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aspiringtrashpanda · 1 year

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Waaaah (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡ ty tyyy!! I wasn't kidding about the length so I still apologize 😅😓 You know how when we’re younger we always wanted to get involved in the “cool stuff the big kids were doing,” whether said “big kids” to us were 13 or 16? When I was little, I wanted Steven to be my big brother or cousin. Since I never had any female cousins my age, I mostly grew up around boys and we did cool things like hang downstairs in their basement theatre, convince our parents to stop at a Walgreens for SillyBandz, and go wild jumping on the beds in their Hotel room with Light Sabers and Harry Potter Wands. (Look, I was like 9-10 this was cool to me 😂) We were a Trio, stuck in the backseat of the backseat of the car, status: gremlins in kahoots. It was weirdly poetic, there was only a year between either of us and I was the middle child. Really movie-like three Musketeering it here lol. Imagine how heartbroken I was when my parents told me they weren’t really my cousins, just really close family friends that we called them “cousin” regardless because they were there for my birth. Anyways, this and how whenever some older male that, I assume were probably late teens early 20s now that I’m older and thinking back, came over, kid me would see all the grown-ups talking to them like equals, being allowed to do “stuff” (it was probably like running an errand for an aunt or setting up tables tbh, I sure don’t know) and were asked about what they were studying at the dinner table, I thought it was so cool that I wanted to grow up fast and do whatever they were doing, go wherever they were going with their friends while I had to stay inside and help clean up because my mom said I wouldn’t be interested and that “they’re just doing their own thing.” Even at theme parks, couldn’t go with them.

Enter: The World of Pokémon. Discovering Fanfics, and the Found Family Trope. And Badass Young Protagonist Dreams we all might’ve had at some point. It’s a coin toss whether Crystal or LeafGreen was my first game, but I ended up really attached to Leaf (after a period of hating her because how DARE she look like my OC who was designed to look like me + the effect of early 2010s era of people hating OCs and only accepting canon characters in fics.) Though let’s be real, she probably looks like a lot of people, compared to having gravity-defying blue hair lol. It’s kind of hard to get May’s hair-style exact too sometimes if you don’t have bangs and short hair, and hers still flutter outwards by themselves. So anyways, this is all a lead-up to what brought me to thinking, “man, wouldn’t it be SO cool to be Champion and the bestest of buddies with the other Champions? (As the games usually sold the story to us)” Because friendship is awesome, teasing and banter and knowing personal things about each other and being considerate about it is sweet, being privy to secret projects the grown-ups never let you in on (I say secret project as if it’s some big thing when they probably wanted to enforce bed times and “that movie is too scary for you” lol) but anyhow, still epic.

I’ve never been able to bring myself to making another Pokémon OC, so I use Leaf as my stand-in for just about everything. I think the one thing holding me back from posting publicly is not everyone thinks the same as me. The game characters have no canon personality, so it looks weird. (Unless if I take influence from Evolutions, which validated so much for me.) They’re trapped in their games. And largely influenced by “majority accepted fanon.” As a result of that, I "should" be writing a wing-woman to the Red x Blue ship. My fic would probably go over better if I used May.

Okay, I have read everything through, but I am going to respond to each message one by one so I can get all my thoughts out! First off, thank you SO MUCH for sharing your brilliance with me. I am honored to get a peek inside your mind! This has been an incredible read. It sounds like you had so much fun with your cousins growing up, and I totally get what you mean about seeing older-but-still-young people doing stuff and you're like, "Hey i wanna hang out with them and tag along too!" But then you grow up and realize that you rushed through your childhood for nothing and ow, that's so real. RIP to all the OCs who fell to the flames of the early 2010s OC hate. OCs aren't for everybody (just like reader inserts), but those that will read an OC grow to love and appreciate them as much as any canon character. Though, there is also absolutely nothing wrong with projecting your OCs personality onto a canon character (if you're in our steven stone discord - which i mean, you're on anonymous so i'm not even gonna try to guess - you see that we do it ALL. THE. TIME.) I'll get more into canon personality vs. author interpretation vs. reader interpretation in the next bit, but I think it's important that you've recognized what you feel fandom has dictated you "should" do. You've recognized it. Now throw it out the window. Your fic will be its best self if you write what you want to write, and I promise, there WILL be someone who resonates with whatever character choice you make, whether they be in the minority or the majority. (To be continued...)

#aspiringtrashpanda #please talk to me about your fics #i love it #if you can't tell

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angelsinvestigations · 7 years

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every other odd 8)

40 Questions - Meme for Shippers

1. Talk about the first ship you ever had.

oh man. i had ships growing up and all, but i always feel like my first Ship was faberry, which i’ve shipped from the glee pilot. more so bc it helped introduce me to the idea of fandoms and what ships Mean in a way - next to kurtofsky, but that came later. And I think faberry really defined me as a shipper, bc it taught me to look deeper into canon analyze it and look for meaning cause ya know, it was never Really canon, but it was There, everything was There and it made sense and it motivated me to go look for more so yeah.

5. Do you have any poly ships?

a few yeah. tm/root/shaw, fuinnchel, angel/fred/faith, even barbara/tabitha/butch to an extent. they’re not usually the ships i’m most invested on, but they’re definitely valid and they should be more present on both canon and fanon. i feel like if fandoms started cooling down on ship wars and promoted poly ships more often, it’d encourage writers to try it, but ya know. that’s never gonna happen.

9. Do you have many ships that never got together at all?

lmao

13. Has a ship ever broken your heart?

i was going to just write lmao again, but i think that’s a good opportunity to discuss something. conflict is essential to storytelling. i dont mind breakups, i dont mind characters not being endgame, i dont mind deaths, if they serve a purpose to the story. has a ship ever broken my heart? absolutely. I was heartbroken when the doctor and rose couldn’t be together, i was heartbroken when faberry wasn’t canon, i was heartbroken when root “”””died”””” and i was heartbroken when angie didnt come back to agent carter season 2, but these are all different. some were valid and enriched the story, some were disappointment @ shows that only used me. it’s important to know the difference, or else you’ll never be really happy with any ship because conflict will Always exist, or else there arent any stories to tell.

17. Talk about a pairing you’ve stopped shipping romantically.

i shipped spuffy when i first watched buffy. it was a mistake. i feel better now.

21. Is there a ship you just don’t get, but have nothing against?

i can’t think of any right now, but I’m sure there is. people ship everything, and i wont get most of it, it’s not a big deal.

25. Have you ever shipped a pairing before you even started watching the show/movie simply because of gifs and graphics or similar?

im not saying i already ship blink/polaris on the gifted im just saying they better get married soon. but honestly, yeah, happens all the time. i mean, i hate sg as a show, but i love all the supercorp stuff, so whatever. it happens.

29. Do you need to ship something to really enjoy a movie/book/tv show/comic?

not really, but it helps. a ship for me is usually a byproduct of my love for a character. shipping a character i care deeply about with another just means i’m invested on a show, ya know. but there were shows i loved with characters i loved that never really gave me a ship to be invested on and that’s fine. bsg, for instance.

33. Name your favorite fanartist(s).

luckypressure, but mostly for the rachel/bench thing. i dont know many artists tbh.

37. Do you have a favorite trope and/or AU for your OTP?

ehhhhhh i don’t think i have one? i dont think i have an otp anymore, in the original meaning of the world, and my favorites aus vary with the ships i guess.

#ily c:#long post #datamalum

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