I Feel Like Maybe My Attachment To Larry From Pokemon Is Abnormal. None Of My Fictional Crushes Have

I feel like maybe my attachment to Larry from Pokemon is abnormal. None of my fictional crushes have lasted this long and I get legitimately sad when I remember he isn't real. I should probably bring it up to my therapist but I'm already working through a lot of other things and I'm not sure if dividing my time working through past traumas to focus on this (mostly) benign crush/attraction would be worthwhile. Maybe finding real people to go on dates and such with would help but I'm waiting until post top surgery to do so. Or maybe it'll eventually go away on its own, who knows

I got a tidepooling guide; tag yourselves.

🫧waterpark au concept/general idea! (wip)🌊

working name(?): The Amazing Digital Mer-Park

overview/concept: The circus is replaced with a massive waterpark, each character getting their own section of it that's themed off their personality as well as what their section of the park is dedicated to! while it hasnt been decided who does what yet some examples are:

swimming classes

food, drinks, and treats

water shows

I've also mixed in some mermaid stuff and theming since each character has their own sea creature/animal (based on their personality or what i think suits them best) that they turn into, like a mermaid ofc. I actually have the offical list for this since its like teh only thing ive decided fully on lol (under the cut aswell as more info)

THE CAST AND THEIR MERMAID SPECIES

CAINE- mantis shrimp (confirmed)

GANGLE- eel(confirmed)

ZOOBLE- vampire squid (confirmed)

KINGER- king mackerel (confirmed)

RAGATHA- jelly fish (confirmed)

JAX- sea bunny (confirmed)

POMNI- court jester goby (confirmed)

BUBBLE- pearl (in a clam?) (confirmed)

MY OCS SPECIES (the characters are non cannon to the actual au itself)

CYRUS- beta fish (confirmed)

SUNBIE- lemon shark (confirmed)

SKYBLUE- shark (not sure, maybe orca)

BUBBLIE- jelly fish (confirmed)

POPPI- seal (confirmed)

BUGMI- sea bunny (confirmed)

I am considering whether they should be AI that have human souls in them or just be humans on their own as it is normally in TADC.

game overview: The concept for as a "game" is that its a free roam pick your own team sorta adventure. At the start of the game the player would originally get to choose which section of the waterpark they want to go to. This is where they would choose to be a "visitor" (temporary so you can go to other sections of the water park and check them all out or just enjoy the mini games) or they can choose to be an "employee" in which you would help the AIS/Characters with whatever their section is based on or does! its a major wip and im planning on messing around with it but that's kinda the basics as of now

Monkey Wrench Now has a Ko-fi page!

We've been encouraged by several people to give Ko-fi a go, and after seeing how much Patreon takes from us per month after they introduced a new insights tab (about 20%!!!) (see image below) we thought we'd explore other avenues of funding, as losing $1k a month to BS fees, to me, is unacceptable.

So we got a Ko-fi page!

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Over the coming days we're gonna be setting this Ko-fi up fully, like porting over our Ep 4 updates and such from Patreon, so whether you want to support us for a while or just do a one off donation knowing that 95% of it is actually going to the show and not being stolen for 'fee's' you can now do so!

Lordy, ain't making things FUN???

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

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