#THAT'S WHAT EVOLUTION IN ART DOES!!!
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ask-the-druggieverse · 1 day ago
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How does swap deal with the fatigue? And the heart problems? Is there anything that helps??
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- ALT - There's not much I can do but I try to be well rested and I also try to reduce less stress! (Dream helps me with that)
Science assigned me a diet for less sodium and just basically eat healthy. I also have bi-weekly check ups with Doc and get heart meds from Sci
I also live with Ink, Dream, and Error just in case anything happens to me (my uh... my AU I don't really ent- ... nevermind)
INK: We pirated cussing hotel
Ink and Error... aren't really in good condition to help me but at least they don't encourage me to re-lapse (their cooking is really good tho)
SWAP: That's uh... pretty much all I can do SWAP: I kinda fucked myself over with... edibles...
- IDK - Fuck it I'm just using regular font cuz chat font is being difficult with me, also HI SORRY FOR NOT UPDATEING IN A FEW DAYS!!! I recently just got two new guinea pigs and I'm trying to have all of my piggies get along! (uh... it's gonna take a long time because Butters/Pig HATES them... (it's slow progress! she's getting used to Reese right now :3))
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egophiliac · 1 month ago
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the lovers, reversed
(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)
#art#ride kamens#i am about to go off on wild speculation so excuse me in advance#I HAVEN'T PLAYED THE EVENT YET so this could all be just absolutely nothing but i gotta get it out#(still debating if i wanna save the event for after i finish part 2 or not...)#this is my last chance to throw wacky theories out there okay#i've just. been thinking a lot about the riders the characters are based on and how they relate to their different classes#like the choices seemed SO random when they were first revealed but they do mostly make sense when you think about it#to the point where i actually do feel like i should've been able to call ooo for ambition. damnit.#however i did always feel like jou was a bit of an outlier and now i'm wondering if that's gonna be like...a thing#idk man just the fact that he's gonna have a special double card and bond henshin with taiten is nuts to me#especially since we're clearly on the verge of SOMETHING happening with soun and uryuu#what does it mean. WHAT DOES IT MEAN#what does this mean for the future of tower emblem#and it hasn't escaped me that there is no class associated with evolution (YET)#and thinking about who jou is based on i'm just like#(waves hands) YOU KNOW?!#(plus i'm still like WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR RUI AND HAYATE but that's a separate thing)#i'm gonna try and take my time and not rush through part 2 but i also am SO impatient#i gotta knooooow#given the way my predictions tend to go though i'm either 100% accidentally right about the dumbest thing#or jou is fine but leon fucking dies or something and i'm gonna throw my phone into a lake#HAVE FUN GUYS I GUESS
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iknowicanbutwhy · 5 months ago
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Tfw you (currently obsessed with ISAT who never plays pokemon) play a soul-link nuzlocke with a friend (in for a world of torment) and you can't pay attention to a health bar for the life of you nor remember what types are weak to what.
Spoiler under the cut :)
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Guy how did you manage to un-evolve yourself
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zarla-s · 11 months ago
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regrets are for the weak, heavy
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foolishfoolsgold · 5 months ago
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I said I wouldn’t but I kept having ideas
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We hate him. We love him. We love to hate him. It’s cancer cell! *he immediately gets booed offstage*
Anyway, it was only natural that I took the only canon character with creature features (I’m saying that because we don’t talk about the other one, cough cough code black sperm ducks cough cough) and did what I could with it! I’ve always been a big nerd about things with wings, he was fun to design. First of all, I figured out how to make the popular yet anatomically questionable (in my opinion) “wings on the back” design work by making a centauroid structure where the front legs are the wings. The reason the other one wouldn’t work is because the person’s shoulders would get in the way of the wing’s downstroke and make it so they wouldn’t have enough power to take off. Even if my cells are boneless, he’d need a lot more filaments (muscles) that he can’t fit in that scrawny ass torso so I gave him another one lmao. I also wanted to use this structure to design harpies when I went to work on my speculative fantasy world, which I’m hoping you’ll get to see someday, but I kept getting distracted. ID under the cut.
