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Do you know what AAML stands for? What is your stance on rocketshippers? Have you ever maintained your own shrine on angelfire.com? Who was the first bishonen you ever adopted?

If these questions struck a chord, please keep reading

To commemorate the Pokémon anime ending, I have begin writing a video essay about the history of Pokémon fandom, specifically anime shipping! It will be a multipart series starting with the original series featuring Ash, Brock, Tracey, and Misty! I'm talking AAML/twerpshippy/pokeshipping, rocketshipping, gymshipping, orangeshipping, palletshipping, etc!

Unfortunately, my research can only take me so far, because a lot of the internet from back then isn't well preserved and it can be hard to read as I am unfamiliar with some of the terminology used at the time.

I am making this post in the hopes that people who were active online fandom members from back in 1996-2003 era will see this and respond! I hope to ask a few questions about commonly used terminology, as well as the atmosphere between different sections of the fandom at that time.

If anyone is willing to help me, please respond to this post, DM me, or email me at "kooliette (dot) vt (at) gmail (dot) com"

If you can't directly help me for any reason, please reblog and spread awareness so that I can get solid information and best represent the community!

TL;DR If you were shipping Pokémon characters in the 90s, hmu

I just wanna say that all headcanons are valid.

And…

Telling people that characters can’t be LGBT is an anti-LGBT action.

That is not the same as simply not agreeing with someone. If one person headcanons a character as trans and another headcanons them as cis, that in itself is not an LGBT+ action. Telling someone that a character can’t be LGBT and/or that their headcanons are invalid, that is an anti-LGBT action.

Headcanons don’t need ‘evidence’, (even though many do). We all interpret characters differently. You can look at a character and be like “this one’s coming out as non-binary in 10 years”and that’s cool.

This discussion has been brought up before, especially in regards to shipping Jessie and James.

I’m pointing out that people under the bisexual or asexual umbrella work just as well as them being straight. Or they are a gay family. Or they are both trans and don’t like each other all that much. Or whatever. They are fictional adult characters with a history of over 20 years together. There is a lot of room for interpretation here.

Reiterating that you can call them straight without being a dick but if you insist that this is the only ‘good’ headcanon, you’re being a dick. An anti-LGBT+ dick.

What if… the anime had been finished at season 1

 “The other side of Rocketshipping”

Working on a NEW [R-18] ROCKETSHIPPING music video edit. 40% done. WIP.