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rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between “damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)” and “damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)”
I am also “damn, girl, you wrote this? (forgetful)”
Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929). Early gay rights advocate who lived openly with his lover, George Merrill (1867–1928). They had a home in the English countryside, made socks and sandals fashionable, and were pretty much the originators of cottagecore.
George Merrill gave us the greatest and gayest work of art, the book Maurice by patting E.M Forster on the bum.
Additional things I have gleaned from his Wikipedia article:
was the person to popularize the phrase/concept of “the Simple Life”
had a kink for manual laborers and the working class, and when I say kink– “the grimy and oil-besmeared figure of a stoker”, “the thick-thighed hot coarse-fleshed young bricklayer with a strap around his waist”, etc.
Not only inspired Forster’s Maurice, but also DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The socks and sandals thing. Wtf. It is not adequately explained. Can we blame all bad “dad” fashion on one gay man who wanted Indian footwear but fuzzy feet?
Did refer to himself as a Uranian, so yup, totally identified as the period-equivalent of Super Gay
…this isn’t stated outright in the article but it does sound like he traveled all the way to New Jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
I begin to ask: who *didn’t* travel all the way to new jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
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A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
And the worst part is that you STILL don’t have a skateboard to leap back over the ledges. *Sighs disappointedly*
My apartment building has coin-op laundry in the basement, and on the shelf where people store detergent there are also just enough quarters to start one load in the washer. This is the collective “oh shit I forgot my quarters” bank that anyone can borrow from to start laundry without having to climb all the way back up the goddamn stairs first. These quarters have been steadily used and replaced for multiple years now, and every time I see them I think about how upon such small foundations rests all of human society.
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