Bats n' Things

Hovel's Myotis Myotis hoveli

Found in Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, southern Anatolia, and also in the mountainous areas of eastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

THE GOD OF HYPER DEATH

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Meadow Plate: "The powers of Plates are shared among Pokémon."

piece for Overgrow Zine from earlier this year!

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Silver's got the most nostalgia for me since Pokemon Gold was my first Pokemon game, so he was my first rival. And he's fucking funny. Before he gets better, he is like 90% copium by weight. You'll beat him in a fight, and he'll be all "this is why I hate dealing with weaklings. You're not even worth my time." When it's like... Bitch, you lost??? Plus he was the first in the series to employ the trusty Crobat of Character Development; very innovative.

I also started playing Masters EX recently, and Silver's no slouch there either. He'll give you a rare, expensive gift in the trainer lodge and then angrily insist it's just some trash he happened to find on the way there. And I love how he gets his Ho-oh; this giant sacred phoenix who only appears to the pure of heart really looked at this angry little boy with massive daddy issues and went "... I can fix him." Truly, Ho-oh and I are kindred spirits. (And I don't even have time to get into whatever gay shit was going on between him and Ethan in the Arceus arc)

And then there's Gladion, Alola's #1 emo, whose main hobbies appear to be practicing his JoJo poses and having mommy issues. His best friend is a blasphemous Frankenstein dog modeled after God. He's maybe the only NPC in Pokemon to quite reasonably tell you to get the fuck out when you barge uninvited into his living space. He gets not just one, but THREE Pokemon who evolve with friendship, just so you know he's actually the sweetest boy. One of those Pokemon is even a Lucario. I don't even like Lucario, but I love that he gets one, because of course he would; he's a middle schooler trying too hard to be cool.

He even named the Silvally species, while every version of Silvally's name in every language is some combination of "silver" and "buddy/friend/ally." Silvally is one of my all-time favourite Pokemon, in large part because Gladion made me want to love and protect it too.