#thank you gamefreak

[misersdream]

haha nooo don't scold me rika noooooo haha

[theorangeintrovert]

Happy Pokémon Day! I wanted to draw myself as a trainer with a team of my favorite pokémon 👏

I made myself a pokémaniac trainer because there actually IS a “Pokémaniac Ashton” in FireRed/LeafGreen. 6-year-old me was like “why did they make me a freak” lmao

[microwave-core]

Give and Take

Oleana x Fem! Reader

After a long day of work, Oleana looks forward to stumbling into bed with you, who is all too happy to help her unwind. All it takes is some good ol’ TLC to help her forget about the day and put off thinking about tomorrow.

Oleana loves her job. She worked hard when researching dynamax, enough to get the chairman's attention, and she’d be damned if she let him down. But even a workaholic of her nature gets tired. Even she feels the desire to lay down in bed and never get back up, free to revel in the warmth and softness of one of Arceus’s finest creations. 

Of course, it helped that you were waiting there, too. Given how much she loves her work, Oleana stays at work until the moon is high in the sky. Everyday she stumbles home, only to be greeted by you, all happy and sleepy. Your soft smile never fails to melt her heart.

The minute she is able to leave, she gathers her things and bolts (not before saying goodbye to the chairman and ensuring he will get home safely, obviously). She doesn’t even bother calling a taxi to get her home. She has no desire to wait, even if she would technically get home faster. 

Her quick strides slow down as she approaches your shared humble apartment. She’s desperate to see you, to unwind, but she would hate to accidentally wake you up. She cracks the door open, carefully stepping inside and removing her shoes. She doesn’t get far before you walk up to the door, clad in pajamas, to greet her.

“Welcome home!” Your tone is caked in sleep. Like most nights, you were tottering on the verge of sleep when she arrived home. But Oleana didn’t care. She was just happy to see you there at all.

“Mmmhm…” She, similarly, was all too tired, to the point that her attempted ‘Welcome home’ came out as a garbled mess. It was all you needed to know how long her day was. She sheds her lab coat before grabbing your hand and dragging you off to bed, bringing you both crashing down onto the soft mattress.

Oleana holds you close, laying your head onto her chest while stroking a hand through your hair. Her nails scratch over your scalp in the best way possible. But, as much as you loved her embrace and attention, you pulled away from her, much to her protest.

She, begrudgingly, opens her eyes to see you sitting over her, brush in hand, smile still painted on your face. She’ll never understand how you can maintain such a cheerful expression all the time. Slowly, she repositions herself so her head lies in your lap, free to close her eyes again.

Brush in hand, you run it through her sea of blonde hair, silky strands parting like swaying tides, careful to avoid her dangly earrings. While busy, Oleana takes good care of herself, and so her hair is always free from tangles and knots, and it always smells so wonderfully of freshly cut roses, even if it does remind you of a certain someone. You love to tease her over her love for the chairman, and yet you're somewhat afraid that, if asked to choose between you and him, she would choose the former.

She sighs in content. She remains stoic, but she’s relaxed. Happy. In her lane. Her zone, even. The stress and anxiety of the day melts away. Her shoulders relax now that they don’t have to carry the entirety of Macro Cosmos. Her mind can go blank, thinking only of you, only of the moment, of your hands in her hair.

She’ll commit your warmth to memory, so she can recall it tomorrow, to keep her going through the day, to have something to look forward to as her clocking out time approaches. She focuses on the moment because, if she doesn’t, she’ll get lost thinking about tomorrow, about the struggles and hardships and the stress and everything that comes along with being a vice-president. And she loves her job, but she’s only human.

But that doesn’t matter, not right now. It doesn’t matter that she’ll have to goad chairman Rose away from a rampant sea of fans. It doesn’t matter that Champion Leon will inevitably be late for an important exhibition match. And it doesn’t matter that she’ll have to deal with near-useless Marco Cosmos employees who are completely hopeless when it comes to getting jobs done.

But all good things must come to an end. Eventually, she’ll have to break away from your soft hands, delicately caring for her hair, to get ready for bed. She’ll remove her makeup and earrings, and change into comfier clothes, and get cleaned up. She’ll let her pokemon out and give them enough attention before sinking back into bed, into your side. Maybe she’ll get a snack while she’s at it, preferably with you, talking about your day if you were up to it.

But for right now, she’ll simply bask in your caring hands, allow you to spoil her in your love in the same way she loves to do to you. Oleana has changed immensely, coming far from where she’s started, but, deep down, she is still hopeless. Yet, for whatever reason, you choose to disregard that fact. You choose to shower her in love and praise even with her faults. And that alone is enough to get her through the stress of the day. 

“Oleana, you’ve got to stay awake…” She cracks her eyes open, content this time. “You’ve got to get up, dear.”

“Understood, I will not keep you waiting for long.“ She stumbles a bit to stand up, but quickly reverts to her graceful posture. Although, she falters slightly when planting her feet on the ground, not quite used to walking around without her heels. 

Her professional and stoic nature waits for no one, not even you. But her workaholic nature, her devotion to her career, is an innate part of herself. It is why you love her. And for that alone, she’ll forever love you.

[adobe-outdesign]

Have you tried TCG Pocket at all? If not, then does any new card artwork in it strikes your fancy?

I haven't, but I do love this Alakazam art. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Akira Egawa never misses

[ruiyuki]

social media AU — Trainer Yuki & Special Coaches

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Anyways, a trilogy.

[conwayconartist]

Your drawings of oshawott are so cute,he's the guy ever :'] it make me very happy everytime I see one,ty

Its your lucky day! You get to see the very very rare mspaint heart oshawott!!!!

