#been playing a lot of pokemon moon lately ^_^

[cactiflowering-archived]

do your best to become a real champion!

lillie icons, rb + credit if used | for @enananhearts' 700+ event! day 01; protagonist or side character

#enananhearts700 #been playing a lot of pokemon moon lately ^_^ #icons #pokemon #pkmn #pokemon sun and moon #pokemon sm #pkmn sm #pokemon moon #pokemon sun #lillie pokemon #RUN N' GUN◞ my edits

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Could I mayhaps ask for your thoughts on each of the Box Legendary Pokemon?

*cracks knuckles* SURE! let's do this

Gold and Silver: I actually don't feel suuuuper too strongly about Ho-oh and Lugia, tbh--though i will say they both have more solid designs than. A Lot of other johto Pokemon imo LMAO. I liked Lugia a lot when I was a kid and that affection has waned a bit as I got older but I do still think it's cool. They both have pretty solid lore as far as Legendaries go, I'm just not particularly attached to 'em...something like a Legends Johto game really has the potential to do something cool with 'em (I feel like with Ho-oh especially) and I do kinda hope we eventually get to see that.

Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald: MY HOMEEEEE Hoenn box Legendary trio sooo near and dear to me...Ruby was my first game Groudon was my first Legendary but I think he's kind of just ok. I like Kyogre a lot more and I Love Rayquaza, definitely a long time favorite Legendary...they're really just a solid trio of Pokemon with some really cool designs and concepts at play, and I like the new lore and forms ORAS gave 'em. Kyogre's Pokemon Pinball boss fight kicks ass to this day and im not kidding.

Diamond, Pearl, Platinum: MY DEAR LATE MIDDLE SCHOOL/EARLY HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS I thinkkkk as a trio I think I might like Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina the best...Legendaries I never tire of seeing. Palkia is one of my all time favs, gazing so lovingly at my giant Palkia plush ive had for some 15 odd years...Giratina is too, honestly, Giratina fucking Rules (though I actually don't like its Origin form very much and never had...I'm an Altered Form Giratina girlie.) They're just all super solid designs and for Dialga and Palkia especially they really feel like perfect embodiments of The Game Theyre the Cover Of. Also I love Origin Form Dialga and Palkia sorry. Theyre my precious ugly as fuck horses.

Black, White, BW2: WELL. THESE MIGHT TRULY BE THE BEST ONES. Zekrom/Reshiram/Kyurem are not my favorite Trio, but together just everything they represent is so cool. One day we WILL see that Original Dragon so HELP ME GOD. I'm more impartial to Zekrom (i played Black and White 2) but it still has such a striking design, I have to say. Reshiram is an especially beautiful Pokemon and definitely one of my favorites. I have. So Many Reshiram cards and plushes HJFDJGDF And well some people don't like Black and White Kyurem for whatever reason, but well i simply have to say they have been making me crazy since high school and the concept of Pokemon Fusion Really in The Game will never not be fucking bonkers slash POS. i LOVE White Kyurem (go figure.) THATS MY FUCKIN FREEEAK

X & Y: i don't. like X & Y very much 🥴 I wish I liked Xerneas more but something about its design is just kind of lacking some 'oomph' ro me. It doesn't feel like a strong poster child for the Fairy type's debut. Despite everything Yveltal does go hard as fucking hell though I still like it a lot. I named the one I caught in Y HELLRAISER back in college and I was shocked they let me name it that.

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun/Moon: ok nevermind scratch what I said about DPP Sun and Moon have my favorite Legendary Trio for absolute certain. GOD I WISH SUMO/USUM WERE BETTER GAMES!!!!! SOLGALEO LUNALA AND NECROZMA ARE ALL SO FUCKING COOOOL!!!!! DUSK MANE NECROZMA AND DAWN WINGS NECROZMA ARE SO FUCKING COOOL!!!!!!!!! NECROZMA FUCKING EATS THEM FOR POWER. Just in general fantastic designs all around, and it's so cool that Solgaleo and Lunala are Legendaries That Evolve.also i played Moon/UM but I have grown deeply fond of Solgaleo over the last year or so. As if it's my fault he looks like...no, I shant say.

Sword and Shield: I don't like SWSH very much either 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴which is a shame because Zacien and Zamazenta have really cool concepts and designs!! I love their old tattered beat up forms, I love that theyre siblings 🥺I love that the one that isnt Your box legendary goes with Hop, that's so so sweet and so so cool. I just wish SWSH had more of a..........yknow. story. to do anything else of any substance with them. Cool Legendaries in bad games...sad!

Scarlet and Violet: WELL. THESE MAY ALSO BE THE BEST ONES AND I'LL SAY IT WITH MY WHOLE CHEST. god, just. WOW. I like them both a lot but I'm especially fond of Miraidon, to absolute bits. This really feels like the most realized version of a box art Legendary that really truly is a Character in its own right, you get to spend that whole game with your dragon, it well and truly Is Your Friend and it's just fantastic. Theyre endlessly charming and silly and conceptually just so fucking cool. They killed someone. My motorcycle that eats sandwiches. My BUDDY!!! I named my Miraidon Delta Accel :^)

#OK I THINK THATS ALL OF THEM FORGIVE ME FOR MISSING ANY #pokemon chattering #asks #anonymous #im a simple pokemon fan sometimes i see a cool beast on the box art and well I Just Like Them

[moth-lee]

hi :) i thought i should do a quick little introduction post since ive been more active on here lately

my names charlie (i go by lee too) i use he/him pronouns and im 18. im an aqaurius sun, virgo moon, and libra rising. ive been practicing eclectic/hellenic paganism and witchcraft for around a year at this point. i mainly worship Hestia and ive recently started doing spirit work as well. outside of witchy stuff, i mostly crochet and play stardew valley/pokemon. currently obsessed with good omens so you'll probably see a lot of that on here lol. i also have a bunch of cats and i love talking about them.

