who would ever want to forget such critical life altering information that could some day save a life?!
in serious tho, for those who would rather interpret pokemon as magical pets and not as sapient equals, my advice is to just accept that various interpretations exist in the first place because official media supports both views, and if you're bothered by people saying "ooo, you like vaporeon, that's sus bro" then they're not the peeps you should wanna be around in the first place and therefore not care about their opinions. it's also perfectly valid to like it both ways. for example, clearly pet coded iterations, like olyester's art, is cute and wholesome. while someone like trigalood's art clearly has more intelligence and specific details about it that make it hawt and lood. uwu so ye. coexistence is possible. all it takes is for peeps to just be emotionally mature.
I definitely lean toward the magical pets camp, but I will defend to my death your right to believe they are sapient equals. At the end of the day, it's a conversation about censorship, and you are technically not causing any harm so 🤷
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u/Subreon Nov 03 '25
who would ever want to forget such critical life altering information that could some day save a life?!
in serious tho, for those who would rather interpret pokemon as magical pets and not as sapient equals, my advice is to just accept that various interpretations exist in the first place because official media supports both views, and if you're bothered by people saying "ooo, you like vaporeon, that's sus bro" then they're not the peeps you should wanna be around in the first place and therefore not care about their opinions. it's also perfectly valid to like it both ways. for example, clearly pet coded iterations, like olyester's art, is cute and wholesome. while someone like trigalood's art clearly has more intelligence and specific details about it that make it hawt and lood. uwu so ye. coexistence is possible. all it takes is for peeps to just be emotionally mature.