[Start ID: Cancer Cell has silver hair and pale, dead-looking skin covered in red and blue markings resembling stripes or veins. His eyes are green with blue veins and petechiae under them (it’s mentioned that healthy cells also have blue cytosol, and this symbolizes that Cancer is supposed to be “one of them”). The eyes appear to be dripping off of his face. His left pupil is a blob-shaped mess, and his right is that of a leaf-tailed gecko, appearing as a slit with pinholes in it. He has two arms, the right of which can morph at will. As mentioned in the post, he has a second torso with four legs on the ground: front right is a white hoatzin wing with green feather tips, front left is a blue pterosaur wing with red veins, back left is a striped green tentacle, and back right is a regular leg with a black sneaker. He’s wearing a white tee shirt that says “cell” on it, and a pair of black jeans on his back legs. His tail is skinny and has frills halfway down that can turn into “rudders” to help him steer in the air, but due to his tail feathers at the end being torn and his wings not matching, he’s still kind of a clumsy flier. End ID.]
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ffwix · 1 year ago
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My legendary Eevee evolution
Im going to draw every eevee evolution, and in this challenge I’m going to take a normal evolution but add another type, and then I’ll drawing them more fancy so that they’ll be looked legendary.
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thethingything · 11 months ago
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okay I know it's not even close to Art Fight season but does anyone know if you're allowed to upload a species ref sheet in place of a character?
like I know you can upload a character and add a species ref alongside it, but if you were doing speculative biology stuff, could you essentially post each species as if it was an OC and let people just kinda go wild drawing your little creatures?
the rules don't seem to say you can't do it, but they also don't explicitly say you can so I'm wondering if anyone else has any insight
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themyscirah · 9 months ago
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Guys do we think the Amazons have complete records of Sappho's songs. Do we think they could sing them. Guys this IS IMPORTANT GUYS----
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lovelydolls · 2 years ago
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How did my mom not know I was Autistic-
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reggiecristal · 2 years ago
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#reggie speaks#like at this point we’re just beating the art form’s corpse#i get wanting to work with a living composer#but the vocal culture of opera is maintained by its core repertoire#it’s not possible to cultivate an operatic voice without the hand of bel canto—the notion of it and the repertoire associated with it#guiding and building voices so that the singer is empowered to tackle any rep they choose#if you can’t put butts in seats for classics maybe you’re not promoting them well#but pivoting towards contemporary works b/c your throwing everything behind them worked (shocker) risks abandoning the form’s identity#and effectively delegates singers to the role of pawns—few contemporary works showcase voices to their fullest extent#‘the hours’ sold well b/c it was headed by three divas—actual stars w/ experience and renown coming together like never before#but renee and joyce wouldn’t be shit w/o mozart strauss and rossini#those composers will be the ones to appear in their obituaries#they’re what made them household names and it was possible b/c the roles showcase the better parts of their vocalism#what does heggie do? other than write listenable non-starters to be performed in conservatories and regional theaters#this move is less about the art form’s evolution and more about how it can be twisted for profit#its spirit being marred matters not if you rig the grammys so you can stack them for better marketing advantage#that your singers have no power and burn out and discarded in less than a decade matters not#and this also absolves the Met of having to fill dramatic roles which can barely be sung anymore#simply write music for smaller voices#and never question why dramatic ones aren’t emerging or why your lyric voices burn out so quickly#god i want peter dissolved in a vat of acid#a record exec being the head of the country’s largest operatic institution was a shit move from the start#and this’ll be his legacy: killing the traditions that have kept the art form extant for hundreds of years for the benefit of his#administration and its allies#how very much like us as a nation and culture
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pangur-and-grim · 1 year ago
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Games for Gaza is a collection of 256 games on itchio, which you can grab for only TEN DOLLARS, with all profits going toward Medical Aid for Palestinians. these are the 10 games I'll probably play myself:
Neurocracy 2049 is a mystery game, in which you solve a murder by sifting through an in-game 'wikipedia' for clues
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2. Multiplicity is a short cosmic horror game, with a retro aesthetic and interesting art direction
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3. Slasher U is a horror-comedy dating sim with 18+ content and very fun visuals
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4. Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia is a fishing sim that looks rather peaceful.... but is it? there might be something unsettling, waiting to be found beneath the water
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5. The Corridor is a short meta game about the experience of playing games. more specifically, about the experience of walking down a corridor. what does that mean? I don't know.
