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hello! you sound like a wonderful option to take her in - and I'd be happy to send her over! if you could provide me with your trainer ID and a Pokemon Center address to send her to, I'll transfer her to you in her PokeBall!

hello! you may have seen a previous post of mine about a Pokemon I've temporarily taken in, Doozy. she's a Fiore regional variant Skitty, a water/normal type. my friend found her, seemingly abandoned, in Alola, and transferred her to my care due to not having the time to take care of her. however, I cannot be a long term trainer for her.

I'm looking for someone who's willing to adopt her!

she seems to have potential to battle, though it also seems like she'd be very happy to continue to just be a housepet. she's an utter sweetheart, loves cuddling and pets, and seems to be good with larger and smaller Pokemon alike. she's interacted with my Litten, Shinx, Pachirisu, Gardevoir, and Roserade with absolutely no issues whatsoever.

she doesn't require being in water constantly, but does enjoy playing in water. she's enjoyed sprinklers and a kiddy pool. she does drink a lot of water, that seems to be one of the few things that make her care a little fussy - these specific Skitty need a lot of water in their systems!

please take into consideration adopting her, she deserves a proper trainer to take her as their Pokemon.

the photo under the cut is the photo I shared of her in my previous post about her!

((OOC info as well))

((Doozy would essentially count as an "adoptable". you would decide details on her beyond what's been stated already - nature, moveset, stuff like that. we are willing to draw her as a Delcatty as well if your character would evolve her. to "adopt" her, all you have to do is reblog this post or send an ask or submission with information on your Pokemon irl character, why they'd be a good trainer for her! if you receive her, all we ask for is credit for the art, beyond that she'd be yours to do as you please!))

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picture i took the other day :)

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could you draw a Cutiefly?

cuti

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[hollycripplepoke]

Hi!! So I have a baby nephew (well, he’s five, but he’s always going to be a baby in my eyes) and he’s generally very good with Pokémon. However, he seems very scared of my Houndour and Nickit, even though they’re both pretty good with kids. Apparently he heard that old “dark = evil” thing at some point. I’ve tried to keep them balled up around him, but I was wondering if you have any advice? Both my boys are very calm and patient, so I really wasn’t expecting this

this is something to talk over with his parents. forcing him to interact with a pokemon he's scared of is just going to reinforce his fears, and you shouldn't do anything without running it by them anyway. you can gently correct him if he talks about dark types being evil, but sometimes it's just a matter of giving kids time and the option to interact with the pokemon that scares them. i was horribly afraid of most pokemon as a kid, but especially of flying types- and now i raise several birds! i just needed to come to terms with my fear on my own time, and it helped that i had a teacher who helped me find books to read, because she recognized that i was afraid of things that i didn't understand. whether his fears are rational are not, give your nephew the chance to explore things in a way he's comfortable with.

one thing you can talk to his parents about is getting a copy of "the honest lie." it's an internationally acclaimed childrens book about a zorua who feels like she has to disguise herself constantly because everyone treats her poorly for being a dark type. it's an accessible way for kids to learn about stereotypes, and while its main purpose is to teach them to be kind to each other, a lot of people have said it helped them learn to like dark type pokemon as a kid.

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//Hey hello! Sorry for the jumpscare. I came here to tell you about my pokemon roleplay server inspired by westerns and pokemon mystery dungeon! We are a small group for now but we are open to anyone within our rules. 13+

So prepare your hat and cowboy boots because we are going westering. See you this weekend with a new program !

[hollycripplepoke]

Okay nerds. This is… going to be loose as all hell. So. Sorry. I also don’t have sources for most of this stuff. Or the proper format. The wifi here is bad at academic journals and I don’t feel like squinting at a bunch of crusty pdf documents. This is generally going to be about broad cultural trends and disability theory. 

So history is big and weird and cultural. And what I’m going to be talking about actually goes back to the great Kalosian war. We don’t even have records of who they were fighting, not to mention borders have changed a lot and their enemies may no longer exist. There are theories, sure, but frankly I don’t care and this ain’t about them anyways. 

