#dialga talks

[dailga]

I love my car. Not gonna do a full replica

[pokemonranch]

[driftingballoons]

Some creatures are more difficult to perceive than others

[tiredemmet]

Funny idea, both Emmet and Ingo (warden) manage to master the art of interdimensional time travelling and each travel to the same point in time that would have passed since Ingo went missing, therefore swapping places in time and just barely missing each other. Just swapped places. How did Warden Ingo change clothes like that? Don't worry with context they find each other eventually.

[trashlord-watson]

love the way everyone on here is after michael sheen in a sexual way, but after david tennant in a gender way

[laughing-moonlight]

So if Mikey is Time and Leo is Space, Raph is Matter/Antimatter (creating those shields from nothing) and Donnie is Creation (creating literally anything he needs)

So that means they're all Dialga, Palkia, Giratina and Arceus respectively

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

one thing i'm really really fascinated by is the fact that everyone in the modern pokemon world seems to consider the deities a power source, nothing more. the games generally imply that knowledge of the legendaries has been lost to time and legend and only preserved by a select few who keep to the Ancient Ways but i don't really think that sounds likely. i think they might be common knowledge people just don't seem to. conceptualize them as greater than in the way that we generally think of them. "this is a divine force that underpins reality and has been worshipped since antiquity" is not a thing that seems to have any problem coexisting with "i'm going to put this thing in an engine and make it my tool." and it's very frequently the baddies doing this which maybe weakens the point a little but very rarely is the point of contention with the bad guys "hey you shouldn't do that to god" that's kind of like, never the part of their thing that people object to. it's always their motives, never their methods. when the Good Guy (local ten year old) catches god and makes it their new partner, nobody has a problem with it! and people joke about this but i'm saying it might imply a way deeper facet of society than people give it credit for.

and is this maybe trying to force the round peg of pokemon legendaries into the square hole of actual religion. very possibly! the games aside from pla certainly seem only very occasionally interested in treating these creatures as gods or godlike or worshipped in any way, and far more often just want to treat them as regular pokemon But Stronger. so it's maybe not reasonable to try and say these entities are deities. but the problem is they are! it's not like this isn't supported textually, it's just... not a part of canon that canon is actually interested in. dialga, palkia, the lake trio, kyogre, groudon—these things are gods. canon can mince words and call them legendaries and "worshipped as deities maybe sometimes" but when you get to the point where you're discussing something that represents a fundamental force governing reality and/or can end the world on a whim then idc what you call it. that's a god.

but the problem is that they are gods and also pokemon, they're both simultaneously. and people in the pokemon world seem to have worked this out, and have had the collective realization that the gods are truly not exempt from their own rules. they can be captured, they can be subjugated, they can be used. this also ties back in with the whole anarchism discussion obviously but it's just the fact that like. it goes way deeper than everyone being fine with the ten year old putting the lord of time in a ball. the entire world operates on the premise of "eat your gods."

does that like... contradict worship? can you be faithful to something knowing it's been used as a tool?

[newtgati]

I love that a lot of people who remix Pokemon music make it their mission to find a way to incorporate the primal dialga motif into their work, even if it’s for a few seconds or an add on. It’s like an in joke. I love it so much when they do :)

[hupla222]

Final Round (at least for now, I hope). I told you that the gods fit perfectly into this universe. Introducing the alicorns of Time, Space, Anti-Matter, and Creation. I'm really proud of these ones and I think they turned out really well, especially Giratina, out main villain.

[ghostypetrainer]

@samvelg-likes-things replied to your post “I like to believe that Pikachu has actually a very...”:

Ingo while the great zoroark hunt is going on: ah, the lord is testing me Ingo when Pikachu is swearing like a sailor even more than usual because he does begrudgingly agree with Meowth that this Ain't His Business but also thinks this whole situation is hilarious: OH BOY THE LORD SURE IS TESTING ME

​ingo: the almighty dragons are testing me.

goh: huh, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone talking about Unova’s dragons that way.

(ingo sweating. he was not talking about Unova’s dragons. let’s just... not mention that.)

[rivalkieran]

expanding on the creationtrio thing I mentioned last post because I think its interesting

in my head the creationtrio are the first to start having the like.. order/chaos distinction. palkia and dialga creating space and time, 2 things that have rules and can be clearly experienced, means that they were the first to embody order and rationality. giratina creating antimatter, something which is defined by it’s nonexistence and is inherently contradictory, is something.. abstract and irrational, means giratina is the first to embody chaos

its also because of giratina being chaos that I think its also the first being to experience something like emotion? I think theres still a disconnect between the emotions of giratina and ours. but still. since emotions usually act against logic and reason itd make sense I think.. plus that gives a reason why giratina would do things like feel resent towards arceus and team up with people like volo and get like character development kinda?? you get it

[dailga]

Aside from using new brush techniques, I feel like my art hasn't improved at ALL since highschool. I have no drive to draw anymore because of it. It's so hard to get art noticed these days and I guess it just kinda bums me out a little too. My friend and I used to share our art all the time but in recent times I feel like I barely hear from them. They've got friends who are infinitely better with art and part of me feels like they prefer talking to them lately

[noelledeltarune]

WHO is ready for me to attempt a hunt i have been failing at constantly since the age of 10

[oceandiagonale]

I just realised that means we'll have more Dialga coming up 😳 (which is very pog)

YEA

unfortunately it is not the protag family's dialga, but the one native to gene's universe, so we don't get to see parent-dialga being a funky shaped guy 😔😔😔

[talesimagination]

"I was going to buy some cards... But I wouldn't know if this would upset my dear friend."

...

"My photography skills need work" @tellescope

[especdreamy]

guys guess who managed to recover their game saves from over a decade ago