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Nickname: Asa Lv. 20, Quiet nature.
Often lost in (fandom-related) thought.
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♥ Pokémon
♦ Ace Attorney
♣ Harvest Moon
♠  Professor Layton
♥ Touhou Project
♦ various anime (list)
♥ obscure references &amp; cheesy puns

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Other websites:

• RayofHope3579 on Youtube
• Asa Turney on FanFiction.net• Harvest Moon  (Jamie) ask blog</description><title>( ace trainer )</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @asa-turney)</generator><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>(I just played DS Cute. So I don’t know why I drew the...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1c5dabcaffba9bc07ebd81a2375a255f/tumblr_mmwq1kMILf1r7hwaho2_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I just played DS &lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/harvestmoon" target="_blank"&gt;Cute&lt;/a&gt;. So I don’t know why I drew the boy. But this is what I got from it.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Witch Princess poofs in at random milestones, offering you a tangible but meaningless reward. It’s a gift item that sells for next to nothing and that she freely admits is totally useless. …But hey, at least it’s something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Harvest Goddess poofs in at random milestones, offering you &lt;em&gt;absolutely nothing&lt;/em&gt;. She makes a big show of pointing out that you get &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;. …Except maybe that fleeting opportunity to take some pure pride in your achievement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Such a big part of Harvest Moon games is self-motivation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; …Finding ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;something exciting in this world&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;’ that only &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; can see amidst all the repetitive ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;patterns&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;.’ Being willing to work hard for your own personal satisfaction and little else. I think that’s the takeaway message. So in that way, as annoying as it is to be constantly denied rewards, I think the Goddess is supposed to be like the ‘good angel’ on your shoulder reminding you that hard work is its own reward~.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/50778296745</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/50778296745</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:00 -0700</pubDate><category>harvest moon</category><category>in cute she says straight up that her job is to make sure you work hard</category><category>but gives up and disappears; so it's like you have to restore your own motivation~</category><category>...PLOT TWIST: i personally resent that theme; side with the witch;</category><category>and favor the more 'rewarding' storylines of the console titles like mm and ap HAHAHA but that's irrelevant</category></item><item><title>“Eight of spades”: the symmetrical figure of...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76fd7c4256a8b63a7a2bacbe5cf9f846/tumblr_mlqpliiPwI1r7hwaho1_r3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;“Eight of spades”: the symmetrical figure of death.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Try to horizontal-flip it; I dare you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/49048261025</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/49048261025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:17:00 -0700</pubDate><category>soul eater</category><category>death the kid</category><category>ambigram</category><category>...Can we talk about how ATTRACTIVE Death the Kid is!?</category><category>That sleek sharp monochrome. Those piercing eyes. Those striiiiiipes...</category><category>He may not agree; but I think what's more attractive than perfect symmetry is coming SO TANTALIZINGLY CLOSE.</category><category>That contrast is just fundamentally attractive; right!?</category><category>Also; gimmicky characterization -- gimmicky but not cliché -- that's also something I adore.</category><category>Characters who can create a mini-culture around them with their unique quirk.</category><category>...And; characters who have a cool facade at first glance and end up being total dorks. Heh.</category><category>/// EDIT: I realized how creepy it sounds to be calling a KID attractive. I...uh...assure you that I mean it in a pure design sense.</category><category>I can't even remember the last time I said 'attractive' about someone with a definite gender (pfft)</category><category>and I think I might like Kid for reasons along the same lines:</category><category>His attractive physical traits aren't gendered ones but ones based in symmetry; contrast; balance -- universal ideals~</category></item><item><title>Get it — it’s red blood rushing to your face,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/29267ba454323eb83856e9cb0aab7afb/tumblr_mlqij3l4MX1r7hwaho1_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Get it — it’s red blood rushing to your face, so…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;…Haha…aha…ahaha&lt;a href="http://ruf1ohn1tram.tumblr.com/post/41849879484/pairings-you-first-ship-as-a-joke-and-then-they" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;*sob*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/49048194604</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/49048194604</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:16:00 -0700</pubDate><category>soul eater</category><category>I ship... no no... I friend-ship it with all my heart.</category><category>Crona is a precious sweetheart of a character</category><category>and I think Maka being the first to show Crona affection is all sorts of precious.</category></item><item><title>DAN JOE DAN DAN JOE DAN JOE</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2704c71846e51f194071351e354b151d/tumblr_mlvfzzJdI41r7hwaho1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e2955ee75e06886f64cb98f86fd45b69/tumblr_mlvfzzJdI41r7hwaho2_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2f3df84feabd58fae032e24d4e432ccc/tumblr_mlvfzzJdI41r7hwaho3_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAN JOE DAN DAN JOE&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5bA7IlbHac" target="_blank"&gt;DAN JOE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/48942312945</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/48942312945</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:30:00 -0700</pubDate><category>harvest moon</category><category>magical melody</category><category>danjo</category></item><item><title>「男女」     ”SENSEI! ……We might need a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8ebec0673de7333bdc593ff03c533000/tumblr_mlvfvoZQ2Z1r7hwaho1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;「&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5bA7IlbHac" target="_blank"&gt;男女&lt;/a&gt;」&lt;em&gt;     ”&lt;strong&gt;SENSEI!&lt;/strong&gt; ……&lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DudeLooksLikeALady" target="_blank"&gt;We&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LadyLooksLikeADude" target="_blank"&gt;might&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguousGender" target="_blank"&gt;need&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShesAManInJapan" target="_blank"&gt;a new&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender" target="_blank"&gt;plan.&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/48942217950</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/48942217950</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:28:00 -0700</pubDate><category>danjo</category><category>ouran high school host club</category><category>baka and test</category><category>ranma 1/2</category><category>pokemon</category><category>soul eater</category></item><item><title>...I’ll just have to call...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b0e362c0e91cba3665b9518b1eb0957f/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "Hmph."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/094572fd05bcc553ccdc13b8291f04fb/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho2_r2_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "Stop bugging me!"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/212e022b7c831047b7c71e70c539e972/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho4_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "I refuse to join forces with you."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f00fc02f6ab62f8d424d5bbc4c0efd6d/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho5_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "Heh, of course I'm going to come in first."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/67db6894fc00a6f94ae2bf70b09a3833/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho8_r3_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "I couldn't do anything to help you...!"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/61c115b7f268baca3fbe893a0e59b274/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho3_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "I-I'm not thankful or anything."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d558cbca3135f65b8cffa59abceafed8/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho9_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; "I've always...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8a8856be4d259f23f26bebb0bf8c23b6/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho6_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; ...wanted to say it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1be502f53390680e226c7ca041d9d3da/tumblr_mkeur3jBpA1r7hwaho7_r1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; ...Thank you."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/private/46656154755/tumblr_mkg6hjtjWu1r7hwah" target="_blank"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;..I’ll just have to call these &lt;em&gt;animated-portrait-things&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;since &lt;span&gt;Jamie would probably object to being called a “sprite.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46656173143</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46656173143</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:21:00 -0700</pubDate><category>harvest moon</category><category>magical melody</category></item><item><title>
Type: Steel / Fighting.
Battles for great justice, casting a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c7c0400745f5c46270b1b8d7c6c521d6/tumblr_mk8x30bxzH1r7hwaho1_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Type:&lt;strong&gt; Steel &lt;/strong&gt;/ &lt;strong&gt;Fighting&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Battles for great justice, casting a strong aura —&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;that is, using the sheer force of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;will power.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;I’ll write to PokéStar and Global Studios and suggest the collaboration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494170342</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494170342</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:30:00 -0700</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>ace attorney</category><category>steel samurai</category><category>lucario</category></item><item><title>
“Oh!  Is that a Smeargle in her natural...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7c7d3880b77d0e9ffba00b73b16ee5ac/tumblr_mj0ra9N4T21r7hwaho1_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh!  Is that a Smeargle in her natural habitat?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Once, I got a notion about how much fun it would be to go to a con as Todd Snap, and make it a goal to take pictures of all the Pokémon gijinkas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;…I’m not gonna do it, but I at least wanted to draw it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If you do it, in this case, I &lt;a href="http://media.tumblr.com/52637cb65073921266399155b4d60d8b/tumblr_inline_mkd3tiJ9Kf1qz4rgp.png" target="_blank"&gt;don’t recommend&lt;/a&gt; bringing a friend as Oak.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46397024337</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46397024337</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:01:00 -0700</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>pokemon snap</category></item><item><title>


 
The Wotch is&amp;#8212; &amp;#8230;
Hmm&amp;#8230; How can I put it delicately?
&amp;#8230;&amp;#8230;I...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/807d7455902a49a83d5d38574efbb213/tumblr_inline_mk8zq5LODm1qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Wotch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; is&amp;#8212; &amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hmm&amp;#8230; How can I put it delicately?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;&amp;#8230;I can&amp;#8217;t. It&amp;#8217;s a kinda weird, &lt;em&gt;highly fetish-driven&lt;/em&gt; webcomic, starring a girl with magical powers who likes to use them to transform her friends into fairies or furries or (most often than not) the opposite sex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Of course it didn&amp;#8217;t occur to me at the time of my introduction to it &amp;#8212; maybe 12 or 13 years old? &amp;#8212; that it was fetishistic. It was magic and fun (with a pretty well fleshed-out mythos, I still think, in spite of its shallower fanservicey overtones), and it was my first exposure to the genre of &amp;#8216;&lt;strong&gt;genderbending&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;#8217; so I was hooked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;After &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pokémon, I think this comic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;was among the earliest things in my life that I could truly call a fandom of mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I drew fanart for it. Really embarrassingly crappy fanart &lt;em&gt;and that&amp;#8217;s the understatement of the millennium, trust me.&lt;/em&gt; But it was fanart nonetheless. When I think about all the things I&amp;#8217;ve ever read/played/watched and try to narrow down to what I&amp;#8217;d consider my &amp;#8220;fandoms,&amp;#8221; I think having produced fanart for the thing is a good marker, because something that inspires you to move from a passive to an active sort of interaction with it obviously had a notable impact on you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Heck, I even retain some interesting memories from my fandom experience. I remember that there was a member of the webcomic&amp;#8217;s discussion forum who was fandom-famous for writing poems based on every single update. I admired his work like crazy, but was constantly jealous because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; wanted to be the official forum poet like I was (or believed I was) on Neopets and on Animal Crossing Community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Anyway, I&amp;#8217;ve seen the comic get a bad rap for its supposedly sexist messages and its flippant treatment of transsexuality, but&amp;#8230; I don&amp;#8217;t&amp;#8230; I don&amp;#8217;t know&amp;#8230; I really don&amp;#8217;t find it dangerous&amp;#8230; There&amp;#8217;s a certain line when it comes to the potential harmfulness of fetishes, and I don&amp;#8217;t think The Wotch crosses it&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; view gender much differently from then to now&amp;#8230; I guess I still have a sort of guilty lingering fascination for Rule 63, but the androgyny that I idealize now is quite at odds with it. Though they&amp;#8217;re often put under the same genre-umbrella, a character who follows Rule 63 and a character who remains androgynous are almost complete opposites. So it&amp;#8217;s weird how that chain of interest for me worked out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t religiously follow Wotch updates anymore, which is a shame because the artist that took over last year or so is &lt;em&gt;really freaking wonderful&lt;/em&gt;, but I still consider it an important fandom of mine, having had some sort of impact on that &amp;#8216;chain of interest,&amp;#8217; and my ideas about a lot of things, so&amp;#8230; &lt;sub&gt;Needed a post about it&amp;#8230; &lt;sub&gt;That&amp;#8217;s all. ^^;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494162483</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494162483</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:29:00 -0700</pubDate><category>the wotch</category><category>stealth post about the fandom that introduced me to genderbending</category></item><item><title>My favorite character…
…takes an antagonistic role...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b6e6cb7eb74ba57128624f8d1520fc64/tumblr_mjs32en3QI1r7hwaho1_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;My favorite character…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…takes an antagonistic role despite noble intentions…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…is exceedingly talented but still rather immature…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…believes in a ‘perfect’ natural order of things…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…exists on the cusp of an ambiguous border…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…although their mind is stuck in a strict frame of black-and-white…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;…and their heart will be changed for good&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;        by the model of the chosen hero,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;           on a journey to achieve harmony.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Who is it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/45543358420</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/45543358420</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:55:00 -0700</pubDate><category>harvest moon</category><category>pokemon</category><category>The most influential parent-figure in their life was that one other character with matching hair color</category><category>(although the influence of that figure gets misapplied)...</category><category>and they are characterized by a song that gradually becomes happier. (Have you heard the gorgeous final version of N's 'Equated Captives'?)</category><category>...AND THIS IS HOW B2 CONVINCED ME TO SHIP N × HILDA/HILBERT.</category><category>As with Jamie I think either gender match is fitting in its respective canon</category><category>though as with Jamie I'm biased toward the girl since I played as the girl.</category></item><item><title>(the ABCs of why Pokémon B2/W2 is a perfect game)</title><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;nimated &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sprites.pokecheck.org/?trainers" title="LOOK AT THEM. LOOK THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL." target="_blank"&gt;trainer sprites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; and other &lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span&gt;wesome art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt;reeder battle bonanzas~.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;ONTINUITY CONTINUITY CONTINUITY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;esigns done duly &lt;a href="http://media.tumblr.com/670023dc1a08f979cbccd7da9f68d70c/tumblr_inline_mkd2cqppF31qz4rgp.png" title="I'm looking at you, cuties. Cuties. Cuties and perfectly stylish showcases of the timeskip. So cute." target="_blank"&gt;to date&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;lite &lt;a href="http://media.tumblr.com/ffb0db92a3f78be3ce94736d4ea75baa/tumblr_inline_mkbnsiAsbA1qz4rgp.png" title="If you don't think the paths to these places are super pretty and amazing there is something wrong with you." target="_blank"&gt;entrance&lt;/a&gt; experiences. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;amiliar ferris-wheel faces? Flashbacks fostering fluffy feelings?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;   &amp;#8230;Flawless formula to fall back on &amp;#8212; if there weren&amp;#8217;t already so many great things to say for just one letter?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;G&lt;/strong&gt;orgeous geographical graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;EADS UP&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#8216;M ABOUT TO UNLEASH MY RAGE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;J&lt;/strong&gt;oin Avenue &lt;a href="http://i.imgur.com/K1Bi5.png" title="Who'd've thought the best way to feel like a part of something bigger...like a part of a global community...would be trading magnets!?" target="_blank"&gt;truly joins&lt;/a&gt; the world as one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;K&lt;/strong&gt;yurem, looking twice as cool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;L&lt;/strong&gt;egendaries &amp;#8212; legendaries everywhere!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;edals for motivation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O&lt;/strong&gt;ST. &amp;#8230;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_72077&amp;amp;feature=iv&amp;amp;src_vid=I-VQ5-UWm0s&amp;amp;v=I-VQ5-UWm0s#t=5m38s" target="_blank"&gt;O&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9ee9lWSbg" target="_blank"&gt;S.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKq46ggAmcw" target="_blank"&gt;FREAKING.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DV8GjSK2p0" target="_blank"&gt;T.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P&lt;/strong&gt;rizes for PokéDex perfection!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;uests that get &lt;a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2" title="...like WHY WOULD YOU EVEN PUT THIS IN THE GAME (BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH)!?!? ......CRTL+F 'CELESTIAL' ASKJDHIUAHDKAS" target="_blank"&gt;way too psychological&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;epel&amp;#8217;s effect wore off! Use another?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;tone &lt;a href="http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-black-white-version-2/Evolution_Items" title="By which I mean, could it be any more convenient to acquire all the evolutionary stones and other items you need? Being able to buy them in Black City AND win them from the PWT just makes things so doable. Same goes for a lot of different items, actually, like the ones offered at the stores in Join Avenue." target="_blank"&gt;surpluses&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;errific training in towers and treehollows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U&lt;/strong&gt;nova &lt;a href="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unova_Link" target="_blank"&gt;unlocked&lt;/a&gt;: new areas, and old memories&amp;#8230; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;V&lt;/strong&gt;ideography in Virbank.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;ORLD TOURNAMENT, welcoming wonderful winners from &lt;a href="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_World_Tournament" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the worlds&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;-transceiver courtships~&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt;ancy and Curtis are the actual cutest though, for real, so they get two slots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Z&lt;/strong&gt;oroarks, giving you &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZFVH91B34&amp;amp;t=8m23s" target="_blank"&gt;philosophical&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://the-humans-from-wall-e.tumblr.com/post/37570160221/n-is-a-zoroark" target="_blank"&gt;stuff&lt;/a&gt; think about &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;as if the solid content wasn&amp;#8217;t enough.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Oh yeah.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Him, too. &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;——————————————————————————&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;———&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;————&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;Oops, this post is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; just an excuse to secretly gush in more overwhelming detail about just how amazing I think this game is. I DON&amp;#8217;T &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;suggest reading it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;(look at the size of that scrollbar&amp;#8230;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;, but I can&amp;#8217;t resist getting it out in some form. &lt;em&gt;(&amp;#8230;No seriously, I&amp;#8217;m operating under the assumption that no one is reading so I can let loose all my stops so dON&amp;#8217;T READ iT if you know what&amp;#8217;s good for you.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The thing is&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THERE ARE &lt;em&gt;SO MANY THINGS&lt;/em&gt; GOING ON IN THIS WORLD.