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Major post-game spoilers for Legends Arceus but something that stuck out to me is that Volo’s pre-reveal Pokemon is a Togepi that has fully evolved by the time of him going batshit insane. The Togepi line is a friendship evolution. It retains the same gender (female, which only 12.5% of Togepi are) and nature (serious) so it’s definitely the same one, so that means canonically his Togepi/Togekiss adores him. Riolu/Lucario is also friendship evolution, though he could have just caught an already evolved Lucario.

Does this mean he treats his Pokemon a lot better than the title of Pokemon wielder would suggest? Does this mean his Togepi/Togekiss is really gung-ho for genocide? Does this mean his Pokemon is just the world’s worst judge of character? No idea but I find it interesting

pippastrelle

All Togekiss crave new world order nad destruction of the old. Clearly.

Seriously though, it is an interesting aspect of Volo that his plans work by genuinely gaining others’ trust. Protag, Cogita, Giritina, etc. and unlike some other villains, you don’t feel it’s insincere. Volo seems to think of himself as special. As above others. As a leader. It makes him arrogant but not necessarily a bad-intentioned leader.

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FAKE TRANS DOCUMENTARY/ORGANIZATION: Here’s the ridiculous story about how extreme the far-right is willing to go to dehumanize trans people. I was nearly tricked into doing an elaborate anti-trans documentary by Matt Walsh’s film crew this month. It started with an email from the “Gender Unity Project” a couple weeks ago. They claimed they were doing a film on the trans community and gave me names of well-known trans individuals and surgeons they had interviewed. It all seemed normal at first. I even talked to the producer (Makenna Lynn Waters) on the phone beforehand. She sounded like a well-meaning cis film graduate who was just curious about the trans community.

When we chatted, she claimed the documentary was self-funded. I was suspicious because she had finished college recently, but figured she was just rich (who has that kind of money?). Later, she told me the individual they were interviewing in Chicago had suddenly canceled (this happens, but is still sus). Then she offered to fly me to Nashville: where Matt Walsh lives. They finally sent me a release form this morning, which strangely didn’t have the name of the company on it. So, I looked up the Gender Unity Project. It used a registered agent to shield the company owners. It’s dubious but sometimes registered agents simply make it easier to incorporate. Then I looked Makenna Lynn up. Her name didn’t show up anywhere.

After some heavy Google searching, I realized she used her middle name as her last in our emails. I found the IMDB page of her real name (Makenna Waters). It turns out she’s a producer for the Matt Walsh show! That’s not a red flag: that’s a gun to your face. If you’re not familiar, Matt Walsh is a white supremacist who makes a living denying the basic humanity of trans people. She wasn’t just a producer for his show: she worked on over 200 episodes of it! I finally found her Twitter, which features videos of Walsh berating protesters and Ben Shapiro doing his usual BS.

I decided to look closer into the “Gender Unity Project.” After searching its state registration number, I learned it was registered to Justin Folk, a white supremacist documentarian who works for Matt Walsh and Prager U. His initials (jrkfolk) were also listed in the release I thankfully refused to sign. So, if you’re contacted by these slimy assholes, don’t respond. The last thing we need right now is another “gotcha” anti-trans documentary! Stay alert and take any media personalities with a grain of salt.

And they say we’re the ones tricking people?