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6. Nuts is an eerie narrative game about.......watching squirrels?! and it doesn't disappoint, there are a large number of squirrels. the world you can walk through looks gorgeous, with stylized surreal colours.
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7. Brassica - A Marry Tale is a gay dating sim with a charming art style
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8. Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering game about an astronaut on an alien planet with only a few minutes left to live
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9. Extreme MeatPunks Forever is a hybrid visual novel/ brawling sim, following the lives of a handful of gay mech pilots
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10. Evolution is a game where you build lifeforms, and help them evolve to perform tasks
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and that's just 10 out of 256! there's plenty to appreciate, so check out the bundle yourself
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mcondance · 3 months ago
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knowing better, twisted pleasure ☆ spencer reid
MDNI 18+ oral yay!!!, i love thinking about spencer with his head between my legs so here we are, overstim so “stop” is said once so keep that in mind ☆ title from killshot by magdalena bay, listen as you read if you want! spencer i can’t get enough of you please.
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it’s too much, you can’t. you can’t.
“spence— spence stop,” you plead as you squirm and your legs draw up in an attempt to get away from him. but he just won’t stop. unaffected, he slips his hands under your thighs and pulls you closer to his mouth, to where he wants you.
soft locks are enveloped in your hands as you card your fingers through them because even in your delirium, giving him affection is like breathing. your objections skate right over that pretty head of his and he keeps going, because he knows you don’t mean it. he knows that if he stops and rises back up to his knees, you’ll be begging him to “come back, please,” like you did that one time he felt really evil.
you gasp when you feel two fingers enter you, and you groan painedly when they begin to move, stroking maddeningly.
spencer’s too good at this, his fingers are too caring and precise inside you and his tongue is too soft and sweet as it laves over you. jesus, what the fuck.
it’s all so much, so much. a tortured, groveled moan rips from your chest as another sickly-sweet pang of feeling rocks through you. spencer’s commanding fingers tighten around your thighs, stacking yet another sensation on your already overwhelmed nervous system. human evolution, no matter how developed and perfected, was not made for this. it balks in the face of what spencer’s doing to you.
“oh my god— spence,” you whine, locking in on him through your blurry, teary eyes. between your legs, he looks unfortunately perfect, even as he shuts you down and lights you up all at the same time. you’ve got enough going on under your skin to power your whole block.
it’s lewd, how he looks so pretty eating you out. his messy brown hair and those melting golden eyes, and most disgustingly, his mouth hidden where his tongue flicks against your absolutely soaked center. the visual is art, though, the plane of his shoulders and his ever-expressive liquid hazel eyes flitting between closed and taking you in, in your beautiful ruin.
it’s in moments like these where spencer feels good. you’re explicitly, obscenely beautiful to him, and your pleasure is something he takes great pride in giving to you. as you lose yourself in it, sinking into the sticky pool of feeling, he gets to bear witness to it all.
“oh, baby,” you moan so warmly as he flattens his tongue and licks right over your clit. before, his tongue was quick and precise, but now he’s taken to loving you slowly, licking in a way that could only be called sensual. he hums as he runs his tongue over you again, so salacious, open-mouthed and he looks so dirty that you can’t fucking take it any more. again, your body does its best to protect you from feelings you can’t compute, but spencer does his best to make you take what you need more than air.
then, his fingers inside you focus on their goal, and he’s curling them familiarly and kissing that spot, rubbing it softly.
