The “Mr Mime is Ash’s dad” theory mildly irks me NOT because I don’t like it or whatever but bc the canon reason Mimey is there is just SO MUCH FUNNER. For plot related reasons Ash dresses up as a Mr Mime in a circus just outside Pallet town but gets kidnapped by Team Rocket. Brock and Misty are like “oh they’ll let him go once they realise he’s not a Pokemon, we should tell Delia that he’s gonna show up at her house in a Mr Mime costume so she isn’t freaked out” but then an ACTUAL Mr Mime shows up at her house before he does and because Delia is as faceblind as her son she mistakes it for him. And this Mr Mime is like “oh I like it here” and starts helping out around the house doing chores in exchange for food. And then when Ash DOES get home he’s like “mom why is there a Mr Mime here” and she goes “oops! Well he helps more around the house than you so I’m keeping him” and does. Mimey is not Ash’s dad. Mimey is his step-brother and canonically the favourite child
It is dawning on me that not many people would’ve seen this specific episode out of thousands and it is by pure happenstance than my sister and I would know the truth in the way others wouldn’t simply die to the fact the anime probably never does, like, flashbacks to this storyline or anything so no one actually knows why there’s a Mr. Mime in the house so of course people are making the Ash’s dad joke.
Being proship doesn’t mean you like every trope/ship. It means you won’t harass over it.
You are allowed to dislike things! You are allowed to think they’re gross! You don’t even need to like any ship to be proship— these qualities don’t make you a phony or less proship.
Proship means anti harassment. If you believe in freedom in fiction and that harassment over fiction is wrong, you are proship.
