Microraptor's Pokemon Journey

Hey we all remember 2020, right? When we voted out Donald Trump the first time??? That was a thing that happened a mere six years ago, and yes, America subsequently massively fucked it up and voted him back in, but we did remove him by voting once before.

Anyone also remember 2024, when Jair Bolsonaro was removed by voting in Brazil? And when he tried a coup, Brazil actually fucking punished him, disqualified him from running, and sent him to jail, instead of letting him off scot-free to do it again?

Also a spate of worldwide post-Trump elections, where the far-right wasn't in power per se but was gunning to be, and voting ensured they stayed out (2025 Moldova, 2025 Romania where massive protests annulled Russian meddling and forced a re-run where the pro-EU candidate won, 2025 Canada where the Conservatives lost after previously being up 20 points, 2025 Australia where the far right was just fuckin wiped out, 2025 Netherlands where Geert Wilders lost, AND SO FORTH).

And of course, the result referenced in the original post, 2026 Hungary where Viktor Fucking Orbán was removed by voting? Despite the massive structural hurdles facing the Hungarian voting public, far more than is the case in America even now?

(Lololol the Kremlin and Trump have immediately pivoted to "Orbán who? Never heard of him. Never knew him. Shh.")

Anti-voting has always been a deeply stupid ideology by people who want miraculous revolution to be suddenly achieved with no downsides and no widespread catastrophe, by doing nothing more than posting violent rhetoric online. Because they have no interest in actually doing the kind of hands-on, slow, systematic work that leads to positive social change in real life, and because they have no understanding of how anything actually works.

Relentless, hypocritical, purity-test politics are literally the best friend of authoritarians everywhere, because they ensure that liberal/left coalitions will never get their fucking act together long enough to put their weight behind the non-authoritarian candidate.

We've all said this before, but sometimes it bears restating.

Nobody has ever suggested that social change can be achieved solely by voting in decent or lesser-evil candidates. Voting is one tiny part of that effort. "Oh so you just want us to vote and do nothing else??" No. No, nobody has ever said that. You can and you should do a lot more than that: protest, mutual aid, fundraising, organizing, pressure campaigns, community protection groups, literally whatever. You can and should continue to hound the politicians you voted for if they're not living up to their campaign promises, as long as you actually voted for them in the first place.

I wound up coming up with one myself before ever knowing they would do such a thing; I always wanted something that looks as close as possible to Tangela but actually an animal, like a colony of worms or some kind of anemone. I love Tangela as a plant, but worms and tentacles are just slightly cooler in my mind. Maybe it's because plant vines are the "most normal" thing for a bunch of squiggly appendages to be.

Like I'd love to see a nightjar/potoo/frogmouth pokemon that evolved to look like a zubat with the zubat's ears being it's crazy neon yellow eyes.

I also want to see a bat pokemon that evolved to look like hoothoot/noctowl with the 'crests' on hoothoot and noctowl being the bat's weirdass nose.

I also think or would be really funny to have a sudo-sudowoodo that's an actual plant that looks like sudowoodo but like with just dimples where the face should be . The idea is that in areas with sudowoodo other plant pokemon started defensively shaping themselves like the known mimic.

You could also do a sudowoodo convergent evolution that is a stick bug.

They are striking in the game and imo their various additions and raw bulk making them a nice stantler evolution.