“yeah, fuck—,” is all you can scramble out before what’s been building up in you since he first settled between your legs explodes. if you didn’t know better, you’d think you’re exploding with how fucking much you feel. it should be humanly impossible to feel this way, but it’s not, because you’re feeling it here and now as your ears pop and your vision goes black and spencer just keeps fucking consuming you. he has the nerves to moan from between your legs, sending shockwaves through your already ravaged being.
eons pass. you travel through a thousand universes and sit upon a thousand suns before you come back to your Earth, with your spencer looking softly up at you, his head laying on one of your glossy thighs. as your senses slowly return to you, it seems he’s wiped his hand off on the sheets because the hand that’s rubbing the outside of your thigh is relatively dry, considering its previous position.
“you okay?” he asks warmly.
“fuck you,” you drag, croaky and unpolished.
he snorts.
“yeah, you’re okay,” he says through his laughing, unhooking his hand from under your trembling thigh as he rises up to hover over you. he kisses you, and just barely begrudgingly, you kiss him back.
“good?” he whispers over your lips. you wrap your arms over his neck as you both settle with each other.
“yeah,” you acquiesce lightly with a shrug and a tilt of your head, before you bring him down for another kiss.
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dcmcboxers · 11 months ago
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My shout-out to queer youtubers
Hbombs list was great but obviously not comprehensive. I watch a lot of video essayists and wanted to give a little love to the smaller channels that fall under the radar. Please feel free to add to this list!
let's talk about stuff/Sarah Zedig
If you've seen Jesse Gender's videos on the Matrix movies you may already be familiar with Sarah. She does excellent film and culture analysis with a lot of great conversations on paratext and outside influence in engaging with text. Her video on Tunic is one of my favorites.
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Pamphleteer
No one makes videos like hers, which has the side effect making them a bit hard to describe. I will link one of my favorites which describes the disconnected temporality of being older when you discover you're queer.
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Turbo Queer
Really really under watched channel. Skylar covers a lot of topics from video games, to anarchist history and modern events, to autistic life, to current politics. For a fun one check out her video on the SpongeBob strike episode.
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Kaz Rowe
Kaz does a fantastic job examining modern myths and manufactured history primarily pertaining to western Europe, Victorian & Edwardian England, and 1800-1900s US. And of course, talking about historical queerness in all its ambiguities and evolutions. I highly recommend their video on Weimar Germany.
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drapetomania
drapetomania interrogates the politics of low class and high class art and entertainment from a queer and Black perspective. Their art history videos alone cover many angles of white supremacist history I haven't seen anyone else discuss and I'm very excited to see more from them. They are also a very under viewed channel that more people should see!
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I am error
Evelynn's channel primarily discusses video games in a presentation style and voice most similar to Action Button reviews. There's something just a bit more personal here though. I hesitate to say cozy since that word has a bit of an infantilizing connotation, maybe comforting is closer. She puts an immense amount of thought and empathy into the experience of playing video games and the personal narratives we build with them.
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Swolesome
For more transmasc perspectives there's Swolesome. He has a lot of interesting insights into the more traditionally masculine and "broish" communities like fitness as well as commentary on recent trans issues.
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Shonalika
Music, disability, and aggressively non-binary. Their video on gender presentation in heavy metal was really insightful. I would also check out the video "Why I Wear Gloves" for more insight on invisible disabilities.
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Vivian Strange
Vivian delights in being a bit of a contrarian- something I really appreciate. She's probably going to challenge you and you're probably going to disagree at times, which is what makes her channel so important. Her video on Marquis De Sade is powerful and a must watch (if you can stomach the subject material, although I would encourage you to try). I haven't seen her most recent video on Saw yet but I am extremely excited to.
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cuprohastes · 2 years ago
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Evolution? We don't need no Evolution!
Wherever Aliens gather to sit down, do the equivalent of a 1km stare and drink things that make you feel like being gently smacked with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick, eventually the topic of Humans will come up.
"They're semi aquatic." one says. "I swear. We were on a beach and we had this human - You know, to carry stuff and do Human related Things. And they just went 'oh what a lovely day' and then they ... ran into the sea."
