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reminder that this has always been the case with pokemon. i dont know what their problem is exactly but like this has been the case since the year 2000. thats not a typo - pokemon fans have been hyperaggressive shitbags towards any monster raising franchise that is not their own for TWENTY FIVE FUCKING YEARS.

from the literal second digimon came out, pokemon fans were dogpiling on it. this wasnt some later development, it was DAY FUCKING ONE that they started shitting on competition. and this has gone on to influence their behaviour with every other Mons series out there - everything is a ripoff, because pokemon is THE BEST.

Seriously - as a Pokemon fanatic myself, wtf is with Pokemon fans insisting that:

1. Pokemon's success is solely due to it being perfectly designed game and character-wise

2. Every other monster taming series that doesn't blow up to the degree that Pokemon did is a fucking failure because it doesn't follow what Pokemon does????

I don't know how the fuck to explain this to some of y'all, but Pokemon's success was in large part due to pure luck. It came out at the optimal time, it was brought overseas and it struck gold. Of course it has a lot of great elements that helped it be so popular, but to act like it's success was due to it being so uniquely genius and perfect is a slap in the face to its predecessors. Pokemon had a capitalist juggernaut behind it that had the means to pump money into it and if you seriously think that it won by its own merits purely then I think you are very naive.

If it came out today, do I think it would be popular? Sure, I can see that. But it would not be guaranteed to blow up the way that it did in the 90's. Again, this is coming from a diehard, lifelong Pokemon fan.

And the absolutely bullshit idea that every series remotely comparable to Pokemon is a failure for not being Pokemon 2.0 is worse. OF FUCKING COURSE NOTHING ELSE COMPARES TO POKEMON'S SUCCESS. Pokemon is an established, centralizing, multimedia powerhouse which makes more money than any other franchise on Earth. We don't say that indie animation is lesser than Disney for not getting the same box office sales, but Pokemon fans LOVE throwing this idea around. To insist that capital success = artistic merit and flawless design philosophy is honestly just disgusting.

It's easy for Pokemon to dominate other franchises when it was one of the first to blow up on an international scale. Of course, when you can buy Pokemon merch of anything, it's gonna gather more focus and money than an indie game. When you have a prestablished fanbase of over 20 years, yeah you're gonna sell better than new franchises. So what - no other monster taming series should even bother? Because nothing will ever dethrone Pokemon, it can't.

I am so sick of watching unique and creative works with a ton of passion behind them get shit on for daring to not follow the Pokemon formula and their inability to outsell it being used as proof of their deficiencies. God forbid a piece of art have its own goals, intentions and meaning behind it.

And how hypocritical too, to ignore the serious design flaws in early Pokemon generations. Pokemon's first gen had a lot of weak designs and major flaws BUT it had the financial backing to continue on and define it's own style and formula over time. Watching Pokemon fans lambast new franchises for not having everything perfectly worked out in their first entries is laughable.

And can I just say how depressing this shit is? I am not a game designer, I will never make a monster taming series, but watching indie creators' works get disregarded for not being Pokemon is so disheartening. 99.99999% of artists will never make anything comparable to these giant media franchises. Our works will never gain even a fraction of these series' fanbases and success and enthusiasm. In my experience, this is something a lot of creatives struggle with - if I'll never be as successful as this huge thing that inspires me, if no one will ever see my work, if I can't create the single most original thing, why bother creating?

That doesn't mean our work is intrinsically worse or useless, its just the cold hard reality of living in a capitalist hellworld. Mega franchises established 35 years ago dominate the media landscape. They make money on brand recognition alone, they set the industry standards and if you equate that with them intrinsically being better, more worthy of success and shit on indie creators for not reaching those impossible standards then you're a piece of shit. And this attitude is so rampant in the Pokemon fandom, so unquestioningly pushed, that it drives me up the wall.

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digimon idea: Virusgreymon. instead of being a cyborg dinosaur, its a fucked up zombie that runs on all fours like a feral animal. it is, of course, blue - the superior greymon colour.

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Ben 10: Alien Force Heroes 💫 By Eugenio Sprenger, an Illustrator, Comic Artist, & Character Designer (Sprenger’s ArtStation) (Instagram)

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Moon Girl

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"Hey, I hate this piece of media because it looks like X, it sounds like Y, and the narrative is Z. Here are my reasons for thinking these things in order."

"YOU JUST HATE BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR!"

why is this my life

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Average Big D conversation

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new stimtoy idea: 80s-90s anime sci-fi cockpit

Put me in one of these bad boys and I will be entertained for hours

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She Batta on my Aug till I 01???

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRRCT BUZZER]

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i understand the point of this post because neural connections feel like a cheat for the intimacy of a cockpit and being forced to physically operate the incredibly complex machine that keeps you alive, essentially making you a Trucker inside a giant robot. thats a very compelling narrative and i do want it back. i would genuinely love to have more of Practical Mech Yuri rather than Weird Mech Yuri

but also i have to thoroughly disagree with you because playing through armored core 3 was the most profoundly boring experience of my life, to the point where i cannot be bothered to go back and finish the story campaign.

parking lot was fun though.

enough about weird mech yuri this,neural connections that,handlers that.

cease with your AC-6 centric mechposting. i want to hear WHY you fight.....i want to hear about fucking impenetrable cockpits with enough buttons to entertain a toddler for a thousand years.

