#adult ash

[zhsocial]

We honestly didn’t need Ash’s journey to end with him growing up since we’ve had several characters showing what an adult version of him would be like

#anipoke #ash ketchum #Prof Kukui #leon pkmn #friede pokemon #pokémon #pokémon horizons #pokémon sun and moon #pokémon journeys #adult ash

[btsqualityy]

I swear you can block me after this one.. Lol! But since I know there’s a drabble coming, I’m thinking often about adult Brielle a lot, sorry sorry. I wanted to ask if Seiya is Carson’s first grandchild. Or if Brielle’s brothers already have children by that time. That would be so cute if it’s his first grandson but I’m not sure. Then, I wanted to know if her brothers still live in Seoul or they moved abroad for different reasons.

Mm, I don’t know if Seiya would be the first grandchild because I haven’t really figured out Kai and Ashton’s future families lol As for where they’d live, I think the both of them would stay in Seoul 😌

#adult kai #adult ash

[slimewalksxtraroom]

#danni ashe #models #adult actress #mature

[ashanimus]

One thing that brings me to tears if I think about it too long is how a Eda, a chronically ill, loud, unconventional adult woman with no bio children is still celebrated for who she is and what she has accomplished just by surviving.

Her story isn’t over. She isn’t irrelevant or just a joke. She’s still allowed to struggle and grow, and occupy a mentor role—but also that of a sister, a daughter, a friend, a mother, a lover. Shes a fully rounded, connected person. She is celebrated for her wit, her power, her humor, wisdom and growth as a person. To say nothing of her courage and endurance.

This is a lady whose community has treated her terribly because she failed to fit in at every stage. Too clever by half, and a “failed” gifted child as disabled adult—feared for her power but also a garbage selling felon barely getting by before the apocalypse came along.

As a character she goes beyond hope—she reminds many out there that we are enough, and getting by and Surviving is the birth of rebellion. And every part of us matters.

#eda clawthorne #the owl house #im being redundant but eda means a lot to me #and all the millions of disabled adults with similar stories #ash's owl house meta #I've already gotten sloppy with the tags damn

[flipwizardstarlight]

Out of context snippet from a DPxDC fic im writing that i liked a lot:

"Why does this sound like you are fighting a war?" Jason asks quietly.

Danny, Ash, and Ember share a look.

"Because we have been for two and half years now," Danny says tiredly. "It didn't start quite so... organized. It was mostly me and my two friends fighting to keep Amity safe, then it was the three of us fighting to keep ghosts and amity safe from each other, and then I beat the ghost king and the number of people helping keep civilian injuries down started to climb while I made sure none of the ghosts coming through were caught by the humans.

"Once word spread through the Realms that i wasn't even crowned yet despite the Realms having transferred the title of King to me, almost everyone who wanted to challenge me and hadn't yet changed their minds. After the big guys stopped coming out to play, the GIW started noticing the liminals in and around Amity and the kidnappings started."

"Once the kidnappings started, we organized," Ash finishes.

"Jesus," Jason says as he runs a hand through his hair.

Danny grimmace sympathetically towards him. "Welcome to the world of Ghosts and Liminals."

#dp x dc #dpxdc #for a little bit of context #this came from the prompt where danny punches bruce to get away from vlad #Ash is Lancer's adult daughter who works with cps #she is danny's case worker and has been trying to find a way to get danny away from vlad for months #she isn't in the story a lot

[mast3r-rainb0w]

[C] 'MULTI' Style: Adult Frida Suarez XOVER Poster by Mast3r-Rainb0w

A commission made via DeviantArt featuring the ULTIMATE Adult Frida Suarez (from El Tigre) crossover compilation, stylized as a poster, where she interacts with 13-15 different characters from different universes! Think you can recognize them all? Anyways, this extensive artwork was made by yours truly! Enjoy!

#el tigre #el tigre the adventures of manny rivera #el tigre style #el tigre the adventures of manny rivera style #crossover #elastigirl #ash graven #rocko rama #cuddles #micheal myers #adult frida suarez #frida suarez #binky camp candy #jessica rabbit #princess daisy #rachel bighead #ralph bighead #toad mario #sweeney todd #my artwork #mastermission #commission #poster #crossover fanart

[epicnaturals]

Danni Ashe #bustylegends

#danni ashe #retro #big natural breasts #1990s #adult model #epicnaturals

[typeshye]

Smiling babies, an epic flashback episode

Another doodle I did in class. The brainrot has taken hold of me once more.

