#asj post

[asjjohnson]

Late pic for the 2024 Danny Phantom Ecto-Implosion

I was partnered with @brekitten who wrote a fic inspired by my picture

some close-ups under the cut

[3dwi-scr]

why is grace always looking away?

im not entirely coherent rn as i never am but something that makes rounds in my head is the fact grace is always turned away and staring down/into the horizon, and very notably we dont see her really interacting with the other "workers"

and even when we do, she's still turned away and hanging her head low.

joe has to put a chair floating off the ledge to talk to her

and yet, even though something is clearly wrong with grace, no one in universe ever talks about it. the only mention we get of grace in any capacity is this on inside 3dwi

(screenshot also could be evidence to the pat in the simulation theory which i havent looked into, i wana focus on the name 'grace's guilt' moreso for now)

to me this kinda means grace has witnessed something, more than experiencing the abuse herself. if my theory/interpretation of amber being an affair child of rebecca and pat is true, and considering grace is one of the kids (not mentioned in PJR formation) and also the *tallest* of the three kids im inclined to assume the following

grace witnessed something. either that, or she made a few connections (being the oldest/having the most capability for understanding) and knows what amber is going through. but grace is a kid herself and cant do a lot. she has a lot of guilt about this, and she may or may not have brought it up to her parents. either way, it results in a talk given to her and holland

(but holland is just chillin. regardless of if they know about any abuse happening im inclined to say theyre too young to fully understand intellectually. all this is probably just making the poor kid feel bad :( )

after this talk (and the ban on GoodKid) we have the red amber explanation, and then the user comments,

and right afterwards

grace is standing at the shore, staring into the bottom of the ocean. she turns her head and looks around in the water

why is she the last character we see and not amber or pat?

[mammoth-clangen]

🌳for our dear little Bat <3

🌳 life goals/aspirations

Bat is a tricky one because I imagine him as a kid who, when asked what he wants to be when he grows up, changes his answer constantly.

I don't think healing is something he's interested in, and not just because I don't want all the disabled people being shoved in the doctor dungeon, (Lilac is plenty, and he chose it more just because of nessessity for the Kindred's survival)

Scouting is what he's thinking of currently, because it mostly involves being observant and remembering details, which Bat thinks he'd be good at c:

Tragically the Kindred doesn't have a "Bug Observer" or "Cool Rock Finder" role because Bat and Dart would be On It

Silly proto-Bat doodle from June of him lamenting his inability to help as a creche nurse; another job opportunity off the table c'x

[thatsprettylane]

Hannibal Heyes + Assorted Text Posts (Part 7)

[maddiesentmehere118]

Crashing Out RN

I have a chapter ready for the Contagion plot line in season 8. Should I post it now or wait to release it in the future? That's at least like 30 chapters away 😭 Thoughts? It could be read as a standalone, but it is an extension of A Stranger's Jacket Universe.

Also, if I see one more fucking post about Tommy or BuckTommy, I might end it. We are in a very fragile state right now. My man needs Eddie, screw Tommy.

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[lexiepiper]

How They shine (For You)

It's that time of year yet again! This @invisobang I've worked up an 8k word oneshot for you all. Soft horror inspired heavily by Coraline, with a disquietingly gentle undertone and an ending that isn't necessarily an unhappy one...

Summary:

"When he looked into the well, all he could see were stars." . Danny finds himself in a place that doesn't seem quite real, and is visited by imitations of the people he loves. He needs to find a way to freedom, before they keep him and make him into one of their own, but the rising moon is a constant reminder that time is steadily running out...

The fic includes twelve (!!!) wonderful artworks by the incredibly talented @asjjohnson and @aleserizart.

Asj's art post link!

Aleserizo's art post link!

Please go and give them some love!

For accessibility, the fic has two chapters - the first chapter has both text and embedded images, and the second chapter is a text-only version of the piece.

You can read the fic here:

I hope you all enjoy!

[researchgate]

Cleared up my askbox and dude I've been asjed if I'm a terf/support terfs' as far back as 2020. It means that around half my time here I've been posting about it, I'm actually really proud of this. It also means this blog is pretty ancient in my standards as I moved blogs like three times I think.