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how i know im obsessed with a game - i start making pseudo dlc for it just so that i can continue obsessing over it and eventually spiral off into my own nightmare dimension

so in a hypothetical AC6: CORPORATE CEASEFIRE dlc, on a NG+ playthrough after the ice worm shows up, arquebus would call you and say "hey while we prepare to formalize this agreement with balam about murdering the PCA, could you go do some chores for us? thatd be great" and they send you off to go murder some people

from left to right: Elysium Technologies, the Wayfinder Group, and Kaleido Prism Dynamics.

they're a trio of corporations who arrive on rubicon to ensure that NOBODY finds the coral. don't mistake this for heroism - these are the corporations who invented Coral Substitution Technology and theyre here to protect their product line from being invalidated. arquebus and balam want them dead but haven't had the time to get around to performing warcrimes on these clowns.

they've only very recently shown up, and so they're still establishing a proper base of operations to operate from. Raven's job is to hunt every last member of their intercorporate alliance and ensure that they dont get to conceal the true location of the coral.

Mission 1 would be about assaulting their combined beachhead and scattering the three groups to the winds. the mission is a funhouse of destructable targets, fuel storage tanks, generators, berthed warships, almost half the level is filled with paytargets. you kill at least one member from each of the corporation's in-house AC squads here, giving them a reason to come and hunt you down.

Mission 2, 3, and 4 would be about hunting each corporation down and dismantling their in-house AC teams. each mission ends with a nightmare slugfest between you and their AC squad, and blowing up a mobile transport carrying that corporation's essential staff.

Elysium Technologies focuses on building lightweight ACs that know how to zoom across the battlefield at top speed. they also have an obsession with kinetic weaponry, seeing it as more "Pure" than other types of weaponry. they favour assault rifles and shotguns for high-damage hit and run guerilla warfare.

their in-house AC squadron are the Wavebreakers, so named for the "origins of life so many years ago". there are only three: Shark and Whale, the primary assault team, and Turtle, their artillery support. during Mission 1, you kill Turtle before the others can deploy and send Shark and Whale into a vengeful frenzy in Mission 2.

The Wayfinder Group focuses on building jack of all trade ACs - middleweights with decent AP, weight, and boost speed. they're hyperfixated on explosive weaponry and always give each AC at least one Songbird grenade cannon for you to deal with. they're also heavily into the knighthood aesthetic, which explains why they're the inventors of most melee weaponry introduced in the DLC.

their in-house AC squadron are the "Rustbuckets", a collection of heartless vultures who steal parts off the ACs they destroy. their members are Misericorde, Spadroon, Paramerion, and Estoc. whoever you destroy first in Mission 1, the parts of that AC will be used to upgrade the parts of the other three in Mission 3.

Kaleido Prism Dynamics focuses on building heavyweight artillery ACs designed to murder you from a mile away. they're energy weapon fanatics and usually build with quadlegs to take advantage of the hover functionality. they heavily favour multi-lock missiles and long-range sniper weaponry. conversely, their ACs are usually easy enough to kill once you get close enough.

their in-house AC squadron is "Sunspot LTD", a mercenary company on permanent hire to Kaleido Prism Dynamics. they're easily the most professional and coordinated squadron and essentially never deploy alone. they dont have proper callsigns but instead refer to each other as mere numerical codes. in Mission 1, you kill Sunspot 3. this causes the rest of them to arrange an ambush in Mission 4, as they're well aware that they can't beat you in a fair encounter.

Mission 5 of the DLC would see you go up against their crowning glory - AC: "CEASEFIRE", made from an assortment of parts from all three corporations working in concert to create something to protect themselves from Raven. once you destroy "CEASEFIRE", the three corporations promptly decide to get the fuck off rubicon.

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Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

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new alignments just dropped

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okay. tinfoil hat time.

so Hunter: The Parenting is basically a reboot of What If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device, yeah? theres already a lot of interesting character overlap. but theres one character that would be fucking HYSTERICAL to be part of that reboot.

commisar ciaphas cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, should be rebooted as Cain, the first vampire. because i think it would be fucking hysterical if after all the rantings and ravings of the sabbat about the Sword of Cain, the "first murderer" is actually just a plaything of the universe.

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... I am disappointed in Tumblr.

Why?

Hunter the Parenting is perfect for this crowed of sweat goblins.... But you know who makes up a majority of the tag?

Me and my AU.

Come on artist, writers, come forth and fill the tag with your head canons and AUs, give us fan content, please I am begging you!

Look at the blorbos, Kevin, Peytor and Matilda, monsters!

Please fandom, become more active?

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*sighs, visibly frustrated* let me put this in words you can understand: meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

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Clinging to the idea of Byleth x Cleobulus like a rabid dog.

Commissioned Artist: https://portfolio.commishes.com/user/danzhaco