debutante and heart trim ❤️ i love standard poodles irl and was crazy abt furfrou in gen 6. i was wonder traded a shiny 6IV one i assume was hacked but she’s literally my baby and resides in pokemon home rn)

perrserker (i spent 2 weeks shiny egg hatching for galarian meowth and literally hatched 2 shinies one after another, my girls gouda and havarti)

my shiny furret named pimento. he’s PINK

porygon2 (i used to play competitively and for some reason porygon2 w eviolite was on every team i made)

if you wanna draw them that would be amazinggg!!! but no worries and i’m happy to just share this info 🥺

i’d be a normal type trainer tbh 🤷‍♀️

[whereinthworld]

I love low quality art it is very fun

Also, a headcanon of mine that Sugar is mixed adds more to why her breeder was more rough on her, and also there ain't no way she ain't gon be a stoutland mix like, come on!!

It's just a silly little idea, but yk! also to give more awareness for ppl to seriously look into their pet's energy levels and if it is a working dog especially!!

In the story Sugar, even when (v basically trained) well trained, still had that stout gene in her, so she struggled to maintain her demeanor and dear God the amount of fur she sheds the double coat.

Also, her stoutland parent not knowing about Sugar's existence and just thought she was a very clumsy zorua/zoroark who lived in a bad household.

Stu (shortened, lol) is a very jolly pokemon always happy to run in and help out, they are very nice to Sugar a little more than the rest because they are worried of her wellbeing and was very happy when Sugar finally got in a better home.

Sugar sees them as a sweet parental figure without knowing much of them. She would often as a pup sneak out to meet them behind the pokecenter for food or shelter or just to meet Stu.

until her breeder caught her, and she got too scared to come and meet Stu again.

later, as she got older, she met Stu again, but as a zoroark. Stu didn't recognize her at first, but when they did, it was a very simple but sweet welcome.

character Sugar is owned by @hoofpeet

I wonder if Sugar would be a mix what kind of mix would she be? besides the alolan ninetales gene.

either way, I hope you have a good day!

[pokemon-ash-aus]

How does litten feel about dead ash, is she happy that he technically can “leave” her? Is she sad because it reminds her of how stoutland died?

She's mostly haunted at the start, the moment she finds out the two are dead. She waits for Stoutland to come back too.

And she waits and waits and waits.

It takes awhile before she realizes he wont come back, not like Ash and Pikachu did.

[mcofthemansion]

Hihi! Hugs! Currently a little bit obsessed with pokemon since the dlc for indigo disk comes out soon (4 days as of now when I'm posting this) so apologies if I'm not posting some pretty lovely otome guy/girl stuff for a little while...I just can't help but live and breathe pokemon until I have terapagos securely in my party! Little baby turtle must cuddle forever and ever!

So for now, I offer you random pokemon teams that remind me of my/your men for no particular reason : (Ikevamp) -> (Tears of Themis)

Arthur (Ikevamp) :

• Popplio -> Primarina line (Because Vic! Ok? I think I'm referring to one of my first posts)

• Applin -> Flapple (Because of that thing when you give someone an Applin you confess your feelings and ensure a happy future together, reminds me of the red ribbon thing ok!!! ><)

• Lillipup -> Stoutland (Remember in Alola how it helped you find stuff like a dowsing machine would in previous gens? It can be a detective-y pokemon! Yay! Also again...dog...Vic...yeah...still this one represents his detective skills)

• Happiny -> Blissey (Arthur's doctor skills and how much he cares! I can see him having a Blissey!)

• Mimikyu (His interest in the occult and its cute)

• Shiny Milcery -> shiny Alcremie (Reminds me of his love of fudge! It just does! Not much of an explanation but yeah, also the blue decorations!)

Isaac (Ikevamp) :

• Porygon-[2-Z] (It's a super math-y pokemon ok! Well at least the most math-y in my opinion, plus it levitates which I think Newt would find cool)

• Magnemite -> Magnezone (Idk it's a pokemon for really smart people and it's a super science-y and professor-y pokemon...so yeah...don't expect me to try and give a physics answer, my brain is fried)

• Applin -> Appletun (Enough said, just has to happen, it's a big cuddly sweet apple pie, Newt...apples...yeah...this one is sweet ok, also the romantic thing about Applin)

• Sandshrew -> Sandslash (Kanto to be exact! Because Harry, need I say more?)

