#and i dont have swsh... yet.

[vampire-crimson]

replaying pla and not focusing on the story (context: ive been playing for approximately 7 hours a day for a week and still dont have wyrdeer, intentionally) and like. i already knew i loved this game because like, ive beaten it already. but now being able to really analyze the mechanics and what it all means and like.

this is definitely in my opinion the best pokemon game

[b4kuch1n]

see, dearest, loving me did not save you. you scraped by just fine without. but it doesn’t hurt, does it?

[pcktknife]

I saw a copy of pokemon y today for like 30 bucks

[galarfiend]

modes of transportation

[starabsol]

contestshipping shinies

i am a mad contestshipping fanatic, i am sure i've mentioned so before. and one of my main hobbies is shiny hunting. since last year when i got my switch i've been shiny hunting left n right! and since i love contestshipping as much as i do, i went ahead and caught quite a few shinies who are contestshipping related!! ^^ i like showing stuff so heres a whole dump of shinies who r contestshipping related hehe. i dont have them all yet, im also busy w other stuff so

MAY'S POKEMON

blaziken (violet/sword)

and here some funny backstory on how i got these two!

violet blaziken i actually found on accident. since the scvi dlc came out i really wanted to get torchic so i could evolve it into blaziken. however i saw they didnt spawn in the location they were supposed to, so i popped an encounter power lvl 2 sandwich, and, crazily, a shiny torchic appeared right there. i named her ikaika! :3

sword blaziken i purposefully hatched out of an egg. surprisingly it was within 100 eggs or so, so I was very lucky there x3

2. glaceon (violet/sword)

and here some info on how i got them:

in violet i really wanted some shiny eeveelutions, since i was an eevee kid back in the day, so i got to a mass outbreak of it and managed to get like three shiny eevees within 30 minutes of a sandwich! which i evolved into leafeon, glaceon, and left the last eevee as it was. i named glaceon lazuli, based on lazuli from the eeveelution squad!

in sword i again, purposefully masuda hunted it. though it was much longer and more dreadful than the torchic hunt i did XD

3. venasaur (violet)

how i got it:

how i got this guy was surprisingly similar to how i found my shiny torchic in violet. i originally wanted to get a regular bulbasaur, but when i found four or five bulbasaur covered in some tall grass, and noticed one was different from the others, i knew i'd found a shiny! XD

4. beautifly (shining pearl)

how i got it:

let me tell you, getting this thing was painful; in the bdsp games you ARE able to find silcoon and cascoon; except there's a problem. i have shining pearl, and silcoon was exclusive to brilliant diamond (as cascoon is exclusive to shining pearl, which i had). so, i had to chainhunt wurmple. and it's very painful considering my chain broke several times. but that isn't even the main issue! wurmple can evolve into cascoon, too, which means i also had a big chance of getting cascoon instead of silcoon. and that's what happened when i got my first wurmple.. it evolved into a cascoon. i evolved it into a dustox anyway, and after more fighting i managed to get the shiny wurmple that evolved into beautifly. <3

DREW'S POKEMON:

roselia & roserade (shining pearl)

i know you see a roselia/roserade in sword there, but i actually caught it in shining pearl! since its in bdsp and i was able to chainhunt it, i actually managed to get three shiny budews within that chain without it breaking. one i kept as a budew, the other two i evolved into roselia, and eventually one of them into roserade! so i have the entire line, basically. however i like the shaders n lining in swsh a lot more so i decided to transfer them to sword <3

2. masquerain (violet/ultra sun)

how i got them:

in violet masquerain was a shiny i obtained really early as soon as i got my shiny charm! considering it's drews only pokemon that (before the dlc came) was in the games i wanted to hunt masquerain. and i know a lot of people shit on green shinies, but i love shiny masquerain.

in ultra sun i got it through the SOS method, and it went surprisingly fast. i dont think i spent that much time on it at all XD

3. flygon (violet/usum/shining pearl)

im not gonna explain what's going on here...

how i got them:

in violet as soon as the dlc came out and i had completed it i immediately rushed to shiny hunt it (trapinch) in the dlc. and i got it relatively fast, i got two even. not long after i bumped into a shiny flygon in the wild, and... like that, it continued... the first shiny i got though was named sapphire!

