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hamofjustice · 9 months

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nemona feels like an obscure blorbo instead of the main rival character from the latest pokemon game because to get to her really good content from people who really get it, you first have to wade through the ocean of yandere pervert obsessive stalker annoying punchable bimbo amazon goddess interpretations of...

... a neurodivergent and possibly disabled high schooler who's desperately trying to make any friends or get any support from her rich neglectful family - while everyone in her school is jealous of their own imagined version of a privileged asshole version of her they made up - who deeply and platonically loves and supports the one new kid who agreed to take the time to get to know and respect her and her special interest without having to hold back her true self

unlike her, it's not great!

kinda feels like she has the same problem in our world that she does in hers.

#(except much hornier)#i hate to say it but i think her skin color has something to do with it #nemona pokemon #nemona #pokemon sv #pokemon scarvio #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon #nemonaposting #dog girl and goku memes are fine i guess #i legitimately cannot google her without a video of someone being cruel to her on purpose and making her visibly sad coming up #i don't think people like that really browse these tags but i hope they're not the reason she was not in the dlc footage at all #and thus may never get more screen time to actually be her best friend's 'rival for life' as promised before the 3 year cycle marches on #you know the dlc about nemona's best friend and 'greatest treasure' transferring to a school about the hardcore battles she's dying without #potentially abandoning her and sending her back to almost square one on having a reason to enjoy life #don't get me started yelling about that again #also i didn't mean platonically in a don't ship them kind of way you should absolutely do that if it lines up with your interpretations #i usually do in fact #just trying to emphasize the contrast between canon and fanart here #opinions of her already start off so low faith just because she's from the 10 fps pokemon game and i'll be real i wish she wasn't #i wish she and her friends were somewhere i could trust that they would be treated respectfully by their copyright holders

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loki-ioki · 5 months

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i spent all of 5 minutes on this but a simple attempt to fix Kieran's new hairstyle

#girl what did u do to yourself #it's sooo fucked in so many ways the more u look at it #the official art of it is ok but the model? don't get me fucking started #pokemon #rival kieran #pokemon kieran #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #loki's art #(just a doodle) anyway i like kieran's hydreigon look. give her one

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creative-hanyou-girl · 4 months

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I don't know if anyone else feels this way but I think a big reason why I'm so chill about the changes made to the PJO show from the books is because I kind of look at each other as their own seperate canon.

Like, I read a lot of anime and manga, and anime adaptations have a huge habit for changing plot points for various reasons, and as a fan of said anime and manga, I've found that I can enjoy both versions of the same story even with the differences when I look at them as their own universe or canon. That's not to say I don't want them to be faithful or true to the source material, but if a scene or situation plays out differently for a logical or entertaining reason, than I can still appreciate that deviation from the manga even if I still like the other original version of that part more. And I can even like the reversal way if I feel an anime does something better than even the manga. But if I want to, I can look at certain moments as more canon than others because I got 2 different versions of that same scene or moment.

And, I don't know, I kind of apply that reasoning to the PJO series as well, mainly with the books, the show, and even the musical (not the movies put that right back where it came from). So far I'm loving the TV show, and while I miss some of the things they changed (like the pink poodle), this adaptation really is doing a great job with staying true to the heart and spirit of the original book that I personally am not even really bothered by the changes, especially when I remember that the books will always still be there with it's own version, or canon, of events.

Like, I will say 1 thing I adore in the books that isn't really in the show is the fact that a lot of Percy and Annabeth's "rivalry" during TLT has more to do with the rivalry between Poseidon and Athena. I just really like on how this adds a level of "forbidden friendship/love" to their relationship 'cause I personally eat the forbidden relationship trope up, especially when it's done well like with Percabeth.

Yet, even if this isn't really the reason percabeth have beef with each other in the show, I can still appreciate and enjoy that according to the show's canon, they have issues because they genuinely have problems with each other as actual people rather than their parents' rivalry, because at the end of the day, that's the PJO TV show canon, and I can always turn to the books for that version of Percabeth's "rivalry", as that is the PJO book canon.

Same goes for the characters too. I will always have and love my dark haired Percy and blond haired Annabeth in the books, but I can also welcome and love Walker's Percy and Leah's Annabeth from the show. And so far, they along with Aryan are KILLING IT as those characters.

