Pigeon

I draw Ace Attorney, Pokemon, UTAU, Vocaloid, and OCs usually, and also occasionally make plushes i need to organize this mess lol

[julialepetit]

I can't stop thinking about my intentions with Eugene and then how he turned out. Sad death boy to confused innocent sweety happened real fast.

[teapotpigeon]

did some more "realistic" drawing from reference. dont do it often, but its neat sometimes.

i drew fukase satoshi and two porter robinsons. i felt like i did good on the colors but not the proportion, so i tried again with porter.

im out here studying everything but school

[teapotpigeon]

the joy and whimsy pen

the outfit my utau is in is based on the first image here (http://xhslink.com/o/4yephxHHIsl)

[teapotpigeon]

i was given permission to draw whatever i wanted on this whiteboard and i ran with it.

the guy in the middle already got erased, but i might redraw him. i wanna make his uniform more black with white highlights instead of empty for that *contrast*

i drew many chairs.

[harumaki-gohan]

MeltyLandNightmare

[teapotpigeon]

i leave motherfckr (charizard m) in the box for ***2 seconds*** and suddenly it decides it wants to merge with lm4. i swear to god all charizards are useless. i cant get my funky music anymore. i wanna punt everything vaguely charizard shaped. anedepami is included in this too. mf crashed my game too many times in green.

[teapotpigeon]

i want it known that charizard 'm heard me and messed up my ACE. one of the items got its value changed somehow, and it turned into something else entirely. now, when ACE goes wrong, it usually crashes. instead, it has decided to give me a massive charizard shaped middle finger and gifted me yet another charizard 'm, which will now be another merging hazard. i have them both quarantined to their own box along with some other pokemon with messed up properties. if i could rename the box, id call it detroit because i cant have shit around here.

[teapotpigeon]

are you fucking kidding me

[kittyfaeriemagica]

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[teapotpigeon]

some oc art from the past year. i've almost finished my dinky little homemade sketchbook, so i've been flipping through it

i hope you enjoy my collection of weird men and their ratty hair, a sad manga initial idea, and my cutesy utau wip that i might never finish

[jaybug-jabbers]

i have a question that seems like it'd be something you're interested in. my favorite glitch pokemon is the bug/glitch pokemon c 7 (index 233), and i wanted to think of a visual design for it so i could draw it and maybe turn it into a plushie. my c 7 is just my little dude that i want to draw, but i have absolutely no idea where to begin making a design im happy with

do you know any bugs that either resemble wooper a little (johto guard), have a pink and blue color palette, or are known for being fast and having a weird ability (high speed, very high special)? i think it'd be cool to base my c 7 design off an actual bug like an actual bug pokemon, but i know pretty much nothing about them lol

i love this blog btw. from what ive seen, its got a lot of joy for flora/fauna stuff i dont know much about, but im delighted by it nonetheless. im planning on reading through your glitch run because it looks really cool, but as of writing this it is almost midnight lol. i noticed #233 there and im excited to see someone else using it! cant wait to see what mischief it gets up to in your game :D

Oh!! I love #233 so much! They were amazing in my playthrough and are one of my favorites too. I imagined them as a sort of collective of nano-bots that came together to make a larger being (similar to Wishiwashi) since I was trying to incorporate the fact the menu sprite is a pokeball, and thus more machinelike (and the fact their front sprite has multiple forms, kinda shapeshifty). Plus, playing around with the whole bugs = glitches concept, so making it more digital/mechanical in nature, yet sticking with something that seemed buglike (nanobots). But there's so many other fun ways they could be conceptualized.

I am probably going to go on a bit of a ramble since insects are a special interest of mine, ahaha, I hope you don't mind.

In terms of speed, Tiger Beetles are probably the fastest land bugs out there; they chase down their prey like Cheetah, basically. Meanwhile, Dragonflies/damselflies and Robber Flies are also pursuit predators, essentially the hawks/eagles of the insect world, snatching prey out of the air at high speeds. They're honestly all really cool, charismatic species.

But there's also lesser-known critters that I find really cool too, which I think would be great inspiration for a pokemon. For example, springtails. These are technically not insects but are closely related animals, and they come in a wide variety of shapes and colors. Everything from Round Bois to fat, spiky gummi bears, to shimmering and sleek:

As the name implies they often have tails that allow them to spring up to incredible heights relative to their teeny tiny size.

