#thanks again lordtraco

[formearlydreamingweweresnow]

Cosplayers Pt. 2

Even with Ingo working tirelessly at the training grounds in order to help the citizens of Hisui improve in battle, there still weren't that many intense battles. Sure, there might be from time to time when Dawn wanted to practice, but most of the time they were very low key battles. Any experienced battlers like Adaman and Irida needed proper opponents for a good battle, and the citizens of Hisui were not quite that just yet.

And when Ingo and Dawn went back home, Zizu took over, and there were even less dramatic battles due to their absence.

But when the hole in time started opening up once a year from Hisui to Nimbasa, there were a lot more options.

What better way to show Adaman and Irida some fantastic battles, as well as help them get some new ideas for battling, than let them watch Ingo and Emmet battle together on the battle subway?

Things were going great! Adaman and Irida were observing battles with the subway bosses, and seeing pitfalls that they could avoid in battle.

But when Ingo and Emmet saw a certain party of people, their expressions lightened a bit. Adaman recognized one of them, it was the weird researcher person who questioned him randomly about Hisui yesterday.

"They are on the multi line this time. They will make it to the battle with us. I can take over conducting the battle, you stay here Ingo" said Emmet.

"No! A multi battle of that challenge requires the both of us to properly conduct, I'm not leaving you on the tracks alone" retorted Ingo.

"But what if they -"

"Why is that group so dangerous to you Ingo?" Irida cut in.

Ingo and Emmet turned to face Irida and Adaman once again.

Ingo’s expression brightened further. "These researchers are of no danger to me. Since i've come back to this time, they've been trying to get information about Hisui from me without end. They have determined that the best way to get that information is to intercept me during work, and ask questions of me when I cannot leave. However, they are extremely passionate about battling and seeing their skill increase over time is inspiring! So in order to motivate them further, I am coincidentally missing at my post whenever they would face off with me, and face Emmet instead.”

"They have been verrry relentless. I do not understand them. They could have called and tried to schedule a time and place to talk with us. They have not done that, and when I suggest the idea they merely laugh in my face."

"I recognize one of them" Adaman said, "that was the man who corned me yesterday Irida. I think he thought I was a fraud or something, but then he left me alone."

"I have an idea" Irida said. "What if I take Ingo's place during this... Multi battle you said? I am skilled in wielding multiple pokemon at once, and if I am too out of my element, you could direct me Emmet."

"Hm. That could work. But you would have to lend her one of your spare uniforms Ingo.”

"That seems like a safe track," Ingo relented, "Usually when this occurs I take a break and watch the battle over the cameras, so I would be willing to part with my uniform for the time being. Adaman, would you like to join me in getting something from the Gear Station food court?” 

“I’d love to.”

...

The researchers made it to the final fight. Their plan had finally worked, Ingo and Emmet were waiting for them, there could be no more switching shenanigans if both of them were present.

Was it just them, or was Ingo a little shorter than normal?

It was probably nothing.

“Now that you’ve finally stopped avoiding us Ingo, please answer at least some of our inquiries. First, what was Lady Irida of the Pearl Clan like?”

“It’s rather rude to ask someone that to their face, don’t you think?” said a very... un-Ingo like voice.

The imposter took off their hat to reveal someone who looked... remarkably like Lady Irida of the Pearl Clan... Was it another one of those recent cosplayers? Was she working with the other ones? Wait...

“Subway boss Emmet! I had no idea that you would stoop so low as to hire actors to distract us from retrieving the truth from Ingo!”

Irida couldn’t believe it. They were actually that dense.

“I must assure you that is false. Ingo is busy handling an issue that came up in another line. This is our temporary Subway Boss Irida. Let us battle.”

The battle was very good, and the researchers were defeated once again.

Credit to @lordtraco for the idea in the tags of one of these posts that the researchers just assumed that someone else in the group called to schedule an appointment or something with Ingo and was denied, and didn’t realize that they could just talk to him instead of going through the battle subway. When I saw lordtraco’s tags I was dying with laughter they were very good

[rhinoyo]

I dunno what you like so I'm just gonna give a dash of everything: Glory by Friday Pilots Club is good rock, Pelicans We by Cosmo Sheldrake always makes me smile, Oran Na Cloiche by Mànran is super catchy fast paced and Gaelic, Adrenaline by Zero 9:36 is heavier but still melodic, and Bag of Bones by Silversun Pickups is gentle and swaying rock. I hope you have an awesome weekend and find some neat new songs!

