#<- posts where ash is there!

[steph-the-lover-boygirl]

heya, im steph. she/him (if ur cool you can use my neos)

my main is @felixisfruity

this blog is for my lover-posting ummm whenever i feel like it 😎 fuckyou

the lovely -> @codecicle

[laurencin-draws]

ashe comm from twitter!

[aipurjopa]

“Because I can’t handle being alone again”

[front-facing-pokemon]

[carlsdraws]

been playing PoE i love getting to be the weirdest person my companions met all day

[slutpoppers]

Entei vs Pikachu Pokemon Entei & the spell of Unown

(Ash almost gets offed)

[zaiofender]

eve and the serpent 🐍 (1/5)

(5/5)

[anghraine]

My housemates and I are watching S5 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which my bff J and I love, and Ash had never seen. She's been having a blast with it and it's been really cool to watch through her eyes.

I've seen some condemnations of how Entrapta is handled in S5 that I found, let's say, unpersuasive. Re-watching now, I'm not just fine with how she's handled, but have realized how much I really love it. It's still refreshing for me to see a narrative where an obviously autistic person—an adult, which is extra refreshing!—is treated as a moral agent without ignoring her actual handicaps.

Entrapta is capable of moral failure and has failed morally in the past, despite her basic good nature and personal kindness. She has lines she won't cross and where she'll stand her ground, and she hits that line before most everyone in the Horde but Adora, but her priorities were still very wrong. She's not just an avatar of Autism, and by S5 we see that she's grown and changed without any indication that she's less autistic now or more authentically Entrapta than she ever was. AND at the same time, it's clear that there is something rather cruel when other characters evaluate and judge her behavior without making any allowances for how Entrapta perceives and processes things around her. Sometimes they don't seem to even slightly consider how differently Entrapta experiences and understands the world.

The scene (in S5!) where she belatedly figures out that the others in the scene are angry at her, and everyone except Scorpia acts like she's stupid for not already realizing it, is incredibly familiar, honestly. It's one of those moments where I felt like it could seem forced or artificial in a "teaching moment for the kids" way, and yet it's one of the most relatable moments in the show for me.

[pergaminaa]

Manon saw herself in some of the other characters and I believe this is why she was instantly on their side. Because out of everyone, she saw the real ones trapped inside.

Elide: in Morath, she was no more than a crippled maid, literally chained up and bound in servitude. Manon was the only one who saw her for who she is: first as an asset, then later on as a friend/kin.

Dorian: like Elide, he was bound by a collar and possessed by valg. Again, Manon was the only one who ‘saw’ and connected with the real Dorian (hence her message to Aelin). Again, not even his friends saw that he could be saved, but Manon did. She knew he was still inside, still fighting and it’s why she aided in bringing him back from the valg’s control.

Abraxos: The small chained and beaten wyvern. The bait that was merely there for show. Manon was the only witch who even considered him as a potential companion because everyone was going for the biggest and strongest beast. But not her. She saw a fierce fighter in Abraxos, one she knew was there and she put her trust in.

All these three were equally abused and bound, for the whole world to see. She is just the same however her abuse and ‘chains’ are invisible and no one could see them. It is the reason why she instantly knew what was up with all three. They were a reflection of herself. While she knew no one would rescue her, she rescued all three because she knows what it’s like. She knows what it feels like.

What her grandmother does to her is always done in private, so no one really knows the extent of that abuse. Besides, the matron would not hesitate to kill anyone who tries anything so that’s that. Manon knows that there is no saving her. Which is why, it’s best to try and do as her grandmother wants even if she personally doesn’t agree with it. In Queen of Shadows, Manon spent the whole time trying not to agree to that madness but she couldn’t do much because she kept thinking of her grandmother’s reaction if she knew that she’s defying orders. She literally told Sorrel that she can only ‘tug on the leash’ like— she literally felt that she was in chains having no other option but to obey her grandmother’s absurd orders. She knows what the price would be, the lives of her coven is at stake and she will do whatever she can to ensure they are safe from her grandmother.

Which brings me to Kingdom of Ash because it was Asterin who saw Manon’s invisible chains all along. Her decision was to free Manon, to allow her to finally live free and without fear. Her line ‘live, Manon,’ was not only literal but figurative as well. She knows that her cousin is drowning, she never did anything for herself; having lived her life trying to appease her grandmother while keeping her coven safe. She never expressed her own opinions or needs and Asterin decided that it will all end now. Aelin promised them a better world, she she will start by ensuing that Manon can live for herself without fear or looming abuse. Asterin was going to break the ‘chains’ shackled around Manon and giving her the same freedom she gave to Elide, Dorian and Abraxos.

And it is why she has formed deep connections with those three despite meeting them later on in her life. It’s some kind of a soul/spiritual bond that only they can feel because they have all experienced the same thing.

[prince-jelli-fish]

witty caption 

[killerslowpoke]

08/31/24

ashie 🥺️

inspo and ref from this person's redraw (ref screenshot under the cut!)

[randomtheidiot]

Something really minor that pisses me off to no end is how SuMo designed Ash’s outfit. In every other region he’s been wearing weird sportswear shit like fingerless gloves and brightly colored sleeveless jackets but in SuMo he looks like he stumbled into an Old Navy and picked out the first outfit that fit him. I’d get it 100% if it were Sophocles or Hau or any of the other characters because the Alolan kids actually act like children their age, but Kantonians have been proven time and time again to not give a rattata’s ass about raising kids, Ash is constantly acting way older than he is and still getting shit from his friends and Professor Oak for being immature. Ash should get to dress like a 35 year old man who’s dedicated his life to hiking and only owns stuff he got from his local sports shop because that’s probably what he thinks he is.

But eh, that’s just my opinion.

[sweetie-peaches]

Hey so, what the fuck happened with mafia trio inbetween seasons?

Did spoke betray? Did *they* betray? Suddenly spoke has almost nothing, he seems to be falling apart mentally (idk how sane living in someone else’s house or keeping a chest full of replacements of your pet incase they die is) and spiraling at least a little bit.

He’s so horribly off in such a weird way, I feel like what he experienced in the first season is really starting to effect him that he doesn’t have something to do, something to keep his mind on. He doesn’t have to stalk ash, he doesn’t have to have the dragon egg, spoke’s searching for purpose now, and unsurprisingly it’s ended with him consumed by greed and alone.

With the exception of the 21 buckets of fish he has.

[frostedpuffs]

Tomorrow!! :3c Are you so excited to finally get it out into the world?

excited and also terrified

[i-am-sleepyzz]

Was going to finish this but my shits crashing

Anywayyyyy MY SILLLYYSSSS

[inhurtandincomfort]

I think Eldwin should be used as an ash tray. Maybe Clyde is showing off in front of friends. Idk tho