#these are all vaguely based off of their irl faces but I took many creative liberties

[birddcandle]

anyone have some soup

[wolpertinger-prince]

I'd love to hear about your favorite pokemon!

OKAY so my long time favorite is Ninetales. I loved Ninetales ever since I was a little kid because I just loved graceful animals and ever since I played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, I was in love with that graceful, mystical fox. I honestly don’t know if I still love Ninetales as much as I used to, but I still have this deep fondness of Ninetales because of how much I loved her when I was young. She’s a pretty basic-looking fox monster, isn’t she? Over the years, Gamefreak came up with so many more fox Pokemon with much more creative designs and gimmicks, but Ninetales will always be the best fox Pokemon to me. I also looove her Alolan form. I might actually like Alolan Ninetales better than Kantonian Ninetales, but I’m still not sure (at least I still don’t have a plush of Alolan Ninetales.... hmmm.).

My other long time favorite is Suicune. Another really graceful, beautiful animal. Their aesthetic is what I kind of strive to be perceived as: elegant with both a vague sense of femme and a vague sense of masc. Strong, yet dainty. I always kind of admired how the species they’re based off of is so much more vague than Raikou and Entei’s. I used to argue with people that said that they were supposed to be a wolf in YouTube comments. Because logically, they would be a leopard, since Raikou is a tiger and Entei is a lion, right? But they really don’t look like a leopard, do they? Even though logically I always knew they’re supposed to be a leopard, they always looked more like a fusion of a wolf and a horse. My two favorite animals at the time I started liking Pokemon, which is probably another reason why I took such a liking to them. They sound like what I imagine a polar bear sounds like, and that’s beautiful.

I’ve always had such a fondness for Absol that I’m surprised I never regarded him as a favorite of mine sooner, but. Absol was the first Pokemon I really sympathized with. The whole being blamed for natural disasters thing. I would wake up to reruns of the Hoenn seasons of the Pokemon anime playing on my TV and got really excited when one day it happened to be an episode starring that cool Pokemon that saved me and BulbasaurS from Articuno in PMD: Blue Rescue Team. I always knew she was a good Pokemon and I wish it was as obvious to the townspeople in that episode as it was to me. They were also the closest thing Pokemon had to a wolf at the time to me, my reasoning being that Absol is misunderstood the same way wolves are (my big thing at the time was being mad that wolves were always the bad guys in most media)! So you could imagine my confusion when I went to look up fanart and saw Absol lumped in with the cat Pokemon because of his face. I still think her anatomy is more doglike than catlike.

I went nuts over Buizel. I coveted that Buizel Pokedoll plush on PokemonCenter.com every single day probably for months until the day I actually got it from Nintendo World. I imagined myself as a Pokemon trainer with Buizel as my partner, somehow being able to take down a Ho-Oh on its own (I don’t think I really understood that Ho-Oh was a powerful legendary Pokemon at the time tbh). The weird thing is, I don’t even like water-type Pokemon, or anything to do with water powers in general. The other weird thing is that I don’t really remember actually using Buizel on my team when I played Pokemon Diamond. I assume it’s because Diamond was my first main series Pokemon game and I guess I didn’t really understand switching Pokemon from you PC and leveling them up until I got way, way later in the game. Buizel is one of those Pokemon that I kinda forget exists, but whenever I remember him my heart goes doki doki.

Between Buizel and Quilava, I’m pretty sure I loved weasels before I even knew that much about them irl. When I heard about HeartGold and SoulSIlver coming out, I knew I was choosing Cyndaquil not because of Cyndaquil (although he is really cute), not for Typhlosion, but for Quilava. I was just gaga over Quilava. He has such a simple design but man he is so adorable. The middle of the evolution lines for the starter Pokemon have always been very underrated and I always thought Quilava outshined both his pre-evolution and his evolution. Typloshion always just kinda came off to me as a generic tough guy, while Cyndaquil at least is cute in a more unique way than your typical cute Pokemon. But Quilava oozes with personality. I’m like 75-80% sure if I had a Pokemon partner it’d be him.

Turtwig. My first starter Pokemon ever. I remember seeing the starters for Sinnoh as Sinnoh was slowly being revealed on Pokemon.com - as I’d gotten into Pokemon right at the tail end of Gen 3 when RSE were already kinda obsolete and PMD first came out - and I immediately gravitated toward Turtwig. Even if I slowly learned to love the other two, Turtwing just felt the most “me”, yanno? Actually, if I were to pick which starter Pokemon was the most “me”, it’d still probably be Turtwig (if not, it’d be Cyndaquil). Something about the shape of his head and his stumpy little body and the way he sounds just appeals to me specifically, yanno? He’s cute in a way that doesn’t appeal to everyone and I always liked that about him. Piplup and Chimchar were way more popular than he was, probably because Piplup was more conventionally cute and Chimchar was cool - I had to stand up for my turty-boi because other kids made fun of him. He’s a lot more popular nowadays than he was back in 2006 when if you were a girl would wanted to be a popstar and if you were a boy you wanted to be gangsta. Or something. Idk I was never really in touch with my peers.

