Ice Is Nice!

A blog for a cool Ice-type PokéMon who deserves the best!

[thekubliest-pokedexchalleng-blog]

[bogleech]

This is a really bizarre comment on buggirl’s spider chart considering thousands of people a year require medical attention for dog bites and hundreds of people a year are outright killed by dogs but even if you’re bitten by a black widow you’re almost guaranteed to survive.

Spiders cause a handful of deaths per century. Dying of spider venom is an incredibly unusual fluke.

Cows, falling coconuts, food allergies and vending machines are some other things statistically more dangerous than all spiders combined.

Everyone thinks it’s just some basic fact that there are “deadly” spiders like there are deadly snakes, like there are spiders you’re likely to die from if you can’t get antivenin in time. That’s simply made-up.

[bogleech]

From (The Spider Shop) an entire small bathroom as a whipspider habitat is such an amazing aesthetic concept and I’m sure they love it when the lights are out and there’s no humans bothering them, HOWEVER I’d be so worried about them getting hurt or lost when the door is opened and it looks like the toilet is still used by people?! I don’t know how they’re clinging to those tile walls either, my one can’t climb anything smoother than bare rough brick.

[bogleech]

Oh yeah you might notice how they’re arranged really evenly on that wall, too - that’s actually how they live in the wild! They inhabit caves, hollow trees or sheer rock walls in the tropics, and will spend most of their time just sitting in one spot, slowly slowly waving their ultra-long “whips” (legs modified into feelers) all around themselves in a circle to search for any passing prey.

If they feel the whip of a fellow spider they will move just out of their way, so they all end up exactly at “arm’s length” from one another in a sort of loose grid or checkerboard of little hunting spots. It’s almost like a perfect video game setup. If you’re an insect lost in a whipspider cave, you’ve got to navigate this minefield of nearly blind predators whose huge long skinny arms are just constantly, silently circling in search of YOU! Not a lot of things they eat are really smart enough to last very long that way.

Actually even if they were smart this is still the setup they’re dealing with:

[bogleech]

WAIT ANOTHER THING I FORGOT So they live in total darkness, and most of their prey, like cockroaches, rely entirely on touch to navigate that environment. So, the prey feels something brushing it in the dark, something little and light, just the tip of something, no big deal….and has an instinct to just move AWAY from that thing, right? Problem solved?! But since the arms reach around so far, it often means a situation like this:

….And if the prey doesn’t just blindly march straight into its mouth from there, the whipspider will do this:

It doesn’t need to pounce or chase. The prey doesn’t have a direction to go where it won’t bump into one of the arms, turn around, and try to go a different way, like a roomba, as the arms slowly close in and shrink that corral more and more towards the predator’s jaws!

[bogleech]

bringin this back

[cloyster-propaganda]

@banette-appreciation

[bogleech]

So there are spiders that live in barnacle shells huh.

Wow!!! How did I miss that?? It was all the way in 2017!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/desis-bobmarleyi-underwater-spider-bob-marley-species-air-chambers-silk-australia-queensland-a8124871.html

[cloyster-propaganda]

@banette-appreciation

[vintar]

hello i have learnt more spider facts

spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?

some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge

baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,

there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”

The Sky Is Full Of Spiders

there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating

there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100

some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters

some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds

some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…

guys i am literally about to cry over spider moms

[interadulation]

I am terribly afraid of spiders and most of this list makes me want to hide in the shower forever but that bit about the spider mom’s adopting anything vaguely egg-sack shaped makes me terribly sad so please give the spider moms their egg sacks back.

