#colosseum xd

[colosseumzine]

Here is a free zine dedicated to pokemon colosseum and XD to celebrate its 20th anniversary! Thank you everyone who has contributed to and supported our zine!!!

[thehumanwiki]

hi and welcome to

✨bullshit that has ACTUALLY happened somewhere in the Pokémon franchise✨

-a teenaged boy runs away from home because of his abusive mom only to join a crime gang funded by his abusive mom.

-the player character is given a smartphone by and with direct contact to God.

-a man cosplaying God (the same God you got a phone from) attacks you with a demon banished to another dimension.

-a suicide cult led by an evil snowflake kills like one hundred other protagonists.

-there is an entire elemental typing consisting of abused and evil Pokémon that is super effective against everything else.

-the player falls into an alternate world and one of their friends is immediately arrested for playing sports.

-in the thrilling sequel, a bunch of ghosts kidnap children in their amusement park in the Shadow Realm.

-now that I think about it there are like three different games where the player character starts by falling from the sky.

-the protagonist of the TV adaptation has died like seven times, been crucified in Paris, watched several apocalypses, and has watched SO many people die in front of him, and I don’t think he’s brought it up like, ever.

-in one game, you can go on a crusade to brutally conquer the entire continent.

-the player of one game is part of a time loop caused by a magic turtle that indirectly kills one of their friend’s mother. Or father. Depends on the version.

-the player’s adoptive father is possessed by the personification of hate and sends them directly to Hell, then tries to do it again when they get out.

-the mafia’s plan for getting their boss back after he left is to violently hijack a radio station and ask really nicely.

-a space agency’s plan for stopping a meteor form colliding with the earth is to open a wormhole to another dimension. this plan is stopped by a woman in a torn cape who destroys their equipment and robs them.

-the protagonist’s father had a godlike clone fuse his consciousness with a mouse, and fights a man who fused his own consciousness with an alien.

-the one a cult leader chose to be king of his new religion is an abused autistic boy with green hair and wearing a baseball cap.

-you literally rob people’s Pokémon in one game and you’re still the good guy. …is there a gender neutral version of “good guy?”

And now for a BONUS ROUND!

✨shit that has gone down in the Pokémon manga adaptation alone!✨

-terrorists blow up an ENTIRE port city!

-one protagonist spent two years trapped in a Dream Realm™.

-you think that’s bad? TWO protagonists are trapped in the depths of space for like six months!

-you think THAT’S bad?! FIVE protagonists are turned into stone for an indefinite time period!

-a little orphan girl is hypnotized and trapped in a suit of armor.

-they crucify the gym leaders???

-one boy is whipped in the face with a chain used to subjugate the Gods Of Time And Space and he’s literally fine.

-a father punches his son in the face and hurls him down a staircase. The American translation censors this as a lightning strike.

-this same son fell into the ocean because of an earthquake like five chapters after he was introduced.

-one of the current protagonists is basically Wednesday Addams.

-two protagonists were kidnapped by birds and raised by a supervillain.

-two villains try to destroy the environment of an entire country, cause an apocalypse, and are stopped by being trapped in a flying car which crashes.

-a mysterious supervillain saves them— SOMEHOW— and makes them fight to the death for a suit of armor. The one that survives causes the apocalypse AGAIN but dies.

-they both get brought back from Hell to save the world, and after that’s over, they turn to dust and go back to Hell.

-the supervillain who saved them the first time also summons like ten gods and dips out, never to be seen again.

In other words Pokémon is weird (affectionate).

[popfizzles]

bounced some ideas around my head a few days ago.....

[retrogamingblog2]

Custom Gamecube Controllers made by SpicyFrog64

[cb-andy]

Jelloapocalypse’s Dogs in Love 2 really inspired me! Here’s the whole gang: Poochy, half human half mightyena hybrid, Jolteon, sweet boy of the underworld, Crap Gorps (he’s in-GORPERATED, it’s very cool) Tannenbalm the Breloom, (a big hit at all the shows he is!) Jorge the vampire (pronounced Whore-ge) and Gatcha! He’s a capitalist 😒

[front-facing-pokemon]

[mr-president]

michael has nowhere near as much personality nor swag as wes so in keeping w Pokémon XD’s themes of anti-capitalism i like to think he’s just the most marxist child imaginable

this child has fought shadow lugia, moltres, articuno, and zapdos in the same fucking battle. orre trainers are truly built different

[latealzalost]

Orretober arrives on a tide of sand! Brought to you by @lopuiiart, this year's prompts have been revealed! A brief explanation for these prompts: Chibi: Draw your favorite Orrean in a cute chibi art style.

Orre-Music Inspired: Choose a song and draw what you associate with it from the game (Desert Pokespot Sandshrew, Kaminko Mano Chobin, Etc)

Time-Skip: Draw an Orrean as you imagine them years into the future.

Meme Redraw: Think of a Funny Meme Image and Redraw it with Orre characters. Arc Suit: Inspired by Arc Suits in Pokemon Masters EX, draw your favorite Orrean as if they have been blessed by Arceus.

Here is a twitter link to some visual examples of these last two prompts Orretober is here and we hope you have fun with these prompts! Use #Orretober24 to tag your participating posts.

[spritegraphic]

Unown sprites from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (Gamecube, 2005)

Images sourced from Pokencyclopedia.

