Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

my next pokemon game? Black and White. bought secondhand.

a solid decade and a bit of no pokemon.

as for the gameboy - all i could think of when i played even tetris on it was being ashamed how i failed. so, when next year the family our school class 'adopted' to give gifts for charity to had written down that one of the kids wanted a gameboy, i packed up mine to give.

so i pretended to be not interested in pokemon anymore, and then went back to the games that i knew on the PC. it would be years before i played a game myself on a console. i was well into college before i tried a handhold console again.

instead of doing anything sensible, i put my gameboy away and then... didn't touch it. because every time i thought about it, i just felt ashamed, because it was my fault that i failed. and all i could think about was that failure.

now this is the point where other kids would probably have cried about it and then moved on or asked their parents to buy them a gameshark or whatever. unfortunately, i was not most kids (a reoccurring theme in my life), so instead i just panicked. (and i think i also did cry.)

so i made sure i had everything ready, i carefully whittled down articuno's health, and then...

...my pikachu got a crit.

"you have defeated articuno!"

i made it all the way to the seafoam island cave... and... stumbled across articuno. and i was SO EXCITED. because i knew from recess how cool the legendary birds were, and articuno was the PRETTIEST of all of them. (swooshy, elegant, and blue. i was sold.)

so of course being the elementary schooler i was, i immediately settled in to playing it. pokemon yellow was my first pokemon game. you can probably see why, even though i got Let's Go Eevee, i immediately went to viridian forest and caught a pikachu to follow me around.

...after much begging, i got a gameboy so i could play pokemon myself. not just a regular gameboy, but THE SPECIAL POKEMON YELLOW EDITION. it had a pikachu on the case and everything!!! i was over the moon (even tho it was both my birthday AND christmas big present that year)

so way back, WAY back, pokemon craze was in its full force. i coveted people's pokemon cards at recess (and eventually traded for a ponyta, because PONYTA IS SO COOL), i stood in barnes and noble and read the prima strategy guides... and for my birthday...

it's time for grandma harp to tell a story, children.

yesterday i rectified a mistake and finally had a gaming achievement that was 20 years in making. #PokemonLetsGo
#gatherrounditsstorytime #pokemon

right so this is probably the first and only time i'm going to do a birdsite crosspost in entirety (tho sometimes i may rewrite jokes slightly etc) but tonight i'm tired, so

why is my shoulder Crunchy. and Complaining. and Angrey.

i mean i know why, i know the exact motion i did and foolishly went "hm! that hurts, but it's a distinct sort of hurt, let's see if it fades if i keep this stretch up or not! this new type of pain might be a clue!", but i am still going to do some whining in the form of rhetorical questions.

@Sir_Boops @MKULTRAmaniac@todon.nl just casually drifting by as i view the fediverse tonight -

honestly, i've noticed a bit of a pattern with these types. 'specially if they start insulting others using only sexual terms, especially terms that suggest their opponents are weak/submissive in sex somehow. yet they run into the fray to get dismissed and banned again and again and again, taking that 'weak' role over and over.

so basically: it's some kinda e-cuckoldry fetish or somethin' i'd guess lmao

it's not an incredible burden tbh so it's not like everything is ruined by me playing pokemon and watching great british bake-off instead of writing fanfiction, but it is a little frustrating

either that or today is a wash because of the additional pain from physical therapy yesterday

...

honestly all of the above probably

also i don't know if it's timing or if it's an actual effect, but days when i don't get up before noon and sleep in are days where i haven't been using my therapy lamp because it feels too late to use it

and i am just. bad at doing things those days lol

@revolverocelot this toot made me pause my podcast and immediately go listen to https://nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/track/wii-shop-channel-remix , thank you

also i had not considered until browsing reddit today (and BOLA specifically) about how what a pain in the ass it's going to be going through airport security with a spinal cord stimulator Oh No.

is it scumbaggery or legit #spoonie life tip to rent a wheelchair for the airport so when you hit the security line you look properly disabled......................

"harp isn't your most popular toot about the joys of being sincere on the internet"

Listen I'm Bad Following My Own Advice Ok.......................................... but also sincerity takes spoons

so last night in pokemon let's go i ended up correcting a literal twenty year mistake and i feel incredibly pleased with myself

i just gotta find the spoons to go be Genuine Upon The Internet and regale the whole tale