Wasps also offer some intense diversity that most people are not aware of (with ~30,000 species identified and many more estimated). Most are solitary and many of them are parasitic/parasitoids on various fellow invertebrates. "Fairy wasps" are especially teeny-tiny, some of them smaller than an amoeba. That's a complex, multi-ceullular insect, smaller than a single-celled creature! (I think they would be great Bug/Fairy types) One species of parasitoid wasp injects its host prey (a caterpillar) via its ovipositer/stinger with virus DNA (along with its waspy eggs) to help subdue its prey's immune system. The wasps have basically domesticated the virus DNA for their own use as a biological weapon. Bonkers. Here's three species of wasp I took pictures of myself! The left one is a teeny parasitoid wasp that landed on me, the middle actually has paralyzed a cricket and is dragging it back to the hole she dug so she can lay eggs in it and bury it for her bebbies, the third wasp was looking in those nooks and crannies in the rock for a nest site, I believe. <3 This is just a small sample of the crazy shapes and sizes of wasps ("Velvet Ants" are also some beautiful wasps, and Ichneumon Wasps, and the stunning Tarantula Hawk . . . I could go on and on)

There are definitely lots of bugs with blue and even a decent number of bubblegum pink insects (including the California Pink Glowworm, the Rosy Maple moth, pink katydids, pink springtails, etc) but I'm not sure of any that have both the baby blue and baby pink at once. Not off the top of my head at least, odds are there's something out there though lol

The bug that first comes to mind when thinking about Wooper is maybe the Toad Bug-- Wooper isn't a toad of course, but there are some visual similarities and they are so neat. You also could look up Mayfly nymphs, who are aquatic with feathery gills on their butts (kinda like Wooper's axolotl-inspired gills). Damselfly nymphs look similar. Insects like mayflies and damselflies are, in a way, similar to amphibians like Wooper since they have an aquatic nymph stage and then turn into air-breathing adults.

I'm gonna stop here, since I could go on forever 😅 I'll probably think of even more I'd want to mention later haha. Also, thank you so much for your kind words. It always thrills me to find another person interested in some of the funky and wild creatures out there. I think that's why I love glitch pokemon so much too. They're weird lil freaks and I love that about them! Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, as Mr. Darwin said.

[teapotpigeon]

i was not expecting to read one of the coolest pseudo-essays of my life when asking about my silly glitch lol, but ive been hit with a people's elbow of interesting stuff

also, HOLY SHIT, BIOWEAPONS?!?!??? i have many ideas now, and when you said you cut yourself off, ngl i mentally mourned a little. id love to hear more about this kind of stuff if you'd like

i was thinking of visually combining the *holy shit bug bioweapons* with the gills to make it kind of scorpion-like, but combine it with a springtail body too just because i was immediately charmed by their squishy appearance

it was kinda strange combining so many critters jurassic park style, but then i remembered that gamefreak ok'd a dinosaur with saws for hands as a bug, so anything goes lol.

it ended up turning into my cat, as all things do. mew? thats a cat. budew? cat with nice blanket. ill probably draw it more, and it'll simplify itself even more into a snom lol

your interpretation of the glitch pokemon being more mechanical is interesting to me because i always thought of them in my own narrative playthrough as more like a blink-and-you-miss-it folklore creature that gets written off as a fluke. kinda like how things distort in peripheral vision, or family heirlooms that got packed away in the attic for a little bit too long that just have something off about them. something's fundamentally off about them. id think that if a professor really tried to study them, their equipment comes back looking all glitchy, like the glitch unown dex or normal glitch dex entries (and also end up with cryptids singing endless songs in their ears for at least a few hours.) im still thinking about how id separate them from legendaries, ghost types, and paradox pokemon more...

their unidentifiable nature is why my trainer has big ol' "google"-y eyes to see them (because i googled pretty much everything to get things to happen lol.) in this interpretation, i thought of the pokeball menu icon as 233 hiding in empty pokeballs and jumping from place to place, and the way you find it is its loud noise (stupidly long name. i thought it was funny it just kept talking)

also, toad bug is a national treasure. just look at its stupid little bodyyy <3 sad it didnt work out that well in the overall design. i tried, little buddy... may you and your dumb (affectionate) face rest in peace. and the second side tangent i'll go on was the continued struggle with the face. i made the mistake of looking for what the actual bug faces looked like and accidentally recreated the spongebob wormy episode. strictly stuck to pokemon as reference after that... bugs may be really cool, but im also a coward. im glad theyre so small--the little guys are damn terrifying with detail

[jaybug-jabbers]

Aaaaa, lookit the precious baby!! Holy crap they're so cute, I wanna hug them 😭 I love all these doodles so much (the one who 'forgot' looks like they're worried they left the stove on asfhjkl) Damn, being able to draw is so cool. I wish I could invent new Pokemon like that.

