Sam Leonhart literally everywhere else. Iām perpetually tired and never sleep enough for work. Fandom, musings, whatever comes to mind. Donāt expect consistency.
Akari tries to use Dialga and Palkia to summon the man in Ingoās memory, and ends up summoning Elesa instead. With the Dynamo Model in Hisui, what will Akari and Ingoās life be like going forward?
Relevant Tags: Light Angst, Memory Restoration, Reunion, Healing, Pizza, Polyamory, Blankshippers DNI
Relevant Characters: Akari/Hikari, Ingo, Elesa, Emmet, Volo
Relevant Pairings: Romantic: Elesa/Ingo, Elesa/Emmet, Elesa/Skyla (Mentioned); Platonic: Akari & Rei, Akari & Ingo & Elesa, Ingo & Emmet
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Chapter by Chapter and Outlines
Chapter 1: Koraid-ing into Hope. Akari aims for Ingoās brother and gets his closest friend and girlfriend instead. (2057 words)
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Chapter 2: An Additional Coupling.Ā Ingo deals with flashes of familiarity and awakened memories as Elesa figures out what she is doing in Jubilife. (2240 words)
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Chapter 3: Dealing with their Devils.Ā Two much needed conversations are had. Ingo learns about who he is, and Akari comes up with a better plan. (4632 words)
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Chapter 4: An Excadrill-ating Day.Ā Elesa gets to know her coworkers in Jubilife, and gears up for battle. (3411 words)
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Chapter 5: Class 150 Vulcan Locomotive Vermillion -> Saffron. Ingo boards the train of memories while Elesa and Zisu finish their battle. (3896 words)
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Chapter 6: Chatting over Lunch.Ā With Ingo indisposed, Akari and Elesa take the day off to eat lunch with Irida and catch Elesa up. (3573 words)
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Chapter 7: Like a Big Pecha Pie. Ingo and Elesa celebrate Ingoās memories with a homemade pizza. (4096 words)
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Chapter 8: I am Emmet. Have You Seen My Wife?Ā Emmet gets some answers from Alola and Kukui is allowed to be badass. (2841 words)
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Chapter 9: All the Time in the World.Ā Life in Jubilife is easy when have family. Akari works on her Pokedex, Elesa gets used to her new jobs, and Ingo enjoys the company of those around him. (4054 words)
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Chapter 10: An Unexpected Disruption. Jubilife needs to expand with all of the incoming immigrants, and Ingo and Akari are the right people for the job! (4848 words) (Major Character Injury)
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Chapter 11: Living on the Honedge. Elesa reacts. To future knowledge, to absurd advice, and to a tumble. (5386 words) (Major Character Injury; Dissociation)
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Chapter 12: For Thou Could Not Recompense.Ā Akari deals with the consequences of her actions, and the others are not helping. (4160 words) (Dissociation and Mental Breakdowns)
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Chapter 13: I am Emmet. Do Not Worry About the Anti-Christ.Ā Emmet and Cynthia have a talk, and Volo tells his story. (3923 words) (Minor depictionsĀ of blood)
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Chapter 14: Hello God, itās Me.Ā What is God to a believer? Is He Hope? Is He Despair? To Akari, He is an insurmountable wall. To Emmet, a challenge to be wrestled into the dirt if He defies him. (6040 words)
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Chapter 15: Slaking Back at Home. While Akari has her coming to Arceus moment, Elesa tries to relax with Ingo. (4024 words)
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Chapter 16: Reunions. Hikari has to quickly figure out how she feels about her aunt, her uncleās brother, her worst enemy, and some kid. (3447 words)
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Chapter 17: A Two Car Train.Ā Ingo wakes up and reconnects. (4702 words)
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Chapter 18: I am Emmet. Thanks for the Hospitality.Ā Kamado has a talk with the travelers in his village, then Emmet tours Jubilife. (6175 words)
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Chapter 19: Whimsicott-al Adventures. Elesa and Emmet enjoy breakfast, then the gang discovers the world's first escape room. (5450 words)
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Additional Information and Works in Continuity
Electric Trains Timeline (Evolving Post) - Playing with Time means that Time gets a little funky! As such, I decided to do an in-depth look at events, as well as giving some full names and information not planned for side stories.
