DNI: No pedo/incest posters, bigots and -phobes, no aroace gatekeepers etc. No discourse, this is meant to be a chill blog!
If you need anything tagged or if I rb something I shouldnโt, please let me know! Have a good day and enjoy your stay!
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FOR POSTS I MAKE
ramblingonandon - my generic talk tag!
translated - there arenโt a lot of posts like this, but sometimes Iโll add on with translations of captions or dialogue for Japanese posts if I can read enough of it!
Soulgaming - my game liveblogs! Either anecdotes, screenshots, or videos from my files! Thereโs also specific tags per game:
Soulgamingpmd - for my Mystery Dungeon playthrough posts, including Red Rescue Team (emulated) and DX
Soulgamingpla - for my Legends: Arceus playthrough posts
Soulgamingswsh - my Shield playthrough posts!
Soulgamingscavi - my Scarlet playthrough posts!
FOR REBLOGS
In general, my tagging system is straightforward - I tag pokemon and npc/trainer name(s), I tag post/file type (art, video, screenshots) - but I also have more specific tags!
Artist tags
Favorite artists will get their username at the time of posting/queueing added onto the post! I also tag the username if the artist/editor is deactivated.
deleted work - Same principle as above applies if the blog exists but the post was deleted - or, if the art was reposted and the original source is no longer there.
* Deleted work/deactivations and translations are the only times I tolerate reposts of unofficial artists on this blog for the record - if I post a repost and seem unaware feel free to let me know!
Pokemon-centric tags
shiny pkmn - catchall for All shiny pokemon - specific pokemon have their own tag as โshiny [pkmn]โ
regis - group tag for the Regi group! Will include any combo of regis
eeveelutions - for posts with All eeveelutions (+ Eevee)
Type tags
Done entirely by vibes and preferences rather than technical accuracy (e.g. I have dark and fairy tags, but only tag Morgrem under dark) - I tag for:
ghost
fairy
dark
water
Tags by source
RBY - yellow
GSC
RSE
Colosseum - Dogs In Love
FRLG
XD: Gale of Darkness - Dogs In Love
PMD - pmd1 (Red/Blue rescue team); friend areas ; eos (also eot/eod); pmd dx
dppt
HGSS - pokeathalon
BW / BW2
XY - Pokemon Amie
ORAS
SuMo (also covers ultra sun/moon)
swsh - crown tundra, isle of armor, pokemon camp
pla
scavi - teal mask
POKEANI - Ash saga further tagged by region: kantoani ; johtoani; hoennani; sinnohani ; alolani ; galarani - movies are sub-tagged by title. Pokemon Horizons; Twilight Wings
The TINIEST spoiler for a side mission in Legends ZA but I LITERALLY SQUEALED when I saw this, if I didn't turn around in the building I was in I may have missed this forevermore, it's the first job Corbeau gives you for.... things, BUT STILL HEY-
ITS HIM, ITS THE GUY, IN A DUTSY HAUNTED OFFICE BUILDING!!!!!
With the pokemon teraleak going on and having those certain writings come to light... god do I hate being in the "has no reading comprehension" fandom more than ever.
Throwing aside how annoying the jokes about "omg pedo typhlosion???? Um not like us amiright????" and "lmao theres canon pokephilia smut i guess thats why its called game FREAK harharhar!!!" are, what really worries me is the people that are unironically treating what is clearly stories based on real life japanese myths/folk tales as being fetish slop. I've seen people suggest that the only way someone could write that is by being "wrong in the head", saying it was written by someone with a zoophilia/rape fetish, or saying things like "of course it's fucked up and weird it's written by japanese people".
With those descriptions you would expect that they found some ao3 dead dove level explicit fics in the files or something, but then you actually go to read it and it's just... nowhere near like that. They're beautiful written folklore tales set in a time where people still didn't have a grasp about Pokemon and so wrote about them similar to yokais: powerful supernatural entities that mingle with humans to either teach them morals or just mess with them. Hell, even before these leaks it was known that Typhlosion was based on the yokai Mujina (a shape-shifting badger), so it makes sense that it would be placed in a story where it transforms into a man to deceive a girl (whose age is never even specified in the writing, but people immediately decided it was a child so they could make pedo jokes and be shocked).
While sexual relations/assault is present in the stories, it is mentioned incredibly vaguely to the point that accusing its presence to be because of a fetish is laughable. The most explicit line you can pull up is "the man had relations with the Octillery and threw it back into the ocean". It is obvious to me that anyone who is shocked by this simply has never dabbled into any real myths and legends, because if they did they'd know how common story beats like that are in any folklore story around the globe.
It's a damn shame people can't act like adults regarding mature themes, because there could be interesting conversations regarding the information shown in the myths for world-building and the importance behind eyes, hearts and voices that is repeated in some of them. But instead we'll just get unfunny porn jokes and lowkey racism against japanese people. A damn shame.