[themumblingmouse]

I know people have posted this exchange a thousand times but I'll never not laugh at it. The way Kaius's head goes down the moment Davrin says that asj;ldkf

[ninjastormz]

wait re: your tags on the karone post - what's going on with some of the actors? ik abt stuff related to lucas and troy's actors and the obv stuff with cole's (ollieakana) but not anyone else

Apparently Wes’s actor is a trump supporter (?) and Kira’s actress is a Zionist and was very active posting about being Pro-Israel/ supporting the genocide

There was also something about Andros’s actor but I’m not too sure that I saw here x

And there was a lot things happening with ASJ last month and I think some video also resurfaced recently of him mocking a gay man and just being overall very homophobic/transphobic x

I think all of these things can be sourced on Twitter which I don’t use so I was out of the loop :/

[laurasoretta]

It's St. Valentine's Day and what's a better day to dedicate a post to my fav ships? 

Ships of all the time and from everywhere. Not just couples I love, but my best ships ever.

Ships don't always have a reason, you just see them and you love them, just like love at first sight. Unfortunately often I fell in love with ships that didn't end up as canon, but I still had some happy ending. 

Here you go (they are in chronological order and not by preference): 

Jason and Trini (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

I started to ship them before the word "ship" was even invented. I think the main reason was the chemistry between the actors who had a very lovely friendship off set. ASJ himself ships Trason! I waited about 20 years to finally see them kiss in one of the comics... It was so cute! 

❤️💛

Chandler and Monica (Friends)

Sadly, the only ship on my list that I actually can see being realised as a couple. Not the only canon but the only one with hugs, kisses and more.

🤍💙

Taichi and Sora (Digimon)

They were perfect. The custest best friends, they cared for each other, they understood each other more than anyone else. But writers decided to ruin everything in S2 when she fell in love with Yamato. After decades Tri and the new Digimon Adventure still gave us many moments between them, but never ended up together.

🧡❤️

Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)

Finally a true victory! After years and years, 7 books and a lot of shipping battles on Internet, Ron and Hermione were finally canon! The kiss in the book was so sweet and I couldn't wait to see it in the movie... only to find myself admiring Ron's neck! A bit disappointed, but still happy.

🧡🤎

Koby and Helmeppo (One Piece) 

They really seem to me like a married couple, but I know Oda will never ever make them canon in the manga. I have only a tiny hope for Opla, and maybe I'm just being delusional, but I think we constantly need to root for a ship and It was a long time this didn't happened to me. So, hello again to the wild shipping! 

🩷💛

[theoversky]

The fact that t0mberly is literally “teen love/first lovers” thing and the fans can’t get over it always catch me. How many couples you know from your school that are together until nowadays???

I mean, they literally met each other at 16 years old (in comics, 15) and I really doubt they lost their virginity together. When I was at high school literally 1 couple lasted until today (I mean, I gratuated at 2008) and we had like 150 people at senior high in each senior class, at least 4 couples dated at this time.

Enjoy that t0mberly happened because they wanted to make Tommy likeable and maybe were afraid since he was under Rita’s spell. In original version we all know the green ranger died and since Tommy got all that popularity, he came back to be propped as leader, most powerful ranger, most pure energy and get the most popular girl of the school (let’s not forget he took not only Jason’s leadership as ranger, Jason’s girl, but also his spot as the quarteback even when he never played football before lol).

So, yeah, I’m for Jimberly and Katherommy. Not only because Jason and Kim are my fav rangers of all, but also because Jimberly was hinted all the way in the show until Tommy appears and they changed plans due, first of all, they were afraid kids couldn’t accept the evil green and made him link to Kim, second because salary war with actors and JDF was already a dad with wife and kid that saw his big opportunity to make money by his popularity in a kid’s show and hold AJJ and David Yost with him. ASJ was a baby with 17 years old with a big ego and so many hours to work and much less money to spend, thing that the ASJ himself said. I won’t take sides here because I can understand both sides (ASJ and JDF) in this case, also it is not a post about the actors, who I know that aren’t saints, none of them.

It’s pretty clear the cliché dynamic between leader jocker x popular pretty girl that existed between Jason/Kim and things were meant to be this way because, at first, Tommy won’t last long in the show. And so is truth what I said, that Tommy took all spotlights and, guess what! Dynamic leader jocker x popular pretty girl!

Also for the things the way happened, made much more sense to me Tommy and Kat to marry and have kids than his highschool sweetheart first love he met at 16. Katherommy has a mature dynamic, where Tommy is more responsible and mature, knowing how to deal with things in his team and personal life. One thing more that made TomKat better (in my POV, of course) is the fact Kat doesn’t was always in dangerous screaming for Tommy to save her, even when she was interested in him since the first time they met and she was under a spell + he was dating Kim or after she joined officially the team.

