#haunter cosplay

[crotchrottt]

I’m like Konrad Curze but a girl

[starakex]

Wurmple Build Log

Guess who's back to drop another overly detailed post about a cosplay project. Another Pokémon one, unsurprisingly! My dumb ass made a Nargacuga fursuit head back in 2020 so I could learn how to work with upholstery foam. It looked... alright... but I know in my heart it was a horrible, horrible mess. Fast forward to 2023, I go to a 3-day convention, wear a bunch of different heavy wigs the whole time, get a rash on my forehead and think, fuck it, I am cringe and I am free, I'm gonna finally live the dream and make a Pokémon suit. It'll be great, and I won't have to wear a wig; I'll just have to worry about heat strokes instead. Fun! Of course, in true shitpost fashion, my perfect fursuit candidate has 10 legs and is shaped like a sausage.

Click on over to read the wondrous tale of building a Wurmple Partial Suit in like two weeks.

1. The Worm

Wurmple started as a dumb little sketch in the corner of my notebook. I have a lot of cosplays and plushes under my belt but the last fursuit (head) kinda looked like it would belong in a bootleg Freddy Fazbear establishment, so I brainstormed over a bunch of Pokémon I like that would work as a partial and are simple enough in design to avoid accidentally creating Uncle Uncanny 2.0. The goal was something that would be relatively comfortable and easy to bring to events 'cause I'm just not mentally prepared to drag a suitcase in public transport and wear a full body sweat carpet yet. I ended up doodling a few ideas like Haunter or Koffing, but then I pictured a Bug Catcher trainer with a bug head and I thought it was funny as hell, so the choice was made. I picked up my copy of Alpha Sapphire to get a good look at the model and immediately ran into a problem; the eyes on Wurmple are literally on the side of the head. They sit so flush you literally cannot see them if you look at them from the front. Not a great start. I figured I could probably hide a small hole for vision right above the mandibles where the red and cream colors separate. I wasn't super confident it would work, but dammit, I was already commited to being a stupid Bug Bug Catcher. Similarly, I looked at the side profile and figured I could open a hole behind the mandibles at mouth height to breathe out of. With an disproportionate amount of confidence for the bullshit I'm about to summon into the world, I began the project by patterning out the tail.

2. Bug Ass

I'll be honest, I started on the tail so I wouldn't have a reason to back out of it if the head ended up being a hot mess. I've patterned out and sewn a few plush before, so making a big ol' headless grub sounded like a reasonable goal. I usually make plush patterns by building out the shape with newspaper and tape, but Wurmple's tail got pretty big when scaled to fit a human, so I searched for alternatives. I ended up building the base shape to draw a pattern out of by taping two pillows together. I tied down small sections to shape the belly and slapped a layer of masking tape over half of it to trace my pattern. Once everything looked good, I cut the pattern pieces out and laid them flat. The pillows were returned to the couch safely once they recovered from the barbaric treatment.

I dug through my materials storage (a sad lonely plastic bin) for some Trash Fabric ™ leftovers from other Trash Projects ™ and tested the pattern out to see how it looked. I made the pattern for the spikes and legs at that point based on the test build and adjusted some seams on the tape pattern to refine some shapes, but overall the first pattern was a great success!

With the mockup done, I pulled out the minky fabric and got to sewing the tail together. I picked minky for the project 'cause it felt right for the cartoony 3d models to have that smooth short-pile look in real life (kinda like the official mascots, really). I was aware the margin for error when your fur pile is 3mm long is basically non-existent, but hey, at least I could work without a respirator on unlike fur! Sewing the body of the tail was pretty straightforward; I assembled the belly panels together, stitched the darts on the red parts to form the curve, and attached the backside of the zigzag spikes to it. I assembled the top and bottom halves together, tacked each zigzag down in place by hand, and filled the whole thing with polyester stuffing to see my beautiful bug sausage take shape.

Once I was sure it everything looked good. I stitched six little white legs and attached them onto the belly by hand using the belly seams as a guide.

Before moving on to the top spikes, I took a break from handsewing to build the tail base. It's a little nub made out of sandwiched upholstery foam with a belt running through a channel carved into the foam. It's topped off with a layer of high density EVA Foam glued at the base to keep the anchor point sturdy. Huge thanks to Neffertity for her tail tutorials as this was the main inspiration behind the method I used for the tail attachment. The foam nub goes about a quarter of the way through the tail, with the rest of it being filled up with the polyester stuffing that was added earlier.

Once the tail attachment point was secured, I started sewing all the spikes for the top half of the tail, stuffed them, and then stitched each of them to the tail by hand. Once they were all stitched on securely, I sewed the back closed with one last minky piece and Wurmple's tail was complete!

(Looking back, I could probably have machine stitched the legs and spikes on... But I was watching some really good Resident Evil Randomizer streams while handsewing these, so I didn't wanna get off the couch to work on the pattern again)

I'm so glad I started with the tail. It was basically a big plush, and I was so proud of the results when I was done that I was energized to start working on the head. Oh right, the stupid worm head with no vision.

3. The Head

Building up the shape of Wurmple's head was simple enough. I began by building a bucket head base out of upholstery foam by following Skyehigh's Studios old tutorial (new one linked here) and slapped some paper on it to figure out the size of the main elements; the mandibles and the eyes. I immediately regret following the tutorial steps for the eye holes, since I Forgot We Weren't Gonna Be Doing That, and mark where my cyclops eyehole is generally going to be instead.

