#I’ve recently discovered I like drawing in a muppet style-

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My hyper fixations have crossed over so I drew Spectacular Spider-Man Otto as a Welcome Home puppet. I’d like to think his tentacles would act kinda like how Home does

Might draw post- accident Otto at some point or other tssm characters in puppet form but for now this is what I got while I work on my WH oc bios

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My Favorite Pokemon (That Aren’t In Sword and Shield) #2: Breloom

   One of the best things about there being so many Pokemon is that it’s hard to memorize and recall them all. That may seem like a bad thing, but in the end it mostly just means you’re constantly re-discovering cool monsters that you may have overlooked before. Case in point, Breloom. I may have played Pokemon games with Breloom in them, but for some reason I never really knew about it until recently, probably because I thought Shroomish looked lame. 

Shroomish   

   I’ve softened my opinion on Shroomish a bit since then. I think I hated it for just being a basic “plant with legs” design, not looking all that much like a mushroom, and having a minimalist frowny face that doesn’t really fit the Pokemon style. Looking at it now though, I can’t help but be charmed by how silly and determined its face looks, that’s honestly my favorite part of the whole design. It looks like this ( l:< ). I still don’t like how it looks more like dumpling or an onion than a mushroom, wasting it’s potential to be a really cool fungi, but I like the random green spots and the simple color scheme. Shroomish is kind of iconic in a way, like something a kid would draw.

Breloom

Now this is what I’m talking about. I don’t even know where to start with this design. It looks like a dinosaur, it’s got an adorable muppet face, and it’s also got deadly-looking claws on its feet. It’s that classic Pokemon blend of cute and deadly. So many grass types just look like humanoid plants that it’s refreshing to see this mushroom take on an animal shape, while still keeping the coolest part of a mushroom as a sort of organic “hat”. The two “holes” on either side of it’s mushroom hat even vaguely of look like a second pair of eyes, giving it a kind of Kabuto/horseshoe crab vibe on top of everything. Things like it’s neck frill and the club on it’s tail simultaneously make it look more like a mushroom and more like a dinosaur. The lovely cream/green/red-pink color scheme makes it look down to earth while also drawing your eyes to it’s huge claws.

  There’s just one problem with Breloom. It looks like it can fight, but unlike a lot of other fighting types it doesn’t beat you over the head with some obvious martial arts inspiration. So why is it a fighting type?

   I was shocked when I first found out Breloom is probably based on a boxing kangaroo. For a little while I actually felt kinda tricked by it’s design, fooling me into thinking it was a cool dinosaur when it was actually a mammal this whole time (not that I have anything against mammals, they’re just not dinosaurs). But then I remembered this is Pokemon and there’s no reason this mushroom can’t be both a kangaroo and a dinosaur. It’s not like Pokemon doesn’t already have a dinosaur-kangaroo in the form of Kangaskhan. It would honestly be weirder if the second kangaroo Pokemon wasn’t as dinosaur-like. But wait you say how can it be based on a boxing kangaroo if it’s arms are so short? Well apparently the person who writes Pokedex entries also had this same thought, because a lot of Breloom’s dex entries mention it’s stretchy arms that allow it to throw punches like a boxer. Sadly we rarely get to see it’s arms stretch in the games, so many Pokemon fans rightfully assume that it just fights with it’s powerful legs. It’s so weird that a Pokemon allegedly based around boxing has such tiny useless-looking arms, but on the plus side we get a mushroom creature with stretching powers. Something about a mushroom with stretching powers just feels so right.

  Elegant, adorable, silly, threatening, this mushroom had it all. Goodbye you funky fungus.