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[achrofox]

#62 step plan to cause them to disappear under mysterious circumstances.....

[achrofox]

you guys are stupid and have no brains and i'm clearly the only person here who can experience coherent thought ( can't see any trans!archie hardenshipping fics on ao3. there's like 2 where maxie is trans which is cool i guess but also incredibly stereotypical and BOOOORRRINGGGG. get smarter smh. )

#mskdhsksisgha #ive been saying this for months now #trans Maxie is cool and all but Archie is clearly trans #i would kill for more trans archie rep in hardenshipping fics #also #Maxie is clearly agender #i can see it in his eyes and in the way he dresses lol #agender Maxie x trans Archie is superior tbh #(totally not projecting onto Maxie. i just happen to also be agender (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠)

[achrofox]

Jsksishsis I feel like my life is falling apart but I'll do better next week.

I feel so shitty about everything but there's still time for me to do better .

Idk I'm mostly just trying to comfort myself tbh 💀

[achrofox]

pokemon masters should end with archie and maxie making out furiously with tongue and then uninstalling itself from your phone and mysteriously being deleted from the app store the next day

#*sigh* wheres the petition? #I want a fully animated s3x scene tho #with voice lines obviously #i need to see Maxie naked!! #its a need and a want tbh #hardenshipping

[achrofox]

ORAS Pokespe spoilers be warned

Hey why tf areng we talking abt how homoerotic that one panel in the oras pokespe where Maxie and Archie are literally one panel away from "Mr Stark i dont feel so good" dissipating into dust

#i will never stop thinking about this panel #everything about it screams tragic gay lovers #i fucking love them so much #hardenshipping #hardenshipping is canon in every universe

[achrofox]

call me old fashioned but i was raised to serve my husband. i clean the dishes and cook him food. i do whatever he says because he is my husband and he makes the rules around the house. he owns me. if he ever cheats on me it's because i was lacking.

#magma leader maxie #team magma #oras maxie #oras #i love my husband #hes my everything #you wouldn't understand #i want to hug him and kiss him #i also want to fvck him tbh #like real fucking bad #lmaooo

[achrofox]

Pov: You're scrolling TikTok in pokemon world

#we need more of this hardenshipping content #love it when others are trying to be serious while Maxie and Archie are just trying to fvck #they're such an obnoxious and overly affectionate couple #i want what they have #hardenshipping

[achrofox]

The urge to run away for 3 days, come back with my hair dyed red and a life size cardboard cutout of Maxie is winning

Anyway, I had a 6 hour nap bcs theatre class and math is a terrible combo.

Also, I ate an apple strudel and had some of the best horchata I've ever tried in my life.

#school burnout lol #i look forward to 5 things and food is one of them #the other 4 are more important tho #Maxie is one of them #but you already knew that

[achrofox]

I need to make a compilation comparing how Maxie and Archie treat the player in ORAS but it mostly boils down to:

Archie: Hey kid :) You're going to have to get out my way, sorry about that. You're doing great though scamp. :)

Maxie: [10 minute monolgue about how he's going to blow up the world and kill you.]

#I love dramatic maxie so much #Masters made him less dramatic but also sentimental #mostly referring to the pieces of dialogue where he talks about his past with archie #i love his banter with archie in masters #its everything i ever wanted

[achrofox]

I want to make some hardenshipping matching pfp for the silly gays in this fandom to use with their bestie or the insufferable bastard they call a romantic partner (affectionate)

#hardenshipping #matching pfps are cute tbh and people should use them more often tbh #Archie would like matching pfp and Maxie would pretend he doesn't care much about it (he actually loves it very much) #my Hardenshipping headcanons are either really cute and silly or depressing af bcs i feel very strongly about certain things

[achrofox]

Man do you ever just think about how.... hardenshipping was ALWAYS going to be the natural conclusion of the game from the moment they sat down and decided that the gimmick of the region was going to have two warring teams.

