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Call me Wired - 32 - She/Her - Queue posts game recordings daily at 6 PM EST

[girldraki]

[katiemonz]

happy belated birthday blue rat

tails will put your ass on blast dont even doubt

[wiredelta]

a fun problem I've never experienced before is my girlfriend falling asleep on my arm before I've taken my meds lmao

[iceghosto]

I couldnt not draw this

[janglingargot]

quit laughing, you guys, she is having a crisis here :')

[iceghosto]

Poor Peppermint is in so much distress

[thatll-do]

@demilypyro

[aesungaia]

Everyone's Friend

[snakebites-and-ink]

Former living weapon absolutely dominating at laser tag

[seymourworld]

sometiimes girls go awawa

[girlfromcomputer]

Estrogen has not made me vain my analytical mind just requires I look at my ass in the mirror whenever I'm in the bathroom. Yes every time. Yes I have to jiggle it a little.

[targetedknowledge]

[toskarin]

oh my god

[blxnc]

there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.

i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”

[blxnc]

making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizard’s fault i feel this way, im sure i’d feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name

[thesquishyfish]

the view from the friiway

[squeakitties]

mario canyon break

[coldstream]

i love having friends who can communicate like adults it's so cool

[coldstream]

imagine being like "hey this made me feel bad" and they're like "oh sorry i'll try to be better about that" and that's all it is

[free-my-mindd]

[diedoffscreen]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[soup-mother]

Bro who even cares about the violent enforcement mechanisms of the status quo that come down on you especially harshly because of your status as a trans woman and shape your relationship with the world and your actions within it? Just do what you want dude.

[asha-mage]

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.