#my husband's grimmsnarl

[castformation]

Can you share some Impidimp info?

Absolutely! One of my husband's first pokémon was an impidimp, so I can tell you quite a bit off the cuff, but of course I did make sure to fact check all of this, too. Sorry if this is a bit on the longer side! I've got a lot to say about them, haha.

Impidimps are well-adapted to the darkness of the Glimwood Tangle, with large, sensitive eyes that have evolved to take in as much light as possible. Because of this, they tend to dislike strong light. It’s highly recommended that anyone who expects their impidimp to come into prolonged contact with daylight or other bright light sources should invest in a pair of special sunglasses or tinted goggles for their pokémon companion, so as to avoid discomfort in the short-term and damage to their eyesight in the long-term.

Impidimps are a common household infestation in rural homes. They tend to make their nests in walls, cupboards, and other dark, enclosed spaces. However, they’re easily lured out into the open with milk and honey left out overnight-- a favored treat of theirs!

There’s an old Galarian belief that impidimps are the troublesome children of changeling fey. While this may seem like nothing but a fairy tale, it actually holds an inkling of truth! The only pokémon species that is proven to be capable of producing impidimp offspring is ditto, which are, of course, very well-known for changing their form. (Many claim that the hattena line is capable of producing impidimp offspring when mating with a member of the impidimp line, but this has not been observed in the wild, nor has it been successfully replicated in captivity, so this remains an unsubstantiated rumor.)

Though impidimp manes are not sensitive or prehensile like those of their evolutions, they are nonetheless very peculiar about their signature lock of hair. If someone the impidimp does not trust or know well attempts to touch it, brush it, or arceus forbid, cut it, they can expect to get bitten...or worse yet, the impidimp will decide to make that individual a long-term target for future mischief out of spite.

They’re surprisingly prolific artists when given crayons, glitter, or other crafting materials. I strongly suggest, however, that you keep these items out of reach unless they’re under careful observation-- or you might wake up to one hell of a mess!

[fluffybunnybadass]

wow actually had a back in college type scenario dream but it was a class that i was allowed to skip so long as i did well on the tests

except i don't recall ever actually coming in to do the tests

anyways, it was a weird one to write a story about using xyz things that i don't remember, but I do remember writing bugs going off

thing that got me though was trying to remember who my teacher was/supposed to look like. hit me just now that it was the manager at my 2nd job who said he reads fanfic. like, he reads it a lot. even picked his phone partially for that purpose?

anyways weird.jpg

[gothimp]

tagged by @archonfurina in a cute new game

𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭…

01. a character you love.

Shadowheart… she’s my wife she’s my best friend she’s my mirror she’s my narrative foil I just love her. Her design is so delicious too. My husband actually got a necklace custom made for my birthday right after the game dropped that looks exactly like Shadowheart’s circlet

02. your favourite food from your culture.

Americans really changed the game with corn dogs and peanut butter. They’re like the only two foods that make me feel patriotic. Also if we’re talking about roots shepherds pie and cottage pie have a big tradition in my family and instantly make me feel at home

03. what your dream apartment / room / house is like.

We’re actually about to move cross country and trade our 3 bedroom house for an apartment so I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I really like a clean but moody aesthetic. Minimal knick-knacks but some silver framed art, colored glass vases. I’m hesitant to say dark academia but maybe just like a slightly less cluttered whimsigoth?

04. your personal style or aesthetic.

Lots of cool tones and dark colors. I prefer looser more gender neutral cuts when I can but when I’m feeling more feminine I LOVE a patterned fishnet + band tee combo. I also wear a lot of hair accessories like hair sticks and claw clips (these sunnies have been on my wishlist forever, and those vans are my favorite shoes I currently have)

05. a happy memory.

Seeing Hozier for his wasteland baby tour :) it was at the beautiful orpheum theater and the whole show was so dreamy

06. your favourite way(s) to spend time.

Playing D&D, writing, playing video games with my husband, horror movies, reading, going on road trips, sunbathing.

07. story behind your url / title / quote / description / icon.

