(Shh, I Know Rental Pokemon Arent A Thing In BW2, But Counterpoint: I Refuse To Speedrun The Nimbasa

(Shh, i know rental pokemon aren’t a thing in BW2, but counterpoint: i refuse to speedrun the nimbasa poke team. And also i REALLY want to draw galarian and kantonian ponyta.

I like to imagine rental pokemon are pokemon who sign a contract to competitive sports, and in return for their cooperation they get free exp, items, and even tms. Thinking about how pokemon mystery dungeon teams work, mmm.)

Black City my beloved! It’s a perfect place to hang if you love competitive pokemon battling.

Masterlist for more pokemon nonsense!

Monk taking surv to check out some karma flowers maybe?

ough i know ive been pedaling out a lot of very introspective or? dim? comics but I honestly really wanted to be silly with this one! Agh, the siblings!

Lea… do you remember what a clear sky looks like at night?

Out in the countryside, no town or city nearby?

I hope one day you will…

If I were in charge of rebooting Danny Phantom, the core theme it would keep coming back to would be idea that everybody has their own internal life and thoughts and feelings and opinions and desires, and they won't necessarily match the simplified image of them that you have in your head, and you have to accept them as complicated messy un-ideal people because the ideal image of them you have isn't real.

All the pieces are there. Vlad as the villain has given himself over to this fantasy world, imagining Maddie as the perfect wife and Danny as the ideal son and Jack as the corrupting influence, without ever bothering to know them as people. He's the ultimate villainous failure state of this.

But also, at the same time, Maddie and Jack have this image of who their son is, and he's actually hiding a lot from them about who he Really is. Everyone has their idea of who Danny Fenton is, and it's what makes them unable to see Phantom as Danny. But also, age 14 can be when you start to realize that your parents aren't all-knowing godlike figures who can solve all your problems and always know what to do, nor are they put on Earth to frustrate you specifically, they're just... also people. Also human beings, who can be wrong, who have their biases. And that can be a hard lesson to learn.

(Tie Jazz's interest in psychology in here: she's interested in learning how people think and why. She's the bridge. She's the way forward.)

And it all comes back to this idea, that everyone has a full and complex internal life, and you have to give them grace and space for that and meet them as they are and accept them where they're at, because you can't make them be who you think they are.

@blookisses showed me the dungeon meshi anime. how many monster meals would I eat? yes :)

the grip she has on me is insane