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[cookiedex-project]

#0035-1: Sipsy

The Fruit Bat Pokemon

“When it’s born, this Mon finds a fragrant wine glass to squeeze into, then flies off with it. It is often considered a nuisance by the rich and affluent.”

Type: Poison/Flying

Ability: Truant/Fermented*

Hidden Ability: Weak Armor

Preferred Habitats: Wherever wine is found (Night)

Egg Group: Amorphous/Field

#0035-2: Vesperrel

The Juice Bat Pokemon

“It can no longer fly due to its weight, so it gets around quickly by rolling down hills. Its wings can create gusts that can knock a grown man off their feet, but it considers using them too much work.”

Type: Poison/Flying

Ability: Truant/Fermented*

Hidden Ability: Weak Armor

Preferred Habitats: Wherever wine is found (Night)

Egg Group: Amorphous/Field

#0035-2 Vesperrel (SHADOW)

The Juice Bat Pokemon

[Shadow Evolution]

“It sleeps soundly in its grail, unable to be awoken even by a large explosion. The grail is believed to be sentient and in control of Vesperrel’s actions, though some think its will is simply Vesperrel’s own repressed malice.”

Type: Poison/Dark

Ability: Supreme Overlord

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*Fermented (Ability): When this Pokemon is hit with a Biting or HP-Draining Move, the attacker will become Confused. (This does not activate if the attacker has Own Tempo or another condition that prevents confusion.)

[descendant-of-truth]

Don't let everything else in the Z-A trailer distract you from the fact that this is our first female player character whose default outfit has her wearing pants. Not leggings or tights with an extra skirt or pair of shorts on top, but full-length, honest to goodness PANTS.

I'M SO PROUD. IT TOOK THEM 24 YEARS BUT THEY FINALLY DID IT

[honehonn3honey]

Birthday boy 🎂

[molinaesque]

Sergei Dragunov - Tekken 8 Main Menu

[radioactive-yuri]

"mgsv mid" you can play as a sweaty shirtless guy covered in blood. you can make everybody wear pink triangles on their outfits. you can kidnap people. you can hit the vape that makes time go faster. you can beat up a white boy with a mullet. what the fuck do you mean "mgsv mid" this is what video games should aspire to be

[sexhaver]

definitely one of the most difficult moments of my professional career was when i was doing tech support for [REDACTED]'s automated biomed research lab and like. hang on lemme greentext this

>tell them i can fix this issue in half an hour with a remote support session (aka Teamviewer)

>"you want to... control our computers???? over the internet????? like some kind of HACKER???????"

>their IT submits my request to upper management and after two weeks they reluctantly allow me to get remote access to their systems

>by logging into a virtual machine using a 20-digit password and then using a specific program inside of that virtual machine

>while sharing my screen with someone from their IT team the entire time

>finally get remote access to the PC with the issue

>go to open log files to start troubleshooting

>ERROR: User does not have read permissions.

>what the fuck

>ask their IT guy why it's saying that

>"...because we don't want you looking at our stuff, duh?"

>take deep breath before calmly explaining that i need to open files in order to fix their problem

>IT guy submits my request to upper management

>after another week i go through the whole process again but can actually open the log file this time

>cool, it's exactly the issue i thought it was and i know exactly how to solve it

>open the relevant settings file, change a single number, hit Save

>ERROR: User does not have write permissions.

>what the FUCK

>ask IT guy how i'm supposed to fix their system if i can't change literally anything on it

>takes 20 minutes of arguing to get him to admit that maybe i need write access

>he submits the request to upper management

>a week goes by

>upper management denies it

>says i can just verbally tell the IT guy on the call what to type and he'll do it for me

>deep breaths. deep breaths.

>start third remote session

>go to open the relevant .log file in notepad, which isn't the default program it opens with for some reason

>they fucking disabled right clicking

>[REDACTED] has a $118 billion market cap btw

>manage to walk the IT guy through using the command line (which he had never seen before and was scared of) to edit the relevant file

>three weeks go by

>new support ticket in my inbox

>"why didn't your fix fix this completely unrelated issue?"

>they still won't give me write access

>VP of [REDACTED] yells at me in our weekly meeting for taking so long to fix a third unrelated issue they never submitted a ticket for and is also not actually an "issue" but an intended feature of our software that they don't like

>i went to college for this

[zorlok-if]

I’m kinda curious but is there a specific outfit or aesthetic the RO’s find attractive. Like cowboy, vampire, nurse, etc

Interesting question, I'd say some do, some don't (though they'd all agree that the Sandler look is a bit hard to look past at first). I'll stick to using the terminology/options in the game since that's what you'll have to work with.

Dev: Loves the sexy and dark outfits. 11/10 for xem. Also has a thing for people wearing more fantastical outfits (like Cutesy, Cottage, Corset, Spooky, and Princeling; and if Z has flowers in their hair?... oof, Dev's entranced). Piercings are very hot to xem.

EJ: Really likes the sweet and vintage outfit options (if Z is wearing the Denim outfit, they can compare patches!). Also thinks the dark outfits are very cool. Thinks it's really cool when people have bright/unnatural colored hair and eyes.

Adam/Eve: The dark and badass outfits are exactly A/E's cup of tea. (And, naturally, they love the color red.) Thigh high boots are ridiculously sexy to them, but they like any shoes that are more formal/dressy. Would also love someone dressed like a literal cowpoke (like Arthur Morgan, where you at?).