[yamsgarden]

Happy 20th Anniversary <3

My piece for the amazing @colosseumzine

[girls-with-boys-names]

Happy 20th anniversary Pokémon Colosseum!!

This was my very first Pokémon game and it’s always had a special place in my heart! 🥰 I was honored to get to do a piece in the “Snagged!” Pokémon Colosseum anniversary zine, and I did a piece of the first battle between Wes and Willie! I also included all my favorite Colosseum pieces over the years!

I’ll always love you, Pokémon Colosseum! 💖

[colosseumzine]

Here are our awesome contributors!!

They've been hard at working making some amazing art and writing for this zine!! We cant wait to share with you later this month! ^^

(links to all socials under cut!)

Kinpraw: Linktree + Twiiter + Ko-fi WaywardRosalind: Twitter + Tumblr Alex B-C: Twitter maxdowt: Instagram + Twitter + Twitch PrincessSkyler: Carrd + Deviantart + Bluesky Timeblitz: Instagram + Linktree YumeTsuki: Deviantart + Tumblr + Comic Fury ebee: Instagram + Twitter + Tumblr SeraphBlossom: Twitter + Bluesky + Instagram Farsong: A03 + Tumblr BenGetsWeird: Twitter + Instagram MoxieMooo: Tumblr + Deviantart + Instagram Tricksy Wizard Bluesky + Tumblr + Instagram vannahfanfics: Tumblr + Twitter + A03 Ravin: Twitter + Tumblr JaredTheBC: Tumblr + Tiktok + Newgrounds LadyLatias: Twitter + Tumblr + Fanfiction.net mei: Tumblr + Twitter + Itch.io TigerUchimaru: Pixiv + Twitter COSMICSSUBWAY: Tumblr + Instagram Grib: Tumblr HelloYellow17: Tumblr + Ko-fi + Instagram Cipher Pilot Lat: Twitter + Tumblr YAMsgarden: Instagram + Tumblr Phoenix: Tumblr + Twitter + Pixiv Winter Hart Arts: Carrd + Twitter + Bluesky AwesomeTrains: Twitter Pkmcandy: Tumblr + twitter + Bluesky Negrek: A03 + Tumblr + thousandroads.net Dustin Bones: Twitter + Tumblr + Bluesky Hero: Twitter + Deviantart + Tumblr lexpinkmoon: Twitter + Instagram + Tumblr Lopuii: Twitter C.N. Elliott: Tumblr + Twitter Girls With Boys Names: Tumblr + Instagram + Tiktok

[ravinoforre]

Happy 21st Anniversary to Tales of Symphonia! Our favourite Iselians are stuck in IKEA liminal space hell but they're still putting together a party to celebrate. Things aren't going quite according to plan though...

[xmrnothingx]

Lovrina from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

Next gen 3 Pokemon girl up is the genius scientist and Cipher Admin: Lovrina. I don't remember much from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness from when it first came out, but I do remember this spunky little scientist (and Mirror B).

[usagi-zakura]

I drew some dogs in love. From JelloApocalypse's Pokémon Colosseum and XD playthroughs.

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

Man. The Phillies are fucking KILLING the Dodgers right now… Need a good video to eat my pizza to… Wait just a second…

DOGS IN LOVE 3 CAME OUT??!!

For those that have no context, this sentence means nothing to you. And yet, it has all the meaning to me. Dogs in Love is a series, now officially a trilogy, on the JelloApocalypse channel. If you know him, cool! If you don’t know him, he’s a variety YouTuber best characterized by the art and opinions in his videos, although this doesn’t describe all of his videos. His best known series are probably his Welcome to, So This Is Basically, and Marathon Reviews series. He’ll at the same time also play various video games, drink a lot of lemonade, and play an eBay edition of The Price Is Right with his friends. He even has like a little show on his YouTube channel called Epithet Erased! I need to actually watch that sometime… Oh, and yeah, he does good voice acting work!

So, what is Dogs in Love? Basically, they are edited highlight videos with a lot of drawings of Jello and his friends taking the lore of Pokémon Colloseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness and throwing it out of the window during playthroughs for those games, with the group instead deciding to take the characters (Both the Pokémon and the humans) and playing with them like Barbie dolls and action figures.

The original Dogs in Love video focuses on Pokémon Coliseum, following the player trainer and his terrorist Pokémon, with the main focus around a edgy Umbreon who actually turns out to be a dumbo softboy and his partner Espeon who is smart and stressed out of his mind and needs more coffee. As you can guess, they are the dogs in love. In Dogs in Love 2 and 3, both of them focus on Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, with the logical tie in between the two games being that the Jolteon the player trainer has is the sweet and kind demonic child of the two dads of Umbreon and Espeon. Yeah. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I cannot fully explain the humor of it for myself. The voice acting as well as the improv comedy done by Jello and his friends makes the whole experience dumb, weird, and hilarious in a brilliant way. The dynamics and relationships of all of the characters are comedically sound, and yet, I feel genuine emotion for all of them. It knows exactly where to scratch my back when I have an itch. And, the thing is, the waits between each of these videos was about a year! Sure, the full streams are right there, but it’s hard because the videos are so good. (I rewatched both videos at my older sister’s wedding!) However, it’s worth the wait, and the videos show that the excellence needed time to cook. Dogs in Love has meant so much to me, but with the trilogy now completed, I look back at these three videos in marvel and with love.