my dms are always open if anyone wants to say hi or be friends :)

[kafus]

i would super love to hear another cool pokemon story if there's one you wanna share!! literally anything; all your pokemon posts are so interesting and engaging to read ♡ also!!! i hope you're doing well and finding reason to smile each day

ogh THANK U i hope ur doing well as well

one of these days i might run out of stories 😭 BUT i don’t think i’ve talked about the pokemon competition i went to when i was around 8 years old??? and i’ve been thinking about that recently so why not

i’ve talked before about how my interest in pokemon as a young person was defined by loneliness/isolation and how i never really had the social pokemon experience that most people did, so the few times i actually got to interact with other people over the shared interest stick out very strongly in my brain. in particular when i was i Think 8 years old, there used to be a small family-owned video game store in my town (it shut down a long time ago unfortunately, i miss it) and they ran events sometimes. i managed to find out they were running a singles competition in pokemon battle revolution, and my mom actually agreed to taking me

it’s important to keep in mind that i was like 8 and i didn’t know shit about competitive battling. i loved sinnoh and had pokemon i thought were strong but at this time i didn’t even know natures affected stats. i was an inexperienced little girl and i just brought my team of in-game guys that i liked. amusingly i was the only girl there, i just remember walking in and being surrounded by boys LOL both my age and older, like there were some older teens and maaaybe adults idk

anyway all things considered i actually got decently far because competitive mons was much more niche back then and no one knew what they were doing LMAO. i was mostly pitting my in-game mons against other kids’ in-game mons. i knew type matchups by heart and had some pretty decent pokemon to my memory - i don’t remember my entire team but i know i had torterra and articuno at least (articuno was one of my favorite pokemon at the time)

eventually i was… like… idk right before semi finals? i wasn’t quite in the top 4, i think i was in the top 8? i went up against an older boy who actually knew what he was doing and had a genuine competitive team. i’m not sure how old he actually was, at the time anyone above the age of 13 looked like an adult to me lol, i’m guessing in retrospect he was 17 or something. he THOROUGHLY kicked my ass with fucking BLISSEY TOXIC STALL lmao. at the time i was dumbfounded at how his blissey just took no fucking damage and it’s really funny being able to understand what happened in retrospect, i kept bringing my special attackers not being aware of blissey’s extremely lopsided defensive stats.

you’d think i would have been upset about losing but i was moreso really impressed with this guy’s blissey, and then smth i’ll never forget, after i lost he shook my hand and looked at me in the eyes and said that i did a good job and that i should keep playing pokemon because he thinks from the way that i played that i had a lot of potential. i was literally over the moon, it meant so much to be acknowledged with full seriousness by someone so much older than me who also lest we forget literally just beat my ass with toxic stall lol. having my interest in pokemon validated and being told i was good at it just made my entire week. or month. or year tbh.

nowadays that i’m a ribbon master mod and going to my first regionals next month, i think about that guy a lot. perhaps i was a late bloomer but i think whatever he saw in me was real. not that i’m the best pokemon player ever or something, and i’m certainly still learning a lot about vgc in particular, but like. yeah i do really care about this game and i think i have the potential to be good at it. and it was prophesized long agodjdjdk

always be nice to kids cause small gestures like that can stick with someone for the rest of their life tbh

#kiki was here #asks #kira-kira-kitty #pokemon #dppt #pbr

[dandelion-wings]

I honestly think I would buy Genesis Crystals if they were just a little cheaper. I've always had a gaming budget for F2P games, at a set $20 a month. On Flight Rising that was about enough to get you a premium scroll or two; in ESO I just paid for ESO Plus whenever I was playing enough for it to be worth it; in Pokemon Go that gets me super incubators and sometimes a few remote raid passes. In Genshin, that gets me... less than a ten-roll.

If I could pay $15 or $20 for a ten-roll, I would do it once a month or so! Once every other month, maybe, since if I max out the battle pass in a BP period I go ahead and spend $10 for the premium half of it and I've been doing that a lot lately. Sometimes I get the Welkin Moon, which is frankly a way better deal than the $15-dollar crystal package, but I dislike the FOMO feeling of having to log in to get the benefit (it's the same reason I was intermittent about ESO Plus and rarely play subscription games in general). And I've spent once each to get crystals for Jean and Ayaka's special outfits. But like, if $15 got me an easily parse-able, useful amount of primogens, if it was just a flat 1600 crystals, I would probably be giving Hoyo more money, on a more regular basis, than just the-battle-pass-when-I-max-it and this-is-my-birthday-month-so-let's-get-a-Welkin.

I'm sure there's some kind of psychology behind it that makes the not-as-parse-able numbers more useful when getting people with bigger budgets than I have to buy them. But my budget's still sitting here at that $20 a month, divided with Pokemon Go, and right now Niantic is getting much more benefit of it than Hoyo is, because Niantic makes their coin packages much more directly and immediately worthwhile than the crystals.

[eriisaam]

You can probably guess what inspired this, but what I'm about to discuss talks about a pet who passed away, bullying and harassment, and fandom discourse esque drama. If you're at all sensitive to any of these, it may be best to just skip this post entirely. Don't worry about it. The long and short of it is I'm just venting. Hope you have a good day.👍

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You've all probably seen what happened with that cat poll between Jellie and Nefarious Anglerfish by now. Even if it's been a bit since, with it coming up again, I still can't shake off some lingering resentments of this being one of many examples of something I've seen and bottled up for a while now.

What the fuck happened to us? To fandom lately? What the fuck made enjoying things and letting other people enjoy things and liking or disliking certain things that turned into some kind of fucked up litmus test of whether or not someone is an appropriate target to just turn off all senses and be a complete asshole to them?

And over nonsense things like liking something someone else didn't like, or thought cringe, or thinks is overrated, or whatever. What the fuck happened to "cringe culture is dead"? And when did it evolve into "This person is ok to completely shit all over cuz they like Roblox/Minecraft/Undertale/Among Us/whateverthehell and that's cringe"?

