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Make a fire-type fakemon based on this flower!

For a challenge, don’t use grass typing!

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Make a fakemon duo based on salt and pepper!

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Idea for some Pokemon fangame out there

Have a legendary/unique pokemon that is basically one of those glitch pokemon from gen 1

By that I don’t mean “program your game horribly so an abomination of that caliber may be born”, but rather “make a pokemon styled after those glitches, but actually functional and not game breaking”

Heck you could even have a sort of glitch city-like area in which you encounter it

Maybe even have the rest of the game just not acknowledge the bug pokemon outside of battles and your pokemon menu

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Make a fakemon based on a deep sea creature, like an angler fish or brittle star.

Challenge: Don’t use the Dark or Ghost type

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I saw these bugs all the time growing up but never knew what it actually was. Could you tell me? (It has 6 legs although not shown)

Well that there is an Earwig (Order: Dermaptera) my friend. The picture is pretty blurry but these insects have a very distinctive body plan starting with those heavily segmented antenna and ending with those characteristic forcep-like cerci. This insect is one of many that desperately needs a pokemon modeled after it!

Can’t you just imagine it firing electricity or some kind of shockwave out of those butt pincers?? 

Or maybe it could be a fighting type and use those to do bodyslam-esque moves. 

Here are a few attempts from like-minded DeviantArtists:

-by Pokeluka

oh and this is a cute baby version called the HearWig by Reallydarkandwindie:

Anyways, earwigs are remarkable insects even beyond their staggering Pokemon potential. They’re among very few non-social insects that raise their young:

(Photo credit: Tom Oates)

The females have distinctly potent instincts to protect round squishy things! They will even defend balls of wax or vaseline from predators and clean them to protect against fungal growth. The females stay with the young in their earlier stages of their lives, feeding them predigested food she regurgitates for them.

Earwigs have highly flexible abdomens that allow them to use those fully-functional pincers on their back end as defensive weapons against predators. (I saw one grab and body slam a would-be predatory jumping spider once! He wasn’t dead but perplexed, shaken up, and wholly unwilling to try again.) In addition, they can fire a pungent, gluey solution from the middle of their abdomen too. They’re not interested in making life easy for predators and parasites. Many wasp and fly species that would that attempt to land on their backs and lay eggs on or in them can be picked off easily. And if they ever bite off more than they can chew in a scuff, they’re also able to fly away with the extremely intricately folded wings that they keep stored like a little leathery jetpack on their backs. 

You’ve got nothing to fear from these creatures though. 

The name may make it seem as if these creatures are able to infiltrate your head through your hearing holes like something out of a b-list alien movie but that’s not at all apart of their life cycle! 

Earwigs feed on decaying plant matter and occasionally smaller insects but never the brain matter of sleeping mammals. Their common name turned up so long ago that we’re actually not sure where it came from. It’s quite possible though that they were named for the shape of their wings when unfolded (which sort of look like ears at the right angle) + the Old English word “wicga” which means beetle. The old wives tale about them crawling into the ears of sleeping humans potentially came from a misunderstanding of that name. They’re actually pretty friendly ^____^

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Quick reminder!

We accept submissions! Have an idea but don’t know how to present it? Have a prompt you want to see on this blog? Have a full fledged Fakemon idea you want us to draw? Send it to us through ask or submission! We’ll be sure to post it as soon as we can!

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Make a fakemon based on a berry inside or outside of the Pokémon universe!

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Happy pride month! Make a fakemon with the color palette of a pride flag!

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I saw this and I’m totally drawing it. I’m in love oh man-

that Fakemon prompt is good!! but the idea it gave me…

not so good

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Make a fakemon based on the concept of time! It doesn’t have to be otherworldly or temporal, it could be as simple as a metronome or an alarm clock!

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unused fossil Pokemon type combinations and what they could be

Rock/Dark: This one���s tough.  I can’t really think of a prehistoric animal associated with “sneakiness” or “cheating”.  Maybe an Oviraptor “egg thief” Pokemon?

Rock/Electric: Definitely one of those sail-backed reptiles, like Dimetrodon or Spinosaurus.  Its sail would absorb sunlight to power up its electric attacks.

Rock/Fairy: I’ve always wanted there to be a pure-Rock grumpy scaly dino-baby that evolves into a Rock/Fairy Velociraptor covered in bright feathers, representative of our evolving understanding of raptor biology,

Rock/Fighting: This would also be a good candidate for a Velociraptor Pokemon.  Personally, though, I’d like to see a Rock/Fighting terror bird that learns a lot of kicking attacks.

Rock/Fire: Same as Rock/Electric, honestly.

Rock/Ghost: Every fossil is a dead thing and could therefore conceivably be a Ghost-type, so this would probably have to be reserved for an animal that’s famous for being extinct, like the dodo or the woolly mammoth or something.

Rock/Ground: This one has a lot of possibilities.  A mammoth with an entire hillside on its back?  An Ankylosaurus with gravel armor?  Maybe some kind of burrowing animal?  I dunno.

Rock/Normal: My immediate first thought is “hadrosaur”, for two reasons: one, some hadrosaurs had hollow crests that amplified their calls, and a Normal-type hadrosaur could capitalize on this by learning (and getting STAB from) sound moves; and two, hadrosaurs are basically the default dinosaur - the Normal-types of the Cretaceous, if you will.

Rock/Poison: Back before gen 5 came out, a Rock/Poison fossil Arthropleura Pokemon was one of my all-time most-wanted concepts, but the introduction of Scolipede means they probably wouldn’t make that, since it’s so similar.  My second choice would be a poison-spitting pop-culture Dilophosaurus, complete with Jurassic Park-style neck frills.  Alternate possibility: an entire animate tar pit full of bones.

Rock/Psychic: I genuinely can’t think of anything for this one, help me out here

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Make a generic region staple! Regional rodent, regional bird, regional insect, the sky’s the limit!

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Make a fossil Fakemon that has a unique type combination!

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Make an Alolan form for a non-Alolan Pokemon, or make a Kantonian form for an Alolan Pokemon!

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Make a fakemon based on a daffynition! (For example, melancholy. Take that word apart and you have a melon collie, a strangely shaped dog.)

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Make a fakemon based on a succulent plant! (idea from @dwebble-downer!)

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Make a fakemon based on a sunrise or sunset!