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okay so how did humans take control and create civilization bc alakazam literally has an iq of 5000 plus it has opposable thumbs

#pokemon #pkmn #alakazam

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so ik i’m super late but cinderace’s design still freaks me out. why is it wearing pants and in what universe is adapting to look like you’re wearing pants an evolutionary advantage.

#pokemon #swsh #pokemon swsh #cinderace

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Cringetober day 6: Fake Screenshot

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and i’m still gonna buy it

they’re gonna charge 60 dollars for this

#pokemon #diamond and pearl #pokemon dp remakes #brilliant diamond #shining pearl

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So that’s basically how it went down

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does anybody else get intense anxiety whenever the illumina pokemon disappears and you’re just stranded alone in a random forest/cave/field

#pokemon #pokemon snap #imtalkingaboutmilotic

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What I like about teen movies is that they always stop at the start of something. At the exact moment when you have that feeling of “hey, now I’m here, and I’m having the time of my life”. When you feel like you have your whole life in front of you and it will be so sweet and amazing and you will love every single moment. Like there is some amazing adventure on your way and it is just for you, like a little secret between you and life.  And it is basically how you actually feel sometimes, when you graduate, or kiss for the first time that special person, or you just get that good news you were waiting for. But it’s a feeling of happiness so innocent and full of expectations that you can experience only at some point of your life. And teen movies make me feel like that again, and it’s so inspiring.

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There’s 104 days of summer vacation…

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doof.

i like villains who are just evil for like. the attention

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i did a little reread of lost hero and i can't help but absolutely loathe how iM nOt liKe tHe oThEr gIrLs piper is, and how shallow and dumb RR wrote the ENTIRE aphrodite cabin. i absolutely hate the implication that piper, the tOmBoY is better because according to our dear author, she is """smarter""" than the rest of her siblings, who are """dumb, vain, and shallow""" because they aren't boyish like piper

also, am i the only one who noticed her chapters are written so horribly? chapter 15 in particular seems like it's a scene from a disney channel movie! drew is such a 2 dimensional character with no depth given to her whatsoever, and piper is the one and only girl who stood up to her, and then she gives out an inspirational speech and then she overthrows drew, then she gets the boy and they start a relationship... isn't this basically the plot of any other unique girl vs mean girl story??? i cant.

jesus it's so badly written. i can't believe i liked this shit when i was a younger. holy fuck.

like, yes there are other things going for her in this book, like her missing father and her learning her relationship with jason was fake. i am also aware that percy also had this bullied vs. bully arc in the original series, but you know what made his arc work better? percy was 11-12 at the time he dealt with nancy bobofit, clarisse la rue, and the people bullying tyson in SoM, while piper is 16 in TLH. ofc there are bullies around her age, but they don't act as childish and immature as percy's bullies in the original series. as you get older, the bullies you deal with are more manipulative and sneaky. they pretend to be your friends. they spread rumors behind your back. they act fake and plastic around you. that's how drew's bullying should have been more like, because her in-your-face awfulness to piper only happens in teenage movies written by adults who have never been to highschool bc they're homeschooled their entire life. ugh

honestly, the more i think about this, the more i believe rick was probably only close to 11-13 year olds back when he was a teacher, and not 16-17 year olds because of the horrible way he wrote drew (again, drew is not an example of how 16 year old bullies work!!!)

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growing up is realizing you're finally older than all the protagonists who were older than you when you first started reading their books

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jo march really was like. i love the people around me and i cannot cope with them leaving and being mature and appealing enough to start new chapters in their lives while i'm still clinging into this idealised, carefree, comedy-like lifestyle i thought was gonna last forever. and i really thought platonic relationships could replace my repressed longing for a romantic one but now all my loved ones' first priorities became romance. meanwhile i cannot put myself out seeking a romantic relationship because that would automatically mean altering, belittleing, objectifying and compromising myself, my life would become a cliche with guaranteed unhappy ending because i feel like no one in this world could truly make me happy. and i do want to embrace my independent, single lifestyle but i guess i didnt calculate back then how lonely it's going to feel. it's like my only choice is between two types of unhappiness. jo march conveyed all this stuff and i'm not supposed to tear up just thinking about that goddamn movie???