They pause and take a long drink.
"No exo suit. Just splash splash splash, and then they fell under the water."
The others nod or quiver in agreement. "Don't tell me" the Tsin says, their scales painted with that human Nail Polish. The shade called Pining of You looked especially good. "They ran back out holding something horrible and toothy, and immediately adopted it."
The first alien snorts. "No. Sort of. We thought they'd fallen into a sink hole. We had no idea! They were swimming! Like a Tsuga! Just looking at everything underwater and then popping up and going back down... you know... they jsut. They just stop breathing? Because breathing might be inconvenient so they... stop." they say.
Everyone pauses to think about this.
"I mean... how does that even work?" one slender, feathery being asks. "But they're not aquatic. You know how I know? Because I've seen them fly."
Another pause.
"Bullshit." someone says. "They don't have wings."
"No no... but they can make them. AND and and... I don't mean like ships. No! they make them out of fabric and sticks."
The Tsin looks into her drink and then sideways at the make who's been staring at her scales for the last ten minutes. He puffs up a little. "Mm. What as an art project?" she says.
The feathery being declines this supposition and responds, "No. They built them then they go up somewhere nice and high and they pick them up and take a big run - You ever see one running? Terrifying. And they... jsut..." the feathery being makes a sweeping gesture.
"Up into the sky. For hours. Then they come down and slide to a stop and put everything away and... How do you do that? How do you fly and then decide, oh I'll just go on with being a normal terrestrial animal, ho hum, nothing special."
The Tsin coyly blows a bubble at the preening male and shrugs.
"Mmmmy theory is they're bad at evolution." she says. "So they gave up and now they just turn into whatever they need to be for as long as they need it."
There's a certain amount of consideration at this and the Tsin puts her drink down and wiggles her fingers to everyone and leaves to investigate that tasty little male with the gorgeous blue markings.
The tall and frondy being quivers and splays it's fronds. "That's a horrible thought. Imagine if they decided to become plants?!"
"Ah well" says a very drunk Waallondernook, "Funny you should mention that..."
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alcrego · 4 months ago
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I’m sorry, but the fact that you use ai in your art sorta ruins it for me.
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It's curious that until I said I use AI to ASSIST my work, nobody realized. 👀👍
I use AIs to generate images from Custom Models trained with my OWN work, idk what is the problem. I neither invented the camera I take photos with, the softwares I use to edit and to animate my work.
I perceive there is a huge lack of understanding of how some of use use AIs to IMPLEMENT and ASSIST the process of our creations.
If we use AIs, wrong.
If people steal our work for more than 10 years ago, is ok? 🤨
Adapt, evolve or omit.
Evolution does not wait for us to understand it.
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bynineb · 1 month ago
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my favorite & least favorite Pokemon from each generation!
GEN 1
FAVE: VENONAT
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my lovely buggy boy! this is partly for nostalgic reasons as my very first slot car i built with my father was called VENOM, and had a little Venonat figurine perched on top. but the design is also precious, a Kuriboh style fuzzball gnat in a whimsical purple. also when it runs it hops!!! like a bunny!!!
Runner Ups: Nidorino, Poliwhirl, Porygon, Charizard, Haunter
LEAST FAVE: GOLDUCK
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a wet fart of an evolution that loses all of psyduck's walleyed charm and replaces it with... nothing. it has no identity. even its pokedex entries are lame - it can swim fast and that's it. usually the simpler gen 1 pokemon still appeal to me just due to sugimori's art style, but no such luck for the duck.
that being said, i don't completely hate it. it just needs more to latch onto design-wise
Runner Ups: Rapidash, Hypno
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GEN 2
FAVE: FLAAFFY
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once my all-time favorite pokemon, although that has since been ceded to Venonat, i adore Flaaffy to bits. it has that perfect amount of cuteness and patheticness that endears me to some of my favorite designs, said patheticness owing to its stubby arms, mangy coat, watery eyes, and peculiar bowed stance when it stands up. i love the striped horns and tail, the colors are very pleasant, and the wool gives it a je ne sais quoi that the otherwise similar Ampharos lacks, almost like a wooly muffler and hat. (not knockin Ampharos btw, love it too). there's a reason Fynn took so much inspiration from this fluffy fellow!