I can love both versions of the characters.

I can love both versions of the same story.

I can look at both versions as they own seperate canon or mix them together if I so wish too (especially since both versions of PJO are written by the same guy)

And that's ok. The adaptation doesn't have to be a complete copy of the books. It doesn't have to have things play out eactly the same way. The characters don't have to look exactly the way they are described as in the books. And that's ok. I will still always have the books to love and appreciate, but I can also start to love and appreciate the new adaptation for it's new spin and twists to the same story that sets it apart as it's own canon while still staying true to the spirit of its predecessor.

Anyway, sorry if I'm not making a lot of sense. I just think the people complaining about the changes in the show are looking at it all the wrong way. The show has it's own canon just as the books have their own canon, or even the musical. At the end of the day, isn't that kind of cool to have different versions of the same story and characters? Doesn't it give you so many more options to look at the story in different ways that you can prefer or choose from? Doesn't it give you new versions of canon that you choose from? And really, as long as the PJO adaptation, or any adaptation for that matter, stays true to the heart and spirit of the original story and characters, do the changes made really matter?

#anyway sorry for the long post #I've just been seeing a lot of people complaining about the PJO making changes from the books and I thought I give my 2 cents #& I thought about how the show dies make enough changes to certain events or plotpoints that you could look at it as its own seperate canon #and how that actually is kind of cool as it gives us another version of the same story and characters #it's actually really neat to have different versions of the same story ya know #its like. if I ever want the Percabeth that has more of a 'forbidden relationship' thing going on. there's always the book canon to fall on #likewise if I want the percabeth where they're rivals because they have genuine issues w/ eachother. there's the TV show. ya know?#and if I want the Athena that I can at least somewhat believe might actually care for Annabeth. there's the book canon #whereas if I want the Athena I straight up wanna strangle from the getgo. I now got the TV show for that😊#same with the characters descriptions #I personally still imagine Percy and Annabeth as they are described in the books #but I am positvely loving Leah and Walker's portrayal of TV Percy and Annabeth so much. especially in these last few episodes.#and don't get me started on how much I love Aryan as Grover. he's the GOAT (literally🤭)#anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk #I just think its neat that Ive now got 2. even 3 versions of PJO canon that I can love together and individually at my disposal now #and I just think the people who are complaining about the show aren't seeing it that way and that's why they're whining about changes #like. chill guys. we still have the books. but now we also the show and musical to give us new versions of the same story and characters #and is that not amazing when you think about it?#percy jackson series #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson #percy and annabeth #athena #annabeth chase #grover underwood #book vs show #percy jackson books #percy jackson musical #percabeth

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phoenixesse · 1 year

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!! Spoilers for Pokemon Scarlet/Violet !!

Currently having many Scarlet/Violet thoughts that I may talk about later but there's one that's really sticking out to me right now...

If Arven and AI Sada/Turo had more time to talk, it could've given Arven some closure, but honestly, I think it would've made things worse.

Even though the AI would've had to be completely truthful by saying the professor loved him, they clearly got so lost in their research that they began to simply not care for him. They even lost sight of what was most important, with their goal changing from having a paradise for their family, to trying to bring the paradox pokemon to the future to live in harmony. The idea of a paradise was completely lost too because the ecological state would have been completely ruined by the paradox pokemon. Like, the AI tells you initially that was their intention, and to know about what they originally wanted, you had to read the lab books.

Can you imagine how heartbreaking it would be if Arven had the time to ask the AI questions beforehand, like why they didn't even bother to send a message on his birthdays, or get in contact with him about things he was interested in? (The professors probably knew he liked cooking and such, as they had to come up to give him the box art legendary). Can you imagine how tragic it would be if the AI didn't have an answer, that the professors got so lost in their work that they, and subsequently their memory backed up onto the AI, couldn't remember basic things about Arven, and as such, couldn't give him an answer to those basic questions?

Can you imagine how Arven would feel, knowing that his parent loved him at the bare minimum, but were ultimately too far gone to care for anything else?

Man. The professors fucking sucked, my little 'introspection' or not, no matter what the AI remembered.