• Hatenna -> Hatterene (Newt is super calm...so I can see a Hatenna sticking around him! It might cutely fall asleep at his desk with him)

• Togepi -> Togekiss (Newt had a thing with Theology, don't quiz me I'm tired, anyways in Sheild the dex entry is "Known as a bringer of blessings, it's been depicted on good-luck charms since ancient times" and I was like...awww Newt might like that...kind of a sweet angelic pokemon)

Napoleon (Ikevamp) :

• Rufflet -> Hisuian Braviary (Jupiter! Because, because, because)

• Honedge -> Aegislash (Have you seen his rapier? Enough said, the man can fight)

• Sewaddle -> Leavanny (Idk this always feels like a nurturing pokemon that I could see in a school as an assistant or smth so it would help out at L'École de Napoleon or smth like that)

• Riolu -> Lucario (It's a smart and just fighter, it fits! Plus it doubles Leon's coolness factor XD)

• Bagon -> Salamence (Bagon wanted a change so bad it happened! The whole flying thing...Leon gets it! He wanted to bring about some change pretty badly so they just kinda connect...plus it's a cool dragon!)

• Komala (Cute napping Koala to cuddle with...need I say more? Even more of a reason to sleep in)

Faust (Ikevamp) :

• Shroodle -> Grafaiai (Mephie! It's a poison type! Yay experiments!)

• Beldum -> Metagross (It's a smart person science-y pokemon that floats!)

• Elgyem -> Beheeyem (It loves experimenting with humans and thier memory so Faust would probably get a kick out of it!)

• Zorua -> Zoroark (He would be fascinated by the shape-shifting and it brings the coolness factor, sorta somewhat matches his vibes)

• Nacli -> Garganacl (It can hurt and heal with its salt powers which might get rather useful for Faust)

• Spiritomb (guy works as a priest...I'm assuming he's had experiences with funerals and stuff and I can see this as his ghost type pokemon)

That's about all for ikevamp for now!

Vyn (ToT)

• Deerling -> Winter Sawsbuck (Svart's animal is a deer...and Vyn's hair is white ok!)

• Petilil -> Liligant (His love of gardening and elegant things...it just kinda works)

• Ralts -> Gardevoir (seems like a pretty good psych nurse pokemon to help him out with the feelings stuff and all)

•Rowlet -> Decidueye (His love of Archery)

• Fidough -> Dachsbun (His love of sweet things! And pastries)

• Sinistea -> Polteagiest (Authentic! Just because that's the Vyn-est thing he could get in pokemon!)

Marius (ToT)

• Gimmighoul -> Gholdengo (He's a rich fun loving CEO...explain to me why excitable money made surfing ghost isn't up his alley!)

• Smeargle (Artist...yeah...enough said)

• Ekans -> Arbok (His symbol is a purple snake...I couldn't not do this!)

• Luvdisc (Our Marius is sort of a flirt!)

• Pikachu (It's fluffy and as in the public eye as he is...probably felt a lot in common)

• Rotom (I associate Pax with tech so...yeah...idk...it just fits in my mind)

Anyways! Thanks for letting me ramble! Should I do this with other guys?

[noelledeltarune]

DRAYDEN WENT EXTREMELY WELL! I'M SO HAPPY!! NO DEATHS LITERALLY A CLEAN SWEEP FROM STOUTLAND LIKE EASILY. DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING OUTSPED BECAUSE OF THE AI PREFERRING DRAGON TAIL WHEN YOU BOOST YOUR STATS AND DRUDDIGON DIDN'T CRIT TWICE WITH REVENGE OH MY GODDDDDD

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Hunter x Hunter + Pokemon, let's go!

Like I mentioned earlier, this is the brainchild of my friend, @doodle-storm, who has completed only the Hunter Exam and Zoldyck Family arcs but knows a lot about Pokemon, with me, who knows all of HxH but barely anything of Pokemon, giving occasional suggestions. Enjoy!

We decided to do three Pokemon for the main five and only one for each of the more minor characters. I'll break it up into parts. My friend's thoughts are in green, and mine in purple.

Gon:

Togepi - "Because he's a cute egg boy! And he's filled with joy and happiness and they share it with kind people." "Aww. The spikes look like his hair too!" "Oh yeah! Also they tend to start to act like their trainers, so I can see them kind of jumping into things together."

Ursaluna - I told her a bit about Kon, who was sadly not in the beginning as he was in the manga. "He's a foxbear." "Ooh. Well, there aren't any foxbears, but there are bears..." "Maybe one that looks intimidating? Just because that's funny, and also Kon wasn't supposed to be... befriendable." "Right. Then there's Ursaring, but there's also this one, which looks more intimidating."

Wooper - "I feel like he needs a water type, you know, because of his fishing pole?" She was debating on Wooper and a few others for a bit. "...it looks holdable." "...you're right, it does. Okay, that's cute."

Killua:

Absol - "He needs dark types, I think..." She catches me looking at Absol. "Oh, right, Absol's your favourite, isn't it?" "Yeah." "I think that works. Absol shows up when there's a disaster, but it's to warn people. It's kind of misunderstood."

Sneasel - It was Lucario for a time, but she switched it at the end. "It's got the claws... also it can ride on his skateboard with him."

