#are probably my favorite places aside from flower places in pokemon

[clefclefairy]

out of curiosity; in replies/tags, tell me what location in pokemon games is one that you "hang out" in, by which I mean visit and spend time in for reasons completely unrelated to gameplay or story. Just a spot where you go to enjoy the music, or admire a certain town design, or nostalgic memories, anything like that.

[adobe-outdesign]

Thoughts on milcery and its evo’s two million forms

Milcery is... fine; nothing special but certainly not bad. I think the best thing about it is actually its animation, which is probably one of my all-time favorites in the series; the single drop moves throughout each of the splash waves in a circular pattern, which looks super cool and appropriately fluid.

Other than that, compared to Alcremie, it doesn't really stand out that much; it's just a splash of cream with a face on it, though I do like the pupil-less eyes. I get what they were going for with it, as you have to mix (spin) whipping cream to form stiff peaks of whipped cream, but ultimately it feels like it exists solely for Alcremie's gimmick. I'll go into this more later, but I think my ideal situation would be to just drop Milcery and give Alcremie an evolution instead. As is, it's serviceable.

Side note: both the English and Japanese names of this line reference magic/alchemy for no real reason. I kind of wonder if the beta Milcery was supposed to be a cauldron or something, and Alcremie's pointy top was supposed to be a witch hat, kind like how Murkrow was more witchy originally. That's just speculation on my part though.

I do question if "vaguely human-shaped creature with dress" was the most interesting way to handle a pile of sentient cream, but regardless, Alcremie's pretty sweet (pun very much intended). Design-wise it's nice and simple; the sweet accents on the "hair" with a matching eye color and some swirls to show the shape of the cream. I think I would've liked it without any mouth (and maybe any arms), but it at least has a cute, somewhat oblivious expression instead of the standard smile that adds some personality.

The other noteworthy thing about Alcremie is the fact that it has 63(!) forms, 7 sweets to mix in and 9 different flavors. The forms are fun and add a lot to the design, though I don't know if I have any strong preferences towards any of them. For me personally, I'd rather have less forms but more distinction between them, like Vivillion, than 60+ forms that all look pretty similar.

My favorites out of the forms would be the ruby swirl with strawberries (similar to the standard art, but I like having the darker points on the body, as it helps break it up a bit), and the caramel swirl with flowers (the most delicious looking and one of my fav colors).

Least fav is probably any of the star-sweet ones just because their eyes look mildly possessed with the lighter color. Overall, however, none of them are really bad (aside from maybe the shiny. black cream just looks moldy).

Also, side note: why is Alcremie all-female? It's a sentient pile of cream, shouldn't it be genderless? I feel like Gamefreak's had a bad habit of taking anything vaguely "feminine" (read: dress) looking and making it all female. I guess you could argue milk only comes from female animals, but Alcremie is made of milk/cream, it's not the thing producing it in the first place. It's not a big deal, just head-scratching.

G-max Alcremie is interesting, because most g-maxes are just the same Pokemon but bigger, without really advancing their original theme. However, g-max Alcremie here actually does logically continue things, going from cream to an entire cake with cream frosting. This makes it a lot better than most g-maxes... almost too much better, in fact, because the line feels incomplete when the g-max gimmick is inevitably stripped away from it.

Going back to what I was saying earlier: what I would've liked to see is Milcery dropped entirely; you could instead have a "plain"-flavor Alcremie that you do a permanent form change with instead of deciding upon evolution. Then, have Alcremie evolve into a small cake that retains the flavor and sweets of the Alcremie, and have that evolution have this g-max, to tie everything together. That way, when the g-max is removed, the line still feels complete.

That aside, visually speaking, having the Alcremie serve as a cake-topped of sorts is cute, and I like how all the sweets are incorporated into it (I would've liked to see there be a g-max for each form obvs, but this is a good way to handle it if that wasn't on the table). It's hard to see here, but I also like the tweaks to Alcremie's design, such as the bow, the shape of the arms, and the swirly hair.

So overall: Milcery has a very fun animation but an otherwise plain design that doesn't really stand out. Alcremie is pretty solid, and the different forms are fun even if they're a bit too similar. The g-max is one of the best out there, and I would've liked to see an evolution to go with it so the concept isn't lost when the gimmick is. Overall, a fun (and tasty) little line.

[fictionalabyss]

Do 'em all 🤣🤣

You jerk rofl. Okay, this is gonna take a while..

also under a readmore cuz long.

1. describe yourself.- Mel, 32, mom of two, mental health issues, and no idea of who I am or ever was.. lover, fighter, spiteful, friendlier than I’d care to admit. I think that about does it?

2. if you could go anywhere for a week all expenses paid where would it be? I’d be willing to go to a lot of places, honestly. Scotland is top of the list if I can count a wedding as an expense haha.

3. do you have siblings? On my mothers side, no, I’m an only child. On my fathers side, I have a half brother, and two step brothers.  I haven’t seen them since I was 11 though, but they’ve been added to my fb and now ignore my existence there.

4. what is your favorite constellation, why? Don’t think I have a favourite.

5. favorite color. Don’t have one. I like different colours for different things, and even that can change with my mood.

6. what kind of music do you listen to? Pretty much everything. My workout music (basically the only time i have time for music) ranges from the 50′s cowboy and love songs all the way to more current EDM and some metal. You introduced me to Mongolian metal, and I’ve come across and Indian metal band that has a song about fighting depression, and I love them so much. I’m still sad to have missed both Babymetal and Alestorm (Scottish pirate metal) when they came to town. Alestorm actually offered me free tickets if they could name Matrim when I was pregnant rofl.

7. favorite flower. (you can name as many as you want cause flowers are awesome)  Wild flowers. I have violets that grow wild in my back yard and I love them.

8. if you could do magic, what is the first spell you would learn? I think at most, I’d like to learn minor healing, or something that would attract goodness to people.

9. favorite childhood memory.The memory of Pat getting in the baby swing and yelling “push me on the swing, mommy!” and me pushing him as high as I could and leaving him there when he got stuck roflrofl. We were 9, and it’s basically how this relationship started. I was annoyed, he was in love. I’m still annoyed but now we’re both in love.

10. have you ever been cheated on? Not that I’m aware of, but that might not have been for a lack of trying. WORD ON THE STREET WAS one of my ex’s was trying to get with someone else while with me and was turned down.

11. if you could describe your perfect room, what would it be? Big and spacious. Super comfy bed, plenty of pillows. But also a little corner with a fort that I can be little in. Close proximity to both bathroom and kitchen for obvious reasons. Big window with cute curtains. and all the thing my current room has, but less unfolded laundry rofl.

12. favorite animal. Don’t have one, but it for sure isn’t a fkin slug I’ll tell you that. Pete the peeper ruined that for all slugs.

13. what was the last photo you took of? Luke’s new pokemon cards so I could show Pat while he was at work.

14. do you believe in soul mates? I do. I believe that soulmates aren’t just lovers, but that you can have many people that your soul resonates with. I had one, or thought I did, until I was dropped like hot garbage and shit was said behind my back like I’d never find out. The fucked up part, if I got an apology, I’d probably believe them and let them back into my life like I did last time. Because I’m a fucking sucker and a slave to my heart. But the more you hurt me, the harder you have to work for my trust so I’ll probably never get one. Too much work.

15. do you hang toilet paper over or under? I have a toddler, so under so he can’t just unravel the whole fucking thing into the toilet by slapping his hand on it.

16. your go to place to eat & your favorite thing to get there. Greenstop and Poutine. They have this killer brown gravy omg.

17. do you believe everything happens for a reason? yeah. Everything is either a consequence to our actions, or a lesson to be learned. Karma, my friend. And sometimes, bad shit just happens so you have room in your life for better things. That’s how I got you and Kay.