#pokemon #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #arven #arven pokemon #professor sada #professor turo #pokemon scarvi spoilers #vienna rants #I love this game so much #don't even get me started on the rivals or area zero oh my god I will go on #perhaps those will be another post

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vizziefizzie · 1 year

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I had an AU brewing in my head

#shut up vizzie #rival silver #trainer silver #trainer ethan #trainer lyra #vizzie art #pokemon #au #uhhh idk what's the right name for it #fantasy could work... but it's definitely closer to an RPG or DnD #idk help it was just a random idea that started to brew!! and i thought the designs would be fun!#Ethan is a healer (in simple terms)#Silver is a demon as you can see... and ofc i made him a thief stfu #lyra is a catgirl (real) and a bard (also real) who plays a lyre (don't kill me)#idk why it took me so long!! I didn't even draw Kris yet!#Uhhhhh after this it SHOULD be the experimental thing next #This was... another moldy post.#I just had to get this off the shelf #omfg stfu vizzie

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millenniummmbop · 2 years

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I firmly believe it would take yugi and kaiba years if not DECADES to finally figure it tf out and get together btw

#they'd be in too deep inside their own heads and far too emotionally damaged to even ATTEMPT to say anything to the other about it #like they'll make moves and grow closer as friends while working together but it'll take at least like AT LEAST their mid 30s #b4 they'll be like 'okay MAYBE there's a slight possibility there's actually something tangible here #and i haven't just been hopelessly deluding myself all these years'#I want them on that mulder and scully shit I want it to take 5 fucking seasons for them to even say it out loud to themselves #much less each other #they're going to waste so much goddamn time just staring at each other meanwhile wondering the entire time #if it's really THEM that the other is seeing and not just the ghost of a ghost #i want them to be SO fucking stupid about this fr #the most insufferable game they're going to play w each other #both so smart and so good at reading their opponents under normal circumstances but THIS is where they start second guessing themselves #bc again they just WILL NOT be able to get out of their own heads about it!!!#god i love it it's gonna suck SO HARD for them lmfao #THEY'RE JUST SO DUMBBBBBB #ignore me #i'm in rival hell this week don't mind me

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itwoodbeprefect · 2 months

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flashbacks to dialogue that happened less than a minute ago are annoying and a little insulting for obvious reasons, unless it's in bad buddy episode 5 [2/4] and pat is having entirely serious sepia toned flashbacks to fifty seconds ago while almost shoving a set of drumsticks he hasn't even paid for yet up his nose. then it's brilliant and world changing

#don't mind me i'm just chewing glass today #when the architecture band starts playing at freshy day and ink says to pat hey isn't that the song you two played that christmas?#it's like yeah... but that's a maddeningly casual way to refer to an event that in the context of the series wide metaphor #is really more like their parents caught them making out in a closet. and then pran got sent to boarding school over it #and NOW pran is up there on stage playing that same song again. looking right at pat when he announces it. but plaYING IT with WAI #and not intentionally. not in a mean sort of way. because pran doesn't know #he doesn't KNOW that pat's been shoving drumsticks up his nose while being struck cold by Love Signs #because how could he. all he knows is that very recently pat was sighing in relief that pran isn't his rival for ink. because pat likes ink #pran does NOT know that in the (very short. more than fifty seconds but still very short) meantime #pat has tried to figure out if ink might like him back. pat has in the process accidentally figured out that HE might like pran #AND pat has tried to confess his feelings to ink only for her to go. very kindly. are you sure you like me that way? i don't think you do #(because he's the wrONG SIBLING. she likes the OTHER SIBLING. which is hilarious but a different thing to go insane over)#and it's like. pran doesn't know!!! pran is just having a day like any other. pran has Known forever #he doesn't KNOW that when they're standing there surrounded by guitars (it's essentially a gay bar. don't even get me started)#(because that's a joke but it's also not. not really. it is but it's not. you know)#!! that when they're standing there surrounded by guitars. pat is suddenly going OH. in sepia toned flashbacks to fifty seconds ago #when they were ALSO standing there surrounded by guitars btw. which is the point. nothing has changed but maybe everything has #it's the same thing it was fifty seconds ago but maybe it's not. maybe pat suddenly hears the music that's been playing forever #and maybe this is way too many fucking tags. i don't even think this is the glass i was chewing originally #*#bad buddy #bad buddy the series

