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PLATONIC INTERPRETATIONS OF CHARACTER DYNAMICS ARENT ANY LESS VALID THAN ROMANTIC ONES PELASEE

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I was looking for Kurt’s references in Pinterest for another illustration when I stumbled with this comic page…

I have absolutely zero idea which comic this is from and I’m very much ignoring that the lady in the jacuzzi is Amanda/Jimaine.

The very much important bit here is that this silly man bamfed into a mission stark naked!!

And not only gloriously naked, no, no, no, naked and wet!!

No-one can tell me that Kurt is not an exhibitionist, any other would have at least looked for a par of pants but not our elf, who perfectly could have ported himself to the closet, no, he didn’t. He chose to show his magnificent blue ass around.

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Inspired by Kamden, a topical repost of 2016 fan art of Olympic athlete, Kurt Wagner. Since men's gymnastics has a lot more social media presence nowadays, I'd be so keen to revisit this kind of AU that gave me so much joy

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Back in the summer of 2006, exciting things were on the horizon for Nintendo fans. Nintendo’s new console, the Wii, was just a few months away, and with it would come The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the more immediate horizon, however, was the Japanese release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

Munchlax and Bonsly had appeared in the anime and the side game Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and rumor had it that for the first time the starters would deviate from the Grass/Fire/Water formula. There were a few minor leaks, such as Lickitung and Magmar getting evolutions, which a few people drew their own interpretations of. These images being used in hoaxes such as fake leaks ultimately lead to what those who were there call The Summer of Fakemon.

It felt like new fake leaks were appearing every day. It was pretty easy to recognize most as being fake, but for some it was hard to be sure, while others were completely convincing. At that point, I’d been drawing and editing sprites for a Sailor Moon web comic for about two years, so I was mostly interested in the pixel art aspect of all the fakes. Granted, I wasn’t very GOOD with pixel art, but I still enjoyed it. When I threw my hat into the hoaxing ring, it was with something that I thought would fall into the “obviously fake” category.

It was picked up by several major Pokemon fan sites, particularly Spanish-language ones for some reason, and got around enough that Serebii added it to their Fake Pokemon page. I think the reason a lot of people believed it was real might have been because it was just too ugly. If someone were trying to pass off a fakemon as real, they would make it cute or cool, not ugly and weird, right?

My fondest memory of people reacting to it was one person, who seemed to believe that it was real, referring to it as “Cthulhu’s dog”.

I didn’t bother making it look convincing, since I didn’t think anyone would buy it and it was going to be in a small distorted image anyway. As you can see, it’s crudely cobbled together… but what exactly are we looking at here? As luck would have it, I never delete my working files.

The head is actually that of a Beautifly, with a single smoothed-out Articuno wing mirrored to serve as both ears (…or whatever those things are), which also seems to be where I got the blue color palette.

The body is an Espeon’s. You can actually see those lines, left over from the legs, in the final design.

The fins are the leg-wing-things of a Crobat, recolored but otherwise unedited.

Needless to say, when I started I just thought that Beautifly’s head would look interesting, and had no clear idea what direction I was going with the design.

Next up was a Gorebyss tail, and this is where things went a little… experimental. I knew that I didn’t want that purple fan on the end, but I really didn’t know what the end of the tail SHOULD look like.

I ultimately settled on the tail in the bottom-right, which is actually the feathers from the top of a Swablu’s head. I considered leaving it like that, but felt like it was still a little too simple. I decided to add part of a Magikarp tail, to make it more similar to the Kingdra design in the top-right.

From there, for whatever reason, I had the idea to shape the tail into a fishing net, hence the creature’s name, Tsurigu (Japanese for fishing tackle). I honestly have no idea if anyone but me ever saw the tail as a fishing net.

Finally, the adornments! I used the rear part of Lanturn’s antenna, editing it just enough so that the ball portion looked like it was in the foreground. I removed the bottom (earlobe?) parts of the modified Articuno wings, and drew on some gold rings just to add a few points of visual interest.

There you have it! Eleven years later, the full truth of Tsurigu’s creation. It’s hard to say how far it spread or how many people saw it, considering it’s been so long and most of the sites that posted it have disappeared. Over the years I’ve seen the design used in a few different ways, including things like reinterpretations and a creature made in Spore that I can no longer find.

My favorite is actually one from just last year, by DeviantArt user Urbinator17.

It was never that well-known, and at this point has been almost entirely forgotten, but the terrible amalgamation once called Cthulhu’s dog is a highlight of The Summer of Fakemon, and one of my favorite memories of 2006.

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Gatekeeping is so good and important

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i do trust sonic... but now i'm a lil bit suspicious

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Yummy 🍜✨

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I didn't ask for this, but I'm glad I have it.

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"Maria..."

"I want to see Maria"

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squares are hard

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I offered to come check on my friend's animals while she's away for the long weekend

She thinks I'm joking

But I'm ready

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I’ve seen a lot of content that suggests that pacifiers are as essential as bottles and as normal a “life stage” item for babies as diapers. My family had four children and zero pacifiers so I’m curious about both their frequency of use and also whether this may be a North American or USAmerican phenomenon.

(Honestly if I had unlimited poll options I would split answers into even more specific regions, especially Asia.)

No nuance button; select the option closest to your answer if none are perfect and explain yourself in the tags.

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i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

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i feel like being in a fandom long-term has a very specific repetitive cycle that kind of looks like this

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BLESSED TRANSFORMERS GO! GO! BEACH PIC BE UPON YE