No one agrees when it was, but at some point in history, there was a shift away from battling with weapons like swords and knives, and towards Pokémon battling. And that particular shift is so so important for disabled history, because it’s something that allowed disabled people more social mobility. 

I’ll back up a bit. So, in what I will be referring to as the Sword Era, monarchies were the default form of government because they’re stable and decisive. People often needed swift governments because they were often under attack from their neighbors. 

Alola was. Frankly pretty damn isolationist due to their geographic location, but I’ll get to that in a second. 

So. Sword Era meant that warriors would have the most upward social mobility. You could gain power and glory by honing your body and proving yourself in battle! Scholars had this to a lesser extent, being good choices for advisors and members of the court, but they were typically too eccentric (read: likely autistic) to participate in the highly neurotypical social structures of the upper court, and it was more common to simply have one at your manor. 

This is the part where I cut in and go on a tangent about how there’s this pervasive idea that all physically disabled people are gloriously intelligent prodigies, trapped in a body unsuited for athletics but with a brilliant intellect and a quick wit. That’s straight up not true and it’s confirmation bias. Sure, you had a decent number of physically disabled scholars. But you also had disabled people who were more like me. Who had brain fog or other cognitive impairments, who had undiagnosed or unmedicated tismHD, who were in so much pain that they couldn’t think properly.

Those people? They stayed at home, with their family as caretakers. And… hm. This wasn’t great. I’m skimming over this one because it hits a little close to home lol.

Alolan royalty was largely about distribution of resources and conflict resolution. And as technology progressed, they were able to delegate more of their work to specialize committees that could make better decisions about things like urban planning, and this lifted a lot of the responsibility from them. Alolan royals were scholars first and foremost, who trained in geography and politics and alchemy and ecology, and there are records of a good deal of them being…frankly unhappy and overwhelmed by their lot in life. 

That said, Alolans were largely community oriented, which caused some large cultural clashes when the Kalosian war arrived. So disabled people in Alola were seen as people for their entire community to take care of, rather than for their family alone to help. And this means that disabled Alolans, historically, have some advantages! If you’re disabled in Alola, there are fewer elevators and wheelchair accessible doors, but people are a lot more likely to open doors for you or offer a ride pokemon to assist you up the stairs.

That said. Because Alolans are also very traditional, they’re actually behind in accessibility compared to other regions. They’re just very good at compensating. There’s a project in the works that aims to find a way to preserve some of the linguistic quirks of alolan in braille forme, so that people have better ways to connect to their dual cultural identity as both blind/visually impaired AND alolan. I’m part of the kickstarter for that one, so I can get a textured “Welcome to alola” sticker when they move into the next phase.

So, when and how did the sword era end? For this, we actually have a myth in the Veilstone museum. It’s muddied somewhat by being oral history, but it goes like this:

A young man, callow and foolish in innocence, came to own a sword.

With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave sustenance, with carefree abandon.

Those not taken as food, he discarded, with no afterthought.

The following year, no Pokémon appeared. Larders grew bare.

The young man, seeking the missing Pokémon, journeyed afar.

Long did he search. And far and wide, too, until one he did find.

Asked he, "Why do you hide?" To which the Pokémon replied...

"If you bear your sword to bring harm upon us, with claws and fangs, we will exact a toll."

"From your kind we will take our toll, for it must be done."

"Done it must be to guard ourselves and for it, I apologize."

To the skies, the young man shouted his dismay.

"In having found the sword, I have lost so much."

"Gorged with power, I grew blind to Pokémon being alive."

"I will never fall savage again. This sword I denounce and forsake."

"I plead for forgiveness, for I was but a fool."

So saying, the young man hurled the sword to the ground, snapping it.

Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared to a place beyond seeing...

So! Some people think it may be a literal interpretation of the hero of Galar, or the mad creator of the Ultimate Weapon in Kalos. Other people think it’s a more fictional way of processing what happened. I don’t care enough to get into the discourse, but the point is, we can clearly point to the end of the Sword Era.