Once I was satisfied with my patterns, I cut some more upholstery foam slabs, carved them with scissors until I got down to the general shape of the mandibles and horns, and glued them onto the base. I immediately got another stress injury carving everything down and realized I did not learn from my wig ventilating mistakes. I took a break to add a turkey carver to my online shopping bookmarks, which I immediately forgot about until I sat down to write this post. Since I was using minky for this project, I needed to make sure my base was as smooth as possible. The fabric is so thin it would pick up every wrinkle ever and look sad if I didn't. I dug into the bin for some Trash Felt ™ and glued it over the mandibles to smooth things out and added some mesh to the holes of the bucket head base to keep the curved shape of the head going without sacrificing those sweet ventilation holes. I also added my vision hole and marveled at my horrifying Mando helmet abomination. At that point in time I'm having some big doubts about the vision hole, but I trudge on because I'm not just gonna wear a bug ass to these conventions.

With the base complete, I covered the whole thing in tape and drew over it like I did with the tail to create a pattern, made sure to forget to take pictures of said pattern so that this step is lost to time, and started sewing the head fabric so I could slap some skin on this bad boy, starting with the horns. At the same time, I stitched the darts on the mandibles, pinned that to the head for later, and assembled the red halves of the head together on the back seam to test the fit.

With the test fit successful, I pulled the red part off in order to machine stitch it to the front half of the head along the zigzag edge and slipped the whole thing over the head again. With everything in place, I painstakingly handstitched everything up, including the side of the mandibles and the horns.

Somewhere in the magical stretch of time between midnight and 5 in the morning, I somehow summoned the inner lining of the head out of french terry knit, a tape pattern and a dream. I also painted a little piece of buckram for the eye mesh to match the red fabric and glued that to the inside of the head. I included a little velcro pocket on the back of the neck in the lining to insert a powerbank for the fans (which I then proceeded to procrastinate on installing for a whole 4 months afterwards). Since I'm an idiot and took no pictures signed an NDA with the Midnight Craft Wizard, here's a picture of the fan installation in the mandibles with velcro so they can be removed to wash it. (Fan kit by Henry's Helmet Fans)

Once the head was completed, I finally went to sleep. And then I woke up at noon and remembered I forgot the eyes WHOOPS I cut four circles out of high density EVA Foam (Two of them smaller for the pupils), heat shaped a slight curve to them, and covered them with minky. I glued the pupils to the irises and then I glued those suckers to the head and NOW THE HEAD WAS ACTUALLY DONE WOOHOO

Turns out hiding the vision hole right over the mandibles was... Actually a decent idea, in the end. It blends pretty well into the face at a short distance. The mouth opening also isn't visible in most angles so I can actually breathe pretty well, and I can even wear a portable necklace fan and have it blow hair into the head without making poor Wurmple eat the fan.

I took it for a test run and realized the eye vision in the suit was actually pretty damn bad overall because the minky covered half of the original hole up, especially on the sides. I took a heat gun and some scissors to the head so I could peel it back around the vision hole, cut some material out to open it up more, and glued everything back down with a new piece of mesh. Now I have like 40 more degrees in my cone of vision, which puts me on par with some of the guys in Metal Gear Solid.

With those adjustments done, the head was finally complete!

4. Get Worm'd on

Turns out I like it a whole lot, whoops. It's definitively not perfect (what costume ever is?), but it looks leagues better than I expected it would, so it works out. Looking back, I don't think I'd really do anything else differently on the build. I still got to make the Bug Catcher outfit to go along with it, but with winter in full swing there's no rush to do so. Definitively looking forward to making a net, though!

If you're still reading, thank you for getting through my ramblings! I hope it was an interesting read, and maybe even provided some insights or inspirations for your own future projects.

❤️

[twiztidskull]

Me along with the always wonderful @ghostieemuffinn at Magfest 2024. Here's hoping I can run back into her and more amazing people this weekend at Katsucon as well

Also featuring me wearing my pokemon shirt that has among other things, a Haunter on it. There's probably a bad pun with ghost pokemon and me taking a selfie with ghosttieemuffin, but I'll let yall figure out one on your own :-p

[amberz-azylum]

♞ 𝕾𝖆𝖙𝖞𝖗 ♞

𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐

[ravenmccookies]

Can't wait to go to the Texas Haunters con tomorrow :3

[welcometothejianghu]

Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 心宅猎人/Psych-Hunter.

Psych-Hunter is a 2020 drama about a hot young amnesiac who, accompanied by a rich psychiatrist with major daddy issues and a rich girl who cosplays as a cop, uses his Inception-style psychic powers to solve crimes that are part of a shadowy conspiracy orchestrated by a mysterious figure.

True story: Once I couldn't remember the English name of the drama, so I called it "House Haunters," and now my brain insists that's the real English title. If only!

Do not, under any circumstances, labor under the impression that this show is good. It's not. It's incoherent. The writing is bad. The villain is absurd. The vibe is comically melodramatic. People make inexplicable and out-of-character decisions all the time. Countless complex mysteries get set up with no way to resolve them. There's a thin lampshade hanging over it that blurs the line between bad decisions made on accident and bad decisions made on purpose, but the net result is largely the same. This is the show that first inspired my wife to declare something dumb as a guinea pig in a roller skate.