just like roselia/roserades case, the shiny i got was originally from shining pearl n transferred it over to sword. however, how i found this thing is WEIRD. so fucking WEIRD until this day i still dont get it. basically i was shiny hunting vibrava in the desert area of shining pearl as soon as i got the national dex. i was chainhunting, as usual. thing is, you just normally encounter pokemon, so if it's a shiny you should be able to see that it's shiny and the little sparkle effect, right? well, in this case not, apparently. because i was casually catching vibravas to keep the chain going. when you catch a pokemon you temporarily she the sprite of the pokemon you caught; but when i thought i'd caught a regular vibrava (i didnt see it to be shiny, and i saw no sparkle effect) i see a quick flash of the shiny sprite. at first i thought i was hallucinating, so i went to go check, but it was a shiny. i still dont get it. HELP. (ill put a video below LOL)

on usum i got it by doing the SOS method! that one i also found surprisingly fast.

4. absol (ultra sun/shining pearl)

shining pearl absol has, just like roselia and flygon, the same origin. it's from shining pearl. however, i instead shiny hunted absol via the mesuda method, considering the shiny charm is fucked up in bdsp and getting a shiny via the grand underground (the only spot where u can find absol in the games) is pretty much impossible. named him sol!

usum absol which i got via the mesuda method also. i originally wanted to SOS hunt it, but absol rarely ever calls for help, even on 1HP+adrenaline orb. it took awhile to get it, but when i got it i was filled with joy lol.

5. butterfree (usum)

i got this baby from the SOS method. and let me tell you, it was fucking fast. like.. like literally so fast i got it within an hour or so, maybe even less! i named him andrew >;3

HARLEY'S POKEMON

cacturne (violet)

i just got this guy from a mass outbreak! it's really cute because one of cacneas idle animations is them waving, so when i found the shiny cacnea it was just waving at me >o< i named her mayley, by the way!

2. banette (violet)

this one i also got out of a mass outbreak ^o^ if anything i managed to get two shiny shuppet, so one i evolved into banette n the other remained a shuppet! i named shuppet spooks and banette shooks! :3

3. ariados (violet)

this dude was SUCH a pain to get. first i had tried to catch it via spinarak mass outbreaks, but after 2-3 hours of running around i was fed up and decided to try an ariados outbreak instead. eventually i got it, though in my opinion, it took way too long. i named him kumo, which means spider in japanese!

and last but not least, arcanine. he's connected to contestshipping in a way, you know? so i had to hunt it >:D

how i got this baby was via mass outbreaks. i actually caught two shiny growlithe, so i evolved one and kept the other as is. arcanine i named summer, and growlithe i called lente, which means spring in dutch!! i love these babies!!

thanks for listening to me ramble. XD also, if you're a (crazy) contestshipper, PLEASE be my friend. I'm desperate. if u guys wanna see some screenshots of may n drews pkmn interacting let me know!

[nebuvoid]

anyway, back to the important things in life. pokemon. you know whats really sad? re: me and pokemon i mean. ive grown up playing every gen except DPP (i was just a lil burned out around that time and the aesthetic didnt endear itself to me either)

and yet, despite scarvi looking and playing like shit, i have a hard time going even one gen back. i've tried to replay older titles again and again and i just get bored by tediousness that not even nostalgia can cure.

i tried to catch some mon on swsh and got annoyed by not being able to climb and fly around the open areas. i tried sumo and got irritated that i had to wait for long loading between every random encounter. any gen older than that... not being able to access your boxes from anywhere, being forced to waste move space for hms, the general old feel of the gameplay. not to mention having to suffer most of the story in XY and having replayed titles like RSE and LGFR so many times i cant stand the intro anymore.

and it sucks because theres many things i never tried when i was younger. mostly any of the battle facilities. i hear people rave about those so much but training your mons up back then was so damn tedious. its so easy now. some elitists might say too easy but fuck em.

i tried the battle tree in sumo and enjoy it a lot! except the damn lagging because the DS is about to explode from double battles. thats where you move to older gens for better battle facilities except ^ you have to get to that post game first. i dont want to suffer through all of BW/2 to get to the trains..not to mention EV IV training your mon back then. shit like that is exactly why i never did it back then.