Honestly I love it when Pokemon departs from 'animal with a few changes made to it but still very very recognizably a specific animal' and they get more funky with it, mash more parts together or invent something entirely different. I mean, either way is good, I love lots of ones that are just 'this one animal with a small twist' too, but there's def. room for just about anything in the universe I feel

I think Kabutops is supposed to be based sorta-kinda on a Sea Scorpion! A family of extinct ocean arthropods with some crazy grabby hands

(Its pre-evo, Kabuto, is based on the horseshoe crab of course, so it's kind of a cross between a horseshoe crab and a sea scorpion. Sidebar, horseshoe crabs are COOL too, they still exist today but are very ancient, so-called "living fossils." Their blood is used in the medical world for sciency stuff and it's bright blue!)

I don't think I've ever really settled on a way to imagine glitch pokemon I'm truly satisfied with. I gave it a shot with my glitch playthrough/fictional narrative and the glitch pokedex I wrote, and it was really fun to explore some of the possibilities, but there's so many directions you could take it. Thing is, there's just something about glitches that feel . . . *gestures* SOMETHING to me. I can't even define the feeling it gives me. Uncanny? Like you said, something is profoundly "off" that you can't put a finger on (I guess that's what uncanny means anyway). I don't know, when I stare into that mess of pixels in weird shapes and patterns, so utterly out of place and seperate from a normal pokemon sprite, I feel captivated by a complex mixture of feelings. I think there's some horror there, but it's a complete disservice to say that's all it is, because it's so much more. There is beauty and such mystery in the foreign and alienness and overworldliness, in the thing that is so different it defies our very imagination or conceptions of the world.

I also struggle to differentiate them from legendaries (glitches have incredible power and are like mythical creatures too), ghost types and paradox pokemon (the whole cryptozoology/paranormal thing). It's the basic problem of how to differentiate such a creature in a universe where animals of mind-bending powers are already commonplace, where street rats can summon bolts of lighting and something like an Abra can teleport and read minds ALREADY. The paranormal becomes the mundane at that point. Heck, I think even Pokemon struggles with this issue. Ultra Beasts perhaps come closest in their attempts to have creatures very very foreign and out-of-place with their typical creatures, to inspire that feeling of uncanniness, but idk I don't think even they touch on what glitch pokemon feel like. (Oh and I love the idea of glitches breaking all our equipment and attempts to understand! Kind of like SCP's antimemetics in a way)

I might keep toadbugs as pets one day ngl they are so cute. I have way too many bugs I wanna keep. So glad you appreciated their glory

Ahaha yeah macro-photos of bugs are a bit of a shock to see for the first time. I think I'd still find gigantic bugs cool but they are much cuter when they are miniature 😂

I'm so happy you're indulging my rambles, I am used to holding back a lot because it's pretty rare for me to find anyone who wants to hear me talk about this stuff. And I love hearing your ideas so much.

[teapotpigeon]

my favorite pokemon is a blob or two of whipped cream, so they really can be anything under the sun lol. im partial to cute little fairy or ghost fellas. and theres nothing stopping you from inventing new pokemon either if you drew it yourself. it doesnt have to look like a professional's. just know it wasnt ai generated and immediately know its worth more than what feels like half the internet anymore. also shiny gholdengo exists. nothing can be a worse pokemon than that. it'd be so cool to see what you imagined your own interpretations of glitch pokemon as, especially the gargoyle ones

the grabby hands on 6 are unrivaled. it'd win in an arm wrestle against me (which isnt that hard tbh,) and id lose to a kabutops immediately because you need arms to continue arm wrestling, and i would be severely lacking in that regard after a handshake greeting. it is also a glorious example of the gen 1 design mentality of "just add a big ol weapon. thats gonna make it cool" and im afriad theyre often correct

