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the second the new remakes dropped people mass uploaded their mods for the game that they totally didn’t make before it dropped officially and the absolute best one is the one that scales the pokemon to be canon with their pokedex entries

chickenmcnuggies

NOW THIS IS HOW POKEMON WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED

sillysunshinesstuff

Y'all don't understand. I love this man.

bluef00t

Tobey Maguire Spider-Man "it's a hard knock life" fancam hours

boastmalone

How does it feel to have conceptualized the perfect Spider-Man trailer op

endofthelinecaptain

#critical role #every single episode in c3 #Robbie does something that I find either absolutely hilarious or utterly charming that I want him to stay forever #he does add an entire additional dynamic to the group #what the fluff #what happened to it? did I eat it?#plus I like his character #poor stressed young trying his best Dorian

nerdygaymormon

elodieunderglass

“Them/their hills”

funnytwittertweets

#my soul escaped my body

thequantumwritings

Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

foxtail-j

Common is the human language could also be the result of humans having been the civilization that got beat up by all the other major civilizations. Less modern or even recent English, and more English makes no sense because once upon a time everyone invaded England (yay Romans, yay vikings, yay Gaelic culture, yay the French, yay...!) not the other way around. It doesn’t need to be framed as oh woe is humans either, depending on WHY their butts got kicked, or even, what type of take over happened. Really, in fantasy, you could get away with humans being the baby race that the other older races did a history-long hand off of the squalling things, and common as human language is English as a pidgin that absorbed things from all its babysitters, leaving off any of that stereotypical race-based violence. Or, you know. If humans *were* the baby society, now they’re the moody teenage society that everyone really hopes gets out of their dumb phase real soon now.

#I wish earlier English history was more remembered #like absolutely imperialism very much a big bad #but linguistically English is so messed up because its foundation had a nice good era of having words and grammar pounded into it #I think the big human-centric problem is that the human language is called 'common'#like hm #what is the name of the human country in that case?#commonith?#commonland?#that sounds so hilariously bad #but it would be amazing if humans were like but no of course where we live is common!#like a small child naming their brown stuffed rabbit 'brownie' what originality

bunjywunjy

i'm surprised you don't seem to have done any cursed biology posts about seahorses--got any cursed/blessed facts about them?

have you ever noticed how seahorses seem so... weirdly stiff?

they move almost more like a terrible 3D render than a fish.

but it turns out there's a good reason for this!

it's becauuussee....

THIS MAN.

HE IS. ALL BONES.

ihavefoundthevaguestvoid

Seahorse bones look like how the Halloween animal skeleton designers think animal skeletons work

femgirlfriend-moved

foxtail-j

This is my cat when he forgets there is such a thing as an edge to the bed.

happifying-things

here’s your damn fish

ask-swagger-dagger-trolls

(Y E E T)

eristhenat

Justice

Recent tarot-style commission of Hannah for @clarissaexplainingitall , thank you so much again!

bunabi

and a paintover ❤️

nipuni

Some more of these two 😊

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon on december 1st!

heavensims

Even though I am beyond ecstatic about the remaster, I think it’s important to appreciate how flawless the originals are.

oldboxofbarbsstuff

Me playing Pokemon 10 years ago:

Oh man if only pokemon was real I WOULD BE THE VERY BEST my fucking overlevelled team of 6 dragons eats these pussy-ass NPC youngsters for breakfast, I would be a fucking GODDESS among men, I would tame the fiercest legendaries of every region and scale the ranks of every league and maybe one day when I’m older even settle down somewhere and open my own gym-

Me playing pokemon now:

Dude how amazing would it be to just. .. own a tiny house somewhere near the Kalos flower fields. Have my Poliwrath help me water my crops. I wish I could wake up and comb my alolan Dugtrio’s mane before I start the day…. My Sunfloras may not be that great in battle but look how happy they are, greeting the first morning light…!

Hey is that a young trainer coming this way? His team looks tired, I bet one of my freshly-baked Tropius banana pies could heal ‘em right up… he’ll probably need this TM more than I do, too…