Hiho, I'm Bananas. I'm an artist from New Brunswick and I specialize in making original characters and using them to fight other characters in OCTs. My dedicated art blog is @bananasartsnanimations. Enjoy yourselves!
this isn't really to convince you to play HG/SS or anything, just an interesting fun fact but Red's Pikachu was the highest level trainer-owned pokemon in the franchise up until Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, where it got tied by Cynthia's Garchomp in her second rematch
I did know that! Like, I never got behind the Gen 2 hype train, but I can’t deny how incredible those games were, both for their time AND today. The idea of putting the entire region of the first game into the game is WILD, and they pulled it off. The fact that Pokemon Gold and Silver is 710 KB is absolutely mind-boggling.
And also yeah, thematically I think that the Red Battle the coolest moment in all of Pokemon, hands down (and I LOVE what Infinite Fusion does with it)
Every single battle, route, song, shiny chance, patch of tall grass, both Johto AND Kanto, all sixteen Gym Leaders, Whitney’s Miltank, the new Cinnabar Island, Goldenrod Radio, the pokemon breeding system, the concept of gender, Professor Elm, 251 Pokemon and every Zubat in Dark Cave all fit into a video game that is half as big as this png of Feraligatr.
People always and forever are offended by the (true) notion that they make fandoms into Nazi bars by tolerating the bigots in their spaces just bc they happen to write fun fics or make good art or do cool edits or write meta you agree with. And then get mad at us for being like “well this stuff is racist and I do not want to associate with them or you for enabling it”
Someone can be racist as hell and, I dunno, write fiction about torturing Black women or only be able to analyze Black women in the context of white characters and even then do it poorly (huh I wonder what fandom I’m referring to), and the fandom consensus will somehow be that Black fans (but especially the women) are the ones ‘causing drama’ and should shut up about it and then wonder why people keep calling their fandom racist. It’s beyond parody
My wording here is very deliberate bc I’ve seen the very same people reblog famous Nazi bar posts and then be like “noooo this racist is actually central to fandom you’re wrong for not wanting them around you they’ve helped me through a hard time noooo” like grow a spine and find some consistency lmao you are not good allies like you purport to be
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