No, dipshit, you're still an asshole whether they or you like those things or not.

Like, I'm sorry. I hate drumming up this issue when at this point the issue is long since done, the dust had settled, and that OP of that poll straight up fucked off.

But what gets me is how easily someone can "unperson" someone else - just shut off their brains, remove all empathy and common sense, and say the most horrendously cruel shit without a second thought - treating them like they don't have feelings and it doesn't matter if they do anyways, and over what?

Cuz they play Minecraft and you don't? They like something you think is stupid?? And you make fun of their loss of their cat for "milking the attention away" with their death and derailing attention from another cat in a fucking poll nobody's going to give a shit about by the end of the week??? Cuz the "cringey minecraft player"s cat died at a time too inconvenient for your poll?!

Fuck you. I said it before and I'll say it again: fuck you.

Back when I was way younger, what's now happening to Minecraft used to happen to a lot of things.

Back then? It was liking cartoons in general.

Then it was liking anime specifically on top of liking certain cartoons.

Then it was liking the "lame" (read: "girly") anime like Cardcaptor Sakura, Fruits Basket or Sailor Moon over the badass ones like Dragonball Z, Gundam or Cowboy Bebop. There were constant rotating fights of which anime was "cool" enough not to get shit on for liking it. (And there's still that shit even to this day, let's be real.)

Then it was liking Pokemon. Then it was liking Digimon. Then it was Yugioh, or Beyblade, or whatever. Then there's being a furry. Then it was being a brony or even tangibly liking My Little Pony. Then Undertale. Then Steven Universe, or She-Ra, or whatever the fuck else. Sometimes it's just the one thing. Other times it's an entire genre.

On and on and on the goalpost will keep changing when the old "cringey" thing stopped being an acceptable target, and there's a new thing people completely unload on without a second thought.

Like I said before. I used to be a pet owner. I've had, and lost, pets over my lifetime.

Back then I would've also been in that camp of "easily acceptable target cuz people who like pokemon/digimon/anime are losers who deserve it", and I've been on the receiving end of that shit all my life in and out of fandom circles back in the day.

When I lost my cat, it already devastated me. And I can't imagine the kind of way that pain would've magnified if I was still trying to cope with that, tried to find escapism just hanging out online or browsing or whatever, and someone took my loss to make fun of me about it cuz I was some cringey loser who liked pokemon, so they felt I deserved the kind of words that they wouldn't dream to say to the face of someone actually "worth respect".

Because how dare my cat die on a date that inconvenienced them and ruined their good mood. Some cat nobody gives a shit about, cuz she belonged to a pokemon fan, and we all know pokemon fans are huge no-life losers who never get anywhere in their lives, amirite?

It didn't have to be specifically Jellie, or even specifically about Scar.

In that moment, I saw me, when I was younger, going through that shit that's the same bullshit then as it is now, and where kid-me would've broke down and spiraled worse than I already had, adult-me wants to drop a fucking meteor on a bitch.

I said unkind things and lost my cool and I'm sorry you all had to witness that. By virtue of this post, I'm sorry you're still witnessing it now.

But I'm just so goddamn tired of seeing it, and that's not even the only time I've seen that shit happen, time and again over similarly petty bullshit. It's Minecraft now for whatever the goddamn fuck reason, but it could be anything next once Minecraft and those who play it stop being cool to bully. I've seen it in public with strangers in passing just as I've seen it thrown in the face in private at people I know. I've seen this shit thrown at friends just as much I've still had it thrown in my face time and again.

It never fucking ends.

Why is the message always "it's ok to say whatever the hell I want, as long as they like something that's cool now to shit on them over"?

When did we somehow stop caring about "If you're being a thoughtless asshole, I don't care if they like [insert acceptable cringe target here], you're still an asshole."?

#Sorry for venting #tw pet death #tw animal death #tw bullying #(all mentioned)

[giantchasm]

top 10 pokemon characters/story arcs?

Hi! Sorry this response is coming a little late. I can take a bit to answer asks, but I swear in general I will get around to them. Life's just been hectic.

To answer your question, though (And assuming this only applies to mainline Pokemon— I'll do everyone a favor and spare you from hearing me talk about my feelings on PMD characters... unless people WANT to hear about those too?)

As a note, this is within the context of how well developed I think their characters/story were, so it's not in the order of my favorites in general. That would vary slightly. For example: I love Raifort, but her ass does NOT have that much going on. I'd also put Volo much higher up than I did on this list.

1 - N - Honestly, I had a lot of trouble deciding whether he or Lillie deserved first place. They're more or less a tie in my book. I think they both had character arcs handled extremely well in different ways. I ultimately opted for giving N this slot because I think BW is just the more thematically rich game as a whole, but I do love Lillie. N is just so fantastic, though. I love his arc as well as the different facets of his personality. He was the first character that was ever truly a "blorbo" in a fandom sense to me and with good reason. I would take Ibuprofen with him any day.

2 - Lillie - Like I said, Lillie almost made first place. I really do love her. I think her arc about learning to stand up for herself and generally carve out her identity as an abused child is extremely well done. She is my FRIEND and it made me VERY SAD when she left at the end of the game. I hope everyone who complains about Sun & Moon's story without ever having actually bothered to engage with it blows up forever.

3 - Arven - Say what you will about Scarlet and Violet- they're buggy, rushed games, but their story slaps. I think Arven's arc and the general way he's characterized is super well done. Although that goes for all of the ScarVi cast! I think they're just sincerely good characters. Blowing up everyone who didn't pay attention to the story then had the audacity to complain about it being bad with my mind here as well. [This is malice directed specifically towards Alpharad for his read on Penny, but don't tell anyone that]

4 - Silver - Silver's interesting in that he comes from a time when Pokemon character arcs weren't super defined but he has such a solid one, so he really stands out! I love him learning to open up, trust, and love his Pokemon and think the way that story is told organically through elements such as his Golbat finally evolving is wonderful. His Pokemas event with Ho-Oh made me cry.

