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Variants and Crossbreeds of the Johto starters!

While I was having my fun with recoloring Pokémon shinies, I thought about the crossbreeds and regional variants that I have seen other artists make for years now, and decided to dip my toes in that.

The choice of doing the Johto starters was a bit of a coincidence. I started off with Chikorita because I think she's hated for no reason. Look at that tiny bean sprout, why would you insult her?! Next, I did Cyndaquil because in the last shiny recolor I did hisuian thyplosion. After that, Totodile was the obvious choice.

These were so much fun to design! I am for sure making more, I already have a list of other Pokémons I want to do. Of course, all the Eeeveelutions are on there already.

“what about the poor little white kids just trying to have fun?” what about the poor little kids of color made to feel unsafe and unwelcome in a space that was supposed to be fun?

“why can’t poc just make their own redesigns and we can keep these ones” why cant you realize that your actions have consequences and that you should maybe try to not enforce racist stereotypes??

like ofc its ideal to have VARIETY among both villains AND protagonists, its when your characters look like this

that the issue arises

Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus)

“Bearded Pig, Kinabatangan” by Matt Francey, CC BY-NC 2.0

Giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni)

“Giant Forest Hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni” by Nik Borrow, CC BY-NC 2.0

but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?

Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.