i had to read a book in middle school that mentioned horse crab blood. it was pretty neat stuff, and also wacky how it works. it just kind of....sloshes around (open circulatory system)

heres a dapper fella from the circulatory system wikipedia page. this is a gummy shark. i refuse to believe otherwise lol

i recently had a few ideas for the visuals of how id like to draw glitches, and i think the uncanny feeling that puparia (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnqX41JHuM&pp=ygUHcHVwYXJpYQ%3D%3D)

this sinking town fan mv, (https://youtu.be/tyFh0fOuFfw)

and the goo in the summer hikaru died create is kind of what im thinking of--especially puparia. its just so weird lookin, and i love it. combine it with some antiques that's looks like theyve seen both world wars, and its a hit. melted jewelry, i guess?

or my old ass broken sewing machine from 1938. i thought it'd be cool if glitches were covered in patterns like those to signify the glitchiness

i also recently (meaning while im typing this) stumbled across this cute as fuck caterpillar, and im afraid 233 is gonna become even more my cat. its gotta happen.

japanese emperor butterfly. adorable.

i think i might make designs for the other pokemon in this glitch family so i can emphasize these different features in each one instead of looking at a new bug and going "holy shit (affectionate)..... where does this fit into the disaster"

however, instead of working on anything, ive just gone: "i wanna draw something. idk, like, a dude or something.... im gonna draw a glitch pokemon gijinka" MY BRAIN IS MELTING OUT MY EARS AS WE SPEAKKKK!!! scribbling pokemon like a toddler but its also just... a man? behold. diogenes would be proud. there was no thinking behind this design. only cool guy and pretty colors

i prefer bugs at their normal size. ants already terrify me with their strength as is. im more of a bird guy myself (evidently, i say as i stare at my username)

[jaybug-jabbers]

Ahhh well true, and I have invented my own fakemon (did a bunch of Paradox Pokemon) but only with text descriptions. What I draw isn't even close to what I see in my head and doesn't get the point across. 🥲 I am definitely a writer, not an artist, but at least I have fun making up fakemon in my mind. Pfft, don't get me started on shinies. Shiny pokemon that look identical to their normal coloration or are just desaturated as heck or some barf green make me unreasonably upset. They had the opportunity to make something cool, why is the standard for shinies 'looks identical so what's the point' or 'looks way worse'?

Honestly my idea of how a lot of the glitch pokemon looked was super vague, because I felt so undecided on how they'd look/if they were even visually something our brains could understand. Guess that's an advantage of the written medium, you can offer some description but let the reader's mind fill in the blanks because maybe what they see is even better than anything you'd think up (is some of this laziness. maybe)

It's kind of funny they had stuff like Blastoise, a turtle with literal cannons, yet they were so coy about Remoraid and Octillery and decid to tone down the gun and tank designs. Maybe they felt GUN FISH was pushing it

Yeah, insects have that funky breathing and blood system too, they think it's a large part of why we can't have gigantic bugs in modern times. There used to be dragonflies with like over 2 foot long wingspans, back when the atmospheric oxygen was a much higher %. But in modern times, their breathing is not efficient enough at larger body sizes to keep them oxygeniated. I wish we still had the giant dragonflies 😞 And the giant centipede-like things. (I may be alone in this wish.)

Yesss, flatworms are awesome little dudes ❤️❤️ Look at those ridiculous Lisa Frank colors. Them and seaslugs/nudibranches are just glorious. We have land flatworms too, some are really pretty, I love the hammerhead ones. There are a lot of very invasive ones in the US but still cool animals.

Those are some trippy visuals, and I esp. love the patterns on your sewing machine (what a cool antique!)

