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Rereading some of the PokeSPE mangas and. Like. I never realized this before but I really appreciate how pokespe gives the protagonists pokemon that… generally aren’t thought of for competitive battling
Like when you look at competitive battling or whatever you always have, like, the powerhouse pokemon—the dragon types and the psuedo-legendaries and Pokemon like gallade and gardevior or talonflame or gyrados or Salazzle or whatever. I myself don’t really use grass or bug tupes because of their many weaknesses and i think a lot of older Pokemon users don’t as well unless they have good stats or a secondary typing, like Guzma’s Golisipod
But that doesn’t happen as much in Pokespe. Red starts off with a poliwhirl, which you don’t really see that often. pokespe barry/pearl has a chatot. A chatot, a pokemon that i think a lot of people brush off, as well as a Tauros and a diglett. Gold has an aipom, a politoed, and a sunkern. Ruby sorta makes sense, considering he’s a contest trainer instead of a proper battler, so it makes sense for him to have a castform or delcatty. Still, pretty rare. Emerald has a Mr. Mime and a sudowudo. I best most people don’t think of these pokemon and competitive in the same sentence
And yellow. Yellow my beloved has a whole team full of Pokemon most people wouldn’t think twice about. Pikachu, sure, that makes sense. Raticate, Butterfree, Duodo. Sure, she isn’t really a battler, but only normal-type gym leaders and NPCs would have a butterfree or duodo or a raticate as pokemon companions and
Idk. I just think it’s nice how the writers give all the pokemon equal representation, even the ones that aren’t geared towards competitive battles
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The San Francisco Examiner, California, September 17, 1934
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Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.
Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.
Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.
SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.
This feels like calibrating my normal detector
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do you think a poll should always have a nuance/other option
yes
no
nuance/other
Anonymous left a question.
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question! if a workplace is violating labor laws (which they often are) is there anything that prevents an employee from:
- printing out copies of the laws being violated, maybe with helpful highlights/summaries
- (and a helpful reporting hotline, if possible)
- taping these signs anonymously in the employee bathroom stalls
i know retaliation is something many workers worry about, but bathrooms at least still don’t have security cameras. so is this a practical and anonymous thing to do? and if so, why isn’t it more common?
They can’t have cameras inside the bathrooms, but they can have them pointing to the entrance of the bathrooms. They can figure out who put them up based on what time people went in and out. It would probably work the first couple of times, but retaliation would catch up pretty quick.
Tips if you do want to try something like this:
Don’t create it/print it at work or use company paper/tape - there’s a time to steal and there’s a time to be sneaky. This is sneaky time.
Hide the paper & tape before you arrive (purse, pocket, etc)
Do it during busy bathroom times - start of the day / during breaks when lots of people are coming and going
Be quick and silent
Don’t say anything to anyone about what you’re up to
- paper is easy to hide wrapped around the thigh/torso areas. which is a weird sentence to type but yeah.
- print shops (and LIBRARIES!) exist and can be quite cheap
- you can do one stall at a time (which helps the aforementioned security camera thing)
Print them as flyers then pay someone 50$ to flyer all the cars in the parking lot.
oooo or enlist a friend to do it as a favor. your brain is huge and globulous
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I know most people don’t care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.
Please don’t vote for Poilievre. He’s basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.
Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He’ll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.
Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren’t Canadian.
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> sees complaints that a female character looks “too masculine” or “like an ugly lesbian”
> ask if we got an actual butch character or if shes just a normal looking woman that isnt wearing make up and a dress
> person is visibly confused, i start explaining the difference between actual butch presentation and dress and a woman simply dressing comfortably to avoid indecent exposure
> person laughs and says “she straight up looks like a guy, i can barely tell her apart from the actual men”
> google the character
> shes just a normal looking woman that isnt wearing make up and a dress
> sees complaints that a female character looks “too masculine” or “like an ugly lesbian”
> ask if we got an actual butch character or if shes just a black woman
> person is visibly confused, i start explaining the difference between actual butch presentation and dress and how black women are held to white standards of femininity and are often accused of looking like/being men because of white people applying these standards to them
> person laughs and says “she straight up looks like a guy, i can barely tell her apart from the actual men. why are you bringing race into this?”
> google the character
> shes just a black woman
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everyone’s trying to stump the akinator so i’m gonna try and see if he’ll know that i’m thinking of the little symbol on the front of his turban
come on it hasn’t even been 10 fucking seconds
GOD DAMN IT
i fucking hate this stupid piece of shit genie fuck him i hate him so fucking much
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The episodes contain all available subtitles in 1080p. Open them with VLC Media Player, select “Subtitles” and choose the subtitles you’d like.
Same goes for:
S02E04-06 “Woe’s Hollow”, “Trojan’s Horse” and “Attila”,
S02E01-03 “Hello, Ms. Cobel”, “Goodbye, Ms. Selvig” and “Who Is Alive?”,
As well as the entirety of S01. Please note, that in order to enjoy subtitles with Season 01, they will have to be inserted manually via the zipped “Subtitles” folder enclosed. Start the episode with VLC Media Player, select “Subtitles”, then “Subtitle Track”, and select the corresponding episode’s prefered subtitle. The subtitles do not persist between opening and closing the file.
Should there be any issues or concerns, check this post’s comments or let me know what I can assist you with.
Praise Kier.
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It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be
