#weird conversations

[christophernotcolumbus]

My neighbor warned me he was gonna be smoking and I was just like.. go for it? Yipee? Said he needed to practice smoking because there's a company get together. Valid. And then he finally said something about hoping the brisket tastes good, and that convo hasn't left my mind yet

[rayden-cabin-13]

I don’t remember taking this photo-

Lwk go past me, I’m so confused.

I don’t remember if I did send it or not….

[gamewizardsclub]

Barry, the eeviepokemaniac, has a question: If legendary Pokémon are deemed genderless, why is Mother Lugia with that of Silver? Being asexual counts as a gender, at least to a degree or extent (asexual reproduction means the sex is female)

Thiccc badge replied-

You don't need a gender in order to split your cells. Examples of asexual reproduction include binary fission (bacteria, amoeba), budding (yeast, hydra), fragmentation (flatworms, starfish), sporogenesis (fungi, ferns), and vegetative propagation (plants like strawberries, potatoes).

Lugia could literally split (tho that seems unlikely with lore). Or create a bulge which falls off becoming its own Mon. Or chop off it tail slowpoke style and grow its tail back while the tail grows a new body. Or an egg pops out (which could denote female, but considering daycare just finds eggs and there's no proof that male or female has anything to do with it (ditto is agender and is used as a breeding ho) and it just grows into a pokemon.

That's probably relatively how all mons are made and gender just comes up for shits and giggles

Goth badge replied-

I like to think most legendary mons are all genderless and when they speak/use a specific vocal tone that comes across as Male or Female, it's simply because they like the tonal range and has nothing to do with their gender identity at all. As for breeding, birds will literally lay eggs even if they didn't mate simply because they're biologically inclined to do so when the habitation is beneficial for egg production, so who's to say Pokemon aren't able to just lay eggs willy nilly and sometimes those eggs just happen to be fertile? Weirder stuff has happened in Pokemon before so legendaries being able to make more of themselves asexually or such doesn't feel very far-fetched (pun intended) in comparison.

Hollownest badge replied-

So the genderless pokemon and Legendary pokemon get pretty confusing, so let's break it down:

First, genders. Pokemon basically has 3 genders, with male, female, and "gender unknown". And it's that third gender is where things get interesting. The original Japanese text translates to "sex unknkown", so we can infer that the intended meaning is that the Pokemon's gender/sex is literally unknown and potentially impossible to determine, and is not meant to mean that they are a specific third gender or a species that gender simply does not apply to (try asking a desk lamp if it's a boy or a girl). Due to this, it can be argued that Pokemon has a massive number of genders if we assume that each Gender Unknown species is its own unique gender (i.e. Magnezone gender).

In terms of functional categorization, however, it makes sense to lump all Gender Unknown Pokemon into the same category, as the observable characteristics of all Gender Unknown Pokemon are identical. Every Gender Unknown Pokemon is immune to infatuation, cannot use Attract or Captivate, is ignored by Rivalry, and is unable to breed with other members of their Egg Groups. From a practicality perspective of breeding and battling, simply saying Gender Unknown or the technically inaccurate Genderless is the most useful and widely adopted approach.

There are currently 155 Gender Unknown species of Pokemon, making up 15.12% of all known Pokemon species. Of these, all but 40 are in the No Eggs Discovered Egg Group (which includes Lugia), and one of those 40 is Ditto, which is an Arcues-send for breeders but an absolute aneurism for scholars due to how it makes everything much much weirder. To make things even more complicated, some Genderless Pokmeon *are* able to produce eggs, but only with the assistance of a Ditto. Not any other members of their Egg Groups, not even with other members of their own species. Just Ditto. And then some can't do that. So let's go over the different 'types' of Gender Unknown Pokemon to get a better understanding of what we're dealing with.

1. Pokemon that do not have the anatomy to support reproduction. Everything from your Magnemite to Porygon to Dhelmise. Strangely, there are a number of Pokemon that would fit this description that have genders anyways, such as Muk or Chandelure.

2. Pokemon based of creatures that reproduce asexually. Specifically for Staryu and Starmie.

3. Pokemon that are multiple creatures. Falinks, Tandemaus, and Maushold fall under this category as a result of being single species' that are made up of multiple members of presumably disparate genders (especially in Maushold's case). Strangely, other multiple-bodied Pokemon actually have discernable genders, such as Exeggcute and Dugtrio. Especially strange in Exeggcute's case, since it is known to have individuals leave one group and join another.

4. Pokemon that should not exist. The Paradox Pokemon, which are implied to be fabricated from fiction, as well as the Galarian Fossil Pokemon, which are chimeric in origin and thus do not have proper biology. Also includes Type: Null, Silvally, Genesect, and Mewtwo

5. Pokemon that are aliens. The Ultra Beasts are too alien to our understanding of life to try and accurately gague what genders they may or may not be. Deoxys is Deoxys.

