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How dare you assume my dragons are cat/dog coded!

They're all dumb ass parrots, thank you very much!

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Ok, but hear me out...

Usually when people write a Warden Emmet thing they put him as the warden for either A) Sneasler, B) Electrode, or C) Braviary

Which are all fun and valid options.

But, like, what if Emmet was appointed Basculegion's warden instead?

Either Iscan is injured after saving Paulina in the storm that killed the original Lord Arcanine, or someone finally took pity on the poor man and decided he needed a way less stressful job near less ghosts, and so Emmet gets appointed.

Emmet vaguely recognizes basculegion as both familiar and not, and likely runs around terrorizing the F out of the local pokemon.

He and Paulina would most likely have a similarly antagonistic relationship as Ingo with Melli, seeing as Paulina would be pissed Emmet replaced her boyfriend, and Emmet would likely be confused about Paulina not working with Growlithe to get stronger.

(Paulina has a point about not trying to push Growlithe to get over his trauma, but she's also not providing her dog with any actual help with his issues, and I suspect she is subconsciously doing so just to spite Irida, seeing as she's shocked Growlithe would go to rescue his friend at all. Growlithe pair bond, you should know this, why are you surprised? Also why are you not helping your dog get through his fear of water when you're required to live by the water?)

Everyone in the coastlands needs some form of therapy.

Anyway, I think going out to get Basculegion's help and getting jumped by Emmet as soon as you knock on his door would be hilarious. Sudden difficulty spike! It'd be neat if he actually had you battle Basculegion to test if you're worthy or not.

He would probably actually help you on the Manaphy quest too... Instead of having to just guess you need to look at a book in BDSP for what pokemon you need, and then looking it up online anyway.

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Pets and mental health:

If you have depression get a cat.

Those whiny little bastards(affectionate) will not give you a moments peace if you haven't fed/pet/played/ whatever with them where and when they want it. It's a whole lot easier to get up and do things when the reward is your small furry hellion stops punching you in the face and becomes goop in your lap instead.

If you have anxiety get a dog.

Dogs don't give a flying f*ck who you are socially or what you look like, they're made of love and happiness. A dog is a relatively simple creature who asks for very few things in return for unconditional love. They're always happy to see you and it's nice to turn your brain off and just chill with your warm fuzzy buddy who isn't going to demand anything but pets and head scritches.

Now, to be fair this all depends on the person and the animals, but I feel like I made my case.

(Note: Pets are NOT a substitute for medication, that's not fair to you or them. If you suspect you have mental health issues go to a doctor)

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I got a request for more size references from @quietmakesglark for Togekiss and Garchomp, so I included their whole lines as well.

I also caught a shiny gligar while grabbing the Alpha Gibble, so Bonus regular sized Gliscor photo!

The Togepi line were weirdly hard to photograph.

Small Egg absolutely, positively didn't want to stand anywhere close to Ingo for some reason, so I couldn't get any shots with it and it's Big sister. Alpha togetic passed out immediately and wouldn't wake up. And Alpha Togekiss decided personal space was subjective.

But anyway, here's the bonus Gliscor photo!

I'll link the original post HERE

If anyone needs any more pokemon height references just send me a ask or something!

Hope this is what you were looking for!

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This is for anyone (like me) who has tried looking up Alpha size references for fics and has gotten Jack.

So we have a regular sized Sneasler, an Alpha Sneasler, a regular sized Zorua and Alpha Zorua, an Alpha Gliscor, a regular sized Zoroark from two different angles, an Alpha Zoroark from two different angles, and an Alpha Crobat for flavor.

All of these pokemon are posed next to our favorite amnesic time traveler for size reference.

I would have included a regular sized Gliscor, but I don't actually have one.

I've completed the Pokedex, so if anyone wants some other size references just leave a ask or something and I can post those too.

Also, references for the Togepi line and Gibble line (and regular Gliscor) HERE

Hope this helps someone somewhere!

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The new dodging mechanic in pokemon ZA is stupid, because pokemon could already dodge moves, that's what move accuracy is about.

