This is not for you.

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!

if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks

[ID: Tags that say, " #not to mention that those people would also be Dog People in the bad sense of the term #people would post pictures of their highly trained pokemon who are well mannered as well but since they are Anything But The Rodent #- that automatically means they are weird or creepy or harmful to their trainers or enough to throw the Ontologically Evil label if given #the opportunity #you post of a picture of your claydol hanging out in the area you specifically designed for it in mind while living in the climate that fit #it best and the dude who lets his attack-oriented and completely uncooperative flareon to Flame Wheel at the local grass-type wildlife #starts going on some rant in your comment section about how That Thing said in a tone that really captures how low he thinks of it #wouldn't care about you if you died or that it's just pretending to love you or whatever". End ID]

a fun wrinkle in moira quirk's performance of the locked tomb audiobooks is that she is a comedian and very good at delivering jokes ("you are now up to the standard of a bad cavalier, one who's terrible" "oof, ouch, my bones" "you've got the face of a rat. and the body of a dead person.") but also by her own admission she is completely unfamiliar with internet memes and just delivers them all as regular lines. it's a beautiful auditory experience. this blog remains and will always be a "none houses with left grief" fan page.

psychic beam blast. none of you understand the late victorian eugenics/determinism/orientalism/scientific history/racial-sexual-class great chain of being unity of affect enough to be talking about what dracula does and does not represent

dracula serving as a synecdoche for european aristocracy is in no way at odds with his widely recognized status as a gross antisemitic stereotype, because in the late victorian (especially english) literary mind medieval aristocracy = regressive = disabled/malformed = irrational = feminine = catholic = eastern = jewish = romani = queer = underevolved, which in turn smacks of irishness and spirituality. these are all linked together—explicitly in the scientific and literary worlds of the 1890s and more covertly today—in a web of emotional associations that smooth over all contradictions, and all adds up to: we have moved into the rational, masculine, blue-eyed light called modernity, but something is clinging to our ankles and wants to drag us back into the dark. are you one of the things on my ankle? prove to me that you are not. step into the light and assume your proper place under me, or i will defend myself by slicing you away

gotta say a lot of the response to valid criticisms of fields of mistria from fans feels very "let people enjoy things" rather than like. actual responding to analysis. this is yalls "witch in the alps" game. yall seem so afraid of the fact that this media might have some uncomfortable biases in its design.

its so annoying that the discussion around Juniper is about how much skin she's showing and there's not a SINGLE person bringing up the clear orientalism that went into her design. dark and mysterious sorceress wearing a lot of dangly gold jewelry and revealing outfits doing experiments on unsuspecting townsfolk? HELLO???? Regardless of the devs' intentions they literally made her one of THE OLDEST orientalist tropes. come on y'all.

tbh just in general there should be more critical discussion around the orientalism of a US-made game so blatantly taking inspiration from '90s and '00s anime & Japanese gaming. It's a game playing with the aesthetics of nostalgia, it's going to be FULL of design biases from that era unless they explicitly go out of their way to counter that. and i dont think ive seen much intentionality in that regard

This is the post in question getting me called a homophobe, btw. 🙂 A book written (and unfinished) by a Black, gay man as he was dying.

cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings