HAPPY 10 YEARS OF THE MOST TRANSGENDER POKEMON

Ghost, setting down a card: Ace of spades

Gaz, pulling out an Uno card: +4

Soap, pulling out a Pokémon card: Jolteon, I choose you

Price, trembling: What are we playing

Eeveelutions 2.0!

can you. send me asks about Pokemon on my Pokemon blog please

I talked a lot last year about how the "main" artwork (faux sugimori style) for Pokemon had gotten miserably stiff and boring - many of them just exactly the lifeless idle poses from the game - but a new book apparently just revealed the alternate internal art of every current Pokemon, what fans call the "dream world art" that they use on a lot of stickers and coloring books. This is the first time the public has seen this art for the last couple hundred new Pokemon.

These tend to have their own original poses and god WHAT a fucking improvement

Toxtricity's "main" illustrations were even fairly decent but the alternate art STILL shows off what they should have been:

Happy Pride Month!!

As queer individuals ourselves, we wanted to express our love for the community by highlighting iconic pride flag colors with illustrated natural elements every single day this month. We'll be pairing birds and flowers together to show off individual pride flag themes.

For the first of the bunch, we have an illustration that represents the overall LGBTQIA+ community with the iconic Rainbow Pride flag behind a Macaw and a Bird of Paradise plant.

We can't wait to share all of these illustrations with you and if you're interested in supporting our work by getting a little pride bird of your own, check out the shop link in our navigation!

I joke around a lot about how I would pay So Much Money for a Pokemon: Eevee Version where the entire selling point is finally giving us an eeveelution for all 18 types and also some dual-types.

And then I saw this:

And I am no longer joking.

With 171 potential combinations, it is entirely feasible to make a Pokemon game centered around Eevee.

Why? Because Eevee deserves it. And because we have had an egregious dearth of new Eeevee content since Sylveon dropped.

Here’s my pitch:

The region you live in is an island where Eevee basically became the endemic dominant organism. (If Gamefreak really wants to fuck around and find out, they could play around with real-life evolutionary theory concepts. They’ve used recent games to teach kids about stuff like environmentalism and conservation and energy/power production, so why not?)

The Pokemon Professor in the game will be a distant relative of, idk, Professor Rowan or Professor Sycamore, who decided that studying Pokemon evolution is too broad and decided to focus on what really matters: Eevee and Eevee-Associated Phenomena.

The player is tasked with filling out the Eeveedex.

The gym leaders still specialize in particular types, but they still only use Eeveelutions, of course. A fire-type leader can have Flareon as their signature ‘mon, sure, but for the rest of their team it’ll be dual fire types. Which might actually add to the difficulty level, especially if you get some weird type combos like fire/grass, because then you can’t just walk in and annihilate their entire team with a single not-overleveled water type unless it’s got some appropriate moves.

The Elite Four follows the same trend but with trickier type combos. The Champion has a six-Pokemon team full of the most seemingly contradictory type combos, like fire/water and normal/ghost. And lots of unexpected movesets, like the absolute badass that is Cynthia.

In the post-game Professor Oak will show up to give you the National Dex and you can have access to other ‘mons, as a treat, but until then? You get Eevee and its various -eons. It’s Eevee’s time to shine, which means Eevee and -eons only.

(I might make one (1) exception. There can be That One Fisherman with an entire team of Magikarp, if Gamefreak insists on carrying on that trope. Or he could just have a team of six Vaporeon that only know Splash. I’m willing to compromise.)

Celebrating Day 4 of Pride Month with a Pink-headed Warbler surrounded by Dianthus flowers to represent Transfem Pride!