18. guilty pressures? You mean other than 80′s and 90′s one hit wonders?

19. favorite mythical creature, why? Dragon. Cuz...dragon?

20. something most people don’t know about you. Uh.. not everyone knows me to be as friendly as you tumblr peeps do. Truth is, I’m kind of known as a bitch in person. I don’t socialize well because of my crippling anxiety, and have RBF, so people just assume. Others know it as fact because I treat people the way they treat me.

21. where did you grow up, what was it like? at 8, I moved across the street from where I live now. Before that, I lived in ‘The Point’ but most of my childhood memories are of here. A lot of my neighbours are the same people. I grew up in the 90′s, so we use to play in the street day and night and there were no worries. I’d go from park to park, house to house, just wandering from place to place with my friends. No parents, just us, as long as I got everyone back out front by the time the street lights came on, and then it was hide and seek in the dark while all the parents drank on one of the balconies and watched. It’s not like that here anymore.

22. do you believe aliens exist? You’d be an idiot to think that we are the only lifeforms anywhere.

23. what was your last google search? Big Iron by Marty Robbins.

24. what did your last relationship teach you? You really wanna get into that? It taught me that no matter what I know about a person, I don’t know them. If they talk shit about other people to me, they are talking shit about me to other people. It taught me that just because they earned my trust once, doesn’t mean they should get a free pass on it for life, that I should make them keep earning it. And finally, than when they say “I’ll understand if it doesn’t work out” it’s bullshit. I’ll end up tossed aside and forgotten while I break. And when I realize I deserve better and move on, everything becomes my fault.

25. would you relocate for love? depends where. Example : I love Kay, but I ain’t moving to Florida roflrofl.

26. do you hold grudges or forgive easy? Forgive far too easily the first few times. After that, fuck you.

27. favorite book. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

28. do you consider yourself an extrovert or introvert? Introvert.

29. have you ever kept a journal, do you now? I have attempted to a few times. Didn’t work out. so no.

30. top 5 favorite movies. Porky’s trilogy. Ginger Snaps trilogy. uhhhhhhm.. fuck.. idk, why do you do this to me, I can’t pick favourites.

31. do you believe that everything happens for a reason? We already went over this.

32. what is your greatest fear? Falling.

33. favorite alcoholic beverage. Jack, disarono, Fluffed marshmallow vodka. UPPERCUT. legit, go into a bar and order an uppercut.

34. most embarrassing thing you’ve done. If i could think of something, I wouldn’t tell you guys muahahha.

35. do you believe in ghosts? not sure.

36. what is the best and worst part of your personality? That I’m nicer than I’d like to be. I’m mush. I’m forgiving and kind, and loving and sometimes I hate it.

37. should you split the dinner bill? Who am I at dinner with?

38. are you a good liar? Fuck no roflroflrofl. I’m the worst at it.

39. what keeps you up at night? these days, story ideas.

40. would you rather go without your phone or music? bye bye music.

41. do you believe in god? Nope.

42. how do you relax when frustrated? Mindless game on my phone, nap, or binge something.

43. what’s something that offends you? people. People offend me.

44. favorite food I’m a sucker for a good lasagne. but also cheesecake. I can never have too much cheesecake. I mean, I can, I’m lactose intolerant, but shush. Something are worth it.

45. if you were on a 10 hour flight and could sit and talk to any person the entire time, who would it be? If there’s booze on the flight, anyone. if not, literally no one. I’ll just pound back some Oxazepam and nap. wake me up when we get there.

46. when do you feel the most confident? never. ROFL.

47. what do you do on your free time? What is free time?

48. is there anyone who has completely lost your respect Oh yeah. If you’ve read this far, you might have an idea.

49. have you ever broken someone’s heart? Probably not, no.

50. did/do you play sports in school? In gym class. Oh, and I did that one summer to Tball and hated it.

51. when are you happiest? when I'm asleep.

52. coffee or tea? Tea. fuck your coffee.

53. what is one possession you own you wouldn’t want to live without? internet.

54. what is the first thing you notice about a person? Height.

55. what is your favorite season, why? I love winter, because I love everything looking so white and clean when the snow is fresh. But I also love spring because of the rain, and summer for storms and fall for colors and good weather.

56. what makes you laugh? What doesn’t.

57. are you a clean or messy person? I was given the nickname ‘Messy’ at 10 for a reason. It still applies.

58. what is important for a successful relationship? Be it friendship or romantic relationship, my answer is the same. Trust and Honesty.

59. what was your upcoming like? Do you mean upbringing? I had a single mom who worked all the time. I was pretty independent.

60. favorite holiday? Christmas.

61. what is the first thing you’d do if you won the lottery? pay off debts.

62. what’s the best pizza topping combination? Bacon crumble and cheese. Not bacon bits, fuck that shit. Bacon fucking crumble. its like, little balls of bacon or something and not many places have it anymore *sad panda*

63. favorite outdoor activity. meditation. Does that count? I just like to be barefoot outside.

64. how are you? honestly. It’s 9 am, and I’m already getting frustrated with kids. And I have a soccer game and medal ceremony coming up soooooooooooo.

65. would you rather go camping in the woods or stay at a beach resort? how about cabin in the woods, ooooor a beach resort with woods backing it. yeah.

66. what is the most beautiful thing in nature? everything.

67. favorite type of candy? Don’t got one.

68. if your life was a book, what would be the title? something super depressing, I’m sure.

69. what movie quotes do you use of a regular bases? “Later masturbater” (The Pest)

70. what was cool when you were young but not cool now? Frosted tips, mesh shirts, and snap away track pants on men HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,. Oh, them early 00′s. I legit saw someone wearing them a few years ago and almost died.

71. what’s the craziest conversation you have ever eves dropped on? dunno hombre.

72. what’s the most interesting documentary you’ve ever watched? uhhhhhhh

73. what’s the worst hairstyle you’ve had? again, 90′s. Mushroom cut with a nike check saved in the back HAHAHAHAHA. Oh man, everyone had that way back when.

74. what do you like to cook? most things.

75. what’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild? wild beavers make me happy.

76. what’s the funniest tv show you’ve ever seen? Japanese game shows. nothing is as funny as japanese games shows. Human Tetris for example is fucking hilarious.

77. do you usually follow your heart or your head? Heart. Unfortunately.

78. what is your favorite quote? I’m not sure these days.

79. what’s the weirdest crush you have ever had? I’m not sure..

80. what’s your love language? I dunno. I legit just had to google what they were, and I’m not sure which.

81. do you ever feel alone? Always.

82. ever been bullied? Far too many times.

83. are you usually early or late? Early, thanks anxiety.

84. what kind of art do you enjoy most? these days, written. But I love paintings the most, i think.

85. what do you wish you knew more about? Everything. If I could, I’d go to school and learn everything that interests me even the slightest.

[mandelene]

Thank you to @feyna-v for tagging me! 

Rules: tag 10 followers you want to know better

Name: Nice try. I’m not ready to tell the whole internet yet. 

Gender: Female

Star sign: Aries

Height: 5′10 ft (1.778 m) Yup, I’m tall. I blame my Slavic dad. 

Sexuality: Heterosexual

What images do you have as your desktop/phone wallpaper: For my desktop, I have the standard mountains at night picture that’s already programmed into my MacBook. For my phone, I have a pic of a street in London and some double-decker buses as my lock screen. My phone’s home screen is a pic of a bunch of red roses. 

Have you ever had a crush on a teacher: All of my male teachers/professors have been old enough or almost old enough to be my father, so no. 

