#lake verity

[sigulary]

Here’s something I did for Journey Awaits: a free digital zine about the beggining of pokemon journeys!

You can grab it here if interested ✨

[Image description: A digital illustration of Pokemon characters Dawn, Barry and Cyrus standing at the shore of Lake verity. They all have their backs turned to the viewer. Dawn and Barry have their starters, Piplup and Turtwig, at their sides as they all look at Cyrus, who stares at the cave surrounded by mist that rests in the middle of the lake. End description]

#me participating in anything ever: how can i make it about sinnoh #pokemon #Pokemon Platinum #pokemon zine #fanart #Pokemon Trainer #trainer dawn #trainer barry #piplup #turtwig #bidoof #galactic leader cyrus #lake verity #lake #water #plants #mist #digital art #zine promo #zine work #digital zine #fair warning: all other art and fics for the zine are very different in tone of mine cause i like being edgy #star of the show

[carkeyarts]

tried painting verity lakefront! it’s a nostalgic location for me

#pokemon #dppt #lake verity #dawn #barry #fanart #my art

[beeteal]

my 2 pieces for @sinnohzine! i drew lake verity and valley windworks 

the text for the valley windworks ad was provided by @/pinstripedaisy on twitter! 

#sinnoh #sinnoh zine #valley windworks #lake verity #pokemon #pokemon art #fanart #digital #2021 #zine art #only adding alt text to 2 because of limit + the valley windworks images r the same #still trying the alt text thing its a lil hard.

[dr-vulpine]

People: Move onto the next area, you fool

Can you believe I still haven’t left Obsidian for the other area? I don’t have any other Ride Pokemon lol

#Pokemon Legends Arceus #Lake Verity #I still haven't gone to Crimson lol #Ninth Star Member

[pkmn-ken]

who are you taking with you?

#pokeblogging #rotomblr #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #pkmn rp #pokeblog rp #asks answered #pokémon art #galactic takeover (arc) #// younger ken basically dragging Cyrus along with him to lake verity lol

[goldensunset]

>main villain of the game is like hanging out and muttering ominous threats at the lakeside

#hey man what’s up #peach plays pokémon platinum #lake verity theme goes cute

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

the unbounded comedy potential of arceus Not having been the one to yoink ingo, though. almighty sinnoh gets all done picking out its champion and giving them a Divine Speech of Inspiration and upgrading their phone and setting them up with a quest system and a place to stay and then it turns around and there’s just some fucking guy standing there

#the nemesis speaks #crack idea ingo is giratina's chosen #he still gets no directions #sometimes he has weird dreams about a big snake telling him listen go to lake verity and beat up a fairy baby. do it. #but he just ignores them bc dreams are weird like that right #giratina champion ingo

[timebranded]

TFW you’re so used to Mesprit robbing you of whatever food you have that you have a bit of a delayed reaction to any other legend doing so.

#ooc dash comments; #((shoutout to 151ths because that post led to this revelation)) #[lucas vc] Oh. Hey Emmy. #[lucas 4.9 seconds later] WAIT A MINUTE-- #((being born in Twinleaf Town; Lucas has actually known Mesprit since he was a young child!)) #((Sometimes he'd go to Lake Verity to visit her/say hi)) #((there's like. a mild connection there compared to his connection with Aevus/Dialga)) #((if anything; the only thing Mesprit directly influenced was how Lucas' Aura abilities would develop))

[marinecorvid]

one thing abt giratina and the sky warrior that is soso cool is that giratina spends the movie lookin through reflective surfaces. idk if it’s in any of the mangas but in a hypothetical platinum remake it would be very cool if whenever there’s a battle w team galactic or you’re just at the lakes where uxie azelf and mespirit are there’s a small chance that you’ll see, like. their glowing eyes or something on the surface, in the windows of the valley windworks. kinda like how if you backtrack in undertale you can see flowey stalking you? or in deltarune you’ll sometimes see that creepy grinning face? playing with the knowledge that you’re being watched, that giratina’s been aware of what cyrus was trying to pull long before All That at spear pillar

#dawn's been thinking she's been hallucinating for YEARS #because sometimes as a kid she'd go down to lake verity and out of the corner of her eye see. well she's not sure what it was #and no article or encyclopedia has ever recorded anything like it #so what gives??? #isn't until giratina is all goopy and about to eeby deeby cyrus that she gets the wildest fuckin sense of deja vu #and then it clicks

[antiplanets]

TAG DUMP!

intergalactic planetary! *  ⟢ [ooc.]

flowing time / expanding space *  ⟢ [ic.]

stars over lake verity *  ⟢ [verse ; main.]

weird science! *  ⟢ [crack.]

human after all *  ⟢ [headcanons.]

across the universe *  ⟢ [inbox.]

station to station *  ⟢ [prompts.]

space oddity *  ⟢ [visage.]

incomplete human spirit *  ⟢ [study.]

philosophy of space travel *  ⟢ [musings.]

celestial body absent *  ⟢ [queue.]

little stars *  ⟢ [interests.]

