Okay Ran Into Aphantasia Again And Well Whoops

Okay ran into aphantasia again and well whoops

I may or may not have not realized that visualization is literal and people actually see things in their heads

I do not.

Neither does my mother, or her mother for that matter.

It's weird. I come up with things but yeah no I close my eyes and imagine something I ain't seeing jack piddly squat. No wonder that I, imaginative youngling I am, have insomnia I'm basically just talking to myself all night long. When I imagine something, or try to remember something, I have the idea and knowledge of it and not much else. No mental hallucinations for me!

I have a knowledge of the images I want to make but after realizing this I finally understood why I can't draw any character consistently without a reference. It's because the idea I have of them in my head is descriptive and abstract, it's like using an AI and only giving it words to depict something. I don't remember images, either. Photos are important.

As a writer, I gravitate to more dialogue heavy storytelling, though I'm not too shabby with descriptions.

actually wait. i wanna see how many ppl out these share my struggles. ('visual artist' here being any form of art that requires visualization to create)

if you have aphantasia i would love to hear how that's shaped your experience with creating art in the tags!

Sonic Underground

That one show where Sonic has two siblings (Sonia and Manic) and they're trying to find their Mom (Queen Aleena) after Egghead led a coup and she went into hiding to escape from Egghead forcing her to marry him.

Iron Man Armored Adventures

Tony, Rhodey, and Pepper are all teens in highschool together, and Tony is a teen superhero a la Spiderman.

Redwall

Martin the Warrior Mouse passes his sword and his mantle of protecting Redwall Abbey on to Matthias, who has to fight off the rat Cluny the Scourge.

Marvel Super Hero Squad

Dr. Doom wants to gather the fragments of the Infinity Sword, Iron Man and his team are constantly stopping him from getting all of them.

Resources

Su Cuy' gar! Olarom anade.

(Hello, welcome all)

These are my main resources I use to learn and translate Mando'a!

Mando'a.org

Dictionary

Mando'a Wookiepedia

Dictionary

Mando'a lessons

YouTube, verbally teaches Mando'a

Albertamando

Tiktok, teaches Mando'a

Memrise course by Mando'a lessons

Oyu'Baat

Discord server dedicated to learning Mando'a culture, language and teaching others the same way.

This is only the truth

I’m sorry, but The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord is a hilarious episode title.

Why must you hurt me this way

Also, Delia meeting the French scholar who helped Ash as an adult figure and having a whirlwind romance years after either her deadbeat ex left or her late husband died peaks.

Not to forget Sycamore, the oddly put together wet cat he is, meeting this wonderful, caring, and capable woman and becoming smitten as she gets him and his son (adopted, pseudo-adopted, or bio it's true regardless) to take care of themselves as much as they do their Pokemon is just*chef's kiss*

I have discovered a rarepair/crackship and it's criminal how underused the tag is on AO3, like, I get it, it can be a small fandom when it comes down to shipping sometimes, but even so... Only 7 works for a verified tag? It's disappointing.

Let me introduce you, Pokefans, curious bystanders, and that one person that just stumbled across my shitpost, to the wonder that is the

ship.

It's absolutely mad but at the same time, there's a certain inspiring brilliance to it. Only a mad genius could have thought of this.

It's so off the walls, I can scarce begin to guess at the line of thought that led to its existence, yet the ideas it brings are fun. Like the thought of Augustine Sycamore panicking over Ash after the Kalos Crisis, and panicked calls between French Zoologist Dad and Japanese Restaurant Mom when their Reckless Sporty Child jumps off of their equivalent of the Eiffel Tower after chasing down the family pet with rabies. Not to forget the Greenfield incident, where oh look your wife just got supernaturally kidnapped and you're an ocean away while your son fights something that looks like God to get her back.

Also, Alain and Ash being brothers and Delia having a romance for the ages with the Kalosian apprentice that Professor Oak had brought on in their young adulthood.

Yet again I have a wellspring of inspiration and it's because of a rarepair that under the right conditions can be a crackship.

...*sigh*