Where do you see yourself in 10 years: I want to be writing, hopefully professionally, in either non-fiction (as a journalist) or fiction (as a novelist). If not, working for an NGO or doing something where I could be active in a community would be the next best thing. I also wouldn’t mind teaching if I had the opportunity -- I’d probably teach some kind of writing or political science class. I want to get married at some point and have kids (but that seems ages away, and I need to find my other half first, haha). I’d like to live outside of NYC, though preferably still in a city (just a smaller one). 

Anywhere else right now, where would you be: Traveling some part of the world. I want to go to as many places as possible before I become an actual adult with a family to take care of and lots of responsibilities. 

What was your coolest Halloween costume: I had a pretty awesome pirate costume one year in middle school (though it was a historically inaccurate costume because there weren’t many female pirates back in those days, haha). I had a big Pirates of the Carribean phase at about the age of 12 and wanted to be Keira Knightley’s character from the movies. 

What was your favourite 90’s show: I’ll ignore that there was a “u” in favorite, but I just want everyone to know I’ve been triggered. I was just a tiny thing in the 90s, but according to my mom, my favorite kids TV shows were Rugrats, Powerpuff Girls, Pokemon, Dragon Tales, Blue’s Clues, and Arthur (which has the best theme song ever -- ♪ HEY, WHAT A WONDERFUL KIND OF DAY! ♪ ). Wasn’t a big fan of Teletubbies, Barney, or Caillou, but I watched them anyway. I also watched a lot of the shows that my older sister watched like All That and The Amanda Show, but again, I was really young, so I didn’t appreciate it that much because I didn’t always understand everything.  I think my absolute favorite show though was either Dragon Tales or Arthur.

Who was your last kiss: My cat (Macchiato). Kissed him on the head this morning. Have you ever been stood up: Yes, and at senior prom nonetheless. (My date showed up with another girl). We were supposed to go as friends, but he avoided me the whole night. I found out later that he was with some other girl when the pics started popping up on Facebook. He was the president of student government, so everyone knew him, which meant everyone was talking about it the next day. I still had a great time at prom though because my two amazing friends (whom I’m still very close with), danced with me and made sure I had fun. My parents were furious and my dad threatened to confront him (because that’s what dads do), but I told him it wasn’t worth it. In the end, it was actually my teacher that confronted the guy. He somehow found out about what happened (because gossip spreads like wildfire in high school). The boy was in one of his other classes, so he pulled him aside, lectured him, and made him apologize to me (apology not accepted though, lol). Then, my teacher told me how he got stood up at prom, too, and made me feel a lot better about the whole thing. It was really sweet of him. I’m still Facebook friends with that teacher now, haha. No one was allowed to mess with me when he was around because I was his top student. :D He also told off a girl who was always bullying me. Thanks, Mr. S. :) 

Have you ever been to Las Vegas: Nope. 

Favourite pair of shoes: My black and orange Nike sneakers. They’re super comfortable. 

Favourite fruit: Red apples

Favourite books: Anything written by George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984, and Down and Out in Paris and London). My favorite book of all time, however, is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I also love Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. 

Stupidest thing you have ever done: Some of you probably already know this, but I fell down the stairs in my apartment building when I was 19, hahaha. It was winter and the stairs were slippery because they were wet with melting ice and snow. And when I say “fell down the stairs,” I mean I slid on my butt down an entire staircase (15 steps). I was home alone because my parents were out grocery shopping at Costco, and I intended to go out to get some dinner because they weren’t going to be back for a while, and well, that obviously didn’t work out so great. I got some x-rays at my mom’s hospital and, fortunately, found out didn’t break any bones -- just had a lot of bruises and a wounded pride. 

I haven’t done anything stupid in terms of purposefully doing something reckless or being under the influence. I’m pretty boring and a goodie-two-shoes. I’m also very guarded, so I don’t let myself get put in those types of situations. Most of the dumb things I’ve done have been the result of my clumsiness or my inability to take care of myself. For example, I hid the fact that I wasn’t taking my asthma meds when I was 13 from my parents. Advair was making me lose my voice, and I felt humiliated in school because I always sounded like I had a sore throat, so I just stopped taking it. I started needing my rescue inhaler at least twice a day (which I also hid from my parents). Plus, I really hated my pulmonologist, so I didn’t want to do anything he told me to do because he was honestly a complete dick and had no idea how to talk to kids. Long story short, the next time I got a cold, my lungs couldn’t handle it. I developed pneumonia, ended up in the ICU for a week, and very nearly died. Definitely not smart. Fortunately, I had a great team of doctors treating me, and I’ll be indebted to them for the rest of my life. I learned my lesson and take my health much more seriously now (and I have a way better pulmonologist who is brilliant and I like a lot more. He’s actually one of the doctors who took care of me during that time, and I’ve been going to him ever since. That’s why it’s incredibly important to find a healthcare team that’s right for you).  I tag anyone reading this who wants to do it because I don’t want to keep bugging my followers, haha. If you guys end up doing it, let me know! :) 

[crystalelemental]

I have gone on record as disliking Gen 6 overall, with XY being my least favorite games until USUM showed up and ruined a perfectly good story.  While most complaints against XY are due to the story being meh, and the ally characters being obnoxious, some of that dislike is in the dex.  There were very few new Pokemon, and a ton of returning Pokemon, which skews things.  Prior to this, most regions had repetition of older Pokemon, but there were enough new Pokemon around that the region felt distinct and unique.  Here, it...kinda doesn't, to me.  It really feels like there need to be more new Pokemon for it to feel entirely distinct.  Which is a shame, because overall it's a really solid dex.

TOP 15: 15) Carbink - Before Diancie, this was a really interesting Pokemon to me. A Rock/Fairy type that had obscene defenses, and had a carbuncle-like appearance?  I'm on board.  Unfortunately, it really doesn't have many tools to help it stand out at all, especially when Diancie arrived and out-performed it in virtually every task.  But it's still a precious child that I adore.

14) Espurr - Espurr is a lot cooler than its evolutions.  While the female form looks pretty nice, the male form isn't my favorite.  The evolutions also have the problem of, once again, the male gets the tools to be good while the female form is not.  Espurr itself, though, is an oddball that I adore. It's an unusual design, but plenty cute in its own right.  I just wish its evolution offered a bit more.

13) Spritzee - This was a Pokemon whose first appearance had me excited.  I really wanted to run a Spritzee, and I couldn't wait to catch one.  A little plague-doctor bird?  That's the coolest!  Unfortunately, its evolution sort of changed the focus to being heavily about perfume and fashion-based.  Aromatisse doesn't stand out to me nearly as much as Spritzee does, and it's kind of a shame.

12) Gogoat line - A lot of this has to do with my Nuzlock run of Y, where Gogoat was a sort of MVP.  For a mono-Grass, having Ground coverage is divine, and it brings a lot of that.  In-game, its stats are also pretty well-rounded, allowing for a lot of damage and recovery via Horn Leech, but also allows it to tank hits really well and retain an acceptable speed tier.  Gogoat is a ton of fun, and I kinda wish it had more tools for competitive play.

11) Dragalge - What an interesting design choice.  A dragon that's made to look like seaweed, hidden within the ocean.  I really love the idea behind that.   Dragon/Poison is also very unique, allowing it to be one of the few Dragons that not only resists Fairy, but hits it back for super-effective damage.  It's a Pokemon that shines in concept of design, and I appreciate that kind of uniqueness.

10) Heliolisk line - Helioptile was a certainty to me when I first played these games.  I knew full well I'd be running one, there was no question.  While Heliolisk is a bit more fierce than its adorable pre-evolution, it still presents as a sleek design that got a surprisingly wide amount of coverage, including Surf of all things.   It's also the weather master, benefiting from Sun, Rain, or Sandstorm depending on what condition you want to abuse.  It's a great Pokemon that I love to run.