#smiling friends #fanart #digital art #ms paint #adult swim #charlie dompler #pim pimling #ash baby

[hashketchum2]

the big lads go Official Art Style mode, courtesy of oktorisuyet on twitter

#ash ketchum #raichu #satoshi #pokemon #trainer ash #anipoke #pokeani #credit linked in post #pkmn omens au #adult au #timeskip au

[supervisormeero]

Cool, I'm going to be staying up tonight crying about Alfred Hillinghead and Henry Ashe. This is fine. I'm fine. Didn't need my heart, anyway

#my heart hurts my soul hurts my brain hurts #THEY HAD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY #i'm fine. this is fine. i'm a fully grown adult who doesn't become overly invested in fictional characters at all. #*sobs* #henry ashe #alfred hillinghead #bodies netflix

[sidetrek]

Hail, friend!  @entanglednow and myself have been basically obsessed with the Evil Dead series again for the last year, sending each other fic and sketches.  I spent a month googling how to use indesign and then slapped it all together here in one pretty pdf, which you can download for free at my gumroad page: https://sidetrek.gumroad.com/ THIS ZINE IS 18+ FOR ADULT CONTENT!! PLEASE BE AWARE!! Tangles was a real superstar with all this fic and I hope you guys check out her stuff, absolutely incredible work!

#army of darkness #evil dead #ash williams #lord arthur #ash/arthur #zine #i'm not kidding when i say adult content! watch yourself! #entanglednow #sidetrek

[bombitart]

Prince Rowan Whitethorn Galathynius from “Throne of glass” by Sarah J Maas.

#romance books #book art #romance #book cover #young adult #rowan whitethorn #rowan x aelin #sarah j maas #throne of glass #heir of fire #queen of shadows #empire of storms #kingdom of ash #aelin fireheart #rowaelin #rowan and aelin

[acquired-stardust]

Daydream Generation: The Lasting Legacy of Akira Toriyama's Work

Here on AcquiredStardust we don't talk about anime enough and we wish that beginning to rectify this could've come under better circumstances. Just what is the Daydream Generation anyway? Join Ash as she attempts the impossible task of summarizing the importance of the 'god of manga' Akira Toriyama after his passing earlier this month in this special tribute.

Late Thursday night news finally broke on social media that beloved manga author Akira Toriyama had passed away several days before, prompting an immediate outpouring of grief the world over. Many of us feel a deep sense of loss in a way unimaginable before his work achieved the level of cultural penetration and ubiquitous veneration that it has, and it is impossible to overstate the singular importance he had in shaping our modern culture.

Responsible for hit manga Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball which quickly found themselves at the forefront of the Japanese pop culture renaissance of the Showa period, Toriyama's work is possessed of a rare combination of an earnest childlike wonder and adventure that is perfectly serviced by an instantly recognizable art style that is something of a rite of passage to for budding artists to imitate. It is in that Showa boom period that the Daydream Generation, a term coined by Toriyama disciple Yoshihiro Togashi's Yu Yu Hakusho particularly as the title of its 5th ending theme, is forged.

It is no overstatement to refer to Akira Toriyama as "the god of manga", and in fact he is referred to as such by Masashi Kishimoto of Naruto fame. It is Kishimoto's generation, coming of age in the Showa era in which Toriyama produces his most significant works, that finds themselves first so captivated by it. Although anime is in the middle of a golden age by the time Toriyama's work is published (lead perhaps most by Leiji Matsumoto of Galaxy Express 999/Captain Harlock fame and Mobile Suit Gundam visionary Yoshiyuki Tomino), Toriyama's work forges a connection with Japanese readers in a way that other work hasn't quite in the same way.

Perhaps it is the clean linework, deceptively simplistic and stylish all at once. Perhaps it is the expressive characters often named with clever puns or food related names. Perhaps it is familiar cultural touchstones and elements of comedy and parody rolled seamlessly into each other. Perhaps it is the refinement in elements popularized by contemporary works like Ring ni Kakero such as the frequent use of tournaments as a framing for the plot Perhaps it is the rare ability for Toriyama to create characters that often appeal equally to male and female readers without either demographic rejecting them, feat only rivaled with any real frequency by authors Rumiko Takahashi and Hiromu Arakawa.

Regardless of the cause, the strong creative voice and earnestness that shines through Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball does something special for children of the Daydream Generation: it makes the job of creating manga seem more attainable than other works of the time do. It gives a generation of children the ability to dream, some for the first time, of their own works. It is in the immediate wake of these works that authors such as Masashi Kishimoto, Yoshihiro Togashi, Tite Kubo and Eiichiro Oda come of age and dream of their own works in direct inspiration from them.