#intergalactic planetary! * ⟢ [ooc.] #flowing time / expanding space * ⟢ [ic.] #stars over lake verity * ⟢ [verse ; main.] #weird science! * ⟢ [crack.] #human after all * ⟢ [headcanons.] #across the universe * ⟢ [inbox.] #station to station * ⟢ [prompts.] #space oddity * ⟢ [visage.] #incomplete human spirit * ⟢ [study.] #philosophy of space travel * ⟢ [musings.] #celestial body absent * ⟢ [queue.] #little stars * ⟢ [interests.]

[dynamax-vivillon]

I WILL ABSOLUTELY SHOW YOU EVERYTHING !!!!!!!! one of the lakes would be a good place for a date (slash platonic) -@luxraydio

YEAAAAAAA

#are the lakes pretty ive heard theyre pretty #we studied lake verity(?) for class a few years back actually !! i dont remember shit about it but it seemed cool !!! #unreality

[birdkittenn]

this is why you pay attention to battles! dont send out poison pokemon against something with a psychic move and look away

#dppt nuzlocke rambles #dont be like me and spam buttons #and then snap your neck around when you hear the fainting sound #rip my plan for maylenes gym #im hoping i can get a gliscor but theres a 50% chance i just get a machop instead #i was planning on abusing dupes clause by getting a machop elsewhere to guarantee gliscor but thats not feasible #because. the only other way to get a machop is after maylenes gym #ruins the entire purpose of me trying to get a gliscor this early #i could go back to lake verity and get a starly but that thing is level 2 #i dont have the patience for it especially without an exp share

[theniceandaccurategoodomensblog]

Good Omens and The Crow Road

I read the novel The Crow Road by Iain Banks—the book Muriel is reading at the end of season two episode six and the book that hints at the events of season three.

My thoughts are under the cut. You can also read it on AO3 here. Obviously it includes spoilers for The Crow Road.

The Crow Road

The protagonist of The Crow Road is Prentice McHoan. He is a young man (early twenties) and, personally, I found him to be a bit of a dick though he does mature over the course of the book.

The book meanders and leaps about in time, telling the story in a non-linear way and with switches in point of view. This means that the relevance of events is often not clear as you read them, only becoming clear later on.

The title The Crow Road is a metaphor for death as the novel introduces early on that “he’s away the Crow Road” is a way of speaking of someone being dead.

There are three key story arcs:

(1) No one has spoken to or seen Prentice’s Uncle Rory for years. Rory is Prentice’s globetrotting Uncle who became famous because he wrote a bestselling travel diary as a young man. Rory’s ambition is to write a serious novel he called “The Crow Road”. No one knows where Rory is but Prentice’s father believes that he is still alive because he regularly receives match book covers from different locations all around the world. He believes that Rory is the one sending the match book covers because Rory once confessed to him that as a child he lit a fire that accidentally burned down a barn. Prentice becomes increasingly obsessed with what happened to Rory.

(2) Prentice is estranged from his father and he struggles with this. The estrangement is over belief in God. Prentice’s father is a communist and an atheist. When a friend of Prentice’s dies tragically, Prentice decides that there must be an afterlife and hence a God. The estrangement begins and he moves in with a religious Uncle.

(3) Prentice has an intense and unreciprocated infatuation with a young woman called Verity and does not handle it well when Verity becomes an item with his own brother Lewis. Seriously ridiculous childish drama here. Prentice complains about this all many times and at length to Ash, another young woman who is a more patient friend than Prentice deserves.

Here’s how each story arc lands (obviously this is the big spoiler bit for The Crow Road):

(1) Prentice eventually works out through reading a rough draft of Uncle Rory’s novel that Rory was murdered by another of Prentice’s Uncles for realising that that Uncle had previously murdered his own wife (and Prentice’s Aunt) in a car crash by undoing her seatbelt. The match book covers were being sent to Prentice’s father by a friend of the murderous Uncle to convince him that Rory was still alive. Rory’s body is found in a lake. It is all quite proven as far as Prentice is concerned but the murderous Uncle dies and hence there is no sense of justice, just a mystery solved.