&lt;/strong&gt; It&amp;#8217;s incredible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I mean, I&amp;#8217;ve never &lt;em&gt;believed&lt;/em&gt; so much in a virtual world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;There are a thousand and one factors contributing to that feeling of genuity and completeness, though naturally 85% of my focus and love and praise goes toward &lt;em&gt;those NPCs&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#8212; you know, those obscure NPCs I adore so much. It&amp;#8217;s difficult to explain, but &lt;em&gt;they seriously come across as having their own lives.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span&gt;Every single one &amp;#8212; including the ones that are met only once with one line apiece &amp;#8212; they are individuals. They are ridiculously silly and quirky individuals, but I can believe they&amp;#8217;re individuals nevertheless. They&amp;#8217;re all as memorable as possible, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;and between them and everything that&amp;#8217;s happening in their surroundings, it all just comes together so nicely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Seriously, POKÉMON HAS GOT TO HAVE THE BEST FREAKING NPCS &amp;#8212; AND THE BEST &lt;em&gt;HIDDEN GEMS&lt;/em&gt; IN AN &lt;em&gt;ALREADY FANTASTIC GAME&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#8212; OF ALL TIME. This is a game that has it all, A to Z, and that really goes above and beyond.&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&amp;#8230;I&amp;#8217;m about to feel like a total idiot, wasting so much time rambling away trying to argue the the painfully obvious: why a successful game like Pokémon is successful. I mean&amp;#8230; it&amp;#8217;s obvious. But&amp;#8230; &lt;em&gt;it still needs to be said??? &lt;/em&gt;It &lt;em&gt;deserves&lt;/em&gt; to be said. This game&amp;#8217;s praises deserve to be rung out from the top of Celestial Tower to the bottom of Giant Chasm to the shores of Undella Bay. Insert a patriotic picture of Braviary here, or something, and then let me get on with, first of all, pointing out a few amazing NPCs in particular.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;First. CURTIS AND YANCY. THE DEFINITION OF CUTENESS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Unfortunately, I feel like I gypped myself out of a much better experience, because somehow I didn&amp;#8217;t find the Dropped Item until postgame, and by then &amp;#8212; Flying everywhere &amp;#8212; I had no occasion to be at the spots when Curtis was supposed to call&amp;#8230; So I eventually just looked them up and did them in one day. It would have been awesome, instead, to have that mysterious little courtship going on over the course of the journey.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Well, I want to blame myself, but the execution of this is one of the few things the game didn&amp;#8217;t make very availably clear anyway, what with the whole horribly bizarre find-the-specific-call-spots-out-of-a-million-tiles thing. I&amp;#8217;ll continue throwing out words like &amp;#8220;perfect&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;flawless&amp;#8221; even though I know I can&amp;#8217;t really call any game totally perfect; still, any such inconveniences are anomalies, because I felt like this game DID do very well for the most part to make things very simple and convenient, polish all the game mechanics, and trim out artificial difficulty.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I also kind of rushed through the fifty subsequent calls &amp;#8212; at least, to the extent to which I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; rush through them, since it takes frustratingly long to get in touch&amp;#8230; I was even going to make a faux-personal post here about &amp;#8220;&lt;em&gt;a guy who won&amp;#8217;t take my calls :(&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8221; in which I complained about Curtis being a bad boyfriend &amp;#8212; but in the end, y&amp;#8217;know, I couldn&amp;#8217;t bring myself to do it&amp;#8230; because I &lt;em&gt;couldn&amp;#8217;t&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8230; insult Curtis&amp;#8230; even as a joke.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Because&amp;#8230; WHAT A SWEETHEART! Good boyfriend, very good boyfriend! Inherently programmed to have almost everything in common with you, and that precious subtly-blushing face during the later calls&amp;#8230; and WHEN HIS &amp;#8216;COWORKER&amp;#8217; ANSWERS AND THEN HANGS THE HECK UP &amp;#8212; GEEZ, I ALMOST CHOKED. ON THE PRECIOUSNESS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It is very rare that I will &lt;em&gt;actively&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;aggressively&lt;/em&gt; ship something, but it is guaranteed that I will &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; passively support almost anything that is directly canonized. As long as it is written nicely into the story and serves to enhance it rather than to detract from what&amp;#8217;s important, then canon is my god. And the game made this couple&amp;#8217;s potential blatantly, preciously obvious, and it&amp;#8217;s got a positive impact on the overall enjoyment of the character&amp;#8217;s adventure&amp;#8230;. So, if the B2W2 player characters had to be paired up with some special someones, I&amp;#8217;d have to go with their secret-superstar phone pals~.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;That is, if I don&amp;#8217;t find myself too preoccupied, instead, shipping them tongue-in-cheek with their &amp;#8220;Love and Battles&amp;#8221; trilogy costars at PokéStar Studios, simply becauslk SDnI JFLMLNHADKMBGF THOSE MOVIES. THOSE MOVIES. THOSE mVOISJDSNH&amp;#8212;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;NO. NO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;YOU DON&amp;#8217;T UNDERSTAND.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Talking about those movies will prove to be my fan-freakout berserk button, but for good reason. &lt;em&gt;Those movies.&lt;/em&gt; Forget preciousness; I was choking on &lt;em&gt;CEASELESS HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER.&lt;/em&gt; WHAT FLAWLESSLY FABULOUS ABSURDITY. A+++. This game. It&amp;#8217;s the GREATEST FREAKING THING TO BE FILMING A MOVIE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IN THE WORLD IS EVEN GOING ON and then getting to see the RIDICULOUS PLOT TWISTS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ON SCREEN FOR THE FIRST TIME LIKE AJSDKJAD ARE YOU SERIOUS? This game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Have I mentioned the flawlessness of this game? If I haven&amp;#8217;t mentioned it within the past dozen words then I&amp;#8217;m not mentioning it enough. &amp;#8220;LOVE AND BATTLES 3,&amp;#8221; MAN. JUST &amp;#8220;LOVE AND BATTLES 3.&amp;#8221; The one where the &amp;#8220;good&amp;#8221;(???) ending was about 10,000 times stranger than the &amp;#8220;strange.&amp;#8221; I had such a strong reaction to it that I had to search for other player&amp;#8217;s comments about it. And&amp;#8230; I was utterly shocked to find so many people were &lt;em&gt;moved to tears!?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Really?