9) Aurorus line - Beautiful.  This evolution line is absolutely beautiful, and I adore the aesthetic they offer.  They're a surprisingly downplayed fossil Pokemon as well.  While most tend to be a bit more intimidating, Aurorus is fairly passive-looking.  Its typing leaves a lot to be desired, as do its stats, but its design and presence more than make up for its lack of competitive viability.

8) Trevenant line - Trevenant, while not nearly as cool as Gourgeist, is still a very interesting Pokemon.  Phantump are the spirits of children who were lost in the woods, and Trevenant are the evolved forms that try to snatch children away when they wander in.  It's an interesting cycle of spirits.  Grass/Ghost is also a fun typing we hadn't seen before, and the moves it has access to allow for a fantastic support combo of Will-o-Wisp and Leech Seed.  It even gets Horn Leech and Harvest for even further healing potential.  Trevenant is a fantastic Pokemon that's a ton of fun to use.

7) Sylveon - Another eevee evolution, this time as the new Fairy type.  Sylveon is fun not just because of the usual eevee evolution reasons, but because of its bizarre ribbon feelers.  It's adorable and lovely, but like many fairies we'd get to know, has a bit of a creepy factor to it as well.  If there's anything it did wrong, it's steal everything that Umbreon did, barring Foul Play.  Which...I dunno, is Foul Play even still useful anymore?

6) Vivillon - Much like Staraptor in Gen 4, Vivillon is the best of the regional early-game bugs.  Its design is gorgeous, including a mechanic where its wings will take on an appearance based on location, and its stats, while still terrible, aren't bad for what it is.  Quiver Dance with Compoundeyes and Hurricane allow it to actually deal some real damage, and in-game, having access to Draining Kiss is very valuable, especially early game.  It's a fun Pokemon, and it's nice to have one entry to the early-game bug brigade that's standing out.

5) Florges - What a wonderful creature.  Florges is literally only held back by its lack of any good ability at all.  If it had any decent ability, and mild utility beyond the awful abilities it currently has, it would be unstoppable.   Its speed tier is in a good place for a supportive wall, special defense is so massive you don't even need to really invest in it, and special attack is in a good place for a Fairy that has such good natural coverage with STAB alone.  Plus it's just an elegant and beautiful Pokemon.  Fused with the flower it carried, its body effectively is the stalk of the flower, with a gathering of flowers around its neck.  I love its design, and I love its battle role, and if only they would give it a good ability it would truly be unstoppable.

4) Goodra line - I've talked before about how a lot of Dragon evolution lines are intense and intimidating.  Well, Goodra was something more like Flygon.  A little goofy, sure, but a good friend who is still powerful and a Dragon.  This also kinda began a trend, where a lot of dragons now are designed to be goofy, or at least losing the huge imposing figure or regal look that most before it had.  I, for one, love this adjustment into goofy nonsense being called a dragon.  Please continue to do this forever.

3) Delphox line - I love them all, but Braixen is a clear-cut winner.  I know this probably means I'm a furry, but it's the cutest thing, and the sass it exudes in this form is legendary.  Fennekin itself is just an adorable little fox, and Delphox is what Ninetales should've been: a Fire/Psychic fox.   It even gets to effectively be a witch!  The only downside is that Delphox loses a lot of personality when it evolves from Braixen, going from a sassy fox creature to a more downplayed and serious one.  This change is the only thing holding it back from being at the top.  But on the whole, it's an excellent evolutionary line.

2) Diancie - When its base form was revealed, I already loved it.  A mutation of Carbink that's pink and adorable?  What's not to love?  Then we got wind of stats.  Effectively the same as Carbink, but with way higher offensive presence. Maybe it could have more of a use in Trick room now!  But then, against all odds, we get the unprecedented: a mega evolution.  It suddenly becomes ridiculously fast and strong, and more gorgeous than ever.  Diancie is beautiful and wonderful and I adore everything about this wonderful creature.  It's even got a unique physical rock move that has a real accuracy stat, and a secondary effect that's to die for.  I love how, at the outset, Diancie was set to be the worst of the three mythic legends of gen 6, only to end up with a mega that ranked it easily the best.

1) Gourgeist - What an awesome Pokemon, in every regard.  Beautiful shiny, fantastic design, and a chilling concept.  It wraps prey in its hair arms and sings to them as it drains their life force.  That's terrifying and incredible.  It's also got four forms, including a really small baby child and a giant form as tall as a person.  Each form also has different stat allocations, with bigger forms gaining defense and attack but losing speed.  If there is any singular flaw, it's that it would really love to be specially offensive and make use of Giga Drain, Shadow Ball, and Flamethrower instead of relying on Seed Bomb and Phantom Force as the only real options it has.

BOTTOM 10: 10) Volcanion - I disliked it because it was so optimized, and had bar-none the best unique attack of the three mythical legends.  "Steve, it's the only who who didn't get an extra form and is ranked UU by usage, hasn't it suffered enough?" No.  It has not.

9) Dedenne - I'm generally not that big a fan of the regional rodents, and Dedenne is unfortunately a low-ranked one.  I can't explain it, I just don't really care for it.  Nothing about it stands out all that much aside from its Fairy typing, but after a while, a generation has to do more than rely on adding its newly introduced typing to things already in a formula to feel unique.

8) Pyroar - Something about it just doesn't grab me.  I can't even explain what it is, I just don't really care for the look of it.  Fire/Normal, while interesting, is far from good.  And it's another cat-based Pokemon that just does terribly in competitive. 

7) Hoopa-Unbound - Hoopa is cute.  I like it a lot, and Ghost/Psychic, while odd, is a fun typing that's pretty solid offensively.   Hoopa-Unbound, though... Psychic/Dark, while also good, doesn't feel as great, considering it has no resistances at all.  The change in design does work for it, in that you definitely get the feeling that Hoopa's true form is a monster of a genie that's been sealed away, but the loss of cuteness in favor of what I'm pretty sure is a JoJo Stand isn't as interesting to me.

6) Pangoro line - It's not bad, but it's just...definitely not my aesthetic, you know? I don't care for the punk-type.

5) Doublade - You remember Golbat?  How I disliked it strongly because it made no sense as the middle stage between two interesting end-points?   Same thing here.  From one sword, to two swords, to a sword and shield. How?  How did you do this?  That doesn't make any sense at all.  Get back here and make your full evolution line make sense!

4) Malamar - You'd think Dark/Psychic would be cool.  You'd also think Contrary Superpower would be cool.  Instead, Malamar is basically just a disappointment, with no resistances to anything at all, and no real presence.  Its design is sufficiently interesting, as a borderline eldritch horror, but doesn't quite pass into the territory where it's really creepy.  It's just...middle-of-the-road, in everything it does. 

3) Barbaracle - Its design does nothing for me, and its concept even less.  I really don't understand why it looks like that, and as another Water/Rock type, it faces a lot of competition from things that are more effective than it, and stronger than it.

2) Diggersby - Listen.  I know I've relied on disliking aesthetics to rank things in the bottom 10 for several other lists.  But you need to understand.  This is, quite possibly, the worst design I can think of.   ...second worst.  It's so bad.  It looks so, so bad.  Everything about this is bad.  Why did they make it like this? Between Diggersby being a drunken construction worker or some kind, and Lopunny being a pin-up bunny, I'm starting to wonder if there will ever be just a normal bunny Pokemon.  Maybe that's why I was so excited for the fake fire-starter rabbit...