5 & 6 - Cheren and Bianca - I feel weird separating these two because of the way their arcs parallel each other, so they're going together. They really do exemplify the way that Black and White were sincerely well-written games and I love their individual stories as well as the way they play into the themes of the overarching story as a whole.

7 - Cyrus - What a character. Cyrus is well and truly one of the most offputting yet interesting characters in the entire series. His nihilistic outlook burying what little he does seem to sincerely care about is so fascinating, and his backstory easily gives him even more depth. He's just this guy who's like... sincerely mentally unwell, and not in a cartoon villain way. He has legit psychological issues. I would love to study him under a microscope.

8 - Volo - This guy's one of my favorite Pokemon characters, but even I've gotta admit he doesn't actually have that much going on. I feel like so much of what I like about him just came from my head. That said, he has a fun charisma about him, even in canon, and I loved getting stabbed in the back. Please stab me in the back more, GameFreak. ([A flying ice-cream truck appears over my head, a la SpongeBob] IN THE STORY! PLEASE DON'T STAB ME IN THE BACK BY MAKING DISAPPOINTING GAMES...)

9 - Barry - Yet another fantastic character from gen 4. I love him realizing he needs to actually take some things seriously and the way he grapples with his failure to protect the Pokemon of the lake. For the third time in this post I'm blowing people up with my mind, specifically the people who just see him as annoying and loud and don't pay attention to the way he changes over the course of the game. ADHD king.

10 - Bede - Tbh... I don't know if Bede actually deserves to be on this list. I think it's probably a little offensive to put any SWSH character on this list. But truth is... I just like him! Even if it was ostensibly poorly executed, I'm a complete sucker for the "spoiled brat gets smacked in the face by reality and has to learn some goddamn humility" trope, and he embodies it well. I also like how ultimately he finds himself and his place in the world through embracing things stereotypically associated with femininity :) I simply think it's nice.

#sorry this took 800 years to answer #i prommy i'll get around to all asks i get eventually! #it just might... take a bit #life is hectic and my executive dysfunction is super duper bad #pokemon

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

I've been meaning to make a post on the new legends game since the announcement, but have continuously had stuff come up so finally getting around to it now. Noting now that I've only seen very little (I'll mention what beneath the cut) about it so if any of this has been proven/disproven, my bad I guess lmao. But yeah, with that in mind, these are my very late night thoughts/predictions for the game.

So starting off I want to say that the only things I have seen on this game is the trailer and that apparently the whole game happens within Lumiose City. My kneejerk reaction to it happening purely in Lumiose was disappointment but then I took a step back and remembered that this will be Lumiose before it becomes the city we know from X and Y. Realistically I cannot see them making the areas of the game either 1. any smaller than Legends Arceus or 2. if they are smaller, have any less areas than Legends Arceus. Like with all the work they've done since Sword and Shield with bigger areas, I have faith that the sizing won't be an issue here.

Plot wise I am a little nervous, but I think a lot of that is just because there's so much that is unknown for now. Like tbh we don't even know if it'll have the same elements as Legends Arceus. Like for all we know it's a level by level game that once you finish a level, you can't go back because that part of Lumiose will have been built. Like I doubt that's the case, I imagine it'll be similar to Legends Arceus because they know that works, but we just don't know for sure yet.

Much like everyone else, I do hope Zygarde gets a proper story and tbh I don't want the A in the title to be another legendary (I do have a theory that instead of a new one, it may be Arceus but we'll see), but as long as it's written well, I will be happy. I also do wonder if the swords of justice will play a role given them being based on the 3 musketeers and feeling like they should be in Kalos.

More broadly plotwise, I am also super happy that Kalos was picked because tbh it's one of my least favourite games given how many missed opportunities I felt it had (likely due to the lack of a 3rd game) so I am excited to hopefully see those gaps be filled.

But yeah, overall I will say though, with Legends Arceus being my favourite pokemon game, it does have a lot to live up to, and that makes me anxious.

As I'm sure is the case with most people, my main hope for this game is that there are new mega pokemon (and regional forms). And tbh, I hope that any pokemon that already has a mega doesn't get a new one... maybe with the exception of Blastoise and Venusaur because it'd be nice for Charizard to not have the special treatment lmao. I don't really have any hopes for specific pokemon to get a new form or mega, maybe something I wouldn't usually use. Like I had never used Muk before Sun and Moon and now Alolan Muk is a top 10 pokemon ever for me.

Starter wise, my first guess is that they will pick all 3 from ones that aren't generation 6 or generations that were picked for Legends Arceus. Sprigatito, Sobble and Torchic were the first to come to mind, but I also have a nagging (affectionate) feeling that Squirtle may also be picked. If I'm right, I will likely pick Sobble because I've never done a runthrough with it, but if it is Squirtle and not Sobble, I really don't know because I've used all three of those pretty evenly. Then again, Lavender specifically came from another region iirc (did we ever talk about the implications of this? Like the 'Hisuian' starter forms may not actually be from Hisui if he brought them along from where he was from. Like I know pokemon says it's the area that determines the form but it takes years/generations to adjust so there's likely another region that had at least similar if not the same final forms as the Hisuian starters) so they could use that as a reason to finally give the generation 6 starters a mega and/or new final form.

And there is probably more but it's 1am here so those thoughts will have to wait for another time.

#pokemon #pokemon legends za #pokemon legends z to a #did we get confirmation on which one of those is right? because i've seen both lmao

[oujamon]

New start, new me:

Heya everyone, let's start out a proper blog with a proper intro:

I'm Noctis (also see Pepsi, Silvally, and/or the occasional other name).

I'm in my late 20s and I use it pronouns with secondary they.