And It’s The Pokeball Revolution.

If we take the interpretation of the myth to be figurative, it’s about not only overhunting and violence for the sake of violence, but shame. People were ashamed, the land was ravaged, and they were starting to pay the price. We don’t know what triggered it, and we suspect that it was very deliberately forgotten about. This is when you see the Evocation Movement in art, which frequently depicted moments in everyday life, or sleeping pokemon, as if trying to preserve and appreciate this joy after taking it for granted.

Shortly following this was the Alchemic Renaissance, during which people started really trying to study and categorize pokemon. No one had taken on anything as ambitious as the compiled regional pokedex yet, but there were scholars who studied one pokemon or one type and did so intensely.

And alongside this, you started seeing people get portraits done with their pokemon. Not just official ones with big strong pokemon, but things like the Old Man’s Treasure1, in which the treasure is a sprigatito that he is eagerly showing off to those around him. 

And these are things that have survived! These tell us that people were learning to live alongside and love their pokemon! We also see the precursors to the modern pokeball, which were carved from marble or wood.

Later, we get the apricorn, which makes pokeballs much more accessible. And this is where disabled history really kicks up a notch, and we get the Crip Revolution, a social movement dedicated to disabled people and their support pokemon finally gaining independence. They got together and shared their experiences, and a couple alchemists of the time started listening and finding a niche.

But it wasn’t always good. Some of them shared experiences with abusive caretakers, or realized that they were being abused because they’d gained context for what happened. And we started getting this massive social question of whether the family caretaking model was really the best. The medical community was surging in knowledge of how to treat people, and the disabled community started offering their services as lab rattata. Some of them helped with advancements that are used even today, such as the prototypes for a shirt buttoner for those with low coordination. But there was a rather high profile case, the Fever Night2, where this didn’t happen, and it prompted the medical community to seriously re-examine their ethics considerations and how they conducted experiments. They did manage to save most of the victims in time, but the project was shut down and its assets sold off.

Another thing that comes into play here is accessibility. Because if a rapidash hates those stairs, and you build a ramp, a disabled person may also benefit from the ramp. Incorporating pokemon into society actually expanded the public’s view of what body types need to be accommodated for, even if those are relatively uncommon, like dwarfism. Travel became easier, and cultures mixed more even in the same region.

This is getting long, oops. Anyways, disabled people used their newfound freedom to start participating in pokemon battles, and this was generally a lot better! Blind/deaf trainers struggled a lot with this format, and made their own organizations, but social mobility was becoming less of an issue. Now, it was about traveling and independence and showing off their skills.

Another thing with travel is the use of Hidden Machines. These are gradually being phased out as many regions begin adopting the Ride Pager system, but a Hidden Machine is a way of standardizing the safest way possible to make a route accessible. Many pokemon are able to cut down a tree, but those with HM training are shown to be less likely to injure themselves or their trainer doing so.

One last thing before I go. About the future.

People have been leaking documents online after the Flare bullshit. And, uh. There was a set of “Ugly Laws”3 that said the quiet part aloud. That in the new world they wanted to make, disabled people would be committing a legal offense just by existing in public. The idea was that being disabled was inherently begging for pity and making people uncomfortable. And I guess it just goes to show that even an organization that claimed to want a better future didn’t understand how to make it, and just wanted to get rid of inconvenient discomfort. 

We don’t have a lot of answers for the disabled future. Is it ethical to cure Deafness, to give a baby a colchear implant? What about the currently unavailable possibility of getting something similar when you’re older? Will certain disabilities be cured out of existence, out of community? What happens if someone doesn’t want the cure they are offered? Can we really find an accessibility solution for ancient ruins? Should we?

Whatever happens. You just have to keep fighting, one day at a time.

