#zA Thinks

[zenosanalytic]

I was just driving home, saw some newly renovated homes on the way, and something occurred to me(may be explicit idk I dont actl watch this stuff):

The HGTV aesthetic, Whites, Greys, and Blacks, those aren't just neutral colors: They're PRIMING Colors. They're colors you paint Other, BETTER Colors that you like MORE on top of.

Property Brothers, all these other assholes; they want you to live in a house painted to sell.

#HGTV #Priming #Painting #Aesthetics #Capitalism #Capitalist Aesthetics #Real Estate #House Flipping #Economic Bubbles #Economic Manias #zA Posts #zA Thinks

[paneltechno]

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[hellspawnmotel]

manifesting

#pokemon #pokemon legends za #plza #lza #trainer serena #volo #art tag #do i actually think this is gonna happen: no #but it would be so so funny

[cyberdragoninfinity]

I really truly still can't get over the Legends Z-A announcement. Everything about it. ULTIMATE Crazy ass moments in Pokemon history. We had Unova game vs. Johto game rumors and theories flying around for half a goddamn YEAR. People were pointing out paintings of Lugia and Ho-oh in Detective Pikachu 2, Kitakami's dex full of Johto 'mons, Indigo Disk's 32847872 Unova references, the Paradox Legendary Johto AND Unova Trios. The OFFICIAL POKEMON TWITTER was posting cryptic gifs of Reshiram and Zekrom in the weeks leading up to Pokemon Day. The day before the stream people were waving around 4chan "leaks" of Legends Celebi, ILCA BW remakes, Black & White 3. None of us went into that direct knowing what we were gonna get.

And then it was Pokemon Day and the Pokemon Presents premieres and it's start to finish full of Johto nods, Unowns bouncing around and Raikou in Pkmn Sleep and Silver in Masters. They slap THIS FUCKER up there seconds before the final teaser trailer of the stream.

And then we get that teaser.

And then we get hit with "Lumiose City"

And then It's not Johto. It's not Unova. It's the region we haven't seen in an actual literal decade.

And then a single letter changes everything.

AND THEN THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING ONE AFTER ANOTHER. Legends "Z-A." The A looks like the Ultimate Weapon. Releasing 2025. Not this year. For once in so, so long a Pokemon mainline game isn't coming this year. It's like exhaling a breath I didn't know I was holding. The screen goes black and every expectation we could have possible have has been flung out a Kalos-shaped window.

And then they give us one last little treat for the road

Just an absolutely unbelievable presentation. They played us like complete fiddles. They're sending our asses to FRANCE. And I can't help but smile so big just thinkin about it!! This is the first Pokemon announcement I've seen in YEARS where the majority of folks have been not just surprised but this joyful, EXHILARATED surprised, just absolutely going nuts over 10 years of memes and jokes and game wishes that are finally getting their due. And it's just infectious. There's something really magical in the comradery and shared excitement and I'm never gonna forget it. I love Pokemon. Welcome back and welcome home, Zygarde.

#pokemon chattering #pokemon legends za #pokemon day #legends za #just thinkin about it again....really truly absolutely hilarious too. KALOS JUMPSCARE!! #just something very sweet seeing folks getting really excited over this game we quite truly did not think we were ever gonna see #im so hyped. peace and love on planet pokemon

[zariyen]

tiny concept sheet for human grim

#dont really like the layout but i tried to make it look nice :') #i'd like to think that he'd be pretty short 🥺 #but tall enough to still be a general menace lol #my art #za draws twst #twst #twisted wonderland #ツイステ #ツイステッドワンダーランド #grim #グリム #rkgk

[fanditty]

Volo’s cosplaying career has taken him to France

#do I think he’s going to show up? probably not but it would be funny #Volo cosplaying every legend would be funny #art #fanart #pokemon #Volo #legends za #pokemon volo #pla volo #yveltal #Pokémon legends #Serena #serena pokemon

