#idk growth or smth

[hinamie]

I could've been a better man, but I'm not

more lmhs megu bc i love him. he is here fr ur lunch money :>

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[sunnyyray]

update: did not like?

just took shrooms for the first time ever

[sillybouquetoflillies]

i keep thinking i rly didnt go thru that much growing up, but idk, everytime i tell someone abt my life, they say i did and kinda just like sit in shock abt it. am i just internet brained or smth, or am i just dramatic?? i rly dont think ive earned a lot of the symtoms of someone who was traumatized that i have. or maybe i havent been in a safe place for long enough to process things??? i dunno. maybe someday far away in the future ill figure things out

[starlooove]

Sorry I loooove the idea of characters being bad parents in the future idkkkk

[petrichoraline]

aj is huge bro, how do i not remember that? in my head he's about 170 tops 😭

[standbowed]

Hachi was named for the time of her birth- born precisely at 8:00 am according to the medical staff (as "hachi" is also the pronunciation for the number 8 in Japanese). Hachi's name is written with the katakana ハチ. It is worth noting that names written in hiragana or katakana do not hold specific meanings as names written in kanji do; they are purely phonetic.

While it's not uncommon for given names to be written in the phonetic-based katakana or hiragana rather than kanji, and while Hachi has no issue with the name or the set of characters selected on its own, it occasionally becomes a point of insecurity for her when contrasted to her sister Emi's name, which is written in kanji--specifically, the kanji 恵美 (恵 meaning "blessing, favour, benefit" and 美 meaning "beautiful, pretty").

For Emi's name to so deliberately note her as beautiful blessing while Hachi's name is much more simply based off of the time of her birth, well, it's prime fodder for (over?)thinking when Hachi gets caught up in trying to analyze it.

[galianbeast]

starting low dose t near the end of last year after years of thinking about wanting to and before i didn't think much of bottom growth really (would sometimes see other nb transmascs say how much they didn't want it or smth) but lemme just say that ppl are weak for not wanting one of the very first changes that happens on t before anything. this shit rules, losers

[tragedyposting]

“Redemption” arc?? Sounds Christian to me.

[thatonecode]

i fucking love lmk!sun wukong . he was really just like "watch me be the worlds first transmasc monkey absent father" and then he WAS

[immortal-cataclysm]

Drawing 13 year old bandee n placing him next to his 14 year old self is INSANE like my god puberty really DID hit him like a truck huh..

[seagullcharmer]

still haven't gotten into xc3 (probably won't for awhile) but rex being tall is so weird to me. he should stay a short king forever. which is why i now draw him in platforms

[milflewis]

i am not surprised that i started off the new year on a bus. heading home from last night’s party. violently hungover and writing porn. but i am surprised who the porn is about

[dapper-nahrwhale]

when im scared of something silly or im viscerally uncomfortable by something mundane, 9 times out of 10 I'll try to understand why I'm having that response. And through my research, I'll usually end up enjoying it.

Like I was absolutely terrified of bugs growing up, and now that's my name. Bugs.

I was freaked out by mascot suits, now I'm in the process of making a full mothman type (somewhat) fur suit cosplay.

Roller coasters scared the shit out of me so bad I swore I'd never go on one again, now I'm obsessed with them. My phone lockscreen and discord icon is of my favorite one. I get distracted looking at and smiling all the time.

And this doesnt happen every time, theres still little things that scare me even after researching into them, and that's ok. But im always glad I tried to understand , because if I hadn't I would have never known the joys I could find in the horrors.

[29121996]

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[silvermeww]

Okay it's been a while, but I have been having a lot of thoughts!! Beach ep thoughts lol. But firstly: Shigeru is not as puntable in this version still, which is funny bc I already watched this ep in sub... probably still thinking about dub him back then (jk he's still good lol). He actually makes a good point here though, which is why I need to commemorate it-- that Ash/Satoshi was getting so fired up in this ep to get his 'revenge' on, er, whatever that demonstration Shigeru was pulling off that he doesn't considerate what kind of place it was (a resort, not a battling ground). And while still being annoying, he gives him honest feedback (that he really did lose bc what would happen if they fought? in front of their parental figures after a beaty contest btw?). Still can't get over 'I'm with the girls today' like okay bi king, go off I guess.

While we don't ever see them battle until the end of the Orange Islands arc, we can clearly see the differences here: Shigeru is more analytical while Satoshi fights with emotion (and can get consumed by it a lot too at this point). It's a problem now especially, since while emotion can help him (e.g. his last Gym Battle with Surge), it can also be detrimental (as we see later on with Sabrina-- he needed a real strategy against her as she was too powerful and... wasn't really sane at that point of time). I still have no idea why Shigeru is there in the first place, but hey! I won't refuse character development (also a possible nugget for why he decides to go researcher after Johto).

How my boy has grown (in a few minutes... well, rather it was throughout his journey so far). The fact that he actually took to account what Shigeru had told him (to notice what was around him) and used it in this type of situation where everyone is panicking and doing the opposite. Satoshi is actually keeping a level head here, and it's so beautiful to see here. People who say S1 has nothing has not seen anything, this is like what, ep 18 I think? Even Takeshi is surprised lol, but it still stands to reason that it's something that came from him and his calm demeanor which rubbed off on Satoshi, which is why I'm saying it was the journey as well that contributed to this. If you asked him at the start of the season, he probably wouldn't have acted in time (hello, waking up late and embarrassment) or at all, panicking with them. But now? He's taking it upon himself to warn everyone to stay calm, to watch how it isn't a real Gyarados (knowing after the whole St. Anne thing... hey, what happened to being pronounced dead before?), and it's great! Look how Shigeru is smiling at him, he knows what's up. Them being friends before holds more weight when you think about moments like these.

Come to think about it, isn't him telling him what he's doing wrong also remnicent of Blue in the games, where he gives you hints on where to go next? I'm really loving this fr, can you tell?

^^ The proud parents in question. Again, something to show how much he's grown, and Oak actually taking him seriously. And Delia noting how much he's grown.

Also grandson 🤝 grandfather

proud of gremlin child

The guys ever (ft. live 'rock reaction). Get yourself a dude(s) who can do both. But seriously, for a 'filler' ep there's so much here?? That smidge bit of respect coming out of Shigeru, that light-hearted smirk coming off from Satoshi, that remark (acknowledging him in a battle-sort-of-way; acquiescing to his challenge now bc he has shown that he can keep a cool head), the way Satoshi didn't falter once. A glimspe of his future Champion self, tbh. The makings of the hero role that he'll get forced into, over and over again.

Also the ep where TR (or rather Jessie/Musashi) call out that they'll never forgive him from this point. Yeah idk about before.