Like hardenshipping has some sort of pre-baked, innate canonicity with the way that Pokemon games always resolve themselves. Especially as it pertains to the way the Hoenn region was designed.

What I mean by this is,

In Pokemon, the lesson is always "working together makes us stronger." It is always about the power of friendship, it is always about found families, it is always about settling differences with love etc etc etc. Except. This is on STEROIDS in the Hoenn region because this is a theme and a message that was deliberately sought out when they designed the game.

The Hoenn region is a region of duality. It is all about opposites and counterbalance. The names of the cities are mostly two words put together as opposed to color names in the past. Team Aqua and Team Magma. Groudon and Kyogre. Plusle and Minun. Latios and Latias. Solrock and Lunatone. Zangoose and Seviper. Volbeat and Illumise. How Wurmple can evolve into either Silcoon or Cascoon. How Clamperl can evolve into either Huntail or Gorebyss, making both of those sets of Pokemon counterparts to one another.

The REGION itself is split almost evenly in physical makeup between land and water. Which is what made it seem like there was a shit ton of water because there was. There has never been as much water in a Pokemon game as there was in Hoenn, and it was because they were physically trying to balance the water and the land. There's a giant uninhabitable volcano in the center of the region perfectly counterbalanced on the map by a giant, habitable crater in the center of the ocean. Complements and counterparts color the entire region, often quite literally in red and blue. Like almost anywhere you look in Hoenn, it is ideologically (and sometimes physically) symmetrical in design.

The name of the region comes from love and relationships, for god's sake.

And so then you have the Hoenn region, named after a word that literally means love and relationships, being themed around this very concept, in a game series that ALREADY focuses on those things. As like. The core component of the franchise.

So the Hoenn region has "the power of love and friendship" on fucking STEROIDS.

And they DOUBLE and TRIPLE down on this metaphor that they already did not need to double and triple down on in the remakes with the inclusion of the "Hoenn Rangers Coexistence Force," whose sole existence seems only to be to call out Archie and Maxie specifically, as they are about promoting the peaceful coexistence of people, nature, and pokemon. Blatant passive-aggressive reference to Archie and Maxie, who are locked in some sort of odd, eco-ideological warfare with each other playing out over the large-scale arena of the entire fucking region.

And the fact that they canon used to be on a team together and clearly split due to their differences (you know. Like how a lot of these region's Pokemon have split evolutions and counterparts etc etc etc).

The Hoenn region is rife with all this fucking duality.

And so, naturally, the Pokemon plot does what Pokemon plots do, and uses like a 12 year old child to tell our bad guys that the power of love and friendship is actually all they need.

And for the most part, in most games, that would be where it would end. The villain and the evil team fades off into obscurity, after they learned their lesson.

Except, Archie and Maxie don't have that option. Because they have each other.

Team Rocket, while still technically present, disappears from the game after you beat them. Cyrus disappears. Ghetsis disappears. Colress just fucking hangs out with you, kind of. Lysander disappears. Lusamine disappears. I don't fucking know what Rose does but god in hell I'm sure he doesn't contribute anything meaningful. Turo and Sada go off to a different fucking reality altogether.

All of the other villains disappear because they have learned their lesson. What are they going to do? Be besties with the player in the post game? Colress is the only one who gets remotely close to this, and he's locked on a little ship in one area once you beat the game. These individual leaders rightfully learn their lesson, rightfully go off on their own to reflect and grow or go to prison or die, and we just assume that because we beat them, that's the end. There is nothing more for them to resolve, because they have resolved their conflict with us.

But not Archie and Maxie. Because Archie and Maxie's main point of conflict was not with you. It was with each other.

ALL of the other villains have NO ONE to amend with once you finish the main line story of the game, because they have already ended the conflict with you. Therefore, in all other iterations of them that exist (for example, in Masters) they can just be "Ho ho ho I am GenericEvilTeamLeader" who did a bad thing.

