Butterfree's silly tumblr thing something

Hello. I go by Butterfree, Dragonfree or antialiasis. I own a Pokémon website called The Cave of Dragonflies. This is my personal/fandom/whatever blog. I am currently trying to draw something every day; you can see the results on my artblog.

[crochetcarriecreations]

Another of my favourite creations: a sparkly noodly dragon friend...

...who is also a lamp!

The lamp itself was store-bought and came in that twisty shape, but it occurred to me that I could use my crochet powers to make it much cooler! The dragon wasn't crocheted around the lamp; rather, he was made as two long strips, one for the back and one for the belly, which were sewn together along one side and then wrapped around the lamp and the other sides sewn together there. I chose (mostly-)white yarn for the belly with a loose-weave sort of pattern, so the light would shine through.

I had fun using a lot of sparkly yarn and thread and adding extra frills to make him super fabulous! And don't worry, the lamp is an LED that never gets remotely hot, so there's no danger of fire from this dragon, only light!

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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more details. I won't make you an entire lamp, but I can make you something simpler!

[elyvorg]

continuing the reblogging of my coolest creations here: everyone look at my dragon lamp

[crochetcarriecreations]

A Charizard friend! This was a commission for my friend @antialiasis. Those wings took a long time to get looking good; double-sided irregularly-shaped wings do not lend themselves well to crochet.

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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more info

[antialiasis]

Look at this good Charizard friend <3 <3 <3 Cannot wait to have him in my hands, thank you

[crochetcarriecreations]

One of my biggest projects - an entire Hydrapple, with all the syrpents included! There's toothpicks in the main head's horns for rigidity, while every syrpent has armature wire inside them for poseability. And...

...that includes the two tail syrpents! All six syrpents other than the main one are completely removable along with the apple top, which has little hooks to hold it in place when it's on there. The apple base also has a plastic pot inside it, to help it hold all that weight.

The one thing they can't do is fold the bonus heads flat against the apple like the ingame model does, but they can get... some of the way there? although it does require something of a Noodle Vortex on the inside for all those tails to still fit in the apple.

Very proud of these good apple noodle friends and how well they turned out!

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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more info. (I don't offer things this big and elaborate (yet...?), but I can make you something simpler!)

[crochetcarriecreations]

As a birthday present for my friend @antialiasis a year ago, I crocheted her fakemon Letaligon! (Letaligon and art by antialiasis, crochet by me)

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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more info. I can do more than just canon Pokémon!

[antialiasis]

One of the creations I own! What a good <3

[crochetcarriecreations]

Chien-Pao, another noodle! I crocheted its sword-fangs around toothpicks to keep them rigid., and the tail had a bunch of short rows to make it naturally curl like that.

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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more info

[crochetcarriecreations]

My commissions for crocheted creatures are open! DM me here or email me at crochetcarriecreations[at]gmail[dot]com for inquiries. Terms of service under the readmore.

[elyvorg]

This blog is me! I've been crocheting for a few years now but never got around to posting anything I made here on tumblr. I'm finally doing so on a whole separate blog for it because I'm also now trying to make this my job. Pay me money and I will make you a creature friend!

I might reblog some of my favourite creations over here too, but probably not the majority of them. If you don't want to commission me but would still like to support me, following the blog to see more of my creations and reblogging any you enjoy will still help me out!

[antialiasis]

Do you love some obscure Pokémon there's basically no good official merch of? Then good news! My friend elyvorg is a crochet wizard and will make you an adorable and amazingly on-model little yarn buddy! I own multiple and they are extremely high-quality and worth it.

[antialiasis]

05/04/26: Gendered Favorites

The Favorite Pokémon Picker now allows you to pick a default gender! Which was so, so, so much of a headache, you would not believe.

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[notapaladin]

@petite-guignol

[bemusedlybespectacled]

since I’m thinking about this instead of studying for bar prep:

people in general tend to assume that a person who’s been arrested is either innocent or guilty. and if they’re guilty, then they deserve fewer rights than the innocent person.

like, if the police break into an innocent person’s house and look for drugs, we recognize that it’s a bad thing and a gross violation of rights. but if the police break into someone’s house and do find drugs, well, that’s just what they deserved. we’d all be upset if the police started randomly murdering people on the street for no reason, but many wouldn’t mind if the police started randomly killing known child molesters. it’s not okay if the police plant evidence to frame an innocent man for murder, but if they know he’s the murderer and plant evidence to help the case along? well, that’s unfortunate but necessary.

there are three problems with this:

You cannot always know with certainty who’s innocent and who’s guilty;

A two-tiered “innocent” and “guilty” legal structure will always be used against innocent marginalized people;

Even guilty people have rights.

this happens a lot on tumblr. not exclusively on tumblr (it’s also a major aspect of most “gritty” police dramas and almost all comics), but it’s definitely there. like, calls to summarily execute rapists sound great in theory, because we all agree that rape is evil. except for when it’s used to kill innocent black men who looked the wrong way at a white woman. 

and there are people who will say that no, of course, the problem isn’t summarily killing rapists, the problem is summarily killing the wrong people (that is, innocent people). which, again, you can’t know who’s innocent and who’s guilty - lots of innocent people aren’t sweet old ladies who’ve never done anything wrong, or have perfect alibis and never contradict themselves. hell, being guilty of a crime in the past doesn’t mean that they committed this specific crime that they’ve been accused of.

and even if they are guilty - even if they are stone-cold, unrepentantly guilty - they still have rights. that’s what “innocent until proven guilty” means. it means that stripping someone of their legal rights is a big fucking deal, so no matter how guilty Obvious McCriminal looks, you still have to follow the rules we’ve set in place to prevent abuses. 

like, it’s not that every person who’s ever been treated shittily by police and the court system is actually innocent, so therefore the system is bad. it’s that we have a system that treats people like shit once we’ve decided they’re guilty, regardless of when the decision is made, and we’re okay with that. after conviction? definitely. after arrest? yup. before arrest, because we just have a feeling about them? sure.

and I get why people make posts or write stories about guilty people being treated badly. wanting vengeance is a powerful emotion. grief and anger are powerful emotions. it is not unnatural to want to hurt people who have hurt others. people like the idea of karma, of cosmic scales balancing out the hurt and suffering inflicted by a person by making them suffer back. I’m not saying that no one is allowed to have those feelings. 

I’m just saying that there are implications behind them that are deeply disturbing (“if I decide you’re guilty, you’re less of a person to me”) and that it’s the primary driving force behind most of the issues in our criminal justice system.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

actually, since this post has become relevant (again), I’d like everyone to join me in a little thought experiment: why do the police bring up a murdered person’s criminal record when they are extrajudicially killed?

like, we can all agree that the sentence for drug possession, drunk driving, trespassing, etc. is not execution, and even if it was, that’s after they’ve been arrested and convicted. cops are not judges, so it’s not their call to decide if someone is guilty or to punish them for it. so why does it matter if someone is “a known criminal,” or if they have drugs in their system, or if they have a gun on their person?

“well, obviously it’s to bias the public against the person who was killed,” you might say. okay, but why is that?

it’s because they know that we think of guilty people as less than human, and innocent people as blameless. therefore the murdered person deserved to die (because guilty people deserve what they get), and the cop is innocent (he was just trying to protect people!). if it didn’t work as a tactic, then they wouldn’t do it!

it is this mindset that permits the police to murder. we cannot stop police violence unless we dismantle the idea that being guilty of a crime negates your humanity and your civil rights.

[antialiasis]

04/08/26: Still More

I have been busy adding even more options to the Favorite Pokémon Picker since the Z-A update, knocking out the other two most requested features (including or excluding legendaries/mythicals/Ultra Beasts/Paradox Pokémon and picking shiny forms separately) as well as one just requested (choosing whether to treat forms as the gen they were introduced or the gen of the base Pokémon). Maybe I will now get fewer e-mails about it!

[antialiasis]

04/03/26: Z-A Favorites

The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has the Z-A megas finally! I have been asked about this repeatedly since the game came out and always had to awkwardly tell them I couldn't do that because the Home artwork wasn't out.

[antialiasis]

03/31/26: Documenting the Journey of a Lifetime 🥰

Due to the many changes in my life recently, I have made a pivot towards a new niche going forward - mommy blogging 🥰🙏

[cupcakedex]

Sharing my trans pride Zacian cake for Transgender Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️

We made this when one of our Twitch chatters suggested the design a couple years back, and I love it! Zacian's colour scheme is definitely reminiscent of the flag, and being genderless yet referred to as Zamazenta's "elder sister" is quite fitting! The cake is vanilla, with home-made strawberry simple syrup, whipped cream and strawberries.

Trans folks have always been an important part of the Pokemon community, and it's our responsibility as a community to cherish and stand with them. From Meowth's original VA, Maddie Blaustein, to the countless talented artists, thoughtful content creators, skilled competitors, and everyday fans, all deserve to feel safe and seen in Pokemon spaces.

At a time when trans rights are under attack, as trans people are being scapegoated and demonized, we must stand together and be vigilant in our battles, but also in our joy. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[antialiart]

Silly little thing done! Caterpie is six months old.

[antialiasis]

We were given as a gift a cute little book with milestone cards you can take pictures of your kid with. One of Caterpie's six-month-old photos had her starting to gnaw on the corner of the card, which made me picture a Caterpie doing that, so I drew this.

[antialiasis]

Parenting, six months on

So my daughter Caterpie is six months old as of the beginning of March.

Having a baby, it turns out, is a lot like having a pet. There's a small creature that's dependent on you; it doesn't know what's going on and doesn't understand what you're saying; sometimes it gets upset and will communicate that loudly, but it can't talk so you have to try to guess what's actually wrong (it's probably that it wants food); other times, it will signal that it is happy and loves you, and it lights up the serotonin circuits. One of the first things that hit me once I had her in my hands was she was just so soft to the touch, and I found myself wanting to pet her like a cat; she's warmer than a furred animal, because there's no fur between my hand and her body heat, and it's just nice to gently stroke her head or her cheek or her hand. I've honestly always been pretty averse to touching babies, but when it came to it it was very natural to make an exception for her.