The Daydream Generation, sat in their desks at class fantasizing about a world in which they too would be able to pursue creative dreams in a postwar Japan perhaps otherwise unattainable to them without first being armed with the sense of accessibility that Toriyama provided readers, affectionately refer to Toriyama as 'sensei' nearly universally. It is he who is the god of manga, revered and emulated - Toriyama, more so than any individual, is responsible for the explosion of Japanese pop culture in this era and many manga authors are frank in their admittance of such. It isn't just limited to the world of manga either, as Toriyama has a hand in multiple iconic video games such as Enix's Dragon Quest and Square's Chrono Trigger.

But then something equal parts special and unlikely happens: in the late 1990s Toriyama's work begins to be exported into the west with relatively minimal changes to the source material, and the whole process repeats itself. This time with a constant flow of follow up works by the Daydream Generation to help Japan's global pop culture takeover.

Anime's infiltration into the west played out on college campuses, and in those early days of fandom defined by import VHS and LaserDisc it was nearly unthinkable that it would end up mainstream enough to appear on television. While early ground is gained on anime in the mainstream (particularly Ronin Warriors hitting television in a largely unedited form in 1995 as well as multiple attempts to import Sailor Moon around the same timeframe, not to mention Pokemon's debut in late 1998), it is not until the revamping of Cartoon Network's Toonami block, spearheaded by Dragon Ball Z, that anime would truly arrive in the west.

The importance of Toonami in getting anime in front of the eyes of the generation following the Daydream Generation in America cannot be overstated. It was the first time many of us laid eyes on animation that wasn't an episodic comedy, with more mature themes. It was the first time we had encountered drastic cultural differences inherent in anime. For many of us, particularly in the case of Dragon Ball Z, it was even the first time we began to see animation and even creativity as being something that comes from someone rather than spontaneously generating itself for consumption. For the first time in my memory a mania kicked off with the addition of Dragon Ball Z to Toonami in 1999 that changed the way my generation thought about and consumed media.

Gathered around our own desks ten plus years later, American children male and female alike passionately discussed Dragon Ball Z. We debated power levels, questioned what other planets and races populated the universe of the series, and for the first time we discussed concepts that were unknown to us just a short time before: who was the creator of this series and where did it come from? Mirroring the effect that Toriyama's work had on the Daydream Generation many Milennials and Gen X people, especially those with no prior introduction to anime, found themselves absolutely captivated by Dragon Ball Z. Millions of young people put pencil to paper for the first time to imitate the art style of Toriyama brought to animated glory by the staff at Toei or to write fanfiction. We developed these skills and collaborated with each other now armed with the same sense of approachability that the Daydream Generation had years before us. And then the hits kept coming. Serving as a gateway into a world of animation previously largely unknown in the west, Toonami exploded in the following years.

Starting in 2000 Toonami added Tenchi Muyou, a series almost completely different to Dragon Ball Z which would go on to be an influence in Dana Terrace's recent Disney hit The Owl House, and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. The Gundam franchise, originally popular in Japan contemporaneously with Akira Toriyama's work, had seen many followups and spinoffs in the years after the original series ended and had itself become a titan of Japanese pop culture. Finally hitting the west using Dragon Ball Z as a bridge, it was the first time many of us were introduced to animation as a medium for communicating complicated political ideas.

Perhaps most significantly, as is easily observed through diving into the wealth of old abandoned websites from the Geocities era, Gundam Wing served as a vehicle through which young people were introduced to male characters that all seemed to have romantic chemistry with each other. Having both lived through the era and examining it in retrospect I say with all sincerity that it was Gundam Wing that helped begin the yaoi craze in the west, by then a well established thing in Japan, and was therefore absolutely instrumental in beginning to soften the attitudes of young people towards queer people in the west.

A strong hunger for more of this extremely different kind of animation had been created and the floodgates were about to open. Years immediately following saw the broadcast of memorable anime such as Outlaw Star and The Big O. 2003 saw Nobuhiro Watsuki's unavoidably Japanese historical fiction piece Rurouni Kenshin debut in America, Yoshihiro Togashi's Yu Yu Hakusho finally make the transition to the west followed by Eiichiro Oda's One Piece and Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto in 2005. Each of these works massively impacted my generation and empowered us in a different way: whereas the Daydream Generation saw the opportunity to create their own works my generation had the luxury of exploring these works, full of ideas and states of being unknown to us before then. We were armed with the ability not just to create our own works but to create ourselves and to decide who we would be far more liberally than we would have otherwise been comfortable doing in the past.