//ooc stuff under cut

1.https://useum.org/artwork/Old-Man-s-Treasure-Das-Katzchen-Karl-Gussow-1876 

2. Fever Night is fictional, and not elaborated on much. It referred to a series of experiments on curing “the malaise,” which is generally thought to be clinical depression. Due to a misunderstanding in dosages, the patients all developed Serotonin Syndrome and wandered the streets in a daze. Worth noting that this was done out of genuine desire to help these people. In the wake of Fever Night, it was decided that more thorough testing was required before administering medicines.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law Ugly laws are very real, and very much happened more recently than anyone would like to admit. The last one was repealed in Chicago, in 1974.

[hollycripplepoke]

rotomblr: reblog with the worst injury you’ve ever gotten from a pokémon, wild or domestic

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Ladies, gentleman and sentient pokémon, I'm happy to announce that our Appletun has evolved

into a poplio

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you guys NEED to stop using emotional support pokemon and service pokemon interchangeably BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT THINGS OH MY GOD

a service pokemon can be brought into public places like stores, schools, and restaurants that may otherwise disallow pokemon to run free. an emotional support pokemon is not really legally recognized. you dont have to register anything as an esp or get any training. an esp is not legally a service pokemon. THERE ARE psychiatric support pokemon but theyre technically considered service pokemon and do need training and to be registered.

the only requirement for an emotional support pokemon is for it to comfort you and for you to want it to be your emotional support pokemon. for a service pokemon a doctor or psychiatrist or therapist or like literally whatever needs to agree you need that aid, it needs to have formal training, and it needs to be legally recognized for it to be allowed to be brought with you in public.

please for the love of arc stop using the terms interchangeably because theyre different things with different laws surrounding them in different regions

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hello! you may have seen a previous post of mine about a Pokemon I've temporarily taken in, Doozy. she's a Fiore regional variant Skitty, a water/normal type. my friend found her, seemingly abandoned, in Alola, and transferred her to my care due to not having the time to take care of her. however, I cannot be a long term trainer for her.

I'm looking for someone who's willing to adopt her!

she seems to have potential to battle, though it also seems like she'd be very happy to continue to just be a housepet. she's an utter sweetheart, loves cuddling and pets, and seems to be good with larger and smaller Pokemon alike. she's interacted with my Litten, Shinx, Pachirisu, Gardevoir, and Roserade with absolutely no issues whatsoever.

she doesn't require being in water constantly, but does enjoy playing in water. she's enjoyed sprinklers and a kiddy pool. she does drink a lot of water, that seems to be one of the few things that make her care a little fussy - these specific Skitty need a lot of water in their systems!

please take into consideration adopting her, she deserves a proper trainer to take her as their Pokemon.

the photo under the cut is the photo I shared of her in my previous post about her!

((OOC info as well))

((Doozy would essentially count as an "adoptable". you would decide details on her beyond what's been stated already - nature, moveset, stuff like that. we are willing to draw her as a Delcatty as well if your character would evolve her. to "adopt" her, all you have to do is reblog this post or send an ask or submission with information on your Pokemon irl character, why they'd be a good trainer for her! if you receive her, all we ask for is credit for the art, beyond that she'd be yours to do as you please!))

[hollycripplepoke]

♬ Hey folks. Since we're celebrating our first online broadcast tomorrow, I figured id make a little giveaway for everyone. How does that sound?

Reblog to enter the giveaway.

Includes;

• Four vintage vinyl records of your selection

• Limited edition porygon themed analog radio

• Signed copy of "The History of Music"

• A life sized plush of porygon

I will spin a wheel to see who the lucky winner is when the time arrives this Sunday 15th of September ♪

[hollycripplepoke]

Thank you very much for your input! Honestly, zippers in the back seem to be a holdover from the days before stretch fabric and zipper closures, for sleeved dresses that would require assistance in putting on. It's not even an issue exclusive to disability; it's pretty common in aging populations to not like those. Personally, I like side zippers on a sleeveless dress combined with a little shrug for modesty. (Doesn't hurt that armscythes are a holy terror to draft, but then there's the tradeoff of needing it to be invisible or concealed.)

