>>25198386>>25207970>>25208077>>25213486>>25214429>>25215649>>25215709Anons, may have your attention.
What we are dealing with here, is in fact, the textbook definition of a fetish.
The luxuriation over these image and ideas relating to comfort, safety, friendship, and fantastic adventure, reflect a fundamental desire to attain these things in real life.
This is similar to how in ancient times, fetish statues and figurines representing hunting prowess, fertility, intelligence, and so on were worshiped as gods and served as keepsakes in the hope that the objects would cause these virtues and blessings to be bestowed upon them.
Despite of the difficulties of our lives, our merely having access to the internet and free time to spend on a thread like this places us as extraordinary fortunate among the the people of the world as being able to effect some control over our lives and take at least small portions of our destiny into our own hands.
We have to know that going to the Pokémon World isn't actually possible, but if the hunger and desire for the comfy in our imaginations is strong enough, why not try to realize some small element of the comfiness into the world around us in a way that lets us and others feel a small amount of the spirit that's so idealized in these pieces art and stories?