[bogleech]

Wolf spiders go the very farthest by actually carrying the babies on their back once they hatch and will also freak out if they lose any of those. Experiments found that lost or orphaned wolf spider babies will try to climb up onto any female wolf spider they encounter, and if she’s not actually a mother at the time she WILL try to brush or knock them off and keep freaking out but she still won’t actually hurt them. Instead, spiders observed in this situation “took out their aggression” on inanimate materials or just kept trying to harmlessly drive the babies away until they were too tired to keep fighting and caved in to suddenly having kids. By the time they regained their energy they were totally accustomed to being moms now and engaged in all the usual maternal behavior patterns from there. SOURCE (warning that some might find some of the experimentation cruel, just including a source so nobody thinks I’m making up spider propaganda lies again)

[cloyster-propaganda]

@banette-appreciation

[l30m730w]

[bogleech]

anyway people asked so this is a sea spider, not actually a spider but part of an arthropod lineage so unique we aren’t really sure HOW to classify it but it probably goes back to the Cambrian era about half a billion years ago.

The best part is where its goofy little eyes are:

The other best part is that there’s so little room in a sea spider’s “body” that its internal organs, even intestines and gonads, are spread out inside of its legs.

The larval stage consists of basically only the “head,” equipped with swimming appendages, until it settles down and grows all the legs.

Also, like a seahorse, it’s the male that carries the eggs around.

They feed only on fluids, and most prey on soft-bodied animals like sea cucumbers, coral polyps, sponges, anemones or worms.

[realmonstrosities]

Evan’s Sea Spider (Anoplodactylus evansi) has the blues!

This is rickety, wobbly-kneed beast is the scourge of east Australia’s sea slugs.

The sea slugs try to defend themselves. They eat corals, sponges and bryozoans, they take over the poisons and stinging cells, incorporating them into their tissues for use against their own predators.

But it doesn’t work. Not against Evan’s Sea Spider. It may only be a couple centimetres long, but this sea spider has guts of steel. And, of course, it’s a sea spider so its body is so tiny that half of those guts are in its legs.

Also there’s a whole lot of blue on those legs! They’re very important legs.

… Image: WoRMS Editorial Board

[revretch]

this is a balloon animal, just a lost balloon

[cloyster-propaganda]

@banette-appreciation

[typhlonectes]

It takes guts for a sea spider to pump blood

These arthropods’ unusual digestive system can act like a heart and gills

by Susan Miller

A newfound way of delivering oxygen in animal circulatory systems depends mostly on food sloshing back and forth in the guts.

This discovery came in sea spiders, or pycnogonids, which can look like legs in search of a body.

Their spookily long legs hold stretches of digestive tract, which wouldn’t fit inside the creatures’ scrap of an abdomen. Waves of contraction sweeping up and down the leggy guts cause blood outside the guts to move too, evolutionary physiologist Art Woods of the University of Montana in Missoula said January 8 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. 

As lumpy surges of partly digested food rise and fall, blood that has picked up oxygen by diffusion whooshes to the rest of the body, Woods proposed…

(read more: Science News)

photograph: Timothy Dwyer (PolarTREC 2016), Courtesy of ARCUS

[underthehedge]

Sea spiders are just “An Arthropod but every time you look at it it gets more nonsensical”.

Seriously, they basically traded their whole body in for more leg. How many legs? Four pairs, or sometimes six why not. No body so to speak of? Just cram the digestive tract down the legs. No room for leg muscles? Don’t worry, each muscle is just like, one cell, literally one. Tiny body and super long legs how will the heart get blood going round those legs? Just, just use the fuckin digestive tract you shoved down there.

Evolution is pretty much the art of leaping from one ridiculous mistake to another, trying to stay ahead of whatever your last fuck up was. But this is bordering on something from a cartoon where a character is trying to fix a mess and every fix causes further problems that need fixing, until there’s dishes hidden under the couch, a dent in the wall hidden behind a painting and a cupboard stuffed so full it’s about to explode.

[cloyster-propaganda]

@banette-appreciation

[silenthilllz]

a bastard

[ganda-tagger]

@manaphy-propaganda

@cloyster-propaganda

[cloyster-propaganda]

I LOVE THIS SMUG ICE CLAM

[espurreciation]

Random Pokemon Team Game!!