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #necrons #illuminor szeras #necron #shitpost #german speakers i am so sorry you had to read that with your eyes 😂 i also speak german i do know eszetts can't start words #originally this was just for fun but it seems there are quite a lot of ways wh40k fans pronounce this #native english speaking fans usually seem to stick to 's' #whereas in languages that actually use this digraph it would be s/ʂ/ʃ #but in korean translations 'sz' defaults to 'z' so it's definitely 'zeras (제라스)' and 'zarekh (자렉)' #and sometimes the 's' and 'z' are both present and pronounced like in japanese ('s-za-rekh';スザーレク) #(i personally use ʃ because it seems the logical compromise) #in lore terms i think all or most of those pronunciations were used among the necrontyr and there is not one 'canon' version #variety is the spice of life it's fine they're all good. well maybe not the last one but still 😂 #according to TDK the necrontyr didn't have a united language until szarekh came along so they must've had different dialects #i reckon that's why the silent king made his universal language. so people could pronounce his name how HE specifically wanted it #it's all becoming so clear now!!!! 😬

[aquilacalvitium]

So I just realised that if Emmet gets fucking eebied to Pokemon France there's a chance he'll forget everything too which on it's own is painful until you consider the fact that neither of them will then be aware that they have a brother and so neither of them are looking for each other

#submas #pokemon #pokemon legends #plza #pokemon legends za #aquila thinks

[astrolotte]

I think Serena and Dawn should be time travel buddies. You agree with me 🌀🌀🌀 ooo you agree with me 🌀🌀🌀 let them be best friends. perhaps even honorary sisters. i expect fanfiction as soon as the game comes out, maybe sooner. get on it /j

#the two most fashionable protags SHOULD be besties actually. why didn't I think of this before #i acknowledge the fact that more Legends games will come out and Serena and Dawn won't be special/unique #but consider: i donjt care #anyway Dawn's appearance here is a combination of her Platinum and Arceus outfits i guess #kept the ponytail + the kerchief from Arceus and went with the Platinum outfit for the rest of it #i actually have a design for her post-Arceus but 1) i'm not sure abt it and 2) it's not recognizable to strangers so #anyway #pokemon #pokemon z-a #pokemon z #pokemon legends z-a #plza #pokemon legends za #pokemon za #<- jesus all for one game? #pokemon arceus #legends arceus #pokemon legends arceus #pla #dawn berlitz #trainer dawn #pokemon dawn #pokemon serena #trainer serena #pkmn #pokemon presents #pokemon day

[glittergoats]

I got really excited about Legends Z-A yesterday okay

#pokemon #pokemon legends arceus #pla #pokemon legends za #volo pokemon #avira (pla oc) #az pokemon #my art #they're on their french honeymoon #volo sneaking out to go try and harness zygarde's powers to destroy the world #avira: oh babe for our anniversary? you shouldn't have #they're having fun #im cringe but im free baby! #im operating on the theory this will be 1960s paris and not 1850s paris because i think thats more interesting but we'll see

[zenosanalytic]

Reading The Origins of Capitalism again, and something else obvious occurred to me: The meaninglessness of contracts under capitalism.

What do I mean by that? In Part I Section 2, Marxist Debates, Meiksins Wood discusses Marx's definition of 'capital' as a social-relation(ie: that it isn't just wealth, but wealth deployed to create more wealth through the labor of others), and specifically how it drove competition in the example of "scientific agriculture" in the English countryside during and after the period of Enclosure, to wit:

landlords raise their rents to driveout the old holders(realistically this was a MUCH more coercive and violent process than merely rent-increases, and it was a big change for other reasons I'll get to at the end)

then sell the land to agricultural-capitalists who can pay those rents.

Then continue to raise the rents on those capitalists, in response to their yearly production; the better the tenants do, the more the rent goes up.

This forces the agricapitalists to constantly reinvest(and "reduce costs" by cutting corners and abusing their laborers) to continue covering their rents

and forces them into competition with EACH-OTHER(in any method they can think of) as one farmer doing better will raise rates for EVERYONE, and eventually lead to the landlord selling THEIR land out from under them to those better performing

So what does this have to do with contracts?

In the feudal period, your contract was unassailable. Sure: the local lord could come and take your stuff by force if they wanted and waving the contract around wasn't going to stop them, but if you survived, and kept the contract intact, and made it to a royal or circuit court, you could prove your ownership and that you hadn't violated the terms, and you'd likely receive compensation if not complete restitution, AND the lord would be punished for harming his tenants(since the only thing nobles loved more that stepping on their tenants was stepping on each other).

