#Croagunk is here

[shaxinunova]

WOW it sure has been a while since I've posted, sorry! Last semester kicked my ASS. Still, I'm back for now, and I've got a cute pic to prove it!

Sitting around while your trainers all try to finish their homework is exhausting...

(ooc: art by @realpokemon! Thanks sm for this work)

[croagunkguy]

POV Allie sent me this and i wa s in the middle of talking about something thing. Man I don't remember. @shaxinunovan or whatever what the fuck was Ii talking about.

Fuck look at that guy, my coragunks little hand thing flipper appendage. He is literally just the perfect little guy, I love that man.

[croagunkguy]

HOLY FUCK CROAGUNK MARRAIGE OH MY ARC CONGRATS GUYS THE CROAGUNKS ARE GETTING MARRIES IM GONNA CRY LOOK ATA THEIR LITL MARIAG OUTFITS HOLY MOLY

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

CROAGUNK WEDDING

[wyvernsrus]

I just think they're neat!!

Fox, and the other Carrie's to an extent, lowkey remind me of Looker from the pokemon games- specifically pokemon Y- and I just so happened to catch a shiny Toxicroak who I aptly named, Corrie.

Also if you see kinda drastic changes in my coloring/shading/rendering its cause im trying stuff out

[pkmnherpetology]

OKAY!! let's talk about venom!!

there are several species of venomous herp pokémon. we have seviper, the arbok line, toxicroak, and the salazzle line. now you may notice that this list does not include salamander pokémon despite me discussing their toxins in multiple posts, nor does it include the venusaur line. why is that?

well, although they are both toxins, poison and venom aren't quite the same thing. venom is generally, although not always (we'll get into this) modified saliva that is delivered through injection, while poison is more of "you die if you eat it" thing. similarly, toxtricity isn't venomous, but rather gathers toxins in stagnated water in its body and expels them through secretions. the venusaur line does something adjacent through its relationship with the corpse flower on its back.

so today we're focusing on those pokémon that inject self-produced venom, either through their teeth or through some spur on their bodies.

let's start with the snakes.

seviper and the arbok line both have fangs like hypodermic needles. when they bite and inject venom, muscles in their upper jaw squeeze their venom glands and a controlled amount of venom is delivered through the hollow fangs into the victim's bloodstream. these pokémon all have different types of venom, but what is their venom for?

well, with the exception of the toxin on seviper's tail, which is a hot topic in terms of classification, and i won't be talking about it here, venom in snake pokémon is believed to have evolved for the sake of hunting. for this reason, many defensive bites are quote-unquote "dry bites" where no venom is injected.

now then, what do these snakes' venom do? it depends on the species.

seviper's venom is predominately a haemotoxin, but also has cytotoxic properties. a seviper bite, left untreated, can cause hemorrhaging, damage the kidneys and livers, cause painful swelling, blistering, and even necrosis, and lead to permanent tissue damage.

ekans starts out with venom similar to seviper's, but less potent and with some slightly different effects (predominately, rather than causing excessive amounts of bleeding, bleeding from an ekans bite is stable, but happens for a longer amount of time). however, for reasons we don't fully understand, when ekans evolves into arbok, their venom becomes predominately neurotoxic and extremely fast-acting. untreated arbok bites are far more dangerous than seviper or ekans, and begin with numbness, partial paralysis, and end with a complete shutdown of the respiratory system, including paralysis of the heart and lungs. victims of arbok bites may require artificial respiration in order to survive, and because arbok is fucking huge, it has a lot of venom to deliver.

but what about the salazzle line? it doesn't have nearly as sophisticated of a delivery method as the snakes, so what gives?

unlike the snake pokémon, salazzle and salandit actually evolved their venom for different purposes. salandit venom is not for hunting; salandit often prey on slow-moving or uh...unmoving prey (eggs), and when they prey upon fast-moving species, they use toxic gases rather than venom to subdue their prey. similarly, salazzle mostly use their venom to ward off predators that might infiltrate their lounges and prey upon them or the salandit. thus, it's believed the salazzle line evolved their venom for defense.

this probably also contributes to the poor delivery method. salazzle and salandit do not have fangs, nor is their venom created in the upper jaw. rather, venom is produced in a gland in the lower jaw and when squeezed out of this gland, sort of vaguely drooled out through grooves in enlarged back teeth. because of this method, despite sal venom being drop-for-drop as potent as seviper venom, envenomation is rarely as significant. salandit in particular struggle to envenomate foes, and must "chew" to inject any significant amount of venom. one doctor a hundred years ago stated that anyone stupid enough to be envenomated by a salandit deserved it and he would not treat them. some salandit will cling to a victim for ten or more minutes just to get some kind of result. salazzle, due to their size and strength, are more efficient.

but what does it do, once it gets in the bloodstream? sal venom is a combination of haemotoxins and neurotoxins. in salandit, it prevents clotting, lowers blood pressure, causes swelling and attacks pain receptors, producing extreme pain. once a female salandit evolves, this venom becomes stronger, and the hemorrhaging it induces can cause shock. there are no known human fatalities from salandit venom, but a handful from salazzle.

finally, what's the deal with toxicroak and croagunk? croagunk does not produce venom, rather oozing a relatively mild toxin from its finger, but toxicroak does. while the salazzle line and snakes produce venom in the form of modified saliva, toxicroak produces venom in the form of a concoction of lipids, amino acids, and polypeptides. i don't fully understand the details of the chemical makeup of this substance, but the important part is that it's not saliva, nor is it an environmental toxin harnessed by the body.

the claws on toxicroak hands contain a strong cytotoxin pumped down from glands in the neck and stored in the knuckles. this cytotoxin is the structurally similar to the poison in its throat and chest, and comes from a gland close to its throat sac, but is significantly more concentrated and potent. it dissolves tissue as it spreads through the bloodstream, causing swelling, extreme discoloration, blistering, cell death, and ultimately can lead to necrosis and death. toxicroak, unlike lizard and snake pokémon, which evolved their venom for defense and hunting respectively, it seems to have evolved this venom specifically for fighting other pokémon. it predominately uses this to engage in territorial disputes both with its own species and with others.

so there you have it! a brief rundown on the venom in reptile and amphibian pokémon.