Hey I just saw a post on Bluesky about that caterpillar, apparently their breath scares away predators, which scientists studied by doing this:

(https://bsky.app/profile/entobiologist.bsky.social/post/3mj4eyqtinc26)

Help it's so cute

Yooo I love the antenna on him!! Looking forward to you ending up drawing an illustrated encyclopedia of all 105 glitch pokemon next ahaha

[teapotpigeon]

tis the life of every artist. tbh thats what i did with 233. i had an idea and then it just kept not working, so i ended up looking for more reference to come up with a more concrete idea. then the concrete idea ended up being better than the original. i HATE gross shinys. my poor alcremie got stuck with looking moldy. the pokemon that revolves around being cool colors has the worst cool colors TTuTT shiny phantump is cool though.

i get the having the viewer fill in the blanks bit. in drawing, nobody has time to draw every single blade of grass, so they just draw a few lines to establish that its grass, and you can just assume the stuff behind it is also grass. takes practice, but it's better than doing a ton of work just for it to be distracting and bog the drawing down with unnecessary detail.

i'm still struggling with me, a human losing its mind, replicating the look of an algorithm losing its mind, so i just decided to draw a cute little guy with some weird particles.

and then they have one of the newer starters be a sniper frog. starters can have guns, but not fish. i guess it'd be strange to give a fish a gun, but giving a turtle one isn't any better.

i'm afraid you're quite alone in the wish for giant centipedes.... i don't like them at normal size... giant dragonflies could be cool though. they're so many cool colors, and when i see one flying by, i'm a bit annoyed they're so hard to see the detail of their patterns without hunting down where it lands. its kind of fun to, but i usually lose them before i get a good look at them. this is way longer ago, but sacabambaspis don't exist anymore because the water near the shore changed temperature and killed them all. disappointing.

another inspiration i use a lot for uncanny stuff is prehistoric critters. nautiloids and trilobites make good designs. reminds me a lot of nausticaa or amara the great intelligence. so do flatworm colors. theres something about the organic shapes and bright colors that scream "beyond your comprehension, mere mortal" or they're so old they're around for all of time kind of thing. more scifi stories should include more prehistoric creatures.

sincerely,

the world's biggest scifi/post apocalyptic story hater.

i do just really love their colors.

that picture reminds me of kittens when they still need to be bottle fed. so cute. i love the little cat bug

3/105 down.

233 has slowly been transforming into a chinchilla.

i'll be drawing these 3 for a while, but 219 is probably coming up soon, or just any other glitch pokemon i've actually used, like lm4 or my stupid 'm (ff), not very affectionately nicknamed motherfckr (he and his brother pissed me off too much.)

also this is what 233 originally looked like. i definitely like the newer ones more now that i've got an idea on more bugs. it's no longer a strange muppet with wooper gills

[teapotpigeon]

Did you use a pattern or make one for your Klavier/apollo plushies? I’m working on my own plush at the moment and keep getting stuck on how to construct his head

im using one i found off xhs currently.

http://xhslink.com/o/5T0aURNBbdO its this one.

its really simple and makes a cute little blob. im not very good at making patterns or sewing complicated stuff (apollo is currently falling apart at the seams when all he does is sit on my shelf) so this one is good for making the thing exist

比上一版缝起来更迅速更便捷的头耳一体式版型 （目前只有熊耳版，后续会增加其他兽耳） 大小：10cm（a4打印） 缝合：这个图纸是两面式版型，头发两片和身体两片分别缝合上之后在脖口处链接头部和身体（后颈要留小口用来翻面） 材料：图上是水晶超柔10mm 其他：图纸是无缝份版，布料裁剪

[teapotpigeon]

apollo was lonely so im making him a friend. say hi to klavier.

im literally shaking buy him brown contacts pls

his skin is the same fabric as apollos was but dyed with coffee and you can really tell how shitty and patchy it is lol

edit: that is not shitty dyeing (mostly,) its actually just glue..... it got worse..... im sorry klavier

[jaybug-jabbers]

i have a question that seems like it'd be something you're interested in. my favorite glitch pokemon is the bug/glitch pokemon c 7 (index 233), and i wanted to think of a visual design for it so i could draw it and maybe turn it into a plushie. my c 7 is just my little dude that i want to draw, but i have absolutely no idea where to begin making a design im happy with

do you know any bugs that either resemble wooper a little (johto guard), have a pink and blue color palette, or are known for being fast and having a weird ability (high speed, very high special)? i think it'd be cool to base my c 7 design off an actual bug like an actual bug pokemon, but i know pretty much nothing about them lol

i love this blog btw. from what ive seen, its got a lot of joy for flora/fauna stuff i dont know much about, but im delighted by it nonetheless. im planning on reading through your glitch run because it looks really cool, but as of writing this it is almost midnight lol. i noticed #233 there and im excited to see someone else using it! cant wait to see what mischief it gets up to in your game :D

Oh!! I love #233 so much! They were amazing in my playthrough and are one of my favorites too. I imagined them as a sort of collective of nano-bots that came together to make a larger being (similar to Wishiwashi) since I was trying to incorporate the fact the menu sprite is a pokeball, and thus more machinelike (and the fact their front sprite has multiple forms, kinda shapeshifty). Plus, playing around with the whole bugs = glitches concept, so making it more digital/mechanical in nature, yet sticking with something that seemed buglike (nanobots). But there's so many other fun ways they could be conceptualized.