In practice, trying to expropriate your tenants was so troublesome that lords tended to just honor their agreements. A Freeholder and their descendants would stay forever freeholders(excepting a violation in terms, for instance refusing feudal service), a leaseholder would live secure in their land until their lease's term expired, if you held your land for life your lord could not take it from your family until you died(and often "for-life" contracts would stipulate terms of renewal), if you paid rent for your land that rent COULD NOT BE Renegotiated for the term of the title; even a Serf or a Ward was guaranteed 1)a place to live 2)land to generate food from and 3)food to survive on when either that land, or their bodies, could not produce said food, under their, essentially, slavery-contracts.

In the feudal period contracts could only be legally renegotiated when their terms expired, or on holder-violations, and a lord who violated those contracts ran big risks: from their tenants who could rightfully resist such violations, from their peers always looking to expand their holdings, from their overlords(ditto, and always strapped for cash), and from The Church since IT, along with overlords, guaranteed contracts.

Under capitalism Renthold was powerfully favored over other forms of landholding and your rent- or lease-contract, then as now, could be "renegotiated" whenever the hell your landlord wanted, your consent and knowledge unnecessary. "The Sanctity of Contract" is supposedly one of the pillars of capitalist society, but the reality is that rentiers VIOLATING their contracts constantly is a central mechanism of it.

#Ellen Meiksins Wood #Capitalism #The Origins of Capitalism; A Longer View #zA Writes #zA Thinks #zA's Inveterate Politicism

[ghostatrandom]

DUDE I FOUND THIS OLD DRAWING I DID FROM MAY 2022 MY GOD

Its was a redesign from my old Shauna’s ancestor design and honestly no idea why I never showed it it kinda was there in my drafts and I forgot lol

I’m still hoping if there’s a Shauna’s ancestors or descendant she gets to be a mean girl queen with a very gay canon event (we all know that fireworks event was hella romantic, Serena players remember it)

#Pokemon fanart #digitalart #art #fanart #pokemon #pokemon legends zygarde #pokemon legends za #Pokemon legends z #rival shauna #fan character #idk I think purple looks good on her lol #and I need her to be mean xy Manga shauna save me #my art

[hungwy]

think im having an ex-soviet baltic countries moment

#think its a long time coming since reading about za/um among other things

[pokeconspiracy]

People that played the "Animals" games, and were a huge fan of the France country, what was your reaction watching the Animals Presents when they were announcing that we were getting a Legends game based entirely on Paris???

#pokemon #pkmn irl #unreality #pokemon irl #pokeblogging #irl pkmn #pokeblr #rotomblr #pkmn #pokemon za #pokemon legends z #pokemon az #pokemon legends z a #i need to know please #are yall hyped or??? #personally im hyped #but im praying that they don't make it suck #france was so good but had so much lacking potential #the hawaii games were proof that they were falling off right then and there #i think the legends games are great so maybe they'll finally do them justice

[teehee-vibes]

If you saw the teaser trailer for the new Legends Z-A, do you think they'd have it like Arceus with ancestors in this 1800's French Kalos? What would a Clemont family ancestor look like, if you could draw one please?

IM SO EXCITED,,,, I hope we get some Kalos ancestors!!

In my old concepts for a Legends Kalos, I actually already kind of thought that Clemont’s ancestor was an architect, so a whole game about restoring Lumiose City and building it IS PERFECT. I can’t come up with a good citrus themed name, but thank you for the excuse to draw them!

#pokemon xy #pokemon legends za #legends za speculation #clemont pokemon #gym leader clemont #bonnie pokemon #aipom #pkmn xy #tv’s art #I dunno if they would be a man or a woman #or neither #I like neither personally #I hope for any Clemont and Bonnie crumbs when this game drops #I think I actually have a chance for it too #this game announcement single-handedly cured me

[zariyen]

PAUSE IS THAT YUU AND GRIM AS A DELIVERY BOY ARE MY EYES PLAYING WITH ME RIGHT NOW,,,,,,,, (losing sanity)

HAHAHAHAHAHA UR EYES ARE NOT PLAYING W U they are indeed boys who deliver !!!!!

#it was initially a little preorder bonus but i think i'm just gonna tape this to every twst related order i get now HAHAHA #za answers #my art #za draws twst #my merch #twst #yuu #grim #myuunji