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I’m too sleep deprived to restrain myself from saying this and I’ve wanted to say it for years…

I do not have the suspension of disbelief to think that Ruby would ever, in a million years, date Emerald period.

This isn’t just “ship bashing” time, it’s: ‘Regardless of how poorly written you personally think their relationship was, so much of Ruby and Sapphire’s character arcs depend on each other and their inherent connection with each other” and “Ruby and Emerald barely seem to like eachother” and “Ruby and Emerald don’t have much of anything thematically interesting going on”

Hell, I’d believe Emerald and Sapphire dating before I’d believe Emerald and Ruby dating. I’d believe Ruby and Liasa saying, I’d believe Ruby and Wally dating, hell I’d believe Ruby dating any of his immediate juniors or seniors.

But not Ruby and Emerald.

The fact that so many people are willing to engage with and create content for two male characters who have no reason in canon to be together — while barely caring about female characters at all is telling. You can see it in the way that people barely ever mention Yellow or Blue in Originalshipping fics (except to help out the men, of course); or how you barely hear a word about Crystal in the vast majority of Preciousmetal fics. And to clarify: I am fine with and even enjoy both of those ships most of the time! But it’s hard not to notice after a bit.

Even when people make WLW ship content it always feels like it’s to get the women out of the way, or it’s done as a side mention. Rarely do I hear about or see people exploring the in-depth nuances of sapphic relationships in Pokespe without men somehow being in the forefront. And that’s an absolute shame, because a lot of sapphic ships in Pokespe have the potential to be really interesting if people would explore them properly!

Now let me be clear about my biases here. Franticshipping is my favorite ship of any fandom, hands down period. While I would believe any of the aforementioned ships with Ruby or Sapphire, I still wouldn’t like to read them because doing so makes me viscerally uncomfortable. Honestly that’s a part of the reason why I don’t engage with a lot of the larger fandom as a whole — and to clarify, that isn’t an “I think this is a problem” sort of thing, it’s just a hang-up of mine that I understand to be just a me thing (create all the content you want and so long as you tag it properly IGAF!)

But! But.

Frantic is a straight ship, yes, but it’s a straight ship composed of two at least somewhat gender nonconforming leads. Again, remember when this was first published — Ruby being portrayed as flaymboyant and feminine whilst being entirely straight is hugely fucking progressive; hell it’s even progressive by today’s standards. And obviously women tend to get more leeway in the femininity department nowadays, but still!

It is straight and it is played straight, not as a punchline or a gag. Sapphire is the more aggressive and physically competent of the two of them. Ruby sews her clothing and is interested in looking pretty. Neither of them have moments where their sexuality is questioned because of their interests, and they are both given the freedom to be well-rounded characters and have an interesting romantic relationship with each other rather than being some punchline in a newspaper strip or something.

So when people look at Ruby, and nod, and go “ah yes he must be gay” it feels like stereotyping. There is a stark difference between queer coding a character, and having a feminine male character who is very interested in women and has a romantic relationship with a woman which is a big focal point of his story. You feel me? There isn’t one homoerotic male friendship to be found with Ruby — he isn’t Red or Gold — and he literally only has super deep important character moments with and surrounding Sapphire.

Please understand: I’m not trying to say that straight ships are somehow marginalized or whatever, or that if Ruby had been in a gay relationship that it wouldn’t have been progressive at all. That is absolutely not what I am trying to say here.

What I am trying to say here — and what I hope that I’ve managed to get across — is that I see shipping Ruby with Emerald as downright unbelievable, the Pokespe fandom (as well as a lot of other fandoms) has a tendency to shove aside female characters in favor of male-focused storylines, and that Franticshipping is still a progressive ship even though it’s straight.

What baffles me the most about this whole thing, I guess, is that people who hate how Frantic played out in canon just Will Not engage with it! The kinds of people who love rewrites!

If you want queer rep, Frantic already screams Bi4Bi and/or T4T. If you find it narratively unsatisfying, make it satisfying! If you don’t like their dynamic, change it — you’re already changing a lot of personalities already!

I’m perfectly fine with people disagreeing with this post, by the way, I’d just ask that you please try to take this in good faith and not be too harsh just because I’m the kind of person who can get anxiety spirals over internet arguments 😭 Also I’d love it if ppl who want to argue back/discuss do so on this post and not the thing where you screenshot and reupload to bash someone thanks 🙏

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After years of waiting, I finally managed to get all the official chapters of Pokemon Adventures (Ruby & Sapphire saga) in my country, the little old me would be so proud haha.

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bestie kaiba with the advice

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Day 194

Late Pocky Day but it worths it 😭😭😭✨

Dou 36- Pocky Kiss

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Day 209

Dou 41- Announcement

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ruby doodle before my swim comp 😼😼‼️‼️

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How I write for the narrator (long post)

This isn't perfect advice, this is just what I do to make him sound canonical.

Every good fictional character has their own rhythms and cadences for how they speak. Word choice and pacing have a certain flow when spoken aloud. I notice in the script there are patterns that repeat. He has a tendency to do rapid fire "no"s, for example.

(ex. "Are you really just doing this for the achievement? Click a door five times? Is that all that you think an achievement is worth? No, no, no, no, no." 