Do evasion boosting moves even matter anymore? What about accuracy drops?

What about 100% accurate moves? Are they not 100% accurate anymore?

That's going to suck when I want to KO a NPCs pokemon, or hit a legendary for chip damage and they can just move out of the way. They do that enough now without the dodge mechanic.

Do I have to guess which way an enemy pokemon is dodging to still be able to hit it?

Can someone please explain why anyone at Nintendo thought this was a good idea?

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Anyone else know "In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories" by Alvin Schwartz?

It was supposed to be an intro into horror for much younger readers (even younger than scary stories to tell in the dark's age range) so definitely scary but not too scary?

Yeah, nope!

Worst intro to horror ever, I was terrified of that stupid thing because someone had the bright idea to read it to a bunch of five year olds, in a blacked out room, on a field trip. Oh sure, there was a flashlight, but they chose to point the flashlight not at themselves, but at the illustrations...

Oh boy the illustrations...

I'll be honest the stories were creepy but they would have been fine, except someone during production decided that they needed to add the most absolutely horrifying illustrations imaginable.

Did you know that they changed the art and bumped up the age rating on that thing in 2017? Made the art more Tim Burton-esque... And that's really saying something when Tim Burton-esque is the less horrifying option.

And I'm adding some examples under the read more so I don't have to look at them:

The only illustration that looks even remotely scarier is the Illustration of the Ghost from the 'In a Dark, Dark Room' story.

They also tried to creep up the cover, but meh? Sorry guys you're not going to scare a generation that grew up with the Icon that is Jack Skellington with that.

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. though it's the end of the world . don't blame yourself

Goodbye To A World - Porter Robinson

Animatic by ME!! It's DONE AAAA!!!! Mechanical Dreams is my submas AU you can read more about here!!

I don't know how to caption this! So much work and effort went into this! I'm so fucking mentally ill about them! Please watch my animatic I'm dying! Look at my complex and intensely thorough plot decisions boy. I Am Dying!!!!

Anyways I hope you all are having a good time! I'm having a great time!! oughh. I don't normally ask this but if you enjoy the animatic please please reblog this post. My stuff doesn't get around much and I am dying for folks to check this out after all the effort it took to make it.

Ingo's replaying his memories under the ocean, Emmet's fallen into a coma following his brother entering stasis, Hisui is safe from the dynamax pokemon again. It's time for the crew to repay all the pent up mistrust, hesitation and negative stigma around their heroes. It's time to make up for the blood that was shed and the bridges that were burnt in the name of keeping them safe. Emmet is asleep and Ingo is missing, and though they may not know how to save them yet, the people of Hisui will not let the legend of The Steel Titan and The Engineer fade.

And so, Time begins to pass.

Emmet is asleep and Ingo is missing, but their memory is alive, and someday they will wake again.

(As per usual if you are a bl\nkshipper please do not interact)

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Addendum: Please remember that this is the game universe, and it doesn't matter what your head canon is, pokemon attacks never hit you unless they're specifically targeted at you, or you run into them like a idiot.

This includes in Hisui.

You fight people in literal swimwear sometimes at gyms. Brock doesn't even wear a shirt to fight you in the original games, and he runs a rock type gym.

The clothing is not specifically reinforced because why would it need to be, you can't get hit by moves unless someone is actively being malicious. And unlike the real world, the only malicious people in pokemon seem to be the evil teams, and even they don't attack trainers directly(unless you're team Rocket, but they're disbanded)

And, again, Ingo is wearing dress shoes. Those are not boots, they are dress shoes. Ingo and Emmet are not engineers and not involved in the mechanical parts of the subway, so they wear dress shoes instead of boots.

If your head canon says attacks can hit people, good for you, but it's still head canon, not actual canon. Now do I have proof of what Ingo's clothes are made of? Not specifically. But I do have solid facts stating that they wouldn't need to be reinforced for stray pokemon attacks.

... though this does also imply Ingo in Hisui is out there bare-hand wrestling pokemon like a feral mountain man to tear up his coat like that, and that I can get behind.