if only they put some damn battle tower in the scarvi dlc ABOUT A BATTLE FOCUSED SCHOOL. the few double battles in there were great i want more of that :(

and before someone recommends roms. while i know theres many great ones around it just doesnt feel right playing it on a keyboard. i need a lil screen in my hands..

also so help me bring back active catching from PLA that was the best thing theyve done in a decade GIVE IT BACK

[cynicallyneutral]

Arrives holding the entire tales of series

So!! If you're interested in jrpgs, I would highly recommend the Tales of series, specifically Tales of the Abyss (my fav) and Tales of Symphonia are good starting points. Symphonia is on a bunch of platforms (most notably steam) and Abyss is on ps2 but easy to emulate ✨ I would also personally recommend Tales of Zestiria for the characters bc I love them dearly (but the gameplay is.. not so great haha)

Also if you want I'd like to recommend the anime Sirius the Jaeger just bc it's my comfort show sjxk and it's only 12 episodes so easier to commit to

And.. also,, only if you want,,, idk how much you read but all three series by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu are my favorite thing rn bc this genre of Chinese fantasy isn't one I've read before and also!! They're queer romances :D (with also their whole other plot going on so you can enjoy excellent story that is also romantic) I would specifically recommend starting with Heaven Official's Blessing (my personal fav) or Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!! As I feel those have more solid romantic relationships and they're easier to enjoy maybe?? The third (but first published lol) is The Scum Villain's Self Saving System which I always recommend as being funny bc the main character's narration is very humorous but it's also. God there's so much tragedy and hh but anyway

So yeah there's a dump of things I like if you'd like to try any of them out ajdksk sorry this ended up so long

ooh tbh ive always wanted to try and get into the tales series, i believe there was an anime for tales of zestiria and and i wat hed a few eps before…unless i dreamed that all up??? lmaoooo, i’ll add them to my long list of games to buy lmaoomdfhfjfj tbh i already have a few games that i bought and havent played yet, god forbid i bought both the swsh like 2 or 3 years ago and havent played it djvbcjcj

the art style is nice whoaaa and thr protag..i assume??? looks so cool i would watch it for them hhh, ill try tomorrow!!

those series i keep seeing on twitter bc of my mutuals, ive always been curious what they were taking abt but it seems like a long series……..i dont know if i have the brain capacity to even start them waaah, i hope to check them out someday tho, rn im just…0 braincells

thanks for all the recs!!! i’ll be sure to make a note of them all 💛💛💛💛

[claitea]

some thoughts about pokemon violet. spoilers ahead!

there are. quite a few graphical glitches and messes whbejrvhr. sometimes trainers and pokemons eyes get stuck closed for a while, camera clips into the floor during battle, a sunflora i was in battle with and therefore Very Close To moved at a lower frame rate like other faraway entities. hough the homeroom scene..... almost everyone in that room looked so janky.

but tbh? i've been having too much fun to care too much about that specifically. the rest of the game is pretty :)

wish i could stop the minimap from spinning. i can lock the map app to north but not the minimap????

THE FOOD ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SO GOOD I WANT TO EAT THE ICECREAM SO BAD

rip pixel pokemon and item icons though </3 i find them more charming. also the icon for persim berries is too red and its bothering me, persim berries are PINK this is BRIGHT SCARLET

idk how pokemon icons on the minimap work either i'll be running all over the place it indicates and not find the pokemon its showing. i want a charcadet :(

i chose sprigatito but was THIS close to choosing fuecoco because of the first cutscenes. quaxly having to tell fuecoco not to eat the burnt orange whjegjevdj

miraidon my beloved asshole lizard who eats all my sandwiches. i gotta rewatch any and all miraidon scenes with koraidon when i'm done with the game, the first cutscene with the houndoom was SO COOL

PEOPLE WERE RIGHT ARVEN IS THE PROFESSOR'S KID

there were a couple nods to older games! a book in the library talks about someone seeing the stow-on-side mural get broken by a copperajah, another book talks about pewter crunchies, and the meditative seat art installation in artazon are items you could buy in oras as decoration for your secret base. i know every game has callbacks to previous ones but the stow-on-side one caught me offguard because thats a spoiler isnt it?? the other one surprised me too but more becaue Why do i remember this one specific base item. i havent touched oras in years

a library book also said Hydreigon and Volcarona got alt forms like donphan did and i need to see them IMMEDIATELY

as far as i've seen in the library, the pokemon that get those forms are donphan, tyranitar, volcarona, hydreigon. and Delibird. which i find hilarious bc its all these threatening scary pokemon and then. DELIBIRD.