(also, the rental Flaaffy in Pokemon Stadium 2 had Thunder Punch and Fire Punch. considering the sorry state of rental movesets in that game, and my lack of an N64 link cable, Flaaffy carrying me through those fights may have helped cement our bond!)
Runner Ups: Skiploom, Dunsparce, Forretress, Unown, Magcargo
LEAST FAVE: TYROGUE
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not only does it not really resemble the hitmons - maybe hitmonchan? - it's just not a flattering design. the bandages and ear guards give it some definition and trainee-like character, at least, but the colors are gross, and frankly it just looks too much like a human being. in general i dislike pokemon that too closely resemble humans and Tyrogue is one of the biggest offenders. even its name is dumb! it's not roguish at all! what a hitmonchump
(also the beta version was so much better imo. linked art by @racieb)
Runner Ups: Qwilfish, Smoochum, Noctowl
GEN 3
FAVE: DUSKULL
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aww duskull... what a charmingly spooky spirit. the single red eye behind the skull mask is a killer design motif and i love its fishlike phantom body, arms tucked behind its back in eternal contemplation. so halloweeny!
Runner Ups: Trapinch, Lunatone, Illumise, Shedinja, Tropius
LEAST FAVE: DELCATTY
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it lacks in personality, and i don't think the color scheme looks good. its head shape also freaks me out the longer i look at it... but i do like that its neck resembling a pincushion, that's clever
Runner Ups: Castform
GEN 4
FAVE: REGIGIGAS
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hey look, it's game freak's favorite whipping boy! i'm a sucker for hulking construct-type designs and regigigas is such a thoroughly excellent example of one. the black runes and mossy accessories give it a feeling of ancient, unknown significance. unlike a lot of gen 4 legendaries, it doesn't feel overly busy but still feels complex enough to have that "legendary" impact
Runner Ups: Giratina, Carnivine, Torterra, Bastiodon, Gliscor, Drapion
LEAST FAVE: AMBIPOM
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i have to say gen 4's designs usually feel distinct, particularly the new evolutions for older pokemon, which go out of their way to differentiate themselves from their previous form, for better or worse. not so for Ambipom, though!- which is just Aipom but worse in every single way. its once nimble fingers reduced to swollen udders, its cheeky grin slackened into a vacant smile and marred with an unpleasantly singular nostril, that dreadful haircut, and even the introduction of elbows to its vestigial arms that further emphasize the seeming impracticality of those wretched bulbous tail hands. and maybe even worse, it doesn't evolve the base concept in any way, aside from doubling the number of party balloons that limply float behind it, possibly the least interesting iteration on the existing concept
nothing unique to it is good or interesting, and that to me is way worse than a design that tries something new and fails
in terms of what i like about it... i guess it does seem like a pretty friendly guy. maybe he does tricks at parties. and it's nice that they can hold hands with one another in a group
Runner Ups: Gallade, Lopunny, Magmortar, Glaceon,
GEN 5
FAVE: HAXORUS
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god if this thing isn't cool! the exquisite color palette, the subtle contours of its armor, the bloodred axe-tusks... elegant simplicity in a terrifyingly brutal beast. it feels out of time, jurassic yet medieval...
Runner Ups: Roggenrola, Heatmor, Scolipede, Cofagrigus, Mienshao
LEAST FAVE: GURDURR
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there are very few pokemon that make me feel disgusted by looking at them, but here's one of them. its creepy lumpy head and bulging veins make me deeply uncomfortable. i must give credit for the base concept of a clown-ogre-construction-worker... that's ambitious, at least, and i think it pays off pretty well in Conkeldurr.
