Angry Shark Noises

the closest thing to real soulmates you can find

we fought in the same trenches and have a warrior's bond that carries over into every stage of life

friend i sit next to in every class and pass notes to/whisper to constantly

academic peer/colleague that i respect and have a little intellectual crush on

neighbour in the same apartment block that i say hi to on the stairs

neighbour across the street who i wave at every morning and evening

we're regulars at the same bar

I’m gonna assume writers know whether or not their own works are ai because they either write them themselves or have ai write for them.

but as for readers (or writers who read other writers’ works), no, you can’t tell unless the writer themself says their works are ai generated. anything else is witch hunt, speculations and possibly wrongful accusations — all of which harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

so if at any point you think an untagged work is ai and if that bothers you, quietly click away. but you can never know for sure based on vibes. because everything ai writes, a human writer does. that’s what ai was trained on and what it was trained to mimic.

every “ai telltale” is something humans write before, otherwise ai wouldn’t have been able to mimic it in the first place. because it needs human-made works to mimic on.

Only 25 have not been claimed yet, surprisingly 2 in the original 151!

Kakuna has exactly 3 fans and one person's explanation is just "kakuna matata" and I love that.

Bulbasaur is the most popular of the original 3 starters, and Charmander is the least popular. BUT the opposite is true of their final evolutions. Weird.

Exaclty 2 people (so far of course) love Exeggcute most, and the only explanation between the two of them is "I like eggs." So I see Debbie from the Amanda Show has submitted her vote.

Goldeen only has one fan rn and their reason is a very specific battle from the Unknown movie they watched as a kid.

I'm very surprised that Dragonair has ZERO votes rn. Like I know the middle evolution is almost always gonna be the lowest of the line, but to have NONE when Dratini has 37 and Dragonite has 157 is crazy to me. Personally I never wanted to evolve past Dragonair because I think Dragonite looks stupid and I hate the huge design shift (sorry you 157 fans).

Obligatory "Praise Helix" comments on Omanyte and Omastar of course.

Of the 26 Miltank lovers, only one comment is sexual so that's nice.

Mudkip and Blaziken do the same swapped ranking stats as Bulbasaur and Charizard.

The crime of separating Plusle and Minun has created a disparity between the two. Plusle only has 5 while Minun has 12. I wonder if more people just like blue?

Only 7 votes for my former top fav Seviper. Which is slightly surprising considering how long it ran with Jessie in the anime. Oh well, maybe its fans moved on over the years (like me).

Lunatone and Solrock are perfectly balanced with 4 votes each.

Lots of single voters in the Hoenn region, but surprisingly no zeroes here. It's the only region fully completed.

Someone said their favorite is Joltik because it could defibrilate them if they drink too many 4Lokos. Like. Okay.

The only voter for Rufflet loves it because it was their first shiny they found. It was mine too, rip Phantom I will forever mourn your transfered and erased pixels.

The only Vullaby vote: "diva baby." Yeah that checks out.

I cannot believe Chespin has more votes than Froakie. I simply refuse to accept it.

Someone apparently shiny hunted all 19 variants of Vivillon and that's mind boggling to me. How would you even do that????

The first (and only) missing starter line pokemon is the middle of Rowlet and Decidueye, and to be fair I also don't even remember its name...

This region also has the first legendary without any votes: Cosmoem.

Someone just said "gender envy" for Hatterene.

Lots of people across the board said their favorite was because of that pokemon carrying a Nuzlocke, which when I looked at Nuzleaf I was suddenly viscerally reminded of where the term originated. I had blocked Nuzlocke himself visually from my mind apparently.