As far as my url, my favorite pokemon is Grimmsnarl!! I love the dark/fairy dual typing. Also I love the use of imps as familiars.

08. something that comforts you or brings you joy.

My kitties 🩵 they are my little house goblins and I love them so much.

09. what you’re looking forward to.

MOVING!!!! Get me out of the south please 😭

10. something else that’s important to you.

I saw Dev Patel’s Monkey Man weeks ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. I know I didn’t even catch all the complexities because I don’t know much about eastern cultures but it’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen and the symbolism I did catch blew me away. Please watch Monkey Man. Please.

Taglist below 🩵

@haarleps @razz-berry @elvves @estevnys @dragonologist-phd

@superhaught @avallachs @devilbrakers @leopardmuffinxo @pitchmoss

@dragonsplague @vvanessaives @katsigian @mapeslyrup @feykiller @fullyclothedmolerat

[grimmssnarl]

@grimmsnarl-gaymer​: I got a kiss from him he's mine now

Yeah my husbands better watch tf out CUS I AM ON THE MENU TONIGHT!! 

come here little man

[cottonthumb]

Hello farmer boy. Your husband is casually laying his head on your shoulder and giving you a hug around the waist, how sweet...

Oh, now its hands are dipping lower. Bad fairy!

❦ Milo would like to say he's surprised, but he's not. Still, it's nice to get a hug and a tad of affection. So, Milo's going to wrap his arms around Grimmsnarl's shoulders, press occasional pecks on his fangs-

"... Wouldn't do that if I were you. I've got some hemlock in my pocket which I was taking home to try some pot pourri."

[dragonzscene-moved]

Final form of my PKMN S/I, all the other versions were trash so I made this one

“You lost the battle, get lost”

☠️Name☠️: Draco

☠️Nickname(s)☠️: Big tiddy goth bf, little dragon (both given by Raihan)

☠️Gender☠️: Male (he/they)

☠️Sexuality☠️: Gay/mlm

☠️Height☠️: 4′11 (without boots), 5′2 (with boots)

☠️Weight/body type☠️: Underweight, his ribs poke out a bit and he’s basically a skeleton due to living on instant ramen and energy drinks

☠️Job☠️: He’s supposed to work in the vault, but 80% of the time he’s challenging new pokemon trainers or is in Stow-on-Side visiting Allister and helping with the fossils ☠️Lover☠️: Raihan (husband) ☠️Themesong☠️: Deviltown by Cavetown

☠️Personality☠️: Well, to sum it up, he’s not nice. He’s not afraid to be brutally honest and if you get him mad he will NOT take your feelings into consideration. Oh, and anger issues 101. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not a bully. He wouldn’t insult you for no reason, he needs a real reason. People think of him as cold, and don’t understand why Raihan is with him since he’s mean, but it’s not his “real” personality. Sure he’s mean, but he also loves drawing and caring for his pokemon. He was often pushed around and taken advantage of as a kid so he just decided to be cold and push others away to stop that.

☠️Hobbies☠️: As I stated before he LOVES drawing. In his free time he’s most likely drawing pokemon in the wild area. Other than drawing he likes sewing and sometimes makes clothes for his pokemon.

☠️Flaws☠️: Other than his cold personality he also has anger issues and bad jealousy. He never learned how to properly express his feelings (see backstory) and only knows how to be rude.

☠️Pokemon team☠️:

All of them are level 100

-Noctowl

-Grimmsnarl

-Applin (a gift from Raihan from when they first got together)

-Orbeetle

-Liepard

-Toxtricity, his prize pokemon (amped form)

☠️Backstory (under the cut because it’s long)☠️:

Draco didn’t have a “bad” childhood exactly. He never had a proper father figure and in result isolated himself because his mom was yelling at his brother 50% of the time she was home. He was pushed around and taken advantage of multiple times, so he pushed people away in fear of being taken advantage of. He had very few friends in school and would rather doodle all over his homework instead of turning it in. He did the bare minimum to pass classes and spent most of his time with a Toxel he found behind the school. Toxel and Toxtricity soon became his favorite pokemon because they were both pouty and the two pokemon are poison types, and Draco would often be called mean and toxic.

