#burmadam

[tbshorts]

Burmy is just a really well-constructed take on its real-world inspiration

Wait, hang on, the Combee line is AMAZING!

Pachirisu is where Pikaclones begin to have their own ideas

Video scripts below the cut

Burmy:

Burmy is an interesting one. It's based on bagworms, which make their sheltering cocoons out of materials they find in their environments as camoflage, hence the different forms it can take on. The body itself is neutral black with bright yellow eyes in large part to create a neutral canvas on which its various cloaks can provide a high contrast, which is quite effective design.

Wor-madam does much the same thing but More, and dials up the femininity of the presentation by adding "pigtails" out of its materials and taking on a top heavy "fancy lady with a fur coat" sort of profile, again reflecting the way female bagworms remain in their larval stage their whole lives. It's solid stuff.

Mothim, then, gets the traditional bug pokémon final stage, subtyping into flying and growing wings. The black body remains and is used the same way, as a means to create contrast, but it adopts a bright yellow orange and white scheme, with especially those antennae giving its face a sharp, slightly dangerous-feeling character. It's a honey thief, according to the pokédex, which is perhaps why it has those "fingers" on its wings?

This whole line is just solid design craft, I have no complaints.

Grade: B

Combee:

I've never really given Combee a second thought, but upon re-examining it for this review I realized, hang on, these are freaken brilliant. It's a bee made of hexagons that are fused together into one body, quite literally embodying the way that a bee hive is a kind of gestalt entity, a unity composed of thousands of individuals joined together into one organism. The bees ARE the hive, in this case quite literally.

Vespiqueen takes the metaphor one step further, being a queen bee who is quite literally her own hive. I do feel like she ought to be designed to be way bigger, but the idea here is killer, and if you made it even slightly less kid-friendly, it would make for a killer horror monster.

But this is Pokémon and it's not going to go that far. Still, the top half of the body literally carrying a bee hive around beneath it, shaped in a way to evoke a big regal gown, that's clever, and the blood red eyes and sharp mandibles make a sharp contrast in deadliness with the cheerful adorableness of Combee, visually communicating the scale of difference in power between the two, but also that Vespiqueen isn't ruling by consensus, it's pheromone mind control and she is a tyrant. It rules.

Grade: S

Pachirisu:

Oooh, they keep trying to make Pikachu 2 happen, and Pikachu 2 just isn't gonna happen.

That's not Pachirisu's fault, of course, and does a much better job of distinguishing itself from Pikachu than Plusle and Minun did last generation. It's a squirrel rather than a mouse, and gets its electric theming from that bright blue streak on its body, as well as from sharp spikes in the blue fur that contrast with the soft, round adorableness of the rest of the design. I kinda feel like it woulda been better if it hadn't gone for the bright yellow cheek pads, because, again, that just reminds of Pikachu's iconic red cheek pads and invites comparison, but also, it confuses the color scheme a bit. Am I meant to understand the blue color and spikes as representing its electric power, or is it the yellow? Even the Pokédex gets a bit confused whether it stores its electricity in the cheeks or in the big fluffy tail. Electric cheeks is Pikachu's thing, so focusing on the tail and designing that out would have given it much more of its own identity.

For all the comparisons I'm making though, it's not fair to call it just a Pika-clone, it does have its own ideas, and frankly I would have loved to see an evolution for it that really leans into the static electric fluffy fur concept.

Grade: B

[chalkmon]

#413 Wormadam

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Wormadam © Nintendo / Game Freak

Picture © Elik-Chan

[koffing-time]

🤔 Burmy

Burmy is an all female species! Their evolution is called Burmadame, and afaik there is no Bursir, only Pinsir. Maybe these professors should look into a connection there instead of trying to solve infinity energy.

link to the ask game

[mrsjadecurtiss]

cant find a single source online about where you can get burmy in the underground... even though every other honey tree pokemon is there... and i could swear up and down i saw a burmy down there once and just didnt catch it cause i didnt need it yet at that point... now i gotta smear honey on trees and wait 6 hours like a tool

[elle-eedee]

spare kinnie ma'am ⭐

oh i was so hoping youd ask!!!!!! youre ‘80s webby vanderquack

[sludgecoffee]

🍔🎧!

