#Tracy sketchit

[seecarrun]

Pokemon OS Orange Islands-

ニドランのこいものがたり, Nidoran's Love Story

And just for fun, please enjoy Misty’s very heartfelt and passionate explanation of the contents of her fake letters that I’m sure in no way reflect her true feelings at all lol:

[sparkling-vynegar]

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[gluttonousgoddess]

and then she never trusts you again.

Save yourself some hassle, look up Tracy Sketchit from Pokemon

[lucabyte]

watch out!

[pkmnsensei]

the boy with the funny hair aka kenji aka tracey sketchit !!

[pokemon-legends-and-legacies]

I usually end up changing names without making an announcement but I’m trying to be better about noting smaller changes, so this is just a heads up and a note that I’m trying out some new Unova surnames and we’ll see if they stick. Log of changes (for me more than anything) are:

Montfort (Hilda, Hilbert, Nate, Rosa, Grimsley) - Morvan (*this is a big one/for a major family so is most likely to not stick but we’ll see I do like Morvan a lot)

Bradley (Hugh) - Marec (it means knight and he’s like the knight to Nate’s prince it’s cute ok)

West (Curtis) - Ferrand (trying to get more French surnames into Unova to better fit my hcs/worldbuilding for the region, this one is meant to reference Curtis’s JP name since both can mean “iron”)

Shou (Marlon) - Kubotamai (aesthetics change mainly haha)

Cooke (Trip) - Cartier (see my note for Curtis’s surname. still has the photography/famous photographer connection that Cooke does (though I think I chose Cooke after a company maybe??? idk it’s been a while))

Tracy (Stephan) - Herve (retains the “fighter” theme but won’t get me confused with Virgil’s fam’s thunderbirds theme and Tracey Sketchit anymore so a win-win honestly. also “hallie herve” sounds a bit like a tongue twister which is good since she inherits her dad’s gag of people messing up her name a lot sorry hallie)

[fdartwork-blog]

Dick Tracey

I'm a little amazed that no one's thought of this for Tracy and Tracey LOL.

Enjoy!

Dick Tracy belongs to the late but great Chester Gould while Tracey Sketchit belongs to Pokemon and Nintendo/Creatures/Game Freak.  

[powermetalhag]

Digging Deeper

 @alienfuckeronmain​ tagged me in this massive tag meme (Thank you!! I love doing these things). If I tag you, feel free to ignore this if you don’t feel up to doing it/reading it. If you aren’t tagged and want to be, feel free to just say I tagged you ❤

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1. Do you prefer writing with a black pen or blue pen? black

2. Would you prefer to live in the country or city? City

3. If you could learn a new skill what would it be? I’d love to be able to sing and metal-scream really well. I’m trying to learn but I practice pretty inconsistently and it’s an uphill battle bc I don’t have much natural aptitude for it. Also it would be really cool to be a contortionist. 

4. Do you drink your tea/coffee with sugar? I don’t drink coffee. Sometimes I sweeten tea, sometimes I don’t.

5. What was your favourite book as a child? I didn’t like reading books much as a child. When it came to reading novels, my reading comprehension was pretty below average (I think I posted about this ages ago, but when I tried to read Harry potter when I was 7 I couldn’t follow it at all. I somehow thought that Harry and Hagrid were the same character and that Hagrid was just the name for Harry’s Wizard self. My concentration just wasn’t there). I read a lot of manga though. I think my favourites were fushigi yuugi, saint tail, and miracle girls.

6. Do you prefer baths or showers? showers.

7. If you could be a mythical creature, which one would it be? Hobbit

8. Paper or electronic books? I prefer paper books, but I mostly use electronic ones.

9. What is your favourite item of clothing? my cloud-print long sleeved mesh shirt

10. Do you like your name or would you like to change it? I used to want to change it, I don’t anymore. 

11. Who is a mentor to you? I don’t think I have one

12. Would you like to be famous and if so, what for? I like the idea of creative projects of mine becoming a little bit known, but I’d never want to be famous.

13. Are you a restless sleeper? Not really

14. Do you consider yourself a romantic person? I’m probably less romantic than the average person, but in the right situation I can be.

15. Which element best represents you? I associate myself with fire (bc I'm a leo) but in some ways water or air might better represent me. Idk.

16. Who do you want to be closer to? Honestly? Pretty much all of my friends. My life is complicated and the severity of my ocd makes me keep everyone at a distance more than I’d like to.