In terms of ways for pants to be more accessible for you, I actually put together a few sketches and attached them! You mentioned liking flowy clothing, so I was thinking a nice poly-cotton blend, maybe a 90/10 ratio? I tend to go with unassuming floral if I don't know someone well, plus Plain weave and a loose fit, with a shirred elastic waistband up at the top, and a thin coiled 36 inch separating zipper. You mentioned sensory issues as well, so I made sure to include an extra large flap over the inside. That's why the high cotton content is important; it helps the fabric stick to itself at least somewhat.

It's an optional step, but I figured it might make zipping it up a lot easier if you had some sort of leverage so you wouldn't be forced to bend your leg, so I included a small piece on the back cuff. It's attached via three snaps, and if you undo the middle snap, it functions as a sort of strap to go under your foot and help you pull the zipper up. Once that's done, it swivels back into place. There's a matching one on the other side for decorative purposes, but that's optional.

Anyways, thank you for letting me use you as a test subject! Apparently I'm "too rigid in my thinking" for this internship I'm trying to get, so hopefully this will show her I have what it takes.

[accessible-pants-design-note s-final-actuallylast-iswearthisisthelastone-version-3.pdf]

[accessible-pants-pattern-hack.pdf]

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this is amazingly delightful...I really like those! I'm glad I could help and I also hope this helps with your internship!!

[hollycripplepoke]

A little-known fact about gym badges is that, like Pokemon, they have shiny variations!

While gym leaders have a giant stash of regular gym badges they give out to winning challengers, they also have a smaller stash of "shiny" gym badges, that are functionally identical, but have a different color scheme.

These badges are meant to be given out to challengers who have displayed extraordinary conduct in battle. That doesn't mean "curbstomping the gym leader's entire team", but instead, that an extraordinary amount of trust was displayed between the trainer and their Pokemon. What exactly this means is up to the gym leader's discretion.

But in short, if you've received a badge that looks different from the ones your rivals received, it's not a defect. It's a mark of pride, a sign that the gym leader thinks you did a very, very good job.

[hollycripplepoke]

Hi there! I'm a textile designer looking to expand my portfolio, and I'd like to ask you some questions. Basically, designing accessible clothing and textiles is a niche where my formal education is lacking, and I'm looking for some hands on experience.

Does the type of zipper affect your choices in clothing? Would a zipper pull make this more accessible, and if so, would you prefer it to be incorporated into the outfit?

If you use a mobility aid, what textile accessories for it (eg, wheelchair bags, crutch straps) would you like to see more of on the market? Do you think any of them are particularly hard to find or inaccessible in price?

What styles of clothing in the mainstream (found at generic stores in the main section, rather than those specifically made for disabled people) do you like the best? Why?

What modifications (hole/pocket for medical devices) would make clothing more accessible to you?

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due to my personal experiences, I find it easiest to wear clothing that doesn't restrict my legs, or require much movement of my legs to get on.

I experience severe pain when I try to move one of my legs, and it's very stiff in general due to the scarring, so I tend to wear dresses and skirts, things that are very easy to get on without needing to do so.

I believe it could make it easier to wear pants if they had zippers on the legs honestly! not having to shove my entire leg through the pantleg could help a lot.

however, I find it very difficult to get on dresses with a zipper in the back, for example. skirts with a zipper on the side tend to be fine. this is mostly unrelated to my disability and more related to a lack of flexibility I believe!

I've not looked into wheelchair bags, but I feel like I should now that you've mentioned them - I usually have Mix or Rosa carry a backpack with us if needed.

I personally love clothing that isn't restrictive and is flowy. I struggle with tight clothing due to the feeling of being restrained, or having the fabric directly against my skin. this is mainly a sensory thing connected to my autism and anxiety I believe! I'm very particular with where my clothing is, for example I hate turtlenecks due to the feeling of my neck being surrounded so much.

most clothing is actually relatively accessible to me personally, as long as I don't have to move my leg very much to get it on.

thank you so much for asking!! I appreciate being able to talk about and help with this!

[hollycripplepoke]

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