About Shipping

I had created myself a Tumblr account, but I really had to give up using it. I can't write posts in there for fuck's sake. It lags a lot, and while I'm aware I have a pretty shitty netbook, that's still a bit too much-especially seeing how I can type at the speed of sound here.

Before parting ways with it, I bumped into a post I found actually unpleasant, despite having made similar mistakes when I was 18 and just starting to roam on the internet. Someone posted a kinda cute art of Steven and Wallace from Pokémon, commenting how they are a "canon gay and trans couple".

NOW. I have nothing against being gay, trans, fetishist of the kiwi or whatever, but stop slapping the word "canon" in front of your goddamned headcanons, please. I'll give you a "lesson" about storytelling, and how to be a SANE part of a fandom.

Canon means "as told by word of god". This means there's an original story, written by its original author. In the story, both characters NEVER DISCLOSE THEIR SEXUAL PREFERENCES. In any way. You know why? Because it isn't fucking relevant to their characterization or story or plot. As for their genders, they're both male. End of the story.
If we actually wanted to consider the Pokéspe comic, we'd discover Wallace fucked Winona in that canon, so he's het alright, at least to that canon.

Headcanon means: something is not really disclosed by canon, so I CAN FILL THE GAP IMAGINING SHIT. It's fun. I swear, it's fun. It can get really cringey and retarded, but it's fun.
LOTS of people nn Tumblr have headcanons of Steven, or Wallace, or other characters, are asexual, autistic, gay, trans. Why do you have to slap weird shit on them if it's not even vaguely suggested by the original story? I can vaguely understand the "Steven is ace!" one, because all of Hoenn is lusting around him, and he just cares about the main character, Wallace, his father, his steel Pokémon, and rocks. Oh, and his own whims. So, people think he doesn't like sex.
What if he just isn't interested in a stable relationship because he just wants to chase pretty rocks, fight strong trainers, travel, and do whatever the fuck he wants without being burdened by responsibilities?
Headcanons shoould vary from person to person, I'm actually SCARED by how people seem to think as a hivemind about those things. Do you even have some imagination left? Zinnia would scold you! But still, if you say it's "headcanon", which means you imagine it because you like the idea, it's perfectly fine. Just don't use the word "canon". The "autistic" one actually makes me ashamed for them, it's like, after they knew about Asperger's, autism became cool. No, not cool. It's disabling shit, even when you're high functioning, so stop slapping random labels.

One more word: learn to distinguish between the two. Damn it all, I'm an Originshipper myself, but what the canon gives me is not them being a couple, but them being really close and loyal friends. I'm the one making the leap in my mind, but I don't lose contact with reality and with what the actual story shows me.

They're basically not canon gay, not canon trans, not canon ace, not a canon couple. Think whatever the fuck you want, just shove your "canon" word up your ass. And keep the cringe to a minimum, for the love of what's sacred.

I always believed that shipping a couple or loving a character shouldn't mean you only care about finding r-18 stuff about it, or writing fanfiction/drawing fanarts, writing random drooling emoticons on the internet. You should make sex with the source material that gave you the couple/character. Learn as much as you can about it, analyze it. You would obtain this:

1. Fangirls/boys wouldn't be seen as shallow, as they are now. Shipping wouldn't be frowned upon. If you are a poster who actually discusses in an interesting way about things you like, people are less likely to think that you're a superficial person for shipping or fangirling.
2. If you study the source material, you will know how to draw decent fanart/write decent fanfiction. At least, if you actually take the time to carefully analyze and dissect lore, settings, plots and characterizations of the original work, it will be less likely that you write idiotic, made up, and out of character shit in your fanworks. You might make something better than the original.

I decided I don't like Nuzlockes, lol

Ok, my attempt at a Nuzlocke Challenge wasn't half bad but... it's not really my way of playing. I like to catch 'em all and actually choose my pals. I guess I'll scratch that, because I'm not enjoying things as they are, despite arriving to Mauville with no major problems. I guess backtracking to play as I like it is!

ORAS Nuzlocke #1 - First losses already?

So, resuming from where we were. I went on until Rustboro, catching one Poochyena (Pochi), one Wingull (Peeko...) and a glrious number of THREE Zigzagoon, called Pinecone, Tom Nook, and Palle Satana (I sweared 'damn Satan's balls, another one?!'). Then proceeded to grind for the Gym.

A trainer with a Marill gave me one hell of a hard time! Being Water/Fairy, it took little damage and was dangerous to all of my Pokés... not to mention it had ROLLOUT! EEEK! I almost lost Peeko to it, and eventually spammed it with Sand Attack for a safe kill.

After catching a Whismur (Ampy) in Rusturf Tunnel it was time to go back to the Gym Leader! Peeko had been grinded to level 14, so that it was even in level with Roxanne's Nosepass. I knew her Geodude had Sturdy, but what I underestimated was the damage of Rock Tomb. I did a bit of damage with Wing Attack, then I managed to switch Peeko with Palle Satana to heal it, but I knew I couldn't switch back safely because Geodude might have shotted me. So, Palle Satana was sacrificed for a safe switch ad Peeko finished Geodude with Water Gun (thinking in retrospective, I could have acted differently and save more Pokés, but that's part of the rules...). When Nosepass came in, I tried to kill it with Peeko, but it did very little damage and was eventually killed with Rock Tomb (;_;). I finished the job with Pochi, with Bite, chip damage after chip damage(including a Potion recovery on Roxanne's side). So, two preventable losses... Badge get though. I don't think I'll make it very far, I thought that would be way easier!
So, Palle Satana and Peeko were put in the "Inferno" box. Inferno means Hell in Italian; apparently Hell is unacceptable by the game's filter, while Inferno is. Meh. Same happened with Satan Balls (unacceptable, while Palle Satana was accepted). Now to save real Peeko, to make up for the death of my own Peeko,  and the Devon Parts...
Taught Cut to Tom Nook, on with the trainers I couldn't reach before.