But it's fun. It's a sea of colorful chaos with brilliant pieces that shine through like strange gems. It knows how to work an atmosphere and does so to create some legitimately creepy moments. It spins a wild yarn filled with bizarre and loveable characters. And it has some twists that truly have to be seen to be believed. In the mood for some beautiful nonsense? Here's five reasons that despite everything I warned you about in the previous paragraph, I think this one's worth watching.

1. Psychonauts for Jazz Age homosexuals

Honestly, that phrase alone should let you know if this is the thing for you. But just in case, let me explain the basic premise of the show:

Jiang Shuo, a man who has lost his memory and been adopted by circus folk, is capable of jingling his keys and diving full-body into someone else's subconscious, represented by lovely and thematic dreamscapes. He does this to solve crimes. Sometimes he takes along a handsome doctor who seems like he might know more than he's letting on, by literally tying their hands together with a red string.

Also, when they do this, they get gorgeous steampunk magical girl costume changes, complete with the cutest little pony nub you've ever seen.

This show can be stunningly beautiful. It knows how to manifest dream logic eerily well. Most of these cognitions are gorgeous, and many are done with primarily practical effects, like it's a stage play. ...And it's good it relies on that so much, because the CG it has is kinda cheap and terrible! So, yeah.

(Side note for the DMBJ fans: This is directed by the same guy who directed Sand Sea, which I assume is related to how this both is a visual treat and completely falls apart on the back end.)

The reason I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't taken off more among the creative set is what a great piece of worldbuilding this Psych-diving is. These boys (and, once, the girl) get to short-term manifest bodily in someone else's materialized mental state, where the person whose brain they’re in neither controls the experience nor remembers what happened after it’s done. Were you writing weird Arthur/Eames fic a decade ago? I got a new best thing for you. Can you say freaky dream sex? Because I can.

The base premise should be more than enough to get your gears going. Come ready to get weird with it. There's so much potential here, and so much of that potential is incredibly gay and wearing impeccably tailored suits.

2. Your friendly neighborhood circus family

As I mentioned before, Jiang Shuo lucks into the best possible fate that can befall an amnesiac: being picked up by carnies.

The troupe includes Ventriloquist Man, Really Big Dude, One-Eyed Acrobat, Other Acrobat, Cheerful Fat Girl, Boy Who Looks Like A Kid But Is Actually Played By An Adult So I'm Not Exactly Sure How Old The Character Himself Is Supposed To Be, and Silver Fox Circus Dad, who manages the whole crew. They're a ragtag bunch of performers who all live together in this cute little compound in some very nice slums, and sometimes they open the gates to their lavish compound and put on a circus show for all the common people!

Now: You know this is not going to be the wokest, most sensitive portrayal of body differences, because of course it isn't. But damn, it's pretty not-bad. The show treats all the circus members as valuable people worthy of affection, whose (occasionally exasperating) quirks are no more or less exhausting than those of the non-circus weirdos in the rest of the supporting cast.

I was half-expecting them to disappear after the first arc, but no! They’re a constant fixture through the show! They’re mostly there to support the show’s more comedic moments, but some of them get wrapped up in more emotional plotlines as well. And every now and then you get to see them actually do their circus shit, which is great.

I will admit that my fondness for them is related to how much I generally love fictional Freaks — you know, misfits who have banded together because society considers them unacceptably weird, but together their weirdnesses make them strong. When you find them, they’re usually the bad guys (e.g., the Gung-Ho Guns from Trigun, the Scorpion crew from Word of Honor) whose freak statuses make them formidable and occasionally sympathetic antagonists. But not so here! The Psych-Hunter Family Circus is good guy support all the way through to the final episode.

I know "found family" is a term that suffers from overuse, but that's the best way to describe what's happening here -- really, it's a family that's already found itself even before the show starts, and now they all live together as an unconventional collective of astonishingly flexible people. How did they find one another? Doesn't matter! What matters is that they all love and would do anything for their newest member, and they think it's great when he comes home with his attractive rich friends, who often arrive bringing snacks, which is really the best use for rich people, if you think about it.

3. Two hands, one ring

Now, if you've seen the series already, you know the moment I'm talking about. But if you haven't (and, statistically, you haven't), know that what I mean is the relationship between these two losers.

Together, Qin Yiheng and Jiang Shuo form the emotional core of the series. They're both drawn to one another because of mysterious circumstances that have started to align. Jiang Shuo's memory is missing, Qin Yiheng's dad has vanished, and all signs point to those absences as having something to do with one another.

Very early in the show, we see Qin Yiheng pull a "come with me if you want to live" on Jiang Shuo, giving the impression that he knows just what's going on in this crazy city. Except, no, he doesn't. Or does he? No, we're pretty sure he doesn't. Or he does, but he's forgotten what he knows, if he ever even knew it in the first place. Anyway, time to tie their hands together and jump into someone else's brain!

I'd say they're in love, but that's not quite it. Dr. Qin Yiheng, high-class homosexual, is in love with Jiang Shuo to the point where he's about to murder someone (possibly Jiang Shuo himself) out of frustration about it. Jiang Shuo, on the other hand, is much more sticking his fingers in his ears and going LA LA LA YOU CAN'T CATCH ME GAY THOUGHTS while trying get a girlfriend in an effort to pretend that all the shit they get up to together isn't tremendously romantic.

