Reblog this with an obscure game from your childhood, and tell a little bit about it.

I'll start: SpongeBob SquarePants Krabby Quest.

It's a PC Spongebob licensed game, and it was a 3D Sokoban-like with many fun mechanics that led to a very wide variety of puzzles.

Yep! I've actually been having one of my other PokeIRL characters liveblog it in-character. Check the "#gen watches ava" tag on @goldenrodchef!

It makes me extremely uncomfortable in most cases, and I'd rather not discuss it further.

There's some exceptions to it, like how Splatoon 1 2 and 3, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom are tolerable for me, but I'd rather not go digging into it further, lest I accidentally trigger myself.

A few reasons.

I didn't have a fear of post-apocalypse stuff when I played Explorers back in 2020.

The apocalypse is reversed and fixed.

I watched The Polar Express when I was around 4-6 years old, and it absolutely terrified me. I've been scared of movies ever since.

I'm trying to get over this fear by watching movies in my discord server with my best friend, but it's been pretty slow-going. So far, I've watched The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, Spider-Man 1, Ratatouille, and Klaus in that server.

The thing is, with the exception of Breve and Mew, all of them are preexisting characters that I had made beforehand!

Tropius and Gen are the protagonists of my fic In Tandem and Eternal Shadows respectively. Tropius' blog was originally a Pokeask blog, but soon after a friend had convinced me to join Pokemon IRL, I converted her blog into a PokeIRL blog. I wanted to see how other PokeIRL blogs would interact with a Tropius running a blog, and, well. I couldn't be happier with the result.

Gen's blog came a bit later, when I was toying with the idea of how he'd interact with some PokeIRL characters. I made him a blog, but soft rebooted it twice, before it finally hit its stride in July 2023, and I've been writing that iteration of Gen ever since.

Ninetales is a canon character from PMD Rescue Team that I had expanded heavily upon, and had toyed with the idea of making a PokeIRL blog for. I sent some anon asks out from her, and was satisfied with the result. I felt bad for not doing anything in Pokeask in a long while, though, so I made her blog a dual PokeIRL and Pokeask blog.

Illanero is a trickier one to explain, as xey're a scrapped character from my fics. Xey were originally going to serve Tropius' role in a subplot in Eternal Shadows, before I decided to split that subplot into what would become In Tandem, and make a new protagonist for it, Tropius. But when I was starting my mainline Pokemon marathon, I decided to make a PokeIRL blog for it, to give me more incentive to keep playing. And I decided to bring back Illanero, to be the protagonist of that blog.

Vinarch and his homeworld Obleta is from a RP from my personal server. He was so much fun to write, that I felt tempted to make a PokeIRL blog for him, and see how he'd interact with the PokeIRL multiverse. And so I did just that.

Sentret is also from a RP from my personal server. They were fun to write, especially interacting with my best friend's Arceus. I was tempted to bring them here for a while, but was nervous due to the amount of Arceus hate in PokeIRL. However, after the poll I made about it showed overwhelming support for me bringing Sentret here, I decided to make them a blog.

Breve was my first original PokeIRL character. I had seen talk of many gyms being OSHA violations, and along with my mainline marathon, that gave me the initial idea for a gym inspector. I continued tossing that idea around in my head for a few months, before deciding to make a blog for the gym inspector.