I have a few fursonas and characters that they work interchangeably.

Pepsi: Himilayan Wolf [They/It]

.C0NNECT//: Robot Hyena [They/Them]

Autumn: Candy Corn Cat [He/They]

GulusSlyphmon: a Gulusgammamon [they/it preferred but truly doesn't matter]

Reuel: Sunset palette Silvally [They/It]

Ortus: Dawn Lycanroc [They/them]

Jasiad: Otter Dragon Hybrid [He/Him]

And I have an ever list of others. Any questions? Please ask!

This blog can be NSFW but will not be primarily NSFW. I will mark my stuff appropriately with NSFW tags and mature labels, this will primarily be in relation to sharing art I get or friends' art.

More information under the read more about me!

My interests rotate often enough but the primary interests you'll see from me include:

Digimon [Appmon primarily but all anime series and games, occasional other content such as seekers]

Pokemon [Favorite is Silvally with a lot of others underneath, Mystery Dungeon and Sun and Moon are primary games, but still like a lot of others, I am currently watching Horizons and working through Jhoto as a rewatch.]

Final Fantasy [Favorites are IX and X, but I gush about VII, VIII, and XIII. I play XIV, and I enjoy others.]

Kingdom Hearts [do not ask me about kh or I will not stop talking.]

Magic: The Gathering [Liliana my beloved but I love all things MTG aside from WotC but sometimes the price we pay for having hobbies.]

Furry Fandom (...do i gotta explain)

Other interests in rotation include:

Zelda (Been into it more recently thanks to roommate, TotK has ruined me mentally)

Project Moon

Granblue Fantasy

Arknights

AI: The Somnium Files & Zero Escape

General Square Enix & Nintendo Games

Music (Men I Trust, Paramore, and some other stuff)

Kariosoft Games

Fire Emblem (fe10-11; 13; 17)

I LOVE TOUCHING GRASS.

General tags:

Noct Text - Any posts I post

Noct Shot - Pictures I post

Sleeping Somnus - Queue

my fursonas - self-explanatory

friend's fursonas - also self-explainatory

successful - posts I made that broke or will break 1k notes.

I'll update the tags as I get them organized but yeah! That should do me!

Welcome back, or aboard if new, to my blog!

#Noct Text #About Me #Pinned

[burning-jealousy]

Hi! My name is Noelle or Sanguinary, depending on where you know me from. Please don't call me "Sang" or "San", if you must shorten my name, please call me S. I am a lesbian who's gender identity is best described as trans lesbian. I am twenty-three years old, my pronouns are she/her, they/them. I also use moon neopronouns, but these are optional. Please respect grammar though and do not change pronouns in the middle of sentences (she went to the park and they brought her frisbee, at least I think it was moons) as this makes it incredibly hard to read and understand.

I am currently in a long-term relationship (08-28-21) with my joyous little beast, @incubian. While it is my little beast, I am it's little freak.

(P.S., you don't need to read more. Knowing this is plenty about me.)

I am physically disabled. I might talk about this sometimes, because it sucks balls. The exact specifications in regards to my disability are private and poking and prodding in regards to what exactly disables me is inappropriate. If I feel the need to disclose my disability, I will, but I am under no obligation to be your personal Bible in regards to answering questions about disabilities unprovoked. Please use Google instead.

Past my physical disabilities, I am neurodivergent, I have several "scary" mental illnesses that I am not obliged to share, but what I am willing to share is the fact that I have autism. I may type with a flat tone, miss social cues or misread your tone. However, do not use tone indicators with me. They do not help me and I spend more time Googling what they mean- I do not appreciate time wasted.

I spend most of my free time creating, reading and playing games. I have been writing since 2010 - 2011, a fact that startles me. I have writing commissions open- Check my other blog, @sanguinaryrose for those. When I am not doing that, I often spend my time badgering my long-distance significant other like a cat realizing you are mere moments late to it's regular feeding schedule. It loves me, though, so I'm allowed to be a little cat running in front of it to play insurance fraud every once in a while. Past those activities, I spend a lot of my time resting on account of my chronic conditions.

Some of my special interests are dragons, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! (TCG & Anime), Warrior Cats, World of Warcraft, Monster Hunter, Baldur's Gate (I - III), Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Axolotls, Dinosaurs and Spyro. If you want to make friends really fast, ask me about these. However, I ask that you err on the side of caution when it comes to critique of any medias mentioned in my presence unless I initiate it; I can take it very personally, like you're attacking me, and it will, 100%, make me act like the big companies need defense from some random online.

I am a non-practicing, baptized Wiccan. I respect all religions, even if I do not personally practice them or have bad experiences with them. So long as you respect my religion, I will respect yours, or your lack thereof. Please do not try fighting with me or debating me in regards to my religion, it has taken me over 15 years to even want to consider my religion properly past a "God hurt me!" level of comprehension. I am not going to try and debate you in or out of any religion or world view, as above all else, unless bigotry (racism, trans/homophobia) is involved, I believe in mutual respect. However, in having said that, I reserve my right to sharply cut contact should you prove yourself to be a threat to me, my partner, or my mental health in any way, shape or form.

I have a blacklist of media or things that I avoid at all costs, it's either triggering or I loathe it to such a deep degree that I just cannot discuss it civilly without making an ass of myself.

Additionally I have a whitelist of a few special interests of mine. Note that these links do not work on mobile.

If all of this [written while motioning to the whole post] doesn't bother you, or sounds cool or whatever, you're more than welcome to reach out and start chatting; I'd quite appreciate having more mutuals to talk to. I hope you have a peaceful rest of your day; thank you kindly for reading this all.

Divider template by @/cafekitsune / @/kithsune.

[weaselandfriends]

What are your favorite books, and which books do you feel have been the most influential on your work? Do you read much non-fiction?

I watched all of School Days because of you. What do you like about it? How ironic is your enjoyment?

I am loving CQ thus far.

