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Hey everyone! Just letting y'all know that i've started moving my more serious art over to this blog instead, if you want to give it a follow. I've been feeling a bit awkward on this one since it's got sketches, doodles, and even some analysis essays on it, so i wanted a place that was more just art-only. Thanks!

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A selection of some of my favorite regional variants and fakemon from my RP server. Dex descriptions below:

Vlahian chinglings resemble Arceus's symbol, and are treated as wards against misfortune and the restless dead as a result. Modern research has discovered that they may have developed the shape in order to benefit from the protection of humans, and not the other way around. It's said that they can easily become desecrated with poor treatment.

It's believed that skanters are the result of mutualism between two pokemon - a normal horse and some type of beetle - taken to an extreme. They roam in herds, and while their primary diet is grass, they apparently love to eat ghosts, according to several local folktales. They're sometimes seen chewing on what appears to be thin air.

Prigs are incredibly haughty and difficult. They're prone to ignoring their trainers, and their moods are capricious; what makes them happy one day will make them refuse to fight the next. As such, it's common for people to give up on raising one. Prigs that were released are the most likely to join a new trainer, just to start the cycle over again.

Initially thought to be a regional goomy variant, goopies are actually parasites that infest and control a goomy's body, like the mushrooms on a parasect. They're known for their hypnotic, pulsing colors, which they use to entice prey. They will sometimes latch onto a human host and temporarily puppet them around. They understand the concept of money.

Scrappy and belligerent, Vlahian drifloons delight in combat. Unfortunately, their bodies are extremely elastic and they're very light, so their body slams usually result in the drifloon bouncing comically far. They also strike out with their hands, but they're too short to reach past their long bodies. They are filled with rage for existence itself.

Vlahian elgyems can fly over short distances and to great heights, but only in short bursts. They're pranksters, and enjoy abducting anything that appears precious - including living beings - and taking them as far away as they can. They appear to have a childlike lack of empathy - luckily, like children, they tire easily.

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some signature pokemon inspired fits from my 18+ pokemon rp server :3

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Hi! Actually, given that the show has multiple references to Shiva (the Tomb of Kur is listed in the Field Guide as the Koh Ker archaeological site, one of Rani Nagi's epithets for Kur is "The Destroyer," shared with Shiva, and Shiva's close connection with nagas in the first place (he wears one around his neck, which symbolizes his dominion over all beasts)), it's actually most likely Shiva's trident!

It symbolizes trinities, like past/present/future and creation/preservation/destruction :D

I've made an observation.

You know the dowsing rod that Fisk made in Shadows of Lemuria? This one?

I found a similar shape.

Psi, from the Greek alphabet.

According to Wikipedia, it can stand for:

And Fisk made it with telekinesis!

It's also similar to Poseidon's trident:

Which means that there might be some more Lemurian ruins/artifacts/clues somewhere in one of these Greek seas (click the link):

I think the Secret Scientists might need to launch an expedition to Greece in the future.

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would you guys stop following me if i started posting homestuck

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i think N Harmonia and Wes Colosseum should talk

bonus wes

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✙ 𝕍𝕝𝕒𝕙𝕚𝕒 𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 is a mature, 18+ RP server with a focus on character interaction, exploration, and plotting. We have a whole new pokédex, a streamlined gameplay system, and welcome both canons and OCs!

If you're looking for a place where your characters will be challenged, will be hurt, and will be forced to change and grow…

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World map, example pokémon, and other art under the cut!

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First four issues of The Neopian Inquirer, the webcomic I'm running in The Neopian Times centered around Brillia and her dream of usurping the very newspaper her antics are being documented in.

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Hi! Do you take commissions?

yarrr! just lmk what youd be after and i can price it haha

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Ummm.... Neopets.

Bonus:

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some doc mercer/xander mercer doodles i don't think i ever posted

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more ancient+'s (first set here), this time featuring aethers, sandsurges, banescales (a second time), and dusthides

For the aether, I just wanted to really lean into the mothiness... and make a hatchling that doesn't hide its extra pair of legs. seriously, why does the actual aether hatchling hide its extra pair of legs... that's like, the Whole Point. I also thought it'd be fun to play with primary/secondary placement, so the aether's wings actually use its primary

Sandsurges, uhhh.... this is the most radical departure from the canon, because I kind of can't justify anything about the canon sandsurges. If they're supposed to be burrowers, why do they have cheetah bodies? Or the big clunky horns? And if they're supposed to be sand sharks, why do they have TWO sails when one would sell the shark-ness more? So this version features big mole mitts and monitor bod, with a single really BIG sail.

Banescale (2) - just trying to lean into (what i think) was the theme of the banescales, which is that they're "demonic" dragons compared to coatls being "angelic". So made the tail more obviously a trident and gave it crazy little grabby hands on its wings, and tore them up like aberrations. it turned out looking a lot like a man. sorry.

Dusthides... I'm not really sure... what's going on with the canon dusthides? they look like they're trying to be isopods and pangolins and armadillos. So here's my take on that. The armor plates are prehensile and can fold upwards. this is pretty much just a vestigial feature of them originally being wings because it's not like they can fly with them lol. again experimenting with secondary placement by having the armored legs, head, and tail tip be the secondary. it doesn't curl up into a perfect ball, but neither do pangolins. i also made it fluffy because i like fluffy dragons. it can't wear clothes anyway. it ended up turning out kind of centipede-y

i feel like auraboas and aberrations are like... fine. Any changes i would make to them would be pretty minimal (mostly I just want shrinkage on the auraboa wings and more exciting prim/sec placement on the abes) so i'm probably not going to do ancient+'s of them

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my favorite white people

i think i like the sketch better -_ -

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dnd npcs :D

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drew my friend's astarion fandragon for them haha

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A short board I was working on based on The Decemberist's "The Hazards of Love" album, specifically the track Annan Water

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My pieces for the Pokemon Colosseum 20th Anniversary Zine! (Check it out, it's free!) I was honoured to have been chosen as the cover artist, so here are the front and back covers on their own :)