#maya time

[professor-amaryllis]

I'm not sure you have a choice in the matter of her being yours or not, she seems to like you a lot!

@suddenlyauntiemaya

Just because a pokemon seems... Interested in someone doesn't make it theirs. It lives on the island, I coexist with it while I'm here. Yes it seems to like to follow me and stare but whos to say that it doesn't do that with all island visitors.

[peaxhypup]

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[sabertoothwalrus]

phoenix you gotta law something

[queenofinys]

it's may, it's may, the month of yes, you may HAPPY MAY!

[khairosclerosis]

🛶 and i'm asking, 'why, lord?'

if this is how i die, lord;

why be left with no family

and no friends?

[manzanamarim]

Gay Lawyers and Weird Girls for y’all ;) Mia Fey please call me

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

replaying jfa

[ministarfruit]

DID Y’ALL SEE THE NEW APOLLO JUSTICE VISUALS BECAUSE WOOO YEAH WOWZA anyway I drew a low budget version of it which you may see here

[serainechor]

… crime scene

[rendevok]

Skirting the truth

(aka i saw this meme and laughed so hard i lost my sense self control)

[professor-amaryllis]

Are the Pokémon there very different? I'm wondering how my Bellossom and Phantump (and possible future Bellsprout) would look if they were from those islands, heh.

@suddenlyauntiemaya

Ah, yes actually, pokemon here, and especially on Valencia island in particular, tend to be quite different than their mainland counterparts. Valencia island is a (partially) artificial ecosystem, most non-flying pokemon have been brought onto the island to study environmental adaption. It's one of the longest running studies on regional and environmental adaptions and has gotten quite a bit of very interesting data over the years.

While Valencia is a no capture zone due to this I did live here for a few years while I was in school myself, and three of my pokemon originated here! They couldn't be released to the wild for various reasons and so when I left they were left in my care. Let me grab some comparison photos here...

Bruno on the left here is my Valencian Nidorino. As you can see their bright color is the first difference you'll notice, and secondly they're quite a bit smaller and chubbier than their kantonian counterparts, with longer and more flexible quills. Because of this they are not quite as fast, but are considerably more venomous, preferring to let their poison do much of the work both in predation and in battle. I actually have to carry a potent antivenom whenever I have him with me, just in case.

And here on the left is Sitrus, my Valencian bellsprout. As you can see she's a bit darker, and her stem is much woodier and less flexible as her mainland counterpart. This is because these pokemon have adapted to be arboreal and much less active on the whole. Their strong stem and air roots are well suited for gripping the bark and branches of the trees around them as they wait patiently for their prey to wander by.

there are many more examples of this adaption, bu these are the two I have most at hand, perhaps when I get home I can take a photo of Val and the rest of the oddish to show her own adaption- though admittedly it is much more apparent in her evolutions than it is in oddish themselves.

[sizzling-eggs]

Do you ever watch a show or a movie or any piece of media meant for kids and just think about how the story or character or that one scene or whatever just spoke to your heart and soul, or just how profound it made you happy or break your heart. And just sit their thinking that this is for literal children, who probably still couldn't 100% understand the gravity of what they are consuming or probably couldn't articulate how they felt about it other than say they liked it or they dont, or it made them happy or sad, and you, a grown ass person is just thinking about how this thing meant for kids is just so simple yet complex with so many layers of emotions and plot and etc. That explores themes and subject better than media meant for your age, in a way that is simple yet incredible done.

[magpie-trinkets]

continuing that "maya tries to contact claire" post, i present you the post-Spirit of Justice follow-up

[oddthesungod]

at the end of an era

raise ur hand if you felt personally victimized by Travis playing a character with KIDS in an adventure that was going to ultimately culminate into an apocalypse event 😭👋

[queenofinys]

She swallowed past a lump in her throat, looked up into her son’s eyes. "Paul…I want you to do something for me: choose the course of happiness. Your desert woman, marry her if that’s your wish. Defy everyone and everything to do this. But choose your own course. I…."

LADY JESSICA & CHANI KYNES IN DUNE: PART TWO (2024)