(2) Prentice’s father dies while climbing a church spire by being struck by lightning and falling. At the point of his death Prentice and his father are still estranged. In the end, after solving the mystery of Uncle Rory, Prentice decides that there is no afterlife and no God. Prentice hopes that his father died knowing that he wouldn’t be a fool forever.

(3) Prentice’s brother Lewis marries and has a child with Verity. Prentice finds peace with this and realises that he actually loves Ash, the patient friend who has been listening to his nonsense for years.

Prentice and Ash sleep together and confess their love—I kid you not—in Morse code during sex with a series of squeezes and pushes. Yeah. Sometimes I think we come up with weird stuff in fanfiction and then I read a published novel and… but I digress. Point is, they are in love and they both know it. Prentice is finally growing up. But Ash planned to spend time in Canada and she goes anyway (good for her) saying that if Prentice does love her then they can still be together and simply continue when she returns. That’s where it ends which might sound sad but it actually feels mature and real after Prentice’s carry on with Verity. There’s a general feeling that Prentice has finally grown enough himself to make a relationship work and they are both starting that relationship right.

Implications for Good Omens seasons three:

(1) Good Omens has also been jumping about in time. The story is not being told in a linear manner. I suspect that there are scenes we’ve already seen where the meaning of those events won’t be clear until sometime in season three. I suspect that there are missing pieces to the overall story arc that will also be shown in season three. In short, we don’t have all the information and we don’t know what we truly have.

(2) Season three will involve working out, possibly using a diary or a book of some kind, what has happened to somebody. From simply hearing about the plot of The Crow Road I thought it would be Muriel working out what’s happened to Aziraphale by reading his diaries. Perhaps season three will open with a very different Aziraphale to the one we are used to and Muriel will work out what is really going on (memory wipe, manipulation, Aziraphale lying to enact a plan). This might still be true but after reading The Crow Road I was left with a different idea.

After reading The Crow Road the obvious parallel to Uncle Rory is not Aziraphale but God. God narrates season one but season two is strangely lacking in God’s narration. As Crowley says she’s “not talking to any of us”. Just like Uncle Rory. Yet everyone assumes that Heaven’s orders ultimately come from her. What if they aren’t coming from her? What if they are being sent by the person who murdered her? I think a big focus of season three will be what exactly is happening with God. It won’t necessarily be that she’s dead like Uncle Rory. Not everything is going to line up perfectly with The Crow Road. But finding out where she is and why she isn’t talking to anyone, just what this ineffable game is, will be important.

(3) It is worth noting that in The Crow Road Prentice’s father is sent match book covers to convince him that his brother, Rory, is still alive and in Good Omens we have Gabriel putting Beelezebub’s fly into a Resurrectionist match box. Does this mean anything beyond simply making a connection between Good Omens and The Crow Road? I don’t know. I can’t see any extra meaning to this yet.

(4) Aziraphale, like Prentice, won’t be a fool forever. We can depend on that. He is currently fooling himself because the truth (that Heaven is corrupt all the way down or rather up I suppose) is too painful to contemplate. But this won’t last. Aziraphale and Crowley are currently at odds, but they won’t remain so. Aziraphale’s viewpoint will shift and align more with Crowley’s.

Unlike Prentice’s father, Crowley has already fallen and will be ready when Aziraphale comes to his senses. Their estrangement will have a full resolution.

(5) Aziraphale will move on from his immature infatuation with Heaven to focus on his mature love relationship with Crowley.

Crowley will clearly state his love during passionate sex in Morse code by rhythmically contracting his effortfully formed vaginal muscles around Aziraphale’s hard cock. Wait. What? Crowley, if you are reading this please don’t do that. I know you struggle to put your love into words but that’s not the answer. But seriously, the physical expression of their love will be important. It will be important to Aziraphale. This is consistent with fanon conjecture that physical touch is Aziraphale’s love language and that physical (ie human) expressions of love are what is unique to Aziraphale and Crowley.

(6) This quote slapped me on the face: “Places have an effect on people. They alter your thoughts.” It is very like the Good Omens quote, “form shapes nature”. Aziraphale has been on Earth a long time. I wonder how he will be affected by being back in Heaven? Even if he has returned with a plan, Heaven might start seeping back in. Our angel has never been more vulnerable.

