#tsme

[potahun]

I was just missing his face a lot these days but didn't have many ideas regarding what situations to draw him in. until I realised, wait a minute, I can just draw..... his face!

#steven stone #pokemon #tsuwabuki daigo #champion steven #oras #pokeani #tsme #it was very satisfying #my doodles

[moonbreeze19]

hell or flying

[...]

Perhaps it’s reassurance, a reminder, that human power is not yet infinite and may never be. And he can't—won't—be truly dangerous if his power is never absolute.

Alain waits, watching the sky and sea until the water is dark, far from blue, and the sky is nearly black at the top and deep orange along the horizon. 

It’s peaceful. It’s beautiful. He knows with such incredible clarity that it is not going to last.

“and when the seasons change, will you stand by me? because i’m a young man built to fall.” there are moments of quiet—maybe even peace—between the fire, gods, and world-saving. alain finds he doesn’t know what to do with them.

(on ao3 here)

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for tsme week 2024!! a collection of missing scenes throughout (and a little bit after) tsme canon. this was an absolute pleasure to write - i hope you enjoy! a very happy 10th anniversary to tsme!!

#tsmeweek2024 #tsme10thanniversary #tsme #pokemon alain #alain #pokemon xy #pokemon steven #pokemon mairin #pls ignore that im a day late i tried my best i swear #my fic #y: 2024

[tsmeweek]

THE PROMPTS FOR TSME WEEK ARE OUT!

We are now some 2.5 months away from the 10th anniversary for the airing of the Strongest Mega Evolution Act I. I am excited!

Prompts for the week:

Day 1 - April 3rd: Anniversary / Pokémon Catching Day 2 - April 4th: First Time / Miare (Lumiose City) / Dragon Day 3 - April 5th: Mission / Family / Break Day 4 - April 6th: Hoenn / Mask / Release Day 5 - April 7th: Trip / Dark / AU Day 6 - April 8th: Love / Memorabilia / Legend Day 7 - April 9th: FREE DAY

1) How to participate?

Pick the prompt that you like best for each day of the week, create a fanwork for it and post it on tumblr, tagging #tsmeweek2024 or #tsme10thanniversary! You can also pick several prompts for one day to combine, or mix prompts from different days, as you wish. You can switch days up as well! Go wild! All forms of fanworks are accepted! Fanarts, crafts, fanfic of any lengths, cosplays... Pick the medium you prefer! Prompts can be interpreted however you want. If you pick "Miare" and want to depict an alternate ending for the Flare Crisis where everyone dies, go for it! Creativity is welcomed! Does "Break" mean "mental breakdown", "take a coffee break" or "break.....fast"? Up to you! Don't worry about having to participate every day of the week. Just do what you can! Once you publish a fanwork, don't forget to tag #tsmeweek2024 or #tsme10thanniversary! Those are the tags that will be scoured to be reblogged on this blog.

2) Does PokéAni XY&Z count? What counts as TSME?

The rules are lax. The XY&Z season of PokéAni definitely counts, as TSME characters played a very important role in it. So does the World Championships in Journeys, since Alan appeared in it. As a basic principle, so long as it involves a character that appeared in Act I-IV of TSME, it counts as TSME. So yes, you can absolutely create a fanwork about Daigo/Steven exploring Hoenn with Shouta/Sawyer, or Pachira/Malva dating Carnet/Diantha if your heart desires. You can also create fanworks with TSME characters and characters they never interacted with in canon!

3) Other rules

This blog will have ship art and will accept any ship. Do not harrass people over ships. Racy pieces or pieces with content warnings will be accepted on the blog and tagged with a "n/sfw" tag and "cw" tag. For viewers who do not want to risk seeing any such pieces, you can block these 2 tags. As an artist with a n/sfw or cw piece, please help making the blog friendly for all, by putting the full art under a preview and read-for-more. Please tag the full cw as well!

4) Like The Mega Evolution Specials, but don't know what to make?

Then, reblog, reblog, reblog!! Reblog the posts you see and like as a form of celebration! Share the love and keep it circulating so that it reaches more people!

