#my job is fine

[petalburg-pokemon-husbandry]

BIG LIFE UPDATE

hohkay hey gang, been a while. hasn't it? As I mentioned in my most recent post (3 months ago...) I've been going through a lot of life changes that have made keeping up with things difficult. To summarize without getting too deep into things:

My partner and I have separated

I live in a new place

I have had to rehome several of my pokémon

I got transferred to a different pokémon center in Petalburg

So uhhh yeah that's quite a lot! I'm not gonna go into a lot of it, but the first three are all related. Felicity [Ribombee] now lives with a coworker from my old pokémon center, Benny [Charcadet] lives and works at the Lavaridge Town Gym, (Shoutout Flannery - you're a G), and Ferrintio [Sprigatito] now lives with my parents over in Littleroot.

As for the pokémon I still have, things have changed a bit there too!

Robert successfully fused with another beldum, and is now a Metang! I guess they have the memories of both original beldum, but Robert is still the “lead”, whatever that means when two brains fuse. I might have a metagross some day. That’s insane to think about. I literally just exist and I guess I’m raising a pseudolegendary pokemon. (Two if you count pillow) ((I don't))

Pillow [goomy] continues to sleep for 19 hours a day, though he has started eating more and putting on some weight. He’s been at the age where evolution wouldn’t be out of the question for a while now, but as I’ve said before he’s much too eepy to actually develop the strength to do so. Anything's possible though -- maybe I’ll have a significantly larger pillow sometime in the future!

Pyra [combusken] and I had a little sparring match with a friend and we lost BAD, so she's gained new determination to finally evolve! She's been training with Robert while I'm working, and she keeps trying to get me to battle random strangers on the street while we're walking to/from the center lol. She's getting there!!!!!! I'm so proud of her!!!!!! oh god i might actually be able to battle at a higher level if all of my pokémon evolve wtf is happening--

Ragman [Mimikyu] has been sick for a couple of weeks now. Thankfully it's just a stubborn cold, but I've had to take his disguises off several times to check him for swelling/rashes. Mimikyu are pretty much biologically wired to be nervous around bigger creatures like humans and Gumshoos, so it's been a hurdle to get him comfortable with letting me take his disguise off, but we're finally getting there! It feels weird to say this about a Pokemon I've had for years, but it feels like we're really starting to form a close level of trust! Maybe once he's all healed up he'll even let me look at him in a well-lit, non-closet room lol (btw if you've never seen what an undisguised mimikyu looks like it's not at all what you'd expect)

Siri [Rotom/Phone] has become obsessed with the gamecube for some reason. I have very little else to say, she just REALLY enjoys that hardware for whatever reason. There have been a couple times where I've had to physically shake her out of it just so we could leave for work. She so silligoofy

And that's the updates post for you! Thanks for sticking with this blog for all this time! Since you managed to reach the end you get a special treat! I'm changing my name to May :) J as short for Josh is still fine. I'm also gonna change my pfp since it's inaccurate now that ive started transitioning. See you soon, pokefans!

[ericseviltwin]

screaming crying throwing up time to clock in 😭😭 (idc actually.)

[sunderwight]

Scum Villain AU where Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu transmigrate by swapping lives (i.e. Shen Yuan wakes up in Shen Qingqiu's body on Qing Jing Peak, post-fever, while Shen Jiu wakes up in Shen Yuan's body in a hospital in modern China) but it doesn't quite work right.

The system glitches or something and they end up having to jointly time share their lives. Every time a certain moon phase or something (cyclical) comes around they abruptly switch back.

So they spend the entire time trying to undo everything the other one has been up to while everyone around them is just desperately attempting to figure out wtf is going on. Shen Yuan does the skinner quest and stops Luo Binghe's abuse, and Shen Jiu gets a job with a rival company and starts showing up Shen Yuan's brothers. Then they switch back and Shen Jiu is like "it's woodshed o'clock for the beast" and Shen Yuan resigns. Then they switch back again and Shen Yuan saves Liu Qingge's life and gets poisoned defending Luo Binghe, and Shen Jiu creates his own start-up and blackmails his eldest brother about the mistress he's just uncovered. Then they switch back and Shen Yuan gets his brother and his sister-in-law into couples counseling and Shen Jiu embarks on a quest to either cure himself without Liu Qingge's help or die trying.

Eventually they just start leaving bitchy messages for one another to find and doing things that won't cause lasting damage but are incredibly petty. Shen Yuan keeps trying to tell Shen Jiu to read PIDW but Shen Jiu takes one look at his merch-filled bachelor pad and immediately decides that his opinions aren't worth anything, so it takes him a while to actually do it (he is really mad about this when he finally opens the novel and it turns out to be extremely relevant information).

