#arguably not one otherwise

[goldensunset]

i’ve been thinking about the pokémon memes where it’s like playing off of that one quote that’s like ‘truly strong trainers should try to win using their favorites’ and it’s like ‘ok well my favorite is [something blatantly overpowered]’ and it’s got me curious. how many people genuinely love pokémon that also happen to be really strong competitively?

so if you will. pick a favorite pokémon (for any reason! whether it’s cuteness or strength or nostalgia etc. no judgment) then go here https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/pokemon/ and look it up

(you’ll see something that looks like this. see where it says tier and has some gibberish afterwards? don’t worry if you don’t know what that means but tell me what the letters/words are)

also if there are multiple forms and the distinction matters to you make sure you get the right one lol cuz the tiering can be different

edit: forgot to mention i mean specifically in SV! which is what comes up by default. rip every pokémon that either isn’t in SV (it’ll say ‘national dex’) or used to be better but has since fallen off relative to new pokémon

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Smile And Be A Villain

queer character-driven historical fantasy, reimagining Hamlet before the events of the play

follows prince Hamlet who has been sent away to Wittenberg after being caught in a compromising position, meeting new people and discovering magic

and Ophelia, back in Denmark, dealing with the rise of the corrupting by-product of magic

while a war is brewing, and they have to figure out how much they are willing to sacrifice to save their country

duology

bi hamlet, aspec ophelia

[potential-fate]

“Hey!” Jorah admonished, “That’s not very nice. She’s your sister.”

“Well it’s true.” Cindra shrugged, “I heard Gramma say it.”

“I–…” Jorah’s shoulders dropped. He had no doubt his grandmother probably had said something similar. He lied anyway, “I… don’t know why she’d say something like that…”

“She yelled it at momma.” Cindra said, “She said Ulyssa was gonna end up exactly like her and that it was momma’s fault for not raising us right.”

Jorah sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. This was entirely why he’d been worried. At least now, he knew he had been right to do so. Not that that was very reassuring. Especially not when his baby sister was sitting here parroting Grandmother’s words with the nonchalance of what she might have had for breakfast.

“I–… I’ll talk to her about being nicer too then…” Jorah tried awkwardly.

“Why bother?” Cindra looked at her shoes rather than at Jorah. Jorah didn’t know what to say to fix something like this.

After a moment, Cindra looked up, her eyes narrowed in thought, “Is Lyssa actually stupid?”

“N-No…” Jorah said.

“Is she really gonna have a baby?” Cindra looked at him suspiciously, “I don’t wanna share my room again.”

Jorah sighed. How this conversation had ended up in his lap, he wasn’t sure, but clearly no one else was going to have it.

“You won’t have to share your room.”

“So she’s not?” Jorah grimaced. Momentarily, he wished Cindra was just a little younger.

[elftwink]

not everything is a psyop some people just have bad opinions.

(this post made by a non-american and any reference to american politics or politicians, be they real or completely imagined, are purely coincidental. additionally, this post is an american electoral politics free zone and if you use this space to campaign on behalf of your american political candidate of choice, you will be drawn and quartered. thank you for your understanding)

[madwildcrunchy]

A tlt animated show could only be two things: Either a very serious beautfully handcrafted atmosphiric masterpiece like Arcane

Or an absolute whirly brained show like Shera/Voltron that lasts for 4 seasons

[hylialeia]

anyone else notice the trend of people on this website just ruthlessly hating and making fun of A Thing and everyone laughs and for a while The Thing is seen as an immediate source of justified mockery/borderline bullying only for years later people to stop and be like hey. that was really weird and fucked up actually. and then the New Thing to mock comes up and they rinse and repeat. or am I insane

[electrosquash]

People always talking about "eat the rich" but when i, the Atlantic Ocean,

[roboraindrop]

*gently holds my f/os*

That's it, that's the post

[violentlydefending]

genuinely always so shocked to see mirei hate. like literally god forbid women do anything.

[meatriarch]

its simply like, one thing abt the dire aus ( dusk, nosy, cc ) is that we literally do Not give lee or maria a break ever there is always something. like why is there always someth

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[desperatepleasures]

mentally crossing over tactics and demon slayer and calling it Demon Eater except it's a pointless crossover as the plot of demon slayer would be completely null and void because kantarou could turn nezuko back into a human in like, an hour tops

[asheoninactive]

Ouhhhhhhhhhhh I need to think about Animatsu . Not even in a funny way I need to spin them in my brain and do character analysis .

[hopkei]

me: watches a drama i know will end in tragedy

also me: upset that it ends in tragedy

[kuhatoarchive]

tifa jumps off the train first btw. always, always.

[sanstropfremir]

i havent seen anyone bother you about mave yet(? maybe i missed it) so i wanted to bother you about mave. People are *saying* that theyre ripping aespa but i think both mave and aespa ripping k/da. k/da is very successful in their own right but companies need to know they cant replicate something like that,,, not authentically at least. k/da had built in lore, built in fanfare from other artists fanbases and interesting music. if companies arent even gonna TRY with any of that theres no point

no one has! they're.......fine i guess? i have nothing really to say about them bc they're just kind of middle of the road. i AM however inclined to agree with you that they are ripping k/da. aespa i think gets it more right and i don't mind their ae concept as much as i thought i would bc it's pretty much just used for story + worldbuilding purposes, which is what that kind of thing works well for. mave is....pretty much just the end product of k/da without any of the whole ass game that the characters in k/da are based on. i did actually write a post about k/da ages ago, but they very much were a passion project of riot's that they didn't really have an idea if the whole thing was gonna work or not. and it was the combination of all of the factors (being made by very passionate people, having extremely talented top of the line animators involved, the game's fandom, and smart utilization of the actual medium itself) that made them pop off like crazy, not the formula of 'pretty animated idol women'. aespa is at least combining both traditional idol forms with some of those animated elements, and is doing it in a way that's in line with sm's conceptual branding (i don't mean the kwangya stuff, i mean they've always done concepts around techno orientalism, going all the way back to h.o.t). i don't really know what the more nuanced deal with mave is bc i've only seen the mv and it didn't grab me so i haven't bothered to look for more about them, but when you get down to it: idols are characters, especially the human ones. we've just been conditioned not to recognize them as such bc the fantasy hinges on everyone agreeing that it's all real. it's the ultimate suspension of disbelief that everyone refuses to acknowledge. all the extra content is there to establish the 'world' that these idols live in, to build them up as characters in this little story that they play for our entertainment. with real live people it's very easy to convince an audience that what is happening is real, bc our brains are trusting and stupid, but with something that is NOT human, it's much harder. we automatically see where all the flaws are, and you cannot shortcut 'worldbuilding' with extra content like you do with an idol bc those people are not real so they would not be doing real people things. when you have animated characters with no grounding to a real person (that's where aespa gets it right), you NEED to have a story to establish where those characters are from because otherwise, what the hell is the draw? why should people care? especially when we don't really have unified stock characters as part of a cultural concensus atm. idk. maybe the novelty of it is drawing people in, but in my opinion this company missed the trees for the forest on what actually made k/da (and to some degree aespa) successful in the first place.

[dankovskaya]

Dante acts silly as is his method of cope and I know they are twins with literally the same face but idk I feel like if you haven’t seen your brother since you were both like 9 and you have been 100% sure he got slaughtered a whole decade ago you might be more like “Who the fuck are you disturbingly familiar guy” and a little less like “Oh wow my dead twin’s back.” Like maybe just a little bit of denial out of shock. Also why do they both start mutually hating immediately .