On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.
I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It’s simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn’t necessarily mean that the character is ‘wrong’, it definitely doesn’t mean that they’re wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don’t even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently
Some types of unreliable narrator:
The Watson: is present for the event but does not have the same level of perception as protagonist
The Lemony Snicket: isn’t present for the event, reconstructs the facts based on later research, can get things wrong or incomplete
The Ted Moseby: is present for the event but has romanticised and embellished their memory of it through nostalgia to an extent that you cannot fully believe it; is also prone to misremembering or outright forgetting details.
The Katniss Everdeen: is present for the event, is the protagonist, but is completely foreign to the world and out of their depth so they don’t quite understand a lot of what is going on.
The Rose Quartz: is present for the event, but due to their personal agenda or feelings of shame hides and embellishes what actually happened in favour of a version that paints them in a better light.
The Big Brother: overwrites what actually happened in favour of propaganda.
The Jonathan Harker: is absolutely clueless about what is going on around them and the genre they’re in so their perception of events is tinted by their own naivety.
The Goob: the narrator’s own emotional bias clouds their judgement of what really happened.
The Tyler Durden: the narrator is suffering from hallucinations and doesn’t realise it.
The Pi: the narrator has survived a traumatic experience and copes with it by turning it into a wonderful tale.
omfg, I thought this was a cute comic about a charmander traveling around hanging out with other pokemon and then you did that
UGLY, GROSS SOBBING
I went back through and noticed something. All of the pokemon, except for the child, have ditto’s face. Every time. I didn’t notice it at first, but then the end reveal, and it has been that way all along, I just didn’t notice. MY TEARS.
it’s 1am and im extremely sad now
I DONT’ EVEN WATCH-PLAY POKEMON AND THIS STILL HOTS MY FEELS SO FUCKING HARD.
I remember when Pokémon came out. I played the original game. I felt like they made a simplified, sanetized version of Final Fantasy, essentially copying the mechanics of the Veldt from Final Fantasy VI and turning it into an entire game. I also saw episodes of the anime on TV periodically after school. I never watched it day in, day out. Furthermore, once I got to, I’d say, graduate school, I stopped being in a place where the TV would be on with Pokémon coming on every so often. I also didn’t play any of the games until my daughter was born in 2015. So I missed a lot of Pokémon lore, getting it only through osmosis while doing other things.
My daughter is a big fan of Pokémon. This is largely my doing, as we play Pokémon games together (Sword and Shield, Violet, Arceus, Let’s Go, Pokémon GO, Unite, a few others). She’s found the anime, and she’s watched all of it. Because of how much she watches it, I come in and see an episode (or part of one) every so often. I by no means have seen entire seasons, but I do know the main characters, what’s happening each season, what game it’s associated with, etc.
I’d seen a few episodes with May and the Pokémon coordinators, so I knew what that was about. I knew her first pokémon was Torchic. I saw pieces of episodes with him. Then pretty soon the Torchic was Combusken, which is easily one of the ugliest evolutions of a pokemon ever. I mean, look at this sin:
I mean, after this cute little guy?!
So anyway, due to the way I come across these episodes of Pokémon, I never expect to see anything specific. Like, I never saw the episode where Torchic evolved into Combusken. It’s to be expected. Consequently, I never expected to see the episode wher Combusken evolved into Blaziken.
But I did.
It’s a tense battle between Combusken and some heel pokémon, and May is coaching him, coaxing him to give his all, and suddenly, Combusken evolves.
Tumblr. I was not able to find a screen shot of the scene, but there is a moment where Blaziken is standing in front of May, chest heaving, looking like fucking this:
In particular, we get a nice good shot of this masterpiece:
And like…it is not subtle. “Did you put your name in the goblet of fire” is subtle. This was not.
I’m not even going to pretend to understand why Blaziken is basically this:
But I know it was intentional. Someone at Pokémon HQ said, “We’re losing the furries! We’ve got to do SOMETHING to get ‘em back!” And thus Blaziken was born.
Be VERY careful when you google images of Blaziken. I can speak from some experience, as I was just trying to find a screen shot of the scene in question, and so had to do a fair bit of googling. The hole is deep. The hole is dark. Enter and you may never see the light of day again.
“we don’t have girl talk, we have creature talk,” my roommate Julia just said while rolling on the floor, “put that on your fucking tumblr, they’ll love that shit”
she just asked how many notes this post has and I told her eighteen and with restrained glee she said “this is going to do horrible things to my ego”
I’m out of town rn but I told her this broke 500 notes and sent her some of yall’s tags
Hey op why is the contact icon a T if their name is Julia? *condescending tone* do you have your roommate saved as “trash” in your phone?
for every friend you make in another timezone you should be able to collect that timezone like a video game inventory item and travel to it whenever you so choose
I love this. I’m all for these types of friendships but I think most ppl think anything intimate is too far but friends can do these things too
When I talk about queering friendship this is the type of shit I’m talking about. Just genuine, meaningful gestures and actions of love even within platonic relationships.