That is, until the scene that leads to the which-hand ring guessing game, at which point the burden of their relationship falls on Jiang Shuo (and the Inception parallels get unignorable) for exactly as long as the show will allow it to, before it freaks out and has to add another girl love interest just to make sure all the homos got no'd.

It's not textually gay, because seriously, have you met Chinese television? But it's pretty gay. Or, rather, I think Liu Dongqin (Qin Yiheng) is playing his character as a dedicated homosexual on purpose, and Hou Minghao (Jiang Shuo) is just ... kinda like that? I mean, everything I’ve seen him in, he gets real dreamy-eyed around strong men who pay close attention to him. Maybe it's just his thing as an actor. I'm not judging.

However, the main cast isn't just the two of them. One of the things that led me to this show was the promise of an OT3. And does it deliver on that promise?

Well ... sorta.

Qin Yiheng, Jiang Shuo, and Yuan Muqing are a pretty standard MFM not-love-triangle trio of Male Bestie, Main Guy, and Girlfriend (respectively). There's about five seconds at the beginning of the series where it looks like Yuan Muqing might be into Qin Yiheng, but no, that evaporates almost instantly and is never spoken of again -- and with it disappears most of their interactions with one another, period. So it's less an OT3, and more a case of bisexual cutiepie Jiang Shuo getting both a boyfriend and a girlfriend in a world where censorship will only let the latter relationship exist textually.

But damn if these boys aren't made for one another. Sure, there's a level of conscious comical queerbaiting to it -- I mean, there's straight-up an "only one bed" moment, so you know the show isn't stumbling into rainbow territory on accident. No matter how sexual or nonsexual or whatever you read it as, though, their dynamic is the spine that holds the story together. Really, it's almost sad how often the relationships are set parallel to one another, because when you do that, it becomes obvious how intense Jiang Shuo's bond with Qin Yiheng is, and how largely lackluster and comphet most of his canon romance with Yuan Muqing is by comparison.

Like so.

sidebar: The Girl

I am not going to go into a full-throated defense of The Girl this time, as I am wont to do, mostly because I think Yuan Muqing is full of potential in concept but so badly executed that there's really no hope for her. Her entire personality is whatever they need her to be in any particular scene. It's just that once in a while, what they need her to be is completely insane -- like, seeing-things-that-aren't-there insane -- and it's so great that it makes me mad! She could have been like this all the time! But noooooo

As it is, she has a perfunctory canonical romance with Jiang Shuo that's about as endgame as anything is capable of being (see point 5), and it actually gets pretty cute when it finally gets to the point where it's not just awkward obligation! But alas, it only does that so late in the series that it's not even worth it getting invested in it.

She is a creation of the show. She has no novel counterpart. Her entire function in the drama is to un-gay the dynamic between the boys. You can tell that she was initially supposed to have a different role -- to be the muscle of this trio -- but the narrative forgets pretty quickly that she's got that skill set, and she regresses to being The Girl. She makes dumb decisions that forward the plot. She gets put into danger whenever it's convenient. She demands Jiang Shuo do manly things for her because that’s what a girl is supposed to do, I guess? And then there are moments where she’s cool and crazy and it’s awesome! But they never last.

So if you are going to watch this, be prepared for the fact that the female lead is badly written to the point of frustration. I feel her actor is doing the absolutely best with what she's got; the problem is that what she's got is pretty crappy. Still, Muqing gets some pretty charming moments here and there, and I think it's worth hanging onto those and imagining the character she could have been, if the writers had cared just a little more, or even at all.

4. Powerfully surreal worldbuilding

I'm not even talking about the way people's psyches are structured according to dream logic -- the "normal" waking world is almost equally bizarre. The story takes place in sort of the real world c. 1930, except that a lot of things are off. For example, Japan and England are real locations, but China kinda isn't -- instead, the show takes place in a Shanghai-like city-state run by this moustachioed generalissimo with a faux Latin American dictator aesthetic. The place has its own flag and government and police force (where all the cops have coordinating surnames) and diplomatic relationships with other countries, so it’s clearly its own thing. But what that thing is? What it’s even called? Look, don’t worry about it. Nobody else is worried, so you shouldn’t be either.

You will, at every point in the series, be wondering if the show is trying to telegraph to you that Something's Not Quite Right Here, or if it's just making weird decisions for the sake of artsy weirdness. But don't worry -- there's absolutely no way to tell the difference between the two! Just roll with it.

There's a weird mix of universe rules happening throughout, where everything is mostly period-appropriate for a while, and then somebody builds a clock with levitating parts, or causes someone else to have very specific memory loss — or, again, swings some coins in front of a person’s face and gains the ability to treat their subconscious like a VR amusement park.

You can sort of reconstruct the evolution of this weirdness: The book has actual factual ghosts in it. Well, that’s fine for books, but TV isn’t allowed to have ghosts. But TV can have people who imagine ghosts, so long as it’s all in their heads. Okay, but you know jumping bodily into those imaginations isn’t actually a thing real people can do, right? Well, then let’s make it scientific. How can that be scientific? I don't know, it’s psychiatry. I don’t think that’s psychiatry. Look, it could be. Well, it’s definitely not psychiatry in 1930s Shanghai, and that’s the set we’re allowed to film on. Okay, what if it weren’t actually Shanghai? What if it weren’t actually 1930? What if all of this were at best a weird approximation of the period that adheres to no rules except the ones we want?

Once you’ve thought that, the sky’s the limit.

