my hottest and most controversial take is that i don’t think camilla and palamedes are as codependent as people label them, and that their behavior/actions make sense in a social context where death is NOT a given that we simply have to cope with
I assume that Ash won’t be the main character of future seasons of PokeAni BUT Jessie and James better stay in the series forever. Just bother the new protagonist now, it’s fine.
@daletalleys I hope it’s okay to tag you!! but i thought i would raise a point that I hope many will agree with.
Even though this self ship “debate” (quote unquote because i feel like it’s just common sense) is over fictional characters, the subject is very personal to me on a real basis.
I’m the eldest sibling of 5. I have 1 19 y.o. brother and 3 underage sisters. 13 and 5 year old twins. I love my siblings more than anything and would do anything to protect them.
My 3 sisters are not safe from pedos as it is. and it fills me with rage to see grown ass people justifying their attraction to children. I think of my sisters and how they will have to worry for their safety from perverts.
I’ve been another young girl in the hands of older creeps. to these people, it’s nothing but what i’ve experienced will affect me for the REST OF MY LIFE. and i NEVER want my sisters to experience what I did.
I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.
Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.
That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.
And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.
Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.
This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited
finally got some time to finish these guys up! which is sort of ironic considering I started these because I wanted to draw Malleus with a Dragapult, and then I just didn't for a million years!
Malleus has the aforementioned Dragapult, except it's a super special non-canon color Dragapult (like an anime-only form that you could get in-game exclusively through some limited-time event where you have to show up in-person at a specific location in Japan) (it has some wacky overpowered exclusive move/form and the OT is listed as Malleus) (so like that kind of ridiculous specialness) (Leona is extremely salty about this). also hoards and hoards of Dreepy. Dreepy LOVE Malleus. they take naps on his horns inbetween begging him to throw them across the island at mach speeds.
Lilia has a Drampa and a bunch of Woobat that he hasn't actually caught, they just follow him around in swarms because they sense a kinship with him. (also breaking my own rule again to say that he had a Mawile in the past, because...I just really wanted to give him a Mawile...)
Sebek has Sandile for obvious reasons, and also a Pikachu that bullies him relentlessly. :(
Silver has a shiny Corvisquire; I really went back-and-forth on also giving him an Aegislash, but...hm. those pokedex entries though. he can stick with just one for now.
(I hadn't planned on the shiny for him, but after I'd decided on the Corvisquire line and was looking it up for reference, I realized that shiny Rookidee is gold and then turns silver when it evolves and I lost my entire goddamn mind)
okay i dont want to start anything but i would just like to say, for the sake of voicing a differing opinion, that im not saying taylor absolutely did not have any work done, but as someone whose boobs have also gone grom That to That bc of weight loss/gain, hormones and different kinds of medication, that it is, in fact possible
ianto jones is not an uwu baby. ianto jones shot his coworker. ianto jones wrestled a pterodactyl in order to land a job with a top secret organization. ianto jones kept a killer robot and her conversion machine in the basement for MONTHS bc she was his girlfriend. then he fucked the guy that killed her after telling the guy he was excited to watch him die.
ianto jones is the ultimate example of 'beware the quiet/sweet ones' he will remember how you like your coffee and then two hours later try to cave your head in for something he may or may not be in the wrong about
Somehow Beefy Shi Qingxuan flexing their arms, carrying their best friend like a sack of potatoes and starting fights in their constraining purple dress - that somehow show off their tits more in their male form than their female form - was not the design I expected but it is what my genderqueer ass deserved.