Alolan Raichu - "It is very important that his pokemon be able to ride on his skateboard with him. ...or!!! It could surf right next to him!"

Kurapika:

Gallade - "Oh, that looks right." "Right? It even has the red eyes, and it's a fighting type."

Cubone - "Hey, wasn't there a pokemon that... lost its family or something?" "...Cubone???" "That's it." "...yeah it wears its mother's skull." "...sorry."

Corviknight - "It also has red eyes." "He seems like he'd have a bird too." "Yeah. Also, you could give the Phantom Troupe a Tinkaton." "..." "...they attack Corviknights with rocks and hammers." "...why?" "Just for fun, I think." "...you're kind of evil for this."

Leorio:

Audino - "There aren't that many medic pokemon and they're all kind of too adorable I think?" "Oh but that would be kind of funny if he hid it behind his back or something." "That's true!"

Gimmighoul - "He needs his money. It's a little ghost!" "...oh. That's kind of sad actually." "?" "He only started really wanting money after he couldn't save his friend so... having the money pokemon be a ghost type is kind of..." We both became sad.

Stoutland - "It warms up to people really quickly and is loyal. And it has a moustache to improve its social standing!" "Hey, Leorio's always wearing a suit probably for similar reasons." (Also I insisted after seeing it was called the Big-Hearted pokemon, though I couldn't elaborate on why to my friend.)

Hisoka:

Hypno - "It led a child into the woods. Canonically. A small child." "Ah." "Like there is no doubt that was a child." "...checks out."

Meowscarada - "I want to give him the evolved weed cat. Something about its smug face." "...'looks like this man's arms have turned into flower petals'..." "Also, since it's a grass type, it'd be strong against Gon's team." "You want our boy to be weak to Hisoka???" "Well, at first! Then it's more satisfying when he beats him!"

Gengar - "Look at that face. That grin." She said nothing more. It had already been decided.

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

Happy Birthday to me!

So, since today (When this goes up, I'm typing this a week in advanced so I don't forget lol) is my Birthday, I thought I outta do something a little silly!

Like a trainer card for my favorite Touhou Character! I was also doing a run of pokemon BW2 with this team, but kinda gave up on that outta boredom/wanting to do other things.

Politoed is here for its hidden ability, which is drizzle. While there are three drizzle mons, no way am I giving Kogasa a fucking Kyogre, so that just left Peli and Politoed, and Politoed is my favorite outta those two, so here they are. For reference btw, I feel like an umbrella having a rain setter makes sence because she would want to get used! Helps that I HC her as having both abandoment issues and a NEED to feel useful. (Both sourced from how the Youkai she is based on forms.)

Stoutland is the weakest link. I knew I wanted to give her an Intimidate mon, and frankly Stoutland was just the path of least resistence given that I was playing her in Gen 5. You could probably replace stoutland with any of the dogs with intimidate and it would work. (Most other intim mons are too mean for her. Except Incinroar, that could work I guess.)

Camerupt is here to serve as her forge! She is a blacksmith afterall, so having a volcano pokemon to serve as her forge felt right! Not much else to say about Camerupt really.

Golbat is basically meant to represent her actual umbrella because it kinda bares the closest resemblence. For reference, it's NOT a Crobat not due to lacking the friendship requirement, but due to Kogasa really just not battling enough for it to actually evolve.

So, I knew I wanted Kogasa to have a ghost type, both because she's kinda sorta not really a ghost herself and also because ghost types are usually up to similar shenanigans as her. Went with Rotom for a few reasons. First, Rotom's flavor of anticks felt most fitting for Kogasa. Second, I feel that since Rotom is possessing objects all the time and being used to power tools nowdays, I think Kogasa would get on well with one. and the third reason was that I also wanted her to have a thunder spammer because rain team and did this for role compression.

Last is Escavilier. I knew I wanted her to have a steel type because of the whole blacksmith thing. I actually went with Escavilier specifically because of how it is a steel type SPECIFICALLY because of it's equipment. I like the idea that instead of this Karablast evolving via attempted Shelment homicide, it evolved because Kogasa just made it the equipment!

[cjcroen1393]

Humans | Lowblood Trolls | Midblood Trolls | Highblood Trolls | Cherubs

Happy belated 4/13 everybody!

So it’s clearly no secret that Homestuck and Pokemon are two of my favorite fandoms. This of course means I had to combine them somehow, and the best way to do that was to turn the Homestuck kids into Pokemon trainers, right?

Originally, I was gonna go the lazy route and do the Pokemon Team Planner to make up their (and the Trolls’ and Cherubs’) teams, and I’m still going to do that later, but the problem is I can’t do that until the Gen 9 dex is added to Pokemon HOME.

So instead, I just drew the Beta and Alpha Kids with what I personally think their signature Pokemon would be!