"Oh, no! Oh, no no no no no no no no no no no no, not again." (when the player re-enters the broom closet.

"NO! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This isn't right at all! You're not supposed to be here, yet! This is all a spoiler! Quick, Stanley, close your eyes!" (adventure line when it leads you back to the monitor room)

Another pattern he has is switching between really short sentences and longer ones.

"Stanley waited. Hours passed. Then days. Had years gone by? He no longer had the ability to tell.

But the one thing he knew, for sure, beyond any doubt, was that if he waited long enough, the answers would come. Eventually, some day, they would arrive."

There are other patterns he has too, but they're kind of hard to put into words.

The narrator is also a dramatic MF, so when emotions run high, he really amps up what he's talking about.

"The moment he entered his manager's office, Stanley froze in his tracks. Not a living soul anywhere. Could he really be all alone? This was too much for Stanley to take; too much for any man to take. He fell to his knees, bursting into half-moans, half-sobs... the guttural retching of life from a man denied any hope, any reason to keep going." (Narrator, what the f*ck. we're- we're just standing here)

and

"No! He refused to believe it. He couldn't accept it; his own life in someone else's control? Never! It was unthinkable, wasn't it? Was it even possible? Had he truly spent his entire life utterly blind to the world?" (narrator~, your showmanship is, well, showing~)

He's also a sarcastic boi, which I usually downplay because I prefer the narrator's sweeter side. But it's still there.

"You too?! Unbelievable. I'm at the mercy of an entire species of invalids. Perhaps there's a monkey nearby you can hand the controls to? A fish? A fungus? Look, you can hammer out the details; I'm not particularly picky."

or

"Okay, I think we all know the drill by now. Blah blah blah, dark secrets, the keypad, Stanley pushes some buttons, oh hey, look, it's a new passageway! Quelle surprise!"

Another thing to think about is word choice. The narrator is someone I'd describe as erudite. He uses large words a lot. An example of large words that I can pull from the script include: "momentum, "warrants recognition", " examination of structural narrative tropes", "Physical malady", solace, catalyst, immense." And this is just from a quick glance at the script. I admit, it's a tricky balance. You want him well spoken, but not a jackass, unless you're specifically writing him to have maximum pretentiousness. Try and find words that not everyone knows, but can guess based on context if they're too lazy to look the word up. Eventually you can fine tune it.

The more you practice this stuff, the more intuitive it becomes. These days, when I write him, I can hear whether or not it sounds like something he'd actually say. and I think there was a post that modmad talked about when writing characters. There's a voice inside that will tell you whether or not what you're writing fits his character. "Listen to that voice, that's the character speaking" or something like that.

And a small confession: I keep the script open when I write these things in case I need to refer back to him or check in to see if what I'm writing fits. I don't have the entire script memorized (yet)

Again, this isn't a perfect system, but it's how I do it.

And if it seems like I've got a particular knack for it... I'm an english major who reads character analysis papers and looks at linguistic styles for fun. I love thinking about what makes characters tick. I have major original ideas that I'll one day write about. It's my dream to one day write professionally. I think it would be hilarious to be at a convention 10-20 years from now doing one of those author Q&As and tell the audience that I used to run a headcanon blog. I imagine the crowd would go wild at hearing that. I love writing, it's my other special interest/gen

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To be fair, if MY neat little oc outright refused the complex story and worldbuilding i made SPECIFICALLY FOR THEM, I would also blow them up in a timer countdown way

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monsters can go to the surface (twitter), but the night vale residents cannot/don't want to get out of town (tumblr)

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*Carlos' voice* THAT'S MY HUSBAND !!!

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thanks for all the love on my retiree mystery gang! here's a bit of expansion on them as well as full body refs!

also i know it's a little hard to see, but shaggy got a friend to make scoob's old dogtag a pin that he wears over his heart.

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I still just cannot believe they made Fred obsessed with portraying Toxic Masculinity in the Velma show.

Fred?

‘Ascot wearing’ Fred?

‘Metrosexual icon’ Fred?

‘Cried openly during the goodbye scene in Alien Invaders’ Fred?

‘Drinks his respect women juice daily’ Fred?

‘Unapologetically affectionate with Shaggy’ Fred?

That Fred? Obsessed with Toxic Masculinity? The audacity. The gall. The clownery.

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monke mk but at what cost 

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🐇💙

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Wanted to draw the sisters ^^ Love their new looks!

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Favourite vegetable?? Pls vote. trying to prove smth!!

1105 votes • Poll ends in 5 days 9 hours

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OP clearly yuor followers are biased. Carrots are objectively better than broccoli of all things and i think it's problematic that you called carrots stinky it's really manipulative. also tomatos aren't technically a vegetable. maybe try thinking before posting passive agressive polls next time

🤡 jizzardtower Follow

shgdfdsg these tags. yes. chicken wings my favourite vegetable

✴ cadylady2002 Follow

Haha. I just realized the #eggplant looks a little like a d***. That is so #funny !!

👁 shreksbellybutton Follow

🦷 pigeonsarecool Follow

CHICKEM WIMGS

🍵 souperdouper Follow

shoutout to soup. won't stop making shoutouts for soup until one hears me and comes walkig over. i want soup.