#darrs goths

[darktypehuman]

YES!! YES!! <i REALLY like ghost types… and also actively trying to kill the harmful stereotypes on drifloon specifically

yes!!! ghost types are completely misunderstood - people are horrible to lana bc "bluh bluh lampent gonna eat my soul" thats not!!! a thing!!!!! the only time that MIGHT happen is if she's literally starving and desperate!!!!! and she sure as heck isnt!!!

and imo all the stereotypes driftloon has are due to neglectful trainers. like? all the wild driftloon ive interacted with have been so sweet,,, they dont 'carry children away' they just want to show their new friends things they like!!! theyre not trying to kidnap anyone they just dont understand that human kids shouldnt be taken into dangerous places - driftloon are literally ghosts! how tf are they supposed to know what is or isnt dangerous for humans????

also baby my banette is really cuddly and adorable... she just has separation anxiety!!! and abandonment issues!!!! yeah she can get jealous sometimes but she's been hurt badly before, and she's trying her best to be polite. sometimes she hecks up, but she's allowed to!!! shes allowed to make mistakes!!! she's not 'evil' just because she's scared of losing the people she loves!!!!

absolutely ridiculous that people are so aggressive towards ghost types like?? most of them are just funny little guys

[gigantomachy1916]

More Vampire Game: because Duzell is able to shapeshift between his kitten form, Ishtar's doppelganger, and, later, his real form, there's a running gag where they make the lives of Ishtar's bodyguards as difficult as possible.

First of all, they aren't even trying to hide his identity. Ishtar names her kitten Duzell, he uses Duzell as a pseudonym while disguised as Ishtar, and when he takes his true form again, they just tell everyone his name is "Doctor Duzell." Plausible deniability? What's that?

Early in the series, the kitten leaves Ishtar's room alone...

...and at the end of the day, it turns out Ishtar has been seen fighting in the arena, despite having never left her room.

When Duzell is disguised as Ishtar, he takes pleasure in appearing from places she couldn't possibly be, greeting the guards with a sarcastic "Good job today" every time.

At this point, Krai, the guard with the spiky hair, explains to the other guard Jill that he took this job specifically because guarding the princess is so impossible that no one will be mad if they screw up.

Once Duzell can take his own form again, he just starts following Ishtar everywhere, including into her bedroom, with no explanation for the poor guards.

When Darres, the only competent member of the royal guard, questions the fact that Ishtar suddenly has a mysterious goth man at her side 24/7, Jill and Krai reassure him that no, it's okay, that's just Ishtar's "personal doctor" who showed up out of nowhere and goes by the same name as the infamous vampire king.

When Darres is like, "Hey, wait, that guy seems like an evil vampire, not a doctor," Jill and Krai have a perfectly logical theory: since Ishtar is known to use "Duzell" as a pseudonym, this obviously means that the doctor (who, again, has been at Ishtar's side all day) is really just Ishtar in disguise.

What excellent guards they are.

[dlkardenal]

Werewolves are a debate between me and Darr. I was never a fan of wolves. I like all animals including dogs, but I’m a cat person and I never understood the fuss about wolves in any medium. When I was a teenage goth girl I too had plenty of wolf-stuff: T-shirts, bags, badges, but when I had to choose a side in the lycan-vampire war–the Underworld movie was very popular back then–,  I always sided with vampires. They were elegant and stylish, while the others... But I don’t want to hurt anyone's feelings. Then Twilight came and the avalanche of vampire and werewolf paranormal romances was unstoppable.

If someone can ever tell me what is sexy in werewolves feel free to DM me because I don’t think, that all those who read and write these shapeshifter romances have hidden bestiality fetish. I guess it has something to do with the “fated-mates” thing that is slowly becoming a trope (or we passed that and it’s already a cliché), but I’m still not sure about this. But just because I don’t understand it I can’t deny its popularity, and like most mythological creatures werewolves also have an origin in the real world – and you can guess, it is a medical condition. Or in this case at least four different medical conditions.

I. Porphyria

We already covered this disease which is the probable origin of the vampire mythos //link//, but we didn’t mention that it can also cause werewolf-like symptoms. People with porphyria can have excessive hair growth, develop sores, scars, and discolored skin. Porphyria also leads to progressive deterioration of the nose, ears, eyelids, and fingers, as well as tightening skin around the lips and gums. Their face can become really wolfish.

II. Hypertrichosis

It’s the least severe condition, noly causing abnormal hair growth all over the body. There are several different forms of hypertrichosis, one is congenital when hair growth is present at birth and caused by genetic mutations. It can be further divided considering what hair-type and how much of the body is affected. Congenital terminal hypertrichosis is characterized by the presence of fully pigmented terminal hair (meaning thick, dark, “normal” hair) that covers the entire body. This condition is usually accompanied by gingival hyperplasia, or in other words gum enlargement, which gives the patient an even more wolfish look.  People with this condition were frequent attractions at circuses as „freaks” because of their unusual appearance.

Hypertrichosis can also be acquired which appears after birth and can be associated with cancer, as a side effects of drugs or even the product of a hormonal unbalance due to eating disorders. This is reversible unlike the congenital type but the treatment depends on the exact origin of the symptoms.