For an explanation:

John Egbert: John’s ace is Quagsire, also known as Casey! This should have obvious reasons behind it lol. He also has a Mimikyu, to represent the stuffed bunny from Con Air. I like to think John found that Mimikyu and mistook it for a ratty old Pikachu doll, only for Rose to reveal to him what it really is like a week or so later.

Rose Lalonde: Rose of course needed a Psychic-type cat and I could think of no better Pokemon to fit that description than Meowstic (Espeon could also count, but we don’t know for sure if it’s really a cat). Since the cat is obviously supposed to be Jaspers, I used the male Meowstic. He communicates with Rose telepathically sometimes, and once shared a secret with her that she never decoded until years later.

Dave Strider: Now many of you probably expected him to have Corviknight, and I’m sure he has one on his team, but I think Archeops works better as his ace, and no not just because it’s my personal favorite Pokemon. Archeops not only works for Dave’s bird motif, but it also fits with his love of preserved dead things and paleontology. He probably got it as a Plume Fossil that he added to his collection and then Jade was like “You should try getting it revived” and Dave was like “You can revive them!?!?”

Jade Harley: Jade was actually surprisingly tough to pick a Pokemon for, since there are so many dog Pokemon out there who could play Becquerel’s part. I decided on Houndstone -- it’s “the most loyal of dog Pokemon” for starters, it’s white and it has access to Phantom Force so it can teleport. Also it has no eyes. Like in canon, Bec used to belong to Jade’s Grandpa, but in this AU, I like to think Bec is the ghost of Halley, Grandpa Harley’s old dog.

Jane Crocker: Jane was trickier, as she doesn’t technically have an animal motif like the others, but I ultimately decided on Stoutland, because it both fits with her love of detectives and has an absolutely fantastic mustache! Of course Jane would like this one XD Being the most normal of the Alphas, Jane most likely got Stoutland as a gift from her Dad.

Roxy Lalonde: Roxy ran into the same problem as Jade in that there were so many cat Pokemon to choose from. Ultimately, I went with Sneasler (and yes, Sneasler is a cat) because it fits with Roxy’s Fistkind strife specibus and honestly I just like the vibes these two have together. Two sassy queens XD If you’re wondering how Roxy got a Hisuian Sneasel, I like to think she appearified her by accident and decided to keep her. Also they’re both trans. Deal with it.

Dirk Strider: Dirk got Ceruledge because it’s one of the few Pokemon that’s explicitly a swordsman, but more importantly, it also very clearly looks like Derse. I imagine that Dirk’s Bro left him a Charcadet with the appropriate armor to evolve it into a Ceruledge, and the two often spar with each other.

Jake English: Contrasting with Dirk, Jake gets an Armarouge. Whereas Dirk has a sword-wielding Pokemon resembling Derse, Jake gets a cannon-wielding Pokemon resembling Prospit! It fit so perfectly, honestly. I think that Jake would’ve found his Charcadet while exploring his island and eventually dug up some armor for it in an ancient ruin of some sort.

I would’ve done the Trolls, Cherubs and maybe even some of the Carapacians too, but this was exhausting enough to work on so maybe later. I still definitely wanna do those Team Planner things though, so I’ll try to get around to that when the site makes the right updates!

EDIT: Fixed a portion of Jane’s Stoutland that I forgot to color.

[love-for-burgundy-blog]

8, 13, and 14 for Burgundy!

8. What is something the fandom does for this character that you absolutely despise?

It would definitely have to be the amount of people in the fandom who portray her as a heartless monster!! Want examples, A redditor referred to both her and Georgia as worse than H*tler, A wishfushipping fanfic on Wattpad had Burgundy kidnap Iris in one of the chapters to get back at Cilan, Another fanfic showed Both her and Georgia trying to stalk and hunt down Iris against her will, causing Iris to flee to Hapu's farm on Poni Island, need I say more? All in all, people who portray her in this way I feel like miss the entire point of her character and her arc that was never finished likely due to the 3/11 earthquake in Japan. Burgundy isn't supposed to be a heartless and calculating villain, She is supposed to be a young girl who wants to earn Cilan's respect but goes about it the wrong way. If Burgundy was truly heartless, why does she treat her pokemon with care and understanding after they lose a battle? Why did she happily clap for Iris when she won the Club battle tournament? These are questions to consider for the people who think Burgundy is a physchopath!!

