With Pokémon, you can do anything!

I understand why some might feel some level of animosity towards amourshippers because especially during xy’s run amourshipping was an almost inescapable and a lot of people in the amourshipping fandom were very intolerable towards other ships. But as xy has ended and Serena and or amourshipping has become more divisive people have seemingly stripped every ounce of nuance and the main consensus has become amourshippers and Serena fan bad. It’s completely poisoned the well and now unless you are in a specific fandom space for amourshipping you are basically inherently painted in a bad light for just liking a thing.

It’s gets to a point where people push certain narratives or rhetoric about amourshippers that’s just generally not true. Specifically when people insinuate that amourshippers are basically weirdo’s who project themselves on to the characters to try and live out these weird fantasies I guess. A lot of people don’t find issues with this as they probably feel like it’s punching up because amourshipping and Serena are still very popular,but it gets to a point where people are just fine with shitin on others for daring to be positive about Serena or amourshipping.

Like I tend to see a lot of people share there experiences with being basically alienated from certain general groups that talk about the anime. Personally speaking I’ve been dm’d before by random people that felt it was necessary to tell me personally why amourshipping is one sided or that Serena in the anime sucks.

I’m honestly just ranting at this point because it’s become very frustrating trying to talk about shit that you like without some dork in your ear trying to tell you that it’s actually bad and that you’re "delusional"

People just need to chillaxe especially because these are fictional characters and the fact that the anipoke fandom has some people that will call you out your name and then try and pull the whole "well amourshippers are the actual toxic ones" card is wild to me.

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Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

Atsuhiro Tomioka for sure! He is John Pokeani for me lmao He has the most episodes under his catalogue and is within reason. He gets the characters, he gets the bond between pokemon and humans, he gets that sometimes you need to just stop and enjoy the moment and pretty much every battle he wrote are my favorites. He surely has his low points but at the same time, bro has 300 episodes under him and has been quite consistent in quality for the majority of it.

Akemi Omode would be my second favorite (she gave us Ash vs Sawyer in Kalos league! My fave battle in that league!) cause I adore how she explores relationships and generally her catalogue seems much well rounded than the likes of Aya Matsui, whose emotional episodes mean everything to me, but leaves a lot to be desired in comedic or battle heavy episodes.

And my hot take is that I will never forgive pokeani for letting Yuka Miyata go!! She only worked in SM and JNs but between all the new writers, she was the only one I, personally as a picky bitch who doesnt like any new writers, felt that trully got the pokemon essence. All the episodes she wrote explored the bond between pokemon and human so beautifully. And even the ones that were more comical, she managed to include plenty of pokemon and give each of them unque traits and make their flimsy appearances special. I love her writing and im so pissed she wasn't kept for Horizons 😭

And you didn't ask but it must be said: my favorite animator is Akihiro Tamagawa. Not because he makes great battles nor anything, but 1) his character's expressions ARE THE BEST and 2) the way he generally animates character movement and interactions is sooooo endearing to me!! Everytime you see those faces you know you're in for a treat.

Fandom is not banding together publicly to talk about what we hate (other than canon) and it’s definitely not tagging the fic/author so other people can read the “dogshit” (real quote btw) and hate on it too.