🍔- do you have sensory problems with food? what food do you like to eat?

I really hate bananas the texture and smell just makes me gag (I fucking shuddered when I tried eating a banana and can’t even stand to have it right across from me) most meats made my stomach hurt real bad (turns out I’m sensitive to red meats. Chicken, Turkey, and fish are fine tho) and I fucking love me some vegetables and pasta (specially if it’s chewy pasta)

🎧- what symptom(s) of yours is the hardest for you to deal with?

Most definitely my sensitivity to light and sound (its worse cause I suffer a lot from migraines, they’re mostly from me getting over-emotional, but they just get worse with too much sensory overall) One of my relatives once said they would have to expose me to more light and sound for me to get better...that’s not gonna work, that’s gonna make me feel worse.

That and just not knowing how to outwardly react to situations? I have a blank face when being told some pretty heavy topics and am unsure what expression to use or what to even say (my bro and I both have this problem, not sure if he might be autistic as well) and it kinda makes me feel bad for not knowing how to react. (Is that  a symptom? I think it is)

[thalassomania]

a birthday gift for flore @burmadame !! sorry it’s on the late side, i meant to work with this sooner ~ happy birthday my friend <3

[ledybas-the-ledybest]

Why I Should Not Give Pokémon Nicknames

AKA I went through my Pokémon X save file (which I started in 2013, so when I was 11 years old and had no filter) and found most of the Pokémon in my boxes to whom I gave nicknames. Some of them are good, some have sentimental value, but most of them are silly XD

(content warning for Bug-type Pokémon, Homestuck references, mentions of food, an Undertale reference, repetition, a reference to taking drugs, a reference to Christianity, and a Disney reference)

Shauna the Crobat

Tangerine♀★ the shiny Ledian

Aerin the Roserade

Kurloz the Malamar 

Finni the Chesnaught

Jor⊚jumo the white-flower Florges

Claus the Gyarados

Misty the Karrablast

ZZnZZoZZ the Venomoth

Lasagnia the Victreebel

Precious the Ponyta

Lolwut the Seaking

PeanutButter the Tentacruel

Ebeneezer the Lickitung

Fonmineo the Mienfoo

Amazon the Simipour

Athena the Butterfree

Algarithm the Houndoom

Romani the Drifloon

Decepticon the Golurk

Burmadam the grass-cloak Wormadam

Bullwinkle the Tauros

Sabrina the Meowstic

Behavyer the Mightyena

Serpentina the Luvdisc

Cyoo-Tsee! the Marowak

Lizzy the Espeon

Free Wilma the Lapras

Primadonna the Nidoqueen

Adim the Dunsparce

TheJWittz the Jumpluff

Tinkerton the Shuckle

ob△m△ jr. the Charizard

Never Gonna the Dustox

Tasha the Maractus (I think she was named after Tasha from The Backyardigans)

Hades the Umbreon

TeribleDactl the Aerodactyl

Calem the Swadloon

Puck the Audino

rock3t the Linoone

Lucifer the Flareon (as a Twitch Plays Pokémon reference)

