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Call me Moss. Engineer. Splatoon enthusiast. Ska, punk, and Nintendo, plus memes. twitch.tv/TheSplatMoss

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FEARSOME 5 FROM PAPER MARIO

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One aspect of early pokemon in the USA that doesn't get remembered much is that Mew existing at all was debated, even with Mew being mentioned in the cinnabar mansion and Mewtwo existing at all, there were plenty of Mew deniers that claimed there were only 150 pokemon. Yeah Mew kind of appeared in the intro to the anime but it was surrounded in a shimmering light that made it difficult to actually see, some assumed it was just Mewtwo glowing with power or something.

Mew didn't appear in any episodes, and was not included in the pokerap, we didn't see any merchandise of it for a while, even things that included every pokemon excluded Mew, hell, pretty sure the official pokemon guidebook's second edition is only justified because they updated it with Mew and the few Gen 2 pokemon that appeared in the pokemon movie. Literally Mew was basically treated like a pokemon cryptid like Pikablue and Doomsay until promotions for Pokemon the First Movie started appearing.

And that's why Mew is the only pokemon that ever really felt truly mythical to me, it didn't have a cool story event to retrieve it like some of the later pokemon got ( not that it matters since most of those events were never widely available to most players ) but it's mythology is the only one that kind of spilled over into the real world, and you can never really re-capture that in the modern world where internet spoils all the mystery and mythic pokemon are unceremoniously dumped in your lap over wi-fi.

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me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

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hedgehog stew

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studying the old masters (Ed Roth)

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Magnezone -- nagimiso

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I am always saying this during museum visits

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Little Twerp getting Got (dramatization).

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in an astounding coincidence, the right level of technology happens to be the exact one I was surrounded with growing up

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happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes