#jello ditto

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Been thinking about Kangaskhan recently

For no particular reason what so ever….

[haycoat-art]

I'm sorry @quins-makeshift-menagerie but I do have to always wish people I follow a happy birthday with an art, it's in my DNA.

Anyways HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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Aaaaaa!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

Commewnity gift art!

So back in April, I made a big art piece for some members of the commewnity. Well I’m back at it again because it’s December and therefore Christmas month, but this time it’s with mew/two sonas! I drew as many as I could find with clear references, including my own, before running out of motivation XD

Enjoy!

Artists featured

@dxzziie

@xxtc-96xx

@pokemon-ash-aus

@phlurrii

@quins-makeshift-menagerie

@moddy-art

It’s been so long since I’ve drawn mews and twos so forgive me for being a bit rusty xd

[retrogamingblog2]

Transparent Ditto Stickers made by Oddarette

[kittycouch]

Dessertto

[harmonytre]

Nowwwww to end the "art catch-up" with my Ditto contest entry for Pokemon Workshop!! :D I won 1st place for "Most Goopy".

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

AHHHHH this is very cute omg QvQ

Bubbles' second best friend is the ditto that taught her transform so finding a mew/ditto hybrid makes her a little... excited. Day thinks Jello needs a better clasp on her collar. XD

Jello belongs to @quins-makeshift-menageries

[little-jesters-artblog]

New sona time les go

[whirligig-girl]

Mellanoid Slime Species Sheet (Draft)

Mellanoids were very uncommon in Starfleet following first contact in 2360 and joining the Federation during the Dominion War in 2373. Most mellanoids in space careers joined the United Mellanus Space Program. (see also: Mellanoid Space Exploration) Felime Trox was an NCO during the Dominion War. Eaurp Guz was the first to be an officer in 2379, and there's only a small handful of other mellanoids in Starfleet. As of the 2380s a few more are trickling in each year.

In the late 2390s and the 2400s, Mellanus Space Program gets essentially integrated into starfleet, and Mellanoids start absolutely pouring into starfleet.

Logo of the United Mellanoid Space Program.

fig 1: Just a small window into the possible variation of Mellanoid body plans. Humanoid and humanoid variations are the most common, but practically anything is possible. fig 2: Ditto for faces. fig 3: Cutaway of a mellanoid's face showing the spongy inside of the gelatin skull, the mouth, and an eyeball. fig 4: skeletal gelatin inside a mellanoid hand resembles a mushier, less consistent version of humanoid hand anatomy. fig 5 (left, oops): The visceral and skeletal goo support each other, without the visceral goo acting as muscle the skeletal goo flops. fig 5 (right): a three-lunged individual, with a close up showing the foamy structure of their lungs. fig 6: Demonstration that all forms of slime are interchangeable. fig 7: Mellanoids generally lack genitalia (unless they want them!) fig 8A: three infants (slime worms). fig 8B: the same individuals as children. fig 8C: the same individuals as young adults.

Mellanoids have differing consistency depending upon emotional state. They may get softer when sad or tired, or bouncy when startled. They may become drippy when anxious. Even intense positive emotion can lead to melting sometimes. The default texture is like a somewhat tough jello, jiggly but not sticky and with no residue left behind. When very sad they are capable of crying, with the sclera of their eyes melting alongside other parts of their face and body. In addition to losing cohesion with strong emotional state or sleepiness, Mellanoids can voluntarily liquify and move as a liquid, and even accomplish a limited degree of shapeshifting in this amorphous state. When sleeping or otherwise unconscious, mellanoids will melt into their amorphous form, and either spread thin so they can absorb air through their body, or if they're sleeping in a padded tub, they will manifest lung-foam on the top surface to continue to take in air into their body.

N.B.: Mellanoid consistency and physics is also just kinda whatever works! They're cartoon characters from an animated cartoon and fanart for another animated cartoon. If it feels right, it probably is right, even if it contradicts something I've said in the previous paragraph. The whole point of slimegirl emotional consistency to me is that it is a visual symbolism for how strong emotions can feel--if you feel like you're falling apart then that's what you will look like, if your heart melts you're literally melting, if you feel tense and rigid then you'll be tough and rubbery. And doubtless different mellanoids can be more capable or less capable of not just emotional regulation, but hiding the visible extent of these emotions.

