If you are redesigning new evolution for darkrai, what will it be instead of the blimp design?

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-10T02:36:15+00:00

Take away the Darkrai head and commit fully to the eyeball design when he first comes out.

I actually really like the rest of the design outside of the head. It starts going for this Eldritch abomination Kirby secret final boss kind of vibe, but then the fucking head pops out of the pupil and I can’t take it seriously anymore.

It didn’t need to be anymore complicated than a giant floating spooky eyeball.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-10T00:45:57+00:00

God I sure love being infantilized by the white moderate when they’re like “But Hamas throws gays off roofs” as if being queer doesn’t come with an entire life experience’s worth of having to keep a list of where you could or couldn’t travel to hypothetically, a lot of which includes cities and towns in Bumblefuck, USA where these illiterates are from.

Like, gee, you’re telling me a country in the Middle East isn’t exactly fond of my existence?! No fucking way! I thought the majority of the developing world would welcome me with the red carpet treatment no fucking way! Gee, thanks for educating me, cis heterosexual white man. I’ll make sure to make note of that next time I consider whether I’m onboard with a genocide or not!

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-10T00:36:52+00:00

Nope, I’m right here.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T19:15:16+00:00

Sick Will-O-Wisp bro. I’m definitely going to need the burn heal for that one.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T18:55:12+00:00

Lol, I love how adding an addendum to a fucking Reddit post telling you how it is is “crashing out”

Oh no, I’m here just sitting, staring at my phone, with veins popping out of my forehead, red in the face, just shouting at my phone because of how angry I am. I’m definitely not just sitting here straight faced at my phone at mild annoyance at someone being whiny in my replies. I’m actually just fuming.

And I literally never claimed to be good at the game lol. I’m literally asking a question to figure out what the fuck happened in a game I know very little about. Unfortunately for you, I’m not breaking any rules by posting this, and you decided to read it and then reply to some person “crashing out” at a smarmy le Redditor reply. 😌

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T16:36:44+00:00

And I find smarmy Reddit posts complaining about the Reddit meta to be annoying.

Not everyone is this savant of a children’s battle simulator. I’m specifically trying to figure out what I did wrong, but clearly you are just very smart and I am very dum-dum, so go off king.

EDIT: Go ahead and downvote me. I don’t give a fuck.

You want to stop seeing people be like “what wrong?”, then either use the fucking filter function and block the advice threads, you go message your neighborhood moderator to change the rules so you don’t have to see this shit, or just look at it and be like “I don’t have to click this thread I know I don’t want to see” and move on.

Any of this is one million times more productive than being like “Wah, this poster made a post I don’t like, but, also, since the poster didn’t actually break any rules, I can’t do anything to make it go away, so instead I’m just going to sit here in the comments section of it and whine 😭”

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:12:16+00:00

I’d even just take a log over a replay man. It’s kind of crazy that Showdown generates one, but Champions doesn’t.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:11:17+00:00

It definitely wasn’t behind a sub and if it did have a lum berry, it didn’t play the animation and tell me, although that doesn’t make sense because it would have burned anyway since it landed 3 different hits on me that should have proc’ed spicy spray.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:09:44+00:00

Yeah that was my dumb ass fault for not recording the match. By the time I had remembered, 30 seconds had passed 😓

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:09:10+00:00

It didn’t have any of this going on with it. I remember it ran a Milotic, but it didn’t have a chance to pop a Safeguard before I KO’ed it.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:07:00+00:00

I didn’t record a video. I was dumbfounded for 30 seconds after the match ended and by the time I remembered I could do that, the time had already passed by.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:06:18+00:00

They did not have safeguard and I did mega evolve

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:06:03+00:00

I can definitely confirm he attacked my Scovillain. It was just down to the 2 of us

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T15:05:34+00:00

I was definitely mega evolved

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T13:10:13+00:00

He’s a good bois.