You want proof Ingo hasn't been in Hisui long? I've got proof for you...

That little B*stard right there!

You know what those things are made of? Felt. They're made of felt and a single strip of really thin embroidered fabric on the back. You ever expose felt fabric to the elements? Even the outdoor grade stuff disintegrates after a year at most, but usually less.

And yet that thing is still mostly intact, only a couple tears we can see. This is also in comparison to his coat, which is most likely made of wool or something similar and is definitely made to be hardier than a railway conductor armband.

I am not going to even get into the dress shoes Ingo is still wearing.

(I will not be taking questions at this time =D)

(unless it's about the real life armbands, because researching those was harder than it had any right to be and I probably missed something.)

(Not wrong about Ingo though)

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Anyone else notice this in the pokemon Direct? Right at the end the Player character was squaring up to something...

That isn't Mega Evolution energy, what is that?

Here's my guess: That sure looks like a cut scene version of Hoopa Unbound's Signature move- Hyperspace Fury

So I think we may actually be getting some space, if not necessarily time, shinanigans yet.

It also resembles some of the BS Arceus pulls in it's fight with you at the very end of PLA, so there's potential there too.

All this to say someone is probably getting eebie deebied real good this game.

(Also can someone check this for me, does the announcer in the new trailer sound a bit like Ingo's Masters voice actor, or is that just wishful thinking?)

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You want proof Ingo hasn't been in Hisui long? I've got proof for you...

That little B*stard right there!

You know what those things are made of? Felt. They're made of felt and a single strip of really thin embroidered fabric on the back. You ever expose felt fabric to the elements? Even the outdoor grade stuff disintegrates after a year at most, but usually less.

And yet that thing is still mostly intact, only a couple tears we can see. This is also in comparison to his coat, which is most likely made of wool or something similar and is definitely made to be hardier than a railway conductor armband.

I am not going to even get into the dress shoes Ingo is still wearing.

(I will not be taking questions at this time =D)

(unless it's about the real life armbands, because researching those was harder than it had any right to be and I probably missed something.)

(Not wrong about Ingo though)

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I have opinions, can you tell?

(I will not be taking questions at this time :D)

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Walked into the local marriott and guess who was behind the front desk. yuuuuuuup. the immortal king of legend who vaporized so many people it permanently fucked up the timeline.

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The hardest part of enjoying a fandom, any fandom, for me is seeing someone throw their absolute dog Sh*t opinion out there like it's the ultimate truth, and having to make the concentrated decision NOT to engage.

Everyone has stupid opinions, that's fine, that's the point of fanfiction and fanart, but when people are out there being pretentious is when I get pissed.

But it's not good for my mental health to engage, it just makes me more upset, and there's no point in starting an argument that will go nowhere. So I don't engage and try to ignore them.

And when that doesn't work I block them.

It doesn't hurt them for me to block them, and I have enough trouble as is that I'm not going to bother to engage with something that just makes me upset.

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I think the funniest thing about Buzz lightyear of Star command is that everyone else has no clue about anything the LGMs have going on, but Buzz, when it's mentioned, just goes 'oh yes, that's this thing!'

He knew about their sacred mind-orb thing before anyone else did, he can tell which LGM he's talking to even though they're a hive mind, the Leader of Star Command even has to ask him what's up with the LGMs when they do literally anything. Aren't you orbiting their planet? You've been here way longer than Buzz, why do you not know this?

That Buzz is the only non LGM knowledgeable in LGM culture and biology is just so funny to me.

(and this is all before he literally gets merged with their hive mind orb for a hot second in the movie)

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Even if he asks verrry nicely.

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Had the picture (don't remember from where) and finally thought of something to use it for. Honestly spent more time fixing my phone stylus than it took to finally draw (and it took me a few hours to draw).

All my work on his middle, trying to get across that he's slightly leaning forward, the tie, the belt, and it ended up behind the sign. *Sigh*

You can probably find the original picture online if you wanted it for your own joke/meme purposes, it's not mine.

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Do I even need to explain this joke?