Have more questions? Don't hesitate to drop an ask on this blog. you can also ask @potahun.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR WORKS!!

#the strongest mega evolution #mega evolution specials #pokemon #pokeani #anipoke #pokemon xy&z #pokemon xy #trainer alain #trainer mairin #steven stone #tsmeweek2024 #tsme week prompts #pokemon anime #lysandre #augustine sycamore #tsme

[princelyprisms]

Alain!! (it's him!) ((I never posted this art of im so very sorr))

(bonus little doodle here :D context: i was playing mc with my friends, i had him on)

#pokemon alain #pokemon #tsme #been rewatching xyz lately... #absolutely adore him #luciens stuff

[and-a-side-of-pokemon]

TSME WEEK

Day 6: Memorabilia

Okay so this prompt I took fairly self-indulgently! Everytime I go on a trip or on holiday, I try to get a rubber duck from that place... so I made the trio as rubber ducks! I wish they were real so I could add them to my collection!

#tsmeweek2024 #tsme #pokemon #pokemon alain #pokemon mairin #steven stone #day six for everyone else.... this is the second thing ive posted #im working on some pieces for the other prompts that ill post in the next week or so i think #anywayyyyy... rubber ducks! #why yes each of them is a different type of duck XD

[annadoglover1]

TSME Week 2024 Day 7: Freeday!

Here are some Mairin cosplay photos I never posted here! I took these back in 2021. I considered putting on the cosplay again for today but most of my cosplays from this era are still in a box in my garage from when we got some remodeling done where I live. Still I thought the community would enjoy these pics!

My cosplay Instagram

The photographers Instagram

#tsmeweek2024 #tsme #mega evolution specials #pokemon mairin #my cosplay #pokemon cosplay #pokeani #I did have my TSME itabag on me that day!

[sazandorable]

TSME Week 2024 - Day 5: Hoenn!

I haven't had the spoons to do much to participate (actively or receptively), but I had to do something for this event @tsmeweek and for this fandom and these characters that are so so dear and important to me 🧡💛💚💙💜 So for today's theme, I took the excuse to run with the fanon idea of Manon getting a (shiny) (Manon-sized) Bohmander|Salamence!

#tsme #tsmeweek2024 #tsme10thanniversary #manon #hari san #bohmander #aza doodles #pokemon #HUGE THANKS AND BEST OF WISHES TO POTAHUN FOR ORGANISING THIS 💚💚💚

[cathartidart]

TSME DAY 2: Dragon [image description: a digital painting depicting a scene inspired by the pokemon specials "The Strongest Mega Evolution". The scene in question depicts Rayquaza looming over the "giant rock", which is a giant keystone. The background is over a stormy ocean. The whole scene is dark, illuminated only by the Giant Rock and Rayquaza's golden rings. End Image Description]

#tsmeweek2024 #popisart #pokeani #rayquaza #tsme #artists on tumblr #image described #unironically i needed to get an oceanscape out of my hands. i have been staring at them for a while for music class #why am i looking at oceans in music class? my professor really likes pairing art to music and romanticism really loves dark stormy oceans #and then one of my inspirations drew an oceanscape and well. i could not get myself to actually draw alain or mairin

[kalosstarters]

The fastest sketch I could do (because I did not have time to draw my children) but! Have the real MC of TSME, aka Chespie/Hari-san! Happy 10th anniversary to my favorite Pokeani arc!! 💚 (Also, at the weekend I will definitely be contributing more because TSME deserves it!) (Also how has it been 10 years??)