13. What is an emoji, emoticon, and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use?

This is one that I have never really thought about before but I'll give it a shot. Okay, so here are some emojis that remind me of Burgundy... 😈 😤🤬💢🥺🍇🎭 💜 So all the angry emojis are because of how angry Burgundy is all the time, the anime eyes emoji or whatever it is called is because of how she is with her pokemon, The grape reminds me of her and Georgia's ship name, the theater emoji is because of how dramatic Burgundy is and I also hc her to be a theater kid, and lastly the purple heart because it matches her hair color and if you know me, you know that I use it a lot in my Burgundy related posts lol. Now, here are the emojis or emoticons that I think Burgundy would use a lot... :), :(, <3, ;), ♏️ ✡️ 🐶🦁👑. Explanation, all the emoticons in the beginning are because they sound very much like something that Burgundy would use when texting people, The Scorpio since I headcanon Burgundy to be a Scorpio with her birthday being in early November, the star of David since I headcanon Burgundy to be Jewish, the dog because of her stoutland, and finally the lion and the crown go together since I headcanon Burgundy to be a huge Lion King fan!!

14. Assign a fashion asthetic to this character.

Okay so I think Burgundy's asthetic would be a mix of goth grunge and cute kawaii. She has several pink, pastel, sanrio items but she also has a lot of black goth-related items as well. She tends to wear her cute kawaii items when she is feeling happy and excited and she wears the goth grunge items when she feels depressed and angry. So her asthetic represents her two sides. Btw, I actually got the inspo for Burgundy's asthetic from @cadygroves !!

[electromignion]

Bridgewater x Pokémon crossover with Jeremy Bradshaw 🫶💜

My roommate made me play Pokémon Go again so I’m back in my Pokémon spiral and I made PLENTY of headcanons with Bridgewater and Pokémon together (yes Pokémon has been my specific interest since perhaps I have been 5? And I’m 22 now so YEAH.)

So my main hc that started me spiralling is: Jeremy Bradshaw has had his Lillipup since he was a kid so they both grew old together, so here’s child!Jeremy Bradshaw with his Lillipup, young adult!Jeremy Bradshaw with his Herbier and his old current self with his Stoutland!! And to me his dog has been his bestie since Thomas had disappeared (I tried to express his different eras emotions jdjdjdkd hope I managed to it!!) if I feel like it I will try to go in depth into my crossover, I made our fave trio Pokémon teams!

I know this is very very niche but it makes me super happy <3 (like the My Little Pony x Bridgewater crossover!)

[factual-fantasy]

(Anything with emojis are apart of a series)

Cofagrigus and Dusknoir doodles

My Pokémon white team!

Gengar evolution line as gijinkas!

🩹Luxray and Boltund part 1

🩹Luxray and Boltund part 2

Benjamin and Dusty

Pokémon fusions!

🛡️I've abandoned my boy.🥺..(Pokémon shield team)

🛡️Pokémon shield memes

The Dusknoir ritual..

🛡️Doodle of me, Froslass and Torch :))

An assortment of Pokémon doodles!

ANOTHE assortment of Pokémon doodles!

My Legends Arceus team!

My thoughts on Hisuian Pokémon

A bunch of pixel doodles!

Milotic and Stoutland

A pixel Vaporeon!

A cursed Gardevoir/Snorlax fusion.. turned prebby

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦A Conkeldurr and a Zorua

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Conkeldurr's old friend, Emboar

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦A happy family :)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Conkeldurr thinking....

Blacephalon drawing suggestion!

Ask post #1

[humming-pokemon-helpers]

“So, Vanilla, what have you been up to? You’ve been awfully quiet lately.”

Excellent question, person I made up in my head. I’ve been watching each and every one of the Pawmark Dash to Delibird Day movies released in The Year Of The Twin Dragons 2023. There are 42 of them, which deeply unsettles me.

But unfortunately I dedicated myself to the art of cataloguing Pawmark movies when I was a much sadder and lonelier Zorperson, and I’m too stubborn to quit now. (That, and they’re a guilty pleasure; sue me.)

So, below the cut is my ratings of some of them. About 10. Not all 42, I still have some semblance of a life. I did watch all of them though, so I guess if there's any Pawmark enthusiasts who really need to know my thoughts, you can send me an ask? Or you can ask me in-person. At my New Year's party. Which is still happening tomorrow. (Psst. Here's a link if you're interested: https://discord.gg/PkmkQEVF)

1. Celebi With You: Young career businesswoman comes back to her old hometown devoted to Delibird Day and nothing else. Grandpa asks her to take over the shop. She refuses because she has a career. Local childhood-friend-man in flannel gets sad. A Celebi takes her back in time to watch her grandparents’ romance as they open the shop. She changes her mind, gets with the male lead in a very rushed side plot, everyone’s happy.

This one’s a shaky 5/10. Points for not focusing the modern romance first and foremost, but it’s so sloppily done. There's no lead-up to the kiss. And I mean, it's Pawmark. There usually isn't. But give us some level of flirtation! Grandma and gramps are cute, though. Shame grandma’s dead for no reason other than “there must be at least one dead relative in a Pawmark movie”. Also, the CGI Celebi looks TERRIBLE. Like, eye-bleedingly so. That is an onion and a few pipe cleaner legs. I know they can’t get a real Celebi, but at least get a Ditto instead!