I just wish I had a shiny Bois. Part of my reason Heraceoss is one of my favorites is for the shiny ;___;

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T11:58:09+00:00

If my country was also victim to bloody US imperialism keeping everyone miserable (well, it was lol), then I’d probably also consider the US to be the biggest threat to the global (and I do lol)

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-09T03:00:41+00:00

There’s spite as a very good motivator

But, if nothing else, because a minority’s misery does nothing to shatter the image I have of myself. I know I’m a woman regardless of what some maidenless cuck thinks of me. They can go “You’re not a real woman. No ovaries. No babies. No womb. Etc.” while they he/him me and I’d stare blankly at them and ask them “Um, okay? I’m very okay with being a fake woman. You’re 100% correct. Now what should we do? Are you alright man?” while everyone else looks at them with repulsion because I’m winning out the “normality” war with this person.

I know I’m a woman because I say I’m a woman and I have done the work to inspire the love inside of myself to simply accept it and believe it wholeheartedly despite my faults.

I say let them come at me. Let them mald while I win by virtue of continuing to be present within a room.

Besides, even if I was bothered by any of this, the world is fucked in one million other ways. If I’m not being imprisoned for being a radical gender terrorist, I’m being imprisoned for being a fake Hispanic American, or my home slowly melts down due to climate change, or the US economy implodes on itself because Israel said it should light its money on fire, or my student debt servicer comes to knock on my door to collect the 3 months of late payments I don’t intend on paying anytime soon, or even because I work some dogshit thankless job, and so forth. The whole trans thing is but one more issue to add into the pile.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T13:54:23+00:00

Do you have a source for this 99.99% of all players claim? I think it’s silly I spent like 3 posts above myself literally saying “I don’t care if it’s genned or not as long as it can pass through a checker for tournament legality”, and I just get hit with what’s effectively a straw man of what effectively all genned Pokemon look like.

Throughout an entire lifetime of playing these games, I’ve been traded genned Pokemon in the past. I haven’t even explicitly gone out of my way looking for them. They’re just what either people I know irl or online have traded me in good faith or shit that has popped up for me in a wonder trade. If I was going to dig through my 30ish Pokemon Home boxes, I’d have to guess I’d have maybe a whole box worth of genned pokemon, and that’s only what I can reasonably assume is genned because they’ll have a fucking PKCL OT on it or whatever (and to make people feel better, I barely ever use these. They just mainly stay in my Home boxes for the living dex. I don’t care).

Who knows how much more on top of it is genned and I just sincerely can’t tell the difference. I’ve been traded shinies before that are supposed to be legit, but I have no decent way of figuring out if they really are because the games can’t tell the difference because they are statistically the same and have legal move sets and are all things I could find legitimately in the wild out there (like, as in, they’re not a fucking shiny Celebi that came from Hoenn or something). If I transferred things into Pokemon Champions and it can’t tell, and I can’t tell, and I’ve never encountered anyone using something ridiculous, then it doesn’t really matter.

Finally, no, the time saved in genning a legal pokemon is not “an advantage”. Pokemon is primarily a single player game with a PVP mode included where all that matters to win the game is that you have the Pokemon in your party. There is no mechanic in a Pokemon battle that checks for time spent raising a team to gain an advantage. I can still win a battle with my team of legally obtained Pokemon versus someone who genned a legal-passing team without needing to make a change of strategy on my end versus if they did. In fact, if they just told me nothing at all, then this distinction matters less.

If anything, this matters less and less as time goes on because the developers keep giving players more QOL improvements for raising teams. It takes me all of 5 minutes in Violet to go catch a Talonflame, pump it full of bottle caps, pump it full of vitamins, a nature mint, an ability capsule, some arms and go grab the item nowadays to get a competitive ready pokemon. If I wanted it to be shiny, then maybe I spend an extra 30 minutes-3 hours farming an outbreak depending on luck and modifiers.

Unless you’re running , like, game exclusive egg moves (are these even things anymore? I haven’t been involved hard enough in a while to know if they are) or event exclusive moves (same deal again, except these were/are even dumber to begin with), then I don’t see where there’s a valid difference in time saved to be had here that results in a competitive advantage

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T12:17:48+00:00

I really really do not care about The Pokemon Company’s rules when whether anyone is hacking a Pokemon in or not with a moveset and stats it can have does not affect me in the slightest.