Don’t ever come to me to say Kat is a replace to Kim in Tommy’s heart. Kat was always brave, good and never ever tried to take Tommy from Kim, even when they dated long distance, she was always respectful and polite. Also risked her life UNMORPHED to make spelled!Tommy recover his sense when no one in the Zeo team did the same. THAT IS THE WOMAN SHE IS!

Let’s take Turbo movie again as example! They aren’t in school anymore, Kat is already working as teacher and we see clear as water that all of them are much more mature and trying to live the best they can with the responsabilities they have. Nothing is more clear than Jason going into Kim and Kim running after Jason in any dangerous situation posible + the final winning scene they party together. Same goes to TomKat after the same final winning scene, there’s no a SINGLE moment Tommy look after Kim to party with her or vice-versa. Jimberly it’s a love story that merge from long date friends that fell in love with each other after so many things they have been throught apart and together, conflicts that are better explained in comics and maybe we will see more about in the upcoming novels.

“The Vows” comics, where we se Katherommy’s wedding, also doesn’t show a sad Kimberly looking her ex marrying the woman he dated for years and reconnect for LOVE after so many YEARS apart and together. TomKat broke to go to university and reconnected after because they never forget each other and it’s more than t0mberly ever got (Kim broke up with him by a letter after 1 year apart, if it isn’t clear enough). Things are settle, Jimberly remains as hint and unofficial, but TomKat is more than endgame and no one shipped it more than JDF and Catherine Sutherland themselves.

And NO, I don’t care about ASJ and AJJ’s beef and the fact they don’t like each other. Much less that AJJ ships t0mberly and ASJ ships Jason/Trini, opinions that are based in their close friendship with respective actors. I love the characters and that’s this post about. All respect and kudos to the actors, but I don’t have to agree with all of them.

Also t0mberly fans can enjoy AU! Universe of Olivia Oliver and Jimberly fans can enjoy AU! Universe Power Rangers (2017) and everything is ok, just don’t come at me to say Jimberly came from nowhere. There is a huge background and a beautiful love story if they want to tell in novels, I hope they don’t put more ex actors to involve in anything relationed to MMPR, because Tommy was always the most explored character from OG 6, after JDF’s passing I expect they set his character the way it is, let Tommy age, happily married with his family (Kat and JJ), like JDF himself WANTED and CHOSE. That’s all.

[asjjohnson]

Have I made a post before about how Danny is prejudice against ghosts for a good portion of the series, and how "The Ultimate Enemy" is something like a sequel to "Control Freaks"?

Danny believes what his parents have said about ghosts. He might not consciously think he does, since he is one and all, and knows his parents aren't always right, but there's a few episodes where Danny says something about ghosts that isn't actually true. When Tucker gained ghost powers, Danny said he was becoming more malevolent and ghost-like. When the Dairy King ghost showed up, Danny assumed he was going to attack him. That was the first ghost that Danny had met that told him not all ghosts are evil. (Though earlier, Desiree started out very kind and Danny attacked her anyhow. And with Cujo, Danny was surprised the dog acted like a normal dog.) When Freakshow accidentally brainwashed Danny to think he was a full ghost, Danny took that to mean he was now evil, and acted the part without Freakshow's direct orders. And in The Ultimate Enemy, Dan acts a lot like brainwashed Danny. Because Dan still believes what his parents had always said about ghosts, and now he doesn't have his human half to negate the evilness or whatever.

I think Danny slowly sheds his biases about ghosts throughout the series, as he comes into contact with more and more friendly ghosts and realizes it's not a one-time or two-time exception. Also, a lot of times a ghost can still be scary despite being friendly, where first appearances can be deceiving, like with Cujo, Wulf, and Frostbite. And, if I remember right, Danny actually guessed that about Frostbite in season three, when he'd seemed obviously dangerous and enraged, and Danny noticed the icicle impaled in his side and figured he might just be in pain.

If the Control Freaks or TUE situations had happened during season 3, Danny wouldn't have reacted the same way, because he would have known that being a full ghost didn't mean malevolence and lack of positive emotions.

[lean-mean-demon-genevieve]

Hello, that "creepy" question about if you have kids was me, a bit of an incomplete thought on my part so my apologies. I really do not care personally how many kids you have if any at all. I was asking this as I have others IN REAL LIFE because multiple times in the past, you seemed a bit defensive of Gen at times when it came to questions about her parenting.