1) Greninja - I have never felt such unfettered anger about one of the starters getting preferential treatment before.  Let's be honest, every gen does it. Charizard is the favorite of Gen 1, Feraligatr the favorite of gen 2, etc.  But it never hit as hard as it did this time, and if you ask me.  Maybe because nothing has ever been so blatant, or occurred at a time in which a started I loved more than any other was shafted.  Delphox has gotten nothing in its entire life, Chesnaught got a few nice tools but had to work hard for the position it has in life, and Greninja was handed optimized stats, a busted hidden ability that could easily be nerfed in a way that does nothing to Kecleon but stops Greninja from being stupid, and a ridiculous special snowflake extra ability that lets it be even more super fast and strong, and also we changed its priority multi-hit move, a statement which is already obscene, into a special move so it gets to benefit from its main offensive stat instead of having to choose its tools like the rest of the working class.  Fuck this bougie frog asshole, you've never earned anything in your entire damned life. I'm glad Alan won.

[arastiia]

Tagged by: @way-of-flowers [ this was fun, tHANK YOU VERY MUCH ] Tagging: those who I mentioned below + @imberus, @aevyternal / @vantrece, @aedicio, @oqheliia, @henhawks, @ragakoson, @firebcrn, @tiiamate, @rotnichor, @soarae & @deusuprema.

Name: Susanne / Sue Gender: female Eye colour: very dark blue, occasionally gray Hair colour: very dark blonde; people often take it for brown. Relationship: *shrug emoji* Zodiac: Scorpio, aka the asshole. Favourite colour: several shades of blue & violet Favourite season: autuum Favourite place: honestly? Wherever people let me be Favourite holiday: probably pentacost; I get ten days off, after all Favourite video game: uff, Bioshock Infinite, Final Fantasy XIII (the sequels do not exist), Fire Emblem, DISHONORED, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Pokemon Platinum & my childhood ‘hero’ Custom Robo Arena Last show you watched: Leon: the Professional

What’s your honest opinion about your muse?  (I could ramble about this for hours) As someone who has an affinity to roleplay female, introvert ass-kicking Queens who hate their families & are or end up being broken beyond repair, Satsuki sparked my interest from the start. She is a COMPLEX mess, the embodiment of tragedy & (childhood) misery. Definitely the saddest character I have written so far (which is a statement since I wrote girls like Oerba Yun Fang, Elizabeth Comstock, Kuvira & Annie Leonhardt) but also BY FAR the most selfless, STRONGEST & most persistent woman I ever came across. 

I like to state that Satsuki Kiryuin is (in my pov) someone worth admiring given her extreme dedication, her persistent power & breathtaking mental supremacy. She is not afraid to lead, be straightforeward & daring, is able to endure through such a HUGE amount of truly dreadful bullshit but still finds the strength to keep on standing simply because her father told her so. She seemingly NEVER breaks & appears invincible; her iron will & resolve bound to her belief that the prosperity of many is so much more worth than her own. 

This is where the (to me) VERY interesting part starts. Satsuki incarnates the concept of imperfection & vulnerability. Indeed, I am a writer that loves morally gray characters who are either victim to their own ambitions or fall into a pit due to other people’s greed or will to break/abuse the latter. Secretly broken characters who carry on because they don’t know better, emotional wrecks & PTSD plagued warriors, WOMEN who have lost it all & more but still somehow find a way to keep on going. With that being said, it is not hard to guess that Satsuki falls into this sort of category. After all,she is utterly & undeniably broken. She is a mess & a helpless one too; a character whose personality / mentality offers countless layers you need to dig through, complex thought processes & sheer endless amount of mental conditioning, issues, fears & neglected strands of a once ‘murdered’ personality. -- when taking a closer look you see the faults in her logic, the irremovable IMPRINT which Ragyo had left on her, the sheer ‘shitton’ of desperation & her persitent longing for final peace / death. 

Sats is a paragon example of a woman with a good heart but corrupted intentions; truly an anti-hero through & through. Indeed, I cannot help but love how imperfect she is despite appearing pristine, how you first see her as a villain before realizing that she is but a broken hero with crude methods & painfully good intentions. 

Would you date your muse? A difficult question,truly. I would LOVE to get to know Sats better, establish something like a friendship first before going as far as considering to date someone as peculiar as her (post-KLK only ofc, hah). I don’t think i would strive for something romantic unless I knew that the feeling was mutual. -- probably would give it a try, in the end.

What are your favorite kinds of threads? *laughs while eating salad* ANGSTY ONES. if you plot / thread with me there will always be sadness in my posts, simply because Satsuki’s internal monologue never stops from being somewhat problematic or extreme. She is NOT a happy muse & you can feel that whenever you check my asks or replies. I love gritty threads which can often be considered as intense or straight down drastic (*tips mah hat at my partner in every angsty crime aka Eve, aka @absolutiia​*), threads that are painful & undeniably sad -- I love texts in which Satsuki struggles with her duty, her trauma or her own morals. Or threads that simply allow me to ‘ramble’ about a certain aspect of Satsuki’s personality. Threads in which Satsuki actually gets confronted / called out for the bullshit she pulled during & pre-KLK. People actually blaming her for the grave sins she committed.  Writing threads in which Satsuki is facing reality or having to actually work through her trauma & aspects linked to it gives me life.

Aside from that I also highly value the interactions between me & @rosecarnage simply because it is about time that Satsuki gains a chance to be happy + feel loved & live an ordinary life.

Are you a selective roleplayer?  Yes, but I give most people a chance. I check every blog that follows me, I read the rules, the about pages & skip through the verses; read my way through some of their threads, their banter, etc. I don’t care about the fandom or a fancy af theme. All I want is passionate partners. If I like what I see, I will follow.

Do you have a favourite  muse (if you have more than one)?  To be utterly frank, (& as mentioned above) Satsuki will always be my favorite.

what made you decide to join the fandom? Ever since I watched KLK for the first time, I felt drawn to the show. I enjoyed every single second of it (okay maybe not EVERY second but you catch my drift), I adored & simply LOVED the complexity of the characters & the general dynamic of most episodes. After all, episodes like ep. 16 & 18 still kill me every time I see them; I get GOOSEBUMPS during the dual transformation scenes & legit tear up every time Satsuki apologizes in ep. 22 OR FINALLY catches Ryuko in episode 24. 

Therefore (especially since Sats is my problematic fav) I had to simply join for the sake of starting to annoying y’all with my melodramatic & over-emotional noveling. ALSO *will smith poses @vcgabcnd​* what can I say, my fellow edge partner Kenzie inspired me. If u wanna blame someone, just sue her. 

[wiseabsol]

Excerpts from a Prompts Project

For those of you who read my Pokemon fanfic back in the day, you’ll know that my favorite ship was Mewtwo/Sabrina (for those of you who didn’t know that, try not to judge me too harshly). The following prompt is a fluff piece with some suggestive material in it.

Prompt #5: Relaxation, featuring Mewtwo

Relaxation:

Despite his careful preparations, it took three days for Sabrina to start relaxing. Mewtwo would have felt exasperated, if he hadn’t also been expecting that. His lover wasn’t accustomed to doing nothing. Between her work at her gym and her school, her training sessions, her psychic research, and the social functions that the League required her to attend, she always had something taking up her time and energy.

The one time he visited her in her office, he noticed that her calendar was highlighted in seven different colors and that her to do list was three pages long. When he pointed out that she might be taking on too much, she said that it had to be done, and then started correcting another one of her students’ essays.

It was obvious to him that she was burning herself out. She was sleeping heavily in his arms lately, even though he knew that she, like him, was normally a light sleeper. So he decided to do something about it.

“How many vacation days have you built up?” he asked her, fumbling with the buttons of her blouse one evening.

