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Happy Halloween 🕯

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Mimikyu Concept Art for Pokéween

Since Mimikyu’s true form under the costume is shown here, anyone who has already seen this artwork is now cursed.

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Drifloon and Drifblim Concept Art for Pokéween

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Pokémon Personality Profiles: #94 Gengar (Halloween Special)

Gengar is among the most powerful Ghost type Pokémon, and one of the rarest to be seen in the wild. It is also likely the most creative of them all in seeking out prey with souls to feed on. Unlike its pre-evolutions Gastly and Haunter, Gengar prefers nights with streetlights or a full moon, when it can pretend to be someone’s shadow, and move erratically and laugh evilly in this form to startle the person. Perhaps most terrifying of all, Gengar can actively possess the bodies of people and other Pokémon to take them where it wants.

As Gengar approaches its intended victim, it absorbs heat and chills the air by nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit, making them shiver. Once within close proximity, Gengar licks its target to paralyze them and devour their life energy, unless they are carrying a charm that can supposedly ward off Ghost type Pokémon.

It is said that Gengar are impatient to seek humans as new friends to be reborn as Gastly sooner rather than later, so few Trainers who continued to live as humans have managed to tame a wild Gengar. To those who have achieved the feat, Gengar become some of the most loyal companions one could ask for.

On Halloween night, Gengar with Trainers love to scare trick-or-treaters with pranks; while free-roaming Gengar stalk the back alleys and woods as hunting grounds for lost children.

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Requested by @kil9 and @gizensha

Don’t be fooled by Haunter’s mischievously friendly demeanor.  A dog might lick your face for affection, but Haunter licks to kill. The pokédex tells us that when Haunter licks someone, it steals their life force, causing shaking and convulsions that only stop once their victim dies.

RIP Misty

Involuntary muscle spasms like Haunter causes can have a wide variety of causes, including fevers, toxins in the blood, lack of oxygen, low blood sugar, malnutrition, and/or most commonly, some sort of electrical mishap in the brain. A brain operates by sending electric signals through discharging neurons. Neurons are not only in the brain, but also in the spinal cord and all throughout the nervous system. Because of these neurons sending signals, the rest of our body can communicate with our brain, and we are able to feel, touch, move our muscles, and so on. When something goes wrong in the command center, therefore, the whole body can be affected. Any of the above examples–poison, lack of oxygen, fevers, etc–can also affect the brain’s ability to operate, which is why they can induce convulsions. Brain activity during a seizure looks something like this: 

Haunter is a poison type, so the root of the convulsions is likely a toxin. Since it poisons the victim with its tongue, the toxin must be in Haunter’s saliva. It might generate the poison in its salivary glands, similar to a gila monster. Venoms are toxins that are injected into a victim through a bite or a sting, while poisons are absorbed, consumed, or inhaled. Since Haunter’s toxin is absorbed through our skin, we’re working with a poison.

So Haunter’s saliva is poisonous, and when it licks a victim the poison is absorbed through the skin and into the bloodstream. The poisoned blood ultimately gets pumped through the brain, which causes abnormalities in brain signals resulting in uncontrollable muscle spasms and eventually death.

A quick side note, since most of Haunter’s victims don’t die: Most venomous animals can control the amount of toxin they inject into their victim. Since they can only produce/hold so much poison at once time, they often won’t use all of it at once. So, it’s possible that Haunter sometimes licks using non-lethal concentrations of poison in its saliva, which is why its victims don’t always die (and Misty, in the above gif, is still alive). Size may also be a factor: an elephant requires significantly more toxin than a mouse. If Haunter is used to licking small pokemon like rattata or charmander, a lethal dose for them would not be lethal for a human (but would certainly still cause the convulsion symptoms).

Haunter’s poisonous saliva is absorbed through its victim’s skin when it licks. The toxin causes abnormal activity in the brain, which induces muscle spasms and often death.

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Pokémon Personality Profiles: #93 Haunter (Halloween Special)

After evolving from Gastly, Haunter remain among the most feared Ghost type Pokémon. They hate bright lights, so they spend the daytime in caves and dark buildings. Once night falls, Haunter leave their refuges in search of human and Pokémon victims. Their favorite nights are moonless ones without artificial lights, when no potential prey can see them.

Now having visible hands, Haunter can use them to make humans trip and fall while it is invisible, or beckon those who have lost their way. Once within range, a Haunter licks its target with its large, gaseous, and cold tongue to paralyze them in endless shaking. Rather than voraciously absorb life energy like Gastly, Haunter savors its time as the victim grows weaker over the course of days, until their soul has been fully consumed.

On occasion, a Haunter may befriend a Pokémon Trainer instead of seeing them as prey, and Haunter that have been successfully tamed turn to a life of pranks for both scaring and entertaining people. They carefully preserve the memories of deceased human friends and remain loyal to them, as souls that have not been fed on may be reborn as Gastly someday.

With a Trainer friend, Haunter love being out on Halloween night to get candy or greet and entertain trick-or-treaters; while other untamed Haunter go on the hunt for lost children in the dark of night after the festivities.

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Centopéia pernas de hortelã (Mint Leg Centipede) limpando e cuidando de seus bebês! (Scolopendra sp. Vietnã)

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Happy Pokéween to Tumblr! From Mimikyu

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My friends and I found this beetle on our college campus, we think it's a female elephant beetle. The photos were all taken by my friend (photography_dex on instagram).

https://www.instagram.com/photography_dex/

Go check him out.