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wormfunkie · 8 months

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quick AU idea cuz I'm bored

if silver was a rocket grunt before he joined the Dex holders HEAR ME OUT

Like if he literally was just trained to steal and never really liked team rocket anyway so he switched sides

If I'm being honest just wanted to give him more of a punk haircut

#pokespe #pokemonspecial #pokemon #Rival silver #Basically just a pokespe blog at this point lol #Pokémon adventurers #Pokémon manga #Don't get me started on the bowser ass boots #art

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bookwyrminspiration · 6 months

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Line for you to find:

“It’s yet another reason I didn’t want to involve my family. I’ve never done anything I didn’t believe in—but that doesn’t mean I haven’t crossed hard lines.”

I have to concede this one to you, Mr. Pyren. I knew I recognized it, but I couldn't place it even after over half and hour of brainstorming. Because I got it in my head that it was an Alden quote, but when I couldn't find it I went to the internet to double check, and unfortunately it showed me the page number, so I ruined the test </3

alas! it is so obvious now that I've gotten past the Alden thing! but I think it's no surprise I missed the lodestar quote, that book mysteriously vanishes from so many memories

#quil finds quotes #quil's queries #fintan-pyren #i wish I hadn't ruined it for myself I would've liked this challenge #the way I've been timing it for reference. is I don't start the timer until I actually open the first book #any brainstorming before that is free game #but once I hit 15 min or I can tell I'm off and I'll allow myself to look up the quote for a tiny bit more context to jog my memory #i did it with one other #and that didn't show me the page number #so I thought i'd be good here #alas. I was not #if I'd stopped thinking about alden and remembered it was juline?#would've taken me like 3 minutes tops she's not here a lot. so #but anyway! touche fin!#in my head you are like. my companion. my rival but we are on the same side. and also friends and not rivals. you know?#we've both got keeper special interests so in my head we are brain beaming each other always #I would say equals but I don't want to imply everyone else is inferior #do you get what i'm saying #like. if I fuck something up you're gonna be the one to call me on it over anyone else #said positively #i'm getting distracted woop

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sukugojo · 7 months

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different anon here, i came here wanting to clarify something but i saw that your reply took the words out of my mouth HAHAH it's funny seeing some of us shippers sharing the same braincells and having similar opinions. love this small community but i hope it gets bigger (wake tf up people!!! are 15 consecutive canon suspicious homoerotic chapters not enough for people on the international jjk fandom to finally start shipping them?!)

the something being that i don't sense any malicious hateful intent coming from either gojo or sukuna. this is a rare enemies/rivals trope imo. like their whole theme is about teaching love and trying to maybe come to a mutual understanding despite fate cruelly putting them on the opposite sides, as they are really just different sides of the same coin. and that's one of the many reasons why i love this pairing. it's not easy to find a non-toxic enemies/rivals dynamic portrayal in media so i'm glad that jjk is an exception.

p/s: i'm an extremely introverted person so unfortunately i won't have the social battery to continue this conversation, but thanks for reading my ask! i really want to interact more with my people bc yall are lovely and have great tastes but socializing drains me so much

YES YES ANON, they really don't hate each other at all. one thing i was thinking about is how gojo doesn't seem to think of sukuna as this malicious Evil thing that other sorcerers (rightfully) make him out to be. he... really hasn't been shown to harbor any ill feelings towards sukuna, even after all he's done.

and their fight is playful, they're playing, they're having fun, it's recreation. sure the fate of the world is at stake here, but that's not what it's about for them at all.

there's not hate, not even dislike, it's simply. well to steal canon's words. love. an overwhelming sense of pleasure, of satisfaction, of fulfillment.

and i LOVE that u mention "despite fate cruelly putting them on the opposite sides" bc YEAH YEAH, that's part of the tragedy of them. there's too many factors outside their own personal satisfaction at play.

and i think there is also a bit of a paradox in there. they're looking for someone with whom to share that solitude that comes at the lonely top. but... that's something i don't think to be possible. sure they're equals, that's the thing, but at the same time, their existences clash just by definition. bc there can't be two strongest. there can only be one.

both can't live at the same time. if one lives, the other can't live by definition.

no one understands them bc they're the strongest, but once they find someone who might be able to—and who does—dont they stop being the strongest?