After graduating school he captured the Toxel, got a pokedex, and went to become a pokemon trainer. Or so he thought. When he was training in the wild area with his Toxtricity (the same Toxel from before, just evolved) and the rest of his team (aside from the Applin) he met Raihan who was also training in the wild area. He asked to battle him and Raihan absolutely DESTROYED his team. Draco tried to run away from embarrassment because he thought Raihan would just make fun of him for being weak like most people in his past but instead Raihan offered to help him train. He hesitantly accepted his offer and that’s how it all started. He confessed to Raihan that he didn’t have a place to stay in or a job and Raihan gave him the job at the vault and Draco moved in with Raihan. After being seen together often rumours started spreading that they were dating. Draco gained popularity for being this “mystery boy” and one night Raihan asked him out by giving him an Applin. Draco accepted because he’s been secretly crushing on Raihan and the two started dating.

After months Draco had his entire team to level 100, but stayed at his job in the vault. Many people questioned why he didn’t become a gym leader or do the gym challenge since his pokemon are so high level but the truth is that Draco was never interested in being famous and becoming the champion was boring to him.

☠️ Reblogs are highly appreciated, and asks and other interactions for Draco (S/I) are appreciated as well! ☠️

[clairvoyantxatu]

On Pokémon and Insensitive Portrayals

WARNING! LEAKED CONTENT FOR POKEMON SWORD AND SHIELD AHEAD! AS WELL AS DISCUSSION ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS! AND PLEASE, DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS UNTIL YOU FINISH READING THE TEXT, I TRIED MY BEST NOT TO DEMONIZE ANY OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED IN THIS DEBATE!

So, I’ve just found out that some Jewish fans have condemning the design of Impidimp’s final evolution, Grimmsnarl, for being eerily similar to antisemitic caricatures from Nazi propaganda.

They claim his green complexion, curly dark hair and long, pointy nose is pretty close to Third Reich-era depictions of Jewish people. The issue is similar to the controversy surruounding Jynx that happened when the series first came to the West. I decided to write this in order to expose my opinions on the matter, and maybe prevent further conflicts between defenders and accusers. Keep in mind, I can’t speak for Jewish people since I’m not one of them, but I personally believe anyone can share their opinions about controversial topics as long as they don’t commit the mistake of thinking they know more about a group they don’t belong to than themselves. Here goes my thoughts:

I personally DON’T believe Game Freak, as a company at least, is actively discriminatory against any group in particular; the majority of their employees, even the main members of its staff, might hold some biases coming from the still pretty conservative Japanese culture they’re inserted in. But they’ve already shown thorugh their actions throughout the years they’re not trying to perpetuate hatred towards any group in particular, even taking some measures - some of them, even too drastic, IMO - to secure that, like changing Jynx’ color palette starting from Gen III, temporarily replacing Brock in the anime with Tracey and slightly altering Gym Leader Lenora’s default design to please the fans concerned with their possible racist implications. But I think the biggest proof of that is how, starting from Gen V, they’ve been making an effort to include more diversity among their human cast, including more and more characters with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds with each passing generation, and even alluding to sexual diversity from time to time - if only through subtext, in the latter’s case (save for that post-op trans woman in the Battle Chateau, which got slightly less explicit in the English localization). Of course, not everything is perfect in that department, as can be attested by their reluctancy to depict the Player Characters in their more dark-skinned variations, as of X and Y, (and before that, the complete absence of that possibility in-game) in promotional art and spinoff media outside of screenshots of main series games designed specifically to showcase character customization, but I’d like to think this had more to do with the Japanese market - still their main target audience, despite the franchise’s success over the entire globe - being hesitant to accept character designs outside certain “standards” for their PC’s even to this day, to a lesser extent than in the past, of course. But one thing that people need to understand is that companies are complex entities encompassing many individual minds; them having flaws and making mistakes from time to time does not necessarily mean they are rotten to the core, even if, in the end, their main priority is making money for themselves (altruism is NOT a strong point in capitalist societies, sadly, but I digress).