[rosescries]

My experience playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus a second time is:

I'm going to do literally everything BUT the main plot.

[roffitoucan]

trying to learn how to draw humans again (I tend to focus so much on another thing i forget how to do the other)

my pokesona and my fav lil pokemon i have on pokemon moon

[sualne]

LAIOS!!!

[magicmalcolm]

Today's Pokémon is Croagunk!

[pokeytrainermiles]

dude why is there SO much stigma around poison types ://

I just had a new neighbor move in, and for the last 3 weeks he's been hounding me about Bella "poisoning" his Bounsweet?? they've never even met.

we literally live in cold-as-Distortion Sinnoh. if your Bounsweet is sick, it's probably frozen from the weather 😭

[trainer-wretch]

Ok so heres what apparently happened, according to these very frightened nurses. Someone from this village (im in a village???) Stumbled upon my unconscious body and thought i was some kind of evil spirit pokemon and alearted the authorities to have me exorcised. The authorities arrive and see that i am a person, and think i am an evil spirit human. They attempt to heal me in hope that i show them mercy and dont curse they're families forever or something.

I am not correcting any of this, this is funny

[croagunkguy]

Let him look!!!! He is! Very!!! Handsome! He's doin't that epic shit with his cheeks!!! When he does that while I'm in the bathroom, i lean in so I can see us both in the mrror and I do it do, just like. blow air in your cheeks and try to get in rythm with hi,.

Keppy get your fuckin frog man, i need to use the bathroom and hes just doing this

[smilingperformer]

I don't necessarily either, I rather turn my brain off watching stuff. :P But when you start seeing some of the wildest ideas make the rounds again, you sometimes can't help but spite it. xD (Most of the stuff during Journeys ended up being right or slightly off course. Such as Dynamax being in the Cynthia fight, but not from Ash. Or Misty getting her solo return, but here in the miniseries instead. And us both waiting for Cilan since that Radio show episode. xD)

I mean, that's the fun of speculating XD If someone is setting themselves up for a disappointment, then yeh, that's no good. But in my case, I'm just preparing for a possible outcome :D I don't mind at all if Iris were to come for another ep, as that would then further suggest each companion gets that one last hurrah. But for ME, that is still unlikely. While Shigeru is the one confirmed to appear yet we have no clue where asjhkfgskjfshf. Get my gist? XD

I rather speculate wildly on a character we know is appearing than assume that a character that is not confirmed is appearing.

[higunky]

I played in a local pokémon card competition yesterday and this is what my end of the table looked like

I think I went up against the best player there in the first round then tied for last bc we ran out of time in the second round when we both had 1 win

[pokemonshelterstories]

Where do you draw the line of pokémon who are food and not food? I started a show about food and cooking weird creatures and I have been wondering what certain pokémon taste like. Like do mudsdales taste good and weird questions like that

this might sound like a weird answer coming from someone who professes to love pokemon and know more about them than the average person...but for the most part i draw the line at whether or not a pokemon is edible. if it can be prepared in a way that i can safely eat it, i'll try it. humans are, if nothing else, incredibly resourceful at adapting, and we're capable of eating a truly amazing variety of foods. even some poison types can be safe to eat and even delicious if prepared the right way- i've heard of things like nidoran stew and roast croagunk being delicacies in some regions. you can generally search up any pokemon and find if there are recipes involving it, but in particular i hear there's a fantastic cookbook by ex-trial captain mallow where she writes about interesting pokemon she's used in dishes during her travels.

mudsdale has a similar flavor profile to tauros, but the main issue is that it tends to be really tough. it's most commonly prepped by slow-cooking it to help make the meat more tender. here in paldea, if you order a mudsdale or mudbray meat dish (there are a few restaurants in medali that are famous for it), you're likely to be served it as a stew in a bowl made from mudsdale mud!

[dragunsblood]

HELLO HELLO!

In a fit of what i can only describe as masochistic madness I spent the last week adding every single pokemon that has complete sprites to Explorers of Sky! (Kanto-Hisui) This is a fork of Explorers of Skies by Staro, credit goes to them for the QoL tweaks and implementation of the Fairy Type! (Staro if you see this and want me to take it down let me know, id be happy to)

You can download the patches HERE! Apply the patches with this web patcher. Let me know if anything is broken and ill do my best to fix it.

Theres way too many folks to credit individually for the portraits, please check here for the credits!

THIS IS A REPOST!! i had to fix a critical memory issue that was softlocking the game!! it should now replace any sprites with missing textures if the memory is overloaded instead of freezing, let me know if you encounter this and ill cull some actors from the scene to hopefully prevent it from happening again (sorry dugtrio and croagunk, your sacrifice was not in vain)