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Region Stickers released by the Pokemon Center

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Pinup Disney Prints by SvetaShubinaGallery

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There's so many things about PJO that I miss in HOO. While it has more diversity in general it kind of lacks a lot of the complexity and emotional weight/depth of PJO I think? As well as actual meaningful risk and consequences a lot of the time. Most of The Last Olympian is the Final Battle and it's a real emotional journey with a great resolution while the Final Battle against Gaea in HOO is just kinda lacking.

This a perfect summary of the distinction between the two.

I love hoo for the characters they gave us – the diversity, the representation, all of it.

But pjo, for me, was just so much more in a literary sense. Like you said, theres a certain complexity and emotional weight in pjo that hoo… just doesn’t quite meet. Sometimes it does, but thats just it, it’s moments. For pjo it was the entirety. It was something that got heavier and heavier with every book.

I mean Luke alone is a stunning example of the complexity that was brought to a “kids” book. A likable charismatic dude - thats your villain. With the right motives, but the wrong means. Or maybe his motives weren’t right? Was he a hero at the end? Was he not? Was he at all? You were constantly in a state of indecision about Luke because there were so many times that showcased that his mindset was right, even though you knew Kronos was so so wrong. The fact the fandom still has debates about that is a testimony to his well written character.

Hoo… didn’t really have that. I’ll give credit where credit is due, and I think the book that offered the most comparable complexity to this situation was the House of Hades with the whole are monsters born bad debate. Is it justifiable to manipulate a “monster” if he is not a monster in this moment? Is it justifiable to torture monsters?

But the big bad of hoo was motivated by your run of the mill “I just want to take over the world” and no villain was given multifaceted characterizations.

We could also talk about the character death. How in pjo, main characters were starting to get killed off by book three and in hoo there weren’t any main character deaths at all, if barely any deaths all together.

And continuing off the deaths in pjo, what made them so good was the fact that they were complex in their own right. Bianca stole something for her brother, but rightened her wrong. Zoe still continued with the quest, knowing her fate. Silena was a spy but did right in the end. Ethan sacrificed himself for the cause. Luke finally had clarity. Michael was indirectly killed by the protagonist and Beckendorf sacrificed himself for Percy/the war.

and it only added a sense of realism to the proposed narrative - demigod lives aren’t easy. They are in a middle of a huge war. Death will happen.

Once again, the only death in hoo I have comparable for these instances is Bob, which as I said before, is due to me believing that House of Hades was the most comparably emotionally-complex book of the hoo series.

and then just the development of our pjo characters in general. Percy I could write a novel. The typecast trouble maker who ends up saving the world. The boy who more often than not find himself agreeing with his enemy and yet still stays sure. Both insecure but prideful. An underdog that’s extraordinarily powerful…. and sometimes likes that power too much. A mama’s boy. An unreliable weapon.

Annabeth, who’s your action packed heroine but carries so much emotion beneath her stony exterior. The girl whose distant but yearns for physical comfort. The girl that is so smart and deadly as a knife but also blushes and cries and and lashes out because she genuinely doesn’t know how to handle certain feelings. She’s the clearest example of how fatal your fatal flaw can be.

And Nico. NICO. Nico who was LITERALLY against the protagonist for two books and yet wasn’t with the enemy either. A third party. Like Nico’s character development is BEAUTIFUL. His motivations were maybe not justifiable but they were understandable. relatable.

And finally, as you said, perhaps the way these distinction can best be exemplified are the final battles. The final battle in the Last Olympian spanned the entire book. As soon as Percy got the curse in the first couple chapters, the entire rest of that book was the battle of Manhattan.

In the Blood of Olympus the fight with Gaea was… two pages? Three? And only three of the seven fought her.

I desperately wish that hoo was written with the complexity of pjo. The characters were the best thing about hoo and they had the complexity that pjo characters had but that was often lost as the series progressed.