#i love my grass-types

[atompalace-official]

Sylveon x Shaymin Pokéfusion 🎀🍀🩵✨

[aquanutart]

I was talking and I mentioned that I have my old Game Boy and original Pokemon cartridge. I said, "I think they still work."

I was told, "The internal batteries on the Game Boy cartridges have run out. They're all dead."

"Oh," I said, trying not to show how crestfallen I was. I felt like I was losing nerd cred for not knowing that, although I never kept up with that type of info anyway. I'm here for the fantasy and imaginative aspects of games, and tend not to follow the competitive or technical details.

I tried not to feel anything as I went home. If they were real animals, I reminded myself, I would have had to say goodbye long ago.

But like so many other people, Pokemon was my childhood. It was all I thought about and dreamed about, and the closest thing I could imagine to heartbreak was the knowledge that they weren't real. I spent nearly all my time writing longhand self-insert Pokemon fanfiction--far more than I spent actually playing the game. My Pokemon were with me in my imagination wherever I went. I started playing Pokemon Blue when I was 5, and the last time I had played it was probably when I was 9 or 10. I remembered I had turned it on again one more time after that, not to play it, but to look at my childhood Pokemon.

It was during high school, after a move overseas that completely upended my life, and I was struggling with the crushing blow of being taken away from everything I knew and trying to make sense of anything (least of all adolescence) in another language. All I wanted was to go back to childhood and have everything go back to how it was before.

Seeing my Pokemon, just as I'd left them, had comforted me. I had looked at their stats pages, taken photos of them with my digital camera (that I don't even know if I still have), and then turned it off without doing anything.

That was probably 9 or 10 years after the games came out. It had been a long time since then. I had long since taken the AA batteries out of my Game Boy Color and left it untouched. I didn't even have AA batteries anymore.

It had worked then. But now it had been 27 years... I thought about not trying to turn my cartridge back on. As long as I didn't turn it on, I could believe my Pokemon were still there, the way I remembered them.

On my day off, which happened to be Pokemon Day, I googled and read that some people on forums and Reddit were still able to play their original Pokemon games.

Then... it was possible. I went out to buy toothpaste. At the store, I asked where I could find AA batteries.

It was a big thing for me to be able to go to the store and buy things myself. When I moved at age 13, I felt like something went wrong with growing up. It was difficult to follow what people were saying, and people didn't always understand what I said either. I had been introverted even in English, but now I had enough negative experiences that I became afraid and stopped trying to talk to people altogether.

I threw myself into video games and reliving childhood memories. The internet was where I could communicate in my first language and understand. I lived online and didn't interact with the real world. On the internet I felt like I was understood and could find people who shared my interests the way I did, but in the real world it always felt like I could get hurt if anyone knew me.

I realize now that I could have had a better experience overseas if I'd known how to adapt and socialize, but this was not something I knew even in English, and trying to learn in another language made it ten times harder. I'm sorry now for missing out on interactions that I know I could have had, but I just didn't know how. I wouldn't know how until I learned, and it took me a long time to learn.

I grew up online, in the company of others who had trouble fitting in with the real world, even in their own language. Those experiences shaped me, and the friendships I've made and support I've received online are invaluable to me. The internet gave me a way to live, and through it I learned how to interact with others. But in many ways, for many years, it felt like my life was put on hold and I stopped growing up.

Several years ago I moved back, to not far from where I was born, and I was able to work for the first time. I began to interact with people and feel like I had a place in the real world.

After shutting myself away for so many years, every little step I made out in the world felt terrifying. But every little thing I did on my own made me feel like I was living for the first time.

Even something as little as going to the store and buying a pack of batteries.

I was directed to a shelf at the end of an aisle, and found myself looking at a rack of lithium AA batteries. Did they not sell the old kind anymore?

I walked around to the other side and was relieved to find the familiar black and brown Duracell batteries I'd known from my childhood. I felt more confident about putting in a battery that looked the same as I remembered. The smallest pack they sold was an 8-pack for $12.99. I really didn't need 8 batteries. I didn't have any other devices that used them.

I thought, what if I turn it on and it doesn't work and I'll have wasted $12.99?

I also thought we might already have batteries. I might be able to say, "Mom, do we have any batteries?" and she'd pull out two AAs from a drawer somewhere and I'd save my money.

But somehow I felt like part of what was important about this was being an adult and being able to buy my own batteries.

Yet... what if it just ended up making me sad? Was it better not to know?

I went to the checkout with just the toothpaste and stood hesitating at the edge of the checkout line.

If I didn't get the batteries now, and it turned out we didn't have any batteries, I wouldn't try it. I knew I would just put it off until even more time passed, and then... "Are you in line?" someone asked me.

"No," I said, and I turned around and went back to the shelf.

I bought the batteries.