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I was moved to tears&amp;#8230;of laughter&amp;#8230; Well, I guess it&amp;#8217;s a success either way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Now, &amp;#8220;Everlasting Memories&amp;#8221; &amp;#8212; &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; was tearjerkworthy. In a cliché way, perhaps, but I did especially like the clever application of attack moves to the plot in that film &amp;#8212; and hey, I&amp;#8217;d give it a positive review, anyway, if only for how adorable that bot was. &lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Timegate Traveler&amp;#8221; was another pretty epic story, totally relevant and necessary to, you know, Pok&lt;/span&gt;é-&lt;span&gt;world philosophy. Or so I imagine. In any case, they really picked the genres and plots at Pok&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;éStar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; nicely; none of them felt like filler; even though there were a WHOLE DARN LOT of movies they were all a part of a very cool diverse lineup&amp;#8230; AND,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; I thought it was a very nice touch of role reversal to cast the player character as the villain in &amp;#8220;Full Metal Cop&amp;#8221;!! Man, the player character is such a wonderfully versatile actor/actress who really ought to be seeing some cut of those &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; S/HE RAKES IN FOR THE STUDIO&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Honestly, THE WHOLE MOVIE STUDIO SIDE-THING IN GENERAL IS A &lt;em&gt;FLAWLESS&lt;/em&gt; AND BRILLIANT SERIES INNOVATION FITTING PERFECTLY INTO UNOVA&amp;#8217;S QUIRKY WORLD, AND&amp;#8230;JUST&amp;#8230;&lt;em&gt;FLAWLESS.&lt;/em&gt; (Yes, as literally a dozen words had passed since the last &amp;#8220;flawless,&amp;#8221; it was time to say it again&amp;#8230;) That&amp;#8217;s not even &lt;em&gt;mentioning&lt;/em&gt; all the wonderful art/sprites that came along with the movies. On top of there being so much to do, this game has so much to LOOK at, too!? I MEAN, GEEZ&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;Okay. Got a little sidetracked there. Of course, that speaks even more to the unbelievable breadth of this game that I can&amp;#8217;t stick to one point of excellence and instead have to swerve off on every possible tangent like OH YEAH, THIS TOO! AND THIS! AND THIS! Every good thing branches out into more good things. Pok&lt;span&gt;éStar is merely one of them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;So perfect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;But back to the topic of shipping&amp;#8230;. Serious shipping.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;While I say Curtis/Yancy &lt;span&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; the canon player-hero of BW2 is a passively precious pair,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; in fact pushing the boundaries into &amp;#8220;active, aggressive&amp;#8221; ship feelings&amp;#8230; for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;×&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; the canon player-hero of BW1. (I honestly don&amp;#8217;t care which, though in my game&amp;#8217;s canon experience it&amp;#8217;s Hilda.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It&amp;#8217;s largely thanks to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UhM2nb4f3c" target="_blank"&gt;this freaking Memory Link scene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; This&amp;#8230; &amp;#8230;&lt;em&gt;Awww.&lt;/em&gt; Seeing it in game, I audibly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;awww&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8216;d.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;I&amp;#8230; Like I said, I&amp;#8217;m &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; about canon. Ship for the sake of canon and canon alone; never ship for the sheer sake of ship. Keeping that in mind, I &lt;em&gt;firmly&lt;/em&gt; believe in the importance of celebrating really strong, canon, &lt;em&gt;platonic&lt;/em&gt; relationships without the need to make them romantic, and I &lt;em&gt;haaate&lt;/em&gt; shipping things that aren&amp;#8217;t directly, canonically intended to be romantic, but I&amp;#8230; IIII&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Well, this might be a slight exception because N × player &lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/45543358420" target="_blank"&gt;reminds me&lt;/a&gt; of my canonically-romantic OTP&amp;#8230; in, er, a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more ways than it should. &lt;span&gt;Not many ships strike me so deeply as that one. Not &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;, in fact. So this with N is a first. (Or, well, a second.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;My lofty standards to seriously ship something comprise precisely this. They better be the most important people to each other for fundamental reasons beyond romance. They better have the capacity to completely and utterly change and improve each other&amp;#8217;s lives in a one-on-one relationship. The way N talks about the player character throughout the entirety of B2W2 is all of this &lt;em&gt;incarnate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And you can even &lt;em&gt;hear&lt;/em&gt; how happy he&amp;#8217;s become thanks to that player!! THAT THEME! While this game&amp;#8217;s excellent soundtrack deserves a section of rant all to itself, singling out N&amp;#8217;s theme will have to suffice as it is surely the cream of that crop, not only an essentially great piece of music but furthermore wonderfully reflective of plot and character and (now in my eyes and heart) ship: &amp;#8230;How could a single song simultaneously be the &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evqw7e0kQ8" target="_blank"&gt;most disturbing&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DV8GjSK2p0" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most gorgeous&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; thing I&amp;#8217;ve ever heard!? I could melt into a puddle of smiles at 0:20; it&amp;#8217;s &lt;em&gt;just so happy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The only issue is&amp;#8230; &lt;span&gt;I&amp;#8217;m&amp;#8230;nnnnottttt&amp;#8230;sssurrrre&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;how this &lt;em&gt;(highly highly HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://the-humans-from-wall-e.tumblr.com/post/37570160221/n-is-a-zoroark" target="_blank"&gt;interpretation&lt;/a&gt; factors into a potential shipping&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It&amp;#8217;s&amp;#8230; Hmm&amp;#8230; I guess it makes me question the validity of categorizing it as romantic&amp;#8230; B-but maybe not&amp;#8230;? I mean&amp;#8230; &amp;#8230;I&amp;#8230;.??? &lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geez&amp;#8230;&lt;/em&gt; Talk about gray areas&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I want to take N&amp;#8217;s own comment about being &amp;#8220;on the border&amp;#8221; between human and Pokémon very literally&amp;#8230; It&amp;#8217;s not REALLY like shipping a Pokémon and a person, right? The equivalent member of my OTP isn&amp;#8217;t technically human either s-so&amp;#8230; Ah&amp;#8230; &amp;#8230;..It is a problem when these are the ethical dilemmas that inhabit my head&amp;#8230;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;I guess, in the end, I just sincerely want them to meet again, and it gives me feels well equivalent to if not beyond any ship, so I can support it as powerfully.