One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.
Go over to Slowflake’s blog and tell him to unban me.
Theoretically a sound notion, with just a few minor flaws:
1) I have no idea who Slowflake is.
2) I can think of no reason he would pay any attention to me whatsoever.
3) This is frankly none of my business.
House Blastoise: Forceful as the Tide
House Charizard: Fire and Fury
House Venusaur: In Harmony With Nature
I’m, uh, not sure what house words are… but I think this sounds neat?
In the TV show Game of Thrones, and the Mediaeval fantasy novels on which it is based, each of the ‘houses’ – the great noble families – has so-called ‘house words,’ basically a fancy name for a motto, like House Stark’s “Winter Is Coming,” or House Greyjoy’s “We Do Not Sow.” Promotional materials for the show include posters that depict a house’s sigil (a wolf, a giant squid, a three-headed dragon, whatever) alongside its motto, and one of the internet’s pastimes is creating new images in this style for other people or groups, like “House Google – We Are Feeling Lucky,” “House Wayne – We Are the Night,” or “House House – It’s Never Lupus.” Google image search “Game of Thrones house words” and you’ll get some idea of what’s going on here. HBO has a website where you can make your own.
Just something I’ve been working at on-and-off for… I don’t even know how long; since before the sixth generation started, I think. Something that will now give me a little titbit to post every day, in addition to my usual writing, of course, which will continue at its now-traditional snail’s pace.
Have you ever wished that every evolutionary lineage of Pokémon had its own Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones-style ‘house words’?
…you haven’t?
…well… too bad. They do now.
You could maybe tie the Aphrodite Pokemon thing with encantados, Brazilian dolphins who take human shape, go to parties, and seduce women back to the water with them. Maybe throw in a mermaid/siren angle too? It’s deceptive and sometimes pretends to be a human. It can sing a beautiful song that’s lured sailors into wrecking their ships. Though this is just starting to sound like Mega Lapras or something of the sort.
Well, the thing is, at this point you’re doing a Pokémon based on the encantado, not on Aphrodite – which, to be honest, I think is sort of a better place to start anyway. The notion of Pokémon based on the Greek gods doesn’t really sit all that well with me, just because the whole point of the Greek gods is how human-like they are in their moods, desires and flaws. It’s really interesting from a cultural or theological perspective, but kind of “meh” as a basis for designing Pokémon. Or at least, that’s what I think.
Do you feel pokemon has ever jumped the shark? Granted, jumping the shark does not automatically mean “became bad,” it just means hitting a drastic turning point it can never return from. For me that’s gen 3, because [long list of reasons].
Well, I would take issue with your understanding of the term “jumping the shark,” because I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a single use of it that hasn’t been negative – TvTropes says “it’s reached its peak, it’ll never be the same again, and from now on it’s all downhill,” while Wikipedia says “the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality.” But whatever; drastic turning points it is.
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Ruby: Look, it’s perfectly simple; as my personal minion, everything you know about the Mega Stones now belongs to me.
Amaldos: And so the stars belong in the sky, yet the sky never sought to constrain the stars to wait out the dawn.
Ruby: Yeah, but… that’s not… that analogy makes no sense.
Amaldos: Of course not; for my senses have taken leave of me.
Ruby: If you’re not going to help me find the stones, then why did you want to come along with us in the first place?
Amaldos: There is something new under the sun, old tricks learned again on borrowed time… and soon, a bolt from the blue. In a matter of life and death, sometimes a Liepard must find more than one way to skin a Purugly in order to change its spots.
Ruby: …okay, sure. And… the reason I can’t try using yours is…?
Amaldos: It is mine.
Ruby: Ah. Well. Fair enough, then.
Amaldos: When you despise something, keep it close; if it leaves you, it was never worth your hatred in the first place.
Spruce: But if the journey is more important than the destination, then why is the road less travelled… um… always blocked by construction workers?
Amaldos: [long silence]
Spruce: And how does someone who walks off the beaten path find their way up the garden path?
Ruby: Uh…
Amaldos: An Accelgor can never catch a Torkoal that has been given a head start. There is a place nearby where moss gathers on the wrong side of the trees. Come, blinded one; let us find your stone and set it rolling.
Ruby: [to Spruce] How the hell do you even do that?
Spruce: [shrugs helplessly]
Hello, I just read your Roman glass post and went through your non Pokemon tag, and I’m wondering if you had another non-Pokemon blog (or maybe just an academic blog) I could also follow?
I don’t, no; I’ve kind of been tempted on occasion to start one, but to be honest I have quite enough trouble keeping up with this one as it is. Mostly I post this stuff to reassure people that, when I vanish for a month at a time, I am in fact doing something arguably useful.
