#thank you game freak

[cosmophonia]

I finally took some proper screenshots of Miriam, the nurse from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, aka Mimi, aka THE woman.

#again i would not survive this school #thank you game freak #i haven't been this down bad for a Pokémon character since Anabel appeared in USUM #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon scarlet and violet #paldea #nurse miriam #pokemon #pokemon miriam #I'm also in love with Rika just wait

[kiwikipedia]

why are Hassel’s eyes staring into my soul

#sir what #BUT ALSO DAMN ANOTHER OLD MAN? #THANK YOU GAME FREAK #kiwi plays pokemon #elite four hassel #pokemon scarlet and violet

[v0id-echoes]

THEY FIXED THE GAME

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon presents #this is huge #thank you game freak #my prayers have been answered

[dollya-robinprotector]

Once upon a time...

Ref: Fern fanart (Sousou no Fieren)

Inspiration and song: Star Sky (Two Steps from Hell)

Happy New Year 2024 DoL folks.

The clock just strived a new day of the new year in my country. A new beginning is upon us and I wish for this year to be gentle to all of my loved ones, including you. Thank you for staying, and please continue to kindly look after me, too.

Sincere. Your Dollya.

#degrees of lewdity #dol #dol fanart #ivory wraith #dol pc #Lya the Blossom #dollya art #DoL: Other's stories #No beta we die like Ivory Wraith #And of course disclaimer: This is my delulu based on in-game details about IW and PC- Not what was written that happened #Gotta admit I did this because 1. I wanted to draw A LOT of Ivory Wraith and 2. I wanted to draw the Wraith with LONG WAVY hair #And boy did it took a freaking lot out of me #Anyway I'll be back to work on commission and draw after January 3rd thank you for waiting~~

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Ghost hunting in abandoned buildings be like... :3 From this post at @draw-the-squad-like-this

#draw the squad like this is a great blog for prompts everyone should follow them thank you dtslt <3 #saiki k #freaks art #toritsuka wouldnt be crying if saiki wasn't playing games tbh cus hes not ascared of ghosties

[prismpuffle]

“What makes you excited about upcoming media?” 

Kieran in the epilogue! Kieran in the TCG. Kieran in the Pokémon Adventures manga. The inevitability of more Kieran.

#pokemon kieran #kieran #thank you game freak for the serotonin this guy has given #and continues to give

[wynnyfryd]

@griefabyss69 @pennyplainknits @paperbackribs @spectrum-spectre @cranberrymoons @steddie-island i think the people want to know about Indubitably to Suck a Dick 😂😂

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ITSAD is an unbelievably stupid crack fic idea i had after remembering an old poetry lesson from a high school summer writing workshop and then thinking about how eddie munson would terrorize his english teachers. it’s terrible i love it you can read the first part here. and a fresh snippet where that part left off below:

“You’re both showing off,” Frank cuts in as he steps up to his locker. “And why are you pissing off Ms. Harbert on purpose, man? I thought you were trying to graduate this time.”

Wow. Eddie blinks at him. “Well, hello to you, too, man, Jesus Christ. Who pissed in your Cheerios?”

“Probably Candace,” Jeff says.

“Probably fuck off,” Frank suggests.

“Yep. Definitely Candace.”

Frank groans and shuts his locker, knocks his forehead against the door. Eddie leans a shoulder against the cool metal and levels him with an earnest look, dropping his voice. “She turn you down for Valentine’s day?”

“I don’t wanna talk about it.”

Ouch. That’s a yes. And a bad one, too, judging by how miserable Frank’s voice sounds when he says it. Eddie sucks his teeth in sympathy.

Jeff offers no such thing. “Are you two losers done feeling sorry for yourselves now? I want to get to rehearsal.”

Little asshole. Dude always knows just what to say to get them out of a funk, works like a charm every time — not because it’s the correct response, but because Frank and Eddie both start going in on him so hard that they forget to mope entirely, hollering “Wooooow!” and “Seriously, man??” and “Go fuck yourself, Jeff!”

“Yeah, Jeff!”

“You know,” Eddie says conversationally to Frank, “I’m told getting popped in the mouth hurts especially bad with braces.”

“Damn right, it does,” Frank nods, and then they’re laughing, snickering like a bunch of dorks in a nearly empty hallway, which, like. They should probably clear out of. The roaming packs of after-school jocks will be prowling around here soon enough, and threats of violence are only funny when you know nobody means that shit.

#thank you all for sharing the brain cell with me today lmaooo #wip game #writing game #my writing #my wips #steddie #eddie munson #corroded coffin #jeff stranger things #unnamed freak stranger things #but his name is FRANKLIN

[cecilioque]

VOLO’S OUTFIT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD. And here is why I think so...