At home, I took out my original Game Boy Color from the drawer where I left it, the one my dad had surprised me with when I was 5 years old and that I had brought overseas and back.

I put the batteries in and turned it on without a cartridge first to make sure the batteries were inserted correctly. The Game Boy logo scrolled across the screen and it made the familiar blinging Game Boy startup noise. I turned it off again, satisfied.

I took out my original Pokemon Blue cartridge, momentarily having to remember which way it went in, and slotted it in.

I turned it on, watched the whole Pokemon Blue intro out of nostalgia, and then pressed START.

My heart leaped for joy.

MY POKEMON!!!! MY POKEMON ARE ALIVE!!! 🥺🥺🥺

My original Pokemon, that were with me in 1998 when I was 5-6 years old, are still with me 27 years later. I want to cry!!! I love the old sprites, I'm SO happy to see them again 😭😭😭 the Pokemon look so little and cheerful at the same time, which I love 🥺🥺🥺 I know there are people with many more hours on their games, who have leveled all their Pokemon to 100. But these are my Pokemon who were with me through my childhood, and I spent many more hours making up stories about them than actually playing the game. I'm so happy to see them again 😭😭😭

All I want is to see my Pokemon. My other Pokemon are in boxes. Now, how do I get to the nearest PC? Where am I?

Oh... Oh. I have to confess something. When I was a kid, I was scared of the dark cave areas, and whenever I got to them, I stopped playing for a while. (I was stuck at Mt. Moon until I was like, 7.) So I never actually beat the game.

And here I am on Victory Road, with the team of Pokemon I was taking to the Elite Four, without an Escape Rope.

The only way for me to see my other Pokemon is... to finally make it through Victory Road, after 27 years?!

[gayaest]

House of the Hearth : Pokemon Teams

Lyney: Fire/Fairy

Lynette: Flying/Grass

Freminet: Ice/Water

PSA; this is ourside of pokemon lore, so if there is an inconsistency like “(blank) can’t have (pokemon) bc of (blank)” I don’t care! This is for fun!

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 4: Haunted

[p12lysanderdelanne]

more shoom post

my shroomish cosplaying tannenbaum from jelloapocalypses pokemon - dogs in love 2

the photos were taken in my dads whisky room a real thing that normal people have (we are not rich or anything just scottish)

[scribz-ag24]

theyre touching grass

[smile-files]

here's fluttercup, a plant creature inspired by clover from inanimate insanity, especially @gingerkingfisher's lovely creature-like design for her!

fluttercup's design combines elements of four-leaf clovers, clover flowers, pansy flowers, butterflies, caterpillars, milkweed flowers, and dandelion puffs!

[cryborgmechs]

question 8 for the ask game! ^v^

8. if youre an artist, how do you draw grovyle? same for dusknoir too. and why?

i like to draw him with big ole claws ..... very brooding expression ......., he's so serious. i think most of the way i draw him is my style ?? so its pretty natural, but i like to slip in some personality to the pokefeatures; like the sharper leaf on his head vs the softer ones on his hands, his claws poised and ready to fight or flee, his stance, etc etc..

also confession time, but i havent ever actually drawn dusknoir (working on that rn.....)

[sieglinde-freud]

my problem with pokemon team building is that i am very much a “play with your favorites” kind of person and thats fine for casual play except all of my favorites are from the three same exact types and they do very little to cover eachother and it makes me very sad. will be getting walled by the nearest fire type pokemon which is really just embarrassing

[cornbread33y]

More Irish-based Fakémon (The Pika-Clone)

I've always wanted to do the pine marten and I settled on making it the pika-clone for my region :3. I've decided to call the baby/first stage Firfur (yea, sounds like Furfrou lol) but I'm not entirely sure what to call the grown/final evo, maybe Wezap? or Pineten? I'm not sure yet but I'm open to suggestions tho!

credit to Peetzaahhh2010 for the Pokemon type labels.

[atompalace-official]

wishing you a Serperior New Year! 🐍❤️✨

[juvian]

Lotad, the water weed pokemon -> 270

Lombre, the jolly pokemon -> 271

Ludicolo, the carefree pokemon -> 272

Do not repost - Pokedex serie | Ko-fi

[front-facing-pokemon]

[onebizarrekai]

I'm at the end of heartgold trying to take down red for the first time since I played soulsilver as a 10 year old with an action replay. so far the experience has been something like "what do you mean a level 65 zapdos with max evs and choice specs can't oneshot a single water type. levels are supposed to be just a number"

[shinmiyovvi]

Da babis as Pokemon Trainers (Or straight up Elite Four members)

References: I | II | III

Lineups:

Valena (Rank 1, Water) :

Ji Eun (Rank 2, Dark/Ghost):

Arthur (Rank 3, Flying):

Dragomir (Rank 4, Ground):

[cryborgmechs]

Trainer Mags and his partner Truffle challenge you to a battle!