I saw your comments prior to them being deleted and that of the other user's. Frankly, I think you missed their overall point. Generally you don't miss the mark with Gen but when it comes to the kids and what is being shared, you sometimes word things in a way that makes me think "hmmm, maybe this person doesn't have children", almost a bit more clinical than not. That's 💯 okay but there are some differences in how parents versus non parents speak when it comes to any topic pertaining to children. Yes, Gen overshares like you said and the other user was aware he was "overwhelmed with love"... but also aware he seemed upset about Jared seemingly departing to film Fire Country.

I get we all have bad days or moments we feel like being bitchy or petty or whatever. Personally, I think your answer was at best a knee jerk reaction and that is generous. I know you've disagreed with this user in the past multiple times, and it is your right to block whoever you want. Calling her and the others you've blocked bigots is a stretch at best and frankly is a statement you are making because you got heated and probably still are. According to Oxford languages, a bigot is "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." (Hence the last 9 words and is the point of my sharing this definition word for word from a quick Google search).

Yes, she stuck to her guns and may have come across as stubborn for not agreeing with you but a bigot? Please refrain from calling people bigots until you see actual proof they're discriminating against someone based on their socioeconomic class, race, political group, sex or gender, etc. I think based on your last few posts going back to that post, the one clutching their pearls is in fact you. Your followers may not agree but I believe you should do some self reflecting before you call others bigots simply because they disagreed with you and stuck to their guns.

That question about the photo was NOT that other user you think it was you were going back and forth with, nor was the post asking if you've had kids. Both of those were me in fact on my main account. I went anonymous merely for the sake of encouraging possible discussions maybe without biases attached based on who it is coming from. It has absolutely nothing to do with being a coward or hiding. I've sent you other asjs in the past anonymously for the purpose of encouraging some more in depth conversations.

I promise you, I have absolutely no qualms with saying or asking unpleasant things to people right to their face, even if they blow up in my face in the flesh. That is just how I roll, I believe in giving it straight even if people get their panties bunched up over it. Frankly, I liked your page because you often come across as someone who can be welcoming to others' opinions. I do have to ask, why does it matter whether someone is right winged or left winged for why they dislike Gen? We can unite on our opinions of something or someone regardless of our backgrounds or other views. I thought this was how you felt too but perhaps I was wrong. Before you go calling people bigots for disagreeing with you, perhaps you should rethink some of your statements.

You are again free to write what you want and block who you want on your page. I wanted to just clarify my intentions and reasoning on why I sent those asks. This isn't me wanting to start an argument or be rude, this is merely me saying do a little more self reflecting on things.

Whew…I have been putting this off, as I’ve already mentioned, just due to being busy and overwhelmed with life but also because I didn’t even know where to start.

Buckle up, reader, this is going to be a ride. It’s probably not what you expected when I said I was going to respond to a blog who had been throwing my name around, but I will get to that later.

I’m going to begin with a timeline of how we got here, Khalaseer7. I bet you will disagree or deny from wherever you are, but that part isn’t important to me. I will answer some of your questions on my way to a big finish where I will address the remaining…claims…in this ask directly.

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned having been followed and reblogged by some “right-wing” blogs that I didn’t want to be associated with (link). After their interactions with my blog, I had looked at their blogs and found content that I just outright didn’t want to be connected to, so I blocked them. Not everyone has to run their blog that way, but I do. If you’re out there pushing a MAGA agenda and spewing misogynist and anti-trans rhetoric on your blog, for some examples, I don’t want you sharing my content. We are not cool with each other. That’s just how I feel. I don’t believe that your interest in anti-gen content should preclude you from criticism and/or consequences for your dangerous takes. I don’t need friends that badly.

I don’t feel like it’s my job to kindly interact with blogs who display hateful content. I’m not a peacemaker in that way. That’s not what I’m here for and I don’t believe that entertaining oppressive ideas with openness, especially on this type of platform, ever brings about the types of change that I would want to see. I’m a firm believer in the quote by Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

I hope that answers one your main questions, Khalaseer7.

But there’s actually a bit more to the above linked post than meets the eye. This ask about witchcraft clearly had an agenda, because a nearly identical ask showed up on another blog.

