#but it's the worst gimmick

[pikatrainer99]

Hot take: I don't like Mega Evolution... (NO TOXICITY PLEASE, I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THIS A TOXICITY-FREE ZONE BECAUSE I'VE GOT NO TIME FOR TOXIC PEOPLE!!!)

I'm excited for Pokémon Legends Z-A, because of course I'm excited for a new Pokémon game...but I'm NOT excited for Megas to return. Megas are the most unfair of all the battle gimmicks because not every Pokémon can Mega Evolve, whereas every Pokémon can use Z-Moves, Dynamax, and Terastallization. Plus, Pokémon that didn't NEED Megas got them, like Mewtwo (who got TWO Mega forms), Garchomp, and Rayquaza just for some examples (and in Rayquaza's case, made it INCREDIBLY broken because it didn't need to hold a Mega Stone). There is one thing and one thing only that would make me feel a TINY bit better about Megas, and that one thing is giving one to EVERY starter, not just the Gen 1 and 3 starters. It's only fair in my opinion.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

you fucking cast iron pan fuckers

Bit of an odd request but who am I to say no?

MLP x Transformers Frying Pan

[where-is-mr-e]

Mr e (and friends) went trick or treating!

[orange-orchard-system]

As aplatonics, do you ever feel the need to apologize to the people who consider you their friend/s?

It always feels so awkward for us, like “sorry girl i still feel like i barely know you,” or something like that. (Maybe that’s the dissociative memory loss talking but i feel that’s a separate can of worms.)

Not really. Honestly, I kind of find the whole thing presumptuous on their part, and... a little sad, in a way? From my end, I'm not doing much of anything – I go out of my way to be kind, yes, but that's because I want to make others happy, not because I want to be their friend. I'm not trying to show any signs of platonic interest, I'm just being a good neighbor or classmate or whatever. So, when others jump to considering me their friend, my first reaction is often something like, "What gave you that idea?! Way to jump to conclusions!" and then my second reaction is often, "Oh... You assume any scrap of kindness or basic manners or conversation with another person means someone is attracted to you/takes a personal interest in you and wishes to pursue a long-term relationship with you... That's... Oh..." (If you've ever heard that NPMD dialogue about friendship, it's like that.)

The way I see it, their platonormativity is not the fault of my common courtesy, so I don't see any reason to be ashamed, you know? But even if I don't feel the need to apologize out of guilt or whatever, I may say it anyway just to keep the peace and – well, manners, and all that. I figure apologizing for disappointing them is only right, even if I don't understand why they got their hopes up in the first place.

I can relate to the awkwardness, though; it sucks that there's no clean way of turning people down, especially for friendship. How are you meant to "gently let down" someone who has a one-sided friendship with you that can be based upon as little as a handful of 5-minute conversations held in passing? At least romantic relationships have some models for this, even if that's its own can of worms...

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

heehoo it's me your (least) favorite gimmick blog and i'm gonna make you a gimmick blog too!

[honey-dont]

AUs in the opposite direction

[gimmick-thief]

People only follow you because they like the gimmicks of the people you steal from. You mean nothing to them.

/nsrs

[termagax]

seeing some people's reaction to weird gamer men oversexualizing kiriko is "mauga is right there, half naked, with serveral pin-up sprays" and while i do agree to an extent, i do feel like alot of people are kind of ignoring like. the racial element of mauga's sexualization, like i like mauga, he's hot, but the second i saw him in the short story, i wasn't a big fan of the whole "big savage brown indigenious guy" and it feels like very few people are pointing that out.

RIGHT LIKE. we cannot fix "gamer men fixate on fictional asian girls to a violent degree, usually in a racist way or enabling racist tropes already present in the character" with "gamer girls fixate on fictional brown men to a violent degree in a racist way or enabling racist tropes present in the character" like you guys are part of the same problemmmmmmm youre doing the same thinggg its not better because youre doing it to men like.

i think some people only want to see the kiriko problem as misogyny and while im not going to even pretend that ISNT a massive part of it, theres still like. a reason kiriko and d.va and mei are fascinations for these dudes. there is a pointed difference between the way these three get spoken about compared to their white counterparts (and their dark-skinned counterparts too - look at the responses to illari for a really easy comparison to how kiriko is treated). their ~exoticism~ as asian women is part of the appeal. even if you dont just wanna take the way dudes online treat them (like making a joke that shes "obvious pornbait" for speaking japanese and using JSL) as evidence of that, look at their marketing. kirikos whole thing is atheleisure traditional, shes got her Mystical Japanese Spiritualism Ninja Powers and her magic doggy and they constantly put her in japanese and korean fashion, and dva has been constantly crossing over with korean merch companies. i cant help but notice theres no brazilian IP crossovers or merch launches for lucio, or any attempt to Sell Peru To Gamers for illari. they couldnt even pick a town in Samoa to name maugas map after. these people wouldn't buy that stuff because it's not fetishized in the same way asia is.

but like. a lot of the people trying to Gotcha these racist dudes with an asian fetish just whip out their favourite racist tropes instead and its a really bad look. like you guys dont wanna examine how your examples of The Characters Its Okay To Hypersexualize are all brown? even the people who wanna fuck cassidy dont talk about him like this. or like. fuck if you want a good comparison for mauga lets look at roadhog. big half-naked tank who theyve been playing up a sexual energy/comic relief duology on since day one with racially insensitive cosmetic options. nobody treats it like its completely normal to talk about him that way. the dev team isnt pushing pinups of him out. he isnt flexing his boobs in trailers. hes a white dude*, so he gets the bare minimum dignity of being treated normally. incidentially hot, maybe, but for the most part his character is sold on being cool , funny and scary. mauga is being sold 50% on being a Sexy Rogue Love Interest and 50% on. releasing late. they put in so little effort for him to be anything else despite hyping him up as suuuper significant to the lore and a major gamechanger its almost embarrassing to watch. (this is why that short annoyed me so much for anyone keeping track).

[noknowshame]

occasionally my coworkers will solicit Pirate Facts from me and yesterday I couldn't come up with anything so I told them about the tavern in Savannah I visited that is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Flint and why there are several logical problems with that concept, and now that I've brought it up I am once again greatly entertaining myself with the theological implications of whether or not a place can be haunted by a person who never actually existed

[layalu]

.....can you tell i really don't like seekers lol

[darkdragon768]

Yea no sorry but I'd take a million boss rush caves over one dandori rush cave.

[caramelmochacrow]

screenshots i took of from the girls blossom project thingy :)

i wouldve took more but i got punched in the gut rlly bad by a certain route (misaki)

[emdotcom]

Wishlist for Pokemon Legends Z-A, a game we have no info beyond other than that it's French & the title:

Fairy Type Celebi.

Do SOMETHING with Magearna, especially the original paint Magearna.

M... Mega Evos... More of 'em, mayhaps?

That's it.

[dearratroi]

Kills Bed of Chaos

Me: “I’ve been dying the past half hour to a fucking bug???”

[mechieonu]

LISTEN OK IF WILLRY ARE GONNA KILL EACH OTHER (lets b honest, if will is gonna kill henry) THEN I NEED IT TO BE THE MOST OVER THE TOP SHIT, OKAY

[reinemichele]

(I screenshoted and then deleted my post so I can disable the reblogs on this post and prevent it from escaping containment ❤)

Like not to ruin your day but will you listen to the chorus of this song (starts at 55 seconds) . bc I want to get in a fist fight with whoever produced the song (for legal reasons this is a joke etc)