Speaking of R/B/Y-era rumours, @johtotimes just published a very fun issue going over some of the wild stuff that was getting spread around back then!

I'm particularly tickled by the Pikablu rumour screenshotted in the article:

It's similar to but not quite the same as the one that was on Mew's Hangout that I genuinely believed for a time (in that one, stated to be confirmed by Nintendo, you needed seventeen Pokémon at level 100, and I just never got there). It's very illustrative of the sort of thing that was going around, and the commonalities with the actual genuine Mew trick are uncanny:

There's a high barrier to entry: you probably can't just go try this right now. Maybe you've used a GameShark ever and then too bad, it's not going to work for you. Or you haven't completed your Pokédex. Or, while your team of six may be high-leveled, probably you don't have seventeen Pokémon that you've trained up. Similarly, for the Mew trick, you need to have not fought these two random trainers that you had no reason to avoid on your playthrough, and if you have - oops, too bad, you can't try it. So you can't prove it doesn't work, right?

You need to perform a secret arbitrary sequence of steps involving interacting with these particular random NPCs in very particular ways, ones that have no sensible connection to "Pikablu". They're just the key that unlocks it, for some reason. Similarly, the Mew trick, again, involves an encounter with Mew being unlocked by interacting in very particular ways with these two particular random trainers, for some reason.

You need to stand in this one very specific spot and then immediately use Fly to go to a specific place. In the Mew trick you also need to stand in a very specific spot, then move down and very quickly press Start to Fly to a specific place.

It describes some funky vaguely glitch-sounding behaviour, where you get this mystery item where trying to use it just acts like you selected Cancel, and when you talk to Oak it gives you recycled dialogue about a different item - juuust enough to sound kind of weird and spooky, but not like any kind of full-on memory corruption is happening. Similarly, the Mew trick involves little mildly weird spooky bits like that: an exclamation mark appearing above a trainer's head while you're flying away, your Start button not working for a bit, the Start menu popping up by itself. But there's no obvious apparent full-on corruption going on. All the visibly glitchy behaviour is subtle and temporary.

It was truly such a perfect coincidental storm of circumstances that happened to make it fall so neatly in line with all the rumours. In hindsight, there are of course also some noteworthy differences we can identify: most prominently, in the Pikablu rumour there's an NPC with supposed dialogue specific to this sequence, which would mean this would have to be an intentionally programmed easter egg with the prior random interactions as a very obtuse but presumably intentional trigger, whereas the Mew trick features no new NPC dialogue because it's simply a legitimate glitch that these NPC interactions happen to trigger. But not every rumour involved new dialogue, and legitimate glitches in games can also sometimes trigger unused dialogue; even with hindsight, nothing about the instructions themselves should have been a giveaway that the Mew trick was the genuine article in a sea of urban legends.

An interview with @bonzairob on The Johto Times, about The Pokemon Factory! Have been looking forward to this ever since it was first mentioned.

Happy Birthday PLA, now let me see Ingo attack and dethrone pokegod!!!!

HI yes I drew this in like two days so im sorry it's not exactly polished hsadlkfjhsdf

This began as my idea of wanting to see a scenario where Ingo recovers his memories and throws hands at Arceus so he can have a way back- (probably as a test from Arceus himself to see if he's truly ready to go back) used this quick doodle as an idea on how I wanted to draw the boi's restored coat- (mind you this is something i did in June of last year WHEEZE)

aaaaaaaaaaanyways! hope you guys enjoy this! I'm gonna try and relax now-

if I can honest a second? I really don’t like the depictions of Arceus being ‘apathetic, uncaring’ or even ‘cruel’ god. like from what I’ve seen in various forms of media, it’s just inaccurate.

Calaba finds Emmet wandering the mirelands on a quest to Punch God and she's just like "fair enough let's go". Akari and Ingo finally complete the Pokedex together only to find the two having tea next to Arceus out cold on the floor

ok i love how calaba is just on board with this from the start

shea is going to drop kick that stupid time-space warping crystal beast emerald turtle into the sun thanks for playing

pleaseeee I want a legends kyurem(??) game so bad please can you imagine the team plasma lore and the hisuian style remixes of black and white music

you mention pokegods betaguys or glitchguys and i begin t-posing before you

"...give me a proper reason why you should be immortal. Fear of death is not a proper reason. You rave about what you could see in years that will pass, yet you don't look around you to see history being made every day. Every day humanity learns something new, grows, improves.

What about those who care for you? Those who will pass because they have no wish to never die? Will you not follow them into the eternal rest willingly? Will you have to be dragged kicking and screaming?

Do not be selfish, man in white. Immortality is not something to regard lightly. It is not a blessing. It is not a gift. It a curse. Even to us gods."

just remembered that one time i was playing legends arceus n there was an eevee mass outbreak. n eevee's my favorite pokemon (next to sprigatito) so i of course went to check it out.

there was a shiny eevee. i didn't process it until it disappeared. note to self: don't just toss pokeballs around during mass outbreaks if you want a shiny-

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He creado una cuenta en Trumblr para promocionar mis dibujos y mi Patreon, son dibujos digitales. Estoy abierta a escuchar ofertas. Necesito bastante el dinero, y ya no se por donde publicar los dibujos que vendo.

May just do a post or series of posts on old Pokegod rumors if anyone would be interested? It’s a topic I’ve found quite a few Angelfire sites discussing, and while it might be one of my more research-intensive posts (I want to do it justice!) I can’t shake this fascination with them.

Will probably post no matter the interest levels, just wanting to let y’all know where my mind is at in terms of posts.

if i dont write v.olo heirophilia-esque smut right now im going to die

also kudos to whoever it was who first came up with the idea of “worshipping” as v.olo/a.rceus ship name its super cute