DxP REWRITE - Coal Badge

DxP REWRITE - Coal Badge

(Please see special note below!)

Part 1 of the Gym Montage, starting off with Oreburgh City & those first few steps through Sinnoh! Emmet tested Ansy a lot during the first few badges, much like Barry does in BDSP & in DPPt, but with Double Battles, & something better than a slow-evolving Starly lol. Oreburgh is where he gets his fossil Pokémon: Ballast, the now Shieldon!

Meanwhile, Team Galactic being more of a classic, Pokemon theft team, quickly learns that Ansy still nurses a special grudge towards their type lol. (It was super effective!)

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⭐️ In case you missed our special weather report last night, I’m gonna be collabing with a friend from Instagram, Professor Case, in efforts to raise relief funds for Hurricane Helene & Milton. We’re thinking of setting up a donation & making little Pokémon thank you doodles in return. Luckily, I have a cushion of completed comics ready to go, so when we got this all set up, I’ll be ready! ✍🏻

If you’re in Milton’s path today, PLEASE stay safe! Whether it’s batten down the hatches or evacuation, do so as safely as you can. In the meantime, follow NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) for the most accurate forecast! Lots of love from your more northern neighbor 🩵

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DxP REWRITE - Sinnoh League pt.1

Surprise! A little cover helping us transition from the last little storyline to what I’m calling the “Gym Montage” - the next 4 comics being more at the pace of what I’d done for these series in the past, covering what happens in game to a certain point. Also chibis because BDSP lol (if I could like mod these in, I’d actually be happy about the silly chibi sprites lol).

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So, Hurricane Milton is looking really bad (right after Hurricane Helene, too), so I’m fixing on doing a little something, hopefully tonight. It won’t interfere with my postings on the comic, but stay tuned. 🌧️

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I’d also like to add with my “casual hobbyist” understanding of meteorology on why violent storms like hurricanes are notoriously difficult to forecast, because YES, conditions are in constant flux.

If there’s a vast nimbostratus promising to pour down rain all day, that’s pretty easy to forecast. You can even observe it from the ground - if the skies go gray with the sun half visible through the clouds (altocumulus), it’s likely going to rain soon.

Meanwhile, if it’s a more vertical cumulonimbus brought on by surface heat that rages for a few hours before being spent, that’s harder to track. Hurricanes may be big, but they’re constantly rotating with the heat, then slows / weakens when it makes landfall.

Here’s a video from MinuteEarth that goes into it a bit more:

The more you know, guys & yes, certain folks would like to privatize/dismantle NOAA, meaning natural disasters like hurricanes will be a lot harder for regular folk to prepare for, let alone follow. 🌧️

(PS: if you watch the video to the end & hear “AI” from their sponsor, this is the good kind that help us calculate things like weather forecasts more accurately, & not the bad kind that steals your data or your creative content 😅)

This is especially frustrating because the only reason we know the wind speed is because NOAA's Hurricane Hunters literally fly into the hurricane and collect vital data. They fly in and out of the storm over and over in 8 hour shifts.

This brave team flies two identical Lockheed P3s called Kermit and Miss Piggy.

You can see the dangling ornaments in the videos to determine which plane they are in.

And when I say they fly into the hurricane, I mean they fly *into* the hurricane.

Here they are in the eye of Milton.

And here they are in the eye of Irma.

As you may notice, this flight was in Kermit.

So the next time you see live data about a hurricane's wind speed and pressure, just remember how that was collected and don't be a giant turd about it.

And please vote because conservatives want to kill NOAA.

DxP REWRITE - Dishonor Among Thieves

Back when I was figuring out the brothers’ early friendship with Ansy during her PKMN Black run, I had the thought that Rain (Eevee), a very rare, foreign Pokémon, would be a target for Team Plasma (until N tells them not to touch her again). From there, I figured a good first meeting was them teaching Team Plasma exactly what happens if they try to cause trouble in their subway.

There are a lot of people in our world who don’t see mental illness - or “mental injury” as I like to call (C-)PTSD - as a real health condition, let alone a disability. Some say ugly things to shame others they label as “entitled” or “weak”. Sometimes they’re raised that way, sometimes they’re confused or have some sort of inner resentment, or sometimes they’re just plain awful.

If you struggle with mental illness / injury, you’re not entitled or weak for needing extra help navigating life, whether it be a service animal, therapy, a trip to the hospital, or just a friend. It’s real, even if people around you can’t / won’t see it. 🩵

PS: my headcanon is that evil team Grunts have little themed codenames, too (knights for classic Team Plasma, maybe meteoroids / asteroids for Team Galactic, etc).

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I have a question about the favorite Pokémon for each type board.

I was wondering if dual typing counts, for example scolipede would go in bug column because it’s first typing is bug. Second being poison.

This may be a stupid question but I was just confused on if it was only single type or not.

Thank you lol, also sorry for this (probably) stupid ask. Have a good day/night.

Hi! Dual-types absolutely count! Most of my favorites were dual types as it is, & for a lot of them, I couldn’t just choose one favorite lol. I say choose whatever Pokemon that has that type, whether it’s primary, secondary, or changes to that type (eg. Castform changing with the weather) maybe barring things like Arceus’ plates or Terastralization (though it would be funny to see just recolored Arceus XD)

DxP REWRITE - Forest Badge

The Forest Badge might be my favorite of the Sinnoh badges; it’s a visual representation of “森 (mori)” or “forest” (the character for tree is “木”, & “mori” is just 3 of them grouped together, just like the badge is 3 trees. 🌳

So Hokkaido (Sinnoh) is known for a few of their flower fields! One flower they’re known for is actually lavender (they’re hardy & can take the cold). Tried to show that off a bit with Ansy & Ikrit’s sweet breakfast in Floraroma Town, taking from photos I’ve seen of their rainbow flower field. Meanwhile Eterna Forest is where Emmet found 2 more of his team: Yanma & Rotom.

Hmmm, Cyrus does indeed have “evil team leader” written all over, contemplating in front of the “Dialkia” statue lol. At least they could add the Draco Plate with the Insect & Dread Plates they got in this one.

PS: yes, like in the last one, these actually are about where you find all these Plates in BDSP.

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