“Quite a few,” she said, helping him out.

“Good. Take a couple of weeks off. Come with me somewhere nice.”

She blinked at him. “You know I can’t. I have to—”

“Do a thousand and one things, yes, I know.”

“Then you know that I—”

“Delegate,” he insisted, while running his finger along the cusp of her bra. “Please. You need some time off. And I need you.” He drew her against him. “I am tired of hiding.”

She sighed. “We’ll have to hide wherever we go, you know.”

“Not everywhere.” At her puzzled looked, he said, “That is part of the surprise.”

She studied his face. “Alright. Two weeks, then.”

He showed her how grateful he was afterwards. When she dived into delegating during the next few days, he went to New Island to make sure that everything was ready. He’d spent months on the project and was rather pleased with how it had turned out. Rather than making another castle, he’d constructed a manor like the one she was currently living in (where her parents also lived, which meant that he had to visit her during the night, which wasn’t ideal). His island manor had more windows, though. They looked out onto the gardens and the groves of trees he’d hired a group of plant pokémon landscapers to grow for him. There was also a lake a short walk away, with sandy beaches that Sabrina could lay out on. He wasn’t certain if she would want to—she was a very cleanly person, so she might not like getting sand on her skin. But the option would be there, as it should be on an island, even one like this, which had sheer cliffs on all sides.

Furnishing the manor and getting supplies here had been tricky. He hadn’t had any money for it. If there was one advantage to knowing a crime lord, though, it was in skimming his bank account. The fact that Giovanni’s technicians couldn’t trace the source of the hack and had never caught Mewtwo picking up his deliveries had made the process even sweeter. So Sabrina would have everything she needed here, including a library. That was the first thing he’d decided they needed to have, before even their bedroom. Its shelves were filled with books on psychic theory and poetry and whatever else he could think of that might interest her. It overlooked the eaves of wisteria he’d set up, which she could go and sit under if she liked.

He’d wanted to make her someplace beautiful. Someplace where she would be comfortable and could be herself—where they could be themselves. And where they wouldn’t be interrupted. That was part of it, too. Mewtwo knew he couldn’t take her away from her normal life, but if he could coax her here on occasion—maybe over the weekends—that would be enough for him. They could indulge in each other as much as they liked for a few days, then go back to their responsibilities. That was his plan, anyway.

But it still took her three days to relax.

On the third day, he found her in the library. Or rather, he found her asleep on the couch in the library, with was wide enough to fit both of them on it, even with his tail. There was a book on the coffee table next to her and a cold cup of tea, both halfway finished. The sunlight pouring through the window teased a green gleam out of her black hair. He smiled at the sight and took the cup back to the kitchen. She was still napping when he returned, so he pulled one of the books down from a shelf and began to read.

When she stirred an hour later and fumbled for the book she’d set down, he asked her, “Did you sleep well?”

She blinked at him, then sat up and nodded. “Yes. It’s a little strange,” she admitted, “that I can take a nap if I want to. That there’s nothing pressing that I have to get to instead. That hasn’t been the case in….” She shook her head. “…in as long as I can remember.”

“That is why you’re here,” he pointed out. “To rest.”

She lifted an eyebrow. “Is that all?”

“That’s mostly it,” he amended, setting his book aside and going over to her. He stroked her cheek. “But I wanted to be able to do this, too.”

“Touch my face?” she asked, purposefully misunderstanding him.

“Touch you whenever I wanted, without having to worry about anyone walking in and seeing,” he elaborated.

She turned her head and kissed his palm. “That is nice.” Then she stood and walked over to a nearby table. “I had a question about this, by the way.”

He followed her. “Did you?”

“Mmhm. I’ve noticed that you didn’t put any chairs here. Or stools. You prefer stools,” she noted. “It’s not low enough to sit at without one, but it’s not tall enough that you wouldn’t have to bend over while writing something. So,” she said, tracing her fingertip along the edge of the wood, “does that make it decorative?”

“I would have put flowers on it if it had been,” he said.

“That’s what I thought. So what is this for? There are others around the house just like it.” She turned around and leaned back against it, a familiar gleam in her eyes.

“I think you might have guessed,” he said, pressing her back against it.

“It is at the height of your waist,” she said. To his delight, she hopped up onto the table. As he unzipped her pants, she added, “You’re becoming a bit of a pervert, you know.”

“Says the woman whose first sexual encounter was giving a pokémon a hand job,” he said—but then, what did that say about him, when he’d urged her on? Hers was the only touch he’d ever know and she was a human. If she was a deviant, then so was he.

That thought didn’t dissuade him from undressing her, or caressing her, or enjoying how good it felt to sink into her. It didn’t dissuade him from smiling as how she gasped his name as they moved together, coaxing each other towards their peaks. It didn’t dissuade him from nuzzling her neck after they were finished, either. She laughed and slapped his shoulder, complaining that that tickled. He didn’t stop for a few more seconds, then sighed and lifted himself off of her. He helped her get cleaned up and dressed again, even though he was lousy with buttons and probably hindered her more than he helped her. She never complained, though. She just gave him a look that made him feel warm and buoyant. He checked his feet to make sure he wasn’t levitating from it.      

They went out for a walk after that. It was an odd experience for him, to feel her hand wrapped around his and the sunlight on his fur at the same time. This was what he’d hoped for though: to enjoy these days with her. He led her to the lake and teleported a blanket from the manor for them to lay out on. She stared up at the sky as he settled down next to her.

After listening to the birds chirping and the waves crashing against the nearby cliffs, she asked him, “Do you suppose anyone can see us from up there?” She pointed to a white dot in the sky, which was leaving a line of clouds behind it. He was about to say that the plane was much too high up for them to see anything in detail down here, when she added, “It seems like people can see anything these days, with the help of a satellite and a search engine.”

He stroked her hair. He understood her concern, but he’d learned his lesson about that danger on Mt. Quena. “Do you see that shimmer in the air?” he asked, gesturing to a rainbow smear less than a mile above them.

She looked closer at it. “That one there?” she asked, pointing to it.

“Yes. I’ve raised a light barrier around us, to alter how the island appears to outside observers. When they look at it, they will see a barren island with jagged rocks around it. I can’t imagine anyone will be tempted to pay us a visit.” He ran his finger down the line of her jaw. “You don’t have to worry. No one will find us here.”

“You’ve thought of everything,” she murmured.

He frowned and stroked her lips with his thumb. He couldn’t kiss her properly, like a man could, but he could do this, and she’d told him she was certain it felt just as good. “I wanted this to be perfect for you,” he told her. “I know your life can be stressful at times, and our relationship doesn’t always make things easier.” When she opened her mouth to protest, he added, “But I wanted to give you a place where things could be easy—where we can go when everything else feels like too much.”

She studied his face, then smiled. “I think you’ve succeeded at that.”

He sighed with relief. “That is good to hear.”

She placed her hand on his chest. “You worry too much.”

“You are not much better on that count,” he teased her.

“No, I’m not,” she agreed, “but I’m trying.” She leaned up and kissed his cheek. “Thank you for bringing me here.”

“You will always be welcome here,” he promised, while the sun baked into his fur. Feeling faint from the heat, he sat up and asked her, “Would you like to go swimming?”

She lifted an eyebrow. “You like to swim?”

“Not all cats dislike water. Jaguars are known to be fond of it.”

“So you’re a jaguar now, are you?” she asked him before stripping off her clothes, until she was down to her undergarments.

“If I were one, I would be tempted to eat you,” he told her, licking his lips.

She took a couple quick steps towards the shore. “You would have to catch me first,” she said suggestively, then ran and plunged into the water.

