time for a little controversy but “art style theft” is fake bullshit made up on DA if you want to take traits from mine or anyone elses art style its okay im flattered to see slivers of my influence in others artwork and no one owns anything go fucking crazy no one can stop you and its completely normal to do, be inspired by your peers. (just don’t trace obviously)
Ending of The Fall/From Grace
Thought I’d finally throw up my ending character arcs and stuff and do some final housekeeping here like a whole year after the fact lmao
So Leaf... I uhh... Looked at Daenerys and thought, “hey what if I pushed that righteousness the wrong way and made her do something really questionable and pushed her into the realm of villainy and looked to people for reactions!” -- Sees reaction to Game of Thrones s8 Me; Well I just... really dodged a bullet there, didn’t I?
Anyway
Leaf was, in Unova, going to do her thing for a bit, she was going to be dismissed from championship because of it in her absence, having her old friend from Johto take the spot. Kanto and Johto more or less bicker about who gets to be the champion with neither region being pleased to have a “foreign” person on the seat. But before that happens she does see to it that the Sevii islands get their own league instead of being stuck in the Kanto vs Johto battle for Indigo Plateau. She also then takes her release from duty to expose all the criminal and terrible activity in the League- her own actions and those of other people as she no longer has anything to lose (as far as she cares). When En has the Shadow Triad abduct her to the whatever electric cave. She comes in contact with the black stone of ideals and she is actually the one that triggers Zekrom’s release, but it’s slow because by contact with it I mean En held it out to her and asked her to be his queen and she took it from him and threw it in a general direction. She thinks that she could be a hero of the white dragon Reshiram, but John says no, it’s Iris. And he’s right. Iris is the hero they needed and deserved. Those dragons are true to their original people. (i just really feel like the hero should be indigenous) And Charlie’s role in the story was to exist and not become bitter and jaded like Leaf did in spite of it all. And realize that sometimes, it’s not on you to be the hero of the story.
Leaf was then going to contact Giovanni in prison- going rogue and taking only Avalon with her and leaving Arnold (and her past idealism behind her) And to Giovanni ask what purpose he had in Kanto; “You once told me that a child could never understand what you hoped to do. I’m not a child anymore.” And Giovanni sees someone who just needs a push over the edge to share his goal.... and that would have lead to a 3rd nuzlocke back in kanto many years later to visit the idea of Kanto legendaries; one of which a poison type legendary that was the source of the grim dark wasteland vibes.
And John Seymour; He survives the dragon battle- on the field being a physical shield protecting Iris as she commanded the dragon. Leaf goes missing in action leaving Arnold behind. He doesn’t want to go back to Kanto- he doesn’t like it there. And so he and Danny actually move to Sinnoh and ya boi sort of retires until she comes back (3-5 years later). Sam and Daisy are in charge of the Ranger base in Kanto in his absence and when he returns (him just making sure people are accepting). Leaf comes back, Arnold passes away, they move back to Kanto. Leaf goes back to Indigo Plateau, beats the champion (Noah) and then pulls a Kiyoshi in a sense and uses the pokemon of her team to make a new league and she and the Rangers see to pokemon and people living as equals as much as possible. Still rocky relationship with Leaf in some aspects- she never really forgives him for leaving her to take care of her mother, who also suffered from PTSD symptoms, alone. John still mostly in retirement... And then is called in to protect June, who is established as a source of political discord as other regions are not comfortable with Kanto having this ally of mass destruction (rightfully so) and Mew has always sought to destroy this legendary that was not meant to be.
And that is how he dies- Mew comes for June, he gets in the way to protect her
Which then would have triggered some uhhh fun stuff with Leaf. She goes after Mew. She starts putting the plan of Giovanni’s back into play... Team Red. She’s much subtler about it and far more powerful. And she knows how to work around the Rangers. She successfully captures Mew (something Jon could have done, but never wanted to remove Mew from the natural surroundings as it is a huge risk). She does not go to the legendaries however after meeting her girlfriend-to be wife. Softens back up and just sits on that card she has.
And then yea she awakens the big bad legendary of Kanto that’s basically the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse in one dragon for the sole purpose... of destroying it with Mew, who she then frees. And it was basically going to end with a big author shrug of “she did what she felt she had to, but was it really necessary? or did she do what she wanted to do?”
but that’s it
That was my edgy nuzlocke plot which was hilariously similar and probably would have been as well received as the last season of GoT /dabs
having a trans character be happy and self loving and loved is more revolutionary than educating cis audiences through the humiliation, sadness of and acts of violence against a trans character and that’s all i’m saying
A little spring comic for all you cacti growers out there. May your plants and Pokémon be healthy in the coming seasons!
Please all be safe, use gloves, or some kind of protection while handing something so pointy. Some of the spines are barbed and don’t come out as easily as you’d like them to.