Let’s call that blog, Blue (because even though that blog has called me out by my name, I’m not interested in doing the same to them, and a pseudonym feels like I’m drawing less attention to them and therefore not giving them what they so desperately want)…Blue and I had some chats via dm previously and had overall cordial interactions. But in their response to their witchcraft anon, they took issue with MY response and felt called to defend themselves:

I had gotten the feeling through my interactions with Blue that they wanted to provide me with their own research in the hopes that I would post about it, but it usually wasn’t topics in which I had much interest so we chatted a bit but that was the end of it. Sometimes anons in my inbox seemed to mirror my conversations with Blue. Almost as if they were baiting me to continue the conversation outside of private messages. It doesn’t feel like a stretch to me to say that witchcraft was a topic of THEIR interest that they were hoping I would help them launch. And when that didn’t work, they or a buddy or a sock account supplied their blog with their own ask.

Now, why would one take personal offense to my response and feel compelled to defend their political leanings for several paragraphs (which I won’t be including) if they didn’t write the ask? Hmmmm 🤔 🙄

To clear it up now, Blue was NOT one of the blogs to which I was referring when I said “right-wing.” Blue did, however, entertain one of those right-wing blogs’ ideas about how Out Youth, the Austin LGBTQ+ non-profit org, “grooms” children. This far-right blog believes that Gen forces Jared to interact with Out Youth and can’t fathom a world where Jared would support LGBTQ+ causes of his own free will. Let’s call that blog Thor. (Not going to link or screenshot the post…too gross and not enough room.) Grooming on the part of the LGBTQ+ community or drag artists is a baseless claim rooted only in hatred and bigotry. It’s not something to invite more conversation around. But Blue did just that:

(And by the way, those “facts and logic” around the grooming allegations were never presented by either party. At least not in the reblogs where it would matter. Just a bunch of anti-trans generalizations…aka bigotry.)

Also on 8/23, I responded to this anon (link) that resulted in a back-and-forth in the notes (summarized in this link) with a blog we will call Other Blocked Blog, or OBB for short. That exchange was quickly followed by the ask about whether or not I have children (link) for which Khalaseer7 is now taking credit in the above ask received on 8/28.

(For full context, on 8/24 I used the word “bigot” to describe some blogs which will come up later (link) as it is referenced by Khalaseer7.)

On 9/4, I had not yet been able to respond to Khalaseer7 and I was directed by a mutual to the following anon on Blue’s blog:

Lol, this is so transparent and childish.

When that didn’t get a response out of me either, Blue and her crew/sock accounts continued the conversation the next day with this more detailed critique of me and arrogant praise for themselves:

Hey real quick, how does one be “CIVIL” and have “sound reasoning” for anti-trans beliefs? Or for dangerous, unsubstantiated beliefs that accuse people of grooming children? If it sounds civil and sound to you, that’s because you agree. It’s not because you’re such a benevolent good listener who values unity. Hop off your high horse made of love and light.

And now we’re all caught up…

Khalaseer7 is an admitted sock account, per their own admission all the way back at the top of this post, but they have left me several clues to their identity/main account.

Spoiler alert: It’s none other than Blue.

I know this because of the writing style/length, the propensity for using the dictionary as smug proof as evidenced in several of Blue’s posts, and most significantly both Khalaseer7 and Blue referring to me as defensive as the basis of their critique while also hiding behind a persona of good-vibes-only. And then there’s the major clue in the username itself. A seer is exactly how Blue describes themselves on their main blog: a person who uses divination.

Khalaseer7 is Blue. Hey girl! 👋🏼

Let’s try to wrap this up, Khala-Blue. You’ve had enough of my time:

1. If you did not care about how many kids I do or do not have then you would not have asked. You had an agenda with that question. So own it. Stop hiding behind disingenuous niceties and “curiosity.”

2.) I’m not “defensive.” I’m everything that you wish you were: factual and logical in my responses. I pay attention to tangible patterns and practice emotion regulation when coming to conclusions. I don’t swing a pendulum or ask Posiedon. (That’s a clue. If you know, you know.) Since you like the Oxford dictionary so much, here it is again from another “quick Google search,” no less: To be defensive is described as very anxious towards challenge or to avoid criticism; self-justifying or oversensitive.

I think the word you were looking for is “discerning,” but I think that’s a new one for you.