#sukugojo.post #(but also scratch all that. we are not gonna think about that bc if either of them die i will be inconsolable they can't fucking die bc tha #would make me. incredibly sad. OTL)#gege should just have them marry each other. why can't they just be TWO strongest why the fuck not. The Strongest husbands.#a true power couple #got kinda sidetracked there haha but yeah! i feel we all just a share a collective braincell that gets passed around hkdfjhsd #'are 15 consecutive canon suspicious homoerotic chapters not enough for people to finally start shipping them?!' SAY ITTTTTTTTTT #and i think what sets them apart is that they're rivals on OPPOSITE sides who are not laden with hate.#bc there's a clear cut good-evil dichotomy. we have the good guys and bad guys who are against each other and whose goal is to stop e/o #sukugo are on opposite sides but still hold no sense of hate or disdain or anything for each other.#there's simply regard and expectation and (i'm sorry for saying it all the fucking time but it's true) love.#dhsjfdfs it's almost like they operate on a completely different plane to the others (which well yeah they kinda do as the strongest)#they don't particularly care about that whole thing.#they only care about their position as strongest and what the other can give them in regards to that #jjk #sukugo #gosuku #u know i mentioned once in a post i made in my main blog how gojo only speaks of sukuna in a cheerful reverent way #which was half just me being shippy but this made me think about that #bc ok that could be said to be simply his way of being BUT we DO see gojo show disdain for people he dislikes. very clearly.#he speaks super ill of the jujutsu world higher ups. but he doesn't ever extend that dislike to sukuna #who's u know. the Embodiment of Evil #while gojo may be an outwardly cheery person when he doesn't like u. u WILL know. he's actually quite honest there #and he shows respect for sukuna. considers it an honor to be sukuna's rival.#(tho he IS still a fucking brat <3)#god sorry i will shut up now cshfhaskdjsakffs #alas!!! it's really alright anon i totally get it. u dont have to answer. that's kinda the great thing about asks haha c:#but if u ever wanna talk more about them well the askbox is always open :D #GONNA END THIS BY SAYIGN THAT I AM SCARED I AM NERVOUS ABOUT THE NEXT CHAPTER AAAHHHHHHHH

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pokeworldrevisited · 1 year

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So I haven't caught up with Pokemon Masters' story in a while but I saw a spoiler about Paulo and figured I should make this:

#took him long enough #like anyone who saw him at the end of the PML arc could tell that he was leaning to the dark side juuust a little #but seeing his descent via the interludes was actually cool #like you could write an essay on this dude #about how everyone's noticed his change his behaviour and they try to help #but Paulo's obsession with getting stronger plus his fear of losing something he cares for makes him push them away #seriously why's the gacha rival more interesting than most recent rivals?#don't get me wrong I like the newer rivals #but you don't see Hau or Hop become an anti villain #I also love the fact that first Lear (who was pretty antagonistic at the start of the story) had a redemption arc #meanwhile Paulo's getting a soft of Fallen Hero arc #pokemon #pokemon masters ex #Pokemon Paulo #Rival Paulo #spoilers #pokemon spoilers

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wildflowercryptid · 1 year

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not gonna lie, i kinda love how hop and arven feel like the true protagonists of their respective games. like out of all of your traveling companions in swsh & scarvio, they're both the most prominent and important to their main storylines — along with going through the most development over the course of their games. they're the real heart of their stories to me.

#hop haters dni do not say SHIT about my SON #there's more to hop's character than wanting to be like his big bro — him realizing that himself is literally his character arc #honestly i'm so down for my player character not being the real focal point of the story #i play pokemon for the characters more than anything so i love getting to see the rivals / traveling companions get more development #i'm fine with just being the catalyst for shit going down around me i don't have to be the true hero of this tale #though i don't really see myself in the protagonist anymore i see them as more of an oc / the lil dude i get to view the story through #anyways please gimme more of this in the future game freak i love it #i should not be up rn i need to go back to bed #pokemon #mj.txt #(if ppl start talking shit about hop i will turn off reblogs i'm not here for that)

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italofobia · 4 months

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italian lance voltron jumpscare