Susie the Druddigon

Sassy the Zangoose

Ashley the Kingler

H3L9 M3 the Spoink

Celestia the Lunatone

Bonjour the Fearow

Leia the Lotad

Honey the Raichu

EGGS-Ecution the Exeggcute

Dora the Smoochum

Abomysnee!!! the Abomasnow

b3ll3 the Munna

Double-D the Heliolisk

hummingbird the Altaria

Aphiroth the Zoroark

Widdle the Dwebble

Shadowskin the Beautifly

ArmoongusIII the Amoongus

Wally the Ninjask

Gutsy the Swellow

Bulldoze the Shieldon

Korrino the Lucario

Sonyendo the Dodrio

Elesa the Dedenne

Antable the Durant

ch3shir3 the Gengar

Egglocke Plz the Spinda

Edgar the Sneasel

Rojo the Talonflame

Henrieta the Camerupt

3xc△libur the Servine

Fing-Fang the Aurorus

Lefreg the Phanpy

Raelyn the Minun

Actty the Wailmer

PokéKellz the Sandile

Briana the Chingling

Esren the Seel

Honii the sand-cloak Wormadam

Versio Masco the Palpitoad

FallenLeaves the Mewtwo

Tricky the Carnivine

Cookie Dough the Vanillite

Reaper the Absol

Elizabeth the Loudred

Ariana Vark the Heatmor

Mastichol the Hippopotas

Renae the Carracosta (most likely named after RenaeCollects)

Isabelle the Avalugg

Shark Boy the Clawitzer

RAWR the Granbull

Veevi the Venusaur

Andream the Flaafy

MANRAY the Mantine

Baaiit the Corphish

Bivasure the Clamperl

Xelda the Xerneas

Grace the Rhyhorn

Sampler the Nidorino

Bobanna the Tropius

Peeko the Wingull

Alexa the Buneary

Franklin the shiny Poliwhirl

Never Gonna the Corsola (I can’t believe I had two Pokémon with that nickname)

Muffet the Galvantula

EWWWWWWWW!!! the Muk

Honeycomb the Vespiquen

Calm the Ditto

Modest the Ditto

Jolly the Ditto

Timid the Ditto

Relaxed the Abra

Mary the Slugma

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Wyvern the Noibat

Blaze It the Whirlipede

PokéJesus the Zygarde

Hadon the Tangela

Jaké the Vileplume

Frigate the Pidgeot

Teddy the Vaporeon

Gardenia the trash-cloak Wormadam

Izzy the Sandslash

Winny the Beedrill

Nutty the Pachirisu

Bronedge the Doublade

Pierre the Skitty

Mic the Chatot

Nala the Luxray

Detonator the Shelgon

Regina the Quagsire

Monami the Chansey

C-3PO the Magnemite

Kankri the Inkay

Nepeta the Inkay

Aranea the Inkay

dcfdtldude the white-flower Flabébé (that was my DeviantArt username)

Rose the white-flower Flabébé

Wilma the Roselia

Gogoselia the Roselia

Juliet the Roselia

Rick the Roselia

Crowsraid the Roselia

Doughselia the Roselia

Foesraid the Roselia

Horuss the Inkay

Mituna the Inkay

Aradia the Inkay

Damara the Inkay

Equius the Inkay

Meulin the Inkay

Karkat the Inkay

Bunicula the Noibat

[animated-axolotl]

hell yea

Rules: Put your whole music library on shuffle and share the first 10 songs that come up. Then tag 10 people (or as many as you want).

tagged by @clowngoths fuck yea bless i haven’t done one o these in awhile

1. Wish I Knew You // The Revivalists

2. Rank and Fire // Moses Sumney

3. Los Ageless // St. Vincent

4. Severed // The Decemberists

5. My Type // Saint Motel

6. Samba Temperado / C-Dag // Yuji Ohno

7. Ode to the Bouncer // Studio Killers

8. Chick Habit // April March

9. Feel the Love Go // Franz Ferdinand

10. Would You Be Impressed // Streetlight Manifesto

i bolded my favourites Just Because

and i’ll tag @silenthillcoffeebeans @v-diggety @cuntwasps @spacepunksupreme @babblingfishes @burmadame @faiirydust and @driftinbuddy y’all don’t have to do this but you can if you wanna kill 10 or so minutes!

[airyhfjones]

Experience @Burmadame

uh , u hm.i dont get this message ....

[elle-eedee]

habpy (late) borth day florence @burmadame !!!!! i lov u and, more importantly, ur mans lovs u!!!!! congrats on turning Old 🧡💗