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[charlie-is-fine]

Fun fact:

The Malevolent podcast isn’t explicit because of the swearing, but because of all the whimpering and breathy gasps

[squiretilde]

This game might have me by the balls a little bit.

(Pls no spoilers, i havent finished it yet, i'm taking a little break bc i had a mental health spiral 🙏)

[springonmytraptillicomeback]

A pig, a rabbit, and a god walk into a bar.

you think one of them would see it!

[love-is-a-pearl]

How would you say Delia and Johanna differ in their parenting styles? And how do you think that might have influenced Ash and Dawn?

You've mentioned that while you think an overprotective Mom is worse, you also wonder if Johanna being detached has negatively impacted her daughter.

Is hard to say as we get very few information on the mothers or the chara's past as a whole.

One thing about the pokeani novel that stuck out to me about their relationship there was the description of Delia feeling more like an older sister to Ash than his mother. And I feel that shows up plenty of times in the anime proper. With the way she will look out for him but make him embarassed at the same time ("don't forget to change your underwear") or how she will easily "steal" his pokemon like a sibling triyng to share toys.

Johanna on the other hand feels much more like... A distant aunt if I could call her that? She doesn't seem to have the same level of worry as Delia (or Caroline or Grace for that matter) for Dawn. Sure she absolutely cares for Dawn and her progress as a coordinator, but almost everytime we get Dawn and Johanna talking/checking up it was Dawn that took the first step to reach to her.

A stark contrats of Ash and Delia, who has the later very often putting effort into meeting or even accompanying Ash to other places (Unova, Alola, all the league cameos).

And how this affects them both. Well, Ash is (up till alola/journeys. he tries to change in jns with goh and im still bitter that wasn't extended towards brock and misty :T) as distant from his friends as he is with his mom. I love my boy but he rarely talks about older friends or revisits them out of his own accord and he has a very big issue of sharing his most personal feelings. Idk if this is because of Delia's raising (where they both would showcase affection in a jokely manor and perhaps neither really embracing the "true" dynamics of their relationship) or just other issues (like missing dad-yo or Gary or bullying or all combined).

Dawn on the other hand. She seems to latch onto people hard. From Kenny, who is a jerk and she did not need to be putting up with him till now; to Ash and Brock, who she barely met and invited herself to travel with; to Zoey, whom she cares a lot to make "proud" of her; to Maylene, with who she vented a lot of frutrations with her losing streak; to May, with who she seemed comfortable talking about similar contests struggles after barely meeting her; to even Chloe, who she just met and decided to travel with on a whim. I guess that could be related to Johanna's own distance from her? She tries to keep anyone she meets who is nice close, cause she yearns for comfort that her own mom rarely gives (without some accompanied criticism).

[n4c9s]

"I'm sorry." "There's nothing to be sorry for."

~

Some post-Mazarin Stone thoughts

[elvishdemigod]

The N in Lonely stands for Nothing, Numb, Negative.

The V in Lovely stands for Vibrant, Vital, Valor.

One little change could bring a whole lot of difference. And Vincent is Very happy with that one little change.

[renamusing]

Robert in those Alex scenes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Ryan’s acting of Robert having to deal with Alex and his personality is so fucking underrated. like he had to turn his head back to really see is he as stupid as he sounds when he told david he will take Aaron the sing along Rocky Horror picture show 🤌🤌ACTOR🤌🤌 and how he is trying so hard not to call him a slur and trying to hint it for Alex to understand that it is Rocky the boxing without really telling him cuz he wants him to get it on his own. he is rolling his eyes internally screaming like plz fucking get the point before I kill you and myself you can’t be this thick👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Plus  he said “How is the birthday boy🥹🥹🥹” so boyfriendly so husbandly. humor was actually humor and sweet love balanced angst 🚬🚬🚬🚬 

I just nodded along and copied every single emoji's expression as I read this. Yes yes and yes! Robert lending other people his Aaron cos he knows he deserves the punishment of going without Aaron's love, but whoever he lends his Aaron to MUST love Aaron properly OR ELSE.