To begin, we are not talking about the Ginko guild design, we are talking about the “final boss” fit. We all know that Volo’s outfit is dumb, but I’m mad because it  was actually thought out and VERY symbolic in the sense that it essentially represented things Volo said/wanted.

I, like everyone else looked at this outfit and went “wow, that is dumb” and then hated on it.  Although it is not the most appealing or cool outfit, there was actually a lot of thought that went into it. I could be really over analyzing this, but here is my interpretation.

To begin with, the concept art is a lot more revealing about the intention of the design then the actual game play.  On a surface level we see Volo in what I can only assume is a Arceus gijinka cosplay.  So the hair, the stars, and color scheme are all elements of Arceu’s  design.  Cool. Good job especially since Volo had in fact never seen Arceus before.

To fully understand this outfit we have to go back to Hisui and the remains of this so called “ancient civilization”. In the Pokemon world, there is this general idea that the ancient culture was either Roman or Greek inspired. We see evidence in Legends of Arceus by the obvious column heavy architecture and use of Greek Doric columns ( one of the earliest styles of columns used for temples) and in the ruins and temple. 

The Temple of Sinnoh is obviously based off of the Parthenon. It’s funny because game freak went as far as to even mimic both Ionic and Doric styles in the Temple of Sinnoh just like the Parthenon. I will go as far to add that the Sinnoh temple is much simpler than the Parthenon due to the fact that it was not embellished with an elaborately carved frieze or any decoration on the exterior for the most part.  Bizarre when even the broken ruins have evidence of some sort of ornamentation. It makes complete sense why the game developers chose this style seeing how is is know for being very simplistic.  But it also dates it in context.  It makes the Temple of Sinnoh the first temple that was build and the others that followed were build as the civilization grew ( thus more elaborate but we can only see the crumbled remains).

I will be ignoring the Snowpoint temple because it is a weird combination of styles and almost seems alien and out of place which very much fits the Regi theme.  It is also based on the early game design which was limited and blocky for game space sake.

Ok, heavy Greek and Roman influence. Back to Volo and his obviously Greek and Roman fit.  Volo’s name itself means “I wish”  in latin and could possibly be a reference to the phrase “volō, ergo sum” (I wish, therefore I am). Very in character since it is the wish for more” and he did everything he could to achieve that.

The actual influence for the design is more Roman in nature. This bothered me because we can see that research and thought went into it, but they just simplified it. And this actually has a point.

To begin with the obvious stuff, we see that volo’s shirt is definitely toga like. It even goes so far to be decorated with a Fibula (brooch)in a way that indicates a higher rank or status.  Cool Volo, we get that you think highly of yourself. Color choice is also same as Arceus, but we also know that white togas were also used by senators and high political officers.

Next , the shoes.  These are just the basic stereotypical Spirit Halloween Greek god/goddess type of sandals you can get at your local costume shop.  This was actually the most disappointing part of the outfit for me. But it makes sense they went with the most simplified and recognizable style.  They wanted us to look at this outfit and go “ Wow, Volo has been studying his myths and recreated an outfit”. This is what you could expect someone to create with just a written description of the clothing used during that time.

The necklace is interesting because it stands out so much compared to the gold colors. I am no sure what they were going for here by making it so prominent, but it brings us to an interesting thought.  If they necklace does have meaning, it is related directly to the design/shape.  The waterdrop could be the Greek symbolism for "tears of grace” or in a sense “gods grace”. The idea that the tears of god water the harvest and provide life. Alternate interpretations could simply be water as a source of life, or a symbol or sadness a mourning.  If it is a symbol of of mourning, this might be a clue to why Volo might desire to rewrite the world so much.

Last but not least, the pants. I think we can all decide this is one of the worst parts of the outfit, and to me it is just straight up confusing for two main reasons.  For starters, the color green is so prominent when green is an accent color on Arceus.  So maybe the color has meaning itself.  But if you look at the image above, the color mainly refers to life and “the harvest” (possibly like the necklace).  It has a weird connections to life and creation itself, which probably is why it was included in Arceus’ design and makes sense as Volo essentially wants to become the creator of life in a new world.

But this isn’t the part that gets me the most. The second thing that confuses me is the fact that the Greeks and Romans did not use pants.  This was because pants were associated with non-Roman/Greek cultures (the Germanic tribes and Vikings) who they looked down upon. On top of that, the Greeks thought pants were feminine and silly.  This could also just simply be a design choice because they didn’t wanna draw Volo in a full toga and accidently make him look like Christ. But this leads to my final point of the physical outfit itself.