WHY DID MY BELOVED LECHONK EVOLVE INTO AN EMO BOY

so far out of the new pokemon. the only design i dont like is spidops. spiops. i forgot how to spell it. where did my cute little yarn ball go :( maybe its just New Pokemon Doesnt Look Like A Pokemon Yet Syndrome but there is just SOMETHING about spiops's design that doesnt sit right with me

miraidon jumping is a little janky sometimes idk??? also i got stuck in a pond once and it could NOT climb out no matter where i tried. i had to fly out

i already like tera raids a lot more :') i HATED how max pokemon could shield and move multiple times and all that. i dont have online so max raids are damn near IMPOSSIBLE for me to do because the ai sucks That bad. i feel like with the time limit thing and infinite revives i could stand a chance doing it solo. this is just me talking about the early 1-2 star raids though idk how it'll go later on

i did get one odd glitch where my first attack didnt appear to deplete the hp bar, but then a few attacks later it looked like it had hp left but it fainted? my damage just. Didnt Show for some reason while still registering as damage

i think they fixed the overlevelling problem bc i was even getting my ass kicked by wild pokemon sometimes HKWBDJBF. i was cruising through fast like i'd gotten used to in xy to swsh, so i was actually underlevelled a lot. mela almost curbstomped me

THE CAR IS A POKEMON THEY WERE RIGHT ITS AN ACTUAL POKEMON

mela walks like manga emmet lmao

clodsire. thats it thats the bullet point <3

in conclusion i am having a BLAST. i absolutely adore this game so far!! i'm honestly able to overlook anything that bothers me just because i enjoy it a Lot. like of Course i still wish the subpar graphics werent subpar but Who Care look at my clodsire his name is Mousse and i love him

[decembermoonskz]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I JUST FINISHED well like i beat leon PKM SWORD TODAY AND IM SO EXCITED TO GET THE NEW ONEEE AHHHHH but probably not gonna be able to get my hands on it and pkay it until late next week :((( have u started it yet? which starter did u choose !!

also why tye FSIHSJS were there so many obstacles just to get to leon like man i beat alk the gym leaders and then ihad to do it aGAIN and then dont even get me started on the eternatus thing mother hECK

OOOH CONGRATS! honestly yeah the lasts few sections of swsh msq really aren’t that great imo 😂 the best part was fighting eternatus tbh

when I tell you I’ve barely started and I’m having the best time!! I stayed loyal and chose fuecoco as my starter (my choice since the reveal) and I’m playing scarlet so koraidon buddy!! but seriously I’ve barely started (I just got to the school) and I’ve caught like almost 20 pokemon im getting suuuuuper distracted already which happens to me with open world games 😭😭😭

more underneath cause I rambled

I caught the new wooper tho!! he’s such a good boy 🥺 and now I’m on the hunt for gible and mareep 😤 THEY HID GARCHOMP THE ENTIRE TIME AND THEN GABITE SHOWED UP AND I WAS LIKE ?!?!?!?! I almost thought they cut him for this dex so I’m so relieved they didn’t 😭👍🏼 oh also the regional bug is so cute!! 🥺🥺 I wanna see what it evolves into but I’m so glad I stayed basically leak free for this game I’m genuinely enjoying seeing all these things for the first time

ALSO FUECOCO IS A DERPY LAD AND I LOVE HIM HE’S SO STUPID (affectionate) HE’S A GOOD BOY TOO!!! also the beginning of the game was so fun and all these new changes to the game are really cool 👀👀👀 I’m in awe honestly of how fun this game is. I knew it would be but just like it’s exceeding my expectations already and I’ve barely started

[kozykricket]

yknow maybei ll write more about this in a big vent post (oops, this post ITSELF turned into the big vent post.