#chespin #pokeani #tsme #tsmeweek2024 #the strongest mega evolution #tsme week

[lussterpurge]

praying on alain pokemon's downfall idgaf what yall say he literally almost killed a whole region like the fuck.,.,, idont get it how can yall even like him. he better NOT show up in pokemas or anything like LOL no ones gonna pull for him ☠️ my gems r NOT going to him and omg it just would be such a horrible way for DeNa to waste their energy like sighhh who gaf abt him....... and DONT get me started on how badly written his character is like hes like bottom ten pokeani trainers AND ash rivals anyway stan lysandre for clear skinnn and FUCK that ugly loserr.... ^_^

#alain NOT for pokemmon masters ex 2024 #literally bye like who gaf abt him..... #alain pokemon #repulsive ass tag omg #tsme #pokeani #happy april fools or something idk imnot good w these things :3 #should i have tagged april fools or does it make it less convincing #… ok ill tag it too fine #alain for pokémon masters ex 2024

[perelka-l]

Autumn weed girl for a round anni :)

#I can't do more cries but ye #I wanted to do something z-a related but yanno. Considering how little we have lmao #Trainer mairin #Tsme #the strongest mega evolution #Poncho #Watch me and my fail art

[potahun]

TSME WEEK 2024 Day 2 prompt: "Dragon" (Dragon Type!)

This is very much a "what if" scenario, but i often think it'd be fun for Iris to finally go against a Charizard that is a Dragon Type. I also feel that Alan can learn things from Iris, in the specific way she communicates with her mons. She doesn't use Mega Evolution but isn't her understanding of Dragon Types another kind of strong bond?

also, indeed, a different mega bracelet. for reasons.

#pokemon #tsme #the strongest mega evolution #pokeani #trainer alain #champion iris #trainer iris #pokemon bw #pokemon journeys #my doodles #tsmeweek2024 #tsme10thanniversary #charizard x #haxorus #lizardon #alain #iris

[moonbreeze19]

we were too close to the stars i never knew somebody like you, somebody falling just as hard - reflections

alarin tumblr debut?? for tsme week?? i think so i think yes! u can consider this a late day 6 post or day 7 i suppose, whatever u prefer!

(in summary: my oc, rin, and alain, have lived in my head rent free for 3 years now. they mean the world to me. i love them. to me, they are THE it couple <3)

details/about them below the break

rin yukino is a hyper competitive trainer with a (shiny) mega gardevoir, goal focused and independent to the point of flaw. born and raised in kalos, but with family from sinnoh, she had spent much of her childhood fitting into her parent's mold for a perfect daughter. she was a straight-a student, principal violinist, preparing to attend a top university - at 18, she realized that wasn't who she wanted to be anymore. she became a pokemon trainer instead.

(somewhat unimportantly, her usual trainer design consists of teal highlights in her hair, orange earrings shaped like the heart that goes through a mega gardevoir's chest, and a lot of black and gray. she matches diva, her gardevoir, like alain matches his charizard. they're both extra like that.)

she meets alain viard when they're both 22, shortly after the events of TSME act 4. she's on the gym challenge, and he's... alain. they battle, and he wins. twice in a row. then they go from rivals to rivals with benefits, then maybe even friends if they weren't both so emotionally reclusive i mean haha what-

alarin, aka rin "i'm stronger on my own" yukino and alain "i only destroy those around me" viard

even if he's won both times, alain can't help but be attracted one of the few people who can keep up with him, who cares about winning nearly as much as he does, who treats pokemon battling like it's all she has. he knows the feeling. he thinks she might understand him.

she's half of the reason behind both his decision to fill out his team beyond charizard and his decision to challenge the gyms

when they fall apart, just a month before the team flare crisis, i like to think of them like a supernova. short lived but bright and brilliant. doomed from the start.

the details of their falling out are complicated, so we'd be here all day if i tried to explain.

rin fails to stand by him during the fight against lysandre. she doesn't have the courage to. but she does, however, find him in the aftermath. she helps him heal and pick up the broken pieces. that's where 99% of their relationship really comes from.

i filter them into the category titled "couples written by taylor swift's the great war" and if you know you know

because it's important to me, rin gets along great with mairin.

at first she's a bit annoyed by her over-enthusiasm. rin is cold, blunt, realistic, and introverted, mairin is the opposite of all of those things. but once she sees how much mairin means to alain she does a full 180

and mairin's only ever had older brothers (both in her biological family and in alain), so having rin around to show her how to do her hair, her makeup, AND annoy the hell out of alain when appropriate is her favorite thing ever.

