#Ash is full of love

[lets-go-banana-fishing]

After my last post I went to look if Ash used the 5 love languages for Eiji too and,,, he does 🥰

1. Words of affirmation

2. Acts of service

3. Receiving gifts

4. Quality time

5. Physical touch

[azatas]

"we need more complex female characters" you couldn't even handle her

[pokemonedits-outofcontext]

[tapeworrmart]

Bad to be good 💫

[evanescencefan101]

[cowboyshit]

just wanted to put this somewhere I could keep it 🥰💗

[emry-stars-art]

MY HEART??!???!??

M Y S T A R ? ! ? ! ?

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

I ALSO LOVE U AND THAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BRAIN OF YOURS FOR COMING UP WITH THESE

🥹❤️

YOU CAN THANK @jtl-fics FOR ANDREW CALLING ABRAM THAT (and also to a degree for Abram’s name for Andrew so like. Thanks Ash 💕)

Dramatized rendering of the two’s letters at whatever point in the timeline idk

Script/cipher under the cut

One fancy version and a simpler handwriting one ✨

[distraughtlesbian]

sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room

like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!

during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her

like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[syn4k]

the imperfect project you finished is worth infinitely more than the perfect one you didn't because it wasn't good enough for you while you were making it. just btw.

[andfangs]

🎬| alien (1979) dir. ridley scott for @talesfromthecrypts

[kindahoping4forever]

5SOS: Madison Square. A dream. More to come...

📸: Ryan Fleming

[hoperays-song]

[silverselfshippingchaos]

a lovely collection of my wife plushie looking at things.

[love-is-a-pearl]

I feel like Dawn would end up starring in PokerStars studios at some point. It just feels like her kind of place.

I feel like that's more of a Serena thing. She was really into Pokevision and Showcases are all about showing yourself and she is an Idol, friends with Lisia now!? She is meant for such extravangances.

And I know this will sound bullshit because no one understands dawn like i do/j but like... Dawn.. doesnt seem to like getting too much attention on herself?

Like, she has an outgoing personality, is a social butterfly and is not afraid of being loud and all that but.. She's very bashful when she is made the center of attention; specially around those she doesn't know.

When she learns the battle in DP029 is gonna be recorded, her first instinct is to get out of the camera's view and get her hair fixed (not to mention any time her hair gets messed up and made fun of and how one time she passed out because of it).

Ash asks her for a dance at DP082 and while one can only guess why she rejected it, I wouldn't be surprised if it was out of shame (specially with how he danced lmao).

When she wins the award for best bonding with Grimer in DP088, her reaction is to blush shyly at the praises (unnusual for her!)

During the johto festival in DP143, Lyra calls Dawn on for a battle and her first reaction is to freak out. Only after some peer pressure (and support), that she goes for it.

Dawn only did the cheerleader thing during rematches and everytime there were very few people around (and the fact she didnt dress up for the Leon battle kinda adds that she only does that with a small number of people as witnesses)

Meanwhile..

Serena seemed very comfortable and not at all nervous about having a camera on her at all times for the pokevision thing in XY021 and having her videos seen by folks worldwide(!)

She did the modeling thing for Valerie in XY073 and while she did look nervous, she seemed to get over it pretty fast the moment her friends showed up (even talking to them from the catwalk lmao).

Dressing up as Ash and taking his place during a battle with a random dude at XY115 with no shame? Other pokegirls could never.

She made a Showcase presentation for the whole town to see at XY138!!

She is an IDOL!! OFFICIALLY!!!

What I'm trying to say is... Dawn would skip sleep to memorize the lines for a movie and then fall asleep in the actual recording and she knows it. And she is not living that kind of shame.

[starsmush]

asheiji coffee shop au except they’re married and it’s their coffee shop (100% real and canon)

find me on twitter : @starsmush !!

[godsperfectprincess]

okay i'm going to talk about my job really quick bare with me. i dont understand when teachers say there needs to be a balance between process and product art. i don't know why product art would ever be necessary in an early childhood setting aside from the teacher's own desire to hang up art THEY consider to be pretty. if there is something you aim to teach via product art that you cannot teach via process art there is another activity that does not include art that will teach that AND be more effective. there is never a reason to tell children what their art should look like when they are finished imo. when you give children the freedom to create something they find beautiful you will notice how much care, intention, technique and attention to detail they put into pieces they are excited to create. you are killing the creativity out of the next generation of genius artists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! okay i'm done