#except for animation quality

[luniviravosshipper]

So what if I said season 1 and season 7 of TDP are my favorites. Can you blame me?

And I'm tired of having to pretend those are some of the worst seasons of their retrospective arcs.

[narratorsandall]

Imagine if AvA 5 was just a dream and Dark ends up waking up to Chosen and them living peacefully in their house together and nothing was wrong ever and they were wives and they apologized and-

[silvermeww]

for your Kalosian Woods AU, I have two questions! (1) what’s the direction you’re gonna take Amourshipping/Ash and Serena’s dynamic in? Their friendship along with the romantic subtext felt like it had a lot of potential in XYZ-proper but never really got utilized. And (2) how’re you gonna tackle Showcases? I’ve been meaning to work on a Showcase restructure but I’d love to hear your ideas :D

Hey there!!!!! For the first question, I 100% acknowledge the force of Serena’s crush on Ash in the XY series— even if I did tweak it so that she would fall after meeting him for the first time, watching him train for the Gym and having seen him fall off Prism Tower inspiring her to see him through tinted lens (and how it evolved from the admiration she had for him when they were kids so long ago). While XY anime itself had the weird notion of making everyone down for Ash (a terrifying scene after coming out of the professional haters of BW and literally every series before it) (ngl though I am a believer of the polycule + Bonnie idea lol, it exists in my heart), I can’t deny that side of Amourshipping even if I’m not a shipper myself or even much of a good writer for romantic relationships imo. In my AU I want to show how that love for him grows and eddies throughout the series: from their first meeting to taking up her own dream of showcases to seeing Ash lose himself in his endless hunt for strength— how she puts him on a pedestal because he was the first Trainer she knew, the strongest one she knew, and back then how she didn’t know better, relying on him instead of taking the risks herself and working with other people for a change. You’re absolutely right in the potential their relationship have in XYZ especially; with Serena coming to the tail end of her first Showcase season, ending up in the same place as before but with a totally changed perspective, and Ash fixating more than ever on being the best of the best, distancing himself from everyone else… and of course, all of that feelings and realisations coming to a head in Snowbelle, the Crisis, and the aftermaths. And also having both of them face each other at the end of it all and realising how much changed. I’m not really sure if I’m wording any of this right or if what I’ve said even makes sense heh, especially since I’m not too far ahead in this AU, but their friendship and that romantic subtext is definitely going to play a part in this series, and even if the plot details changes like the weather I’m going to do my best in keeping it as true to its potential as it should be (because a girl can be in love and also grow as a person, in spite and despite and even with it— you’ve just got to find the right angle).

(Also I’m going to have fun with that crush, so it might meet some light-hearted banter and miscommunications and all of that stuff. I mean, hey, these are kids on a journey lol. There are going to be awkward moments for everyone at some point, but they’ll grow past it as with everything else. Also fun memories. :P)

For the second question, wow, I’ve been giving it so much thought lol. I’m nowhere near the Showcases right now (although it is closer than what canon gave us in my AU) and yet it’s all I can do to plan for how it works. I have spitballed a few ideas with friends but for me (so far) I honestly want more of it to be outdoors. Showcases as a whole has this pesky problem of being a one-to-one copy of Contests but ‘declawed’ by having no battles, and it really gets me because if we’re discarding battles then we have to actually redefine Showcases as a whole— because the battle portion is the ultimate showing of precision and control with your Pokémon and their moves, which is what Contests are all about. Especially with AG and DP, we see examples of atypical Appeal rounds with Harley going for a more terrifying show of power, while Kenny (as :/ as a character as he was) goes for showings of strength— even though they are not ‘beautiful’ they still get to pass, because it really is about how your bond can perfectly translate to moves that can command the audience and grab their attention, naturally highlighting the Pokémon. With Showcases though, to me, they are more about creativity— about how a Performer can work with their Pokémon to get past certain obstacles which are based off a certain characteristic the Kalos Queen should have (the Theme round or whatever it was called lol) and then the Freestyle showing off what they uniquely bring to the table, their own brand, what they want to be remembered by (in which I thought that they could bring props to that originally but eh, that’s what my AU is for!). Sheesh, I went through such a big rant and I still feel fired up heh, but ig this is to say that since Showcases are about creativity, the outdoors location would be a great way to show how they deal with everything. On a sunny day, would they use Grass or Fire Types? Would they call out a Rain Dance and form a rainbow? Of course they wouldn’t actually have an open venue if it’s raining or snowing, but in different terrains can you see the characters stand out, I feel like. Also giving all sorts of Pokémon room like Flying or Ground. I have a bunch more ideas of course, about it being connected to PokéVision (still mad about how that concept got dumped) and having small events where people can get to know the up and coming Performers, getting hints for the Theme section so we don’t get the most unbalanced group of people and have a real competition (that always bothered me ngl), as well as other tweaks to that whole system. Showcases can be good in their own light, it’s just the rep of it being baby ‘only girls’ Contest (still thinking about the girls bit ngl) along with the stupid popularity bit of it (not that the concept is bad in and of itself, just that it should have a place and not be the be all end all of passing to the next stage) (it’s only good for the Freestyle, can I say that?) that makes it flop. Also because it came in so late and left so early. And the rivals kind of sucked because they weren’t given any time to grow. And the way Serena wasn’t challenged enough through them. So basically, I’ve got A Lot of thoughts about it and it’s going to be a headache to go through because it desperately needs a redesign to be viable in any way. But that’s the fun bit about an AU, isn’t it heh. Tell me about your ideas, I’d love to hear about them and thank you so so much for the ask!!! :D <33