The show has a very inconsistent grasp on reality, and I am listing that as a pro instead of a con because I am choosing to embrace it as a deliberate choice rather than assume it’s the result of craven incompetence. There's something to be said, though, for how pervasively inconsistent it is. It'd be one thing if there were just a few plot holes here and there (and there are), but this is more along the lines of: We woke up in a mysterious boat and got taken to an island with a giant sea monster skeleton on the shore! What's that all about? Couldn't say! Was it real? Maybe! Moving on!

Let the number of "it's fine! who knows!" comments I've made throughout this rec indicate how much this is the kind of show you just have to roll with. If you are a nitpicker or someone who is troubled by unexplained nonsense, this is not the thing for you. If you love artistic magical realism and high strangeness, you will eat this up with a spoon.

And the lampshade that hangs over all of this worldbuilding is...

5. THE STUPIDEST POSSIBLE ENDING EVER

Okay, usually I am coy about when I think an ending has problems. I am going to drag this one out front and center: Psych-Hunter has an ending so jaw-droppingly, head-clutchingly stupid that I'm actually listing it as a selling point, because it has to be seen to be believed.

When I first watched it, I suspected the show ran out of time or money or something and just had to slap together the quickest possible ending ever. But no! This is the ending they meant! If you go back to the rest of the series, you can see that this is what they were (kinda) setting up the whole time! They just set it up so poorly and decided to make the twist hit at such a late point that not only is it complete nonsense, it actually renders moot the entire emotional stakes of the show! Absolutely incredible!

Now, as I've said before in other places, I don't begrudge the actual twist itself. I mean, it's stupid on its face, but I think they could have done something with it — if they'd had it happen halfway through the series, when the characters would have had time to adjust to the new knowledge. Instead, they slap it on at the last possible moment, when there's no time to have any reaction to it. It's just jarring and baffling, and then the whole thing's over.

I've seen lots of people say "season 2 when???" Season 2 never, friends. There was never going to be a season 2. The only reason you think this was an even remotely acceptable narrative move was that you were assuming that this would be the midpoint, not the end. You're having the same reaction I did, only I can tell this was always meant to be their spectacular dismount.

(To me, it's clear what happened: They J.J. Abramsed themselves into a cool premise for a mystery with no idea how to solve it, hoping they'd figure it out along the way. When they got to the end and still hadn't figured it out, they simply ... opted out of solving it.)

Now, if you want a normal viewing experience out of this show, watch to the end of the next-to-last episode, close your browser window, and have imagination adventures about how you think all the mysteries should resolve. But you're not going to. You are going to continue on to that last episode, and you are going to realize that nothing I could have said here could possibly have prepared you for this. And somewhere, I am going to feel the urge to cackle wickedly and not even know why. Except I'll know why. We'll both know why.

Want to watch this hot mess?

That baby's an iQiyi exclusive! But you can watch the first episode on YouTube, if you feel like getting a taste that way.

Look, I know I may have spoiled my pitch somewhat with that last selling point. After all, why would you bother watching a series if you know it has a shit ending?

I refute your objection thus: Knowing it has a shit ending changes the whole game, because it removes the feeling of betrayal that hits upon your discovering that the ending isn’t what you wanted. You know that already now, so there can be no betrayal. The ending goes from being an unpleasant surprise to being exactly the unexpected thing that you expected. With that in mind, you can dive right in (ha ha) knowing that you’ll never get the closure you crave, and therefore whatever you make up along the way is perfectly valid.

This is obviously a turnoff if you prefer shows that are like seeing someone start a magic trick, perform it without breaking a sweat, and walk off calmly, leaving you wondering how on earth they accomplished such an amazing thing. Think of this more as someone starting a magic trick, accidentally letting the rabbit fall out of their hat, saying “I meant to do that!” like thirty times, and suddenly vanishing through a trapdoor, leaving you wondering what the trick was even supposed to be in the first place — but they were really good-looking and well-dressed, so at least whatever they were doing was nice to look at while it was happening.

See? They're having fun.

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

There are so many interesting takes. Typing, Attacks, Abilities, Rarity, Evolution.

Why are some Pokemon dual typed and others not? Why some only after evolution? If two Floragato are trained alongside each other, both treated the exact same way, but only one evolves into Meowscarda, would the other still not gain the Dark Type?

Why do some Pokemon only learn certain attacks, or don't learn others? Magikarp is a fish, why shouldn't it know attacks like Aqua Jet or Watergun?

What exactly determines if a Pokemon is a Legendary or not? Entei's dex entry says every time it roars, a new Entei is born. In the 4th movie, we've seen countless Celebi, so it can't be if there's only one. And if we go by strength, then some of them are still outmatched by other, non legendary Pokemon.

How do wild Kadabra, Haunter or Machoke evolve if we need to trade them once they're caught? Or wild Galarian Yamask. Why do the evolution stones only effect some Pokemon, not all of them? Did the stone evolution like Bellossom or Vileplum just not exist before the stones came to light? Or did Pokemon, with time and more exposure to the stones, loose their ability to evolve without them?

So many topics!

SOOOO MANY TOPICS!! God I got my own questions too, like why do some abilities completely disappear and get replaced by a new, unrelated one? Bagon's Sheer Force is a brilliant ability that they completely lose once they're a Shellgon in favor of Overcoat, and somehow it becomes Moxie when it's a Salamence. WHAT??? And then it's normal ability, Rock Head, also gets lost once it becomes a Salamence for Intimidate, when you would THINK that a fucking SALAMENCE is INTIMIDATING ENOUGH.