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NuzArchive Launch!
Hiya! I’m Zephyr! Welcome to the new nuzlocke hub on tumblr!
So after the Great Ban scrubbed any post with a link from the tags, it became a lot harder to find and keep up with nuzlockes on this site. And I thought “someone should make a nuzlockes blog so people can find all the nuzlockes here and keep up with them.” So I made it!
My purpose in creating this blog is to help promote all the great runs here on tumblr (and in the nuzlocke community at large), introduce more people to more runs, help people find runs they might like or lost track of, and help people keep up with their favs.
To that end, here are some of the features you can expect:
- thorough tagging all the content reblogged will be tagged by region, game, medium, rule set, title, creator and more so you can find exactly what you’re looking for! want just the gijinka runs? we got you! just run updates? done! in the mood to browse some art? get right to it! in addition to the tags on the posts, there is a tags page of all the big ones for y’all to check out
- featured runs maybe you’re new and scrolling through the reblogs just makes you feel lost. never fear! we’ve got a gallery page of a whole host of runs with the cover and a brief description to give you a feel. AND its also got these cool buttons so you can sort by what you’re interested in like storylockes, randomizers, or Alola runs! you can even pick more than one criteria!
- helpful links there lots of nuzlockes on tumblr but there are so many more abroad! whether you just want to find more or you want to hang out and chat with other nuzlockers, we have a links page to help you out!
- nuzlocke news we’ll do our best to keep you abreast of events in the community be it fun collabs on Deviantart, streams on twitch, or comment sprees on the forums. the more the merrier!
- pro promos if you make nuzlocke content and need commissions, we’ll be happy to reblog your post! we’ll also probably be featuring offsite nuzlockes now and then for y’all to check out, so feel free to send stuff our way
- submissions welcome! as i said before, stuff can be hard to find on this site, so if you want to give a boost to your nuz content or a friend’s, just submit a post or send us a message and we’re sure to oblige! If it’s nuzlocke related, we want it on here. you’re doing us and yourself a favor!
- ask box ask us anything and we’ll do our best to answer! we don’t bite, I swear! you can totally dm us too. we don’t mind chatting when we’re online
- quiet queue pretty much every post will go into the queue (which is currently set to 4 posts a day but may move up to 5-6 if there’s a backlog) so no one is getting inundated with content. just a nice steady stream to keep y’all hydrated. more time sensitive things will go to the top or maybe skip the queue, but nothing to clog your dash. the first week is scheduled to reblog all the featured runs and after that it will heel more towards recent stuff and maybe fill in with old runs on a slow week
A final note, despite all the second person plural above, atm it’s just me all by my lonesome running this thing. So if you have any interest in helping moderate, don’t hesitate to hit me up and we can chat about it.
If you like nuzlockes, give this blog a follow and please spread this post around so others can find it!
Thanks so much!
Anon- I know we dead with From Grace. But was Red meant to be antagonistic in the sequel. Sry.
More or less. She was going to do things that she believed was right and she was going to end up being wrong.
And Charlie’s naive and cheerful mood was going to be important to the plot in the sense of the idea of happiness in spite of not having everything that you want (which Leaf struggles with) and using that hope and optimism to inspire people to do good.
And Iris was going to be the hero who used Reshiram to defeat En and it would have very little to do with Leaf/Red.
And end game for her was going to be talking to Giovanni about what he was trying to do with Team Rocket in regards to the legendary poison/ghost dragon/s of Kanto and potential third sequel was going to be her going after that dragon and destroying its influence over Kanto after she captures Mew and more or less manipulated June into doing what she needs her to do. It was going to be a full anti-hero thing.
a promise is made
some of you never learned the difference between “bad writing” and “narrative choice i didn’t like” and it shows
Will From Grace update, or have you moved on from it? :x
Rest in Peace, From Grace
The author done fucked it up beyond repairs short of redoing it and it just wasn’t worth it. (Yes, I have moved on)
And I’m going to give you more than you asked for here. Like yes/no could suffice but I’ve been working up the nerve to give y’all my eloquent farewell and can’t truly be assed to do it so here’s the tea, right. The reason I’m not working on From Grace anymore...
Only reason I worked on it as long as I did is because of the whole incident with Jelleh and Mae because before that happened, I was 20 steps out the door. Didn’t want to do it anymore. Got some long time fan telling me that using the correct pronouns for someone was a respect that had to be earned not freely given through the course of like 7 essay comments until I blocked the stupid asshole (Yeah everyone thinking I was snapping at Jelleh? I was snapping at that asshat 2 months after the fact bc he took his whiny ass to Jelleh’s journal to agree with him). Mae bullied how many people out of the community? And I got so many messages from people who were like “I’m glad you said something because I was too afraid to because of who would get involved”. The highlight was Mae sending me a message that began with a paragraph saying that I was just trying to salvage my “reputation” and I don’t know about the other 5 paragraphs bc I had better things to do with my time, but I got a good laugh out of the first part.
