u/cozy_b0i

Literary fiction books that seem as if Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli wrote them?

I’m reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami right now and there are talking cats and magical realism and cozy libraries and whatnot, seems like a Ghibli movie.

I’d love to hear about more books like that

So is this a proper greenhouse, or just a room with a lot of plants? Based on the setting (Scandinavia/Europe) is this a type of room in traditional houses from that region?

The sunlight seems rather inconsistent to be a proper greenhouse, so i'm curious how this works. There are even plants hanging from the ceiling.

I ask because I absolutely love it, i would love a room like this in my home to grow a lot of plants haha

I would love to hear your stories of pokemon you kinda overlooked, or didn't play with for years (or DECADES like in my case). Then, you caught them and used them for some random reason, and just absolutely fell in love.

I just played Violet for the first time, my first real pokemon playthrough in YEARS.

I never thought much of Espeon before this playthrough. I never disliked Espeon, always knew it was probably a solid pokemon, but for whatever reason never had her on my team - in the Gen 2 release days, as a kid in the late 90s, i had other psychic types on my team (Xatu and Lugia) and got Umbreon instead because i wanted this "new and mysterious" dark typing. I ALWAYS loved the psychic type though, since gen 1.

But this playthrough of Violet, when i encountered a wild Espeon in that cave, especially at level 50, i was FLOORED. I was SO excited. Especially because I wasn't particularly fond of a lot of the Paldea wild pokemon, and it did make me appreciate this great pokemon that is Espeon. I caught her, and didn't have enough badges for her to listen to me, but i didn't care because she was actually able to tank a lot of hits against lower level pokemon and occasionally listen enough to sweep some major trainer battles. THEN when i had enough badges for her to listen, she swept everyone for me. Espeon became my ace and pokepal and i absolutely loved it. One "Calm Mind", and then i'd either use Psychic, Shadow Ball or Dazzling Gleam and absolutely demolish everyone. OHKO'ed nearly everyone, easily. Normally when I had such "sweepers" they were these gigantic behemoth pokemon, but Espeon is so cute and elegant so the vibe was such a nice change of pace. Espeon was like my cute little kitty best friend who would casually telekinetically launch any threat that crossed my path. I loved having Espeon follow me around on foot. Espeon was my loyal trusty sidekick as i swept the Elite Four, then the postgame in the spooky Area Zero, just slicing thru those scary weird pokemon like it was nothing.