Oh, and I have THOUGHTS on Legendary Pokémon!!! There's no way there's only a singular of every Legendary, otherwise we wouldn't have Tobias, or a reason for Battle Facilities to outright ban legendary Pokémon. Legends Arceus gives us some interesting ideas, like the fact that it gives you a fragment of itself rather than the Real Deal. Celebi is interesting, too, because you can't know if all the Celebi are the same Celebi— time travel makes it possible for there to be multiple of the exact same Celebi to exist at once! But also, we DO know there's other Celebi because of Explorers of Sky, PINK CELEBI. So, is it that there's just multiple, or it's the same Pokémon split into multiple fragments of itself, or is it that there's offspring of the original, while the main Legendary is the True Holder of the Legendary status?

And what is up with priority moves? Why do they completely disregard a Pokémon's natural speed? Is there more strain in using priority moves when your speed is lower? Is there a way to measure that?

Also why is it that Magikarp and Feebas are essentially almost the exact same Pokémon with their stats switched? Why is it that Feebas' move pool, specifically its TM move pool, INSANE in comparison to Magikarp? What is it about Magikarp that makes it incapable of doing the same moves as Feebas despite them being nearly identical?

My personal favorite question. WHY IS THERE ONLY A SINGULAR MOVE THAT DOES DUAL-TYPE DAMAGE? Why the FUCK is Hawlucha the only Pokémon capable of dealing dual-type damage?! Except, of course, Cosplay Pikachu, who is apparently a FREAK OF NATURE???

[kylekatarnandadmiralthrawn]

i have officially dismembered my entire night haunter cosplay.

what materials can be recycled will go into constructing an improved version.

[outbackranger108]

TD Pokémon Cosplay Ideas

So these are some of the potential Total Drama Pokémon cosplay ideas I have for @gothikaxenon

Trent - Toxel/Amped Up Toxtricity, PikiPek/Trumbeak/Toucannon, or Yanma/Yanmega

Noah - Espurr/Male Meowstic

DJ - Lillipup/Herdier/Stoutland, Pansear/Simisear, or Dratini/Dragonair/Dragonite

Harold - Magnemite/Magneton/Magnezone or Blipbug/Dottler/Orbeetle

Leshawna - Hippopotas/Hippowdon or Pancham/Pangoro

Brick - Rufflet/Braviary, Gible/Gabite/Garchomp, Aron/Lairon/Aggron, or Galarian Farfetch’d/Sirfetch’d

Izzy - Ekans/Arbok or Aipom/Ambipom

Zee - Girafarig/Farigiraf

Chase - Nincada/Ninjask or Scorupi/Drapion

Emma (TDI 2023) - Shroomish/Breloom or Poliwag/Poliwhirl/Politoed

Priya - Rockruff/Midday Lycanroc

B - Oranguru 

Sam - Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu

Dave - Minccino/Cinccino, Dunsparce/Dudunsparce, or Corphish/Crawdaunt

Brody - Buizel/Floatzel or Mantyke/Mantine

Devin - Chinchao/Lanturn, Wailmer/Wailord, Barboach/Whiscash, Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar, or Slowpoke/Slowking

MacArthur - Growlithe/Arcanine or Houndour/Houndoom

Sanders -  Ponyta/Rapidash or Electrike/Manectric

Jasmine - Shinx/Luxio/Luxray, Starly/Staravia/Staraptor, Sandile/Krokorok/Krookodile, Poochyena/Mightyena, or Helioptile/Heliolisk

Shawn - Scyther/Scizor or Axew/Fraxure/Haxorus

Alejandro - Zangoose or Zorua/Zoroark 

Jay - Caterpie/Metapod/Butterfree

Mickey - Weedle/Kakuna/Beedrill

Sierra - Drowzee/Hypno or Drifloon/Drifblim

Lorenzo - Cranidos/Rampardos, Elekid/Electabuzz/Electivire, or Sawk

Chet - Shieldon/Bastiodon, Magby/Magmar/Magmortar, or Throh

Mike - Doduo/Dodrio, Deino/Zweilous/Hydreigon, or Morpeko 

Beardo - Jangmo-o/Hakamo-o/Kommo-o, Tympole/Palpitoad/Seismitoad, or Bouffalant

Max - Gastly/Haunter/Gengar, Maschiff/Mabosstiff, or Tentacool/Tentacruel

Tom - Venipede/Whirlipede/Scolipede or Pidove/Tranquill/Male Unfezant

Jen - Sewaddle/Swadloon/Leavanny or Pidove/Tranquill/Female Unfezant

Ryan - Nidoran/Nidorino/Nidoking

Stephanie - Nidoran/Nidorina/Nidoqueen

Jo - Vullaby/Mandibuzz, Clobbopus/Grapploct, or Machop/Machoke/Machamp

Scott - Purrloin/Liepard, Trapinch/Vibrava/Flygon, Cacnea/Cacturne, or Nickit/Thievul