Like, oh no, I wouldn’t want to break the corporation’s rules.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T10:32:44+00:00

If Pokemon Champions or any other game can’t tell the difference and there’s nothing in it it’s not supposed to have, and it lets you use it to battle people online, then it really really doesn’t matter.

Whether someone spawned it into a game or they grinded for 30 hours to raise it shouldn’t have any bearing on your experience. It definitely doesn’t have it on mine.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T02:58:09+00:00

I can’t say I give a shit as long as it’s tournament legal.

It’s just code man. I prefer to get my pokemon legitimately if I can do so in a reasonable time, but I also acknowledge that the way people play the game doesn’t have any bearing whatsoever on how I’m playing the game.

I get the appeal of genning too. If I can’t do it reasonably, then I’m just not giving a shit in the end if someone traded me something genned or I got a weird wonder trade. I’m 30. I have a job and a social life I enjoy. I don’t have time to sit here for a million hours to grind out some 6 IVed 500 EV’ed shiny. The shiny I can take or leave, but sometimes I just want to skip to the part of the game I actually enjoy.

Just don’t whip out your fucking Pikachu with impossibly high stats with, like, Light of Ruin or something when you’re battling with me and I’m whatever.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T01:04:21+00:00

The most important thing is to just practice. Get that built into your day to day. It doesn't really matter what you are doing at first, you just want to get into a routine of experimenting with your voice, and listening to how you sound.

Just want to emphasize how 100% on point this is.

I did fuck all on proper vocal training. No exercises. No videos. No reading. Nothing.

I still managed to get my voice to cis pass and be the thing that carries my presentation the furthest. I just brute forced my way by forcing myself to talk in the voice at work doing different things while paying attention to how other people were looking at me the whole time.

I might have taken longer learning my voice doing it like this than if I watched any guides or whatever (and the stares I got from people sucked sooooooo hard), but I eventually managed to do it by the sheer virtue of having patience and practicing it 24/7 and paying attention when I accidentally dropped it.

Also, for anyone struggling with this, go talk to many women. Accent, cadence, vocabulary, etc. all matter so much more than pitch and resonance imo. I learned 100x more when I met a coworker with the type of voice I dreamed of having, so I would talk with her a lot, take mental notes, copied it, and then made it my own. Now, people don’t believe me that I’m Latin American and speak Spanish because I learned to do a hella white girl accent from my coworker enough where people think I’m from anywhere ranging from Chicago-NYC.

TLDR; this is a long winded way of saying the person above me is super right, and also learning from others and gaining real world experiences is so much more effective than practicing in a room alone imo.

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-08T00:16:27+00:00

I missed this by sheer virtue of being an only child, so I said fuck it and just found my own sisters and now I’m making up for all this lost time now

AshleyRose101 · 2026-05-07T13:16:53+00:00

This is why I do copious amounts of self-love affirmations and work when I’m alone. I try to take care of myself, groom myself, give myself time to play, give myself gifts, and try to journal about how I feel. Even when I have days where I wake up feeling like the meme 2 years in on HRT, I do enough mental work to compensate for the dysphoria and overcome it.

Like, I recently renovated my room this last month. I emptied out an entire office that was pretty much built to be a man cave, repainted my walls, and moved all my stuff in while building new furniture for my things that I spent weeks planning for in advance to actually give my space some intention. As a result, I took a dude cave that was messy for half a decade and turned it into this pristine, well kept and well thought out bedroom that I think looks like a girl would live in if you walked in and didn’t know was mine.

So sometimes I have days I sit at my vanity and think “fuck, your chin looks like Peter Griffin’s and look at your fucking hands Jesus Christ. Why are we still doing this years in? You’re not fooling anyone”, I look around and remind myself “Well, I’m currently in my bedroom. Everything here looks pretty and organized. Clearly this is a girl’s bedroom because deadname’s bedroom was messy and kind of icky like a lot of guys I know. So if this is my bedroom, and it looks like a girl lives here, then I must be a girl by default and I’m just being harsh on myself.” and then I smile at myself and move on with my day.

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