Rai 🦁

He/Him | 18+ only | Video Game Narrative Designer | Your friendly neighborhood lion man! |

Pfp and banner by @MilkRaise

🦋@yupimrai.bsky.social

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

"See something you like?" 😼

Art done by the amazingly talented @Fenwick_Art!

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@Sir_Arion Buy it so we can play Rhythm Heaven Groove together

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@pokemon_daily I remember playing Pokémon Crystal on a plane as a kid and the way I beat Whitney was to use a Gastly from Bell Tower to make the Miltank fall asleep with Hypnosis first before switching into my starter.

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@0taner0taner *hands you your service top badge*

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If you do this, you should be gatekept

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

Every Pokémon really is someone's favorite

[💙🤎 (currently broken) Hourly Quag & Clod 🤎💙 @hourlyquagsire]

hugely recommend checking out this site!!
you can enter your favourite pokemon and why they're your favourite and read messages from others who have done the same!! mine is down below as an example!!

here's the link:
https://t.co/tCLhqlI2Zp

[sectionhunk.moe @sectionhunkmoe]

Happy first anniversary to our website and Discord server! Thank you everyone for all your support over the last year, we wouldn't be here without you!

Please enjoy this commemorative artwork by @/arkkusx, featuring Voxlune, our web developer!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

Seeing someone you follow constantly have the worst takes then remembering the block button exists is so freeing

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They're looking at someone who's gay

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Lumiose City looks really great! Let's go!

[Nicholas🐾「🔞」 @No1Howler]

Commission done for @YeapImRad, this one took me two weeks cause of artblock xd

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@jakeisafatso @Sir_Arion Jake the Fat Dragon may know more about the law than the average person, as his smug tone suggests

This case may or may not hold water in a court of law.

There are many uncertainties here, but if there's one certainty, it's that anyone who defends AI slop in any form is a cunt

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

I won third place in a XXL Woofia fanfiction contest guys! Thanks to @sectionhunkmoe for organizing everything!😺

If you wanna give the fics a read, they can be found here!

[sectionhunk.moe @sectionhunkmoe]

One-Shot Fanfiction Contest Winners!

1st Place: "Darlow Ranch's Exclusive A5-K9 Milk" by @arty_enAD

2nd Place: "Orem and Locke" by @ItsIsaLion

3rd Place: "When He Sleeps" by lionzoned

The entries can be found on the sheet here: https://t.co/wCCQfZodnH

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@MilkRaise It's amazing, thanks for being amazing to work with 💛💛💛

[Nicholas🐾「🔞」 @No1Howler]

Upgraded comm for @YeapImRad !!

[sectionhunk.moe @sectionhunkmoe]

[RAFFLE EVENT] We have one last code to give away as part of our @XXLWOOFIA collab!

Prize: 1x Golden Bell, 1x Silver Bell, 1x Mega Energy Drink

Follow us, then like and repost THIS post to enter the final raffle! This raffle ends on September 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

@XXLWOOFIA Yorick: Yor... Does Beernox have experience with these things too?
Beernox: Good shot, Yorick... Big, thick loads mean big, thick paychecks...

[Rai 🦁 @YeapImRai]

Nee hee hee~
Yay hey hey~

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Have you guys seen the latest issue? 😼

[Nicholas🐾「🔞」 @No1Howler]

Comm for @YeapImRad (2/2 Nude ver)