17. Do you miss someone at the moment? Everyone who I haven’t seen since quarantine started.

18. Tell us about an early childhood memory. As young kids my sister and I hated Tracey Sketchit from pokemon so passionately that we would draw his face on the bottom of our feet before going to jump on the trampoline so that we could feel like we were jumping on him

19. What is the strangest thing you have eaten? When we were little my sister and I would sometimes eat raw dried spaghetti dipped in vegemite when there was no other easy snacks in the house. We called them cardboard sticks. (The food situation in my house wasn’t dire or anything, we were just too lazy to make a sandwich or something lol)

20. What are you most thankful for? I am thankful for the people I have in my life and for the amount of stability i’ve been able to have in my life in recent times.

21. Do you like spicy food? I do, but if I eat it often enough to increase my tolerance to it I get bad reflux. So I remain a spice wimp who can only have mild.

22. Have you ever met someone famous? Zakk Wylde, Chris Lilley, and some guy who was on Blue Heelers. Also I spoke to Tracy Grimshaw on the phone once. Meeting Zakk Wylde was funny because I was REALLY weird and embarrassing.

(Long story ahead, feel free to skip) Basically, my friend and I were 16 and wandering through the city high on acid. We saw Zakk standing near Hungry Jacks and became completely captivated by him. We had no idea he was some big famous rockstar, we thought he was just some random guy. I cannot convey to you how intense his presence felt at that time. It was like he was everything that is and ever will be metal but congealed into a human being and magnified by 2000x. (in case you don’t know him, he looks like this)

We were so high that we were very in our own world and felt like we were the only ones who really existed and that everything else was just kinda there for us to observe. So we started following him and discussing him as if he couldn’t hear every word we were saying. 

I remember us being like “He’s the most metal thing i’ve seen in my life” “He’s like Neptune, king of the sea, but a brutal version” “He’s the raw original concept that all other metalheads were disseminated from. He’s the true, the original.” It made sense at the time that he could be the origin point of metal and the first ever metalhead because time and space felt like it existed in a looser way than usual. We were really fixated on the idea that metal was invented through his very existence as a direct expression of self, then people copied him, then people copied those people and so on. The further they got from the source (Zakk) the more diluted the essence became. That’s why being around normal metalheads wasn’t as viscerally overwhelming as being in the presence of the raw undiluted concept. We concluded that no metalheads were actually expressing themselves through their subcultural identity. Unknowingly, they’re just expressing him. And we were saying all of this while walking maybe a metre and a half behind him while he ignored us.

Eventually some of the people he was with noticed we were following him and started talking to us (they may have been members of Black label society or they may have just been friends of his, idk). They were friendly and said that they used to do acid when they were younger too and invited us to get drunk with them. We said yes and walked with them for a little. I don’t think Zakk said a word to us the entire time. He probably found us annoying. But we kept staring at Zakk and getting overwhelmed by how intense it was just to be in his presence. Then me and my friend abruptly turned and left without saying anything because being around Zakk was getting to be too much. It was like a sensory overload. As we walked away we barely heard them yelling back to us “something something something ZAKK WYLDE!”. I was familiar with the name but I’d never known how he looked. I googled him a few days later and learned that it was indeed Zakk Wylde who we met and that he’d been in Brisbane with black label society.

And that’s the story of how I passed up the once in a lifetime opportunity to get drunk with Zakk Wylde because his vibes were off the charts.

23. Do you do you keep a diary or journal? No. Kinda wish I could, but the habit doesn’t stick.

24. Do you prefer to use a pen or a pencil?  Pencil

25. What is your star sign? Leo sun (Virgo cusp), Scorpio moon, Sagittarius rising.

26. Do you like your cereal soggy or crunchy? Crunchy

27. What would you want your legacy to be? I’d like to have a positive effect on the people in my life and leave art behind that people might enjoy or relate to (I use the word art loosely, I mean any kind of creative project). I think I've become more aware recently of how important that is to me, which is why I've been so uncharacteristically dedicated to finishing my comic.

28. Do you like reading, what was the last book you read? I like reading books but I don’t always have the attention span for it. I tend to read more non-fiction than fiction. The last book I read was Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo. A really great book if you want to learn about emo history. The only downside is that it was published in 2003, before emo really took off in the mainstream. Had some insightful things to say regardless.

29. How do you show someone you love them? Idk I can’t think of a concise answer for this. I think it varies depending on who it is and what our dynamic is. When I took that love language test it said my love language was quality time.

30. Do you like ice in your drinks? I don’t like it in water. It’s fine in most other drinks.

31. What are you afraid of? I don’t think I can answer this without oversharing or getting too bleak

32. What is your favourite scent? I like tropical scents like mango and coconut

33. Do you address older people by their name or surname? By their name

34. If money was not a factor, how would you live your life? I’d buy a house with my sister and I wouldn’t have a job but I'd volunteer and do freelance creative work. I’d donate a lot more and help people out more. I’d learn lots of new skills and make lots of art. I would have an amazing wardrobe too.

