Refined Punfessional

22, INFP, 4w5, Rogue of Mind, Steel/Fairy type, asexual. Banner made by lowqualityhomestuckedits.

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Pokemon Centers have Chanseys and Audinos, but what about Poke Marts?

Meet the flying-type Cashay, the Store Pokemon. "Cashay like to collect valuable items and barter them for food and other needs. They hide their goods in their sack to avoid attracting Murkrow."

Cashay can have the ability Pickup or Treasure Trove, a new ability that ups defense when holding a valuable item.

Female Cashays have no eyebrow marks, and shiny Cashay is cash green with golden yellow highlights.

[violetsandshrikes]

entomologists are the most fucking wild people ive ever met

i pointed out a cool wasp to one and she just picked it up with her bare hands and started showing me different features she was using to identify the species

on a walk with another one he just paused, turned, violently shoved his hand into some rotting wood and offered me a tunnel web spider like oh okay i guess-

[skoomabong]

[karhs]

when i was in college i did larp shit and one of the guys in the group was an entomology student and i once watched him drop directly to a plank position in the middle of a swordfight to look at a moth on the ground

[violetsandshrikes]

entomologists are the most fucking wild people ive ever met

i pointed out a cool wasp to one and she just picked it up with her bare hands and started showing me different features she was using to identify the species

on a walk with another one he just paused, turned, violently shoved his hand into some rotting wood and offered me a tunnel web spider like oh okay i guess-

[skoomabong]

[karhs]

when i was in college i did larp shit and one of the guys in the group was an entomology student and i once watched him drop directly to a plank position in the middle of a swordfight to look at a moth on the ground

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Zuba losing her first pokemon in a nuzlocke.

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Lime Jengo was originally going to look a lot like Norre's grass gym leader, Leif, but @billfrancois beat me to the design. Out of respect for his seniors, Lime has come to Norre learn about gardening from the best.

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Meet Lime Jengo, Igneous's 10 year old grandson. Lime is a goody-two-shoes with a passion for gardening. His newly discovered epithet, *Afford,* allows him to plant money in the ground and grow various types of money plants. Unfortunately most people would consider that counterfeiting or hyperinflation, which are illegal, so he's only allowed to use his epithet on play-money such as Monopoly.

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It is Valentime. To celebrate being single, I decided to practice self care by going on a walk in my local sculpture garden. Here are my favorite ones I saw:

"On a Roll" by Jack Hill. This was a recent installment that I greatly appreciate.

"Amore" by Kim Kori. It sure is, girl.

And "A Friend Indeed" by Dan Ostermiller. It looks like one big bunny from far away, which makes it even better than it already is.

To show my appreciation of this art, I present my own artistic interpretation through colored pencils:

[translesbianorchestra]

ok gamers im so sorry for making u do math but! i think it will be cool!!

look at the current votes! add the individual digits together, then add the individual digits together of that number until you get a single digit number

example -> 3689 votes ->

3 + 6 + 8 + 9 = 26 ->

2 + 6 = 8

idk what this will show but i think it will be neat

if you vote please reblog to obtain more data

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Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

[enby-devil]

So, the themes in Prison of Plastic, huh?

I mean, this book is really, REALLY densely-packed with themes that are all interwoven with each other and with all of the characters in ways that make them difficult for me to explain coherently.

Fortunately, with the power of ADHD, anything is possible.

Starting with one of the biggest themes, and one that’s connected to the most other themes and that’s the most connected to Molly, is the deconstruction of heroism.

Throughout the book, Molly does almost everything with one goal in mind; to help and protect her friends, no matter the cost to herself. She repeatedly tries to dissuade her friends from helping her stop Lorelai because she’s afraid they’ll get hurt (and because she thinks they’ll only make her job harder, which is part of another theme that heavily intersects with this one).

She tries to talk down Lorelai and when that doesn’t work, straight-up concedes to her, not because she wants to, but because she thinks it’s the only way to protect her friends. Hell, her entire life at this point is essentially being forced into doing everything for her family. That’s not only INCREDIBLY heroic, that’s as close to true heroic SELF-SACRIFICE as one can realistically get! And as Epithet Erased shows us, it’s incredibly toxic!

Giovanni pulling Molly into being a villain is, on a literal scale, because he likes being a villain, yes, but symbolically he’s actively pulling Molly away from this kind of mentality. Molly says it herself at the end of chapter 12: Heroes spend their whole lives doing everything for everyone else.

Giovanni and the rest of her friends help her to realise that’s not who she wants to be or what she wants to do. Because it’s a hero’s job to sacrifice everything to help others, but it sure as hell shouldn’t have to be Molly’s.

This ties into the second theme of friendship and the importance of accepting help from friends. Unsurprisingly, this theme is heavily connected to Molly’s friends, and Rick in particular.

Rick’s relationship with Molly is one of my favourites in the entire series, and part of it’s because Rick serves in some capacity as both a foil AND a parallel to Molly. As a parallel, his life in the arena perfectly mirrors Molly’s life of sacrificing everything in vain to help others. As a foil, though, he is an exact opposite of Molly’s mentality that she’s better off doing everything alone.