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;Convenient transition. Speaking of the Memory Link, and of &amp;#8220;highly plausible theories&amp;#8221;&amp;#8230; I think the Memory Link did its job &amp;#8212; linking BW and B2W2 &amp;#8212; to utter&amp;#8230;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;wait for it&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;em&gt;perfection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;You know what other scene I really liked? Well, all of &amp;#8216;em, but&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRX9SMcmhM" target="_blank"&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t know if there&amp;#8217;s anyone who still condemns this as a handwave, but if so I quite disagree. I&amp;#8217;m certain that the sparked speculation by BW about the relation between the Shadow Triad and the Striaton Trio was &lt;em&gt;100%&lt;/em&gt; intentional. It was brilliant. Heck, &lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/17015637527" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; believed it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But I wasn&amp;#8217;t disappointed in this unreveal. In fact it makes me very, very amused when they can pull off a trick like that. &lt;em&gt;(Just like Ask-Plasma &lt;a href="http://ask-plasma.tumblr.com/post/40800232172/blog-canon-update-shadow-triad" target="_blank"&gt;brilliantly mirrored&lt;/a&gt;. Lovely and hilarious and brilliant.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It&amp;#8217;s a very similar sentiment, I think, to the game&amp;#8217;s trick with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/private/34722518734/tumblr_mclgjdWf7g1r7hwah" target="_blank"&gt;the Litwick girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Geez, I loved that. I loved it because I BELIEVED IT. I BELIEVED THEY WOULD DO THAT. BECAUSE &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEY WOULD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;COULD&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The absurdly creepy species Dex entries that crop up every once in a while &lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt; that the Pokémon world is, canonically, not a saccharine sugarbowl. In fact, it is has been fascinatingly built up as quite a creepy place with creepy possibilities. So, they could easily get away with pulling off the sort of canon creepypasta as is so subtly yet powerfully implied by the Litwick girl&amp;#8217;s disappearance. However, taking the extra step to reassure the player that she&amp;#8217;s okay by having her pop back up at the PokéCenter is just&amp;#8230; &amp;#8230;so&amp;#8230;so &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;(It takes all the potential energy of creepiness and reapplies it to an equally-strong force of sweetness, the relationship that the kid and her Litwick have despite what COULD have happened instead. When the premise driving nearly the entirety of the series&amp;#8217;s emotional content is something as simple and cliché as &amp;#8216;the bond between people and Pokémon,&amp;#8217; it&amp;#8217;s really incredible that they STILL HAVE WAYS to hammer it in that can STILL feel new and interesting.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;As the game deceives me, so too does it build my trust with it and earn my respect. What a funny thing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;To maintain the facade that this is an organized, thematic progression of ideas, let&amp;#8217;s now talk about another way in which this game&amp;#8230;pleasantly &amp;#8216;tricked&amp;#8217; me&amp;#8230;also relevant to&amp;#8230;the Dex&amp;#8230; Yeah&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Th-that friggin&amp;#8217; PokéDex&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I spent a ridiculous number of hours of my life working very hard to fill that Dex in Black Version 1. And with that accomplishment finally achieved, I decided I could bask in my pride and call myself a Master. Period. The end.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I TOLD MYSELF I WAS SATISFIED HAVING COMPLETED THE DEX ONCE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But no&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;NO&amp;#8230; B2&amp;#160;&lt;em&gt;HAD TO GIVE ME INCENTIVE TO DO IT AGAIN. HOW DARE YOU.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;And so I did. &lt;em&gt;I DID IT AGAIN!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHY AM I NOT ANGRIER ABOUT THIS!?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe because Shiny Charm. Because Shiny Charm that I&amp;#8217;ll probably never use to get a Shiny (since, duh, I just CAPTURED ALL THE PO&lt;span&gt;KÉ&lt;/span&gt;MON; what am I gonna be spending time in the tall grass for now??). But still. Having it feels nice. And it was very nice of them to offer it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rewards beyond diplomas for the all-important task of Dex completion is something that was so&amp;#8230; Should I call it &amp;#8220;needed&amp;#8221;? I don&amp;#8217;t know. But it was simply so &amp;#8212; I&amp;#8217;ll say it again &amp;#8212; &amp;#8230;nice. This game is nice. This game likes me. It doesn&amp;#8217;t hate me; it&amp;#8217;s not trying to sabotage me. Just as with, like I mentioned before, the availability of items and the reduction of artificial difficulty &amp;#8212; this game clearly just wants to help me enjoy myself as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, then, in this rare case it&amp;#8217;s hardly like I even need that kind of motivation, like Shiny Charms, to do things. This game likes me, and I like it, so that basically makes me want to accomplish things just for the sake of accomplishing things. Shoot, I think I felt satisfactorily fulfilled just in hearing Professor C. Juniper say:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This blows me away! It&amp;#8217;s so wonderful, I&amp;#8217;m at a loss for words.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;You&amp;#8230; You&amp;#8217;ve accomplished something truly outstanding.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Filling up the National Pokédex makes you a Trainer among Trainers!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; I&amp;#8217;m so happy I was able to meet a fantastic Trainer like you!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I thank you from the bottom of my heart.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;??? I&amp;#8230; I ACTUALLY FEEL YOUR GRATITUDE??? (The same quote was in B1W1, too &amp;#8212; where it really WAS the only reward for completing the task, haha &amp;#8212; so it&amp;#8217;s not a specific point about what makes B2W2 amazing, but still. It touched me~. Thank you, Juniper. Thank you, game.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#8217;s how I got voluntarily suckered into traveling across the land (and the GTS) searching far and wide to catch or trade for north of 600 freaking creatures. Twice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;Sssspeeeaking of TRADE&amp;#8230;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;That&amp;#8217;s right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Beyond all the trading I had to do to fill my Dex, I&amp;#8217;m sure that, like a lot of people, my single most-traded Pok&lt;span&gt;émon ended up being &lt;strong&gt;Magnemite&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Magnemite Coil. It&amp;#8217;s a beautiful thing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just, to have so many people all over the world on the same page about something&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sure, it&amp;#8217;s something that the players spontaneously organized, not something that the game itself provided &amp;#8212; but through Join Avenue the game &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; provide the &lt;em&gt;opportunity&lt;/em&gt;. Believe me, I&amp;#8217;m a loner who normally HATES anything that pushes for interplayer interaction as a necessary part of finishing the game. But it&amp;#8217;s not really &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8230; And, surprise, just like the Dex task, this time I happened to &lt;em&gt;voluntarily&lt;/em&gt; enjoy it. Join Avenue is adorable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Shout-out to one &amp;#8220;Dr.Fund&amp;#8221; from Florida who has visited my avenue at least four separate times. Out of all the Magnemite trades in the entire world, what are the odds of Magnemite-ing with the same person so many times!?! Like, I feel like we&amp;#8217;re best friends now despite never having directly interacted. &lt;strike&gt;Ha, ha, the story of my life, reflected in Pokémon.