I am probably going to go on a bit of a ramble since insects are a special interest of mine, ahaha, I hope you don't mind.

In terms of speed, Tiger Beetles are probably the fastest land bugs out there; they chase down their prey like Cheetah, basically. Meanwhile, Dragonflies/damselflies and Robber Flies are also pursuit predators, essentially the hawks/eagles of the insect world, snatching prey out of the air at high speeds. They're honestly all really cool, charismatic species.

But there's also lesser-known critters that I find really cool too, which I think would be great inspiration for a pokemon. For example, springtails. These are technically not insects but are closely related animals, and they come in a wide variety of shapes and colors. Everything from Round Bois to fat, spiky gummi bears, to shimmering and sleek:

As the name implies they often have tails that allow them to spring up to incredible heights relative to their teeny tiny size.

Wasps also offer some intense diversity that most people are not aware of (with ~30,000 species identified and many more estimated). Most are solitary and many of them are parasitic/parasitoids on various fellow invertebrates. "Fairy wasps" are especially teeny-tiny, some of them smaller than an amoeba. That's a complex, multi-ceullular insect, smaller than a single-celled creature! (I think they would be great Bug/Fairy types) One species of parasitoid wasp injects its host prey (a caterpillar) via its ovipositer/stinger with virus DNA (along with its waspy eggs) to help subdue its prey's immune system. The wasps have basically domesticated the virus DNA for their own use as a biological weapon. Bonkers. Here's three species of wasp I took pictures of myself! The left one is a teeny parasitoid wasp that landed on me, the middle actually has paralyzed a cricket and is dragging it back to the hole she dug so she can lay eggs in it and bury it for her bebbies, the third wasp was looking in those nooks and crannies in the rock for a nest site, I believe. <3 This is just a small sample of the crazy shapes and sizes of wasps ("Velvet Ants" are also some beautiful wasps, and Ichneumon Wasps, and the stunning Tarantula Hawk . . . I could go on and on)

There are definitely lots of bugs with blue and even a decent number of bubblegum pink insects (including the California Pink Glowworm, the Rosy Maple moth, pink katydids, pink springtails, etc) but I'm not sure of any that have both the baby blue and baby pink at once. Not off the top of my head at least, odds are there's something out there though lol

The bug that first comes to mind when thinking about Wooper is maybe the Toad Bug-- Wooper isn't a toad of course, but there are some visual similarities and they are so neat. You also could look up Mayfly nymphs, who are aquatic with feathery gills on their butts (kinda like Wooper's axolotl-inspired gills). Damselfly nymphs look similar. Insects like mayflies and damselflies are, in a way, similar to amphibians like Wooper since they have an aquatic nymph stage and then turn into air-breathing adults.

I'm gonna stop here, since I could go on forever 😅 I'll probably think of even more I'd want to mention later haha. Also, thank you so much for your kind words. It always thrills me to find another person interested in some of the funky and wild creatures out there. I think that's why I love glitch pokemon so much too. They're weird lil freaks and I love that about them! Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, as Mr. Darwin said.

[teapotpigeon]

i was not expecting to read one of the coolest pseudo-essays of my life when asking about my silly glitch lol, but ive been hit with a people's elbow of interesting stuff

also, HOLY SHIT, BIOWEAPONS?!?!??? i have many ideas now, and when you said you cut yourself off, ngl i mentally mourned a little. id love to hear more about this kind of stuff if you'd like

i was thinking of visually combining the *holy shit bug bioweapons* with the gills to make it kind of scorpion-like, but combine it with a springtail body too just because i was immediately charmed by their squishy appearance

it was kinda strange combining so many critters jurassic park style, but then i remembered that gamefreak ok'd a dinosaur with saws for hands as a bug, so anything goes lol.