3.) I didn’t miss the point of OBB’s argument. They presented assumptions and projections as facts, to which I provided a counter-argument. Your condescension when stating that there are differences between how parents and non-parents speak about issues pertaining to children is noted. And to use your words: that’s 💯 okay. But what you’re describing is merely “bias”…and parental bias doesn’t mean that you or OBB was correct. In fact, you’re still assuming that Jared was leaving in that photo based on nothing more than confirmation bias. Because where exactly was it confirmed to be a photo of Jared leaving for filming?

(Answer: Nowhere)

4.) You can keep your so-called generosity in calling me knee-jerk in using the word “bigot.” I’ve already explained where I stand on this in the first couple paragraphs of this response. Even bigot-adjacent is too close for me.

OBB had come in my notes with her own unearned confidence and borderline disrespectful sarcasm more than once, and I wasn’t interested in providing a space for it to continue. So she was blocked. Before that though, I peeked at her blog and saw this reblog:

The OP shared a question from a recent con in which the guys are asked hypothetically who they would want to play them if Sam and Dean were gender-swapped in an episode. And OP was celebrating Jared’s response.

The first reblog is the anti-LGBTQ blog from earlier, your pal Thor, who has misunderstood the question and Jared’s answer completely having been blinded by their ultra conservative lens. It’s a hypothetical, innocuous question that, to me and my lens, seems to be attempting to be outside of the box for the purpose of keeping the cons interesting. And would you look at that? That’s not me clutching my pearls in the thread, Khala-Blue, that’s you! You’re the one I’ve smudged out in blue responding affirmatively to Thor’s rantings and egging it on. “Yeah! Stop catering to those people and their woke bullshit!” (Is the woke bullshit in the room with us??) And I can only assume that OBB agrees with you and Thor as she is reblogging without comment.

These were the connected dots I was referring to and no one was called a bigot only because they disagreed with me or “stuck to their guns.” I had planned to keep all of this to myself, but since you presumed to know my train of thought, I’m here with proof to clarify. You don’t know nearly as much as you so confidently claim. Please keep that in mind the next time you try not to be rude while also calling someone a defensive fence-sitter who needs to reevaluate their thought processes.

I don’t need to rethink a single thing or self-reflect around this particular issue. Your arrogance knows no bounds with all your polite little suggestions. I’ll repeat: Bigot-adjacent is too close for me. You’re not honoring diversity or building unity as you think you are. You are merely empowering oppressive language and ideals. No one needs that kind of faux “diversity.” If you’re making a space where people feel comfortable regurgitating hateful misinformation, then I don’t want to be in that space and I don’t want you in mine.

Cope how you need to.

5.) Finally, thank you for confirming that you’ve tried to manipulate my content both in my dm’s and my inbox so that you could riff off of it and generate your own blog activity. I always knew it, but this validation is a bonus. I’m honestly glad that you’ve decided to try your hand at your own anti-Gen posts that speak to your individual concerns. Let’s keep it that way and keep my name out of your mouth from now on, whether that be on your main or any sock account you create.

[paranoia-culture-is]

paranoia cultuer is sending an anon asj after liking one of x's posts and then spiraling that 'what if they know it's me the ask was sent right after me liking them!!'

paranoia culture is changing your typing style for any anon asks because "what if they find out................"

me sending my partner random anons so they get interactions :’)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Pls tell me your ideas about their maybe-mom. And also any other ideas you have been playing around with that you are willing to share. Submas homelife hcs are always so interesting and fun esp if they're ones I've never heard before

WAH OKAY!! under a cut because. oh god i talked so much. i didn't realize that was gonna happen oops.

actually the funny thing is i have so many things i'm really solid on abt this character except for her uhhh. name. my first thought was anita virosa joy as a shortened form of amanita virosa (we'll get to why) but there's already a character in unova named after amanita so it feels... weird... and then i was also thinking about shepard joy, bc i think shepherd/shepard is a sort of fun thing to call both her and the subway bosses, and also bc it sort of nods to the only unovans with a full canonical name, the harmonias, who are named after musical tones (ghetsis specifically is named after a tritone), as a reference to shepard tones. but then idk if i want to change anita.

and uh. oh god this post is gonna be 50% talking about names, fuck. but unovan names are generally three parts. they use the roman tria nomina, so it goes first name-last name-last name part 2. which is why AVJ/ASJ, and not just AV/AS or AJ. the majority of the time, the last last name denotes a branch of the family, generally stemming from one person who was notable enough to earn a new one.

anyway, the last part of her name is definitely Joy. this is... getting into the region of hcs where i always sort of stop and go "dude this is pokemon. where are we going with this." but anyway, Pokémon Center Nurses in this hc are also generally referred to as "Nurse Joy," like the anime nurses, because their actual legal name is, always, Joy. this is bc the Joy Nursing Order is very intense as an organization, and it's kind of a requirement to adopt the name as a symbol of dedication. this is also why they all look the same like, down to the hair. Nurse Joy is almost like a character you adopt during work hours. most regions just have the family name and personal name, so you'd be XYZ Joy or Joy XYZ, but since unova has three names, it's not uncommon to see people preserve one part of their family name alongside Joy. i guess she could also be joy shepard? hmm.

