Chapters:
1/?
Fandom:
Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Sakaki | Giovanni & Silver, Sakaki | Giovanni/Original Female Character(s), Female Pokedex Holder Blue | Green & Silver (Pokemon Adventures)
Characters:
Sakaki | Giovanni, Silver (Pokemon), Female Pokedex Holder Blue | Green (Pokemon Adventures), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags:
injuries, Hospitals, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Torture, Team Rocket (Pokemon)
Summary:
Phone calls from the hospital are not a rare thing in the Sakaki household.
Sometimes they’re for Giovanni, because some idiot got mauled in the forest, and he has to go pretend to care, and to not think that maybe in some cases, natural selection is a good thing.
Usually they’re for Grace, at ungodly hours in the morning, to go rush off to do her job, and come home smelling like a mixture of blood, disinfectants, and coffee.
So the phone ringing wasn’t a surprise.
The little boy with red hair, silver eyes, and a terrible fever was though.
Okay. Say you ask a small child to draw you a house, and they come up with something like this:
ALT
For the purposes of this analogy the child is shit at colouring in, because I only wanted to give the general idea.
So, we can all agree that the child who draws a house probably isn't trying to communicate anything in particular other than “look at this cool house I drew”, right?
Cool.
So… Why is it seemingly in the middle of nowhere, when most children live in houses with neighbours?
Why is the main body a square and the roof a solid triangle when that doesn't look like any house that has ever been built anywhere?
Why does it have a wood-burning stove with smoke actively coming out of the chimney, even though the sun indicates warm weather?
Why is the sun smiling? Why is it yellow?
Answer: because the child has seen picture books, and films, and the drawings of other children, and has on some level absorbed that this is what a house is meant to look like.
Face to face, the child almost certainly wouldn't know where to begin communicating “yellow is a colour culturally associated with happiness and warmth, and two dots accompanied by a curved line symbolically represent a smiling human face, so I have combined these attributes with the sun to convey that it is a very warm and pleasant day”.
Or “historically most houses in my country used fire for heat and cooking, and even though this is no longer the case for the majority of households, most media portrayals of houses are inspired by other, older, media portrayals and therefore include the chimney. I have chosen to follow this trend.”
Or even, “I have poor motor control because of my age, and large, 2 dimensional shapes are easier to draw than anything involving detail and perspective”.
Yet this is all information that you can pick up from detailed study of the house drawing.
Ultimately, it's not about what the writer intended. That's what the whole death of the author thing means.
If you think of literature like as a conversation, then think of all the analysis stuff that your English teacher keeps trying to get you to look at as like body language. It's the stuff that the other person doesn't even necessarily mean to communicate, but that can tell you a hell of a lot about what they mean.
It’s so sad that students are now relying so heavily on AI for writing essays because they’re missing out on the best part of writing an essay which is when you’re a few paragraphs in and you just reach that flow state where your thought process becomes one with the essay and you’re slamming the keys so hard that you’re on the verge of destroying your laptop. I used to get high off of that shit
I used to finish essays reeling like I’d just had a wild fuck session. Sleep deprived, hair askew, a sense of giddy satisfaction. If finishing an essay doesn’t make you feel that way you didn’t do it right
I love stablehand/barn assistant job listings that kind of imply you shouldn’t bother applying if you’re not a literal equine surgeon willing to do back alley colic surgery for them
"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten
people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.
in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character
Okay I know this LOOKS BAD, but it is actually important to study how disease affects the whole family. Clinicians examine how cancer or chronic ill or mental illness affect caregivers - who are often spouses, children, parents - so that we can do something about it, whether it's support groups or medical intervention or community resources.
We will get nowhere as a society if our attitude is Men Are Horrible. Men Are Selfish. Men Are Pigs. We cannot make blanket statements that vilify or diminish 50% of the population. This is a mathematically unsound opinion to have.
Look: they study female partners of male patients with sexual/reproductive dysfunction too.
