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Rules: tagger gives a word, then for each letter of that word you share a sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with that letter.

I got unexpectedly, yet it isn't unwelcomed, tagged for this by @seecarrun, so thank you very much. The word being CHAOS.

C - Conway felt as though he was living a dream, he was in his heavily tinted room, shielded from the harsh morning sunlight surrounded by computer screens as he feverishly looked at the data he was getting from one of his girlfriend’s Pokéball’s...

H - “How I’m feeling…?”  Ash shrugged, and looked distantly into the leaves and branches above.  “Truth is I don’t know…Misty needs me to be strong, but honestly I feel so weak…and snapping at her wasn’t the wisest idea ever – I’m just glad she didn’t bite back even though she could’ve…it’s just as Iris once said to me,” went on Ash, laughing bitterly at the memory.  “ ‘Ash,’ she told me, ‘the way you train is like you’re trying to forget about something.  It’s like a temper tantrum you kid’ or whatever she meant, blast it all…”

A - “All right, all right...calm down,” grumbled Ash, as he tried to relax, shoving a gloved hand in front of her face.  “It’s clear that you aren’t doing all that well.  You’re struggling just to get the best out of your Pokémon.”  As if that should’ve ever been a problem of yours… “Therefore,” continued Ash, “you should sit back and watch us train.”

O - “Of course that’s how it’ll work, Ashy-boy,” jeered Gary from nearby in the field.  “Don’t think too much about it.  You meet her, and BOOM, you have someone you love.”

S - She’d heard of a shortcut and thought she’d taken it but had ended up on a poorly maintained path which was decaying to nature.  As she biked along, she soon came upon a crossroad.  A male Trainer was already there looking up at a signpost. Misty slowed down for only a second to quickly scout the paths.  A large distant willow tree to the west was a notable landmark on the map she studied, and she knew on seeing it that the second path to the left would take her to her destination.  She sped past the boy without a second thought but-

Just to be a troll I won't elaborate on what project each snippet is from. Some of these have been sitting in my files for years untouched ._.

What better way to ring in the new year than by posting a fic that’s been done for two years?

Over on the Pokeshipping Discord, we had a sentence fanfic game going for quite a while. The rules were simple: everyone takes turns writing the story a tiny bit at a time. I’ve had quite a bit of fun with the continuity we built up (as you might have noticed over the years), and there have been requests every now and again to see it.

There’s a new sentence fic going on the Discord now, but working in the old one’s continuity for Pokeshipping Week made @lightningenergy and I think it might be fun to make the old one public. Besides ourselves, @astralconflagration777, @ultimatebman, @zedpercyfan, and @fairrytype all made contributions. Below, you will find:

A handy arc guide!

Part I!

Part II!

And, naturally, Part III!

A few things to keep in mind: first, that this was a group effort done a bit at a time. It was more like an improv game than a carefully structured plot, though we did some preplanning here and there. So if there are certain inconsistencies or redundancies, or if you read any of our work individually and find this at odds with what we write - bear that in mind :)

Also, this is just our archive of the entries; this hasn’t been formatted into standard prose. The sentence fic also went inactive for various reasons before one of our biggest plot threads was resolved. LE and I wrote out a finale privately, which has been included here, but you can tell when the group fic ended by a bridging paragraph.

Lastly, if you’re a member of the Pokeshipping Discord, or feel like joining, you’re more than welcome to participate in the new sentence fic we have going on! It’s set in a different continuity, so there’s no need to be up to date on everything here.

We had a lot of fun writing this over two years, so I hope you all enjoy it!

1. Who is the early bird/ Who is the night owl?

Both Serena and Clemont wake up relatively early but Serena is generally up first (unless Clemont pulls an all-nighter to begin with) and asleep first. Something about having to get her “beauty rest”.

14. Who kills the spiders?

Serena does, though it wasn’t a task that she’d planned to sign up for. It’s just that Clemont barely notices them and she’s tired of having to regularly bring them to his attention.

42. Who is the neat freak?

“How ya doing?” Dawn asks a bed-ridden May.

“Mmph,” comes the muffled response, and May pulls the covers up tighter around her.

“That bad, huh?” Dawn picks up the aspirin bottle and gives it a shake: the few pills still remaining rattle against the plastic. “I’m sorry, May.”

“Fuck this ‘special gift’!” May snaps suddenly. Dawn jumps and the bottle flies off into a corner. “I didn’t sign up for this shit!”

“None of us did,” Dawn assures her, gently pushing her girlfriend back down. “But at least I’m here.”

May sighs and retreats under the covers once again. Dawn shakes her head and notices the open closet. An idea jolts into her brain and, quickly and quietly so May doesn’t notice, zips to the closet before disappearing into the bathroom.

She returns a few minutes later just as May’s head reappears. “Hey,”

May gives her a once-over. “Hey yourself, miss medical professional.”

Dawn smiles and twirls around, the nurse costume’s skirt lifting up slightly. “Thought you could use it.”

So, pokeshipping. The very 1st ship in the Pokemon anime’s history. I personally am not a fan of it, I did watch the original anime, and I personally don’t like misty’s character. It was off putting to me.

Now as to what your here for, what killed pokeshipping. There are 3 main contributors to the death of pokeshipping.

1.) The length of time from when misty was replaced to now,

2.) Serena and Amourshipping

3.) The Pokémon sun and moon anime

The length of time from when misty was replaced to now. Now while this might not have been much of an issue if the other 2 bullet points didn’t exist, it has been over a decade at this point, since we last saw misty, meaning that we have a severe lack in character development, and that gives time for other potentially better ships to be created, which leads me to my next point,

Serena and Amourshipping. Possibly one of the biggest ships right now, (which at this point isn’t going to fizzle out anytime soon. ) With Amourshipping going so far, as to introduce a major plot point in ash’s story by having Serena be his childhood acquaintance, many other points that multiple poketubers like Catch ‘Em All Saul, bring up in their videos from years past, to the kiss, and even the writers basically confirming the darn thing.

Amourshipping Confirmed?

So at this point, ( unless they throw all that away, which please. Don’t. ) there is next to no hope of pokeshipping to ever become cannon, which is only further proven by my last point,

The Pokémon sun and moon anime. Now, this is honestly the iceberg that sank the ship, because Brock and Misty returned twice in the Sun and Moon anime, which I’m pretty sure was for let’s go promotion. Now this is where all hope is lost for pokeshipping because even though they returned twice, Misty had literally zero emotional moments with ash whatsoever. No pokeshipping pandering, no flashbacks, nothing. Here’s another video explaining that further.

They did Misty DIRTY!

Now while the only good thing to come out of the re-return episodes was Brock possibly finally finding a girlfriend,

Brock x Olivia

This was the point of no return for Misty and pokeshipping in general. Misty, even though she returned twice, in the most recent anime, had literally no development, and nothing to show how she grew as a character since her absence, her return seems pointless and devoid of substance, and with another ship still gaining popularity at an exponential rate, I’m sorry pokeshippers, but,

It’s time to pay your respects, and move on.

RIP pokeshipping

1997-2023

Hey dawg, don't worry. I too struggle with rememberin' that it ain't 2017 or '18 or whatever is more than 5 years ago. Counting years, appearances, or remembering what words like theory, or transport, fiction, shipping, Plato's cave or whatever are defined or what they mean is pretty difficult too - I don't get it, it all flies over me head.

Yo friends,