2. A Little Holiday Maschiff: The obligatory “turn your brain off and watch cute puppies” movie. Female lead recently lost her Stoutland. Somebody leaves a box of Maschiff puppies on her step in the winter cold. She takes them to the “hunk” at the Pokémon shelter, because she’s not ready to open her heart again, but the shelter’s on the brink of being shut down. They co-pup-parent and create a Delibird Day Pokémon Pageant to fundraise and save the shelter. Get in a fight because the male lead thinks she’s actually trying to get the shelter sold. They make up. They kiss. They adopt like 3 Maschiff puppies. The end.

8/10, but not because of the plot. The “fight” they have is absolutely idiotic. No, the reason I say 8/10 is because I can understand everything those little Maschiff have to say and their commentary is worth their weight in gold. Even if 90% of it is “Am I a good boy? Can I go for a walk after this? Why am I in a box again?”. So good. 4/10 for anybody who doesn’t understand Pokémon. At least the puppies are still cute to look at.

3. Snow Warning: Short summary here because it’s so generic. F!Lead gets caught in once-in-a-lifetime blizzard on her way home. Flight cancelled. Has to share a hotel room with smarmy male lead who looks down on her job as a novelist (and is also a wildly successful businessman). The two roadtrip their way down to F!Lead’s hometown so she can go see her sick dad. Grow a begrudging respect. Eventually they kiss for some reason. Also there’s a side-plot about how the guy actually pissed off an Abomasnow and caused the whole thing, but that wasn’t really interesting. ...Somehow. How do you mess that up?

2/10. The chemistry’s off. I get going for “you hate me so bad you want to kiss me” tension, but it really just comes off like the female lead ought to sock her "date" in the face already. Instead we get a weak “Sorry I called your books stupid. I read one page of your debut novel and it’s not. Can we kiss now?”. Yawn. Also, he never apologizes for the whole Abomasnow thing, which seems like a pretty massive oversight? If we're being realistic here, that's getting held over that man's head for at least a good five years.

4. Sawsbuck’s Greetings: A movie focused around the female lead, who runs a Sawsbuck farm that’s been passed down for generations, and the male lead, who kicks puppies for a living and wants to put a golf course there. But don’t worry, he learns after she makes a deal with him that if he stays on the farm for 30 days and doesn’t see the value of it, he can buy it. Because that’s how buying real estate works. The guy actually has some traumatic history with Pokémon that the saintly female lead helps him overcome. He cuts ties with his company, moves into the Sawsbuck farm, and they have the Pawmark Kiss.

3.5/10 for me. Not even the bored Sawsbuck save this (they are so, so bored). There’s no interesting side characters anywhere! No life! Also, I will say it once again: love does not heal trauma. They try to make it seem like this man goes from erring 50 feet away from “those horrid beasts” to snuggling up with a Deerling in the early AM all thanks to a woman's love. That is not how that works. Get therapy. (I say this knowing full well I would not be as critical if it were gay. Know your biases, folks.)

5. The Chingling Ring: This is one of their “Deli-Day Wedding” movies. A sequel to last year’s “The Chingling Sing”. Female lead gets cold feet about marrying male lead. They nearly break up to all of their friends’ constant dismay. But the woman's Chimecho works with her fiance to gather 25 Chingling to show her 25 places all key to her relationship with her soon-to-be husband. Of course he’s waiting at the 25th, they kiss, make up, happy wedding, baby at the end of it.

Surprisingly, a 6.5/10. The concept is a decent one, if only they didn’t have to stick to 25 arcdamn places instead of… five? Even 12, if you’re looking for something holiday-like but smaller. Each place gets no focus at all, because of course they don’t. It’s an 80-minute movie! The gesture is really romantic though. Chingling are so so adorable. And the male lead is genuinely sympathetic throughout. Just… agh, the rush. Also, do we always need a baby at the end of the wedding ones?

6. Special Delivery: Sort of a mystery movie, on the first female lead's side. (Yes, 1/2!) She, a detective, starts receiving mysterious gifts via Delibird from a ‘secret admirer’. Determined to figure out more, she goes on a hunt through the specifics of the gifts, the places they’re ordered from, and even tracks a Delibird itself. Along the way, she keeps confiding in her best friend, the second lead, about the situation. First lead thinks it's from her coworker, but no, it's a red herring. Lo and behold, it turns out the gifts are secretly coming from... the second lead! There’s a decent coming out/confession scene, which is a compliment for a film studio where movies are produced in 5 weeks. Pawmark Kiss. End film. (Too soon.)

I promise this is not just my lesbian bias (it is), but 7/10. The two leads truly understand the power of pining. Of yearning! …The gift situation is so blatantly obvious that it very much feels like the movie spins its wheels for a while, though. I feel like they were trying to have a twist, because the male lead's pretty heavily marketed, but he also falls flat as a character other than "hey, he's there, and he probably likes you". As a result, though, I thought I was going insane for thinking the leads had chemistry for the first 50 minutes until this film fully vindicated me, something that is incredibly rare with a Pawmark movie. They’d better make a sequel. That’s up-front about its being gay, and at least halfway decent.

7. Deck The Royal Halls: What would Pawmark be without its annual foreign prince movie. This time from the made-up kingdom of “Britain”. Where are they even pulling these names from now? Bog-standard, except the two leads also have to work together to handle the King getting possessed by the legendary Calyrex along the way. Because apparently the “old family heirloom” Hometown Female Lead brings as a gift to His Highness is actually its crown. Anyways, Calyrex demands the two of them get married in the name of the kingdom. They waver on this in some royal courtship, get into a fight, and eventually agree. Happily ever after.

4.5/10: This movie is so cluttered. There’s no good justification for why the female lead is there, why her family has this ancient treasure, and why it is so absolutely crucial she marry The Prince. Calyrex’s VA is very funny during the possession scenes though. So the movie gets an extra point. Calyrex trying to give Mr. Prince Guy a confession pep talk is genuinely one of the better written comedy bits I’ve seen on the channel in a while. Shame the CGI for Calyrex is... not very good. There's no way its head is that big.

8. A Champion Chrismas: So this is what they've had Champion Leon up to since he lost his title. The Battle Tower and paying him to take part in mass-produced rom-coms. Anyways, unfortunately for the female lead, who is absolutely trying her best, this movie is entirely about Leon--or Levi, and how the self-insert (AKA, female lead) saves him from his battling slump when he comes home for the holiday season to his totally-not-Postwick small town with his totally-not-Hop little brother. (who is, actually, played by Hop Laventon. How did they get all of these people???) Anyways, the female lead shows Le-whoever the "joy of Delibird Day" again, they kiss, Le-guy wins a big championship match with his Charizard for her and shouts her out on live TV.

6/10, purely because it's fun to see how non-acting celebrities deal with acting. Also, this is 100% somebody's Leon x Reader fanfiction that got brought to Pawmark's writing room and approved without a second thought. I love that for whoever that was. (Though pretending that definitely isn't Leon and he totally isn't dating Raihan is a bit ingenuous.) Anyways, the writing sucks. The poor heroine is the epitome of a self-insert, for very obvious reasons. But I will admit, I can see why Leon has so many fangirls. He's great at playing that sort of "charming, down to earth" guy. His little brother's pretty good at acting too! Even if he really got shoved to the side for the sake of the love plot. Always seems to be the case for that poor kid...

9. Operation: Present: A movie about... Santa from the future? I think somebody saw Iron Bundle and ran away with it a bit too much. (Also, they have a real Iron Bundle there. This scares me.) Anyways, in this movie, Santa's son appears in front of a social media "influencer" with an Iron Bundle and tells her that if she doesn't convince the world Santa is real, they'll fall into a dark timeline...? I'm so lost as to who wrote this. Is this still Pawmark? I guess it's tangentially Delibird Day-related. Anyways, these two go on a... social media campaign... to spark belief in Santa. Livestreams, Chatters, anything a 60-year-old exec believes is part of social media usage, it's there. But actually, Ms. Influencer doesn't even believe in Santa herself, so they get in this big fight, until Santa's Son gets this notification that Christmas is saved or whatever. They make up. They kiss. I am so lost.

2/10, I am relatively sure this movie was made by drawing ideas out of a hat? And shoving them together? So it's a time-travel, social-media, robot-Delibird, Santa's son, romance movie? Why did they not pick an angle. Any one of those could have worked as an angle. As it is, I feel like I'm going insane even trying to describe the plot. ...And yet I feel as though I know several people this could happen to. Such is the reality of our multiverse.

10. Don't Have A Bird: Okay, they clearly used all of their ideas on the last movie. Because this one is about a woman who works at an Unfezant tip line. As in, a tip line on how to cook Unfezant at the holidays. (Which feels more like a Thanksgiving movie, but I digress!) And a man. Who is trying to cook an Unfezant. That's... the entire plot. The whole thing. Though the woman is also secretly romancing the man in real life! ...And on... the Unfezant tip line. That feels like a blatant violation of phone line policy, but what do I know! The Unfezant Guy feels betrayed by this until The Unfezant Girl brings by a perfect Unfezant, and the day is saved. Hooray.

1.5/10. Who wrote this. Who approved this. Why is it about an arcdamn Unfezant Tip Line. How far down do you have to dig for this idea. Who in the writing room called in to figure out how to unfuck their completely dry, flavorless Unfezant, and thought "You know what would be romantic?" On the bright side, absolutely none of the actors take this movie seriously, thus warranting an extra .5 points. They earned it. Nothing else did. (//Mod note. Based on a real fucking Hallmark movie.)