But not Archie and Maxie. Because Archie and Maxie were depicted having their main conflict with each other, and not you, any piece of media that wishes to depict them post-events of their games (aka, post their lessons-learned) MUST depict them together. In order to demonstrate that they have taken this lesson about the "true power of friendship" to heart, we must see them putting that into practice.

And due to the nature of Hoenn being about coexistence, natural complements, and duality, Archie and Maxie must then conclude to work together and harmonize with one another just as their opposing elements do, just as the entire rest of their fucking region does. They are the living embodiments of the inner conflict, the duality and complement and turmoil and harmony that the entire region of Hoenn was built upon.

And THIS is why, to this day, in the year of our good Groudon 2023, we are STILL getting new content of them being so close to one another. Why Pokemon Masters has just basically become Hardenshipping Truthers DLC. Because now, in order to demonstrate that Archie and Maxie have taken some semblance of their lesson to heart, they must be depicted working together. As they were always created to do.

Archie and Maxie were created to be at war with one another, but this was because they were also created to learn the lesson that they must work with one another, because that is the lesson of Hoenn, and that is the lesson of Pokemon as a whole.

So from the very moment the devs sat down and said "we are going to make two warring teams," Archie and Maxie's destinies were invariably linked together, and basically hardenshipping content was always going to be the natural conclusion of that.

They really invented gay people with this one. I just..,,

*slaps Hoenn region* this bad boy can fit so much fucking symbolism in it

#exactly! you get it #hardenshipping is th best ship ever for thematic reasons #i love this post so much oml #hardenshipping

[achrofox]

Jsjsjshsjs glad I wasn't the only one who thought abt it 🤭🤭

I'm catching up with Pokemon Horizons and, jeez, why the fuck are Murdock and Mitchell literally the less-ecoterrorism-more-bakery Hardenshipping????

#hardenshipping #i literally see them everywhere #i cannot escape them (don't want to tbh)

[achrofox]

I love saying degrading things about Maxie and ending it with a confession of my undying love for him.

Only few know the full extent of my desire for that stupid magma slvt 😍🤭🤤 I love him so much and I truly hope for him to get more of the love and attention he deserves 😍😍

#magma leader maxie #team magma #oras maxie #oras #i would fvck him #i would fight for the chance to get a piece of that ridiculous nerd #I want to take him out on a date #buy him flowers and all his favourite treats bcs he deserves to be spoiled #im genuinely in love with him its insane

[achrofox]

hardenshipping truthers we won

#hardenshipping is so canon #this did happen #you just had to read between the lines #hardenshipping

[achrofox]

Finally made a silly oc to ship Maxie with 🙄🙄 istg he isn't a self-insert!! I just saw a bunch of ppl make oc's to ship with their fave and I wanted to do the same 🥺🥺

Might drop some lore soon or something, I want to make it as angsty as possible 😍😍

#team magma grunt #oc x canon #team magma #hardenshipping is still canon af and the best ship ever tbh

[achrofox]

Hey so I saw your text post and it actually prompted me to say hi because I've been lurking on blogs I like for a long time without actually having the guts to talk to anyone. Honestly out of all the blogs I follow yours is my freaking vibe. Like god damn I never knew there was someone out there who thirsts for a middle-aged insufferable nerd in a red lab coat as much as I do. I love u, I'll come off anon at some point probably, please don't stop thirsting for that babygirl redhead <3

Lol saw this while sprinting out of the bus bcs I completely missed my stop (I fell asleep 🙄🙄).

Good to know people enjoy my down bad posts and vibes!! Maxie consumes my every thought and I totally don't think about fvcking him everyday 😳😳

I appreciate you stopping by and leaving a message!! I'll definitely continue being thirsty af for that slvtty redheaded nerd 😍😍 (he is my husband afterall)

#magma leader maxie #oras maxie #team magma #hes so bbg #i appreciate everyone who interacts with my account!! #yall are lovely!!!

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I was doodling the silly magma nerd and I ended up messily sketching something that's definitely not safe to show so ignore the pink scribbles on the side.

#magma leader maxie #oras maxie #team magma