[kori-senpai]

Was gonna draw more, realized what year it is, and decided to take a walk instead

(Edit: came back from that walk, drew more: Part 2)

[pixlokita]

A very glazed page 39

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[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[last-starry-sky]

Had a dream last night of alpha!141 discovering omega!reader through her small “daily life” youtube channel.

Just the thought of four massive men pressed together, jostling one another to watch you on one phone screen (held in a fucking death grip) as you film yourself setting up your nest or making a smoothie.

[that-satireguy]

Oh my fucking days. I did not think I would have to spell this out for you morons.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO STAY IN COUNTRIES THEY ARE UNSAFE IN 'TO BE ACTIVISTS'.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO STAY IN COUNTRIES THEY ARE UNSAFE IN 'TO BE ACTIVISTS'.

It is NOT MY JOB to sacrifice myself and MY FUTURE to change shit in this country.

I WANT TO GET

OUT

[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.

[wavezies]

getting dsmp content on my timeline again because of parkour civilization and it activated the maggots in my brain like sleeper agents that just heard the code word. ill never be free from these little freaks theyre like microplastics. heres the two most normal guys on the server

[suntails]

reality

[fruit-punk-art]

A Wood Paneled Basement, 2024

Marina Constantine

Glass and plastic beads, found quilt squares, sewing thread and childhood artifacts on acrylic and cotton yarn

[ruushes]

was going through old art and remembered i had a phase of trying to paint my weird dreams, this one kind of rules actually?

[protect-edwin-at-all-costs]

ITS DONE WHOOOOOOO

I love them all 🥹

All the Edwins!!!!

[mollysunder]

Sky and Viktor's relationship is such a horror movie to me. You've got a man who was frustrated by the limitations placed on his life that were out of his control, like his class, mobility, and general health. Despite everything, he manages to rise beyond his station and avoid being an assistant for the rest of his life.

Then you've got a woman from the same background who admires him and all that he's accomplished in spite of the similar class based prejudices they faced all the while she's his assistant. She works up the courage to take leap of faith and reach out to him with her own research to show what's possible if they worked together as equals. And then he gets her killed!

Sky's death isn't the end of it because while it affects Viktor it is in no way meaningful to Sky's life or value as a person whatsoever. Even the pendant he wears in her memory is based on the design of her notebook, but that was just her notebook's cover, she probably bought it from a store and the design itself is probably mass produced. Why not use Sky's signature that was in her letter and in the notebook, the thing part if the notebook with real value?

Then Sky's brought back in s2 and she really only exists to be Viktor's assistant again, who he kills, again! But this time it's different because this time Viktor's making a conscious decision to look Sky in the eye and kill her... to prove he's changed.

In the middle of all this, in no way has Sky's death been mourned by her family or anyone else who could have known her. Jayce wasn't affected by the reveal, he didn't think it was important to tell Heimerdinger, or anyone who knew her. Nothing about her life, death, or disappearance has spurred any emotional reaction or even curiosity about what happened to her.

Sky's new life was also extremely isolated because she became further tied to him (in some ways you could say she was defined by him). Viktor never mentioned Sky to anyone in the material plane during his commune arc, so she only exists to him and she has no way to communicate with others, she's just there for Viktor's sake.

Then in the finale we learn this all a part of a big time loop where Viktor actively set the wheels in motion to have him and Jayce create hextech together, but if everything follows as is, that means Sky is violently killed in those timelines too. That means Viktor weighed the costs and decided over and over and over again that Sky was expendable enough to let her die for his plan to work eventually. How is that not murder at this point?

What's worse is that post-finale Sky's humanity is a point of dispute amongst the fandom, the VAs, and the writers themselves. Sky's the hexcore manipulating Viktor. No, Sky's a manifestion of Viktor's guilt. No, she's actually supposed to represent his humanity/conscious made physical. And in none of these arguments do they discuss Sky as a person, she's just an object meant to serve Viktor both in the narrative sense and literal sense as his assistant.

The most absolutely maddening part is that with Viktor's new bio on the League site, not only have most traces of Viktor had been scrubbed by Piltover's archive, but Sky's life has been completely wiped. Her death was implied to have been swept under the rug, and only described as the "loss of life" consequence from his Hexcore experiment.

Viktor was afraid of dying a senseless death (created by the conditions Piltover condemned his birth to) in obscurity and then he turned it into Sky's destiny.

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with