Akari is technically like. a New Born Pokémon, so she has absolutely 0 control over her illusions and has been accidentally doing some funny stuff. On the way to Gear Station, while she was patiently waiting for the train to arrive, many people took pictures of what seemed like possibly the new Station Mascot, because she accidentally illusioned herself a gray Subway Boss hat.
One person almost stepped on her and they reflexively apologized, not expecting the Pokémon to talk back. Akari accidentally induced an auditory illusion to say “it’s okay!”
On her way to finding the twins she has probably been an accidental menace, and the reason she found the twins so quickly is because they were radioed in about some strange Pokémon running around Gear Station seemingly looking for something and disturbing some people. So they went out looking for her.
It very quickly becomes obvious that the “thing” she was looking for was the Subway Bosses. They have a very enthusiastic fan. Who happens to be an uncaught, weird looking Zorua??? Why does a wild Pokémon even know who the twins are, and how did they become such a big fan??
Then a train passes by and Akari, in a fit of excitement, accidentally throws another auditory illusion out. This time it’s her screaming “TRAIN!!!” at the top of her lungs. (With it being an illusion, it’s much louder than her real lungs would be able to produce, actually.)
And they’re like oh okay, This Zorua Autistic, nvm. They understand completely. Would not be the first Pokémon they’ve seen obsessed with their same special interest, their own Pokémon not included.
They take her to the break room for the time being. They still gotta check and make sure no one is looking for this Zorua, yup! She doesn’t register as caught, but you can never be sure!
DONâT LET THIS GO OUT OF CIRCULATION. ADD MORE ONTO IT. QUEUE IT. DONâT LET THIS SITE FUCKING FORGET. THIS TRIAL COULD HAVE MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WHOLE INTERNET.
i dont like the idea that kids these days are doing their fandom rps with ai chatbots. that’s how you’re supposed to make lifelong friends as a weird really online teen.
it’s because forums are dead. tumblrs become too janky to easily find communities and many are abandoned, twitter isn’t very intuitive for it, we don’t have mailing lists, facebook doesn’t really let you make character accounts anymore, and all the old “omegle but for role play” type websites died out ages ago. toy house exists, sure, but can be hard to get into and in my opinion is more oriented towards displaying art and designs rather than writing.
these days there just isn’t space to meet other online rpers and connect like there used to be. back in the day you could go to gaia, neopets, any number of pro boards and other custom forums, you could meet people in chat rooms, there were websites dedicated to rp matchmaking and ads, email lists and circles and “guilds”, tumblr communities, just unlimited networking options.
these days if you don’t have an established network your options are:
-reach out on mainstream social media (high risk of no one finding your profile, high risk of regular accounts finding your profile and being rude about it)
-join an MMORPG, LARP, or tabletop (not the same imo)
-get really into solo writing
-use the janky AI out of desperation
it sucks pretty bad but i feel like the best way to tackle the issue isn’t “ugh why do people use these awful bots” so much as “hey where the fuck DID all the role play networking websites go”
it’s the same energy as when people started wondering why kids don’t go outside anymore after they were banned from the malls
man the west just looooves thinking that every non-western country and nation is so underdeveloped and so primitive and so in need of help like this just reeks of racism and pretty much just the inability to even humour the idea that the countries that the west loves to think are below them are, in fact, better.
anywho props to all of the countries in africa.
âHow dare Africa not be an impoverished wasteland!â says Amerikkka.
Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012âŚ
Good post OP
Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest âNOT IN HEBREW IT DOESNâTâ as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.
WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC
Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say âforbidden.â Hereâs the thing:
1) The word translated as âforbiddenâ is âtoevah.â While that translation isnât ⌠wrong, itâs sort of like saying âMcMansionâ means âreally big house.â There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we ⌠sort of ⌠donât know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say âso, look around, see your neighbors? DONâT DO THAT.â Thus, if we interpret âtoevahâ to mean something thatâs forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dogâitâs saying you shouldnât have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.
2) Following the same âthis is ritually forbiddenâ logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as âdonât do sex magic,â which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.
3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the âmenâ in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isnât the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutiveâthat is, that the verse should be read as âa man should not lie with a boy.âNow, itâs worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like âyeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.â
Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say âancient Greeceâ was happening.
Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we donât know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first pointââsee your neighbors? DONâT DO THAT,â if this verse is interpreted to say âa man should not lie with a boy,â then itâs pretty clearly âmy dudes, my fellows, my lads, donât be fucking pedophiles.â
4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, itâs also possible that âshould not lie with a man as with a womanâ is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldnât have sex with another man in a womanâs bed. In the time period, a womanâs bed was sort of likeâthat was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, youâre violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean âdonât sexually violate a womanâs safety and modesty.â
5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which womanâs bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wifeâs. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so onâthus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).
So youâll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces âbeing gay is wrong, all of the timeâ.
(Youâll also notice the word âabominationâ is nowhere to be found. Thatâs like ⌠a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)
Apparently tumblr mobile doesnât want to show @prismatic-bell âs long and in-depth essay, so hereâs the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:
Much appreciated.
I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit
âŚI sadly have more bullshit to report.
âremoved for violating guidelinesâ, EVERY screenshot.
âŚgoddamnit
Letâs try this again
I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold.
Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isnât the only Jewish post of mine thatâs mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!
Logistically it makes sense for recent Pokemon games to make the Pokedex a phone app instead of needing to carry around a whole second device. But thatâs also boring. Bring back my boy.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
And every one of the rotomdexâs have been inadequate/worse. Irl its because of dexit and all that, but in-game, theres no reason that the dex shouldnt have forms listed or not have dex entries for transferred mons.