Lucía: She would really like the badass and casual outfits. Also, the cooler the boots, the cooler she'll think Z is. They also love graying hair and Lucía's naturally more attracted to people that are older than her. She also loves tattoos.

Ciel: Anything that Ciel would wear is the hottest thing to them. Likes a lot of the makeup options like goth makeup, raccoon eyes, smoky eyes, experimental, and corpse paint, those are very cool to them. Also, they consider scars to be very sexy and would want to know the stories behind each one. Basically, the more obviously demonic Z looks, the more interested Ciel will be.

Danny: Their favorite looks would be the more cottagecore and academic outfits (most of which are in the sweet or vintage categories). Would feel a weird kind of deference to anyone wearing the Cutesy, Corset, Princeling, Howl, or Antique outfits.

The Celestial: Genuinely, no preference. Ey loves everything and would wear anything emself. Would feel a special connection to Z though if they're wearing the locket.

Rose: Really attracted to any punk and more alternative looks. Piercings, tattoos, and unnatural hair are very hot to him. Naturally, finds the sexy/formal looks to be, well, sexy. Also thinks the softer outfits like Romeo and Academic are hot. Will be more inclined to find people attractive the closer they appear in age to him (late 30s-early 40s+).

[goldenshrikecomic]

The way you draw grass is amazing do you have any tips? Drawing grass is hard

It is hard! I cannot draw grass myself, I'm at the mercy of custom brushes. Devin Elle Kurtz/Tamberella has neat brushes I recommend. You can get them at Gumroad.

[thecustomcosplayed]

i love you self-indulgent fic writers. i love you niche fic writers. i love you writing the same au twelve different ways fic writers. i love you keeping one ship afloat fic writers. i love you researching too much for a single line fic writers. i love fic writers

[wickjump]

im gonna start posting fanfic recs btw whenever i find good ones. both here and my (awfully barren) 18+ account. because there are so many good fics out there with so few hits and fewer kudos and sometimes no comments period and it SUCKS because i REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT.. and i hope that by linking them here and yelling at everyone to COMMENT DAMMIT they might actually do it

seriously though any comment means a lot. most people who read a fic don’t even give a kudos. even if the fic wasn’t top tier, if you didn’t dislike it, hand over some kudos!! and if you liked it, comment!!!! even if the comment is one singular heart emoji it will be appreciated. if the comment just says “great fic!” the author will be happy. your comment doesn’t have to be this long winded gushing or analysis.

so many authors quit writing or lose motivation because the comments are few and far in between or just sometimes nonexistent. trust me when i say authors don’t care about how long or cool or smart sounding your comment is i promise!!!

i hope that mmmaybe recommending fics and telling people to comment might help fics i really like get more support maybe. and i, points at you reading this, hope that you will listen!!!at least a little….at least sum kudos….

[cookiedex-project]

#0630 Algum

The Reflection Pokemon

“This Mon has no true will of its own. Every single aspect of an Algum’s personality is copied from its Trainer or surrounding environment. An isolated wild Algum merely sits motionless, its brain waiting for any form of stimulus to arrive.”

Type: Ghost/Normal

Ability: Power Devour*

Hidden Ability: None

Preferred Habitats: Deep Seafloor

Egg Group: Amorphous

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*Power Devour (Ability): Whenever this Mon is hit by a damaging move, its secondary Typing changes to be the same as that move. (Fails if this Mon is Terastalized or the move used was Stellar-Type. If a Mon with this Ability is hit by a move of its primary Type, its secondary Type will be removed. This Ability cannot be removed, stolen, copied, or traded by in-battle effects.)

[greyias]

A beautiful buggy evening in a galaxy far, far away

She shimmers, she shines. She had this beautiful aura following her around for several minutes. Also, somehow purchasing the speed boost on all speeders via legacy has disabled her speed boost on our super special taxi yellow vehicle that had speed boost five months before anyone else did.

I cry.

But at least I'm very sparkly while I do.

[redladydeath]

I've seen a couple posts now talking about the concept of an AU where Vox somehow gains control over Alastor's soul/contract. While I do agree with the common take that he'd probably try to mind control Alastor or break his spirit at first, I think he'd actually get bored of that pretty quickly. Alastor's appeal is all in his personality; putting him in a situation where he just shuts down and stops giving the reactions that make him who he is would lose its novelty for Vox within a month or two.

Imo, from there I see it turning into a "gilded cage" situation. Vox sets up a nice little club for Alastor to live in; it's classy and Alastor is free to do what he pleases with it, but he cannot leave and whatever Vox says goes. It's a kind of faux freedom that's just tolerable enough for him not to go insane, but just restrictive enough that he still feels like some kind of pet. Vox isn't physically around that often, but he's always watching; Alastor's free to make his own choices, but can only chose from a small, pre-approved set of options. It's actually not too dissimilar to the situation he put his own contractees in, and Alastor loathes that fact.

[treefish]

Reese + Cyrus

[lokiina]

Dino's guide on how to talk to short people

featuring Zayn "You're lucky I love you" MacKenna

[iiryebreadii]

i think we're sleeping on the fact that both Mabel and McGucket are canonical knitters. they can be fiber-craft friends :)