Ripper - Stunky/Skuntank or Koffing/Weezing

Junior - Litleo/Pyroar, Ralts/Kirlia/Gallade, or Dreepy/Drakloak/Dragapult

Dwayne - Mime Jr/Mr. Mime or Geodude/Graveler/Golem

Taylor - Alolan Meowth/Alolan Persian

Kelly - Glameow/Purugly

Crimson - Galarian Yamask/Runerigus

Jacques - Snorunt/Glalie or Ferroseed/Ferrothorn

Josee - Snorunt/Froslass or Mareanie/Toxapex

Ellody - Dracozolt

Mary - Dracovish

Laurie - Wurmple/Silcoon/Beautifly

Miles - Wurmple/Cascoon/Dustox

Tennis Rivals - Turtonator & Drampa or Heracross & Pinsir (the Tennis Rivals probably shouldn't cosplay)

Damien - Pansage/Simisage, Porygon/Porygon2/Porygon-Z, or Fletchling/Fletchinder/Talonflame

Bowie - Staryu/Starmie

MK - Sableye, Rotom, or Seedot/Nuzleaf/Shiftry

Eva - Mankey/Primeape/Annihilape

Rodney - Tauros, Skiddo/Gogoat, or Mudbray/Mudsdale

Topher - Spearow/Fearow or Rhyhorn/Rhydon/Rhyperior

Justin - Scatterbug/Spewpa/Vivillon or Alolan Diglett/Alolan Dugtrio

Chris - Charcadet/Ceruledge

Don - Charcadet/Armarouge

I apologize that this list is quite long

[rudeboimonster]

hey, what’s YOUR favorite shiny Pokémon?

sits there staring real hard okay so my favorite pokemon since I was kid was Haunter, to the point I've done some shitty shiny Haunter cosplays. but also, there's a lot of really good shinies out there and I'd have to look at all of em to figure what I like the best.

(bc i still have this in a tab if youre curious some of my fav mon, here are like my top 80 in no particular order these are just the ones i like a lot:

"jake how many of the ones on here are bc of blorbos" let me live)

OH looking at this again holy shit I fucking love shiny gogoat have you seen shiny gogoat PLEASE LOOK AT SHINY GOGOAT

FUCKING INCREDIBLE YOU FUNKY FRESH GOAT the fucking red hooves, the golden horns, the neon-ass leaves, ohhhghghg, what a goddamn GENDER

scolipede's is a little bit subtle-ish, a lil minor change, but OHHHH the pop of cyan makes me LOSE MY GOURD, so fucking tasty

oh man i'm going through my favs and i was unaware of spiritomb's shiny and now i wanna shiny hunt this bastard in pla holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit

okay i think i just like. when you add blue to a mon apparently bc holy shit hiiii gliscor hii

So! There's some of my favorites and now I wanna do some shiny hunting in pla ohhhghghg, im sure there's others i dig that i'm just totally blanking on but I think you can also see my tastes with these at least lol

[azurefandomfox]

Me and @judith-the-leaf's Alphabet Lore Cosplay AU: Masterlist!

Here is the list of current cosplays! 🔥🌟🔥🌟 Aaron as Andrew!Byron as Bradford! Caleb as Cameron! Din as Dallas! Edward as Easton! Finn as Fredrick (Both letter and planet form!) Gabriel as Gavin! Haunter as Hunten! Igor as Isaiah! Jake as Joel! Kenya as Klarity! Larry as London! Mike as Mortimer! Nick as Nigel! Oscar as... Oscar! Peggy as Pauline! Qier as Qin! Ron as Raymond (Ren!) Silver as Sylvester! Tim as Tanner! Unity as... Unity! Victor as Vector! West and Westley as Willow and Wisp! Xavier as Xander! Yasmine as Yukia! Zack as Zero + Zero's counterparts! 🔥🌟🔥🌟 More links will be added as soon as the cosplays come available! -Firestar

[june2012]

june2012's Pokémon gif Masterlist

Last added: Rosa cosplay

Pokémon (Species)

#049 Venomoth

Venomoth variety gifs

#093 Haunter

Haunter variety gifs

#494 Victini

Victini tattoo

#569 Garbodor

Garbodor trash can

#661 Fletchling

Serena (Pokémon X / Pokémon Y) catches a fletchling

#667 Litleo

Pyroar variety gifs

#668 Pyroar

Pyroar variety gifs

#676 Furfrou

Furfrou in Pokémon Amie

#677 Espurr

Espurr and meowstic plushes

#678 Meowstic

Espurr and meowstic plushes

#683 Aromatisse

Aromatisse variety gifs

#703 Carbink

Carbink in Pokémon Amie

#793 Nihilego

Nihilego outside

#869 Alcremie

Lemon cream and rainbow swirl alcremie with strawberry sweet figures

#978 Tatsugiri

Tatsugiri chopstick rests

Pokémon Human Characters

Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2

Trainer Rosa

Rosa cosplay

Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

Trainer Serena

Serena (Pokémon X / Pokémon Y) catches a fletchling

Miscellaneous

Food and Treats

Poké Puffs

Pokémon Sword and Shield Sausage Curry

Items

Evolutionary stones

[panchams]

long time, no see

happy 2024! the website layout on here has changed so dramatically that i can barely recognize it. i hate to admit that it took me a couple of minutes to find my followers...

anyways, hey! it's been a while. i jumped ship off of here... god... who knows how long that was? i genuinely feel like it was a permanent move circa 2015. but that's not what im here to talk about.

