YAY!!! 🎉

Yay and good luck! 🎉

So fun 😄 I think it's awesome you were able to get some good inspiration to try different things out 🎉 The feeling of knowing why something's on my team is pretty satisfying. I am looking forward to trying different team types down the road as well 😄

I thought I'd need to learn a pro team to get to master ball rank, but I got to ultra 2 yesterday and ultra 1 today with two or three chances at master with my homemade team - I think if I just keep going for it I can get there 👀 I'm improving and making fewer dumb mistakes so hopefully I make it 🤞

The absolute AURA in those photos - dang ❤️

YAY that's my producer 🎉🎉🎉

Wow wtf 🫠

Since the start of its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, Israeli authorities have drastically escalated their policy of torture, abuse, & extreme deprivation of food & medical care against Palestinian prisoners in a desperate attempt to break their will.

#FreeThemAll

These are adorable 😄

Yes

This is so adorable 😄❤️

Pokemon team details. ID T5XGGQ9PU6. Charizard with Blaze and Charizardite Y running flars blitz, dragon claw, ghunder punch, and rock slide. Meganium with Overgrow and Meganiumite running solar beam, dazzling gleam, synthesis, and earth power. Milotic with Competitive and a sitrus berry running ice beam, alluring voice, scald, and recover. Gengar with Cursed Body and focus sash running shadow ball, will-o-wisp, icy wind, and psychic. Whimsicott with Prankster and bright powder running moonblast, encore, light screen, and tailwind. Steelix with sturdy and leftovers running heavy slam, high horsepower, body press, and protect.

Pokemon team details. ID T5XGGQ9PU6. Charizard with max attack and speed. Meganium with max HP and special attack. Milotic with max special attack and special defense. Gengar with max special attack and speed. Whimsicott with max special attack and special defense. Steelix with max HP and attack.

And for anyone curious here's the team. It's working but it's definitely not optimized and it exposes how basic my battle skills are 😅 Still good enough to get me here and I'm having fun with it! I was also able to make it with just the free in game mechanics - no money and no pokemon box 🎉

Screenshot from Pokemon Champions showing the ranked doubles battle screen. The trainer is in ultra ball tier rank 4.

I made it to ultra ball tier!!! 🎉

This is what I was aiming for as a realistic goal given I haven't played competitive before and I was making my own team 😄 I'm going to keep playing and trying to get better, but realistically I think I'll need to learn an actual team to get to the next rank 😅

These are such pretty photos!! Thank you for sharing and congratulations on getting back out there 😄❤️

Capitalism always fights to tell us we're not a priority so I'm glad you won that fight today and took care of yourself 😄❤️

It's ok I'll be there for you and we can do it together ❤️

THE AUTOSCROLLERS ARE BACK!!!!! 😄🎉

Like I actually successfully encored a protect for the first time!! That's something the pros do!!!!

Pokemon battles are so much fun - I had my first battle tonight where I really felt like I played well and made good moves and it's such a high 😄 It was easy mode because it was a casual match where they didn't have a good answer for my mega, so I'm still not great and have a lot to learn, but yay 🎉

a purple monkey with the word sigh on the bottom Alt: An aipom sighing with the word sigh on the bottom

I swear that when you go on a losing streak and derank in champions the game puts you up against a bot for your next ranked match so you don't get frustrated and quit, but honestly it's really insulting and annoying. Those wins are pathetic and unsatisfying. Let me be bad! It's ok! I'll get better!

Thank you for continuing to speak out about this and for all the incredible work you do on the ground ❤️

Six months of an ineffective #ceasefire have left 733 people dead and 1,913 injured in #Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders calls on world leaders to protect civilians, restore dignified living conditions and allow humanitarian aid to reach those who need it.

Update I also won a casual battle with Lopunny (it wasn't good but I didn't care) so with Charizard on my main team I'm living up to my name 🔥🐰

Made it to great ball tier undefeated 🎉

... there was definitely luck involved lol I've never played competitive in my life

omg so many bunnies in that image <3 <3 <3

I'm having a low-key crisis over what to do with legendaries in Pokopia. Like they're technically gods so I feel like I should go above and beyond to do something special and separate for their housing out of respect, but is that just introducing classism unnecessarily into my utopian society????

That's the Game - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

For no apparent reason, I was thinking about my favorite SNL skit today. Definitely not because of any recent negotiations or anything. Completely unrelated.

youtu.be/WeTCTARJZm8?...

Called my representatives which feels insufficient but there's not much else I can think to do 😔 Sending support to everyone else trying to make it through today while anxiously waiting to see what happens next

Thank you employee - it's a lovely photo 😄❤️

announcement for Black in a Flash's Juneteenth celebration from June 18-21 inviting Black runners to submit speedruns, challenge runs, showcases and more

HECK YEAH!

Submissions for Juneteenth 2026 are open today through April 21st!!!!

In order to submit a run, you must be a member of Black in a Flash!, head over to gdq.gg/baf to apply!

Submit a run: https://submissions.gamesdonequick.com/

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