He followed her. She was a more agile swimmer than he was, but he eventually caught up to her and caught her around the waist. They tussled, with her trying to squirm out of his grip, while he tried to hold onto her, despite her slippery skin. The struggle ended with him getting water up his nose and cursing at the sting of it, while she floated back from him and laughed. They swam together after that until the sun started to set. When they returned to the manor, Sabrina went to take a shower, while he worked on their dinner. By the time she rejoined him, the food was ready and he’d brewed her a cup of her favorite red tea.

“You’re spoiling me,” she told him, accepting the cup with a smile.

“Is that such a terrible thing?” he said.

Someone should spoil you, he thought. Someone should make you feel appreciated and adored. Someone should make you feel loved. You have spent too many years believing that no one ever would.

Her cheeks colored, as if she had heard his thoughts. Perhaps she had. “I love you,” she whispered to him.

She didn’t say it often. She was still scared to say those words, as if she thought they would hurt him, like they had her parents. But unlike them, he wasn’t afraid of her, and he didn’t think that her love was so frightening, either. After all, it was the sweetest gift he’d ever known.

“I love you too,” he told her, drawing her into his arms and pressing his cheek to hers in the pokémon version of a kiss. He remembered that he’d once been scared to say those words to her, too. But he would say them as many times as she needed him to, until she believed in them as much as she did in their psychic powers….

When their hungers were sated, they returned to their bedroom. Its eastern and western walls were made of glass, giving them ocean views on either side. He watched her watch the waves, then look up at the stars, which were burning brighter than they ever did in her city. Then Sabrina turned to him, took his hand, and led him to the bed. When they were curled up together under the blankets comfortably, she murmured something into the fur of his chest.

“What was that?” he asked her.

“I said I could stay here forever,” she repeated sleepily.

“You could,” he said, tracing the shape of a constellation into her nightgown. He could get her anything she needed. He would be happy to.  

“I couldn’t,” she said, opening her eyes to gaze into his. “But I could stay here for a while.”

“For a while, then,” he agreed, lifting his hand to stroke her hair.

She sighed and nestled herself against him, falling asleep soon afterwards. He held her and closed his eyes, content in the knowledge that he had finally, finally put her at ease. It may have taken three days and months of preparation, but in the end, it had all been worth it.

[bigbrothermatsuoka]

Ina-chan~ Can you do the love love asks about you and Rin and your relationship? I wanna know more! :D

E-Eh?! M-Me with Rin? W-Well I can try! Considering how some of the asks doesn’t have relationships. Since you require all of the questions, I’ll try my best to answer all of them!

Me: Instead, I’ll just having him next to me as I answer the questions

Rin: hello, my name is Matsuoka Rin, my name has a girly name but I’m actually a boy–

Me: I didn’t say to do your intro, buT SINCE YOU ASK I’LL LET YOU DO YOU

Jokes aside, some of the answers can be very personal so I’m leaving them under the cut to let ya’ll read.

Blush : What do you do when you have a crush on someone?

Me: I usually stay quiet when I do. the reason why I stay quiet, mainly because I wouldn’t be so sure if I really do have a crush on someone or not. So if I can hang out with them or get to know them a little better, the feelings vary from there on out.

when I’m alone with my crush, I can be very talkative. I would feel extremely awkward if the two of us remained quiet, so I usually try to maintain a good conversation, just in case if things start to die down.

Rin:…so that’s why you couldn’t stop talking that one time.

Me: Y-Yes…. >////

Kiss : What’s the sweetest thing someone has done for you? 

Me: Sweetest thing? Probably someone buying me anything really! or treating me as well. I don’t get a lot of affection or special stuff so yeah!

for Rin, I think just being an inspiration in my life is the most sweetest thing that he would do. No one in real life was able to make me stand like I am now so I would really thank him for that. .////.

Rin: Really? I’m glad to hear that. *smiles*

Me: *Thinks to myself* AAAAAAAAAAA AA  S TOP S MILING SO SW EE TLY—

Cuddle : Which one of your mutuals do you really want to hug right now?

Me: all of them~ if they let me ;w;

Rin: I’d let you cuddle me if you wan–

Me: AHAHAHA…A. THATS OKAY… *sweats nervously*

Heartbeat : What fictional character do you love?

Me: ME??? ? ?? IN LOVE??? I DON’T HAVE—

Rin: Oi, take a look at this picture I just took of myself,

Me: *looks into the camera* okay i lied bECAUSE I CAN ‘T DENY THESE I JUST LOV ET HEM

Rin: huh? Who are you saying this to?

Romance : Perfect date?

Me: I would love to go somewhere for dinner and just walk around the park during the night sky. I’m a night owl and I just adore star gazing!

Rin: Funny you mention that, because I tend to do the same for you.

Me: H-Huh? Y-You don’t have to, if it’s just you, then I wouldn’t mind doing whatever you wanted to do.

Rin: But what if I said I wanted to take you out for dinner and walk around to look at the stars~?

Me: …F-Fine you win >////

Joy : What truly makes you happy?

Honestly, I think having close friends make me the most happiest person alive. That, along with Rin Matsuoka and Rei Ryugazaki for many reasons, they are just so important to me and are the reasons why I’m moving forward today….

Rin: Ah, I’m glad you feel that way about me. I can somehow understand your pain because what got me back up was Haru and the others.

Me: Yeah…them too but you and Rei…just stood out to me the most.

Rin: Really now?

Me: *nods shyly* I’ll explain later…

Happiness : Who are your kin?

Me: LMAO I dunno what a kin is so I’ma skip OTL

Love : Are you, or have you been, in love before?

Me: *looks around to see if Rin is in the room then tries to speak as quick as possible* Sadly I have, but usually they fade away, probably because I know how to deal with getting over things so easily even though for friends, I have a hard time letting go //BRICKED. However, with Rin…I can’t seem to get over him no matter how hard I try. He, along with Rei have a big impact onto my life and I couldn’t have asked for a better inspiration.

Rin: *comes back from the bathroom* What I miss?

Me: A-AH! Nothing! Moving on!

Beloved : What do you love the most about yourself?

Me: There’s not alot really, but if I had to say something it would probably be either the way I sing or how my hair is.

Rin:….so you do care for yourself!

Me: I-I SAID IF RIN!

Sweet: Favorite love song?

Me: TOO MANY TURIEFYDSJOA if I had to describe what song would be for me and Rin, it would most likely be Hello by Lionel Richie call me cheesy but I can relate every time I think of Rin >///

Rin: *comes from the kitchen with snacks* He got you snacks.

Me: A-Ah! Hey! And thanks.

Cute : What’s your aesthetic?

Me: *sweats nervously as I look into my kink list* Lets just skip that >.>

Rin: What’s that on your hand?

Me: NOTHING MOVING ON!!

Thoughtful : If you could change your name, what would you call yourself?

Me: Honestly, I really love my name. I never really thought about changing it one bit because of how unique it is.

Charming : Who helps motivate you?

Me: *looks at the question and turns to Rin* He Rin I’m thirsty can you get me some water while I’m fishing the questions?

Rin: Ah, okay. *Walks off to get the drinks*

Me: *sighs deeply and answers* R-Rin and R-Rei >/////

Beautiful : Who is your ideal significant other? 

Me: For a significant other, I wish to have someone to be determined and passionate towards something that he would want to do. I also want a person that’s can support my dreams while I support his. At the same time, I also want him to be very understanding and loyal as well. Having someone understand you is like finding your other half. Lastly, I wish for a guy that has emotions. Having to always be stoic and act “manly” Isn’t my forte. At the same time it would be nice for him to tease me every now and then

If there was someone that had most of these traits, it would be Rin and Rei.

