#this is actually two of my friends' favorite pokemon but they're twins so i had to draw their favs together <3

[liddlediddy]

@aquaspiderart 's Pokecémber Day 30: Friend's Favorite Pokémon

[dont-call-me-algernon]

For the Pokemon ask do Exp. Share, Master Ball, and then whichever gen is your favorite and whichever type is your favorite!

Exp. Share: Your first Pokémon game & when you played it

Ruby version for the gba (actually played on my DS lite tho). I did some math and iirc I was like 12/13 at the time. There's actually a funny anecdote about how I got into pokemon in the first place – I was at summer camp and there was this kid one or two years older than me who had brought his gameboy and spent every lunch break playing pokemon Ruby. He was kind of the “cool kid” so everyone naturally gravitated around him. One day me and a couple others went up to him and asked him if he could show us what he was playing. Fast forward two days later and I was pestering my parents for a pokemon game. One of the best decisions I've ever made, honestly asdfghjk

Hoenn still has a very special place in my heart for that very reason and some of my all-time favourite 'mons are from gen III!

Master ball: favourite legendary

Ho-oh, Latias and Latios

I don't have much to say about Ho-oh, other than I've always really liked how it it looked and, since I was too young to play Gold when it came out, when I finally got my hands on HG I literally rushed it until I could finally get my hands on it.

Latias and Latios, on the other hand, I like both the design, their unique typing, and the lore around them (they're twins, how cute is that??). I think that, despite blue being my favourite colour, I like Latias a little bit more? But they're so similar that picking just one didn't feel right, so yeah.

Favourite pokemon of my favorite gen (gen III)

Flygon

My boy. My son. Absolute peak design. Jokes aside, this is very much a case of "I don't know why I like this specific 'mon so much, but I do". I guess I just find its design very unique for a dragon type and very pleasant to look at, not to mention the fact that I've grown even more attached to it ever since having it on my main team last time I re-played B2W2, a couple years ago. It looks friendly and I want to be its friend :)

Favourite pokemon of my favourite type (flying)

You know, up until a few months ago I would have said fire was my favourite type without a doubt. But lately I just sort of realised that in terms of sheer numbers there are actually more flying type 'mons I like using than fire types, so flying it is! I narrowed it down to these three:

Talonflame, Altaria, Wattrel

Using talonflame a lot is legit one of the few memories I have retained of my pokemon X playthrough (the other is a random shiny Sylveon I got from wonder trade that basically became my ace). The design is simple, but imo it works well for what it's trying to represent. Then again, I might be biased because I've always liked 'mons that are basically "what if this real-life animal had a cool elemental power?" 😂

Altaria is one of those nostalgic faves that bring me back to my early days as a pokemon fan. I vividly remember seeing the Altaria in Winona's team and being like "WHAT IS THAT I WANT THAT". Except it was my very first pokemon game, kid me had no concept of how evolution worked just yet and also had very limited access to the internet. I don't know how it dawned on me that I had to catch a Swablu and train it in order to get one, but I do know that I was ecstatic when I finally did!

Another new entry from SV, I was so excited to see this little guy leaked. I've seen a lot of people online complain that Wattrel is just some bird, which I guess it's true, but I happen to like just some bird. Plus, flying-electric is a very cool type combination that makes it and its evolution a lot of fun to battle with too. I went with Wattrel instead of Kilowattrel simply because, visually, I like the small guy a little bit more.

Thank you for the ask, this was lots of fun!

[1863-project]

who are ingo and emmet's favorite characters from thomas the tank engine? did either twin ever develop a crush on one? /hj

Hi, anon! I guess you didn't see my pinned post where I stated I can't write headcanons for people; that's not my place. I can, however, talk about Thomas and Friends from the perspective of someone around Ingo and Emmet's presumed age range who grew up with the show!

When I was a little kid, Thomas and Friends was first introduced to Americans framed in a live-action show called Shining Time Station. The opening sequence featured famed 4-8-4 Northern locomotive Union Pacific 844, the only steam locomotive to never be retired by a Class I railroad in the United States.

Shining Time Station's versions of the Thomas stories were first narrated by Ringo Starr, as they were in the UK, and later by George Carlin. This ran until 1995, and then for some reason there was a semi-related movie in 2000 called Thomas and the Magic Railroad, which is really only notable because it sucked. The only good thing I can say about it is that Strasburg #475, the only operational 4-8-0 Mastodon in North America, played a starring role. I'm proud of her.

I had die-cast Thomas and Friends toys (including a nice roundhouse for them to live in), amongst other merchandise. I was born in 1989, right as the show was hitting American audiences for the first time. There's a few characters looking back that I'm surprised people haven't picked up on yet.

The Reverend W. Awdry, the author of the Railway Series books, was a noted railway preservationist, and those themes show up in his work frequently (you can see how vehemently anti-scrapping he is). And that especially shows up with...

Donald and Douglas

These two are a set of twins whose entire initial storyline revolves around not separating them, so I'm stunned the Submas fandom hasn't jumped on this. Donald and Douglas are two engines from Scotland who are brought to Sodor, and initially the plan is to only keep one of them and scrap the other - Donald was ordered, but Douglas tagged along to avoid being scrapped. After they repeatedly pull twin switches to confuse the matter, the Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt finds out that their engineers and firemen are ALSO related and are in on the plan. By this point, their general good performance has endeared them to many, and Percy is sent by the other locomotives to argue on their behalf. The Fat Controller agrees, and both locomotives are saved.

They do, however, receive nameplates so they're forced to stop pulling twin switches, which is funny.

There's another set of twins in Thomas and Friends, Bill and Ben, who are best known for coining the oft-used insult "diseasel." You'll even hear otherwise serious railfans use the term now sometimes if they're steam fans, which is really funny. Bill and Ben solely exist to raise hell. They're officially shunters, but they are actually here to cause problems on purpose and get in trouble.

You can tell these things are up to no good. Just look at them.

Anyway, I was actually telling my roommate recently that I was surprised the Submas fandom didn't jump on Donald and Douglas's story involving them doing anything to avoid being separated, but I suppose there's a lot less crossover between Pokemon fans and TTTE fans than I thought there might be. I have to remember that I'm fairly unusual in that for me the trains actually came first and have been a lifelong interest; finding Submas only happened for me a few years ago and they were a perfect fit because I've always been into trains.

I'm not involved in the Thomas fandom (though I did have a massive...thing in 2014 with another preschool train show, Chuggington), but I have fond memories of the show, as it was an early introduction to steam locomotives for me, which was furthered by my parents taking me to Strasburg, which had the side effect of me discovering Old Rivets and falling in love with one specific electric locomotive class (steam locomotives are a hobby I share with my dad; the GG1 is just my own thing). I am, however, aware that Thomas and Friends has a very vocal and passionate fandom. That "half-joking" got me wondering, anon - do you by chance have a crush on any of the characters? Because I know quite a few people certainly do!