So I found this random animal generator that produces six animals. Build a pokemon team based on the animals that first pop up and post the animals and the team below! I think it will be fun! :D

https://www.randomlists.com/random-animals

Here's mine~:

The animals:

Cougar

Blue Crab

Sheep

Dung Beetle

Fawn

Dormouse

[cloyster-propaganda]

Mare

Dingo

Bunny

Ermine

Weasel

Elk

[dialga-propaganda-deactivated20]

What Pokémon we can’t transfer to Galar?

So this is gonna be a series of posts figuring out What Pokémon we can and cannot transfer to galar.

To do this we are going to need to look at each regional deck and what they have and don’t have from other regional dex. For example I don’t think any of the starters from previous generations will be on it no other Pokédex has so why would this be any different.

@bulbasaur-propaganda @charmander-propaganda @squirtlepropaganda @starters-propaganda @greninja-propaganda

[greninja-propaganda]

Here’s a list with all the pokemon that have appeared in Galar so far.

The Charmander line is listed, so I think it’s safe to assume that the other Kanto starters will be included. Mew is there too (since it’s included with the Pokéball plus), so maybe that implies that Mewtwo will be available. If Kanto starters and legendaries are available in Galar, I think there’s a pretty good chance that starters and legendaries from other regions will also be available since those pokemon are the ones that people get attached to the most (at least in my case).

[dialga-propaganda-deactivated20]

Probably kanto only because of let’s go

[greninja-propaganda]

If that’s the case I’m sure that I and many others would be extremely disappointed or even angry. I have a lot of pokemon that I love and want to take with me on every adventure, but since they’re not from Kanto, I’m scared I won’t be able to do that

[cloyster-propaganda]

Of course we also know we'll get Lukewarmrhea because Why Not

[cloyster-propaganda]

OK, guys, we gotta rap some Pokémon.

You just do the singing. I'll take care of the hard part.

Let's get it on!

I want to be the best

there ever was.

To beat all the rest, yeah,

that's my cause.

____, ____, Nidoran, Mankey

_____, Rattata, _____, Pidgey

_____, Jolteon, Dragonite, Gastly

_____, Vaporeon, _____, Butterfree

Catch 'em, catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all,

Pokémon!

I'll search across the land,

look far and wide.

Release from my hand

the power that's inside.

_____, Poliwag, Nidorino, Psyduck

_____, _____, _____, Moltres

Nidoking, _____, Abra, _____

_____, Rhyhorn, Clefable, _____

Catch 'em, catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all,

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon!

_____, Primeape, _____, ____

_____, _____, ____, _____

_____, _____, _____, _____

_____, _____, Gyarados, _____

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah!

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah!

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon! Ow!

____, ____, ____, ____

Raticate, ______, _____, _____

_____, _____, _____, _____

_____, Charmander, ____, Pikachu

At least 150 or more to see.

To be a Pokémon Master is my destiny.

_____, _____, ____, Machoke

____, ____, ____, Flareon

_____, _____, ____, ____

Raichu, _____, _____, ____

Woo! We're at the halfway point, doing great so far.

We? What's all this "we" stuff? I'm doing all the hard work!

Breaktime's over, here we go!

_____, _____, ____, ____

____, _____, ____, ____

____, ____, ____, ____

Machop, _____, _____, ____

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah!

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah!

Articuno, ____, _____, ____

____, _____, _____ (Pokémon!)

____, ____, _____, _____

Pidgeotto, Lapras, Vulpix, ____

At least 150 or more to see.

To be a Pokémon Master is my destiny.

Charizard, Machamp, Pinsir, _____

_____, ____, ____, _____

_____, _____, ____

Scyther, _____, Dragonair, _____

Whoa, catch your breath man. Shake out those lips.

It's downhill from here, just 24 more to go.

Now it gets tricky, so listen real good!

_____, _____, Psyduck, Arcanine

Eevee, _____, _____, Zapdos

Dratini, Growlithe, ____, ____

____, _____, ____ - We're almost home!

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeow!

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, huhh!

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon! (yeeaahh!!)

Charmeleon, _____

Mewtwo, _____, Aerodactyl

_____, ____

Pidgeot, ____ - That's all, folks!