it ended up turning into my cat, as all things do. mew? thats a cat. budew? cat with nice blanket. ill probably draw it more, and it'll simplify itself even more into a snom lol

your interpretation of the glitch pokemon being more mechanical is interesting to me because i always thought of them in my own narrative playthrough as more like a blink-and-you-miss-it folklore creature that gets written off as a fluke. kinda like how things distort in peripheral vision, or family heirlooms that got packed away in the attic for a little bit too long that just have something off about them. something's fundamentally off about them. id think that if a professor really tried to study them, their equipment comes back looking all glitchy, like the glitch unown dex or normal glitch dex entries (and also end up with cryptids singing endless songs in their ears for at least a few hours.) im still thinking about how id separate them from legendaries, ghost types, and paradox pokemon more...

their unidentifiable nature is why my trainer has big ol' "google"-y eyes to see them (because i googled pretty much everything to get things to happen lol.) in this interpretation, i thought of the pokeball menu icon as 233 hiding in empty pokeballs and jumping from place to place, and the way you find it is its loud noise (stupidly long name. i thought it was funny it just kept talking)

also, toad bug is a national treasure. just look at its stupid little bodyyy <3 sad it didnt work out that well in the overall design. i tried, little buddy... may you and your dumb (affectionate) face rest in peace. and the second side tangent i'll go on was the continued struggle with the face. i made the mistake of looking for what the actual bug faces looked like and accidentally recreated the spongebob wormy episode. strictly stuck to pokemon as reference after that... bugs may be really cool, but im also a coward. im glad theyre so small--the little guys are damn terrifying with detail

[jaybug-jabbers]

Aaaaa, lookit the precious baby!! Holy crap they're so cute, I wanna hug them 😭 I love all these doodles so much (the one who 'forgot' looks like they're worried they left the stove on asfhjkl) Damn, being able to draw is so cool. I wish I could invent new Pokemon like that.

Honestly I love it when Pokemon departs from 'animal with a few changes made to it but still very very recognizably a specific animal' and they get more funky with it, mash more parts together or invent something entirely different. I mean, either way is good, I love lots of ones that are just 'this one animal with a small twist' too, but there's def. room for just about anything in the universe I feel

I think Kabutops is supposed to be based sorta-kinda on a Sea Scorpion! A family of extinct ocean arthropods with some crazy grabby hands

(Its pre-evo, Kabuto, is based on the horseshoe crab of course, so it's kind of a cross between a horseshoe crab and a sea scorpion. Sidebar, horseshoe crabs are COOL too, they still exist today but are very ancient, so-called "living fossils." Their blood is used in the medical world for sciency stuff and it's bright blue!)

I don't think I've ever really settled on a way to imagine glitch pokemon I'm truly satisfied with. I gave it a shot with my glitch playthrough/fictional narrative and the glitch pokedex I wrote, and it was really fun to explore some of the possibilities, but there's so many directions you could take it. Thing is, there's just something about glitches that feel . . . *gestures* SOMETHING to me. I can't even define the feeling it gives me. Uncanny? Like you said, something is profoundly "off" that you can't put a finger on (I guess that's what uncanny means anyway). I don't know, when I stare into that mess of pixels in weird shapes and patterns, so utterly out of place and seperate from a normal pokemon sprite, I feel captivated by a complex mixture of feelings. I think there's some horror there, but it's a complete disservice to say that's all it is, because it's so much more. There is beauty and such mystery in the foreign and alienness and overworldliness, in the thing that is so different it defies our very imagination or conceptions of the world.

I also struggle to differentiate them from legendaries (glitches have incredible power and are like mythical creatures too), ghost types and paradox pokemon (the whole cryptozoology/paranormal thing). It's the basic problem of how to differentiate such a creature in a universe where animals of mind-bending powers are already commonplace, where street rats can summon bolts of lighting and something like an Abra can teleport and read minds ALREADY. The paranormal becomes the mundane at that point. Heck, I think even Pokemon struggles with this issue. Ultra Beasts perhaps come closest in their attempts to have creatures very very foreign and out-of-place with their typical creatures, to inspire that feeling of uncanniness, but idk I don't think even they touch on what glitch pokemon feel like. (Oh and I love the idea of glitches breaking all our equipment and attempts to understand! Kind of like SCP's antimemetics in a way)

I might keep toadbugs as pets one day ngl they are so cute. I have way too many bugs I wanna keep. So glad you appreciated their glory

Ahaha yeah macro-photos of bugs are a bit of a shock to see for the first time. I think I'd still find gigantic bugs cool but they are much cuter when they are miniature 😂

I'm so happy you're indulging my rambles, I am used to holding back a lot because it's pretty rare for me to find anyone who wants to hear me talk about this stuff. And I love hearing your ideas so much.