Railroad DaisiesĀ is a side story set 1 year after Ingo disappeared. Emmet decides that it is finally time to hire a new Subway Boss so that he can keep all trains on schedule once more.
Chapter 1: Iām Not Your Boss. Hilda finds her nerves creeping up on her when Emmet calls her to the office. (4096 words)
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Chapter 2: Battle from the Heart. Emmet needs more trainers and Depot Agents, and Hilda needs to learn how to hire. Meanwhile, Rosa tries not to crush when she is caught off guard. (4596 words)
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Dragged from the WhorlĀ is a side story one-shot set in the decade before PLA, and focuses on how Kamado and Zisu met and their working relationship as mentor and student.
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Extra: Hikari Mifuneās Team!Ā Hikari Mifune rose to be the Champion of the Sinnoh Region before falling to Hisui. Here is her team!
Extra: Akariās Team! Akari may be the Survey Team darling star, but that doesnāt mean she went about it alone!
Influencing Works
The fic is influenced by a short comic from @/fluorescencefuture, which is transcribed into Chapter 1.
not to sound like the friend that's too woke but why does this police station toyset for a 5yr old need a weapons safe full of tiny toy-sized automatic rifles. just asking.
parents are allowed to straight-up torture their kids with zero consequences. they can withhold food and water, lock you out of shelter, confiscate your belongings, bar you from human contact, attack and harm you and exert complete control over your physical appearance. and this is just the norm. if you speak out against it you're seen as a delinquent or a predator. even otherwise progressive people get uncomfortable with the idea of dismantling the nuclear family unit because they still see it as the best way to keep kids safe when that simply couldn't be further from the truth. it's evil.
This is also part of why I'm so loud about homeschool reform, specifically in the USA.
In the US, there is no meaningful legal definition for educational/academic neglect in any of the 50 states or federally. What this means is that a child can be "homeschooled" and exclusively be taught how to cook and clean, reach the age of 18 being unable to read, write, or count, and this alone is not considered neglect. That 18yo, should they even have the knowledge that suing exists, has no legal grounds to sue their parents for denying them an education.
In over 40 US states, a convicted child abuser can homeschool their children. So someone who has done time for child abuse and somehow regains access to their child(ren) can decide upon returning home that they want to "homeschool" their kids. Those children are now locked in a home with their abuser where nobody can see them.
There are no welfare checks.
There are no routine assessments.
There aren't even databases ā state or federal ā keeping track of how many homeschooled kids there actually are.
Meaning a child can be locked in their home for their entire life with their convicted abuser, learn absolutely nothing, never go to the doctor, and so long as that child is fed, clothed, and the abuse isn't physical or sexual, that child has almost no chance of rescue and no legal ground to seek restitution if/when they escape.
The only way homeschooled children get rescued is if they're beaten, starved, or physically neglected and they're able to get the right person to see that. Otherwise? They have to wait until someone finds out they were murdered as a result of their parents "homeschooling".
And feral homeschool parents love to jump down my throat about this, and then get even more pissed when I tell them I'm a homeschool alumni.
Because I know it's not all homeschoolers. But even one is too many, and the lack of protections should scare everyone. If you're a good homeschool parent, nothing will change. If not, you deserve whatever comes your way as a result of adequate oversight.
Gets stuck in the past and makes a random village get way smarter and less violent in a generational sense because I keep smacking people over the head with a stick and telling them that itās the devilās metal whenever they try to use lead for something in my presence and there develops a very niche regionalized superstition that an angry warlock will jump out of a tree and beat the shit out of you if you touch lead with your bare hands
Gets excommunicated by the Catholic Church for telling people that they can banish the devil from their water if they boil it therefore saving hundreds of people from a cholera outbreak but I donāt care and keep trying to convince the locals to use soap more often
Gets seen as crazy when I say Iām distilling peppermint oil to banish the miasma but people start asking to have some real quick when the Black Death comes to town and I am unaffected due to my constantly minty fresh house repelling rodents and fleas alike
friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly
like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices
Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.
The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that havenāt run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by nativeās tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didnāt know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.
The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. Iāve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.
There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. Itās not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and itās unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.
The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and thatās quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.
I have a whole collection of Oregonās Public Broadcastingās documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they donāt listen.