VOLO’S OUTFIT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD. IT’S SUPPOSED TO LOOK DORKY AND BAD BECAUSE IT WAS FLAWED! This is based on the real world cultures it was based on. And although Volo may have done a lot of research, he still didn’t completely understand ancient culture.  It’s bad because Volo made it himself. His outfit was flawed just like his ideology. It is his own interpretation of a culture that he had idolized without truly understanding that this great and ancient culture crumbled. And based off of the architecture of the ruins and temples, it never even reached a prime before it fell.

But Volo thinks its correct/cool/accurate. He is being a fool about it because he didn’t understand the bigger picture and had become consumed with this desire for power and control.  This as an idea is really cool and I find it funny that you can also wear the outfit. Its essentially mocking him. If we look at the outfit in this light, the design was a success in getting us to dislike it and evoke this distaste. We didn’t know why, but this is why.

SO IN SUMMARY, OUTFIT WAS BAD ON PURPOSE. It wasn’t thoughtless, in fact there was a lot of research behind it and yet that seems to be thrown out to simplify the design in a way that looks like someone hand made it based off of what they had put together themselves.

But this isn’t my favorite part  of the concept art.  My favorite part is the hands.

Look at his hands. Why are they in those positions? Wouldn’t it have been easier to create more standard poses?  To me the hand gestures here are just too specific. So I started digging around for what they could be on a Art history level.  I looked at Non Christian art first and then Christian symbolism within their mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings. And I found some verrrry interesting similarities.  I am not trying to make this religious. I just found some interesting similarities between old Christian art and Volo’s design.  Which makes sense if we go back to this Greek/Roman influence because these cultures eventually converted to Christianity.  And Arceus is kind of a weird goat god Jesus.

The left hand is where the biggest symbolism is.  Basically, this hand gesture has been used to indicate “the hand of god” or the “hand of justice”.  Christ sometimes is draw with a similar hand position and could be a sign of the cross, but this would also refer to some sort of divinity.  I will also note that Volo is in no way making the classic “blessing” hand gesture.

As for the right hand he is making what I assume is a Greek/Roman orator (speaker) gesture. This would mean that Volo is calling for attention. Note, that I didn't’ compare this to prophets. That’s because orators speak for themselves and prophets for god.  And Volo thinks he is god.

Under this context, in the concept art Volo is essentially saying “I am God”.  If we add the symbolism of his outfit, it only further solidifies this idea.  Volo’s outfit/concept comes together and screams “behold, I am god , the hand of justice. I will be the creator or the new world”. Which is so freaking clever because that’s literally what he tells you. 

Sure his hands are switched and lowered compared to actual real world art examples (thank you Game freak for not throwing in actual religious symbols/gestures), but I think the intention is still there.  It’s so good that I am mad.  So as much as I hate this dumb outfit, I cannot deny that it was well thought out, that the character was well thought out.

To conclude, these are my assumptions. I am not an expert on art history or religion.  If you have further insights on this feel free to share. I’d be interested with what others had to add.  I the end this could all be wrong and just crazy for overthinking the designs of a pokemon character, but it just seems too intentional to be carelessly thrown together. This is just one possible interpretation.

Though its just more evidence in my mind that a lot of love and care went into developing Legends of Arceus. Despite their limitations and resources.

#volo #arceus #pokemon legend of arceus #legend of arceus #giritina #art history #temple of sinnoh #i can finally rest after typing up this mad assumption #sunny speaks #a special thank you to my friends who heard me ramble about this #and thanks to game freak for actually doing research for their games #its not perfect but an effort was made #pla

[vellichorom]

In Honor of Connor Thomas.

MY half of an art trade w/ @the-friendliest-freak !!!! depicting cogware games' own shipwreck of a victim;

#uwu art #Shipwrecked 64 #Connor Thomas #Shipwrecked 64 Connor Thomas #suicide tw #suicide cw #broken bones tw #broken bones cw #blood cw #blood tw #eyestrain cw #eyestrain tw #i need to learn about this game already holy shit #behold. blorbo in law #THANK YOU FREAK FOR BEING SO PATIENT WITH MEEE #good lord gonna have 2 repost this tomorrow too but

[oifaaa]

Tim wearing platform shoes but! 1. The platform is inside the shoe so it's hidden and 2. He keeps going up .2 inches every few weeks so he can adapt and so its less noticeable. He does this until he's taller than Damian. Then sometimes when it's just him and Damian at home he walks around barefoot making him shorter than Damian. There is no purpose to this.