honestly i feel like im having a sort of Creativity Crisis

like. ehngv theres so many things to make but i also just. cant be bothered. and. for some things, it seems they've been done before for other things? they havent been done but they're very daunting and. overwhelm me and... i should probably just like, actually plan things out.. and not scope things so high i really wanna be able to say "heres a clean nice youtube video i have where i explain the concept behind what i think pokemon swsh had going for it and how i'd take some of its existing elements, change a few themes, and make it awesom!!"

i want to... make tons of cool builds in minecraft and terraria i want to.. make mods for minecraft! that do subtle lil things.. and tweak lots of aspects of the game! or maybe even sometimes big things! i. want to. but i also, really dont . because theres just so much

i think im just... really scared that i wont be able to ever get all of or even any of my best ideas out there in the world, and. im also desperate to try and prove that im not just an ideas person. that i am someone who can create things and i mean i LIKE creating things! i LIKE the trial and error process! i like... when i get really into something, and have to try and like. troubleshoot what problems may arise but sometimes theres certain types of troubles where they just push me away because im uncomfortable about having to learn how to deal with them and. shit. i dunno. woe is me i guess. despite this id like to clarify im in a p decent mood overall, i certainly havent had a bad day. its really just uh, past midnight thoughts that have suddenly happened. i had a nice day.

but GOD i . i want ot be someone do soemthing and . yet im so convinced that im someone who just WONT. whos just a little whiny person who wont be able to do anything because... im just unmotivasted or whatever and. im also just , genuinely like. i find it almost hard to care sometimes. about the things that i know i desire. because i just Cannot be Bothered. ill just wait until someone else makes the thing... or ill just, write it down as an idea and itll forever be a WIP i want to build stuff in terraria and minecraft at the VERY least right now and like. i have ideas for both of them. but GOD it just. seems... so.. i dont CARE. they're cool Little Ideas but i donT CAREEee waaah whatever its like 3am rn my mind is . not worth listening to

[jils-things]

Both of my familials that i know are familials are professors!!! So I don't necessarily ship them, but they are both my dads. Does that make sense? Anyway, Professor Birch and Sycamore are my dads. :) I also am questioning a QPR with Piers, which amplifies my older sibling feeling to Marnie tenfold!!! Also... my words are watched, but not as much as you watch the fanart tag for 💙 when you think we don't notice ;) -Ekans anon

FLAPS MY ARMS AROUND OMGOMGOMGOKG PROFESSOR SYCAMORE IS MY DAD TOO!!!!! WAAAAAAAA I DON'T TALK ABOUT HIM PROPERLY BUT HES MY DAD IM SO GLAD WE HAVE SUCJ COOL DADS YAARRYAYYARUSE ALSO BIRCH IS VERY COOL ... the kind of professor who goes out there to explore, love that for him....

QPRS ARE VERY EPICCC i love marnie!! shes sooocute!!! i didn't play swsh yet but from my pokemas understanding i really like her siblings relationship with piers heheh

okay

okay you got me good with 💙 How Dare You.....

NAWWWWWW BECAUSE I WENT DIVING ON HIS TAG LIKE HOURS AGO IN THIS APP DONT PERCEIVE MEEEEE AARGAHEHAHRHAHAHS CRIES..... WHY WAS THAT SO SLICKKKKK 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 IM TELLING YOUR DADS HOW MEAN U ARE RNNNN /J RAAGHHHH 💥💥💥💥

[b4kuch1n]

you're looking at the future: your passion, your drive, your loyalty - fully automated for your leisure.

[peitalo]

obsessed w this guy. why does he look like that

[galarfiend]

yknow what sure yeah i’ll do this. anybody want me to redesign a pkmn character. could be fun

[dantelionwishes]

Honestly did NOT expect a gen 9 drop this soon after PLA but nonetheless one thing that is sparking joy for me personally........the androgynous trainer outfits.....we have evolved so very far as a society

wasn't expecting gen 9 this early either!! really surprised honestly

the only thing im not liking is the fact that people are saying that "pokemon is finally good again" like swsh wasnt? HAHA bruh

[mxdotpng]

everyone who stopped playing pkmn games after gen 6 was so right for it. why does scarlet/violet look so BAD