With all that said, I’d like to point out as well, that sometimes, good intentions are not enough to perform a good deed; in fact, they can lead to grave consequences! And it’s not different with representation; sometimes, one can intend to portray a character from a certain group in a positive light and end up being tremendously insensitive, usually due to their own ignorance towards that group. I believe that’s the case with Jynx and other examples from Pokémon; while I’m one of the fans who prefer to believe Jynx is based on the Youkai Yama-Uba (refer to this link for more info on that: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jynx_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Origin), I cannot deny there is a strong similarity between Jynx’ original design and blackface caricatures, specially since the Yama-Uba is usually portrayed in Noh theatre by performers wearing blackface - even if without the intention to emulate actual black people. It doesn’t help that the anime chose to portray this species as Pokémon’s equivalent of Santa Claus’ usual elf assistants, possibly linking Jynx to Zwarte Peit, a infamous folklore figure heavily associated with Santa as well. In regards to the substantially smaller Lenora controversy, I personally believe it was the case of GF misinterpreting some depictions of black women from less-enlightened times, in particular those borrowing from the mammy stereotype, as something more positive than they actually were, possibly connecting them to traditional Japanese ideals of femininity and motherhood, but that’s just a wild guess, I admit. What I’m sure, however, is that while Lenora’s apron could be excused as a means to carry her archeological tools, even if I’ve never seen an actual archeologist wearing aprons to do so, her original Gym Leader Title in the Japanese version of the Gen V games, “Natural-born Mama” raises a lot of suspicion against the intent behind her design, specially since she’s not known to have children, have a particularly “motherly” personality, act as a mother figure towards any character in-game or have an occupation that could be interpreted as being akin to a mother’s role; the best I can think of is Lenora and her husband referring to each other as “mama” and “papa”, but considering other Gym Leader titles refer more to their main character features, and Lenora’s relationship with Hawes is more of side note in comparison to her role as Nacrene Museum’s director... the fact the rest of her characterization is pretty straightforward, lacking any racial elements to it, however, lends credency to the idea GF didn’t intend her to be a caricature of black women.

Nevertheless, the closeness between those depictions and real world racist depictions of minority groups is still unsettling, at least to some. And just because the author’s intention wasn’t to offend a certain group, it doesn’t mean people don’t have the right to dislike their work for that. After all, so many people hate Palkia’s design for resembling male genitalia despite that obviously not being the intention! What if they coloured Cloyster light pink instead? Would you blame people for associating it (even more) with a vagina? I’m not saying we should storm off GF’s office demanding they change Grimmsnarl’s design while accusing them of being bigots, specially since I don’t believe it’s the case at all; all Im saying is that there’s a strong point of favour of those discontent with the characters’ design, despite all claims that it’s not meant to represent something they despise. I don’t know if GF should feel impelled to change Grimmsnarl’s colouring to solely please those people, but I’m sure I’d also hate if they created, even unintentionally, a character who bore too much resemblance to a particularly negative depicition from a group I belong to, say, some Fuu Manchuu-esque Evil Team Leader or the like. If they simply made a new Pokémon with a Chinese-inspired aesthetic, even if some elements were a bit cliché, like Ludicolo is for Mexican people, I wouldn’t mind nearly as much.

And I don’t think anyone should dismiss those concerns, much less with weak arguments such as “if you see racism in that, then you’re the real bigot” like I’ve seen out there, just because they don’t grasp the ideas I exposed above. Neither do I approve the attitude of people who react with too much intensity to opposition towards their accusations or jump the gun and accuse GF of being prejudiced towards a specific group without enough evidence or incite violence of any kind towards them because of those unfortunate depictions. Remember, they come from a culture far away from our Western issues, so it’s more likely than not that they aren’t even aware of them, specially more relatively obscure elements like old Nazi propaganda. Having a British man as one of their main designers can help, but even Western people aren’t aware of all Western problems, so...