When I was very young, the books I read and reread again and again and which certainly had some formative impact on me as a writer were Loser by Jerry Spinelli and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, but I think the most clearly influential books on my writing today are Franz Kafka's novels, The Castle and The Trial, as well as Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. I first read all three of these novels as a teenager and they really unlocked the world of literature for me. All three depict ordinary landscapes as surreal nightmares, the way I would go on to depict the locations in Modern Cannibals and Cockatiel x Chameleon. Another work I read as a teen and which surely influenced me was King Lear by William Shakespeare. I've always been a fan of the bleak and tragic.

Other favorite literary works of mine include (in no particular order):

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

VALIS by Philip K. Dick

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Ulysses by James Joyce

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grendel by John Gardner

Paradise Lost by John Milton

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

As you can see, my reading is on the European and especially Anglo-centric side, which is probably to be expected given I primarily speak English myself. I'm always reading new stuff and try to branch out into time periods and locations outside of Western canon, especially given I've read most of the Western canon by now anyway.

I'm not a large reader of nonfiction. Fiction has always been my passion, since I was very young.

As for School Days, I want to stress that my enjoyment of it is in no way ironic. People ask me this all the time, but I legitimately just think School Days is excellent on its own merits. School Days is a detailed, complex psychological drama in which characters are pushed or push themselves into increasingly uglier directions based on initially small flaws or miscommunications that they are unable to overcome or grapple with. There's very little fat or filler in School Days, it is a lean work in which nearly every conversation has some kind of psychological subtext or is deepened by its context, and the pacing consistently pushes the story toward its explosive, tragic end. I recently watched Breaking Bad (also excellent) and found it similar in how an initially neutral or merely flawed protagonist gradually devolves into outright villainy on account of those flaws; other comparable works would be Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver, the aforementioned Wide Sargasso Sea, or Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

I think the overwhelming backlash about School Days is a byproduct of the Western anime culture back when it aired in 2007. This was just about when the internet was coming to prominence and Western viewers were able to access seasonal anime for the first time via fan subs and dubs; before this, anime watching in the West was either hack-n-slash dubs of kid's shows like Sailor Moon or Pokemon or isolated to a few select (and often Western-influenced) shows like Cowboy Bebop on late-night programs such as Adult Swim. Because of this, the Western anime community was fairly embryonic in 2007, comprised mainly of younger people, and almost entirely male. I don't think this audience collectively had the patience and comprehension skills to appreciate a dialogue-based psychological drama, and especially not one primarily concerned with digging into and exposing what we might nowadays call "toxic masculinity."

2007 was a year where "There are no women on the internet" was taken as an absolute truth, a pre-GamerGate era before even tepid incipient criticisms of sexism in gaming were being made by the likes of Extra Credits or Anita Sarkeesian. School Days, depicting a seeming everyman whose casual objectification of women transforms him into a callous monster, was simply not something this anime community was ready for. And so it was raked over the coals, memed on, and generally held up as "one of the worst anime ever made" (around the same time the anime community thought mind-boggling dreck like Elfen Lied was "mature" art). You would see School Days on Worst Anime of All Time lists right next to Mars of Destruction. I think even if you're only lukewarm on School Days you can see how that level of excoriation is utterly unwarranted.

The community, and the internet in general, and popular media criticism, has changed a lot since then, and I think the current zeitgeist is one that would be far more willing to accept School Days and realize its virtues, but its reputation precedes it and few are willing to watch "The Room of anime" with any amount of good faith. Certainly not enough good faith to pick up on its subtle and psychological writing. I think it's no longer as frequently held up as one of the worst anime of all time, but it's still generally despised (usually by people who haven't even seen it).

So, that's why I do my part to try and change the perspective on School Days.

#school days

[shadows-writing-lounge]

2022 Flufftober

Intended to have been posted during October but because of issues it had been postponed so, that's why some may mention Halloween out of season.

Note: I don't expect everyone to read everything(or anything really) in this series. Feel to request during this time whether to ask for a variant of a prompt with a different character or something else entirely.

This will be used as a masterlist for the series. Entries under cut.

Format: Colors ended to help break up blocks of text.

Prompt | Character (Media Source) Relationship Type | Reader Insert or Canon only {Alternate Universe}

Summary:

Variants: Adjustments like pronouns.

Alt. Version: Alternate take on the prompt.

1.Holding Hands | Ingo (Pokemon: Black & White) Platonic Friends | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary:Working overtime to cover for a coworker's mistake leads to Ingo coming back to fix this derailment.

Variants: You/Your, They/Them

2.Snuggling/Skinship | Link ( Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ) Ambiguous | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Exhausted and stressed, Link confines in someone who's always made him feel welcome and safe.

Variants: You/Your, They/Them

3.Friends to Lovers | Cliff (Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town) Romantic | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary : Cliff reminisces on how he got to where he is, from Church and back again.

4.Secret Admirer | Zagerus/Thanatos (Hades) Romantic Poly | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Zagerus and Thanatos start finding gifts addressed to them and they confront each other and start looking for the third party.

5.Platonic Affection | undecided

Summary:

6.Accidentally saying I love you on the phone | Dante Sparda (Devil May Cry 5) Ambiguous | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Dante calls to make dinner plans and learns why they always hand off to phone instead of ending calls.

7.Moving in | Howl (Howl's Moving Castle (Movie)) Ambiguous | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Calcifer jokes about how Howl should just move his friend into the castle with how often they are their. Howl takes this seriously.

8.Making Costumes | undecided

Summary:

9.Playing with their hair | Oki (Okami) Ambiguous | Neutral Reader

Summary: The loner always grumbles about how the attention just wastes his time but always sits down when asked.

10.Coffee Shop Au | Emmet (Pokemon: Black & White) Romantic | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: The power went out in the middle of the night leading to the twins waking up late. Emmet runs to pick up some drinks leading Emmet to decide this place was his new to go coffee place.

