#honorary bug

[jenfoundabug]

California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) in a redwood forest. Santa Cruz Mountains, California, US

[systembug]

I was told i needed to share this ms paint monstrosity with the world XD i tried making sense of how to draw this beast, despite my remarks i think that whoever designed it did a good job<3

I will steal his bug friend btw. Mine now. I will treat it better

[needlepointers]

credit to @seacreatures-daily for the design!!!

[sweetbugs]

i love your posts so much!!! i know they're not bugs but can you make something with gastropods? if not, i'd love to see madagascar hissing roaches <3

[re-alku]

@emmamushi

triops are one of my all-time fave little guys

[amphibianaday]

day 1615

[dualcosmog]

0754 Lurantis

[systembug]

I bet Cawl jaywalked too, smh >:| /j

i accidentally hit a bug and totaled my car

[zillychu]

hello warrior cat fandom, I don't go here but I like ur animations!! I made an OC can they come over to play

[jaybug-jabbers]

Gelatopod - Ice/Fairy

(Vanilla-Caramel Flavor is normal, Mint-Choco is shiny)

Artist - I adopted this wonderful fakemon from xeeble! So I decided to make up a full list of game data, moves, lore, etc. for it. Enjoy! :D

Abilities - Sticky Hold/Ice Body/Weak Armor (Hidden)

Pokedex Entries

Scarlet: Gelatopod leaves behind a sticky trail when it moves. A rich, creamy ice cream can be made from the collected slime.

Violet: At night, it uses the spike on its shell to dig into the ground, anchoring itself into place. Then it withdraws into its shell to sleep in safety.

Stats & Moves

BST - 485

HP - 73

Attack - 56

Defense - 100

Special Attack - 90

Special Defense - 126

Speed - 40

Learnset

Lvl 1: Sweet Scent, Sweet Kiss, Aromatherapy, Disarming Voice

Lvl 4: Defense Curl

Lvl 8: Baby Doll Eyes

Lvl 12: Draining Kiss

Lvl 16: Ice Ball

Lvl 21: Covet

Lvl 24: Icy Wind

Lvl 28: Sticky Web

Lvl 32: Dazzling Gleam

Lvl 36: Snowscape

Lvl 40: Ice Beam

Lvl 44: Misty Terrain

Lvl 48: Moonblast

Lvl 52: Shell Smash

Friendship Level Raised to 160: Love Dart (Signature Move)

Egg Moves

Mirror Coat, Acid Armor, Fake Tears, Aurora Veil

Signature Move - Love Dart

Learned when Gelatopod's friendship level reaches 160 and then the player completes a battle with it

Type - Fairy, Physical, Non-Contact

Damage Power - 20 PP - 10 (max 16) Accuracy - 75%

Secondary Effect - Causes Infatuation in both male and female pokemon. Infatuation ends in 1-4 turns.

Flavor Text - The user fires a dart made of hardened slime at the target. Foes of both the opposite and same gender will become infatuated with the user.

TM Moves

Take Down, Protect, Facade, Endure, Sleep Talk, Rest, Substitute, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Helping Hand, Icy Wind, Avalanche, Snowscape, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Charm, Dazzling Gleam, Disarming Voice, Draining Kiss, Misty Terrain, Play Rough, Struggle Bug, U-Turn, Mud Shot, Mud-Slap, Dig, Weather Ball, Bullet Seed, Giga Drain, Power Gem, Tera Blast

Other Game Data

Gender Ratio - 50/50

Catch Rate - 75

Egg Groups - Fairy & Amorphous

Hatch Time - 20 Cycles

Height/Weight - 1'0''/1.3 lbs

Base Experience Yield - 170

Leveling Rate - Medium Fast

EV Yield - 2 (Defense & Special Defense)

Body Shape - Serpentine

Pokedex Color - White

Base Friendship - 70

Game Locations - Glaseado Mountain, plus a 3% chance of encountering Gelatopod when the player buys Ice Cream from any of the Ice Cream stands

Notes

I'm not a competitive player, but I did my best to balance this fakemon fairly and not make it too broken. Feel free to give feedback if you have any thoughts!

I have a huge bias for Bug Pokemon since they're my favorite type, and at first I wanted to make it Bug/Ice, since any intervebrate could be tossed into the 'Bug' typing. But ultimately I decided to keep xeeble's original idea of Ice/Fairy. There's precedent of food-themed pokemon being Fairy type, and Ice/Fairy would be very interesting due to its rarity (only Alolan Ninetails has it). Its type weaknesses are also slightly easier to handle than Bug/Ice imo

The signature move is indeed based on real love darts, I could not resist something that fascinating being made into a Pokemon move, even if the real games may possibly shy away from the idea. (Honestly it could be argued "Love Dart" is based on Cupid's arrow so Gamefreak might actually get away with making a move like this though.) Its effectiveness on both males and females is a nod to snails/slugs being biological hermaphrodites. I can see this move also being learned by Gastrodon and Magcargo in Scarlet/Violet

[whirlpool-blogs]

Hughes served as team captain for the NTDP, and just based on skill alone, that’s not a surprise. But Hughes’ captaincy stemmed from more than just his prodigious skill. He earned a unanimous vote from his teammates, many of whom knew Hughes and played with him prior to arriving at the program.

"Jack is the captain. He’s the one who forged a lot of those relationships and kept everything going in the right direction,” Wroblewski said.

[re-alku]

@emmamushi

the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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[adeleine-everyday]

day 51

some doodles of Fairy Behavior TM from @starlight-strider's headcanons :]]

[kosaciec]

Brine shrimp so cutes 🦠

[sokuuuu]

lethal company was made for the autism insect enjoyers (me). we got the baby bugs that cry when they hear loud noises, the yippee bugs who just wants their doodads, the bingus bugs who scream and suffocates ppl who walk too close to them, the electro bugs who electrocute anyone who gets too close to them, the corpse bugs who stab anyone that gets too close to them-

[shirecorn]

Seems that's a tricky one! But now we have some friends gathered that were spotted on the same day as our mystery bug. Perhaps they will help narrow it down?

Could we get more bugs to identify? Im not even asking for a reward it was just so fun to do

Absolutely! Here's a request someone bought on kofi right around the time of your acorn weevil. The shape was perfect so I drew them together, even though these two would never meet in real life due to an ocean and equator between them.

That's right, this noodle is an insect, not someone's colorful fursona (unless?)