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"Hoohahaha! You're pretty funny, little man! I love funny, interesting dudes! That's why I love my bro, Archie! That's it, bro! Let's smash it out with a battle! I'm gonna love you to BITS!"

Last but not least, Matt also deserves appreciation as Team Aqua’s gentle giant. He may look ripped and intimidating, but on the inside he’s a big softie.

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“You compare ME, Tabitha, the next Chief Admin of Team Magma, to a Makuhita?! You'd better at least make it a Hariyama!”

Whether he likes it or not, Tabitha AKA Makuhita Man deserves appreciation. Tabitha is also possibly the first to befriend Matt from Team Aqua who gave him the nickname, even if it remains as a love-hate relationship on the former’s part.

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Pokémon Care Guide #11, The Sandshrew Line

Evolution Method: Battle Experience.

Alternate Evolution Method (Alolan): Elementally Charged Stone (Ice)

The Sandshrew line is a mammalian Pokémon of either the ground typing or the ice and steel typing, depending on the climate that they hatch in and the parent Pokémon.  Kantonian Sandshrew live inside large tunnel systems to protect themselves from desert heat, while Alolan Sandshrew live in harsh mountainous regions full of ice and snow.  Though not a poison type, they do have mildly venomous claws that should be treated with care.

Sandshrew subsist on a diet of mainly bugs and grubs that they dig up from the sand or snow and then lap up with their long sticky tongues.  Like most Pokémon, they also eat berries occasionally.  They naturally retain a lot of water in their bodies to survive their harsh environments and are able to survive without any source of water for long periods of time.  In fact, they have a strong dislike for water and will avoid it when possible besides drinking.  Most of the moisture they retain is from the food that they eat, and they thus need a diet of insects rather than any sort of Pokéchow, though it can be supplemented with wet Pokémon food for insectivores.

Healthy members of this line will regularly shed their claws to grow new ones, the claws sometimes being collected and reused as farming equipment or other tools by Indigenous people.  These quills and claws should grow back within a day or two if they are healthy.  Once a year, Sandslash will also shed their quills for new ones to grow to replace them.  They will be irritable and itchy during this time.  Alolan Sandslash does not do this.  Both forms should have smooth and sharp quills and claws, if they are too rough or chipped it means they are experiencing too much humidity.

Sandshrew and Sandslash should be supplied with pools of sand to “sandbathe” themselves.  This allows them to both sharpen their claws and be rid of any parasites and dirt.  Alolan varieties can do the same with ice chips.  Kantonian members of this line require very low humidity and make hard pets to keep unless one already lives in an arid location, while alolan varieties are difficult to keep unless you live in an area already in perpetual winter.  Despite this, they are actually quite common as farm Pokémon as they can easily be trained to till fields. 

Sandslash like to be somewhere high up to sleep, either in trees or atop icebergs.

The Sandshrew line, while making difficult pets, can make great battling companions when they are kept in climate controlled Pokéballs.  They are extremely agile in battle despite their bulk, and can swipe at opponents for a high amount of damage.  Kantonian varieties are also quite common, so they can make very good first caught Pokémon for beginner trainers.

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"As anticipated. Unanticipated. You. Target lock...completed. Commencing...experiment. You. Forever. Aha... ♪"

Let’s show this leaked Courtney concept art some genuine SFW appreciation instead of using her for smut. I’ve previously said the same about Gardevoir who has a similar hairstyle and debuted in the same pair of games.

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"To Archie… me… and all of Team Aqua, your existence is annoying!"

I’m overjoyed to find Shelly and other ORAS characters’ leaked secret concept art, as it’s been almost 10 years since the release of one pair of my favorite Pokémon games.

And is she kicking a player character in one sketch?

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Pokémon Personality Profiles: #92 Gastly (Halloween Special)

Gastly are feared creatures that make their homes in caves and abandoned buildings as shelter from daylight, then venture outside at night in search of creatures with souls for them to consume. Their favorite nighttime hangouts include swamps, cemeteries, and dark alleys where unsuspecting humans and Pokémon can’t see their gaseous form.

Gastly are creative and quick learners, and can also distract prey for a sneak attack or lure them closer if necessary. Once a Gastly can get close enough to its chosen target, it envelops them completely so they faint after a single inhale of its gasses, then quickly and voraciously drains their life energy until they die. The departed souls make up 5% of their bodies, so Gastly constantly seek more of them to become stronger and level up towards evolving.

A Gastly that has somehow befriended a human will give up its taste for souls, and instead become a prankster that scares others as amusement, or simply enjoys time at a playground. Gastly also preserve the knowledge of departed human friends to teach future generations.

Tame or not, any Gastly’s favorite day of the year is Halloween, when they can either go trick-or-treating with Trainers to get candy, or search for victims who are returning home from the festivities.

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[VIDEO TAKEN: OCTOBER 8TH, 2024 | Video ID: A video of a brown and black bess beetle being carried between a human's middle finger and thumb as the human walks. The video starts close up, but then cuts to a slightly sped up, far away shot, with the text "You're my friend now :>" coming in from the top of the screen. The video also has the Kokiri Forest theme from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time playing over it /End IDs.]

Quick jump ahead before I go back to the June pics, just so I don't forget about the edit I already did ^^"

Had to carry this poor thing back home because I carried it away with one of the many logs in the pile! It was underneath one with a fellow bess beetle, and had been there for quite some time before that! As the always fantastic @/revretch informed me, they're subsocial creatures, and were likely looking to start a family in the log pile ^^ so it's a good thing I returned it!