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i swear i'm alive i just haven't had tablet access for a little while, among other things. have some guys

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yesterday was pla's 2 year anniversary so here is some context-less au-specific art that will make more sense in ??? years when I actually start posting my writing 👍

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happy dragon appreciation day

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pretty sure you dont draw them a lot anymore but i just wanna thank you for sharing your rr supersymmetry au. Me and my friend obsessed over it back in 2023 and I made some rlly cool memories with it :)

i'm glad you enjoy it! the only reason i haven't really drawn them much lately is because i've been focusing on writing about sinnoh instead hahaha. i'll definitely draw more stuff for rr in the future, but i just can't guarantee how soon that will be!

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happy new year! i drew a lot in 2023 and had a ton of fun experimenting with a bunch of stuff. here's to more in 2024!

(january | february | march | april | may | june | july | august | september | october | november | december)

i can actually make two more summaries focused on colress and cyrus too LOL (with overlap). i may not have succeeded with my goal to draw colress every week but i still drew him a lot...

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routine maintenance and polish keeps everything running smoothly ⚙️

gotta share one last piece before the year is up! this was for @extraordinaryzine - you can grab it for free here! (timelapse below the cut)

here you can see how much i scribble notes in the margins for my bigger pieces....

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❄️🏔️journey to the summit🏔️❄️

my weavile piece for @sheercoldzine! of course I was going to draw rigel...

(timelapse under the cut)

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weird beast

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there have been some asks sitting unanswered in my inbox for an embarrassingly long time so I'm just going to go through and answer a bunch of them at once haha.

Sada and Turo / Paldea

now that the dlc is out I can play around with my own version of paldea's story and the professors (that I may or may not actually talk about), but they won't be in the rainbow rocket stuff with supersymmetry. "officially" at least. maybe I'll draw something for fun, but I don't intend them to actually be in rr like the rest. they're more interesting to me within the story of paldea, especially with the ai aspects and ... other things going on there.

but to the anons who sent me these: those ideas are cool and honestly you should pursue them yourself!

Lusamine

absolutely yes. in the base universe, her "unification" with nihilego kills her pretty quickly. iota lusamine is luckier since her nihilego seems to prefer keeping her around for longer. slow-acting vs fast-acting poisons, I suppose. by the time lusamine is picked up by rr, it's been about 6 months since she became jellyfish. who knows how much time she has left but her mental (and physical) state will continue to deteriorate along the way. an unsurprising consequence of willingly jumping into the mouth of a parasite

possibly? I haven't given that much thought tbh. considering lillie and guzma's proximity to lusamine when she goes motherbeast, they'd both be lucky to make it out alive hahaha. but I could see all three of them trying to help people and pokemon in the UB-overrun world too

honestly, no clue. I don't even think she knows, and she definitely doesn't care. who needs regular pokemon when she's got ultra beasts now! if lillie is still around she might have taken in a few of them herself though.

Other AU stuff

I've actually made a post about team galactic here!

one fun fact about each of them:

maria/mars is giovanni and ariana's first child, and she ran from her home in kanto when she was 16 to become a pokemon trainer and get away from her parents. sorry silver (she hasn't contacted him in a while).

juno/jupiter makes traditional (hisuian) style pokeballs as a hobby despite the fact that they absolutely are not practical to actually use anymore. but they look nice

sterling/saturn helps run the in-universe equivalent of pokemon showdown because he's a nerd. he enjoys simulated battles more than the real thing most of the time

great news: the rainbow rocket invasion all his fault!

by that I mean the choice of the base universe for invasion wasn't entirely arbitrary; rainbow rocket didn't just Show Up and hope this universe had what they wanted. beforehand, someone from rainbow rocket (either giovanni or archer, maybe even colress) scouted things out, and approached faba for information about the general state of the world and necrozma in particular. faba essentially sells out the universe (and aether's work with necrozma) in exchange for the promise of power and whatever tantalizing rewards the rr emissary offers haha. it's possible some of this involves planting a device to let rr come back to the right universe when ready too. what faba is up to when everything is going down in rr is not something that I've thought about, but he definitely gets found out for his actions leading up to it. oops!

unfortunately probably not. the rr stuff is happening on the other side of the planet and I can't think of a situation which might result in them getting to meet up. I'm not enough of an expert on the two of them to say how such a meeting would play out either, but it would definitely be... interesting considering their own universe's version of the other person has been dead for several years.

rose would probably be the least upset about it but cyrus wins the award for most upset (he has control issues). lysandre absolutely would have the most violent response to it though

Compliments

while I'm not going to share the collection of complimentary messages I've gotten over time, I want everyone to know that I really appreciate hearing that you enjoy my ideas and art! it's encouraging and I'm glad people like my pokemon playground hahaha. and that applies to tags too! it's always great to see... I don't always get around to actually answering the stuff in my inbox (whether it's actual questions or otherwise) but rest assured I do see it!

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a commission for the wonderful @arcyrus/@cyborb! i had a blast working on this; thank you so much for letting me draw your take on cyrus!

[i have commissions open now!]

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commission for @alybur635 !

(get one for yourself here)

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mercury

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great news guys i've done it

it's november so you know what that means

(it's not the full goal because i know myself and i am not capable of hitting that yet. maybe next year) (this is for my platinum nuzlocke fic by the way)

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recent commission for @liizardwiizard!

(get one for yourself here!)

+ timelapse

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great news i have more random pokemon doodles (also featuring my oc percy)

further thoughts on weird little guy sableye include: more/less fluffiness, wild assortments of gem/mineral growth and how many ways that could look.... there's a lot of potential for sure

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my preview for @pokepocketzine featuring a decidedly not pocket-sized monster... preorders are open until november 30!

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it's november so you know what that means

(it's not the full goal because i know myself and i am not capable of hitting that yet. maybe next year) (this is for my platinum nuzlocke fic by the way)