It's all similar enough to having a pet, in fact, that I find myself constantly about to call Caterpie Birta and having to stop myself. It hasn't actually slipped out out loud yet, but I did once accidentally call Birta by Caterpie's name out loud. Transparently, my brain has one set of circuitry for "affection for small creature" and then tries to substitute the correct name on the fly when necessary. I say a lot of affectionate nonsense to Birta - about how she's small and nice or has such lovely ears - and I found myself saying most of the same affectionate nonsense to Caterpie, with some additions about her little hands and tiny toes.

We've been very lucky in various ways. Caterpie sleeps better than most of the horror stories I hear from parents: she'll wake up a few times in the night and wake me up, but about 97% of the time I just need to give her access to a breast and she will immediately happily latch on and doze off again. The few times that doesn't work, picking her up and walking around and singing to her for a couple of minutes generally does the trick. She is also very expressive. She smiles more than most babies seem to - at us, at other people, at toys or activities - and loves to make a slowly expanding range of noises, currently including dinosaur shrieks, birdlike trills, more standard babbling, and steadily gargling on her own saliva for minutes at a time. She's been locking a firm, watchful gaze on things since she was like a couple weeks old. When she tries to do something that takes a lot of concentration and coordination, like flipping the pages in a book, she starts to make frustrated noises and move more erratically after a while - but if you then start to take the book away, she tries to reach for it again: she wants to keep trying, even if she's having a hard time! She loves to touch new textures and experiment with them, sometimes spending a while just seeing what she can do with a blanket if she grasps it and pulls or puts it in her mouth.

All in all she has a strong sense of character already. It feels like there's a little human being in there, even if she's a bit gross and can't quite communicate yet. It's interesting to watch her learning and discovering. And it really is a boost of serotonin to have a little creature who will reliably smile at you just because you exist. The annoying and unpleasant bits still very much exist, but overall, I've found more to legitimately enjoy in this stage of having a child than I expected, which is always nice.

Either way, here's to the next six months of having a Caterpie!

[antialiasis]

Update: I did actually call her Birta just now

[antialiasis]

Parenting, six months on

So my daughter Caterpie is six months old as of the beginning of March.

Having a baby, it turns out, is a lot like having a pet. There's a small creature that's dependent on you; it doesn't know what's going on and doesn't understand what you're saying; sometimes it gets upset and will communicate that loudly, but it can't talk so you have to try to guess what's actually wrong (it's probably that it wants food); other times, it will signal that it is happy and loves you, and it lights up the serotonin circuits. One of the first things that hit me once I had her in my hands was she was just so soft to the touch, and I found myself wanting to pet her like a cat; she's warmer than a furred animal, because there's no fur between my hand and her body heat, and it's just nice to gently stroke her head or her cheek or her hand. I've honestly always been pretty averse to touching babies, but when it came to it it was very natural to make an exception for her.

It's all similar enough to having a pet, in fact, that I find myself constantly about to call Caterpie Birta and having to stop myself. It hasn't actually slipped out out loud yet, but I did once accidentally call Birta by Caterpie's name out loud. Transparently, my brain has one set of circuitry for "affection for small creature" and then tries to substitute the correct name on the fly when necessary. I say a lot of affectionate nonsense to Birta - about how she's small and nice or has such lovely ears - and I found myself saying most of the same affectionate nonsense to Caterpie, with some additions about her little hands and tiny toes.

We've been very lucky in various ways. Caterpie sleeps better than most of the horror stories I hear from parents: she'll wake up a few times in the night and wake me up, but about 97% of the time I just need to give her access to a breast and she will immediately happily latch on and doze off again. The few times that doesn't work, picking her up and walking around and singing to her for a couple of minutes generally does the trick. She is also very expressive. She smiles more than most babies seem to - at us, at other people, at toys or activities - and loves to make a slowly expanding range of noises, currently including dinosaur shrieks, birdlike trills, more standard babbling, and steadily gargling on her own saliva for minutes at a time. She's been locking a firm, watchful gaze on things since she was like a couple weeks old. When she tries to do something that takes a lot of concentration and coordination, like flipping the pages in a book, she starts to make frustrated noises and move more erratically after a while - but if you then start to take the book away, she tries to reach for it again: she wants to keep trying, even if she's having a hard time! She loves to touch new textures and experiment with them, sometimes spending a while just seeing what she can do with a blanket if she grasps it and pulls or puts it in her mouth.

All in all she has a strong sense of character already. It feels like there's a little human being in there, even if she's a bit gross and can't quite communicate yet. It's interesting to watch her learning and discovering. And it really is a boost of serotonin to have a little creature who will reliably smile at you just because you exist. The annoying and unpleasant bits still very much exist, but overall, I've found more to legitimately enjoy in this stage of having a child than I expected, which is always nice.

Either way, here's to the next six months of having a Caterpie!

[jordanbolton]

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