Rin: Hey, I’m back *Hands out water*

Me: H-H-Hey! Thanks! *takes the water*

Affection : Who do you ship?

Me: Depending on the fandom, I haven’t shipped anything in a while but my current ship at the moment would be Shigure x Nina from Fire emblem. 

JUST RECENT: I was just done looking at Dangan ronpa V3….and I have another ship…but I won’t say because it’s a spoiler for those who haven’t watched it yet!

Kind : What Pokemon would you be?

Me: GODS….THERES SO MANY OF THEM IDK WHICH ONE I WANNA BE…..probably a blaziken

Rin: Blaziken? Isn’t that a fire type?

Me: Y E S

Heart Beat : You’re getting coffee with a celebrity, who is it?

Me: Tops down Amy Lee. She’s one of the most inspirational singers I know and I wish to someday sing just like her…even though my voice might be fading.

Rin: If you wanted to sing that bad, why don’t you sign up to auditions and perform on stage?

Me: I have thought about doing that Rin, but I don’t like the idea of having your own life be exposed for others to know about. It’s like you’ll never be safe if your ever famous ya know?

 Rin: I see, thats reasonable

Giggle : Do you believe in love at first sight?

Me: Maybe? Not really? Who knows, I don’t think I ran into anyone within this situation though. Probably because I’d like to get to know them better.

Laughter : Who can always make you laugh?

Me: Honestly, my friends. Each time I joke around and say lots of things to them, they all know how to brighten my day or make the worse thoughts go away. I would be pretty much dull and alone if it weren’t for having the best of friends.

Rin: Like that one time where Nagisa wouldn’t stop bugging Rei about his personal belongings and how they went missing?

Me: Exactly!

Smile : What do you find attractive?

Me: Probably a guy that is tall, determined, passionate, dedicated towards what they like–

Rin: Me?

Me: RUIEHSDJOJF SHHUSHHHH!!! *blushes*

Warmth : What is your happy place?

Me: Anywhere where I can have some alone time. Normally I’d say my room but my dad has been on and off at my lately to the point where I can’t find my happy place anymore.

Huggable : What are your favorite flowers?

Me: I love Roses~ Their just so beautiful!

Rin: *Walks in holding out a bunch of Roses*

Me: UIORTHFERIOFHRJFH Y-You didn’t have too Rin >////

Soul Mate : Who is your best friend?

Me:I have alot of best friends, but there a few that I believe that deserves to be acknolege.

Real life: @lostpirika @moonlitcritter and one other in real life.

Online: @nymvee @momokitty27 (That’s you~!!) the rest are on skype but not active on tumblr so ouo

Rin: These friends mean alot to you huh?

Me: Yeah, whenever I have them, I feel like I’m unstoppable…

Rin: I see, just like how I felt with Haru and the others

Unique : What qualities do you look for in other people?

Me: Wasn’t there a similar question like this?

Rin: Ah, I think their asking for in general, not as a lover..

Me: Oh that makes sense, I guess people that can have all the patients in the world and stand by my side no matter what happens in the world. I also would love for people to be honest with me. Within the past, I’ve had certain friends that didn’t believe in me or be honest with their words which makes me question almost everyone in the planet if their telling the truth or not. Which leaves me into having a final quality

Trust and lots of support. About a month ago I lashed out at a friend who was telling the truth to me. but I didn’t believe her because I felt like she was lying. Which made me feel that I failed to notice the people who truly care for me.

Other than that, I’m pretty much chill with hanging with alot of other people.

Trust : Do you trust people easily?

Me: This question is very difficult to answer because alot of people I’ve faced within my life have lied to me many times. If I had to tell the harsh truth. No, I don’t.

At first, I’m pretty open to everyone, but lately, I’ve just been pushing people away because I’m scared that I’ll just get hurt again. This feeling was just recent, and it’s has a personal reason that I’m not ready to share.

Rin: That sounds harsh, I’m sorry everything didn’t go too well.

Me: Not you’re fault, honest!

Dearest : What item is most dear to you?

Me: Item? Hmm…

Me: Any gift that a friend gives to me is always something dear to me.

Rin: Like thoese Rose I gave to you earlier?

Me: UIRHOJI R I N

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Thoughts on the sawsbuck evolution?

I'm a big fan of winter deerling and sawsbuck with its fluffy legs <3

Deerling is pretty simple, but I do like the design quite a bit. The specific shape of the colored areas combined with the lovely gold accents just looks really pleasing to the eye. I also like the spots (appropriate for a fawn) and the cream-colored base.

With that said though, the face does bug me. It has that kind of generic nondescript muzzle and sideways mouth that always bother me. Pokemon don't have to be anatomically correct all the time obviously, but something a little closer to a proper muzzle would've worked better, especially when the evolution has one. (The legs are also a little wonky, but that's not quite as bothersome as the face.)

In terms of the seasonal forms: First, I should mention how crappy it is that we never get the other non-spring forms due to the season mechanic being scrapped. Why not correlate the forms to the user's season instead of in-game seasons? Or even better, why not just have different forms appear in different climates? Winter in snowy, icy climates, Spring in rainy climates, Summer in general climates, and Autumn in cold-but-not-freezing climates. Or hell, just introduce items to change the forms, I don't care, just bring them back; they're really the main concept of the entire line and it doesn't work nearly as well without them.

Anyway, with that said, Deerling's different forms are just kind of recolors, and while they all look fine, I do find the difference between it and Sawsbuck to be jarring. Why does Deerling not change its design but changes colors, while Sawsbuck changes its design but not its base color? Some consistency would've been nice. I also kind of feel like you could've just not introduced the season thing until Sawsbuck, seeing as Deerling doesn't do too much with it. Still, like I said, all of them look nice. Summer's probably my least favorite--I would've preferred a less saturated forest green--while autumn and winter are tied for my favorites.

I was today years old when I learned that Sawsbuck is S.A.W.S.buck, IE Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer.

Anyway, as a whole, I do like these guys fine; the markings still look very nice (though I do question the spots. Wasn't the idea of spots on Deerling because its a fawn?) and the seasons are implemented and distinctive. Part of me wonders if they should've kept the different base colors of Deerling to differentiate them even more, but part of me also likes the subtle brown.

Between all of them, summer is once again my least fav. Aside from some seemingly random choices (why is it the only one to not have chest fluff? Why is it the only one to have its tail going up? Why the fur on the back of the head?), the green is once again a bit too intense for my tastes and clashes with the brown when it comes to the back spots, and the leafy antlers are a bit much and distract from the actual deer.

Autumn form has a similar problem with the antlers, but at least the colors are nicer on that one and the overall design is better. However, I do wish the color was more orange-y to match Deerling and to keep it from looking so similar to the spring form. Speaking of which, I also feel like those two look too similar; the colors are close, and the bodies are near-identical except for the antlers. Summer form's changes may be random, but they at least make the design a bit more unique.

Spring is looks pretty good, but only having a few small flowers on the antlers feels a hair understated. Feels like they could've worked more of them into the chest fur, in place of the spots, or around the legs. This would've helped with the aforementioned issue of it looking a bit too similar to the autumn design.

Winter, meanwhile, is probably my fav. I really like the contrast of the white and how nicely it compliments the brown and yellow, but I also like how it's actually adapted to the season it represents, with a full-on winter coat.

Also, as a final note: while normal/grass makes sense, I do question if these guys could've gotten away with different typings, just for fun. Grass/water for spring (it's wet out), normal/grass stays for summer, grass/ghost for autumn (spook season), and grass/ice for winter. Might've added a little extra something.

Overall, these are some pretty nicely-designed deer with a simple but unique gimmick that really needs to make a comeback. As a whole, I'd say the summer forms are my least favorite, while the winter ones are my favorite.