There’s a reason that, despite Trixie and Feenie spending the better part of the day trying to convince Molly to let them help her, only Rick was able to get Molly to accept her friends’ help at the end of chapter 8, and it’s because in escaping his parallel to Molly's life, he is LITERALLY living proof to Molly that having friends to help you is a GOOD thing.

And the thing is, it IS a good thing! Throughout the book, Molly only seems to view Trixie and Feenie’s involvement in the dreamworld as a hindrance because she has to pull double duty protecting them on top of stopping Lorelai. But she’s WRONG.

Feenie gets through the Spelling Bee just as easily as if Molly had done it herself. Trixie gets Molly across the chasm at the end of chapter 6. Rick gets Molly to Giovanni in time using Trixie’s powers (at least tangentially). Trixie and Feenie messing up Lorelai’s cookies and tampering with the hourglass directly causes every event from chapter 10 onwards, up until and including Giovanni rescuing Molly.

Just like how Rick managed to escape Ocean Country because of his friends, Molly managed to escape her neglectful family because of hers. Rick places so much emphasis on friendship because he gains his powers from his friends, but on a deeper level having her friends to help her was objectively better for Molly, and it’s thanks to Rick that she fully realises that by the end of chapter 12.

Another theme that relates to the book’s deconstruction of Molly’s heroism is also one that Jello had to point out on Twitter for me to notice (I am not a literary expert): The difference between breaking the rules to help people and being unable to help because of the rules.

This theme is mostly connected to Naven and Giovanni. Naven does everything in his power to help Molly. He calls Child Protection Services on Martin, but they don’t find anything wrong and so don’t help. He tries to relieve her financial issues as much as he can, but Martin is too irresponsible with money for it to actually help, and Naven still has a massive business to keep afloat, which means he can’t risk breaking the law either.

Naven doesn’t have that big of a role in the narrative, but in terms of the book’s themes, he’s a perfect example of society’s failure to help people like Molly, and how the people with power, both in society and in Molly’s life, are too incompetent and ignorant to help her.

Giovanni, on the other hand, straight-up kidnaps Molly. And it WORKS. He rebels against the law, against society, and in doing so he helps her more than any facet of society has been able to.

This once again ties into his role as a villain and the deconstruction of heroism in the book. In order to escape the trappings of heroism, Molly has to receive help from a villain: someone who actively opposes and defiles the law. Jello said on stream that “Molly wouldn’t be caught dead following the law”, and it makes complete sense: from Molly’s point of view, the law has done nothing but hurt her.

I can pin down more themes, most of which are connected to Lorelai and Martin. But I’m too tired to keep writing. Maybe I’ll ramble about them another time.

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I made an OC for Epithet Erased. Igneous Jengo is an ex electrical engineer and now a safety inspector for OSHA, or whatever the in-canon equivalent is. When he learned his epithet, Engine, he heard a lot of horror stories about motorcycle accidents, so he always takes safety precautions for everything, including wearing knee and elbow pads at all times. He is also a family man with a loving wife, kids and grandkids, and he loves them all back tenfold.

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Merry Christmas to my other sister and her roommate.

[theaceofshovels]

My friend hunted a shiny Rowlet and named him Naven, which sparked my inspiration to draw him in a decidueye drip. Glad I managed to convince that friend to watch the show because now we just talk about the stupid apple man a lot.

Maybe I’ll render these fully at some point or maybe I’ll draw him as Rowlet too eventually who knows!

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"Look upon me mortals and tremble! You may have known the ghost of my former self, but he is gone - cast into the flames and reborn! Like a phoenix wearing sunglasses and a really cool hat!"

- Giovanni Potage Vincent Murder

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Reblogging this in celebration of Prison of Plastic! Fantastic work @jelloapocalypse!

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I have an idea for a Pokemon gimmick: Defensive Offense Moves. The idea is that your Pokemon blocks the opponents move with their own move. If the opponent's move is still stronger, it will still hit you with what's left. Otherwise, the damage is fully blocked.

i.e. a Golem is about to Rock Slide my Crobat, so I have her use Steel Wing defensively. Steel resists rock, so Rock Slide is not very effective instead of super effective. But since Golem hits like a truck he breaks through anyway. The remaining damage returns to normal (x2 after being halved by type matchups, returning to x1) and then does a bit of super effective rock damage against my flying type (x2).

To prevent this from being abused, let's say this defensive offense can only be used again after 2 turns, as opposed to 1 turn defensive moves like Protect. Defensive Offense also count as defensive moves, so you can't use Defensive Offense after using Protect, and Protect will have 30% accuracy for the turn after using Defensive Offense.

I don't think the competitive side of Pokemon would like this gimmick very much since stall isn't very fun to play against, but I think it adds a bit of creativity that can only be found in the anime and comics. Changing your type temporarily with coverage moves also feeds into this. It makes the world feel more, what's the word, inviting? Lived in? That may make it better suited for a Pokemon dnd campaign or the likes than a core series entry, so here it is for anyone to steal with credit.