#team magma was right

[weroyasta]

The Pacific Ocean is huge.

[parasitoidism]

Been thinking about his camerupt obsession as I play. Also charms that don’t exist

[violettintedfeathers]

You ever think about how stressful it would be in-universe if someone caught a shiny Legendary Pokémon? Imagine it. You're a Pokémon researcher. You haven't seen any Legendary Pokémon in person, but you know they're out there. There are enough depictions of them out there and enough anecdotal eyewitness accounts that you at least have a pretty good idea of what even the rarer ones look like, can make an image for the textbooks and Pokèdex, even if there's some guesswork. You don't know much about, say, Giratina, but from what very scarce depictions the mythologists have managed to dig up, you're pretty sure it has some red on it. All the depictions agree on that count. Then some kid shows up with this creature of legend banished to another world, and it's blue. It is unmistakably, vividly blue, not a trace of red to be found. Now, you're not dumb. You know that Pokémon occasionally have drastically different colors, know all about what a Shiny Pokémon is and how uncommon they are. And that's your first thought. Well, obviously, this thing is shiny. But then it dawns on you - how can you know? Preponderance of the evidence suggests it. Why else would all these surviving depictions portray it as red otherwise? But could you prove it? Can you definitively say that's the case? Assuming this thing is shiny has the advantage of fewer assumptions than, say, assuming all of these people choosing red as a stylistic choice because of its associations with violence, but it's not like you can rule out something like that. You can't even rule out that there are multiple specimens of this thing out there and that there's a red specimen out there and it's the shiny. Though, you're pretty sure there's only supposed to be a single specimen of this thing, and in some ways that makes it worse. Kid came in with a lime green Arcticuno instead? Eh, heck, you can work with that. At least you have a shot at seeing a couple others in your lifetime and seeing which color is more common. Something like Giratina? If there is another one, you aren't going to see it. At least if you could see another one, and it was red, you could credibly say "okay, so there is a red one, and since it was more commonly seen and depicted, the blue one is probably shiny". But you'll never see another one, and you know it. So you know this thing is supposed to be red. You know that. You even call up the mythology buffs and they reconfirm it for you. They outright say not a one of the surviving depictions shows it as blue. In your heart of hearts, you believe a typical Giratina is red. Yet here it is, in the flesh before you, blue as can be. And because you can't dispute the possibility that this might be its normal coloration and the depictions were all wrong, and because these are the only reliable photos and documentation you or anyone you know is ever going to get, you have to base everything off of what's right in front of you. And so, despite everything, you have to update every darn textbook, every dex entry, everything to show Giratina as blue, because as far as anyone knows, and as far as the accompanying pictures are going to show, it's blue. It'd be frustrating, I think.

[avanii]

Tephra used lava plume!

Artfight piece for @leavingautumn13 ! I really wanted to paint her interpretation of Camerupt and Maxie, and it seemed only appropriate to place them on the slopes of Mt Chimney and add some volcanic flair (I'll take every chance to, you know I will). Mixed media, primarily acrylic inks and gouache, and a wee bit of coloured pencil.

[khoailag]

Happy Lunar New Year!

I drew 🌊🌋wearing traditional vietnamese clothing because ive been wanting to do this for awhile and I figured that this is a good oppoturnity! I had so many ideas for this but I only able to draw this one! ;v;

[njsg]

some soft Hardenshipping to let y’all know I’m still around

[spw-art]

tabithas for the consideration of the main tags

[ailous-arts]

MAXIE WAS GOING TO HAVE BLACK HAIR AND A SOUL PATCH!!!?!?? AND ARCHIE WAS GOING TO HAVE BLUE EMO FRINGE HELLO???

Why is this version of Maxie kindaaaaaa

[pridebicons]

bi maxie pride icons

requested by anon

like/rb if using + credit

[skittykitty300]

Hello Hello Rotomblr!!

I've decided to make an update on my intro blog thingy!!! Yayyy!!!

I made this rotomblr account just for funsies to post about my 'mons and stuff.

My name is Siobhan Syke, or Siv for short, I'm 19 years old, and I've been a trainer since I was like 9. I used to live in Hoenn, but now I live in Kalos!

Here's my trainer id! I blurred my address cause yall don't need that

My team!

Skitty - Silly

Mightyena - Spike

Sylveon - Sylvester

Banette - Sweeney

Absol - Sybil

Mimikyu - Sunday

I will update this if things change!

