#was the summer of pokemon go

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

[retrogamingblog2]

[efplanning]

efverse object pokemon :)

[b4kuch1n]

sunstroll

[edgycarr0t]

Been playing Pokémon Go

[summerandfall]

i couldn't find any HQ versions of these so i tried to enhance Naoki Saito's artwork of Red w/ Charizard & Blue w/ Blastoise for the first volume of the Pokemon Center Trainers Collection

EDIT: there's finally an HD version! uploaded by the official Pokemon twitter!

[marinecorvid]

That’s it that’s them

[superbeans89]

Summer 2023’s loading screen for Pokémon go. A few interesting developments on the way here, including what could be quests of some sort.

[goatlilly]

Fakemon Starters: Cattlecorn, Fugong, and Buddier

So…. I’m doing this now. And by “this,” I mean that I’m creating a whole new Fake-mon region. You know, for funzies. Also because I like to suffer, apparently. Anyways, here are the starters—finally. Took me about 2 months to come up with these. I’ll post their evolved forms whenever I finish those, but for now…. This is what I’m doing.

Yay!

[darewolfcreates]

My Pokemon go yellow team :]

[magentagalaxies]

i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

hello everyone, annoying spaniard playing pokemon scarlet and violet here, here's my previous post! this one is actually gonna be pretty short, i didn't see that many new things but still:

this first one is probably not restricted to spain, but bombirdier is based on the story of storks delivering babies, very extended here. also storks are everywhere in my hometown (i love them with all my heart) and i made a stork pokemon for my iberia region, so i'm happy to see an official one!!!!

cascarrafa's architecture is heavily inspired by andalusian towns, especially those called the 'pueblos blancos' in mountainous areas and thus with very esteep roads, just like cascarrafa. the color scheme also reminds me of the town of mojácar [pics 6 to 8], in almería (next to the tabernas desert), and the importance of water, the presence of windmills, and the esteepness of the city could also be a reference to alcalá del júcar [pics 9 to 11], in albacete. finally, the sand storms that happen in the city remind me a lot of calima [pics 12 to 14], a phenomenon that happens all throughout mediterranean and southern spain, is particularly prevalent in the canary islands and can go quite inland (i live right in the center of the peninsula and i've experienced calima) that forms as a result of sahara wind blowing north and thus covering everything in sand.

and that's it for today, as i told you this one's short and sweet!

here's next post !!

[powdermelonkeg]

are you chill if we take insp from your fakemon region? cause i’m making one and some of your ideas are 🧑‍🍳🤌

By all means!

[t4tbedehopmar]

WHAT.

[summerandfall]

everyone: huh, our returning character fallers have been battle facility leaders so far.... (side-eyes the battle maison)

me, priorities straight: (sweating balls and ass, side-eyeing the battle tree)