Either add it to your ko-fi message with your username or dm me here on tumblr! By default I won’t post people’s comissions, but if you’re cool with it let me know!
This document is meant as a guideline for public statements, media interviews, press briefings, and other external communications regarding the new Champions, their journey, and the plan for their mentorship. Please contact Gracie of External Affairs if you have any questions.
Key points
Refer to Champions Red and Blue as such, or as Red of Kanto and Blue Oak upon first introduction, then proceed with Red and Blue as per Trainer customs.
Refer to Champion Lance as such, or as Lance of the Indigo Plateau, then proceed with Lance as per Trainer customs.
DO NOT use any other honorifics, modes of address, or titles. DO NOT refer to the new Champions as ‘the children’ or similar epithets.
DO NOT make specific statements regarding the new Champions’ home life, health, intellect, interpersonal relationships, or personality.
Anyways do consider the awesome potential of [Name] of [Place]. The deliberate social game of it all. The difference between, for example, Clair choosing to be introduced as Clair of Blackthorn Gym vs Clair of Johto vs Clair of the Dragon clan vs Clair of Lorelei. Who said that last one
I don’t like it when people are trying to (even sympathetically) explain why teenagers can sometimes have emotional volatility as “well they’re just biologically stupid and angry and bad because of their hormones and underdeveloped brain” with no mention to be found of the fact they’re also still trapped in an incredibly oppressive environment 24/7.
working 12+ hour days for school without pay or the right to “switch jobs” to something better, often working a real job on top of that, still the legal property of their parents, can’t even dye their own hair or use their own name or have a door to their own room in many many cases. yeah I would be at the end of my rope too, especially when dealing with the adults in my life who are enacting and/or facilitating the abuse! it feels pretty glaring to ignore this dynamic when talking about the strained emotional capacity of teenagers. did you forget? what it was like to not have the right to your own life yet? to be hurt 24/7? and then to have your (extremely reasonable!!!) emotional reactions dismissed as pure hysteria?
purely anecdotally, I’m also not convinced that teenagers are “biologically” more prone to volatility in a meaningfully distinct way tbh. thinking back to the people I knew as a teen vs the people I’ve known in adulthood, in both demographics there have been people prone to lashing out, and people who were completely stoic, and the differences between the two groups have always seemed to be split not along age or hormonal makeup but along life experiences and who had better support structures. (but again this is anecdotal, and somewhat besides the point. because even if there is a non-pseudoscience biologically provable difference in teenagers’ brains that make them universally moodier across the board, perhaps they could better manage their own moods if they weren’t being crazy abused as an entire class with no legal ability to escape.)
not to drive the implicit point home too hard but I also can’t think of literally any other instances where it’s been good or helpful to say “[class of people] are all universally bad and stupid because of their small brains and crazy hormones”. so idk why we think saying it about teenagers is the one exception to the rule. even if you’re tacking on a “so this is why we have to be nice to them. because they can’t help having small dumb brains.” who does this rhetoric help?
happy 13th birthday Cookie Clicker! as is tradition i did some baking
just 2 batches (12 cookies) because i got sleepy. they were really nice i’m actually so good at baking cookies it kinda rules. tomorrow i’m making the rest (~34 more)