OHHGH. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SONGS I APPRECIATE IT. i don’t think i’ve heard of friday pilots club before? but glory sounds really really good?!? i love songs like that.. pelicans we has a really nice rhythm.. oran na cloiche IS indeed very catchy!! fast paced stuff like that is very fun :-] i feel like i’ve heard adrenaline before n it’s really nice to hear those vocals again! bag of bones is very much something i like a lot as well.. THESE ARE ALL JUST. REALLY GOOD

[todaytomorrowgiraff]

I'm listening to you Becoming Human playlist and I'm reliving the whole things again, ahh I think I'm getting emotional.... btw do you have any HLVRAI fic recommendations? Especially something longer?

First of all thank you! Many of the songs I was actually recommended from readers of the fic. @lordtraco has been especially helpful! If anyone has more recommendations please feel free to throw them at me.

Now fic recommendations. I usually work through AO3 by sorting the fics by kudos or hits and going from the top down XD But if I’m going to recommend a few that particularly stads out that would be:

Human Resource Violations by Kogo Dogs. M rated for violence but with an amazing take on a post HLVRAI setting.  Play Again? by Dombinic. 15 years after the events of HLVRAI Joshua finds the game and VR-headset that started it all.  Baby Shoes by lakesandquarries. Bubby becomes Xen experiment Benrey’s adoptive father. It’s amazingly sweet and so much in character it hurts. Honestly, any fic by this author is worth a read.  Any fic by Antilocapra who is a terrific writer who manages to grip my heart with every fic. My personal favourite though is Sweet dreams are made of Bees. Gordon wakes up back on Xen, Benrey is there as well but something is...weird. Atonement and Enticement by tealgreenhealingbeam. Frenreylatta at its best. It’s the events after the betrayal, only Benrey feels very bad about what happened and tries to make things right. 

And the rhyme doesn’t even matter by Bee_bro. Honestly I could only dream of writing a love confession as good as this. (check out their other fics as well, they are all amazing!)

Forgive Me by FawnWitch. Gordon takes a fall and Benrey tries to help. On their way back to the team they get to understand each other better.  That’s the ones I can come up with now. Like there are SO many amazing fics in this fandom. I’ve probably missed a bunch of my faves... I’ve read so many of them ^^' Anyway, hope these bring you joy. If anyone else has any fic recs (or wanna plug their own feel free to send an ask ^^

[namelessokamiart]

Pokefusion Raffle Winner is.....

Two winners! One drawing and one sculpture! Why? Because all of you sent in so many gosh dang amazing entries. I loved all of them and this was SO HARD to choose! So, I chose two.

SCULPTURE

@highwind-sniper​

DRAWING

 @askull4everyoccasion 

(Ps, the drawing will still be sent to you, as I will likely make it either a copic marker drawing or a water color painting)

Congrats to the winners and thank you all so much for joining! I will contact the winners in pm and talk to you about mailing info than I will need.

I loved this so I will most likely host another one but in the mean time, I will definitely be doodling most or all of these. Because, I kid you not, I had a very hard time choosing just these two, they are all so beautiful (or wonderfully weird.) And here are the other entries! 

I love them all, so I will most likely still make a few sculptures, definitely drawings although I will most likely not be giving them away. If you still want to own your entry feel free to commission me though! Before all that though, what did people think? Should I make this a consistent thing? Perhaps every other month? Or perhaps make this more of an art contest. Feel free to give me suggestions! Again, thank you so much for joining in! Contestants listed below (sorry if I can’t tag you.)

@askull4everyoccasion @coolestninja1242 @naryu-n @zichqecs-hoard @skeletalegastertalevoidtale @acutelatios @wildunderbeastly @highwind-sniper @areyoyanimations @lordtraco @vivacia-18 @marzipanrose @barsom-fearce @thatsuspiciouswhalenut

[lordtraco]

and if I really AM Allowed to I vote for ALL of them cause they're ALL so Awesome XD Seriously I love each and every one of these ideas, and I'm 1000% look forward to reading more!! XD Thank you thank you for creating and posting Blue Raspberry: Olive Branch, *I Love it so so so so much/I can't WAIT for all the fluff (and angst, but then Comfort!!) to come outta it, man. . .* Thank you Again!! XD

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28205220

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28206447

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28206951

I'm still working on fic #1 because it needs the most planning of all, but I wanted to say thank you for the support! And what better way to thank you than posting everything I've got?