[alexaloraetheris]

I saw War of the Rohirrim and I'm losing my mind. What the fuck do you mean they made Bella Swan the protagonist of a high budget LotR fanfic???

[chopper-mybeloved]

I Love Egghead!!

[thou-shall-fucketh-off]

Look at Aegon and Sunfyre being so happy with each other ☹️

[metalandmagi]

Bro, who's going to tell whoever cut the animation budget for Blue Lock season 2 that the characters actually need to move while they're on screen? I just watched 23 minutes of dynamic manga panels with a few seconds of CG feet thrown in.

[frobby]

april is almost upon us

Animes coming out this year so far:

-spice and wolf remake (april *like 3 days from now yay*)

-kaiju no.8 (april)

-a condition called love (april)

-wind breaker (april)

-Yozakura family (april)

-Quality assurance in another world (july)

-fairy tail 100 year quest (july)

-senpai wa otokonoko (july)

-blue exorcist: yuki no hate-hen (october)

-how i attended an all guys mixer (october)

-nina the starry bride (october)

-natsume yuujinchou S7 (fall so prolly october)

-terrified teacher at ghoul school (still says 2024 TBA)

-madoka magica 4th movie (winter 2025)

-no home (TBA 😔😔😔😔)

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

This is unusual for me to talk about on this blog, but I love the Shrek franchise. Like, I'm crazy about it; ok, that may be a bit of a stretch, but I do love the franchise, even the third sequel despite its big, big issues, and a huge part of it is due to the dubbing in American Spanish (I'm Mexican). You know what I find interesting? I find it interesting how the first movie showed Shrek being pretty in disbelief about fairytales whereas Fiona, quite literally, trusted her life on the fairytale of a "Prince Charming" coming to save her and break her curse. However, by the fourth movie, when Shrek decides to enter an alternate timeline out of selfishness, now it was Fiona who did not believe in fairytales and had to only rely on herself to get ahead in life and it was Shrek who was keen on them now. He went from, "Yeah, like that happens lmao" to "Those things are real, Fiona!!!". That's a substantial amount of growth from the original movie, but ofc, as the movie showed us, he still had one more thing to learn, which is to appreciate what he already had.

[felinelord-bowbeforemepeasant]

[jrueships]

DOES HE HAVE ANY REDEEMING QUALITIES OR AT LEAST A SAD BACKSTORY I'M CRINE

no, LOL

[sskk-manifesto]

FINALLY got around to watching ep 4. To ep 5 now

[ritzyheartz]

I'm running a celebratory raffle on twt/insta and made this video to promote it! The raffle isn't on tumblr but I really wanted to share this here because I'm INSANELY HAPPY with how the video came out !!

[loveletterworm]

Ok this post was delayed because i was sitting next to my cat because she was lonely and then i fell asleep (peaceful world) but the thing about WebP. WebP is a COMPLETELY FINE FILE FORMAT, in fact, its compression leads to much smaller file sizes than PNGs, which means that pages using WebP images load MUCH faster on bad connections than they would if they used PNG files! This is a good thing! Objective good! (they are called "Web"ps because they are for the web!)

The issue with it is that somehow their adoption is extremely lopsided, so they're EVERYWHERE online, but it's disproportionately inaccessible to create or edit one without having to go through a bunch of file converters that will probably lead to data degradation if you have to keep going through them. So the real question is "Why is almost every program apparently so opposed to adding support/export options for a now extremely widespread image format that's existed since 2010????" Like you have had time? Why does trying to open a webp on my computer open Microsoft Edge instead of the photo viewer. What excuse could there possibly be for this.

[ghostypetrainer]

I don’t talk about it enough on here but I love Alola. Top favorite region. They are all my friends there.

[hopeless-anime-addict]

Your girl started Sasaki to Miyano today, and I am obsessed with this character who occasionally looks like Akaashi Keiji from Haikyuu