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Shout-out also to the player named Phoenix who chose the avatar of an Ace Trainer. There&amp;#8217;s no way that was a coincidence, and I love you for it. Ironically, you told me you wanted to open a Flower Shop, but I wouldn&amp;#8217;t let you. Knowledge of tulips and sunflowers isn&amp;#8217;t enough to run a whole florist&amp;#8217;s business, you silly dude.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;By all means, I&amp;#8217;d like to tell you wonderful people to come visit again. Come visit again and I will greet you warmly, Join-Avenue-style, brimming with meaning even within the constraints of limited catchphrases. I will smile and say, &amp;#8220;Pit pat.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;#8230;Pit pat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pit pat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;For no explicable reason, that is my new favorite phrase. Thanks, Janus. Your silly lingo has placed you among the ranks of my most beloved obscure-NPCs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh oh oh. And, one more NPC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8230;HIKER ANDY.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Andy&amp;#8230; I&amp;#8217;M&amp;#8212;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#8217;t even play the male character in B1W1 but I of course heard all the gossip about his hot date with this dude. And in B2W2 the pinnacle of epic continuity nods is&amp;#8230; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hiker+andy" target="_blank"&gt;is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;em&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve exhausted my quota of CAPS-LOCK and hysterics that would be required to discuss Hiker Andy. There&amp;#8217;s nothing I can sanely say about him. He&amp;#8217;s perfection.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Has this rant come full circle, then? Back to &amp;#8220;Every random useless NPC is actually an individual with his or her own quirky life,&amp;#8221; this being the ultimate proof?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Full-circle, maybe, but that doesn&amp;#8217;t mean I&amp;#8217;m done. The last point has to be the fact that &lt;em&gt;I cannot be done.&lt;/em&gt; What&amp;#8217;s most, most &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; incredible to me of all, in the most overwhelming way, is the fact that I HAVEN&amp;#8217;T EVEN ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME, AND LIKELY NEVER WILL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Let&amp;#8217;s see here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Musical performances?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Collecting DreamWorld décor?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;How about trying to win Type Specialist at the PWT for &lt;em&gt;every single type&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;And wait, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; many unlockable Entralink missions are there again?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;C-come on. No. Just no. I can&amp;#8217;t possibly get involved in all of that too. More subquests, more collections. I can&amp;#8217;t. &amp;#8230;But they&amp;#8217;re &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; And that&amp;#8217;s what&amp;#8217;s incredible. It&amp;#8217;s a world, like the real world, where there is never a shortage of possibilities to explore. This is a &amp;#8220;real,&amp;#8221; wide open world. A borderless sandbox that still offers a lovely plot-castle at its center.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A perfect game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;That is all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;span&gt;(Except it&amp;#8217;s not.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;(&amp;#8216;BECAUSE THIS GAME NEVER ENDS&amp;#8217;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494165405</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/46494165405</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:30:00 -0700</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>b2w2</category><category>pokemon npc</category></item><item><title>*</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/dc8d9b00a2387ecd368e1b22427ce0a3/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Nozomu Itoshiki (Yamask)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/899dd9dd2967271db9aac3cf28961782/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho2_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Kafuka Fuura (Cherrim)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb263a743b704677dbe048c13993225d/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho10_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/850ee0748ebcdd9aa6acf74a5b147811/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho8_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Abiru Kobushi (Ninetales)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/98b0b55f3b79ea56aea7ce8310f7c0a1/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho3_r3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Meru Otonashi (Rotom)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e7726e43d34b164393a4a4b22193cd46/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho4_r3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Kaede Kimura (Froslass) / Kaere Kimura (Lopunny)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/418a65c99dcd3a76aa8916d9c57d341e/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho5_r3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Kiri Komori (Swadloon)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8165477297b854c561f0f0bd28c42fc6/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho7_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Mayo Mitama (Houndour)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/45c4f42a4c59cfd4c63aedb77e602fbc/tumblr_mjbelvFmZx1r7hwaho6_r3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Nami Hito (Eevee)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/private/44845823016/tumblr_mjbwu8ohDP1r7hwah" target="_blank"&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/44840980104</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/44840980104</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:00:00 -0800</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>sayonara zetsubou sensei</category></item><item><title>Skyla and Elesa:  the pilot and the model.
