I love the grassroots community we have but as someone who played competitive Pokémon pre and post TCP's heavy VGC push, official support is huge for growing the scene. When the biggest issue in the West is player base, getting official collabs like this is so major

Everyone is talking about the correlation but I don't see anyone talking about the spread which is way more interesting to me!! 2500+ XP (even in NA) is a pretty high achievement for players under div 7. Wonder what the issue is for those players? Team problems? Communication issues?

It's fully 15 days into the X rank season and I'm top 2k in ttek with 1800 XP the drain here is insane 🙃

It's been socially normalized to say "I don't support Joanne" while engaging in behaviors that materially support her. Im talking about the actors in the show, but also the streamers that played the game and the people still buying merch. Everyone in the chain is helping fund her bigotry.

Maybe we will finally get a release date for Silk- oh nevermind

Silksong thoughts from my early game run (close to the end of Act 1? I hope??)! - I like the crest mechanic a lot! Different moves and healing let you play the game pretty differently and experiment with different builds - Characters rock and i love all the women

We should never confuse the fight to normalize child free lifestyles with normalizing the hatred of children. Children are people and have a right to exist in society like anyone else.

In the UK trans people are currently being cast out of public life under their labour party and if Newsom isn't stopped that will happen here under the democrats. I will never vote for him and I will encourage everyone i know to do the same.

If all video games were made like this we would have a lot more masterpieces and a lot less slop. Huge W for Team Cherry and I can't wait to play it!!!!

The only thing that could get me to shop at Target again is if the new ceo walks out into a press conference wearing this shirt

Looking for 94,352 of my closest friends to help unlock the next game changer episode

Hi chat welcome to the doll zone!!! (yes I spent $7 on a domain for a custom handle c:)

This take (submitted by anonymous, not Gus) is so stupid to me lmao. There's a lot of reasons people like the low ink scene over top level. The biggest is its a scene that more people are competing in!!! Like no shit people are more invested in the tournament series they play in!! #compsplatoon

Evil things are happening in the Maibu chat

Stardew valley for horror freaks is a fun premise and this looks good!!

rcbg cultural victory

@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io I wasn't sure if you had seen this but on a private tab on my work computer i see the same results lmao. Top result for "ranked co" 😳

Most of this thread is (understandably) top level focused, but i feel like this applies to nearly the entire western scene tbh. I think we need more trial with the understanding that will create a lot more error at first

Instantly vindicated lmaoooo. I am keeping expectations low still cause the grind could be horrific but it's gonna be hard to be worse than EV training today

I think people are being overly pessimistic about the potential for mircotransactions in Pokémon Champions. I'm 100% prepared that i could be wrong here, but it looks like this will be the new platform for VGC, which is serious for the brand.

This article was trending on a different social media site, and someone posted a very long comment about how women working and prioritizing careers is the real reason people don't have house parties anymore. Everything bad is because woman to these people 🙄🙄🙄

Becoming a mad scientist to develop a feminising X chromosome in humans

They should make a surgery that doesn't require you to be dehydrated all day 😔 i gotta do a mini Yom Kippur today and I'm already thirsty 😭

I'm gonna do the scary thing and get on injections this year

I think no one really appreciates my chosen name history except me, but I picked it for me, so that's what matters 😂 At the heart of my birth name was a largely forgotten Greek goddess, whose name was snatched by a shoe brand, so I took her more well-known Roman moniker!

69% NERD 69% GOTH YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UPPPP

Im rereading @paranatural.bsky.social's Paranatural after 3+ years not keeping current and i was shocked to find that this panel (which was burned in my memory for very cis reasons) released the same week my egg cracked! I had thought it was released years before then but it was like the same time!!

Two weeks till ✂️🍒😌🥹🙏

Pool day!! (Ignore the dirty mirror please 🫣)

Washed and rusty as hell but fuck it we blade!

@11ft8.bsky.social This is good luck for your next tournament run i think

Hot #compsplatoon take: zbow is a vstamper level kit. Maybe not in terms of overall power, but in terms of the kit synergy and skill expression of all the components. No clue if it has the power or niche to succeed at top level but tbh I don't really care! Feels like a kit worth investing in!

My AC died last night so it is currently - 86 degrees in the house - 81 degrees outside - low of 77 tonight - an hour till I try to sleep Hopefully i get at least some sleep 😭😭😭

I confess my crimes i doubted for one moment that wall would work with pain but I was SO WRONG THIS SHIT IS PEAK!! KIT DEVS HAVE DELIVERED ONTO US A HOLY ANGEL OF LIGHT THAT CLEANSES THE BATTLEFIELD, WIPES IT CLEAN WITH THE POWER OF THE RIGHTEOUS. LOOK ON ITS VISAGE AND WEEP MORTALS

Getting in my 3rd kit takes at the last minute before they drop! These will be comp splatoon focused. Take one is that all the skins are so cool and they cooked across the board there.

THE COMP SPLATOON CALLOUT FOR THESE IS GONNA BE TWINKS

Nevermind even my small shred of optimism was completely unfounded lmao

Look i don't think she's transphobic and I do think she's got her heart in the right place, but i need cis ppl to understand how scary it is, in this moment of intense vulnerability, that even those who nominally support us don't understand our material needs or even the language to describe us

Continuing to set new tournament bests c:

Holy shit that was fast

I found this shitpost- I mean VERY SERIOUS RCBG x Kimmy crossover because apparently someone was insane enough to try and combine two stories with completely opposite tones www.scribblehub.com/read/1647555...

If you are trans and are able to handle reading scenes of intense domestic horror, you should read Kimmy. Its really that good. The content warnings are no joke though

Today i coped with my stress and severe lack of sleep by writing a very short story (2k words) that is essentially an abridged version of the last section of (Kimmy) but for doll girlies. So um that's where the mental health is at rn!

Potentially controversial therapy thread! 🧵 The difference between "conversion therapy" and regular therapy in a context where there's no access to gender-affirming care is barely more than semantic. Doing therapy with someone who uses your pronouns is not a substitute for medical transition.

The UK Supreme Courts EXPLICITLY name-check trans men and lay out a rationale for excluding them from women's spaces, and cis people still don't pay heed, still don't get the memo, and continue with the fucking "trans men should post selfies in women's restrooms" like it's still 2014. WAKE UP.

It has long been the case that playing/watching/reviewing any new Harry Potter stuff constitutes willing participation in and endorsement of Rowling's rancid politics, but at this point the weight of it has become urgent.

RCBG might be the most esoteric fictional work of all time. The amount of cultural, memeatic, and literary references needed to parse the text, NOT INCLUDING the delusions the characters tell each other AND THEMSELVES, is staggering. It's like having a stroke every paragraph. I love it so much.

Alyson "Writes a Novelette Every Month" Greaves has struck again and I'm so excited 😌

I need this tournament to do well cause it's the first time there is a LAN less than 10 hours from me and I can't go to this one cause my wife says "no you cant go on a road trip 4 days after bottom surgery" and "you have to rest you dumb bitch" 😭😭 if we get another round in the fall I'm there!!!