shoonra

18+++. NB. Any pronoun is fine, They/Them preferred.
Fangirl (dire)

[shoonra @shoonra1]

https://t.co/EL4cOV4yVi hmu

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

Camping

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

Months later and she's happy, healthy, and integrated into a social group. She runs around like nothing bad ever happened to her.

Don't ever abandon your animals. Their stories don't have to stop there.

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Stealing mama

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

The mess maker

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Is this a bug?

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Hey

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Meemo

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

👹

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Good morning Frog and Toad nation

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

Chunky Sleepover

[shoonra @shoonra1]

@FerretPosting I remember the last time you metioned a routine like this... 🫂
Im sorry for tour loss, he had a very long, wonderful life and i bet he was having a blast being doted on by you

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

I'm just screenshotting this because I don't want a wave of annoying crypto dudes in my mentions. Sorry, I know all I usually post about is ferrets but I have a lot of opinions about the current state of the Pokemon TCG as someone who has been involved with it the grand majority of my life.

"Scalpers have played an essential role in the survival of the Pokemon TCG"

"Those billion-dollar waves brought mainstream attention back"

"Many people re-entered the hobby because there was suddenly financial gravity pulling them in"

"Many of us wouldn't be here without that incentive, whether we admit it or not"

Pokemon is a multibillion dollar IP with one of the largest fanbases in the world. The TCG does not need resellers to survive or flourish. Have they brought in a surge of revenue to the company itself? Sure, definitely. Has it brought in mainstream attention? Yeah I guess, but not in the way it should have.

When people think of Pokemon TCG now, they don't think of the cards, the game, the community, the think about the money involved and the money they could potentially make. It's not about the TCG itself anymore. It has become purely a point of potential investment. The entire issue with this post is that it's focusing on TCG as just that, a market. Resellers overall have had a majority negative impact on public perception of the hobby as a whole.

And that's exactly why people are panicking seeing increased set printing, prices dropping, product becoming move available, hopping to other potential "investments" like One Piece TCG as an example. It may be bringing in new people at the current moment, but not for the reasons it should, and it's creating an unstable ecosystem for the TCG to continue to survive as a whole. Whether or not you want to admit it, it is, in the end, a children's IP.

It's a point of nostalgia for many of us, having grown up with Pokemon since we were young, but the future survivability does depend on younger generations being able to access and participate in it outside of the scope of just wanting to make money. Those of us in our early 30's and up aren't going to live forever. People who would prolong the longevity of the hobby are discouraged from joining for the reasons they should because of the scarcity and lack of retail product.

Card shows are full of resellers. LGS cannot get appropriate stock. Parents cannot find cards to buy their kids for Christmas. Scalpers are flooding local sanctioned tournaments with the hopes of farming limited play mats to resell. The overall health of the hobby is at stake.

The grand majority of people who genuinely, truly care about the TCG and it's future are extremely outspoken with their disdain for resellers. On this post itself, the profiles of everyone in agreeance are very obviously here for the investment. And this investment relies solely on preying on those involved with the TCG who are desperate for cards and willing to pay above MSRP so they can -actually enjoy their hobby-.

If it didn't, resellers wouldn't exist. Why do you think everyone heavily discourages others from paying above MSRP? Encouraging people to wait and hope to catch a restock so that this negative cycle isn't continuously fed? The overarching negative impact can't be denied. It's easy to justify posts like this from the perspective of someone who is "investing". But in the end your "market" relies on people who truly love the game. You are a cancer eating yourselves alive and destroying everything around you without even realizing, and when you've eaten up and consumed what you can, you will metastasize to another community and the cycle will repeat.

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Pickle moment

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IT IS READY FOR RELEASE 🔑🌙

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❤️ & 🔁 Appreciated

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Sweet Mr. Fig 🌈 7/21/2025

[shoonra @shoonra1]

@ContraPoints Trains are for poor people

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

You got any games on your phone

[Shaye @FerretPosting]

Pickle boy