It took me this long...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6274cf5fb59557e37a61a6ed0cbabba9/tumblr_mj0gfqOEUb1r7hwaho2_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Skyla and Elesa:  the pilot and the model.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;It took me this long to realize that their friendship is a stealth pun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/44340395485</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/44340395485</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:00:00 -0800</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>airplaneshipping</category><category>i don't; but i'm tagging to tell anyone who ships it...</category><category>runwayshipping</category><category>CHANGE IT PLEASE. IT'D DO BAD-PUN-LOVING ELESA PROUD</category></item><item><title>Grass-fire-water!  Rock-paper-scissors!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0f68e74514a1901e16465a28a7b374e1/tumblr_michlaaxy51r7hwaho3_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9a8ddbeba4922799d104337d3ef4ded/tumblr_michlaaxy51r7hwaho4_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grass-fire-water!  Rock-paper-scissors!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43287360977</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43287360977</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:00:00 -0800</pubDate><category>pokemon</category><category>hunter x hunter</category><category>I LIKE LITTLE BOYS</category><category>honorable mentions: Negi Springfield; Len Kagamine if he's young enough to count; Honey-sempai if his looks let him count;</category><category>Sealand/Chibitalia/HRE; Cecil from Harvest Moon MLS; and my son from Harvest Moon AP whom I totally shamelessly favor over my daughter.</category></item><item><title>The light + the dark~.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dca9b905d03ae812dd75112c9676f0b1/tumblr_mibuhqiqHv1r7hwaho1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The light + the dark~.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43248170374</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43248170374</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:00 -0800</pubDate><category>plus anima</category><category>a little snow fairy sugar</category><category>I LIKE LITTLE BOYS</category></item><item><title>Every puzzle has one truth that prevails!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/75da14a52cfd69f419c6668539a86a9a/tumblr_mi88k7B8ft1r7hwaho2_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every puzzle has one truth that prevails!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43165541919</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43165541919</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:01:00 -0800</pubDate><category>professor layton</category><category>detective conan</category><category>case closed</category><category>I LIKE LITTLE BOYS</category></item><item><title>Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me… ♪</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e71c154adb278f89d0cf534fb7e82cb/tumblr_mi8o0sismn1r7hwaho1_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me… ♪&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43145827766</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43145827766</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:30:00 -0800</pubDate><category>kim possible</category><category>pokemon</category><category>pokemon npc</category><category>youngster joey</category><category>rufus vs. joey's rattata?</category></item><item><title>
CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/dbf705537711ad624ee337daab99c462/tumblr_mi4urj7zeh1r7hwaho1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f160956c8337682549461c1074b28e22/tumblr_mi4urj7zeh1r7hwaho2_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5000c90c7f2ad54180c3d24645d1e477/tumblr_mi4urj7zeh1r7hwaho3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" height="362" src="http://images.wikia.com/phineasandferb/images/6/66/Building_explodes.JPG" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43145781839</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43145781839</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:29:00 -0800</pubDate><category>phineas and ferb</category><category>'Perry the Platypus I suppose your interference was inevitable... And by inevitable I mean COMPLETELY EVITABLE!!'</category><category>...i wonder what that -inator even does. it's either a giant go-kart that uses insane amounts of gas</category><category>or a machine that siphons the gas out of every go-kart in the tri-state area. y'know. totally evil stuff.</category></item><item><title>hiyoko-hime submitted:

(I currently have no internet so this...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1a35519014e16a01011f52c96e0209a2/tumblr_mi86toq60h1r7hwaho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hiyoko-hime.tumblr.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hiyoko-hime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; submitted:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;(I currently have no internet so this was the only way I could figure out how to send it from my phone!!) Happy Valentines Day Asa! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strike&gt;….SKHJBKJDHADBS&lt;span&gt;DKJNADS. I—&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/ac56a4275a438e9df75288d7b983ad8e/tumblr_inline_mi86ygFtGg1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strike&gt;GREAT TSUNDERE MINDS THINK ALIKE&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43092394965</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/43092394965</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:05:00 -0800</pubDate><category>harvest moon</category><category>hiyoko hime</category><category>valentines day</category><category>submission</category></item><item><title>Uhhhh…. I anthropomorphized a GPS. She came free with some...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/008afac60cb0e9925881f122441076aa/tumblr_mhytlaRkoU1r7hwaho2_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Uhhhh…. &lt;strong&gt;I anthropomorphized a GPS.&lt;/strong&gt; She came free with some rewards program like a year ago and I never even thought she’d get used, but she has, and I’ve come to really like her.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I especially like how irritated she sounds when we force her to detour.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Thanks for your hard work, Nuvi-tan.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/42911700207</link><guid>http://asa-turney.tumblr.com/post/42911700207</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:15:00 -0800</pubDate><category>garmin nuvi</category><category>moe anthropomorphism</category><category>hahaha 'where the heart is'.........get it? ._.</category></item></channel></rss>