6. Pokemon that are unique entities. Pokemon like Mew, Arceus, Jirachi, the Temporal Trio, Legendary Heroes, The Swords of Justice, and so on are less species and more of mythological characters. These are the Pokemon with specific backstories and often supernatural origins. But to make things more complicated, some unique entities *do* have genders, like Ogrepon, Terapagos, the Loyal Three, and the Forces of Nature.

7. Other. These are the Gender Unknown Pokemon that kind of just confuse me and necessitate the verbage of "Gender Unknown" and "No Eggs Discovered". Lugia had a baby. Manaphy can lays Phione eggs, but not Manaphy eggs, but is always being shown hatching *from* a Manaphy egg in almost every appearance. What lays the Manaphy egg? And what the hell is going on with Meltan? There's also the thing where supposedly unique entities like Celebi and Rayquaza have shiny versions of themselves canonically running around. There are even regional forms of the Legendary Birds, indicating that they really are just exceptionally rare and nothing more.

8. Ditto. I am too eepy right now to articulate why Ditto angers me so much

. . .

"Hey Yveltal, what gender are you?"

"DEATH"

"oh ok"

Also the Legendary Beasts having a whole Shiny trio mucking about implies that rather than Raikou Entei and Suicune being fully unique, Ho-oh just occasionally revives dead dogs with slight deviations. So yeah fuck it maybe Walking Wake, Raging Bolt, and Gouging Fire were just *really* early takes on Ho-oh reviving dead lizards or something

"Hey Solgaleo are you a boy or a girl?"

"I am a cosmic construct born of stars. Your kind often refers to me as male, but the notion of genders does not actually apply to me."

"neat. Hey Lunala, what gender are you?"

"Still not how that works, but I suppose you can call me female. Human mythology often relates the moon to femininity, and I like how it sounds."

"yeah that's fair. Hey Necrozma, what gender would you say you are?"

"I AM IN CONSTANT PAIN"

"ok but what's your sex?"

"ETERNAL SUFFERING"

"ok but what are your pronouns?"

"HELP/ME"

[searenbound]

At this point it’s just funny whenever I talk about the weird conversations I have with my mom. Unfortunately she knows about alpha/omega dynamics, how do I know? She with a straight face told me she could see me as an alpha because I’m very headstrong take charge when things need to get done.

I was assigned alpha by my mother who clearly doesn’t know me as well as she thinks because I’m just a headstrong omega

[spacexlover34]

interaction I had earlier today

Me:*drawing Henry Jekyll from TGS*

Friend 1:why is he wearing a dress?

Me: No its a coat.

Friend 2: Jekyll is a drag queen?

My brain and consequently me basically immediately: Jekyll does drag and his stage name is Edward Hyde.

[dddemigirl]

So do you want a cookie? A medal? What?

[waterlilycrayon]

So I just remembered this time a cult tried to get me to join it at least I believed it was it was a weird interaction at the very least. I thought someone would find it entertaining so I thought I’d share. It happened while I was at work. It was this group of women they all looked like teenagers or young adults with one adult man. They looked around the store for a bit before going over to me. I was cleaning so they walked up to me, only the women did though not the man he hung back. I was the only woman in the store because it was close to closing, and they threw a paper, that was really crinkled and messed up, on the counter I was cleaning but not before giggling and trying to push one another to go talk to me. Then they asked if I wanted to go to their Christmas party mind you my coworker was right behind me and he was a guy but they didn’t ask him too, only me. I kinda froze because I’m at work and I suck at talking to people I don’t know so my brain is set in my little scripted speech I have for customers to greet them. I stutter for a minute and make some excuse of going to a church with my ex who wasn’t my ex at the time on that day and then the guy that was with them suddenly walked up annoyed and was asking me a bunch of questions about it. Then when they were leaving they took the paper with them and never offered it to my coworker like they had me the guy even maid a point to tell the women to grab it before they left. The weirdest part was that my coworker was next to me and they never talked to them or my other coworkers that were just a bit of a ways off that were also male. It was just really bizarre. Sadly not the weirdest interaction I’ve had with a customer before nor the worst I kinda wish it was.

[potato1258]

I'm so weird convention I did enjoy Wonder good book but I didn't really care for the story it was nice the movie was good I guess the active good but I couldn't even get into the story because I don't really like realistic fiction or or nonfiction so it ended up I can't really get into the stories wonder story was a very good story very inspiring for young disabled people and to make sure siblings of disabled people don't feel bad for maybe not understanding or having a tough time dealing with this like they're not a bad person for having struggle with this I just said I couldn't really get into it it wasn't my type story you know it was a good story but I didn't really like to watch it it was kind of weird