Catch 'em, catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all (oowww)

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

Catch 'em, catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all (oowww)

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

Catch 'em, catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all... Pokémon!

[probablybadrpgideas]

this as a monster

(ID a plush elephant with the eyes of a spider. it appears to be wearing a ruff. end description)

[cloyster-propaganda]

@meowthandpersianpropaganda

[galvantula-propaganda]

Which Pokemon are allowed to curse?

[swampertappreciation]

Swampert says fuck all of the time, it’s a blessing and a curse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kangaskhan-appreciation]

Muscle Mom can but not around her baby :o

[timburr-appreciation]

Timburr absolutely swears like a sailor.

[donphan-agenda]

Donphan CAN swear, but prefers not to around smaller/younger mon or trainers

[genesect-appreciation]

Genesect says “jackass”

[swablu-propaganda]

Swablu is legally not allowed to swear

[dialga-propaganda-deactivated20]

Dialga Can swear and if he regrets it can quickly go back in time

[minior-propaganda]

Minior swears when it hits the earth after crashing from space.

[darkrai-honors]

Darkrai swears all the time, but his catchphrase is,

“…. Well shit.”

[magikarp-appreciation]

Magikarp cusses a lot but no one can understand it. It’s mostly just saying “fuck” every time they flop onto a particularly sharp pebble.

[shroomish-propagandaa]

Shroomish swears every once in a while, usually like “fuck it” because he’s an A N G E R Y boy

[ditto-propaganda]

Ditto doesn’t know any swear words

[lampent-propaganda]

Lampent can but will not curse.

[cynda-ppreciation]

Cyndaquil is smol and silent most of the time. But in situations of great stress. They can curse with the best of them.

[sobbleganda]

Sobble legally can not curse

[banette-appreciation]

Banette can but refuses to around children.

[chandelure-appreciation]

They cursing like a sailor. Keep your children away from them.

[tiny-mythical-appreciation]

I made a chart

[darkrai-honors]

Personally I call lies on Mew. I have a friend who is quite the Mew, and she says fuck constantly lol

[rotom-appreciation]

Rotom can curse and chooses to whenever it wants. Which probably wouldn’t be a lot of the time.

It really just depends! A Rotom will but Rotomdex will not!

[clefablepropaganda]

Clefable usually won’t, but if the need arises she will. Best to use “frick” and “shirt” around young Cleffa and Clefairy because otherwise they won’t stop swearing

[zubat-propaganda]

Zubat legally cannot curse. @crobat-propaganda I feel like crobat are a different story though :P

[crobat-propaganda]

abso-fucking-lutely

[terrakionn]

Terrakion can and does frequently. Only holds back when Keldeo is around.

[lurantis-propaganda]

Lurantis refuses to swear. Ever. Fomantis, on the other hand…

[lapras-propaganda]

Lapras says things like “Oh! That really ruffles my feathers! Golly!” But the second it loses a battle or someone falls off its back and into water it is absolutely saying “god fucking dammit not again”

[budew-propaganda]

One time Budew said Fuck when no one was around and regrets it to this day

[xyz-appreciation]

I feel like Yveltal would curse ocasionally, like when hes around Zygarde. But tries not to when around Xearneas, becsuse they will get really mad and mother like. Zygarde would only curse under his breath but not infront of anyone. Xerneas would curse at anyone who tried to hurt someone they loved and protect, but thats it, no where else.

[cloyster-propaganda]

yea cloyster curse

[prokopetz]

It’s kind of ironic that folks who hate the idea of feathered dinosaurs often cite Jurassic Park as their ideal depiction, given that the depiction of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park incorporates a number of ideas that were considered cutting edge – even controversial – at the time it was made, and indeed, is responsible in large part for introducing the idea of birdlike dinosaurs to the public consciousness in the first place.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

A lot of people have never had to deal with a whiny manbaby crying “myyyy dinooosaurs don’t have feaathers that’s GAY” and it shows

[tsaagan]

the scaly dinosaurs are also gay

every dinosaur is gay

even the chicken nuggets you are eating right now while reading this post are gay