after the loss of twitter circles, i've struggled finding a place to put my thoughts. don't worry, this blog definitely won't be it but i thought it would be fun to put a little reflection on here as my final post (probably forever?) on this funny blogging website that i decided to use back in 2009 (I'm pretty sure my archives go that far back.... which is certainly something i cherish to see how much I've changed)

so many of you either have known me as eddie, edward, mukuro, bajime, hajime..... lord knows this list goes on. im eddie! or if you want to use my online user, i go by haunter now. a lot has changed since i stopped using this platform regularly! i think i hard quit tumblr maybe around 2016? you can see on my profile that i came back and reblogged some things, but i think it was around the time of my twitter bot's birth (@nintendoqt) when i really stopped using it permanently.

i'm writing this as a reflection of where i've been and where i came from when i first started using this funny website. im officially a couple of months away from graduating college with a bachelors in computer science! that means I'll be a real deal certified software engineer this coming may.

but don't you worry! i got some real time experience as a software engineer last year, right before my senior year began. i worked as a software engineer for the military/government! yeah, that's right... tumblr user Panchams was a military scientist (intern, but it counts). crazy right? and in just a couple of months i'll be hitting the biggest milestone of my life so far which is college graduation.

back when i began this blog, it was towards the end of 2009 and my myspace girlfriend at the time karina recommended i join because the community from our beloved myspace was jumping ship. i jumped in and well, the rest is history.

2009 eddie was a fidgity, undiagnosed autistic relentless kid. it's kind of crazy looking back on that era because i'm so proud of kid me going out of my way to socialize by going to conventions at every possible event he could go to. i would even wear cosplay and force myself out of my comfort zone to talk and take pictures with complete strangers.

to summarize my academic journey to save some space here, i really sucked at math. my math classes were so horrible, i actually got placed senior year in high school in the lowest math possible for seniors (something like college math help course or something, while the other kids were doing calc 1 or 2). but look at me now, baby! i went from pre-algebra all the way to calculus 2 in college, as well as discrete mathematics (possibly the hardest math class anyone outside of a math degree could ever take). i passed them all! it wasn't easy. i failed calculus 1 on my first try. my community college professor even told our entire class in a very vague way that we should commit suicide via bullet if we didn't pass it cuz we would never pass if we couldn't pass his class lol.

caught myself yapping there for a second. anyways, i really just wanted to say that i was a fidgety autistic child with such huge dreams and wonders. you can see throughout my entire blog's lifecycle that i've felt a special connection to characters like pokemon's red, sasuke from naruto, mukuro from katekyo, cloud from final fantasy 7 et etc.... you get it!

i think my life could've easily been one of complacency and laziness. after all, i am the only one in my immediate family to have attended college or even be in STEM whatsoever. my father was a horse trainer and my mom did random odd jobs/cleaning jobs as a kid. i could've easily been stuck forever in poverty and never aspired to do anything with my life. outlets like tumblr, gaia, twitter, youtube, the list goes on but these shaped me in ways that i am beyond thankful for.

as well as pokemon and the other games i mentioned, they gave me a lifeline. those characters i hooked onto as a kid which basically shaped how my personality is... i genuinely wouldn't have it any other way.

what is blud yapping about!!!! i end this weird ramble yapping session to update where my life is and where im headed. I've mentioned graduation (LETS FUCKING GOOO!) but i am beyond excited to be a big boy software engineer (no intern in the title!)

i'm pining for the bay area after graduation. i know, i sound like a lunatic going straight to san francisco as a new grad but.... you only live once! how cliche right, a new software dev moving to san francisco... the story writes itself.

don't worry, i have backup plans! if i can't make enough I'll be sure to live amongst the cows in arkansas (maybe oregon?! who knows.) big things are coming into my life, an entire chapter of my life finishing (the college years? academy saga?) and i'm just happy that i kept pushing. i'm glad i kept trucking on and will have some form of a tangible life that i will create with my own two hands.

happy new years! i don't think anyone will read this but... thank you! thanks tumblr for everything. maybe one day I'll go through and read my #priv or whatever i used to signify as my private posts here eventually. that day won't be today, but maybe when im in my SF apartment?!

have a great year, a great life, and so on. i don't think I'll ever update this blog again. thanks for everything and much love from me!

linktr.ee/haunterz

[twiztidskull]

Me along with @hails_draws_things_ as Vaporeon from pokemon back at Otakon 2022 Also that's Haunter that you can see on my shirt. #Vaporeon #vaporeoncosplay #pokemon #pokemonginjinka #pokemoncosplay #ginjinka #cosplay #コスプレ #косплей #Otakon #otakon2022 #Haunter #selfie Speaking of pokemon, how's everyone liking the new games so far? I haven't made that much progress yet, not too much further past the 1st poke center, but I'll definitely be going further into the game in the next couple of days (at Otakon) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMjstwvgWE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[monterraverde]

❛ you’re not very good at retiring. ❜ ( profesada; pov the supposedly dead professor shows up )

@profesada

"Who-?!"

No.

No no.

She's either dreaming or theres a Haunter fucking with her head again- There's no way Sada is standing in front of her right now.

"You're one to talk- Nice Sada cosplay, didn't realize she was that famous. Now who are you? And how do you even know me?"

She's not buying it for ONE SECOND.

[videogametatts]

👻 *Healed* Haunter & Kadabra tattoo by @heytherejenny x @brandoom for today's 2nd #PokemonDay post! 🔮 #Pokémon #pokemontattoo #videogame #videogametattoo #gamertattoo #gamerink #cosplay #nintendo #nintendotattoo #anime #animetattoo https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdUlaCMkQS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=