playing Scarlet for a giveaway and doing shiny hunts in the crater and was reminded from my first time coming down here there's something about how the machines in this abandoned facility - housing an android completely isolated from humans, even her own son that she's not allowed to speak to except by proxy through you, who's entire identity was built by her creator to be a perfect replica of herself, memories and form and all, to literally Become Her after the original died - is the only healing station to address your pokemon by their names, rather than the more clinical designated species.
i dunno, maybe it's just the trans name and identity stuff I've been dealing with lately but like. it definitely made me feel a certain way back then when i first saw it, and especially makes me feel a way to see it now.
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Y'all: French is such a weird language
Me, helping my little sister with her English homework: how the heck did I ever learn English, none of this make sense.
I've been thinking a lot about Sofía Vergara's line in Modern Family lately: "Do you know how frustrating it is to have to translate everything in my head before I say it? To have people laugh in my face because I'm struggling to find the words? Do you know how smart I am in [French]?"
Because, like... mood. It doesn't matter how fluent I am in English, or that my friends don't mock me and are very patient with me when I'm struggling in Spanish. I'm never talking to them in my native language, so do they really know me? They've never heard me actually talk, when you consider it.
Doing my thesis defence half in Spanish half in English only made me all the more aware of how much I don't say because I can't say it.
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i caved and redownloaded crk a few days ago after seeing peppermint cookie finally being added and I was like. Omg ?!?!?! anyway I'm starting to redecorate my kingdom and i made a thing for my sugar gnomes ♥
since I did it for ovenbreak if u wanna add me I'm on the pure vanilla server and my ign is APPLEC0RE (probably will change soon, will edit if I do)
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so. i had a dream some weeks ago
i was a pikachu, and i remember this dream vividly mostly because i experienced some kind of microagression (also because i was a pikachu)
no idea how to express what the whole experience of it was but i'll try
for context, the world was like normal except with pokemon. i just happened to be a pikachu
in part of the dream, i went into a restaurant, but i remember once i was there, the staff didn't want to let me in with the people eating there because i was a pokemon
they said i had to have an id (like on a collar or something) to prove i was domesticated or something like that
if i didn't have one they wouldn't let me in, but i saw that there were no pokemon in there
there was a separate room/division in the restaurant for pokemon. like, a small section to the side while everything else was for people
the pokemon that were eating over there looked either annoyed, bored or just sad, and there were some people outside the area with i think houndooms to make sure the pokemon there wouldn't cause trouble for some reason
it made me so irrationally angry to see that. i was seething there, that they'd treat us like pets at best, and did some things that made the staff have to throw me back outside
so i just ran back to the streets as soon as they let me go
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