Ask Me Stuff

This blog serves as a talking blog for those who want to converse about Pokemon-related stuff of any kind! I have basic knowledge of pretty much any Pokemon media, so I’d be happy to chat :D

If you want advice on life stuff too, I’ll try my best to answer those as well.

Think of this as a safe space to air out thoughts!

like I'm not by any means saying the Ash era Pokémon fandom was all sunshine and rainbows, I witnessed a lot of arguments, dramas and whatnot in my time in it and even got personally harassed by a shipper for not liking their favourite ship, the fandom was horrible in certain places

but the horizons fandom seems to have all the same issues the Ash series fandom had and more

everything that the Ash series fandom did, the horizons fandom do too, and anything the Ash fandom didn't do, the horizons fandom somehow do twice as much, just with different characters or ships

pokeshippers and amourshippers who harassed people in the Ash fandom have been replaced with friori and likodot shippers in the horizons fandom

while the Ash fandom was known for hating on female characters without any reason, the horizons fandom is just as bad for that, while also hating on male characters twice as much as the Ash series fandom ever did

and those are just two examples of many

I also think the horizons fandom has far less positive spaces than the Ash fandom did. I have great memories of positive and fun interactions and conversations from my time in Pokémon journeys fandom spaces, while all my interactions and conversations in horizons fandom spaces have been nothing but negative and draining to the point it caused me to stop watching the show and to leave the fandom

honestly, as much as I think that it was time for Ash to stop being the protagonist, I also wish he'd stayed protagonist forever so that those positive spaces I knew from before would still be active now and so interacting in the Pokémon anime fandom wouldn't have become as awful as it has today

things weren't amazing back then but they were better and I really miss that

I'll be blunt and say I agree with you - it's part of the reason I'm no longer really active in the Pokehori fandom. The other part of it, I will admit, has to do with the writing direction of the series, but that's another conversation.

If I had to speculate as to the reason for this change, I'd say it's a combination of the rapid increase in mainstreaming online fandom spaces, lack of tagging etiquette, a dip in writing quality, and just time. The XYZ/Kalos era was around the time that Pokémon fan spaces became really mainstream, and we started to see the hallmarks of shitty fandom behavior, but I never actually encountered any of that personally; I only know about it in hindsight, from others' experiences. In my case, the "fandom" I was part of was a collective of maybe 30 small Pokemon AMV creators, who were kind, friendly, and respectful. It really felt like a community. Between then and now, Anipoke reaction videos, theories, clickbait, and shipping became a lot more vocalized, and people were able to communicate more directly with the creators through Twitter. And between then and now, a whole generation (or two) were introduced to fandom spaces with little to none of the past built-up etiquette, which in turn lead to the resurgence of ship wars and just overall unconstructive negativity.

There’s a few things that point to Moon and Platinum being related in some way, like how they’re both from Sinnoh, how Moon calls a lady with long hair like Platinum’s and an Empoleon her sister (onee-sama), the fact that Moon is working alongside Professor Rowan and many of Mr. Berlitz’s associates, and how Moon and Platinum have similar designs.

As for the timeline, Moon would have to be at least 11 years younger than Platinum, as Platinum is 11 at the start of DPPT. However, considering the canonical timeline has 9 years passing from the start of RGB to the end of ORAS (which takes place before the start of DPPT), it’s not too unreasonable to assume a similar gap occurred between DPPT and SM, at which point Moon is freshly 11. It’s further supported by Blue appearing in his late 20s/early 30s (around the same age as Diantha) in XY, since Blue is roughly 9 years older than Platinum, which would put her in her late teens/early 20s by XY. And I don’t think the age gap between siblings is too unreasonable, considering my only sibling is 13 years my senior.

Mimic is an octopus and a shape shifter and was also part of the Diamond Cutters. Mimic sold the ground out to Eggman and led them to a trap where Shadow Androids (robots made to look and be similar to Shadow the Hedgehog) killed them.

Whisper, being the sniper, was outside and survived.

During her miniseries with Tangle the Lemur called "Tangle & Whisper", Whisper is very reluctant to allow Tangle to get close since Mimic is still actively after her (as she is a loose end and Eggman told him to get her as well since she got away). Tangle on the other hand, wants desperately to get close to Whisper and to help. Whisper by the end of it does end up trusting Tangle and her abilities and lowering some of her walls.

I feel like this could align with PokeSpe!Silver and PokeSpe!Gold. Silver is trying to fight the Masked Man and keep others (besides Green) away so they don't get hurt and involved as well. Gold on the other hand, by the time the Lake of Rage happens, is trying to help too and for moral reasons refuses to just walk away knowing what the Masked Man is doing.

@stephanieyumyum I want to show you this ramble as well.

Both of them keep themselves closed off, but less to keep themselves safe and more to keep others from getting hurt from the person from their past that is after them.

I have the unique torture (as the overlap in fandoms is much smaller than you would actually think) of questioning the trainer of the hedgehog?

This one. I know what 'Pikachu otherkin Ash' means but I don't get the part before or the part after.

I understand about half of it, but I am stuck between two interpretations and one of the interpretations is that I just don't know half of their point.

he is such a mean person for no reason :(

You don’t /j

Do you use Blue Oak and Green (f) or Green Oak and Blue (f)

And how far have you read in PokeSpe (if read out of order, which arcs have you read)?

Here is my active PokeSpe ask/rp blog masterlist.

We are up to 6 blogs so far (2 from @/stephanieyumyum, 2 from me, and the other 2 are from different people).

https://www.tumblr.com/pokemon-video-game-confessions?source=share

Should I make a blog for Pokemon opinion confessions? I noticed that all the ones for Pokemon seem to have been abandoned a while ago. @/stephanieyumyum mods one for PokeSpe, but I can't find one for Pokemon as a whole.

(sidebar: very weird that I can't find an active pokemon opinion confession blog considering how popular pokemon is)

i've always liked to imagine that serena got sick after. like. she wore his clothes. she was in a very very small space with him. i feel like its just logical yk?

so yeah if anyone wants to write this you have full permission to steal it from me

(i may try to write it myself but idk if could, when i tried before it never seemed quite right)