Runner Ups: the monkeys, the genies, & the musketeers... the fillerest of filler
GEN 6
FAVE: GOURGEIST
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SUCH a fun design. it blends a candle and a jack-o-lantern into its own original creature with a very unique shape, and what a cutie at that! it coming in multiple sizes like a real pumpkin would just seals the deal. another perfectly halloweeny 'mon, it and Duskull would be best friends
Runner Ups: Avalugg, Barbaracle, Clawitzer, Espurr, Trevenant
LEAST FAVE: VOLCANION
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one of the pokemon i forget about the most, and i am never happy to remember it. what a waste of the first fire/water type! its face looks constipated, its colors are lame, and it doesn't do jack-all with the concept besides the most obvious "it can shoot out steam." at the very least, though, i can say it has a unique silhouette. i think the design has potential, it's just that a lot of the particulars are very clunky and lame
(also, give me the fireball seal from the beta game freak!!)
Runner Ups: Hoopa, Braixen
GEN 7
FAVE: CHARJABUG
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BEEP BEEP!!! oh how i adore this little battery buggy. i didn't think much of it back when it was first revealed, but as soon as i heard its cry i immediately fell in love. it really is unique, too - no other pokemon has this shape. even cooler it has a support-based playstyle unique from its evolution based around its Battery ability, improving its allies' damage passively. thanks charjabug : )
Runner Ups: Type: Null, Celesteela, Bruxish, Stakataka, Melmetal
LEAST FAVE: LYCANROC-DAY
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i don't particularly dislike Lycanroc really (Alola's designs are bangers), but the rock typing is so thoroughly phoned in. and if you get rid of that you're just left with a wolf, an animal i don't care about. midnight form is fun though!
Runner Ups: Passimian, Toucannon
GEN 8
FAVE: SNEASLER
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this pick is probably not too popular, but i can't help but love Sneasler because it looks so much like what i would doodle in my high school notebooks, monster people with huge claws and wicked eyes. it's a cringe OC and that's badass. it carrying you around in a basket is also just precious...
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special mention also to legends arceus for making the diamond/pearl legendaries look way cooler. to me, anyway, i just think they're so much more fun in this surreal state
Runner Ups: Carkol, Cursola, Falinks, Ursaluna, Hatterene, Toxtricity
LEAST FAVE: CINDERACE
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i generally don't care for the set of designs made for sword and shield. (my favorite gen 8 mon isn't even from sword/shield!!) it feels like over half of the dex is either a guy with a job, or tries way too hard to be "memetic" and funny. cinderace falls into the former camp, an uncannily humanoid and unnatural design. i also don't like the colors used... that being said, it's going for a very different aesthetic than what i prefer, so i can imagine some people loving this design just as much as I dislike it.
i think the idea of kicking a pebble that becomes a blazing fireball is rad though, and Court Change is a sick move
Runner Ups: Boltund, Eiscue, Kubfu, Coalossal, Skwovet, Greedent
GEN 9
FAVE: GLIMMORA
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this perfect angel was one of the most unexpected delights of my scarlet playthrough. i love how otherworldly and surreal it is, its beautiful flower-like blooming petals that conceal its deadly poisonous nature, and its barreleye-fish-like-eyes that are at once adorable and haunting. it's amazing that we're 1000 designs in and game freak's artists are still able to create wholly new feeling concepts that are this cool...
Runner Ups: Slither Wing, Espathra, Houndstone, Ogerpon
LEAST FAVE: RELLOR
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WHY DO YOU HAVE THE FACE OF A HUMAN, RELLOR?! WHY!?! i am begging gamefreak to stop giving so many pokemon mustaches and beards. i also don't like the weirdly smooth dunkin-donuts-lookin' dung ball and how none of its colors match the bug's colors... that being said, it does at least have personality, i can't deny that...
Runner Ups: Iron Jugulis, Frigibax, Iron Crown
well that was cathartic! to end on a positive note, i must say that I think Pokemon's overall design track record is very good. most designs have a likeable quality to them, and so many are bursting with creativity and charm. honestly even the ones i just criticized are probably some people's favorites, and they're not wrong to think so. thanks for reading!
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