(7) This quote slapped me in the face too: “Faith itself is idolatry”. I wonder what Aziraphale would say about that? Is his faith in Heaven a form of idolatry? Aziraphale needs to shift in his stance regarding Heaven but I wonder where he will ultimately land on God. Will his faith in God be preserved or must that die too? Much depends on what exactly has happened to God and just what kind of ineffable game she is playing. So I suppose we will have to wait and see.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens analysis #The Crow Road #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens season 3 speculation #good omens season three speculation #go s3 #go s3 theory #good omens season two #good omens season 2 #my meta

[would-this-pokemon-be-a-friend]

Would Mesprit Be A Good Pet?

Usually, legendary and mythical Pokémon would not make good pets. Usually they’re either unimaginably dangerous, critical to the existence of the universe, or both. Mesprit… isn’t? If Mesprit decided they were cool with being your pet, the world wouldn’t collapse. Looking at their moves, they could probably really throw you around with their mind but couldn’t delete you from existence or anything (probably). There’s only one Mesprit, so there is the hurdle of traveling to Lake Verity in the Sinnoh Region to meet them and ask them to be your friend… plus the fact that only one of you readers could have them as a pet. But! All things considered! Sure. I guess Mesprit would make a pretty good pet.

Mesprit is known in legend as “The Being of Emotion”, a wise being that taught humanity emotions (Diamond). In fact, they’re said to be the originator of all emotions (Platinum). So we know that Mesprit has historically gotten along with humans, even though today they spends their time at the bottom of the lake (Pearl). In the past, it was believed that Mesprit would “throw your emotions into disarray” if you disrespected them (Legends: Arceus), though this claim has not been made by modern researchers.

If Mesprit was your pet, they might even create new emotions to teach you. That’d be weird. But not bad, I guess. You would need to get used to coming across Mesprit’s limp, seemingly lifeless body in your home from time to time: they have the ability to astral project their spirit to roam around the area while staying in one place (Pearl).

Legendary and mythical pokémon are, in general, difficult to cover with my pet-ranking algorithm. Mathematically, Mesprit would make a pretty good pet. I don’t really know if it’s a good idea, per se. I just think it might be kinda awkward.

#pokémon #pokemon #mesprit #pkmn irl #PR-A

[winsdayink]

Let me preface this by saying I believe in the "Volo is a faller" theory and the "he's immortal cause he fucked around n found out w Giratina" theory to the point if I'm proven wrong no I'm not*shot*

With that said, meet Eichi Karashina, a 17yo boy from Hearthome City, Sinnoh. He was named after Lake Acuity; his younger sister Shinji (14) being named after Lake Verity. The two fully expected a third sibling at any minute to get the name of the remaining lake.

He's Shirona's (Cynthia) older cousin by 11 years and taught her a few things like playin the piano. He lived a normal comfortable life with its usual hardships like any other person until one day he disappeared.

His sister searched endlessly for him, traveling the world and becoming a feared trainer, strong unlike any other. She had no ambitions when it came to battling however, the strength she and her pokemon had was simply in service of getting obstacles out of the way during her search.

25 years later, in the middle of her search she just happened to look up at the screen televising Unova's PWT-

There he was. Hardly any older than the last time she saw him before he left the house. She quickly calls out her pkmn to fly to Unova but, well aware that it would still take her hours to arrive, she calls her cousin to go see for herself.

Cynthia quickly arrives to the dome from Undella Town, but rumor had spread that the contestant WAS Cynthia herself, and so she's hounded by reporters for explanations on the situation.

Hours pass and Volo quickly advances up the ranks of the PWT, but is bored by the apparent lack of skill of the trainers in the event.

Cynthia eventually caught up. Needless to say Volo drops out of the competition, finally giving other trainers a chance.

#pokemon #volo #volo pokemon #cynthia #cynthia pokemon #champion cynthia #pkmn #oc Shinji Karashina

[adobe-outdesign]

A lot of people think that Cyrus has normal emotional capacities and would be significantly happier if he let himself live, but I find the alternative interesting (not realistic, interesting). I read a story once where he, as a youth on a Pokémon journey, tried drowning himself in lake Verity. Mesprit dragged him out and, sensing that he’d just try again without further intervention, took his capacity for sadness and fear. Mesprit visited him again a month later to undo the partial curse. Cyrus fought Mesprit off because while there is no joy without sadness or comfort without fear, no longer being in pain was the best thing to ever happen to him. To date, he’s completely unable to connect with others, pretty much his only emotions are anger and hate, his empathy is nonexistent and he’s forgotten what joy feels like. But he’s dead-convinced that he’s better off and we’d all be better off cursed, too.

#pokemon #cyrus #mespirit #tw: suicide