#but I love pokemon

[arttsuka]

Thoughts about pokemon? I like ghost types :]

I love pokemon.

One of the first fandoms I was ever in. I've played some of the games (gen 4, 6, 7, 8) and I've watched some of the anime (it's huge alright, I ain't watching all of it). Also I collect cards (I don't know how to play the game tho).

My favorite types have to be dragon, fairy, psychic, fire and electric (I'm indecisive like that)

[dawnf1re]

glitterbugs

[viorhysealberia]

pokemon fans when they have to wait another year for the next big game with no major releases in-between

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[atompalace-official]

I don’t think I’ve ever posted this animation on tumblr…! time to fix that! sylveon dance mode!!! 🎀💕

[niconcanela]

Pre-team skull Guzma :)

[scifisillyface]

Cultifying your wooloo

[koobiie]

based on that one q&a... i'm a sucker for a pokemon crossover

[soothedcerberus]

Shaymin sneef snorf

[loserfae]

[8 seconds from a ytp my friend @normalname69 made]

nurse joy: "Have you seen that posteR?"

ash: "HUauuaUH?"

nurse joy: *one single angelic note*

[kooldewd123]

this house makes me insane. before you meet lusamine, before you find out about the aether family, before you realize the themes of abuse present in the game, you come across a house. an abusive father and a runaway child. you continue across the game and probably don't give it a second thought. but should you remember this house and return to it after beating the game, you discover that the runaway boy is actually guzma, and suddenly everything about him gets recontextualized. guzma is the first victim of abuse we see in this game. he built up his "never been afraid of nothing or no one" persona as a defense mechanism. he beats other people down because it offers him the power he never had as a child. he hates himself because he always internalized he wasn't good enough. he gets suckered into following another abusive parent because, in his eyes, she's the first person to actually respect him as an equal. god it's so good.

[critterbitter]

Blitzle getting obliterated by a flying type is peak comedy to me, sorry guys.

BONUS:

(Masterpost)

[hammerings]

miku + miraidon. This cannot be improved tbh

[rose022]

[aquanutart]

THEY'RE BACK!!!! my childhood manga!!!

[professionalidiot32]

aw look she’s learning metronome :D

SHIT