Here is a reference sheet showing variation in existing Mellanoid Slime characters, and also a warp ship and a steam engine for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again soon. NB: following image contains drawings by myself, Ray Daly, and James, as well as a few screenshots of Star Trek Prodigy. Names which are not native mellanoid names are put in quotes.

The bioluminescence here is exaggerated so you can see it--it would really be much much more subtle, to the point that it might be difficult to even see it as colored light.

[spookyhoax]

my best friend and i went to a pokemon themed cafe today. i wish i had taken more pictures of the decorations but i got a pokeball mochi waffle and a ditto jello :3

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Oooooooooooo QwQ Thank yooooou they’re so cute

I guess Jello liked the SnowShinx.

Mew/two-cember

Day 20: Snowman (SnowShinx in this case)

Featuring Jello from @quins-makeshift-menagerie

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Spooky Month let’s gooooooo 🎃

[oddarette]

Just sharing the WIP video of me struggling with how I wanted to draw this jello. Started with stars for a single image but ultimately decided I wanted to turn it into a series which features ditto.

[dittos-everywhere]

Today one of the untransformed dittos tried to munch on a colleague's finger while he picked them up. He said it felt like he stuck his finger in warm jello.

So in case anyone was wondering, that's what it feels like to get "bitten" by a ditto.

(He's fine btw ditto don't have enough force to actually cause pain or harm)

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Aaaaaaaa thank you! And congrats on all the improvement💕💕💕

Wow this year has shown massive improvement for me as an artist. And I finally finished my main arc on @sketchmew this year too!

I would like to thank all the Mew and Mewtwo artists in this picture:

@xxtc-96xx

@dxzziie

@pokemon-ash-aus

@phlurrii

and @quins-makeshift-menagerie

[cartchytuns]

i must talk about my pokémon reborn oc or else i’ll explode. enjoy flin

so. my big thing to get out of the way is that flin isn’t human. i based them on that creepypasta theory that dittos are failed clones of mew, and considered……. surely there were closer clones than others.

failedmew (working title) was the closest team rocket ever got to mew before mewtwo was created. it still wasn’t a viable subject - it couldn’t survive outside of its growth chamber - and once mewtwo was born, it was discarded. it only survived because of anna’s wish.

so like i said, it’s an imperfect mew clone. mew has transform, as does ditto, but mewtwo doesn’t. failedmew (working title) is in the middle of those extremes - it can transform, but it needs to ingest a large amount of the creature’s dna to do it. this can only really be accomplished by, well. eating. once it transforms, however, it’s almost exactly the same as ditto’s transform. its anatomy perfectly matches the target’s, except for that ever-present ditto smile. the only change is that it can access some of its prey’s brain, since it’s interfacing with its prey’s cells much more closely than a ditto does, which, since it, like mew, contains the DNA of every pokémon, can just take on a pokémon’s appearance just with the knowledge of its genetics.

failedmew’s (working title) organs are basically made of jello in its base state, but it can survive as long as it can transform into something with a stronger body. so anna’s wish strengthened it just enough to eat something before its heart could stop - i always imagine a beached seaking. something it could use to get in the water and swim. and it swam!

after a while, the water became too polluted to continue. something, however, kept pushing it forward (anna’s wish), and instead of either diverting its path or succumbing to the poison, it managed to hunt and devour a grimer. hooray, now it’s a grimer!

from there, the story of pokémon reborn plays out, with just one little change - ame didn’t save the player in time from the explosion on the train. they died. but! in the wreckage, something found a meal. something that knew the power humans could wield, and wanted that for itself.

by eating the player character, it inherited some of their memories. not enough to override its own mind, but enough to understand things like how a human walks, how to read, write, and talk, how to train pokémon, etc. so when they stumble out of the rubble, seemingly unharmed from the explosion, they’re able to tell ame they’re alright.

also, the human they ate was nonbinary (decibel). they don’t understand what a gender is very well, and they don’t really care. flin could very well examine their gender later in life and decide for themself, but at this stage, they’re just taking the gender and pronouns of whatever base they’re starting from.

so, that’s how flin is born! they start out as an amoral freak who only trusts other pokémon, but never, ever humans. even though they can speak full sentences if they want to, they prefer clipped, short sentences that often aren’t even grammatically correct. after all, they’re basically a feral animal stuck in a human form, and as much as they’re trying to keep up the illusion that they’re a normal human being (since they’re sure that they’re found out, they’ll be killed), they can’t help having an impatience for the finer points of humanity. their only real interest at this point is gaining power - if they’re strong enough, humans can’t hurt them. they can hurt humans. they can overthrow mewtwo, the pokémon that replaced them, and kill all those scientists too.