11.Dreaming | Hypnos (Hades) Ambiguous | Reader Insert

Summary: Hypnos falls asleep more often and Zagerus grows concerned until the sleep gods start to ask favors.

12.Meddling Friends | Sebastian (Stardew Valley) Romantic

Summary: Sam and Abigail see Sebastian look at someone for longer than a microsecond and decide he's in love. He is.

13.Flower Crowns | Malleus Draconia (Twisted Wonderland) Ambiguous | Reader Insert

Summary: Malleus is distracted by telling stories of his homeland. Not expecting to be double lorded.

14.Reunited Friends | Yuu (Twisted Wonderland)

Summary: Yuu has been taken from home stuck in a magic riddled world. However an old friend is returned to him in return.

15.Caught in the rain | Dylas (Rune Factory 4) Romantic | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Dylas gets lost in thought and before he knows it, it's pouring rain. While heading home he as usual ends up in a mess.

16.Road trip | undecided

Summary:

17.Stealing food | Ruggie Bucchi (Twisted Wonderland) Platonic | Reader Insert

Summary: Joined together in the shared desire for free food Ruggie declares a heist.

18.Carving Pumpkins | undecided

19.Birds/Superstition | Lilia Vanrouge (Twisted Wonderland) Ambiguous | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Old and wise Lilia knew a lot of things and has heard a lot of beliefs but still was interested to hear some from

20.Dancing | undecided

21.Genuine but small act | undecided

22.Portrait | undecided

23.Found Family | Golden Deer (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) Platonic | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Classic Golden Deer shenanigans

24.Protective/Protector | Volga (Hyrule Warriors) Ambiguous | Reader Insert

Summary: The dragon knight is attached to the hip. He doesn't understand that not everyone wants to kill his vassal.

25.Watching the stars | undecided

26.Love Letters | undecided

27.Sentimental | Maleficent (Disney's Sleeping Beauty) Romantic | Neutral Reader Insert

Summary: Maleficent cares for a few things. People, items, other's sensibilities. She however feels strongly about what she does care for. She's a very sentimental being.

28.Family/Kids | Leon (Pokemon: Sword & Sheild) Romantic | Neutral Reader insert

Version 1: Readers has Kids with Leon

Variants: You/Your, They/Them

Summary: Leon stepped into fatherhood surefooted like a deerling on ice.

Version 2: Reader first time meeting Hop and Leon's mom

Variants: You/Your, They/Them

Summary: Family is important to Leon. He's serious about this relationship so it is time to meet his family.

29.Cooking | Deduce & Dimitri (Fire Emblem) Platonic | Canon Only

Summary: Despite his literal lack of taste Dimitri still enjoys Dedue cooking for him specially when he's allowed to watch.

30.Childhood Friends | Leona Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland) Platonic | Reader Insert

Version 1: Neutral Reader

Variants: You/Your, They/Them

Summary:After his sister-in-law asks him to come home for school break. Leona slips out to visit an old friend.

Version 2: Masc Beastman Reader

Variants: You/Your, He/Him

Summary:Ruggie fears when a student enters the botanical garden and starts harassing the sleeping lion. He's surprised when Leona doesn't immediately maul the student.

31.Halloween | undecided

Summary:

#masterlist #twisted wonderland #hyrule warriors #pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokemon sword and shield #disney #legend of zelda #rune factory 4 #harvest moon friends of mineral town #story of seasons friends of mineral town #stardew valley #okami #fe3h #twisted wonderland x reader #hades game #hades supergiant #howls moving castle

[dualaspect]

*takes a shot of apple juice because I don't drink*

YOU WANNA HOW WHAT IVE BEEN DOIN ALL DAY?

playing harvest moon

I'm playing lots of harvest moon lately and Pikmin

I got pikmin 1 & 2 as a present from my husband because he saw me crying over the switch announcement trailer he got it for me when it released lol

Haven't played much pokemon recently because I hit a rutt where I need to actually fill my dex and breed for shinies and I don't have a good breeding Ditto yet

#pikmin #harvest moon #pokemon

[littlecaregiver]

My experience on little space and Age regression.

On this blog I'll talk from my big age mostly, so, if you are in little space or doing Agere right now, it could feel a bit boring to read, and I touch a bit sad topics.

I am on my late 20's while writing this.

Like some of us, (maybe a few more than just "some") my real childhood was not the best.

Abusive father, crying a bit too much, seeing my mom cry more than any kid should (the perfect amount is Zero).

And while being a kid my coping mechanism was playing, ignore everything and read books (I learnt to read at age 3), play with my pokemon figures, watch anime (Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragonball were the ones I could watch at afternoon in the late 90's), watch movies, and play pretend, alone in my room.

Because the other option was to face the bad guy who make fun of me, and eat all my food while I was hungry.

Growing up, even after we left the bad guy, that bad guy still tried to find us, and scared us a lot, threatening to do hurtful things to me and my mom.

What I could do? Being six years old, I didn't want to worry my mom even more.

I kept playing, I kept reading, watching anime and spooky movies. Doing bracelets with shiny beads, colouring, playing with glitter, and cars, and boardgames. I was happy, constantly ignoring the pain that was real life.

I kept growing.

I kept growing all these years.

But there's something that didn't change in spirit.

When I was three years old, playing alone in my room, knowing very well why I what I was doing, why I was playing loud music, or pretending to be a Pikachu myself... I became my own caregiver.

My mom loves me, she always did, and still does. But sadly I knew she couldn't take care of me every single moment. She had adult problems to solve.

I became a Schrödinger kid.

A part of me was a cry baby little kid playing in the mud and wearing lion king onesies to school.

The other was the part that needed to grow up to be sure the little silly kid was safe.

And it has been like that for the last twenty five years.

-✨-✨-✨-✨-✨-

I don't fully age regress, as well as I'm not a full responsible adult. In my case is a perfect balance all the time.

