#it's not really about him

[monstersummongenre]

Chloe in Ep 135 Pokemon! I’m Glad I Met You

So...

Maybe, maybe, Chloe's projecting a bit in the episode. By this I mean she is sorta putting her feelings about Goh onto his reaction to/feelings about Ash in this episode. So let’s talk about how Chloe reacts in this episode. 

Here’s Chloe’s reaction when first spotting Goh in Cerise Park, she’s genuinely excited and happy to see her good friend Goh, back after being gone for a while:

However this is her reaction hearing him say he was going on a journey. She immediately backs up and ducks down.

She's surprised and instead of approaching she hides, just like how she might be hiding her feelings.

When they actually do discuss his thoughts on going on a journey, she doesn't seem exactly excited to know Goh is planning on leaving. Like I could argue she looks a little strained. 

She just found out Goh is considering leaving on a long term journey and the main reason he hasn’t fully decided yet is because of his friendship with Ash. He didn’t even ask her what she thinks, and didn’t seem to be planning on it either.

Later, she's nearly just as surprised as Goh to hear Ash has already decided to leave, and yes this is mainly because she already knows Goh's feelings and thoughts on the two separating. But still. (Though I also think it could be partially influenced by the thought they are both planning on leaving her behind.)

When Goh rushes off, Chloe actually gets up faster than Cinderace.

But ultimately she decides against going immediately after him, opting to stop and talk to Ash first, to sorta give him an idea of how Goh's feeling. Because she gets it.

She shares what Goh said then draws a conclusion herself. She's likely writing herself off because she doesn't fully feel as important to Goh as he is to her. And it's been like that for her growing up, she's used to it. She gets the pain of your friend making decisions and heading off without taking you in account.

Just earlier that day Goh didn’t say he felt like he was betraying his friendship to Chloe by leaving, he said he felt like he was betraying his friendship to Ash. Literally in episode 2 she's gone out of her way to bring him his homework because she knows he's going to her dad's lab, but instead of checking in with her, he just texts her, after already being late, 'sorry gonna be late, about to have a fateful encounter' not really taking in account her feelings before making a decision, either time. 

Just as it currently seems Ash didn't take Goh’s feelings into account before making his decision.

But more on her writing herself off, when making this decision that she's not Goh's first friend, there is like some bit of hesitance before heading off, I feel like.

We don't see her face, they hide it from us. It’s not done in away that’s awkward or makes you on a normal watch stop and question why we don’t see her face as Chloe’s feelings are not the focus here, but I think it also supports this idea that she's, in a way, hiding. She couldn’t look directly at Ash as she finished that statement because she, as I’m sure all, if not most, of us were, was likely thinking, “What about her?”

As a matter of fact, in a sense she's hidden a couple of times this episode. There obviously was her hiding when Goh was talking about possibly going on a journey, but then this too is sorta hiding, as she’s there but she’s away from them, out of sight. She sees them but they aren’t at all aware she’s even there.

Also, I think it's possible part of her writing herself off is her feeling as though she wasn't like a friend-friend to him.

Like she didn't share his interests or excitements for a good chunk of their lives but when Ash showed up he immediately shared Goh's excitement & interests. They were attached at the hip.

In some ways, that could feel like she wasn't good enough since Goh contacted her but not frequently or anything. While he doesn't separate from Ash at all really.

But in other ways, it could feel like a failure on her end. Like she didn't do enough for him. And while really there’s not much she could’ve done, she still could feel bad about it. That’s all really just speculation though.

Either way we know that Goh’s often doing his own thing. He didn’t typically invite her to hang out with him or anything during their time spent growing up. She was essentially left behind.

Then in the end of the episode she's still left behind by them. Just as they were discussing doing during the episode. She’s used to being sorta left behind and not really taken into account, (even sorta by her family recalling the episode she met Dawn since she went by herself because despite the family having planned a vacation they all made other plans, disregarding their plans with her and her feelings and she had no one to hang out with). And I just imagine it still hurts even if she’s used to it and hiding the fact that she’s hurt.

I don’t know how exactly to conclude this thought but I think there's still potential for her relationship with each of them to grow. Especially with Goh if I’m being honest, as I don’t think they’ve sat down and talked about what happened with their relationship.

[kavaleyre]

• The Hanged Man •

“Compared to what Falin went through? This is nothing.”

[collaredkittyboy]

[tragedykery]

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

[theyhitthepentagon]

post from my priv sorry i cooked

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

[arrimorr]

As you can tell I liked Nigel and his terrible roommate situation a lot...

[wellship]

"Don't you ever shut up-!?"

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

[arabian-batboy]

Don’t play with me now, this better be for real-

[911-on-abc]

absolutely insane how Tommy makes Buck, an objectively brick shithouse of a man, look normal sized in comparison. Lou Ferrigno Jr the man that you are

[somnimagus]

out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire

[id in alt text]

[galactic-rhea]

Padmé, please.

AU where Anakin leaves the jedi order, but still shows up from time to time "to help".

Original post here

[dreamerdagn]

my tears of the kingdom experience so far

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"