[(Out of character below!!)]

Hello, Hello again!

Revamped my intro blog by a lot since I mostly know what what I'm doing now. The old post can be found here!

Siobhan's lore can be found here if you are interested (still working on that)

Out of character blog -

Ref sheet for Siobhan Sike can be found here

ART BLOG!!!-

@wonkybuckle

@kittyskitty-pokehub

Other rotomblrs I run -

@shinx-hijinx

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Basics!

Siobhan Syke is pronounced [ SHIV- AWN, SIKE ] in case yall were having trouble

This is a low/no stakes Blog, I don't know if I'm using that correctly but basically nothing too crazy is happening on here, just some things about my Trainer's day to day life, maybe some hijinks may occur but no Arceus ascending from the heavens and chucking Siobhan into Hisui shall be occurring!

But there will be mystery! For example, why is she somewhat touchy about some of her past in Hoenn? Why did her family have to move to Kalos? And many more questions!

Her timeline(?) takes place after the whole Kyogre and Groudon thing in Hoenn. This isn't that relevant for Siobhan, but may be for any of my other rotomblrs

Rules!

TERFS, Zionists, Pedos, people into Pokephillia, people into Zoophillia, and other horrible people are not welcome

Please don't be gross, I'm fine with foul jokes but like, nothing creepy really please

In character malice is a-okay! Asks about my oc's life and pokemon is a-okay and encouraged!!!

I, unfortunately, will not be responding to asks by sentient pokemon

[magma-grunt-zesty]

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I'm finding it hard to breathe easily. . .

My mind constantly spins and has known no rest this week. ..

[melonthesprigatito]

Decided to binge watch the entirety of Pokémon Generations again because it's been a few years since I last saw it and uh

Is it just me or is it a lot more fucked up than I remember

[parasitoidism]

They really did strike gold with team Aqua and team Magma is the thing like for one having the rival organizations is fun to begin with but what really elevates it is the fact that they are both staffed and led by insane and kind of stupid people

[team-magma-propaganda]

His horns are elsewhere because he's hor-

THAT OL’ HIDDEN BALL TRICK

[frogaroundandfindout]

I wish more people played with the fact Dick was probably the main one to introduce kory to earthern culture since he was both her boyfriend and team leader. It opens soooo many doors for them to be weird little freaks together.

Kory: back on my planet I would play games with my little brother to improve both our hand eye coordination and reflexes.

Dick: oh we do things like that here too. Have you ever played stand-ban?

Kory: what did you do?

Dick, not normal: you have to spend 8 hours without standing upright on your feet. You can use them to land flips and cartwheels if you want to use those to travel but you can’t spend longer than a few seconds on them.

Kory: and this is to improve balance and flexibility?

Dick: And to train for having a broken ankle you can’t put weight on for long.

Kory: hmmm, most of my people can fly so we don’t have games exactly like that. It does remind me of “floor is magma” where we must spend time in the air to practice staying afloat.

Dick: we have that game! It’s called floor is lava. I used to love jumping on Bruce’s shoulders and latching on until he said the game was over. I swear he just did it so I’d hug him tho

Kory: is that common here? Inventing scenarios so that your loved ones make contact?

Dick thinking about all the times bruce asked if he was getting cold and then wrapped him up in his cape without waiting for an answer: absolutely

Wally in the background: what is happening right now???

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Dick, a Gotham kid who thinks the city is mostly normal for earth: there are three main things you need to know about earth before going out as Kory Anders. One, when we walk down the street ignore everyone giving away free stuff. It’s either mind control, murder, trafficking, or a mix of all three. Two! Never trust anyone with a theme. What do you do if someone wearing a galaxy themed cloak walks up to you?

Kory: drag them into an alleyway and knock out.

Dick: that’s what I call initiative! Now number three. Never ever everrrr drink the water. Unless you want to ingest fear toxin…as team leader I’m deciding you don’t want to do that.

Kory: your planet is very strange.

Dick: thanks babe ����

Donna: *slowly removes free headphones*

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Kory: why do you have shark repellent in your pocket? Is it common for your people to encounter these creatures?

Dick, thinking about all the times he and Batman were dropped into the ocean out of airplanes and dangled over shark tanks: yes

Wally: what!?!?

[tmnt4p]

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