So I kept going out of pure spite- wasn’t going to the next nuzlocker bullied out by Mae.
and I am out of spite after using it all to do something positive instead for once, had a huge emotional breakdown that lasted an entire year starting the summer of 2017 from extreme gender dysphoria which is when the updates started dying off in the first place, the nuz community is honestly better off without my bitter dumb bitch self lmao, I’m better off not being in it right now, and I’m in love with DnD and want to do my own original work.
So it’s been real, y’all, but I’m p much done here... Specially after leaving the discord server with one final “fuck you” that I wouldn’t say I’m proud of... but it got my ass to stop hanging around waiting for a non-dramatic time to quietly leave. (that was my plan- to leave quietly. I. fucked. that. up. in a manner. that Leaf. would be proud of. but that’s not actually a good thing)
I have been kicking around the idea of a collab nuz comic with the dnd squad but we haven’t finished the game yet so... ??? not likely? but maybe? and with me just drawing for the most part
I will probably continue to reblog random nuzlockes that look nice that I’m not actually reading bc I can draw my own stuff or read other people’s and I’m focusing on me right now. But don’t expect anything fresh on the nuz from this cat because I’ve been done since 2015 and canceled since 2017.
Hat’s off to y’all having fun in this corner of the internet. We may see each other again- perhaps not. If you liked what you saw here, you can follow @aerorwen for lots of gay art and portraits and people it’s a lot of DnD angst which is fun. Leaf is a half-orc druid and Arnold is her wyvern in that verse. Its a real fun time.
Alas, 4 years is far too short atime to live among such excellent and admirable nuzlockers. I don't know halfof you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half aswell as you deserve.
So long, and may your horse never be an ass.
bye
@snoozelocke you already saw this but anyways
i feel ulrich in this chilis tonight
Even LGBT people are afraid to create LGBT rep half the time because you fucking goblins critique things with LGBT rep so harshly that the second it does something that you personally don’t like you it gets treated even worse than the shows that the absolutely no rep in them.
Demonizing every show that is ernestly trying to provide the rep we’ve been lacking is NOT THE WAY TO GET BETTER REP
there’s nothing more absolutely tepid and luke-warm than people trying to force the square “pokemon” peg into the round “super gritty and painfully edgy” hole. like did you know, actually, if a charizard breathed fire on something, that it would fucking die?? i do actually know that because i also live in the world and am aware of the concept of physics, chemistry, and basic biology. i am also capable of “imagination” and “suspension of disbelief,” which is a weird ability of mine that allows me to interact with media without feeling the need to tell other people that this couldn’t happen in real life.
yes, making two animals fight in real life is abusive and abhorent. no, pokemon is not comparable because it takes place in a fantasy setting where a pokemon’s inherent nature is to be competitive, where a realistically violent battle equates to friendly sparring in the context of this universe, and where physical combat is an allegorical device used to demonstrate the growing bond of friendship between pokemon and their trainers.
no, pokemon and pokemon battles are not realistic in our universe. trying to remove this concept from its context, where it very much makes sense, is the most boring fucking thing you could do. i promise it will not kill you to take things at face value from time to time. pokemon is a franchise propped up on pillars of friendship, determination, and harmony with nature. it’s much, much, much more fun when you stop looking for secret, edgy lore, i promise
@ those people who start binging ur story and leave tons of lil comments so u can track their progress: you rock
@ those people who read ur whole story in one night and leave a huge excited review at the end: you rock
@ those people who have been there from the beginning and make a point to leave a comment on every update: you rock
click the picture or the link to read it on dA! [prologue]
Happy September y’all! Pocket Space is 2 years old now!!! wow!!!
I think that there’s some kind of mindset in a lot of creative communities (authors, artists, musicians) that your work needs to be groundbreaking and thought-provoking for it to matter. That in order for it to be considered worthy of its medium, it must have a greater purpose.
And if you ask me, its bullshit.
God, it puts so much stress on a creator to have to be important to someone else. I have seen so many people give up because their work isn’t making a statement, that it’s ‘fluff but no substance.’ As though there’s only room for so many people in a community of creators that only people with a point can get in.
If it made someone laugh, it’s important.
If it made someone smile, it’s important.
If someone looks back on it fondly, even for a moment, it’s important.
If you enjoyed making it, even if you never shared it, it’s important.
Sing songs about your cat, draw pictures of lizards eating popsicles, and write a series of novels about time-traveling alpaca.
The world is already full of super-important stuff. Write fluff.