A kinda sillier dream is that I'd start a cheerleading team where our routines are exclusively to metal songs. As well as entering competitions, we would also be an opening act for bands (in this dream i’m much better at cheerleading than I currently am). It would be cool ok

35. Do you prefer swimming in pools or the ocean.? Ocean. I miss going to the beach so much

36. What would you do if you found £50 on the ground? See if someone dropped it. Then idk, would depend on my financial situation at the time.

37. Have you ever seen a shooting star? Yes

38. What is the one thing you would want to teach your children? I’m not going to have children. I’d like to be a good influence in my friend’s children’s lives though.

39. If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it? Probably some old-school gradient style neopets art (maybe an aisha) or 90s tamagotchi art or a cool wizard. I’d get it on my thigh. I’m very unlikely to ever get a tattoo though

40. What can you hear now? The hum of my computer. It’s old and loud and on its way out

41. Where do you feel the safest? In my bed at home with my cat Luna or hanging out w my sister

42. What is the one thing you want to overcome/conquer? Once coronavirus is less of an issue (which may be in the near future where I live), I’d like to try and push myself to start dating again. I haven’t done that in a long while. The limitations that ocd causes me makes it hard for me to imagine a relationship-- even a casual one--being workable. But I ought to at least try before I decide that. Sometimes things turn out to be easier than I think they’ll be 🤷‍♀️.

43. If you could travel back to any era, what would it be? This is so hard!!

If this is purely for enjoyment and not to change the past, i’d probably just want to see all my favourite bands live while they were in their prime and like, cry the whole way through because I am so moved.

44. What is your most used emoji? :) or :/ 

45. Describe yourself using one word. I’m really bad at questions like this

46. What do you regret the most? Eh, that’s a bit personal. I feel like i’ve overshared enough in this thing.

47. Last movie you saw? Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

48. Last tv show you watched? Degrassi the next generation

49. Invent a word and it’s meaning. Idk

If you’ve read this far ty!! Here’s a little sheep for your trouble

[adventure-hearts]

What do you think is going to be a bigger slap in the face to fans? Pokemon's 20th anniversary not having Misty and Brock who were there on Ash's first Adventure or tri.'s lack of 02 kids even in the last movie despite being shown in the first movie as silhouettes?

But tri. does have the 02 kids, and they’re a central part of the plot. Obviously, from the start we knew they would not play a great role because tri. is first and foremost a celebration of the first series - the direct sequel Taichi & co. never had - but they’re not being ignored at all.

The Pokémon Movie excluding the literal co-protagonists of the first series is 100x more stupid. Like, you can’t even compare the two situations. It’s as if tri. had excluded Koushirou or Takeru.

[sonofalionbitch]

In order from left to right: Love, love, like, like, love, love, like, like, hate, hate, and don’t care.

Pokemon: I Choose You

Past Companions

[seecarrun]

Tracy looked up from his sketchpad and hummed a little sound in fascination.

“What’s up?” Brock asked, leaning over to look at his drawing from his spot making lunch. Misty and Pikachu smiled up at him from the paper, a little stick-figure Ash barely noticeable in the background, pointing and commanding one of his pokemon to attack.

“Oh, nothing,” Tracy answered, but his attention seemed to remain focused on the real Misty and Pikachu, who were lazily watching Ash train and sharing apple slices under a tree. “I guess I just realized something.” He pointed at the two with his pencil. “Have you ever noticed Misty and Pikachu kind of…match?”

Brock raised his eyebrows as he turned to look at them, surprised. Sure enough, Misty’s yellow tank-top and red suspenders matched almost perfectly to Pikachu’s yellow fur and red cheeks. “Would you look at that,” he mused, then snorted in amusement. “Do you think Ash has a type? Or is Misty dressing to hopefully match his interests?”

Tracy barked out a laugh, quickly biting it back when Misty turned to glare at them suspiciously.

Eventually, she she slowly dragged her attention back to Pikachu and the apple, and Brock and Tracy shared one last look of amusement as they returned to their respective work.

Deep down, they both had the same thought: Maybe it was both.

[sol1loqu1st]

For the character you have the same vibes as ask meme: Tracy Sketchit from pokemon (you said unexpected so I went like. Far back)

i don't know who that is but i looked at a pic and holy shit

[yourfavorite-is-lgbt]

Tracy Sketchit from Pokémon is demiromantic!

