i know it's crazy but i'm doing it anyway
i made @pmd-explorers so i can have a page to compile the more pokemon-specific stuff i want to do
i haven't touched much pokemon stuff in a long time...
here's the OLD pmd-e wiki... it doesn't have the flash missions or anything unfortunately, but it has a bunch of the old stuff. warning that there's probably problematic stuff in there that i just don't remember right now.
i got an email recently that was reminding me i hadn't responded to an email about pmde like 2.5 years ago, so i took some time to write out my feelings
it feels kind of nuts. pmd-e started as a fun way to get better at art and storytelling and comics together and then it became such a huge thing for me and i really struggled to run the group at the age of... 21, 22, 23 or so. i really loved it, but it really got so stressful. the help around me wasn't really help, and i did not know how to connect very personally with others very well. then the whole thing with AX happened, and my fallout with pengo, and then i just felt like i couldn't keep pmd-e going.
i realize i miss doodling pokemon and making silly comics, so i'm going to be reestablishing the pmd-e setting, but it's going to be... 11 years later in setting, since i closed the group about 11 years ago. (well, around october 11 years ago?)
i wasn't aware of the PMD game announcement last night, but i did feel PMD-e start to come back to me after playing around with kuri in drawing exchanges
I've still got plenty of Flora projects I'm actively working on, but something right now feels important to me about playing with a project that's purely for fun again. i remember i used to make pokemon art just because i liked pokemon. this got hard when i'd draw a starter and get people trying to Warn everyone not to... RT my drawing of a pokemon. when i was barely interacting online anyway and i was more or less a ghost. this was really discouraging and painful. people had been so cruel about me liking to draw pokemon and it really soured my feelings about it.
i'm going to draw new maps and things, and come up with characters and whatnot. and make LOOSE guidelines on participation that i will actively look at. i mean people can draw whatever they want, but i probably won't check things out if they're blatantly disregarding the setting. (this is true of flora too)
it was nice to pick PK back up after so long. i left her in the past, as she got stuck in the past with others who participated in the group... but she's brought forward now too.
i don't know how shit's gonna work with cohost type formatting, since dA had folders and whatnot for organizing prompts, so i guess we'll use tags? i can't imagine this being more than a small handful of people (and not the like... thousands... of people who participated int he dA group), so i don't think it's gonna get too hectic. well, anyway, those are my plans. these might take a bit to get put into place because this is a leisure side activity and i've got a lot of Flora stuff to do, but i wanted something that'd be fun to make MSpaint art about. and nostalgic for me, allowing me to remember things i used to think and feel through PK herself
