Hi! You can call me Olive or Art!! ⭐ 18 year old They/Them Agender son of a gun⭐ I'm an artist! I might post sometimes if I'm feeling like it :)⭐ If you want me to draw something, or have a question, feel free to use the ask box below!!
Some of the people who complain about the rivals in modern Pokemon games being "too nice" kind of piss me off. I remember when Pokemon Sword and Shield came out, there were a bunch of people clowning on Hop for being too nice, and saying that the games were better back when the rivals were complete assholes.
Ok so, not only are you ignoring Bede, but you are also implying that most of the rivals in older pokemon games were mean to the protagonist. Wasn't there like, only two rivals who fitted into that criteria? Because I can only think of Blue and Silver. All the other classic rivals I can think of were pretty friendly.
Also, they do have mean rivals in the modern games too. I brought up Bede earlier, but we have other examples of mean rivals. Kieran is a great example of a rival who's an absolute dick.
This is not to say you can't have preferences. I just wanted to finally complain about something that has bugged me since I was eleven.
Imagine giving Az a nice and thorough back massage. He would be groaning as ancient muscles are given sweet relief. The only problem is that since the first massage, az wants more since he feels way better after.
Oh this b*tch would start harassing you in his own way. Normally, AZ is quite a gentle and safe person; he respects your space and boundaries, but there are times where he really wants something and he just can’t seem to stop that bratty prince in his brain from rearing his head and making him want more.
You’d give him a massage after a nice bath with some chamomile oils and he would just melt, half asleep and probably drooling a little as you absolutely destroy his poor back, like this is some kind of f*cking MMA cage match. I’m talking elbows, knees, even heels in that back to push even a nanometer into that knotted lattice that is the back muscles on this sentient knot of a man. Seriously, he needed this massage yesterday.
The problem is that he hasn’t felt that kind of relaxation or had that much norepinephrine released into his system in a LONG time (we are ignoring when Floette came back) and his brain is craving more. So suddenly, this normally very respectful and patient man is all in your space and talking his ass off. He’s quietly begging you to do it again and even trying to offer to make things in exchange, which is entirely unlike him.
Really, he’s just desperate for that relief again and the rare good chemical release it offers. Also..he would like to be petted more. He’s realized how touch-starved he is, and if he trusts you to massage his back he would trust you to cuddle him, regardless of your relationship to him (friend, family, partner).
These two have been living rent free in my head for years, especially after I bought the artbook and read a few interviews with Miyazaki...
More under the cut!
I'm not the biggest Studio Ghibli fan, but Ponyo and Howl's Moving Castle are movies that always stuck with me for very different reasons.
HMC takes the source material and injects overt romance and grittyness into it, making it a movie mostly about war. It also makes Howl much more of a dreamy prince compared to the absolute fuck up that he is in the book (seriously, look it up XD).
Meanwhile, Ponyo brings up serious themes, from pollution, natural disasters and families with one absent parent and doesn't give any of these much thought nor time.
I find both movies quite puzzling to be honest, despite loving both for their visuals, personality and beautiful, lively animation.
In the interviews about Ponyo's production and in the artbook, there are very interesting tidbits specifically about Fujimoto and Granmamare. I absolutely adore the idea of her human form as the 'lure' of a prehistoric anglerfish (and I find it very funny and totally in character for Fujimoto to learn about this and going 'Joke's on you, I'm into that shit' lmao) but it is the little backstory we get for Fujimoto that actually sparked my imagination the most.
Many kids have a dinosaur phase, well, not me. Baby me had an ancient egypt phase AND a Jules Verne phase. I absolutely love Verne's novels, especially 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. The 1959 Voyage to the Center of the Earth movie is also a big fave of mine and growing up, one of the anime that fascinated me the most was the now largely forgotten Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water.
Secret of Blue Water is a retelling of 20.000 Leagues under the Sea and Hayao Miyazaki was involved in creating the pitch for this show in the 70s. It was produced many years later under the direction of Hideaki Anno but, if you're familiar with Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that he was fond of that concept and wanted to reuse some of those ideas in a project of his own.
So... yeah, these silly concepts of mine are basically a weird crossover between Nadia and Ponyo, placing a young Fujimoto on the Nautilus from the tv show, which already has a memorable cast of fun characters and deals with similar themes to those only brushed upon by Ponyo.
I also wanted to avoid the cliche of having his encounter with Granmamare mirror that of Ariel and Prince Eric (aka: having her saving him from drowning) and I thought it would be more interesting if they were brought together by their mutual worry for Captain Nemo. If you're familiar with Verne's book (or Blue Water tbh), you'd know that Nemo is quite a tortured character that inspires both loyalty and fear in those who encounter him. I like the idea of Fujimoto seeing him as his mentor but realizing that Nemo is walking down a path he doesn't want to follow while Mamare, being obviously familiar with the Captain as she is with all that moves below the waves, has always been fond of him but can now see that he's becoming more desperate and violent.
I do like the idea of Mamare reaching out to Fujimoto without revealing her divine nature in the hope that he can help her reach Nemo (Nemo used to 'hear' the sea, but now he has closed his heart to anything but revenge). So basically the story would be about the two of them trying to save a mutual friend from himself and failing, which obviously leaves both of them quite distraught, but also a lot closer to each other and with Mamare's secret now out in the open.
I may expand on this idea later on, but so far I had a lot of fun coming up with these designs :D
Listen, I'm fine with Hades being portrayed as the villain in a piece of media, BUT ONLY if Persephone gets to be evil too. Like, have them be the ultimate villain power couple.
And I don't mean this in a "oh Persephone got suduced in the dark side" way, no, I'm saying this in a "Persephone was picking those flowers because she wanted to use them to make a poison to put into Zeus's wine" way.