they are very good at bullying alain into taking care of himself (because he is very bad at that, as we all know.)

eventually, rin will go on to become one of the kalos elite four, after malva gets arrested (for being Very Fucking Evil).

one of my favorite things ever to think about is how the random internet people would claim "rin is only with alain to try and get famous" (and also make lengthy twitter/x callout threads on how alain is a problematic person because of his team flare involvement, and therefore decently-well-known league challenger rin yukino is also problematic by proxy), only for alain to generally avoid the public spotlight (there are lots of headcanons here. in short, he goes to university) and rin to be hired as elite four. and then she becomes far more famous as a result. and then the internet trolls are like "...oh." and a majority of the general population doesn't even know she and alain are a thing, because it's only obvious if you scrolled intensely through her instagram account.

i don't know why alarin getting stupid hate threads on twitter/x is the funniest thing to me but it really, really is!!

the internet is convinced alarin is a manipulative ploy on rin's end and one day she reads one of the twitter threads making all these claims about what she's done and she just goes "bitch i did what" and finds it absolutely hilarious

ANYWAYS that is all for now!! this post is so long and this is barely scratching the surface?? they mean so much to me i'm so sorry 😭😭

if literally anybody ever wants to hear about them i will share more. i would cry happy tears.

thank you so much for reading this if you did!! i'm so glad i got to share them for tsme week!

#tsmeweek2024 #tsme10thanniversary #ocxcanon #alarin in formal wear omg omg they are SO fine?? #im obsessed with them #tsme #pokemon alain #s: alarin #fic: fire of a thousand stars #y: 2024 #fun fact: i speedran this in one day (and basically one sitting) #bc i have not had access to my computer since the start of tsme week #oops! #so it's a tiny bit rushed :(

[tsmeweek]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, TSME & XY&Z FANS

On 3 April 2014: Act I of the Strongest Mega Evolution (TSME), also known as the Mega Evolution Specials, aired in Japan and introduced us to the adventures of Alan, Manon/Mairin, Lizardon/Charizard and Hari-san/Chespie, beloved characters who defined the final arc of the Pokémon XY&Z anime. 3 April 2024 will mark the 10th anniversary of Act I! 10 years is a special number. In celebration, join in from 3 APRIL to 9 APRIL 2024 for a week dedicated to loving TSME, where art and writing in any form is welcome! The prompts will be released in January, leaving 2 months and a half for everyone to prepare something. The guidelines on how to participate will also be included. Visit and follow this blog to stay updated, and/or to check out information! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop an ask on this blog, or @potahun. Do you have prompts that you would like to see featured? Feel free to drop suggestions in the ask box!

See you for TSME Week!!

#tsme #pokemon #pokeani #anipoke #pokemon anime #the strongest mega evolution #trainer alain #trainer mairin #marissonshipping #chespie #incombustibleshipping #lizardon #alain #tsmeweek2024 #steven stone #team flare #lysandre #augustine sycamore #professor sycamore

[princelyprisms]

TSME WEEK 2024 - DAY 2

Prompt: Miare / Lumiose

"Chespie? Chespie, where are you?"

Alain called out the moment he entered inside the giant rock. He had to keep going. He went out so far, this was his goal now. He had to protect everyone-

...

That wasn't the case.

Content Warning: Blood, Injury.

#tsme #tsmeweek2024 #tsme10thanniversary #pokemon alain #cw: blood and injury #free angst

[and-a-side-of-pokemon]

HAPPY TSME WEEK EVERYONE!!!

Day 1: Catching Pokemon

I just have this headcanon that Mairin/Manon becomes a Grass Type specialist, so here she is going for her third catch, with her friends (trying) to support her!

#tsmeweek2024 #tsme #pokemon #pokemon mairin #pokemon alain #steven stone #wasnt sure id get this out on time! between exam season and moving house its been stressful #but im so glad i finished! #celebrating tsme week with everyone makes me so happy #time to go scroll the tag to see what everyone else has done!!!