#a skim is appreciated

[love-is-a-pearl]

What , you like About ash and Dawn .?

What I like about them? Honestly everything :v

Ash and Dawn are my favorite characters of the anime by themselves. Dawn embodies "ray of sunshine that hides how insecure they are behind a smile" trope in the most perfect way and I love her for that. Ash is just the blueprint of "dork with a heart of gold golden retriever" that I also adore. But their relationship makes it all even more interesting.

They are best friends! They support eachother in their dreams and while that's normal for any of Ash's friends, is extra special with Dawn since he trained with her constantly; techniques created by her were often used by him and vice versa. There's no "Ash" or "Dawn" battle style, its "theirs" and that makes me insane! Specially because Dawn is the only character with that honour. Ash would train with other characters later/before her but to the point of adapting her style into his? never again. And it honestly pisses me off sometimes arent his other friends important too?

They have a lot in common! Usually the anime has the very shitty "boys stick with boys, girls stick with girls" mentality (that is the most egregious in SM), where they never allow boys and girls to spend ANY time together, but in DP Arceus blessed the writers for once to let Ash and Dawn actually spend time with one another. They both love pokemon a lot, even the start of their journeys was similar. They have goals that are too big and hard to achieve and they understand how important that is for the other. And they like talking about that to eachother! Every episode, even if it's not focused on them, there's some moment where they talk about something. It's very clear they like eachother's company!

Their chemistry is so cute. There's so many moments where we just see Ash and Dawn talking about random stuff. Having fun! Taunting and provoking and playing with one another! Just to showcase how close they are.

But the most special of it is when they talk about personal stuff, about how often they both feel comfortable being honest about insecurities and struggles to one another. How often they will just talk their issues out instead of fighting or being avoidant about it.

Moments like those are small but scattered all around the anime and ughhh they are so cute.

And I think the biggest diferential to other Ash's relationships is that Ash cares about Dawn. A lot. I'm not saying he doesn't care for other friends, but there was a special care put into the writing of him in DP. Perhaps even to parallel with Chimchar's arc and all. A more caring Ash in general. But like, the way he felt empathetic to all her losses, the way he ran to her when she lost the contest in DP146, the way he knows how she feels even without her saying it. THEIR GOODBYE AND HOW HE SCREAMS HER CATCHPHRASE AT HER TO MAKE HER HAPPY!!

Is just.. he is written much more denser in other seasons and makes it so hard for me to believe Dawn is not his favorite person because of that LMAO

He traded pokemon with her! Ash "i rather die than trade pokemon" Ketchum! And speaking of their pokemon, I love how close they all are. Because they often trained together, there was plenty of moments to have Ash interact with Dawn's pokemon and vice-versa in such a spontaneous way that is lacking for other companions. Dawn is just as invested in Gliscor and Gible's training as Ash; when Mamoswine was disobeying Dawn, Ash (and Brock) were there with it watching her contests and trying to convince it of giving her more credit. Piplup so often tags along with Ash's more out of pocket trainings and is so so cute. Pikachu has an unique pika-name for Dawn!! They are so close that even their pokemon get tangled into their relationship and I love that so so much.

Dawn and Ash are equals. The anime made such an effort to make that very clear! She is not just the girl he traveled with in Sinnoh, she is the girl that he learned a lot from. That he learned the most from. His best friend. His team mate. His partner!

[bitchslapblastoids]

utterly overwhelmed blown away by the works created for the @phandomgiftexchange man what an absolute privilege to be part of a fandom with so many extraordinarily creative people who are so generous with their creativity. beautiful project & beautiful people

[sergle]

I saw the "skinny-shaming" posts you made/reblogged and was like, yeah I agree with this. And then I saw the 2 anons you got from people being mad about those asks and now I triple agree with you. Every mad angry rude ask makes me agree with you harder.

THANK YOU lmao. I will accept this vindication...

[aq2003]

david fighting for his fucking life in the commentary after ten and madame de pompadour kiss going "well. um for the doctor reacting or not reacting to the kiss. you have to keep it a little bit ambiguous. the doctor and sexuality is a very murky area you know" is so funny. bro you are fighting a losing battle against steven "98% of the women i write are my fantasies" m*ffat but DON'T worry because i am ignoring this episode and aroace ten truthing for YOU now

[crazylittlejester]

jes did I send you a long ass ask about my Royal Depths au a while back or did I hallucinate doing that. You don’t have to answer it right now I just need to know if I actually sended it lol. It had ST Link there and I was talking bout fake game mechanics. Maybe you did answer it but I forgot. I don’t have the best memory haha

Anyways, I hope you have a good rest of your day!

no you did send it, i just wanted to make sure i had the time and mental energy to read every single word and give you my thoughts because i adore your au but my mental health has been awful and ive been busy, im very Very behind on asks i have like 60+ in my inbox rn, it’s gotten Bad and i feel bad about it :(

you have a good rest of ur day too, i will answer that as soon as i can, because i love ur au /srs and i AM excited to read it, there is just something wrong with me im sorry

[iliveinyou]

[dhmis-autism]

unironic love of the newspaper is not where i thought hyperfixations would take me but yk life is full of surprises

[rascal-rose]

You found Marble Hornets ajdjdhsjdb welcome to my horror hyperfixation

I've actually known about it since 2012/2013! But my 13 yr old ass did not appreciate it like I do now :")

Tho I did not know about the totheark videos that went with the channel back then so that was a lil surprise rewatching it, thank goodness there was a mh expert at the watch party

[ciceroandthelistener]

dollmakers of tumblr, how do yall repaint the doll’s head without getting the paint in the follicles? i had to restart the one i was making bc of the paint causing cracks when i tried clearing it or applied any pressure on the head after it was dried and sprayed with mr super clear. also im working with apple barrel acrylic on a gen 3 monster high

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE ACTOR AND THE TARGET by Declan Donnellan.

Up next: I need to do a deeper dive on an actor character and what makes him tick for a revision project (as evidenced by the pen carnage in the background), so! I'll be reading this and making frantic notes about it. Shout-out to @starsandsteelandbrokenglass for the excellent rec--it really does look Exactly Perfect for what I need!

[randomfoggytiger]

One of these days I would love to read your meta on the last scene in Je Souhaite.

No pressure 😊

Will add that to the list!

I'm on a mini break (and there's another meta project brewing on the back burner); but will get to this as soon as I can because it sounds fun. :DDDD

[llycaons]

the inherent obsessive urge to list everything + over 10,000 species of birds + nearly thirty years of not having a way to document what I've seen + history of traveling to a total of twelve countries over the course of my life, many of them for biological research/educational purposes = seriously considering googling 'list of birds' and just going through it until I think I've got them all

[firestorm09890]

so sad when someone is a very funny person but has terrible opinions on your favorite media and/or characters. get well soon 😔

[sysig]

Reading moodboard #84430940 (Patreon)

[breezebloxx]

was messing around on shutterstock & found these pictures from 07's ordeal by innocence that i hadn't seen anywhere before, so i thought i'd share ;0

[latenightsundayblues]

Only seeing an obvious fucking mistake in one of your drawings after dozens of reblogs is so fun:)))))) i love myself :)))))))))))) i think im about to pop a vein