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being less racist and ableist then canon fallout isn't hard you guys, and yet,
#i mean it just takes a bit of research and not using harmful tropes in character design#you can see how i've evolved perrin with research!#notably though one important thing to me#people with mental illness can be assholes#but its not just because of the mental illness#see: lucky is a xenophobic asshole and has paranoia#but lucky isnt the only person with paranoia!#and could get treatment#but you know :/#perrin has the help he needs#though it takes time for him to be so well-presented#and he still has mental health episodes#and its messy and Bad#but not ableist#because as a heavily mentally ill queer author#i dont wanna fuck over my fellow mentally ill people#with how i write
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I was tagged by @slowtides to talk about what I've been reading lately! Here's a couple things I've read this year so far. I was a little slow with reading the first 4 or 5 months since I was finishing grad school, but I've read all of the above in the last five or so months. I can talk a little about each of them!
The Eye of the World - I finally started on The Wheel of Time series this year. A friend of mine in college about ten years ago told me to read this and with the show, I decided to give it a try. I really thoroughly enjoyed this first book. I found Rand and Mat's storylines a little less exciting than Perrin and Egwyane but otherwise I really loved this and I'm already reading book two! I really want to read the whole series.
Elantris - my very first Sanderson novel. I'm so glad I started with this one as it was his first (written and published) novel so now I can see how his writing has evolved. This was such an interesting concept and really fueled my imagination and made me want to write again. It was surprisingly easy to read (for some reason I was expecting his writing to be denser and harder to get through but now I realize why he's so popular!) and I flew through it. I really want to get my own copy and annotate it while rereading it.
Bloom Into You - A manga series recommended to me by a person irl for reasons. I haven't read manga in a long time and I've never read a non-magical manga before. It was super cute!
Where the Nightmares Go - was throughly enjoyable. The first and last stories in particular were WOW. The second one (I think it was the second, maybe the third) was so terrifying that I literally could not allow myself to picture it in my head as I was reading or I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep for like a week. Highly recommend if you like horror and uncanny fiction.
The Ex-Girlfriend of my Girlfriend.... - It was good! Very lesbian centric (I was feeling a little bi-erasure) but as I'm trying to explore my queerness, I was happy to read through these situations. The latter parts of the book definitely felt a bit more bi-positive and openly queer (umbrella term) so I think it was worthwhile to read. The bright colors and illustrations were also very fun.
Nettle and Bone - After graduating I read a lot of novellas because it was easier than full novels. This was my first T. Kingfisher and will not be my last. The topic was women and breaking cycles and dealing with family and finding independence and also about hot-silver-fox-fighters and demonic chickens. Cannot go wrong.
High Times In the Low Parliament - Another novella. Totally bizarre and amazing. Fae/faeries, government, sapphics, lots of drugs. It was super enjoyable and I think maybe the first novella I read after graduating??? So it's gonna stick with me. I might even purchase a copy.
Off With Her Head - What promised to be a historical breakdown of misogyny unfortunately turned into a repeated argument for 75% of the book, with the only actually engaging chapters being the ones with historical research. It will definitely make you angry if you are a women or are anti-patriarchy, but after a while the anger will get tiring until you get to The One Juicy Historical chapter. I don't usually read nonfiction so this was maybe not the best thing for me to read.
White Cat, Black Dog - I can't say much about this except that Kelly Link is my favorite short story author and I got this practically brand new book for $10 at a used book store. One or two stories were a little meh for me, but nothing downright awful. I love the way this is retellings of other fairytales but feels sooooo different you'd never know it until you read the acknowledgements or notice that the original tales titles are written at the beginning under the titles. I particularly loved the retelling of Tam Lin.
This is for anyone who wants to write a bit about what they've been reading or what's been engaging for them lately! If you want to share, please do! Also tagging a few people: @twoheartsoneclara @antoine-triplett @actuallylorelaigilmore @spellmansabrina @thyla
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Warning: long text rant about numbers in the Blueberry Academy PokéDex (I thought it was interesting). You have been warned.
