I find it really interesting how the Alola and Galar regions’ games have completely deconstructed the traditional gym challenge - and relatedly, the role of pokemon training in society - in completely opposite directions. Taking the basic premise of “ok so people over a certain age can go around earning merit badges from local leaders/celebrities/weird hermits” and then spinning it off first into “this is an ancient coming-of-age ceremony with both practical skill-building and deeply spiritual components” and then immediately swinging back to “they’re professional athletes. the challengers, the gym leaders, everyone. they all have corporate sponsors and their job is to be entertaining”? It’s very good.
It’s also, I suspect, partly to blame for a lot of people’s problems with the writing in the Gen 7 and 8 games. Like, yes, Gen 7 was fairly railroady and Gen 8 feels a little shallow. Gen 7 is guiding us through an extended ritual ordained by the gods while gently pointing us toward places where that tradition fails to care for people and asking us to question how, or whether, the traditions can survive modernization and contact with dominant global cultures. Gen 8 has a lot of interactions with other major players that are literally kayfabe while raising questions of where the posturing of the public persona stops and the hard work of the person behind it takes over, and also showing us places where that tradition leaves whole communities in the dust. It feels awkward, and in some cases is genuinely poorly executed, because we’re not used to a pokemon narrative that asks us to consider whether the gym challenge itself is a public good.
“i don’t like preston garvey”
me:
A comic about controlling your symptoms and trying to get other people to understand why it’s so hard to do so, in goo form
My Chemical Romance is anti-war but pro-getting in a knife fight with your homoerotic rival in an alley behind a catholic church in New Jersey
Bass Reeves, protrayed by Colman Domingo. Rufus Carlin, protrayed by Malcolm Barrett.
Watch it here , get Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth here
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adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
It’s unfair to judge sharks with labels of them being a "killer machine" or “monsters”. But don’t you think that, instead sharks themselves, the real monsters here are us, humans?
Think with me, only 5-10 people a year die from shark accidents, but 8000 sharks are killed every hour by the hands of hunters and fishermen. In other words: us
Now I ask you all, who’s actually the real “killer machine” here? I finally made a twitter, it’s @Requinoesis if you want to follow me!
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*Speaking quickly* So before Halloween I decided to get online and try to look for some abandoned cemeteries.
So I ended up finding one but it was in the middle of the woods so I decided to just plug some coordinates and take a chance. And I found something a helluva lot scary.
As I am walking the path to find this abandoned cemetery, um… *voice getting louder* Hands! Hands! Everywhere!!
By now you’re probably thinking to yourself, easyise, hands don’t just crawl what are you talking about? You would be correct.
Um- SPIDERS! FUCKING SPIDERS! DRACULARACHNIDS THE SIZE OF MY FUCKING HAND!!!
So after pissing myself and driving home, uh- I came home and looked it up on the internet and found exactly what it was I saw.
*Louder voice but not quite yelling* And here it is fam! Uh people like to call ‘em golden silk orb weaver *voice getting louder* but I like to call them NIGHTMARE FUEL DIPPED IN YELLOW FUCKING PAINT.
*Yelling* YOU SEE THE UNHOLY SIZE OF- THERE IS NOTHING AMAZING ABOUT THAT ON YOUR FACE!!
WHAT KIND OF ALIEN VS PREDATOR SCP SATAN SHIT-
IS THAT ONE EATING A FUCKING BIRD?!?!
THIS THING IS LIKE VOLDEMORT FUCKED A DEMAGORGON BUT SURE LET’S PUT IT ON A GREETING CARD!!!
*In a incredulous tone* SATAN DOESN’T EXIST?!?! THEN WHY WAS I MET WITH A FOREST-FUL OF THIS SHIT?
CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!
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animal (cross)ing (guild)
plus and extra doffymingo
I’m assuming that this is how metal lee was made
Or
In which I haven’t drawn anything in over a year and it definitely shows
positivity post 😁😁!!!!
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