#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies
oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils š„ŗš„ŗš„ŗ brb I will draw an artistās rendition
viral friendsgames characters ranked by how much I'd want to keep one as my weird cute pet
lethal company guys. They are cute when they do a little dance but to me they are grown human(?) theys with jobs and shit. Not a pet
Peak scouts. They are cute but they are also just weird multicoloured children & children also aren't pets. I'd give them lollipops and let them play on my phone though
Big Walkers. Theyre so cute and theyre just weird animals .... thats birds. They eat seeds i think. Docked points because based on the landscapes they explore theyre probably human sized .. a little awkward
REPO bots. SO cute.. id definitely keep one and it would waddle around.
MECCHA CAMELEON hiders. Theyre literally small and cute. I want one. I would try to take it to the vet and it would paint itself the colour of my wall to hide from me
Amonguses. Need i even say anything. The perfect cutes weird pet
in other developments re german/anglo cultural exchange on breadstuffs, this image was posted to a facebook group yesterday
the following events ensued:
1. predictable lively discussion on the preparation of Wienerschnitzel, in which natives and wurstaboos are pro-puff and everybody else is like *confused dog head tilt* why wouldnāt you want the crust to stay ~attached to the thing you put it on? as with other fried foods?
2. thirty āBad Schnitzel is my band nameā jokes
3. thirty āBad Schnitzel is my stripper nameā jokes
4. one āah yes, Bad Schnitzel! a lovely spa townā joke
unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.
By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.
There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.
That's queerbaiting.
Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.
The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.
Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.
formal menswear enthusiasts want to slut it up so bad but they're frightened. so they wear shirt-stays and sock garters under their clothes. this is my scientific theory it's making waves in the guyologist world right now
this is masculine lingerie. Feminine lingerie mostly came from similar things in women's fashion -- garter belts etc. I think there is a lot of room for developing it more, but this is, imo, absolutely masculine lingerie, and i wish men's fashion designers would start focusing on that more
since i've seen it asked what purpose sleeve garters serve:
Sleeve garters are just so you can keep your cuffs right where you want them, typically used professionally by people like bartenders, who are wearing dress shirts to do manual labor and don't want their cuffs brushing through spills when they are wiping down the bar etc... but also useful for keeping cuffs exactly the right length for your suit without having to tailor all your shirts, or, if you have several suit coats with slightly different length sleeves, you can always have your dress shirt's cuffs showing that perfect half inch below the suit sleeve or whatever the fashion is for the time
right now it's about 1/2 an inch, but that's the sort of thing, like tie length, that can change a little with fashion trends -- but basically, you never want your shirt cuffs to be doing this
Because that looks SO sloppy, right? Looks like you're wearing your father's shirt under your little brother's jacket
BUT! you do want the cuffs showing, like this
because it makes the suit sleeve look precise and on purpose, or you might push it and show even more if you are wearing nice cuff links
because this clearly still looks purposeful and precise, and shows off your jewelry.
often, fashion dictates taking any opportunity to show your layers -- for example in medieval europe it was fashionable to literally slash expensive outer garments so you could ALSO see some of the expensive clothing underneath, which is how before long you get "slashed" sleeve patterns like this becoming popular among the wealthy
(notice the roughly half inch of sleeve cuff showing at the bottom here as well)
So a sleeve garter allows you to keep your sleeve cuffs positioned exactly where you want them, for either fashion or activity
Wildest part too, I saw a clip of Helen's "disfigured" face... It wasn't even that bad. "500 ships" kiss my ass, she was gorgeous with the damn scars. Had Menelaus be an abusive husband for WHAT. That man went out into the field and demanded Paris do one on one combat for her.
"oh well it was to show the damage war did to Helen" WAS THE TEN YEARS FORCED TO SLEEP WITH A MAN SHE DIDN'T LIKE, LOSING TEN YEARS OF HER LIFE AND FAMILY, AND BEING BLAMED FOR ETERNITY FOR MEN AND GODS' BAD CHOICES NOT ENOUGH??
Like. Tell me you didn't actually understand The Iliad or The Odyssey without telling me. Tell me you still buy into the misogyny of White Male Classicists of yore. Blaming Helen in 2026. And doing that with a Black actress. Incredible!
Lupita. Lupita you are the most beautiful woman and you deserved a better movie than that.
