so my sister got me a pack of 48 terrible bootleg pokemon figures for my birthday bc she knows I live for this shit and ok we start with tier 1, the ones that could possibly be marketed as genuine merch
nice! look at that zangoose! wow!
then we have ones that are… okay
like ok so chansey is holding up some sort of strange Flesh Egg that it probably tore from an enemy bc it has its egg right there and yeah mienfoo is FUcking Pissed but ok
then we have ones where shit starts to go awry ok
we have here nightmare ludicolo, emboar who looks like he was in a blender, oddly semi-transparent darumaka, tiny eyes articuno And More!! and look at that snivy
please help him
finally though
we have the ultimate tier
from disembodied rayquazass to crucifixion hands mr mime to soul-sucking frostbitten dewgong to whatever even happened to that mudkip… this is it my friends this is the ultimate in shit-tier bootlegs and I could not be happier
You know that trope where an adopted person finds out who their biological parent is, and the writer keeps using the term “REAL [parent]”? Yeah, it’s super gross, and I wish it would stop.
It devalues adopted parents, step parents, legal guardians, and parental figures, and puts all the emphasis on biology, which is a terrible message to give to non-biological parents, AND to their kids. It’s also a terrible message to give people who’s biological parents are terrible parents. It also often perpetuates the narrative that parents somehow own their children, when it’s used in scenarios where a parent gave up or lost custody of their child, and now wants custody back on no other basis than a biological “right” to the child.
The importance and value a parent has in a person (or character’s) life should be determined by the effect they have on their child, not genetics. A biological parent is not more “REAL” than any other type of parent, ESPECIALLY if they’ve been absent for much/most of the child/person’s life, and it’s genuinely awful to perpetuate the harmful narrative that they are.
it also makes those who gave kids up for adoption feel gross, for that perspective.
i had a kid when i was barely 18, living in my car. i gave her up for adoption because… barely 18, living in my car.
and every time someone finds out and comments that i’m her “real” mother, i feel so gross. i’m not her real mother??? her mother is her mother??? i’m a total stranger? i do not know this child, i’m not her “real” mother??
it’s horrible, and gross, and i hate it. i shouldn’t hold more weight than the people actually loving and caring for her, and damn do i wish that “real parent” bull would stop.
Alex Hirsch (as Grunkle Stan): In their infinite wisdom, the marketing geniuses over at the channel have decided that they hate money, and will never make a Gravity Falls DVD, ever. But that won’t stop me from making my own DVD! It’s called Gravity Town, it’s from Grunkle Stan Productions, it has no relation to Gravity Falls. And for all you know it might just be episodes of Seinfeld with my voice dubbed over it. And you can have it! For only one thousand dollars! Buy the DVD! See all the episodes of Dip Dop, as he goes… [stammering] a-around the town, to find–find maybe George and Kramer, sometimes! Come… step right up!