Until next time!

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Random post pre-"Ferie di Augusto"

Replaying Alpha Sapphire for the 3rd time to try the Nuzlocke, as I said in my previous post, I arrived to the point in which Zinnia, cosplaying as a Team Aqua grunt, says this, among other stuff:

I'll continue investigating that energy we detected.

What. The dialogue obviously refers to Infinity Energy, suggesting that the game's Team needs to investigate about it... but, truth to be told, later on we discover that Shelly (Tabitha in OR) was a DEVON SCIENTIST. What do they need to investigate for, if she actually worked for Devon and already knows plenty about Infinity Energy? Sheesh. They even say this later on. Meep-meep, plot hole alert!

 On another note, I'm working on a fanart. I happen to really like Steven Stone (you don't say?), so I was drawing him in a Delta Episode-inspired piece. I wanted to draw him reaching out to the Dimensional Shifter while it breaks or drifts away. I started by drawing the character reaching out towards the 'camera', then I wanted to draw the Dimensional Shifter itself.

I'm not shitting you, I watched maybe hours of Delta Episode gameplays in SPANISH for some reason (AYYY CARAMBA!) without "physically" seeing the D.S. I mentioned. I had basically IMAGINED it. I even thought I had seen an orange remote control thingie, for some reason. With a button. I swear.
I actually discovered that the thing appears FOR THE FIRST TIME in the ORAS chapter of Pokéspe (August chapter). So, I'm now updating my fanart, with sweat and tears. I posted some images of the work in progress on my facebook page, so give it a look!

Pokémon ORAS Nuzlocke #0

I never played a Pokémon game in Nuzlocke Style, so I decided I might give it a shot because why not? I chose Pokémon Alpha Sapphire for this run. I know, I know what you think: "MEH, ORAS EEZ SO EASY, GIT GUD FAGGOT!". Well, being my first (and maybe last) Nuzlocke Challenge, I want to use a game I actually like, so shut yer traps.
The real retarded thing I did though, was resetting a save in which I had obtained a legit Diancie from Mystery Gift. I'm glad I got one from the code-based event, safe in my bank, but still I did a retarded thing. Well, I can't really recover it, so it's better to get over it, huh...? Sigh.

I chose the name Himika because I just happen to like the name, and it shares some letters with 'mikan'.

And so here we are, on the truck, among furniture and plushies, speaking to the local professor through my Pokénav Plus. His name is Birch, and he's a family friend. The main character comes from Johto (nice continuity nod from gen 2), her father is going to be Petalburg city's Gym Leader (normal type), while her mother is a sweet nobody's housewife. In the span of two minutes I meet my "rival #1", Brandon, a child the same age as the mc, son of Birch.
I was kinda disappointed by the age of the mcs: it's just 12, damn it! They are also portrayed as very childish in appearance. I would have preferred if they were like XY's mcs, a bit older and... customizable (SIGH), while still being moe, but that's what we got and there's no point in complaining I guess. May is a real cutie, but I don't really like Brandon for some reason.
Anyways, I saved Birch from the Poochyena (...seriously?), and chose a Torchic I named Gurren. It's male, and Sassy... SASSY? Omg, could you get a worse nature? I played through until the first rival battle and wasted one potion on Gurren, but no problem otherwise. I saved when I got the dex, and I'll resume from there. The true Nuzlocke has just started!

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I took the layout from a youtube streamer. It was up for free, so I guess it's alright. I couldn't be bothered to make custom graphics (LAZY ASS).

Anyways, here are the rules I'll follow:

1) Pokémon that faint are dead. They'll go to a box called "Hell" (kek).
2) Only the first Pokémon of each route can be caught; be it by Surf, DexNav, fishing, normal random encounter, Rock Smash or whatever.
3) Shiny Pokemon are exempt from rule 2, man.
4) All Pokemon captured must have a nickname.
5) Legendary Pokemon may be captured. You may not use Legendary Pokemon in your run, unless its capture is plot relevant.6) Non-Legendary interactable Pokemon are not considered encounters. Gift Pokemon and Gift eggs are legal to use. Gift Fossils are legal, as are Fossils found in the desert or caves.
7) Different levels of caves and dungeons do NOT count as new Routes.
8) Diving Spots may be considered a different Route from the Surfing area above. However, you may not use more than one Diving Spot on each Route.
9) Bagon/Snorunt: The secluded areas these Pokemon are found in may be considered different Routes from the rest of the cavern. However, you may only capture this species of Pokemon if it is the first Pokemon you find in that secluded area.
10) The desert is considered a different Route from Route 111, and may be used to obtain one addition Pokemon.
11) The Safari Zone may be used to capture ONE additional Pokemon, so choose your area wisely. Pokemon that appear outside the Safari Zone may be skipped until you find something rarer. (Oddish and Gloom for example)
12) If you white/black out, it's game over.

Rules courtesy of http://sailorsun546.deviantart.com/art/A-Complete-Custom-Guide-to-Nuzlocke-Challenges-204842853

Until next time ('w')