Seems like a nice guy

[kiwi-smug-silvalina]

You know Tracy? Yeah his last mame is Sketchit

As in, sketch it

I was 20 years old when I realised Ash Ketchum's last name literally means 'Catch em'

[draconicsheart]

I don't mean offence, as i understand completely your anger towards there being no big iris figurine, but i think calling it racism is a massive jump. It's entirely possible that she was 'unpopular', to which the company decided that making a figurine wouldn't give much sales. This doesn't mean they're right, but it's a better explanation than racism. (Also i did read your Tracy counter argument but that figure looked pretty poor quality, reflecting they didn't take Tracy seriously either.

I understand, Nonnie. “Racism” is a scary word. In fact, anything ending in “-ism” is, isn’t it? Because if you acknowledge that something is x-ist, then you have to be introspective and consider why you never thought it was wrong before. You don’t want to be a bad person. I get that. Because I’ve had to question some of my own beliefs, too. But acknowledging racism doesn’t make one a bad person. Even participating in some of the racist things we’re tought doesn’t make you a bad person. But choosing to ignore it or deciding that these things are okay? That absolutely does.

So let me be clear: this is absolutely a matter of race. That Tracey Sketchit image looked low quality? Okay, well... so did the other characters for that line. It’s an old toy. They tend to look that way.

The point is that he was included. Not just as a chibi. But as a full blown figurine, seen as equal to the rest of the main cast.

By contrast, when @thcnderbolt went on an Iris-hunt to see if they could find ANYTHING else... They did. But she looks like crap while the other two look solid. Because yes. They are made by different manufacturers. But they all also have the character and their partner, so either a) they’re intended to be equivalents or b) they weren’t intending to include Iris in the Banpresto line at all, so she got the half-assed short stick. And no matter which way you slice it, the point is clear: Iris is not equal to Ash and Cilan. And the point of my OP? Was that Iris is not equal to the other Pokegirls, either.

And “popularity” is the most flimsy, obnoxious excuse that you hear for not just excluding Iris--but not representing people in general. Two good examples of why this is bullshit:

Remember when Wonder Woman came out? It was given the biggest budget to a female director to date and that was exciting! But it still paled in comparison to how much the Male-lead movies got in return. And this is HUGE because while they were displaying a massive lack of faith in a female-led movie’s ability to sell, they were still willing to give more money to MALE superheroes even though, to quote the linked article:

Despite its strategic positioning in the DC cinematic universe, and positive fan reaction, Wonder Woman is working with not just one of the lowest budgets of Warner Bros’ films, but of any current superhero film.

But it gets worse. Much worse. Let’s travel back in time.

Back in 2005, the Batman franchise itself was not in good shape, having been thrown into whatever carnival pit-of-hell Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin has created. But in a bid to rekindle the franchise, Warner Bros hired the guy who made a weird independent film (Memento) to direct Batman Begins with a budget of $150m.

In 2008, Marvel launched a studio division to try and capitalize on their properties instead of continuing to license their characters for peanuts. It’s hard to imagine now, considering the juggernaut that Marvel has become, but back in the days of the first Iron Man, the studio and the film were considered to be doomed projects. They even had a difficult time finding a director willing to take the job of adapting what was a C-list catalog character into a summer action film for an uncertain studio. Despite all this, Iron Man was produced for $140m.

So to summarize point no. one: if the creators want to market their characters they will do it whether they brought in good cash or not.

But my second example is Big Hero 6. This movie is oft compared to Frozen for how closely they were released. (Because yes, while there were some movies released in between them, these were both the MAJOR RELEASES™ for their year.) We all know Frozen broke major records, so of course there’s going to be a huge jump. However, they were BOTH so well-grossing that even after adjusting for inflation they made it onto Disney’s Top 15 most-grossing movies list with Big Hero 6 landing at the 14th spot (658 Million) and Frozen at number 2 (1.287 Billion).

But look at Frozen Merch and then Look at Big Hero 6 Merch.

If you’re not seeing a pattern here, don’t worry! I gotchu covered. Let’s compare Big Hero 6 Merch to some non-Princess movies that didn’t make the top 15 list:

Alice in Wonderland

Lilo and Stitch (even if it’s mostly Stitch -cough-)

Peter Pan

Get the picture? It doesn’t really matter how much money a movie or character brings in. Because point no. two: if the creators DON’T want to market their characters they will do it whether they brought in good cash or not.

That is why Iris not having products is infuriating. If the Pokémon Company wanted to market her, they would have. Period. Point blank. No if, ands, or buts about it. And Tracey Sketchit is just simple proof that my points hold true.

So don’t downplay this. Japan has just as much history with racism as anywhere else. And it’s our job as fans to call them out on their shit--even when that shit comes from products and media that we love.

[browneyedmissy]

Tracy... Sketchit....

Trace-y Sketchit...

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME