#at least for starters

[camberdraws]

Painting a notoriously likeable pokemon!

[front-facing-pokemon]

[damnedrainbows]

It seems someone has learned, too late, that no…orbeez are not ‘bitter candies’. He’s trying to ignore the feeling of illness by doing something chaotic to keep his mind off it.

And that is…dumping orbeez down all the drains.

All. The Drains.

[doveshovel]

EGGY :)

[decolonize-the-everything]

Time to learn about more people and things that influenced my politics~

The Combahee River Collective.

They were a Black feminist lesbian socialist organization active in Boston, Massachusetts from 1974 to 1980.

"The Collective argued that both the white feminist movement and the Civil Rights Movement were not addressing their particular needs as Black women and more specifically as Black lesbians.

Racism was present in the mainstream feminist movement, while Delaney and Manditch-Prottas argue that much of the Civil Rights Movement had a sexist and homophobic reputation."

The Collective is perhaps best known for developing the Combahee River Collective Statement, a key document in the history of contemporary Black feminism and the development of the concepts of identity politics as used among political organizers and social theorists, and for introducing the concept of interlocking systems of oppression, including but not limited to gender, race, and homophobia, a fundamental concept of intersectionality. Gerald Izenberg credits the 1977 Combahee statement with the first usage of the phrase "identity politics".

Source

Demita Frazier, Beverly Smith, and Barbara Smith were the primary authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement in 1977. [...]They sought to destroy what they felt were the related evils of capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy while rejecting the belief in lesbian separatism. Finally their statement acknowledged the difficulties black women faced in their grassroots organizing efforts due to their multiple oppressions.

In “A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood,” Michele Wallace arrives at this conclusion: We exists as women who are Black who are feminists, each stranded for the moment, working independently because there is not yet an environment in this society remotely congenial to our struggle—because, being on the bottom, we would have to do what no one else has done: we would have to fight the world. [2] Wallace is pessimistic but realistic in her assessment of Black feminists’ position, particularly in her allusion to the nearly classic isolation most of us face. We might use our position at the bottom, however, to make a clear leap into revolutionary action. If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.

[the-blathermouth]

Bearzel in the distance: SOMEBODY HELP ME, I'M NO LONGER HOT!

Cheezborger: Who the heck is that?

Fwench Fwy: Oh no one, just Bezel finally learning what regret is

Bearzel in the distance: WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE AT LEAST BEEN A KITTY CAT!?

[despairs-memorial]

"Hm, the holidays are getting closer... I should probably get some things for my group mates before we get too busy with all the holiday promotional material..."

[ofmimicry]

"Can you please try this? I think I finally perfected the recipe but be honest." She holds the fork out gently to the other, eyes light with excitement and monitoring their every reaction.

@hiddenstarters

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

[oddarette]

Squirtle Manatee.

[bigshot]

"... the Hell did you get yourself into?"

Spamton knows he probably shouldn't be staring the way he is, but it's impossible to look away now that he's started. He felt that he'd waited long enough after Brad's warning to go against his wishes and leave the shop, locking up behind himself before beginning his nosy search.

He'd expected to find Brad pulverizing someone, maybe paying off a dealer, or... any number of things, really. Not collapsed in a nearby alleyway with the nastiest wound Spamton's ever seen on a Lightner and the majority of his blood pooled around him.

Spamton doesn't care about it staining his shoes when he approaches the body, though. He stares down at Brad's slack face for what feels like hours, noting now paled skin, the hair matted with gore, a fist still clenched, and that wound.... there's something else coming out of it...

He remembers to breathe after a moment and the air stinks of pennies. He wishes that were a more comforting thought.

If the body's still here, then whatever happened must not have been too long ago. Spamton thinks back to Brad telling him to stay in the shop before running off alone and straight into what he probably knew was a dangerous situation,

"[[$%#^]]ING 1DI0T !!!!!!" Abruptly, the puppet lashes out and kicks the corpse upside the head with enough force to shift its placement by mere inches. He ignores the new pain in his foot, kicking again as frustration boils over, "YOU-- !!! YUO0-- !!! !! !!!1!!"

Rather than kick the dead man yet again, he spins to punch a wall before skulking off.

[itsalwaysforyou]

just remembered a wip i had which was jay at uni meeting normal people and desperately trying to act cool and normal whilst internally screaming about being in a whole new place with all new people and not having his gang with him

[front-facing-pokemon]

[potatobugz]

i feel as if im going mad so im going to just put this out here. real quick. movieunleashers starters ramble.

i cant stop thinking about how mudkip broke down in that one scene in "Typomaniac," when Chespin called him mean. for a second he lets his mask slip a little bit and to me he just... acts his age. he starts crying and calls chespin mean back. maybe im just hyperfocusing on this one detail but mudkip is about 12 years old.

and that just makes me wonder what happened in this guys life that brought him to where he is now. and it makes it all the more tragic how his whole world revolves around chespin, but he is the one bringing him the most pain. and how young he was when he died.

there is a large theme of growing up in "Rare Candy." the characters ages are emphasized in that particular episode, and one of the main conflicts is fennekin wanting to evolve faster.

the thing about characters in these stories is that they're not allowed to just be kids, to have a childhood. so many bad things happen to them. like. mudkips whole, Everything. fennekin when she was famous in typomaniac, or dealing with her own insecurities/pressure from society about her relationship w chespin. and chespin always having to shoulder his friends problems & always somehow managing to stay positive despite everything.

why cant they just. play video games. eat ice cream or something. go to the movies

at the end of the day, i think both mudkip and fennekin are characters who grew up too fast. by distancing himself from them, chespin refused to follow in their footsteps and just wanted to stay a kid.

good for him.

[franeridart]

more octopath

[tenshiharmonia]

I've seen people speculate about who the starter Pokémon for Z-A are going to be, and it seems like Piplup, Snivy and to a lesser extent Torchic are the most commonly-agreed candidates, as they all pertain to French culture in one way or another. But honestly, I'd rather them not use any of those three. I mean, what is the point of making a French version of something that is already French-themed to begin with...