#bloomp

[naamahdarling]

When Junie drools from happiness she looks like a little old gramma!

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Bloomp

Debut: Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Bloomp should be proud. It's part of a very special club: the club of Mario enemies whose English names are goofy onomatopoeia relating to their behavior! It is not a very exclusive club, but its members take themselves very seriously. I'm just kidding! They're a bunch of goofballs! Sorry, Bloomp, but I could not take you seriously if I tried. Good thing you exist only in the context of a whimsical scrimblo platformer!

Bloomp is, conceptually, very straightforward. A literal balloonfish. It's nothing new. But must it be something new? Must it be groundbreaking? It mustn't. All it needs to do is be Funny. and Boy Howdy, It's Funny! I look at the expression it's always making, and I think, yeah. It WOULD make that face.

But do not let their soft, harmless bodies and silly demeanors fool you! Bloomps are Enemies. Bonafide Bad Guys. You can tell by looking at the air pumps that inflate and launch them. They have skulls on them, just like Bill Blasters! Bowser did this on purpose. He made the express decision to deploy balloon fish here when he had no reason not to use straight-up bullets. It's about the pizzazz!

Of course, anything inflatable must start out tiny, and tiny Bloomps are the very definition of "piddling". This animal does not know how to do anything besides piddle. If it tries to dispute that, don't believe it. It's full of hot air!

It is obvious that the Balloon transformation would appear in a stage centered around these balloon animals, but to me, it's a bit more interesting than that. Other Wonder Effects transform the player into an enemy, or grant them properties of the stage's main enemy. This is basically doing the same for Bloomps, but the Balloon form has existed since Super Mario World. It's like this is retroactively framing Balloon Mario as a Bloomp ability!

Anyway, the Wonder Effect also has these gray Bloomps, who are... my word! They're tied in place! Is this good for them? It does mean they won't run out of air. Maybe this is how they rest? It's not too far-fetched, considering real hagfish can tie their bodies in knots. And they're full of confetti and goodies! The Bloomps, not the hagfish. Hagfish are full of slime, and no confetti. That's a good thing! I don't want any animals to contain confetti.

[the-eclipseler-draws]

I’ve made the Junk-Box au for toomp

This is Bloomp, he just kinda showed up one day and stuck around. He’s a little on the dumb side, but is helpful when needed. He also took puzzles hat and bow tie when they first met. And know he was already working at this junkyard before puzzles did.

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my paintings 😘

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2021 | Oil on Wood Panel | 10” x 10” #bloomp (at Fort Worth, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/COgu6DKnLCV/?igshid=2saaiuhnrib1

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2021 | 10”x 10” | oil on wood panel #bloomp (at Fort Worth, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNG-ldaHfzf/?igshid=1upg6fr0ga2y0

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painted a surprise gift for my pal @leekroll from his insta feed. #bloomp #oilpainting (at Half Moon Bay, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI33rosnBG2/?igshid=1ek2vpbp8mjzy

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“mid-ASMR” on two 6”x 8” wood panels. oil paint. 2020 #bloomp (at Fort Worth, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG8Ye05H0Oj/?igshid=vfh841o1hsu0