"I'm a 7 years old with a debit card, deal with it, dumbass!~" I say to anyone while I buy another two plushies and a new box of crayons for myself.

I pay bills, I have a solid relationship, I work as a commission artist, I do responsible adult things... while carrying my Rainbowdash plushie bag.

My partner is happy with my way to be, sometimes we are watching a horror movie (we are big fans of horror movies, sorry), and suddenly I go "Honey, I want Carl's Jr chicken nuggets stars... Take your keys!! You driving, I pay! I need stars!!" and we go and have dinner of chicken stars, on pajamas, while I probably wear cat ears.

It works too when I'm alone "I finished working for today, I helped grandma with the grocery shopping... time to go play at the playground, eat cookies, and then take a shower before watching Bluey"

For me little space is not a marked moment, I don't feel I'm 5 to 7 years old on an afternoon, I don't act like a toddler who can't use a debit card... because at the same time I'm my caregiver, who knows "we" can spend other twenty bucks on a new set of stickers, or a whole damn cake.

Is a bit sad, a bit weird, a bit funny and a bit odd... to live my whole life as a 7 years old with a debit card, a car, and the freedom to do anything I wanted when I was a little scared sad kid.

#little me #big me #presentation #opinion

[protokirby]

I was playing pokemon shining pearl and I wanted to use a steelix but realized I couldn't use one because I needed to be able to trade. I have sisters who also play pokemon, but

My twin sister doesn't like playing her switch this time of year because her room gets invaded by ants if she turns it on these months. No clue why. Heck, my room has been getting ant infestations like crazy lately and I've been playing my switch a lot so maybe ants like the way the switch smells when it's on???

My older sister has been becoming more and more like those "nobody hates pokemon more than pokemon fans" memes over the years like she'll buy the games and then complain to me nonstop for some reason about every little thing she hates about the game/spew insults about the pokemon games. The whole 9 yards. and I'm 99.9% sure she doesn't even have brilliant diamond or shining pearl. Also even if she does, I don't want her jealous rant about how I'm able to replay a game as many times as I want without getting bored while she gets bored before one complete playthrough like okay?? It sounds like a living hell to be that uneasily entertained but I don't need to hear about it every few weeks. So she's not an option to trade pokemon with.

As for my younger sister, she'd probably be the best choice but idk. Some days she's nice to be around, other days she'll be carrying around a butcher knife and a bad attitude so I'm scared to approach her to begin with.

But I found something cool while curiously and optimistically going into pokemon home.

I was messing around and discovered I was able to move a growlithe that I caught in pokemon scarlet into previous games. I put it into pokemon shield and looked at its stats and things and when I curiously checked for where it was caught, it said caught in a far away place. I guess it would be obvious it wouldn't say caught in paldea. Dunno what I was expecting XD

Anyhoo

This is really good because if I can do that, I can do other things.

I moved the onix from pokemon shining pearl into legends arceus because there, I can easily just slap a metal coat onto an onix to evolve it without trading and then I was able to move the new steelix back into shining pearl.

I didn't expect this to work at first because of how it was in the 3ds era when if i moved pokemon from x and y or whatever into sun and moon, they could never return to where they came from. Similar to moving mons from gen 3 to gen 4. They would never return to the games they were from. So I'm used to that kind of thing.

Anyway, this is mindblowing to me and extremely good for when I can't trade pokemon with my sisters. Unfortunately can't use this if I want to evolve a trade evolution mon that isn't in legends arceus such as a swirlix but this is still an amazing discovery.

What I hate about pokemon home though is that you need a paid subscription if you want to get mons from the 3ds. I can't afford that all the time so I need to make sure I'm absolutely ready and absolutely ready means I want to catch an entire box worth or more of xurkitree in s/m/us/um before I think it's worth it. Unlike in all the switch games though, I wouldn't be able to move the xurkitrees back but like- I keep wanting to camp with a full team of xurkitrees and have plenty more xurkitrees to have around :D

#pokemon

[lannisterdaddyissues]

Saw you’ve been playing some Pokémon recently! How many of the games do you have? I’ve been playing a lot of ultra sun lately and I’m getting close to completing my Pokédex but GTS is almost impossible to use 😞

omg a pokemon ask in MY inbox? from MY mutual? it’s more likely than you’d think (also hiii friend it’s good to see you in my inbox!! how’ve you been this past month :D)

and to answer your ask i HAVE been playing lots of pokemon! i consider training mons to be my true calling in life tbh. i have lots of games btw, not just the core series either! my first game was platinum, i got it when i was 5, and i’ve played every gen since!

the full spread of core series games that i currently have is diamond & platinum, heartgold & soulsilver, black & white, black 2 & white 2, x & y, alpha sapphire, sun & moon, ultra sun & ultra moon, let’s go pikachu & eevee, sword & shield, and legends arceus (i plan on getting violet this christmas 😎). as for side games i have pokemon conquest, pokemon rumble blast & world, pokken tournament, and all of the mystery dungeon games plus blue rescue team!

i just restarted my sword save file bc my switch got wiped last december so i have to start over on all my switch games 💀after i finish it i’m probably going to play through bdsp and then i’ll have violet to keep me busy til school starts, yaaaay /s

do you normally try to complete the pokédex in the games? i admire your dedication for that 💀 i’m way too impatient and i get mad easily when i don’t get the pokemon i want in a random encounter LOL i prefer to replay the games over and over again with different teams instead so that way i get to win with all kinds of pokemon instead of just a single team

what’s your usum team right now? for my sword team i’m aiming for cinderace, bellossom, raichu, barbaracle, noivern, and hatterene! however i also want to get a sinistea and idk who to swap because my current team has good type coverage but ghost types >>>…….

what i REALLY want is a dragapult but those fuckers are too rare i’ll never find one 😭

#ask #reply #indefiniteseas #mutual #good to hear from you bestie!! hope you’re having a good night!!