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Once upon a time, there was a princess.

#pokemon #oc #ocs #venonat #venonat pokemon #pokemon venonat #I TOLD YOU THIS ONE IS SPECIAL!!#princess venonat

So it turns out the distinction between size king and size queen is sex-based. This seems obvious. But I did wonder if it was gender-based and therefore mostly vibes.

#had some thoughts #okay more like I remembered having recently learned this information #for context #I first saw these terms in a discord server centered around queer shipping with like. Five thousand queer people in it.#surely you can understand how vibes-based everything is

Hhhhhh it feels like I quit all my hobbies to Be Productive and I'm fending off art block and burnout through sheer force of will. All I feel is this creature

#raaaaaaahhhh #MY BRAIN FEELS FRIED #I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY PLAYED UMAMUSUME IN AT LEAST A WEEK #I JUST GOT BACK INTO PROJECT SEKAI LAST MONTH AND I HAD TO CUT IT BACK OUT AGAIN #waaaaaaaaah #KAWAIIKON SAVE ME

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I think a big part of the reason Pokopia is hitting so hard for so many people is that we have had an absolute glut of post apocalyptic media that take the "humans are the monsters/disease/problem" angle. Even the most well meaning solar-punk I can think of often have this undercurrent of 'humanity's nature is inherently short sighted and exploitive and they must constantly be kept in check to protect the environment' which slides very quickly into 'the world would be better off without humans in it to complicate and threaten things'.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

And that. That hits.

Tomorrow I find out if I got into the BFA program...