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A hug button! It needs an option to hug your friends, family, lovers, anyone!! Obviously courage up a certain rank would be required, but I don't care! I want to hug people when they're happy, I wanna comfort them with their sad or hurt! God, I just really want to hug people! Kanji, Yosuke, Ann, Ryuji, Naoto, Rise, Shiho, Cop Dad, Coffee Dad, etc!

The queue has been five+ months long for almost a year now! 

We’ve been catching up a little bit recently, though not for a good reason - Tumblr’s changes in December took a huge bite out of our submission rate. Where we used to get 25-40 submissions per day, after the December changes and all the related protests, we’ve been getting 10-20 per day. Which is good for shortening the queue, but could mean reducing the number of daily posts if we ever do catch up. (That’s a loooooong way off though, so don’t panic!)

Since we know y’all are going to ask, we have been looking at other platforms for this blog, but unfortunately there is no other platform that allows this kind of moderated submission-based content stream. Reddit’s the closest, but has a variety of issues of its own (especially with scale); there’s also no good way to cross-post from Tumblr to Reddit while preserving formatting. Twitter and Discord can’t do moderated submissions, and Pillowfort and Dreamwidth are too small, too niche, and technologically unsuitable. 

I have heard of it and I don’t believe it based on the fact that it would break my heart.

But nah, I don’t believe that Eevee isn’t going to get anymore new evolutions, for a multitude of reasons:

With Eevee taking a title role in the Let’s Go games, it’s now even more popular than it already was - and it’s been very popular. And new evolutions help fuel that popularity, which is good for marketing the new games. One of the first bits of speculation every gen is if we get a new eeveelution. 

The limitation of Special typings might’ve been true in the past, but there’s no reason that can’t be something that’s changed. Especially since the differences in physical and special focused typings have changed between generations with the physical/special split in gen 4, which also had 2 new eeveelutions.

Agreed! With the previous generations, specifically gens 1-4, the regions themselves were good but felt very much like they were the same country or culture. Which was intended! They were all based on Japan, with gen 1 being named after the real life Kanto region. And they were great regions.

But it’s also a breath of fresh air that new regions since gen 5 have been establishing their own identity and leaning more into those cultural themes more and more with each generation. And Alola was the best execution of that concept by far in my opinion. The trials, guardians, myths around the legendaries, Z-moves, regional variants - all of these new features gave the region and games their own unique feel while adding to the gameplay experience, with both mechanics and immersion into the setting.