It is worth noting that Toonami did not have total dominion over the boom of anime in America: while there were others in later years, latenight programming [Adult Swim] pursued an older viewer who was hungry for even more of what the wide world of anime had to offer. Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha was an early favorite alongside the likes of such classics as Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and FLCL. Already massively influential in his own right, it was using Akira Toriyama's work as a foothold that quite literally proved to be the breakthrough moment for anime in the west and provide any of these incredible shows with an audience here.

As such there are few people you can point to as singularly responsible for shaping the way our culture (and that's culture at large - not just pop culture) works. Akira Toriyama's name is up there with the likes of Walt Disney and George Lucas in its weight. His works and the bridge they provided to other works helped to reshape the way we communicated with each other, the ways in which we saw ourselves, and the things we dared to dream. Millions and millions of people pursued writing or drawing, or the powerful physiques of Akira Toriyama's characters featured in Dragon Ball, and those who were inspired by him continue to share his work with their offspring ensuring his timeless classics remain in circulation perpetually.

He is, while not the origin point, the biggest guiding hand in so many aspects of our culture and the man most singularly responsible for the exporting of Japanese pop culture to the world. He has left behind an incredible legacy that few could ever hope to achieve and fewer yet will, and more importantly he inspired generations of people to be and do things they otherwise never would've thought possible. Both directly and indirectly his fingerprints are all over what you enjoy perhaps without even realizing it, and it's unlikely that will ever go away no matter how far we get from his life and work.

#acquired stardust #anime #manga #akira toriyama #dr slump #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragonball #dragonball z #toonami #anime spotlights #adult swim #midnight run #toei #toei animation #bird studio #ThankYouToriyama #thank you toriyama #ash

[slimewalksxtraroom]

#danni ashe #models #adult actress #mature

[nevernightcitylights]

Okay okay okay just finished a fire in the flesh and hear me out…. *SPOILERS AHEAD*

Poppy is sotoria reincarnated.

NOW LISTEN- her name is POPPY and sotoria LITERALLY TRANSLATES TO: “my pretty poppy” or “my pretty garden” AND poppy has RED HAIR LIKE SOTORIA and honestly I can’t remember is sotoria’s hair was curly like Sera’s or not BUT STILL

AND when her soul was removed from Sera she said “we’ll meet again” like-

AAAANNND Callum was the one who kept saying that fucked up poem to Poppy about the whole “my pretty poppy pick it and watch it bleed” or whatever the fuck, now I MEAN it feels obvious so bc of that it could be wrong BUT WHO BETTER TO FUCK UP KOLIS then reincarnated Sotoria who became the Primal of blood and bone which is also a HUGE get fucked to him like- PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT ALONE IN THINKING THIS!!

#a fire in the flesh #afitf spoilers #a shadow in the ember #a light in the flame #blood and ash #fbaa #booklr #fantasy #jla #poppy #casteel da'neer #seraphena mierel #nyktos #adult fantasy

[fallershipping]

Anabel is for certain an Introvert, while Looker's a contemporary Ambivert. He doesn't mind crowds, but not actively seeking them. He doesn't want to be the life of the party, but he can strike up a good conversation with strangers. It's not uncommon at all-- A majority of the human race works like this.

It's beneficial for them both really. Looker himself acts as a bridge between Anabel and complete strangers. Eccentric, but still mild and down to earth. Looker in turn appreciates that Anabel's quiet presence is in of itself her form of affection, and finds comfort in having time for independence as well as time spent being a couple.

... Anabel also thinks that a dating an extrovert would be far too irritating and noisy to deal with-- sometimes finding loud, extroverted trainers that fixate far too much on battling to be abysmal company. (She's seen plenty.)

Looker's focus on Pokemon beyond battling and his appreciation for a peaceful life without the glitz and glamour of celebrity trainers, championships, and other things people seem to believe are the 'ideal trainer personality traits' is such a breath of fresh air by comparison.

Edit: Looker in comparison... He's not really avoidant of whether or not someone is extro, ambi, or introvert. As long as someone isn't despicable, horrendously evil, and/or corrupt, he's pretty on board. But he can sniff out bad intentions for certain. He sees those red flags and he's not about that.

#/basically if you're striving to be an adult ash ketchum you are basically putting up a natural repellant for anabel