III. Rabies

Rabies is a viral infection that is carried by dogs, wolves, and other animals, including bats. Humans can contract the disease after being bitten by an infected animal. Rabies affects the central nervous system by brain inflammation and can cause a wide range of symptoms. It can be extreme agitation, painful contraction of the throat muscles, hallucinations, biting other people, and excessive fear of water. Later it progresses into violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, an inability to move parts of the body, confusion, and loss of consciousness. Death usually occurs within five days of being bitten.

Rabies was commonplace during medieval Europe and many peasants carried iron crosses called the "keys" of St.Hubert (the patron saint of rabies victims) to protect themselves against it. Now animal control and vaccination programs have decreased the risk of rabies from dogs in several regions of the world.

Since the site of a fellow human running at you with bloodied eyes and chomping into your arm is quite the trauma, I think it’s obvious where did the myth that new werewolves can be created through biting a human originate.

IV. Lycanthropy

I saved the best for the last. Lycanthropy is a mental disorder, when the affected person thinks that they can transform into, has transformed into, or is an animal. It can be any kind of animal, there was a case when the patient thought they can transform into a bee, and another about frogs, but wolves, foxes, cats, and tigers are among the more common ones.

It has been linked by modern medical doctors to (be prepared, many science words are coming) schizophrenia, organic brain syndrome with psychosis, psychotic depressive reaction, dissociative-type hysterical neurosis, manic depressive psychosis, and epilepsy. One important factor may be differences or changes in parts of the brain known to be involved in representing body shape. A neuroimaging study of two people diagnosed with clinical lycanthropy showed that these areas display unusual activation, suggesting that when people report their bodies are changing shape, they may be genuinely perceiving those feelings.

Hallucinogenic plants and fungus-infected grains have been at the root of many outbreaks of lycanthropy over the centuries. Belladonna (deadly nightshade) was frequently used in ritualistic practice to induce a mind-altered state in which delusions of bodily metamorphosis were commonplace. However, it was the fungus known as ergot that had the most effect or more precisely ergot infected bread. Ergot contains constituents similar to the powerful hallucinogenic drug LSD and it has in the past led people to believe that they had turned into wild beasts. A 2009 study reported that, after the consumption of the drug MDMA (Ecstasy), a man displayed symptoms of paranoid psychosis by claiming that his relatives had changed into various animals.

Now, I think we have a fairly colorful boundle of things that can seep into mythology and eventually pop culture. But what became of these varied phemonena? We’ll take a look at it next week, seeing how werewolf representation changed from archaic times to contemporary paranormal romance.

[darktypehuman]

hey call me darr. they/them. i am not a zoroark i swear. i just look like this. im a dark/ghost type trainer from unova and im like, tryin my best to prove that ghost and dark types arent evil. tryin to get all the badges in the region for the fifth time

this is a battle subway stan account lol love those guys

will link my team HERE and any other pokemon i have HERE. i have a support pokemon (love u louie :D best lucario) so ask me abt that. if ur not a dark or ghost type fan this is not an account for u

for some reason i am frequently mistaken as a zoroark BY zorua/zoruark so i know a lot abt them. ask me shit abt them if you like! i have a zoroark travelling w/ me (they go by the name zelda) but they're not part of my team they're just a friend of mine

posts abt my life/stuff happening to me will be tagged #darrs journey stuff abt the zorua line is #darrs illusions anything abt support pokemon/louie (and disability in general) is tagged #darrs disability anything abt dark/ghost types will be tagged #darrs goths battle subway stuff is #darrs trains queue tag is #darrs not here just me talking is #darr chats

all my pokemon get their own tags too bc i love them n any pictures/posts of pokemon the same species as them will go under their tags. posts i make abt my team specifically will be tagged #darrs team

lmk if you need anything tagged

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Hi, I'm Hollow/Ingo and I adore zoroarks if that wasn't clear. I wanted to jump on the pokemon irl train the moment I first saw this account! This account will be almost solely in character, so basically consider this whole account to have an unreality warning on it. Since it's meant to be an in character account I won't be doing any rp on here, but if you want to rp in dms or discuss events happening that our characters can post about, I would be happy to!

Pokemon on this account are considered sometimes/semi sapient, I go into it more here! Lmk if you'd rather I not interact!

I am an adult! This account is SFW though. At most I might post silly joke innuendos, but those will all be tagged as #suggestive text if you want to block that. All posts I make will include the tags "Pokemon", "Pokemon IRL", "PokemonIRL", "Real Pokemon", "Pkmn IRL" and any relevant pokemon species (or canon characters).

I will be basing Darr's experiences with disability on my own experiences, as well as my personal headcanons for pokemon!

Any "photographs" that include a real life background not based on a photo I took myself will include credit to the original photographer under a cut. All pokemon art used is either official art or drawn by me.

My main is @infinitelysilvr! I follow back from @infinitelysilvr2 due to weird tumblr issues. Feel free to interact with the other RP accounts I run! You many be interested in @highlandswarden, a version of PLA's Ingo sent to a very curious location...

This post will be updated if there's anything else I feel needs to be mentioned. Have fun everyone!

Also, here's a quick drawing of Darr, for reference's sake