puppeted by the dusclops at deadwood haunt

main blog is @orecchietta

[cobalt-coastlands]

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sideblog to collect all my normal thoughts about pokémon

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i mostly post about legends arceus and pokémon history/religion/worldbuilding stuff. i usually spend all my time thinking about sinnoh and hisui, except i'm currently playing z-a (tagged #plza spoilers) so it's about 50/50 sinnoh/lumiose.

let's talk about pokémon history! let's be nerds together!

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my main longfic (#ikyw update for updates; #ikyw for info/in-progress stuff/complaining):

i know your wish—it is my wish as well || M || ch: 4/? || ~14k cynthia arrives in hisui to retrieve dawn. things do not go as planned.

explicit fics below the cut:

fortunate timing || E || ch: 1/1 || 5k || adaman/cynthia, adaman/volo (one-sided) The Diamond Clan is host to yet another stranger out of time. Adaman doesn’t trust this one—not her lovely smile, not her quick wit, and least of all her resemblance to the gorgeous merchant-cultist who might still destroy them all. She’s playing nice, though, so he will too.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Never let me cook

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

More worldbuilding? More worldbuilding

[singsingswing2]

playtime with cleffa and venipede

[pokemonarchive]

Jubilife City (2021) - Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl ART Book © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK / ILCA

[zappernewmoon]

something i think about is the clear contrast between darkrai and cresselia in terms of their control over their abilities. everyone knows how darkrai's abilities are: how darkrai cannot control its power, how what it does is on instinct and almost never intended. but i've never seen anyone compare it to how cresselia has basically full control over her power. i've not seen anyone talk about how its explicitely stated by calaba in legends: arceus that "cresselia did not give her lunar feather maybe because she believed we did not need it" (paraphrased). she is quite literally able to pick and choose who she wants her powers to affect, who she will give her feathers/blessing to.

tying it to this other post i made (tl;dr: cresselia goes outside a lot and darkrai simply does not), think about how darkrai could already be isolating itself from the world, just sitting on an island far away from others, and its powers STILL affect someone in sinnoh. meanwhile cresselia has to go out and give out her feathers herself, her powers dont "leak out" the same way darkrai's do.

i'm also gonna stretch a bit and note how darkrai's dark void is only 50%/80% accuracy, which could symbolize how it never has full control over its powers, whilst cresselia's lunar dance + lunar blessing are both moves that are guaranteed to work every time, which could symbolize how she always has control over her powers.

to add some extra irony, i'll end this by taking a quick look at their designs connected to this whole control over abilities thing. cresselia has NO LIMBS, and yet she's the one with a real grip on her powers. meanwhile darkrai has both arms/hands and legs, and it has no hold on its powers. more role reversal-ish stuff... yeah i think thats all for now

im gonna make a tag dedicated to me rambling about darkrai and cresselia specifically now. i think i have A LOT to say about them. juust you waiit.....,. (hamilton..???)

[scraggscribbs]

Day 2: Distortion

I always wonder what is must have been like for Giratina stewed in anger for so long, viewing the world through distortion. @pla-anni-week

[pokemonarchive]

Hearthome City (2021) - Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl ART Book © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK / ILCA

[pokemonarchive]

Eterna City (2021) - Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl ART Book © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK / ILCA

[misersdream]

pokemon legends redraw of fallen angel by alexandre cabanel

[tltw]

thinking about my headcanon that dialga is Weird with adaman but palkia is not weird with irida. like its just a dialga thing. adaman is chatting with irida about how dialga pushes him down and nuzzles up to him and well you know. “haha is palkia like that too?” adaman asks. “fucking. no.” irida says

[yawntchi]

[cobalt-coastlands]

fortunate timing || E || adaman/cynthia, adaman/volo (one-sided) || 5k

The Diamond Clan is host to yet another stranger out of time. Adaman doesn’t trust this one—not her lovely smile, not her quick wit, and least of all her resemblance to the gorgeous merchant-cultist who might still destroy them all. She’s playing nice, though, so he will too.

featuring:

awkward nerd cynthia

very conflicted adaman

zero impulse control

volo haunting the narrative

[cobalt-coastlands]

is there a cynthia/adaman ship name because uh . i accidentally wrote nearly 5k words of cynthia/adaman

[cobalt-coastlands]

i think im finally gonna post this actually

[cobalt-coastlands]

[cobalt-coastlands]

is there a cynthia/adaman ship name because uh . i accidentally wrote nearly 5k words of cynthia/adaman

[cobalt-coastlands]

i think im finally gonna post this actually

[calebwittebane]

can you imagine a piers and ghetsis collab like if they made an album together. the entire pokemon realm changed by the highly cerebral malicious corrosive tunes theyd produce

[calebwittebane]

please piers ok do me a favor. fly to unova (talk to leon he’ll set you up im sure just dont tell him why). go to that weird abandoned looking house in icirrus where you might get jumped by three ninjas if you get too close. just explain yourselves to the ninjas tell them youre here to do a collab and that i sent you. oh remember bring a single cigarette as a bribe (not a pack, just a single cigarette). when you go inside youll see a fucked up looking haunted long-haired homosexual. give him the cigarette and tell him youre here to make music with him. he will be delighted

[calebwittebane]

[adobe-outdesign]

I was going to point out how uncommon it is for Pokemon to speak in the games, but to be fair many mythicals/legendaries specifically have been shown communicating with humans so I guess it's not that unusual. What is unusual, however, is that in the few months since arriving in Kalos, Darkrai figured out how to speak French