Lol i realize that i never truly embraced making PKMN art because where I grew up, it was kinda looked down upon if you liked anything Anime/Japanese. Quebec can be rly racist unfortunately. I'm an asian adoptee, so I wanted to fit in so bad that I was ready to hate anything that wasn't like, "Quebec culture". I got bullied for loving PKMN and Naruto in elementary and highschool and it made me shut down for ever mentionning how much I loved it and how it helped me go through though times. Ironically, Naruto taught me to never give up and PKMN gave me hopes and dreams to someday have friends when irl kids taught me that anything... Let's just say "not Quebec", was ugly and inferior. Being a minority and having everyone labeled me the "quiet chinese girl" and no one wanting me around for all elementary and highschool messed me up for a long time. I wanted to fit in so badly and make friends, I was ready to hate everything about myself and I did.
So to see Ash Misty Brock and Pikachu just going on adventures, just being themselves, made me wish with all my heart that I could have friends someday. Seeing Naruto being hated and bullied but fighting through, made me want to never give up. And now I'm in constant burnout XD idk i always thought i had to compensate for being a minority by working my whole life and so I became workaholic
Sometimes I come back to my "default" way of thinking and feel like PKMN is niche and that I'll be punished for liking it, when its worldwidely loved and praised. I guess working on my PKMN Colosseum animation just brought all that back, but I'm really glad to finally feel free from that, 20 years later. Anywho, the 2000s were rough for anime lovers and gamers haha XD
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I think this lil guy reminds him of someone
ignore how messy it is, its like 5 am here n i needed 2 get this out of my system
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Feels kind of crazy to be writing this, but...
My line collection document for Heather is finished!
It took me an 11-hour run of the game because apparently being overly thorough and stopping to write down a ton of stuff does that. Obviously not all in one sitting though, I've been putting this together for a while (the oldest recorded version of the file seems to be October 31st of last year...).
I mostly did this out of personal curiosity, also I apparently like giving myself stupid large projects that im never sure if i'll complete (but this time i did!!), and as a way to better analyze elements of Heather's character since I'll have all this stuff compiled in one place. however, i figured it would be worthwhile sharing it with others, since I've yet to see something that had all of these random item interactions and such written down.
It's possible I missed things as I found it through playing the game and manually checking things, but I tried to be as thorough and careful as I could.
I hope it's... interesting, I guess? Useful? Something? lol
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not for anything but friendly reminder that ~fandom discourse~ about where women belong (or people you perceive as women) is misogynistic as fuck. or what they're allowed to say, or what they're allowed to write about, or what they're allowed to enjoy.
next time you see someone having a tantrum and vaguing, especially if their posts from week to week completely contradict each other, perhaps analyze if the common denominator is "a gross woman said something and now i'm mad" without otherwise adhering to any actual principles.
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not tagging this because i have manners, but while there were absolutely a few people jumping on the wyllstarion train after patch 6 for the sake of "moral highground" like shipping is activism, pretending theres this shipping war going on thats so bloody you need to put that take in the tags is weak shit and you would not have survived any prior era of fandom culture. are the legions of aggressive wyll stans hellbent on ruining your fun in the room with us right now? the wyllstarion tag updates, like, 5x a day. you can literally just block all of us
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the Funniest thing to me is matoba throwing shade at ban by going 'you're loyal, but terrible with women. how can you not know that --------- dislikes cats??'
meanwhile, not even two pages earlier we have (1) natori shuuichi smiling fondly while saying 'ever since he was young, matoba has always liked cats' and IN THIS ESSAY I WILL---
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on a side note; throw your favorite artist at me. I really don't like using ai stuff for my characters and would absolutely love to support some artists out there.
so like, throw your favorite artists Twitter, tumblr, or Instagram at me. i'd love to get some commissions done of my lil guys.
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