Sir Pinnington’s Zoological Misadventures

29 · MCs in Natural Sciences, bookworm, shower singer, tv show addicted and (Magi)zoologist wannabe be. My daemon is fox named Astra 🦊

[hibernobritonicdrunk]

[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

[aubryjoi]

I love you Jimothy 🦝❤️

[sirpinnington]

I absolutely loved the episode, but it still runs into the same problem Game of Thrones had with Dany: when one faction becomes too powerful, instead of strengthening the weaker side, the writers make the stronger one stupid and ridiculously unlucky, with everything that can possibly go wrong actually going wrong.

“Well, Dany has two dragons, so she’d easily defeat Cersei.” The solution? “Dany kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet,” so Rhaegal gets killed.

Here, it was a fleet with two dragons against a fleet with none. The solution? Sheepstealer is wild and doesn’t obey commands and everything goes perfectly smooth for Lohar and his fleet

[kosmogrl]

living my life one ‘it is what it is’ at a time

[sirpinnington]

The council has decided your fate

[asha-mage]

I think a big part of the reason Pokopia is hitting so hard for so many people is that we have had an absolute glut of post apocalyptic media that take the "humans are the monsters/disease/problem" angle. Even the most well meaning solar-punk I can think of often have this undercurrent of 'humanity's nature is inherently short sighted and exploitive and they must constantly be kept in check to protect the environment' which slides very quickly into 'the world would be better off without humans in it to complicate and threaten things'.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

And that. That hits.

[sirpinnington]

If that's what's comfortable for u man

[sirpinnington]

Where else would you put Bug-type Pokémon, if not in a terrarium?

Today I’m showing you the terrarium I built for Heracross and Pinsir! The structure is pretty simple (also because of the game’s building limitations): a glass cube with a stone base, closed off with a pointed glass roof.

To match Heracross’s and Pinsir’s biology (I know they don’t get along, but I liked the idea of having them together like that couple in the anime), I added lots of fruit trees for Heracross—quoting Bulbapedia:

Heracross uses its two antennae to search for food by scent, and is especially fond of tree sap. As mentioned in Pokémon Sleep, Heracross is known to occasionally sleep while licking the sap it finds. This occurs as it can become exhausted from a potentially difficult search for sweet sap. It makes its habitat in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests.

For Pinsir, I built a custom tree out of blocks so it could be much larger than the in-game trees, and I dug out a small space under the roots to place a straw bed—again quoting Bulbapedia, which says:

Pinsir lives deep in the temperate forests and jungles, where it burrows underground or hides in the treetops on nights cold enough to render it immobile. In Pokémon Sleep, Pinsir burrows itself into the ground to sleep during cold nights but its pincers can be seen sticking out of the ground as it slumbers.

Another detail is the punching bag (?), which both of them seem to enjoy, and a small water basin to simulate the ones used in real-life terrariums to give insects something to drink.

They both say their life is excellent, so if they’re happy, I’m happy! Also sorry if my videos are too short, but I can only record them with the 30 seconds clips option from the switch itself

[sirpinnington]

The Monsterverse has lost what made it special: the sense of reverence and terror that the Titans inspire. In Godzilla (2014) or KotM you felt the weight of Godzilla's every step. People rooted for him against the villains, but knew that Godzilla remained an indifferent force of nature that trampled cities without a second thought because some of the pov was also the one of the humans. Now it's all "spectacle" that boils down to "look how cool Godzilla is jumping and destroying the city! People dying? Who cares! ATOMIC BREATH GO ZOOOOM" or moving into the Hollow Earth, where everything is kaiju-sized and they lose what makes them stand out in a world of humans.

I'm still a Monsterverse fan though because hey, a giant lizard with atomic breath—it's impossible not to be a fan, and I'm actually grateful for the Monarch series which still presents this aspect. In the latest Monarch episode I really loved Kentaro's nightmare because it perfectly captures those emotions: you're living your life and then suddenly you find yourself having to seek shelter because King Godzilla is stomping through your city

[sirpinnington]

I created Trapinch's funnel trap

I'm working on transforming part of Bleak Beach into a desert habitat for Pokémon like the Trapinch line, Cacnea, and Cacturne—then I'll add others that make sense "biologically."

To start, I recreated Trapinch's iconic funnel trap, within the constraints of the block-based geometry. The pit is decorated with dead grass and withered trees, and I installed a door to close when it rains so the dead vegetation inside doesn't revive. Since there's no true desert biome, when it rains I have two options: perform the ritual with a Pokémon to make it sunny, or just wait it out—the smooth rocks in the funnel reset the environment anyway (I'm planning to add more as I find them). The house is shared with Vibrava, and both says they life is excellent!

The exit is on the side for Trapinch, who just needs a few hops to get out, while Vibrava simply flies out through the opening :)

[prokopetz]

Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

[sirpinnington]

“I hope this email finds you well”

how the email found me:

[pokemon]

What’s Your Favorite?

[sirpinnington]

Proud member of the Grookey gang 🐒🌿

[sirpinnington]

DRAGONITE NOOOO!! THE SNOW WILL KILL YOU!! Original photo: @enlike_pksl on Twitter

[sirpinnington]

I went crazy trying to get to the Master tier, but I finally succeeded 😭 I wanna thank my family, my friends, and all the people who never stopped believing in me. This one is for you guys!* *In reality, no one cares, but it felt wrong not to make a speech

[ricochetvegatcg]

Complimenti!

[sirpinnington]

Grazie! 💪

[sirpinnington]

I went crazy trying to get to the Master tier, but I finally succeeded 😭 I wanna thank my family, my friends, and all the people who never stopped believing in me. This one is for you guys!* *In reality, no one cares, but it felt wrong not to make a speech