[leggerefiore]

Do you think that SW! Ingo and Emmet (and their children (Erin especially) by proxy) occasionally act like lap pokémon?

Y/n sometimes has to deal with two 200+ pound pokémon trying to crawl into their lap

"Emmet, you're too heavy," you whined at the large hybrid pokemon curled up in your lap. He just gazed up at you with innocent eyes and nuzzled his face against you. You would be tempted to relent and let him rest there, but his weight seriously was too much in your current position. "Em, for a second, let me reposition. You're acting worse than a Stoutland," you tried reasoning. He thought about it for a moment and gave you some room to reposition your legs. Immediately after, his head was pressed into your lap once more. Soft purrs and chirps came from him. At least he seemed happy, you supposed.

Ingo prefers to rest head on your chest. Both have stabbed you with their antennae more than once.

[the-daycare-pokecenter]

Good morning, DCPC friends and fans!

Thank you to the folks who came in the last few days and adopted pokemon and got their starters! As always, we love seeing our Pokemon go off to happy homes.

- Director Moor

[Photo One: A small girl with a Pachirisu, putting on a giant smile for the camera. She's missing her two front teeth.]

[Photo Two: A family consisting of a dad, mother, son, and daughter stand with a Stoutland. The son, who is very small, is hugging the stoutland loosely around its neck. The daughter is putting a tentative hand on its back.]

[Photo Three: An old, serious looking gentleman with a Spinarak sitting on his shoulder.]

[Photo Four: Moor and Dune sitting together on a couch in the staff room. They're both smiling and don't seem to know the picture is being taken.]

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it's a crime i can't find any pokemon au where jun's only pokemon are those that look like cats and you're trying to be friends with him but your teams just can't get along >:((

sorry for the bullet points but i’ve had this idea in my brain for two weeks and i don’t have the brain cells to type it out 😭😭😭 ok so. i might have gone crazy with pokemon au catboy junhui and only minimally included team shenanigans :(

junhui runs a cat rescue. except it’s a pokémon rescue, where he takes in pokémon that are injured or disabled and unable to fend for themselves in the wild or battle

he didn’t mean for this to be his career— when he was young, he wanted to be a pokémon master, as many youths do. but then when his own meowstic was critically injured by a houndoom’s Bite during a battle and never seemed to be able to fully recover, junhui threw himself into rescuing pokémon

(there are a lot of abandoned pokemon wandering the streets. after all, what good is a pokémon if it can’t fight?) (if their former trainer isn’t willing to be the one to give them a home to rest in, junhui will be the one)

due to the nature of his work, he finds himself frequenting the pokémon center a lot, and he grows close to nurse seungkwan. sometimes the injured pokémon can be healed and returned to the wild or adopted out to another trainer, but sometimes the pokémon don’t recover. and then one day, nurse seungkwan refers junhui and his blind and sickly litten to you— a researcher who just entered the local professor’s lab

you’re fresh from the academy, and you specialize in studying the healing abilities of pokémon— their ability to heal themselves, how to most effectively develop potions using natural berries, and how some pokémon even have the ability to heal others. you get a call from your school friend seungkwan with a difficult case for you, a litten who was hit by a poison type move. the poison shouldn’t have hit as hard as it did, but something happened to the litten— no matter how many different types potions or antidotes it was given, it never really recovered from the poison

so you go to see the injured litten, but when you get to the pokémon center, there’s also a trainer— he’s tall and willowy and handsome, and he’s chewing on his lip, anxiously soothing the whimpering little pokémon

(luckily you have an experimental antidote you’re working on, and it helps the pokémon regain partial sight)

eventually junhui comes around again, and again, and again, each time with an injured pokemon. you try your best to help them regain function. you can't help but to become slightly enamored with him and his kindness and patience, even when the rescue pokemon lashes out or tries to attack.

just to make it cute, let's say that you tend to gravitate to dog and fox-like pokemon. your loyal companion is your old childhood stoutland, who is long past his prime and wheezes and snuffles when he runs. stoutland is absolutely loyal to you and follows you around the halls of the lab, despite his dislike of junhui's frequent cat-like visitors.

of course junhui's meowstic is standoffish and unfriendly. she's not aggressive by any means, but she definitely turns her nose up at stoutland. stoutland, in turn, tosses his head and harrumphs. the two of you are dismayed.

(but one day when junhui is over, the two of you get distracted. he's telling you about one of his adventures while making dinner, and by the time you notice how strangely quiet it is, you also realize that stoutland and meowstic are missing. slightly worried, the two of you search the lab, room by room, until you find them in your office -- stoutland is curled up in a sunny spot on the carpet, snoring, and curled up into his side, paws kneading at his shaggy belly, is a very happy meowstic)