So nifty fact, roughly thirty-three percent of the Blueberry PokéDex consists of Starter Pokémon and their evolutions. Of the 240 Pokémon required to complete the Blueberry Dex, seventy-two (8×3×3) are starters. Of the remainder, eight are species that evolve by trade. Two lines are version exclusive (for four lines in total). Additionally, two Pokémon of a story-related persuasion are also exclusive to each version. So, if my math(s) and my research is correct, my breakdown of the PokéDex for Blueberry Academy is as follows (assuming a Dex length of 240, though it's technically 243 if you include Walking Wake, Iron Leaves, and the Mythical)
Starters: 72 Pokémon (30%)
Trade Evolutions: 8 (7 of which are item-based); thus (3% (2.9% require items))
Pokémon exclusive to Scarlet: 6 (2 families for a total of four Pokémon and 2 which are not evolutionary); thus (2.5% exclusive to Scarlet)
Pokémon exclusive to Violet: ditto the previous; thus ultimately 12 Pokémon are exclusive to one version or the other for a total breakdown of (5%)
So let us see these numbers from a different angle. 240 Pokémon, four of which are obtained only after completing Perrin's base 200. So of those 240, only 236 are actually possible to obtain for the purposes of this 200 base count. 236-72=164.
Now, regarding the reason I wanted to look at this in the first place. Perrin's side quest requires you to have registered 200 Pokémon towards the Blueberry PokéDex. 200 out of a comparatively tight 240 (as a point of reference, the Dex for Paldea and the Dex for Kitakami each have* has 400 entries, though I haven't bothered to analyze them comparatively, so I don't know how many Pokémon specifically are unique to Kitakami and how many are unique to the Terrarium).
Each of the four Terrarium Biomes can contain six Starter Pokémon (six times three equals eighteen Pokémon). The issue is that unlocking the ability to catch these six starters per Biome requires an incredibly tedious 3,000 BP each. 12,000 BP in total to catch all Terrarium Pokémon.
So here's how each Biome upgrade affects your potential that 200 minimum (also, just as a reminder, 200-164=36):
1 Biome: 182 Pokémon
2 Biomes: 200 Pokémon
3 Biomes: 218 Pokémon
4 Biomes: 236 Pokémon
You will need a minimum of two Biomes (costing 6,000 BP) to reach the 200 if you've caught every other non-starter species. What's fun however, is that by simply adding one more Biome, you'll actually completely erase all Trade Evolutions (remember, there were eight of those), and you can replace those four Pokémon exclusive to the version you are not playing with Starter Pokémon instead.
Which means that, by unlocking Starter capabilities in three Biomes, you can complete the 200 Pokémon minimum required for Perrin's quest entirely in your own game without trading with another game (as long you remember that Hydrapple is required, as is Terapagos, but Dipplin and Applin do not appear in the Blueberry PokéDex). As a side-note to that Hydrapple point, three Biome upgrades actually side-steps that issue as well, as the version exclusives and trades only total off to twelve and each Biome is eighteen Starter entries.
Thus concludes my long post which stretches a cursory glance at the Blueberry PokéDex into a massive affair spawned out of irritation at how small the Blueberry PokéDex is compared to the other two (I could legitimately have finished enough BBQs to unlock my second Biome upgrade in tge time it took me to write this).
*I realize I've made an error here regarding the number of Pokémon in the Kitakami Dex. Upon reloading my game, I realized it was 200, rather than four. As a result, this entire paragraph is basically wrong. It is however being kept in mostly because I'm too lazy to edit the entirety of what I meant in that paragraph. But the point still stands: Perrin's quest in Teal Mask required 150 out of 200 (one of which is obviously the reward for completing the quest). 150 out of an available 199 is still slightly more room than 200 out of 236, in my opinion.
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