And of course my newest favorite is Lycanroc, specifically dusk form! I would love to be able to go back in time and tell my kid self that not only are there gonna be actual wolf Pokemon, but wolf Pokemon with blue shiny forms (she loved blue)! Shamelessly how I came up with my namesake, dusk form Lycanroc is the Pokemon I imagine I’d be if I were a Pokemon. I just generally like how all of Lycanroc’s forms are designed (even if dusk form is a recolor of midday form shhh I excuse that because I just like dusk form’s coloration much better); something about a wolf being translated into Pokemon’s art style is so cool. Another thing it did for me is give me a favorite rock-type Pokemon, because I really never liked any rock-types beforehand (probably because I’m a furry). Midnight form Lycanroc also has the same body type as Lacmac from the Rayman cartoon aaaaaand yes I bitched for someone to trade me a shiny male Rockruff for the shiny female Rockruff I wound up with when I shiny hunted Rockruff until my partner let me have it so I could name him Lacmac. Would’ve been much less a pain in the ass if non-shiny midnight Lycanroc was blue because he looks cooler in blue than in red anyway, but whatever.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to ramble about why I love the Pokemon I love! I mean, I stayed up later than I intended to typing this but I enjoyed every second of it! Even if I’m probably gonna wake up tomorrow and realize I forgot to talk about like ten other Pokemon.

[illumiru]

tagged by both @dykewing and @sleeping-lilies. let’s go

1: Why did you choose your URL?

this is going to make me sound like a weeb (which i am but still). i have an IRL art friend who went by a japanese inspired name online at the time. i wanted to join art facebook with them and thought it’d be cool to do that. so, i took my full name - camille - and used how you will render it in katakana. which is kamiru. took the miru part out and went by miruarts online for a while.

then, for this tumblr, i thought it’d be cool to make a sort of pun with the name. can’t think of anything bc i wasn’t creative enough and illuminate + miru sounded cool. so illumiru. it’s cringe now but i haven’t changed it yet like i did for my other socials bc i haven’t used tumblr in years and i went back for dc bc dctwt bored me, lmao.

2: Any side blogs?

yup. my art side blog is @camishare. i have another one which was advertising a game my friends and i made for our college thesis based on a popular filipino novel. the rest is me hoarding urls.

3: How long have you been on Tumblr?

for this blog, apparently 2013. but i’m a serial post deleter. especially if i find my previous fandoms cringe (practically wiped sherlock off this tumblr lmao) so it’s probably a lot earlier than that. i remember being 14-15 when i was on tumblr.

4: Do you have a queue tag?

nope. so i’m definitely on tumblr if you see me reblog. it’s all real time shit.

5: Why did you start your blog in the first place?

i honestly don’t even remember. i was into persona 3 at the time maybe and i think i joined it for that and to roleplay.

6: Why did you choose your icon?

i drew it because it’s supposed to be my online sona lmaooo. my friends and i made sonas of ourselves bc we were supposed to create a horror channel together where we tell each other scary stories. i chose it bc i didn’t have anything else better to upload i guess.

7: Why did you choose your header?

i didn’t think much about it. i had a header from when i was into aldnoah.zero and i wanted to replace it. i have this screenshot of a panel of dick’s face post getting his shit fucked up by two face and i was like well he looks cool and handsome here and it’s the perfect size. so why not?

8: What’s your post with the most notes?

for this blog, it’s the dick being a brutalia hater post. for my art blog, it’s my cass art.

9: How many mutuals do you have?

apparently 35 mutuals.

10: How many followers do you have?

214! and 99 on the art blog.

11: How many people are you following?

173. i still need to clean it up. the problem is i do need to follow more ppl so my dash is more active but i get annoyed too easily. so i’m selective on who i follow.

12: Have you ever made a shitpost?

sure i probably did.

13: How often do you use Tumblr each day?

I check tumblr every day but only because I’m running away from finishing any of the art I was supposed to do.

14: Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

nah. i definitely have wanted to fight with people but i don’t rly have the energy to actually follow through a fight especially since i’d want to always have the last word. the most i do is vague lmao. it’s the libra in me to be non-confrontational.

15: How do you feel about “You need to reblog this” posts?

i’ll decide for myself if i need to reblog it, thanks. if it’s something that needs signal boosting, i’ll do it though.

16: Do you like tag games?

yeah, i don’t mind it at all. it passes the time when i can’t concentrate on anything.

17: Do you like ask games?

nah, my ego won’t be able to take it if only a few people came in my inbox for it. plus, i feel wary of people being able to anon message me and say whatever they want.

18: Which of your Tumblr mutuals do you think is famous?

uh, i don’t know. lmao. some of my recent ones are from dc and there’s no such thing as being famous in dc clown fandom.

19: Do you have a crush on a mutual?

nah, i’m not interested.

20: Tags

ummmmm idk who’s not yet tagged but anyone can do this! maybe @lesbianspeedy @bidinah @royharper just do it if you want though.