...anyway. so yeah. she's a pokémon center nurse! or, a retired one, by the time of bw. and the reason why i'm not sold on her being like their, birth mom? or "adopted through normal legal channels" mom? is i don't think she intended to have. kids. being a nurse joy is kind of a demanding job and she's also super single (albeit pretty extroverted with a large social circle, but not really anyone that's like, coparent-with-me close). this is one of those things i keep going back and forth about, but right now what i'm thinking is that maybe the twins were originally the kids of friends of hers, who were very not prepared for having twins or kids as uhh. demanding. as they were. it might have originally been a temporary thing, where said friends went "hey anita i'm sooo super sorry to do this to you but can you watch them for a while while we uhhhhh leave. thx." and then she was like fucka you i'm keeping them. and they were fairly young but not like, babies at that time, probably somewhere in the 8-12 range. but this is all maybe things. if this IS the scenario, i think they're still vaguely in touch with those people (bc extended family interactions with other bw chars maybe) but probably don't consider them family. anita is their mom, thanks.

outside of being a nurse and their mom, her main hobby is pokemon fostering/rehab. she does both. her home's always overrun with little guys. she'll take more or less any of them, as long as they fit physically in her home lmao, but SPECIFICALLY she really likes poison types. her main partner's probably an amoonguss. (this is why the amanita virosa connection.) her one major deviation from the Nurse Joy Uniform is all of the bandaids and such because her hands & arms are perpetually fucked up. it's fine tho. she's used to it. a small price to pay for poison type.

relatedly i think the garbodor on the subway boss teams is actually from her originally. one of her major life goals has been a campaign to get larger unovan cities to shift from trubbish eradication efforts & perceiving them as pests towards actually treating them as worker pokemon, and giving them better care, with alolan grimer and muk and galarian weezing being a major source of inspiration. garbage pokemon are a known phenomenon! if you treat them right they will not be deadly!! she's actually been making pretty good progress on this one, esp. after she retired and could devote more time to it, and esp. in nimbasa city for no reason in particular.

while a lot of it is their own personal thing, i think she also encouraged parts of the twins' specific attitude towards responsibilities and like, general life philosophy. like, "you always have a duty to work with the task or the problem that's in front of you, to improve things for the people around you," etc. which is also sort of a joy nursing order attitude but she takes it to heart and applies it to the rest of her life in a very specific way. and then they took that and put their own spin on it.

i think she lives in anville town, maybe? somewhere where she can have a big enough house and yard to have two kids and a rotating cast of pokes, so not the city, lol. she's close with them still, and they visit pretty frequently (it helps that it's so easy for them if she's in anville) and also sometimes have pokemon for her or will help rehome some of them. and then she's friends with quite a lot of the town, and has established favor exchanges with them (mostly consisting of "anita my purrloin has a cold" or "anita i have a cold") so she was able to lean on quite a few other people to help look after these twins she'd... acquired... when she was busy with work. although they would have probably also come in to the pokemon center with her sometimes!

aaaaaand that's pretty much the whole character brief i think! there are other more minor things but i don't want this to be a mile long, lol, and most of it is "idk maybe" stuff. if you read this the whole way uhhh. thanks! i hope you enjoyed. like i said i had a lot of thoughts about her lmao.

[kimberlyannharts]

Ok is it just me or did being a Grizzled old Road Warrior just make Jason even more appealing? Cus Real world issues aside i ALWAYS loved the way ASJ played jase. The art looks great, they got austin's I WANT YOU DEAD glare down. Props to Dan. Looks like its gonna be awesome.

Unfortunately I do have a thing for grizzled old post-apocalyptic men and Return!Jason is fitting that category perfectly; far better than he is in the Coinless Universe. I'm excited for him and Zack to interact so I can finally get some old man yaoi