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Hi everyone! Just an update on Dojoshipping week 2024, as I have finalized all of the prompts! Another reminder, it is from Monday, May 13 to Sunday, May 19! Here are the prompts!
Day 1: Training/Mochi
Day 2: Past/Future
Day 3: Zoroark/Gliscor
Day 4: Jubilife Village/Coronet Highlands
Day 5: Silly/Color
Day 6: AU/Canon compliant
Day 7: Free day
I’ll give periodic reminders as well get closer; be sure to tag your works as dojoshipping, dojoshipping week and dojoshipping week 2024 so everyone can see it!
#dojoshipping#dojoshipping week#dojoshipping week 2024#pokemon#pokemon legends arceus#Ingo#Zisu#security corps zisu#captain zisu#warden ingo#Subway boss Ingo#submas
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maybe if i think really hard about video game character everything will be okay
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"A ninja must never endanger the innocent..."
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Remade the ref for my Pecharunt OC :)
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ねえ 家主 ちょっと あれ
Hey landlady, look! Look at that
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Wholesome Yuri, Toxic Yaoi, Doomed Het.
I see no difference.
Love is love. 👍
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everyone shut up about emmet. pokemon legends z-a has potential to do the stupidest thing imaginable.
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The Eternal Flower Files: The Sun King
Let's talk about King AZ, the king that became a wanderer.
Pokemon X and Y draw a lot of connections between King AZ and King Louis XIV of France. Remember that portrait in Parfum Palace? The one that reminds our player character of AZ? Well, Parfum Palace is based on the Palace of Versailles, and the painting looks a lot like like Louis XIV. He called himself the "Sun King" for reasons that will be clear later in the post.
Screenshots from Pokemon Generations Episode 18: The Redemption
Notice how in AZ's last scene at the end of Pokemon X and Y, the sun is beating down hard on him in nearly every shot, including during the battle. Then when when Floette appears, she descends down from the sun.
While X and Y compare AZ to the Sun King, here it seems like the sun symbol...is Floette herself, as if the sun is Floette watching AZ. Floette's Eternal Flower is likely associated with light, but the sun itself? I don't have a full theory about this. Not yet anyway.
Another symbol associated with King AZ is the inchplant, historically known as "Wandering Jew". It's a vine that shares some similarities with the Eternal Flower, especially the reddish-violet variants. It even has three-petaled flowers, like the trillium. The zebra-like stripes on the leaves especially remind me of the black triquetra markings on the Eternal Flower's petals.
Sources: Succulent Depot, OrchidWeb: Tradescantia zebrina
If you've listened to Z-A theories lately, you might have heard of AZ's widely agreed on other inspiration, the story of the Wandering Jew, or "Eternal Jew". This is the antisemitic folk tale of a Jewish man who was cursed with immortality after mocking Jesus on the morning of crucifixion, and made to wander the earth until the end of days. This story has fueled centuries of antisemitism, even being used by Nazis for propaganda in WWII.
We know anime can't resist playing with European history and western religious symbols. Pokemon wouldn't be the first anime to be inspired by Ahasuerus (Fate/Requiem), Xerxes (Fullmetal Alchemist), or Cartaphilus (Ancient Magus' Bride), which are all names associated with various versions of the Wandering Jew. Personally though, I imagine this story catching GameFreak's attention because of the plant, considering how much flower symbolism runs the Pokemon franchise.
Sources: (1) Getty Images, via History.com, (2) Internet Archive via Wikipedia
So here we have a set of conflicting inspirations for AZ: the Sun King, and the Wandering Jew. "Conflicting" is an understatement, because Louis "the Sun King" XIV actively persecuted French Jews. He called himself the Sun King because he considered himself God's representative on Earth. Not only did he expel the Jews from the French West Indies, he stripped Calvinists of their religious liberties, and sometimes even went after other Catholics. (Source: History.com)
What do we make of these conflicting inspirations? Well, fiction can be cathartic. I think GameFreak switched the roles of the Sun King and the Wandering Jew for their story. In real life, the Sun King enjoyed a nice, long reign, unscathed by the people he persecuted and exiled. But in Pokemon X and Y, it's not the innocent religious minorities that wander the earth. It is the Sun King himself, forced to live eternally with the crimes he committed as the ruler of Kalos.
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Multiple drafts of this post were reviewed by @fluffybunnybadass, who helped me cut straight to the substance. Thank you!
Want to know more about Eternal Flower Floette's connection to sacred geometry? Or how about all the Pokemon characters named after the fleur de lys? Ever since the announcement of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, I've been serving up lots of Gen VI theories, so check out them out below:
The Eternal Flower Files: Flowers of the Fleur de Lys
Eternal Flower Files Short: Thismia
The Eternal Flower Files: Sacred Geometry
Xerneas and Yveltal are Fungi: Let Me Explain
Poll: What Does the Λ in Legends Z-A Symbolize?
Pokemon Legends Z-A: What Is the Λ?
Aaah, it's an A! Is the A in Z-A the Tree of Life?
How much longer am I going to have to wait for a freakin' Unova remake?!
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"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu
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Shots of the Aerial done by a friend of mine on IG @ thenaptaker
Really makes me wanna upgrade from a Nikon to a Sony
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I just saw that yesterday (April 17th) was Phione Day (フィオネの日)
How about a little appreciation post of our favorite heroine turned Phione and the shenanigans she is up to?
Once Akari figured out how to use Water Gun, she became just a little too eager to test out its viability on warding off murkrow.
She profusely apologized later.
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I didn’t know yesterday was Phione Day!! That’s so cool!! Thank you for sending an ask about it!! I hope this suffices haha
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