Professor Maple @professorreddmaple - Tumblr Blog

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Hi, I am Professor Reed Maple, pokémon behaviorist and general environmental scientist, ice cream enthusiast, and technically one of two co-professors in charge of the Almia Region, but Professor Isaac Fig is much more into technology than pokémon, so I do most of the running of the region’s trainer stuff, like handing out starters and handling the gym circuit and Pokémon Center building. I have a lab half-underwater in Pueltown Harbor so my human partner, Professor Devon Kelp, can use it for their marine biology studies. Partner Pokémon are Dewott and Pachirisu. Used to be a ranger here while on exchange, but now mainly just a scientist with a styler. I do still help the Ranger Union occasionally, especially with the Tears of Princes gemstones I worked with a lot during my exchange here. He/they is great for me!

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【公式】PokéMinutes | Homework Skitty

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fucking what

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everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

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“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

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wooper & wooper & wooper & wooper(s)

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New Scam Just Dropped

The bots are evolving. Maybe. Looks like they had AI write this maybe :/

Block and report.

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Commission of Psyduck and Quagsire for Daphne!

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D&D Pokemon!

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Sahra Upstart

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We here at Sylph Co. are proud to announce the opening of an official tumblr account. By manufacturing and distributing Pokéballs and Trainer Acessories, we're not just selling supplies, we're selling connections between people and pokémon

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I keep coming back to this, it’s such an incredible meta-commentary on capitalism and digital control.

Someone made a Tumblr account pretending to be the Pokeball monopoly in a fictional universe, and people made a “KUNG POW PENIS” string using the in-universe letter-shaped pokemon, followed by a pokemon (zorua) making a slamming blast towards the camera, completing the spell or whatever.

They’re mirroring the real-life “silence capitalist” attitude, against a real account pretending to be a fake corporation, using symbols from the fake corporation’s world. They’re pretending like this attitude exists in-universe. This attitude in part exists due to real-life corporations increasingly encroaching into social life and injecting their presence on social media, like this fictional corporation is doing. It works as a good joke!

The real-life Pokemon company, presumably, issues a takedown, or the corporation of Tumblr does so voluntarily on their behalf, taking down the fictional KUNG POW PENIS on a copyright claim.

In doing so, they’re protecting real corporate interests, against a bunch of people fake-insulting a fake corporation. The result looks exactly like the same pro-corporate control over media exists in-universe, as if the fictional company had issued a harassment or defamation takedown instead. In doing so, Tumblr advanced the joke even further by showing why the anti-corporate attitude would exist in a supposed Pokemon utopia.