their worldview only gets challenged when they meet corey. when he fights them, loses, and then entrusts heather into their care before his suicide, that is very confusing for flin. can humans genuinely care about each other? about their pokemon? why would he go so far for this, and why would he entrust heather to them??

their worldview grows a little. they want to know why corey would do something like that. it’s more than just curiosity- this is the first time anything a human has done has impacted them beyond anger or hatred. they’ve seen a glimpse of real, human love. they want to understand how that.

so they keep their promise. through that, they become a fierce protector of children (at first because they can’t tell which one is heather, but later because they’ve just started caring for them all). and through that, they start caring about some other adults, too. just the ones that haven’t done anything to hurt them - victoria, cain, etcetera. their worldview is still very black and white, but instead of humans vs pokémon, it’s “evil humans” vs “good humans and pokémon” - and any human can become an evil human if given the chance.

that worldview only changes again way way later - when cal swoops in during the meteor conflict at ametrine. flin had completely written him off from the second he shoved shelly, and nothing he did from that point on would change that - if anything, they just became more and more sure that the first chance they got, they would kill him. that changes when he helps save heather. it also teaches them the most important lesson they ever learn - that people can change.

this is why they let taka live in tourmaline desert (though their approach is to grab him by the collar and hiss “people can change. you will. you will.” at him and then shove him. they are still mean)

at first, they’re dismissive of taka. he’s going to change, but they see no need to help him do it. they’re going to go about their business as usual, scanning the desert for items and new locations. but taka comes with them. and he’s interested in what they’re doing. and he talks to them.

they spend a couple weeks together like that. flin’s never been with a human for that long. they’ve spent time with other people, sure, but there was always some crisis to deal with. someone was always handing a duty off to them. when that wasn’t happening, flin just didn’t see any need to interact with other humans. but now they’re exploring this desert, and taka’s with them. he helps them comb though the caves. he battles alongside them. they watch the sunrise together on the cliffs. flin grows to love him. they finally learn what love is.

so when he dies, they’re of course fucking destroyed. and when lin comes back from being killed, they’re fucking terrified. taka is dead, and the woman who killed him can’t die. they’re a complete wreck.

things don’t get any better from there. amaria tries to kill them. they almost die. their body starts… doing some weird shit. not reverting to their base form, but… spewing weird goo. turning shimmery and translucent. things humans do not do. she and titania are the first people to realize they aren’t human when titania fishes their terrifying half-corpse out of the water. once flin wakes up, they threaten both amaria and titania for their silence, in a frenzy born of terror and rage. they trusted amaria.

then, of course, glass workstation happens. flin is running off pure concern for the people they have left now - now that taka’s gone, they can only cling onto those relationships they have left. it’s a testament to their development as a person that they don’t let amaria’s murder attempt change their mind on people. it’s also a testament to how scared they are by this point, that they’re desperate for anyone to trust.

and, well. mind control go brrrr. at first they follow zero’s orders as expected, but. things start getting weird. the PULSE was trying to control humans, not other pokémon, and certainly not a pseudo-legendary psychic type.

flin starts mouthing words. then they’re muttering to themself. their skin starts bubbling. things begin to… slough off. the muttering turns into chanting, then into wailing. they revert back to their base form.

everyone is treated to the sight of a horrible pink fetus-thing sending telepathic shrieks into their heads - for something to stop, that they’re in pain, for luna, for victoria, for taka, for anyone to help. in their head, they’re back in the lab, in their growth chamber, going through the torture of countless tests, all to die alone in the sand. all the while, flin’s pokémon are in a frenzy defending them. luckily, luna manages to snap them out of it! yay! but now their secret is out.

thankfully, no one uses that to hurt them. everyone promises to keep it secret. flin falls apart sobbing on the floor, surrounded by their friends. finally accepted.

ok there’s more but this is very long…. i’ll just add some fun facts here

- flin is a psychic/ghost type! i haven’t ironed anything else out yet but they’re a pseudo-legendary.

- a lot of their arc centers on the way pokémon protagonists become absurdly powerful by the end, especially as they start accumulating legendaries. in this case, it’s flin ascending to godhood. the legendary of legendaries.

- they can talk to their pokémon :)

- their design is basically decibel’s (i might rework it later) but i give them fleshy pink accents.