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HermioneGranger April 30th, 2016 9:35 AM

Noobie (NOOB + Newbie)
 
So, my mother decided that Pokemon is Satanic... meh. From the studies I've done it isn't true. So I'm sneaking around this site so that I can get back into the fandom I've been deprived of for the past few years. So forgive me if I spend Pokemon names wrong XD

moon May 1st, 2016 8:11 AM

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Originally Posted by HermioneGranger (Post 9221764)
So, my mother decided that Pokemon is Satanic... meh. From the studies I've done it isn't true. So I'm sneaking around this site so that I can get back into the fandom I've been deprived of for the past few years. So forgive me if I spend Pokemon names wrong XD

That's... Interesting O.o I'm pretty convinced pokemon isn't satanic, so I think you will be just fine (;

Welcome to PokéCommunity! When I first joined, it was very liberating to get to talk about nerdy stuff with people who wouldn't judge me for it haha. I hope you will find it liberating too - and most of all, fun!

illumine May 1st, 2016 8:56 AM

It seems that just about everything you do is renowned as Satanic. Perhaps you are Satan?

Anyway, welcome. Hope you enjoy this forum, then.

HermioneGranger May 1st, 2016 12:18 PM

Thanks guys!

Yeah. Pretty much ever fandom I've ever loved is Satanic, apparently. Disney, Harry Potter, etc. UGH. I'm glad she hasn't said the same about Doctor Who and Sherlock.

Thanks for the welcome guys!

Wovoka May 1st, 2016 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by HermioneGranger (Post 9221764)
So, my mother decided that Pokemon is Satanic... meh. From the studies I've done it isn't true. So I'm sneaking around this site so that I can get back into the fandom I've been deprived of for the past few years. So forgive me if I spend Pokemon names wrong XD


lol my middle school teachers thought the same thing and would just take your ds while you were playing and never gave them back. I still don't see it :p

illumine May 3rd, 2016 1:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Wovoka (Post 9223210)

lol my middle school teachers thought the same thing and would just take your ds while you were playing and never gave them back. I still don't see it :p

Imagine if you were carrying around dark satanic mills instead.

That kind of thing could often be due to it focussing people's attention away from what teachers of any sort wanted them to do, but honestly it might have been counter-productive if people took it as a serious threat or cultural phenomenon. If people were expecting something vaguely Satanic, and instead ended up with the fairly conventional, often simplistic statements of the Pokémon serires, or indeed the others, they might well be underwhelmed. In any case, people were expected to fit in or be popular, and as such denoting popular things as 'Satanic' or hence weird might have been counter-productive as well, and had limited traction usually. In general, there may have been a sense that, in Pokémon, there was a certain sense of drabness, a slightly gritty design and darker, more sparse aesthetic, which diverged from the rest of popular culture - which was generally tending towards Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and so on at the time -, and hence had to be anathemised to keep them in seeming harmony with all of this. Generally speaking, society had to be portrayed as harmonious in order to be able to discipline outliers unanimously, and so on, and hence there was an opening for that kind of thing at the time, which was often accompanied with a fairly pessimistic view of things on their part in some ways.


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