[flightlessribbons]

S H E G A V E I T T T O H I M!!!???? THE WALLET IS FROM H E R!!??? Oh I'm on the floor actually

[antirepurp]

guess what else sucks? sinnoh pal park having that time limitation where you can only transfer 6 pokemon (per game?) per day and changing your cartridge into a different ds puts you in gay baby jail for the next 24 hours

[tamarieatsbatteries175]

ZERAORAS YOUR MEME SQUAD

[spoopyium]

Thank you gamefreak for giving him new clothes after 12 years 🙏

[embers-bullshit-blog]

someone hacked the dev portal for gamefreak employees (an employee clicked a phishing link as the access point, like his real name and info was leaked) and released 1 terabyte of game data dating back to gens 3-6, and some info abt gen 10 and switch 2; info includes HGSS and bw source code, technical information for many games (screenshots of xy WIP specifically and gamefreaks original gen3 map editor), a metric fuckton of beta sprites and artwork, pokemon universe creation lore, unused music, character sheets, the original proposal for gen3, and lots of stuff that’s still forthcoming (its estimated to take perhaps several days to fully examine and organize the info that’s been released). CentroLeaks on Twitter and the /pokeleaks subreddit are prime places to get leaks as it’s coming out, but everything should be trickling it’s way here eventually

thank you so much for explaining! sucks for the employee, hope everything goes okay with them— again, thank you!

[imsobadatnicknames2]

You've had many good takes on AI and copyright laws, so I was wondering if I could ask you about your views on plagiarism? I do know how generative AI works (it's not plagiarism). Also, I appreciate the stance that people shouldn't be able to own ideas (the basic foundation of anti-copyright beliefs), but if you don't own ideas, then doesn't that sort of make plagiarism a non-crime? That doesn't seem right to me. Or is it that credit =/= ownership and thus the two are separate things that can coexist where one is bad and the other is good?

Thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about something that I've been itching to talk about for a long time hehe. You're on the right track, my stance is EXACTLY that credit =/= ownership.

Copyright infringement is when you reproduce a work or part of a work in a way that was not authorized by its legal owner. It is a violation of ownership. Plagiarism is when you take work or part of a work that was created by the labor of someone else and present yourself as the creator. It is a violation of credit.

Since when it comes to intellectual works I respect the concept of credit but not the concept of ownership, I think plagiarism is universally bad in a way that copyright infringement is not.

I think part of the confusion around this topic comes from the fact that many people tend to conceptualize plagiarism as A Type Of copyright infringement (and afaik it is sometimes legally defined that way although I think that makes no sense for reasons I will explain in the next paragraph) because they often only encounter the term in relation to things that are both plagiarism AND copyright infringement at the same time (to name a high-profile example, what James Somerton did to other youtubers was BOTH plagiarism AND copyright infringement at the same time), so they end up mentally conflating the two terms, and consequently think that when people like me are defending copyright infringement we are also defending plagiarism.

But the way I see it, plagiarism and copyright infringement are two separate concepts. They sometimes overlap, but it's completely possible to have either one without the other. For example, if I were to grab a song from the public domain and claim that I wrote it, I would be committing plagiarism, since I would be claiming credit for work that I didn't make, but I wouldn't be committing copyright infringement, because no one owns the song. Conversely, if I were to burn copies of my CD collection and start selling them (or even just gifting them) to people, while correctly labelling them as the corresponding artist, I would be committing copyright infringement, since I would be copying and distributing the music without the legal owner's permission, but not plagiarism, since I'm not claiming credit for anything I didn't create myself. So at least to me it's an entirely coherent position to unconditionally defend copyright infringement without having that defense extend to plagiarism.

Causing further confusion between copyright infringement and plagiarism is the fact that a lot of people tend to unconsciously conflate the concepts of *creator* and *legal owner*, since they're not aware of how common it is in any professional creative industry for people to not be the legal owners of the stuff they create, and thus end up perceiving any violation of the ip holder's ownership as a violation of the creator's credit. The clearest example I can think of this was earlier this year when the Palworld devs were accused of plagiarizing designs from pokemon. I saw at least a few people say things along the line of "you might think they're sticking it to a big corporation but when they do this they're actually not stealing from nintendo or gamefreak, they're stealing from the hardworking artists who created those designs", which to me came off as completely ridiculous because none of those designs are in any way owned by the creators that made them, they're legally owned by the companies those artists work for.

[blu3per]

Part 4 the HM magical girls for my ScarVio anniversary celebration: Herba Bitter and Herba Sour!

Finally, it's finished! ScarVio are my favorite Pokemon games of all time. The characters and the stories they tell have had a chokehold on me since late 2023, when I first purchased Violet. No matter how many bugs, glitches, and fuck ups that happened on Gamefreak's end, these games will always have a special place in my heart.

Thank you, treasured friends. <3

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Thank you Gamefreak for the biggest fuck you to all speculators. No one in their wildest dreams could have imagined we'd get to be in Kalos again so soon. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would finally get to see Pokémon Z.

[sugarmasonmearii]

[Art Trade] Light the Shinx

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My end of an Art Trade with Bokurei / @bokureii

It's Light the Shinx treading the road cautiously.

Thank you Bokurei for the chance to draw your Shinx!

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Pokemon: (c) Gamefreak, Nintendo, Creatures

Art by me

Art Trades are only available to friends and artists I am interested in trading art with.

[sakualong]

You can find a shiny ditto block (you cant even catch this thing) but you can't shiny hunt any of the legendaries. Thanks gamefreak