Damian actually catches on to what Tim's doing and starts putting lifts inside his own shoes so the two of them just keep getting weirdly taller no one else mentions anything bc they really don't want to deal with what ever those two shortys have going on

#Ask #Anon #Also side not update #Someone on kofi just sent me the money to buy that game I wanted #And I'm just sitting here like bro 🥺 #Thank you so much that really is too kind #I'm so happy gonna go order the game rn #Thanks again really too freaking kind I don't deserve this

[thesweetnessofspring]

I love and appreciate fanartists who bring wonderful visuals of our favorite book characters to life, using their skills and spending their time to bring joy to the rest of us. Truly a talent I do not possess.

But it's so rare I've seen a fanart of Peeta and not been like.

His shoulders.

Must be.

B R O A D E R

#the hunger games #peeta mellark #i still love the fanart and thank you artists for your service #and there are artists that do pay homage to his shoulders #i'm just a freak about them and want them so imposing #give me more of that peeta shoulder #unless it's dying in the mud peeta or tortured/hijacked peeta i need them boys big #skinny shoulders peeta is directly against canon even if my personal visual of him is out of hand

[ifellinthelake]

Toby Fox never fails to make me unbelievably happy

#undertale #toby fox #deltarune #cozy games #newsletter #sans #papyrus #deltarune rasiel #truck freak #thank you toby you don't understand

[laskulohi]

They are so back

#i wanted to doodle them quick i'm so happyyyy #i cannot believe im drawing kalos mons in 2024 thank you game freak #pokemon #pokemon legends za #pokemon xy #chespin #froakie #fennekin #love how i needed ref for fennekin and froakie but could draw chespin just like that cus i remember drawing him a lot 10 years ago #pokemon kalos #pokemon legends fanart #digital art #art #pokemon legends a z

[singsweetmelodies]

badly summarised wip tag game

rules: summarise your WIPs as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote which one they'd like to read most.

tagged by my lovely @duquesademiel and @pinkierre - thank you so much for thinking of me, darlings!! 😍 this tag game is my new favourite thing EVER, omfg.

so with no* further ado...

* some important caveats: in this list, i have not included any WIPs that are already available on AO3 (because i'm pretty sure that the idea of this post is that people vote for fics that they DON'T know about yet.) i have also not included my PWFE fic, firstly because ✨ keep it secret keep it safe ✨ and secondly because, well, it's going to be revealed soon anyway, so voting for it is a bit of a moot point.

apologies (but not really 🤭) for being INSANE xD

now! to share the fun and pass this one along, i'm going to tag @boxboxbrioche, @hourcat, @francophonesfictions, @ilspredestinato, @radiocheck, @yukierres, @your-littlesecret and @chaesonghwas - but also anyone else who sees this and wants to do it, please feel free to tag me in yours, because i'd LOVE to see & vote for some of your amazing ideas <3333

#badly summarised wip tag game #tagged! #OH MY GOSH THIS ONE IS SO FREAKING COOL AND FUN #i had the BEST fun of it #granted; i am insane #and as always i have way too many WIPs #but omg. WHAT AN AWESOME TAG GAMEEEEE 😍😍😍😍 #thank you so much for tagging me!! #and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tag me in yours even if i haven't tagged you directly #i am very forgetful when it comes to trying to tag people... but i really would LOVE to see & vote for everyone's WIPs like this!! #myfic #WIPs tag 📝

[honeydots]

have i ever talked about here how this alfonse is the reason i got back into fire emblem. like full stop. i would not be here without this alt i love you alfonse fire emblem

#i played fates when it came out!! had no idea how video games worked and did a terrible job #it was charming tho and i downloaded feh and then deleted it shortly after #bc i didn't summon any takumis when he was released :') #and then i got into p5 and ffxv and other things and 3h just didn't hit the spot for me when it came out #FAST FORWARD i saw this alt and was like oh my god? #you can actually. find the post i reblogged. of me freaking out over this alt and reconsidering downloading feh in the tags #it's in my heroes tag i think #ghsngshfnshfbsdb #but anyway that's what i did and he was my first +10 #and playing feh again made me miss fates and fe in general #and then. well. history i guess #you can thank alfonse for all the xnlw fics I've written now gjsjgjsjfj #dots on the soapbox

[crowind1]

My FFXIV experience with @chachacharlieco

#my art #ffxiv art #FFXIV comic #charliecoart #au ra wol #dragoon #imagine that you are in a very serious quest line #and your friend keep emoting you weird stuffs while you talk with the guy #alberic was having a breakdown while Charlie was literally painting with her brush at my freaking side #you know how amazing it’s to deal with that while you try to get involved in the story SBJFBSJDBKSC #there is more like this #don’t worry I will illustrate it all sfsbfjsbfjsbf #thank you very much for such amazing moments Charlie #you always makes the game 100% more fun BSJJBFISBFIBKWKDN XDD