[teapotpigeon]

my favorite pokemon is a blob or two of whipped cream, so they really can be anything under the sun lol. im partial to cute little fairy or ghost fellas. and theres nothing stopping you from inventing new pokemon either if you drew it yourself. it doesnt have to look like a professional's. just know it wasnt ai generated and immediately know its worth more than what feels like half the internet anymore. also shiny gholdengo exists. nothing can be a worse pokemon than that. it'd be so cool to see what you imagined your own interpretations of glitch pokemon as, especially the gargoyle ones

the grabby hands on 6 are unrivaled. it'd win in an arm wrestle against me (which isnt that hard tbh,) and id lose to a kabutops immediately because you need arms to continue arm wrestling, and i would be severely lacking in that regard after a handshake greeting. it is also a glorious example of the gen 1 design mentality of "just add a big ol weapon. thats gonna make it cool" and im afriad theyre often correct

i had to read a book in middle school that mentioned horse crab blood. it was pretty neat stuff, and also wacky how it works. it just kind of....sloshes around (open circulatory system)

heres a dapper fella from the circulatory system wikipedia page. this is a gummy shark. i refuse to believe otherwise lol

i recently had a few ideas for the visuals of how id like to draw glitches, and i think the uncanny feeling that puparia (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnqX41JHuM&pp=ygUHcHVwYXJpYQ%3D%3D)

this sinking town fan mv, (https://youtu.be/tyFh0fOuFfw)

and the goo in the summer hikaru died create is kind of what im thinking of--especially puparia. its just so weird lookin, and i love it. combine it with some antiques that's looks like theyve seen both world wars, and its a hit. melted jewelry, i guess?

or my old ass broken sewing machine from 1938. i thought it'd be cool if glitches were covered in patterns like those to signify the glitchiness

i also recently (meaning while im typing this) stumbled across this cute as fuck caterpillar, and im afraid 233 is gonna become even more my cat. its gotta happen.

japanese emperor butterfly. adorable.

i think i might make designs for the other pokemon in this glitch family so i can emphasize these different features in each one instead of looking at a new bug and going "holy shit (affectionate)..... where does this fit into the disaster"

however, instead of working on anything, ive just gone: "i wanna draw something. idk, like, a dude or something.... im gonna draw a glitch pokemon gijinka" MY BRAIN IS MELTING OUT MY EARS AS WE SPEAKKKK!!! scribbling pokemon like a toddler but its also just... a man? behold. diogenes would be proud. there was no thinking behind this design. only cool guy and pretty colors

i prefer bugs at their normal size. ants already terrify me with their strength as is. im more of a bird guy myself (evidently, i say as i stare at my username)

[teapotpigeon]

happy kristoph goes to jail, apollo punches a guy, and phoenix gets punched in the face day!!

[teapotpigeon]

i leave motherfckr (charizard m) in the box for ***2 seconds*** and suddenly it decides it wants to merge with lm4. i swear to god all charizards are useless. i cant get my funky music anymore. i wanna punt everything vaguely charizard shaped. anedepami is included in this too. mf crashed my game too many times in green.

[teapotpigeon]

i want it known that charizard 'm heard me and messed up my ACE. one of the items got its value changed somehow, and it turned into something else entirely. now, when ACE goes wrong, it usually crashes. instead, it has decided to give me a massive charizard shaped middle finger and gifted me yet another charizard 'm, which will now be another merging hazard. i have them both quarantined to their own box along with some other pokemon with messed up properties. if i could rename the box, id call it detroit because i cant have shit around here.

[teapotpigeon]

i leave motherfckr (charizard m) in the box for ***2 seconds*** and suddenly it decides it wants to merge with lm4. i swear to god all charizards are useless. i cant get my funky music anymore. i wanna punt everything vaguely charizard shaped. anedepami is included in this too. mf crashed my game too many times in green.

[jaybug-jabbers]

i have a question that seems like it'd be something you're interested in. my favorite glitch pokemon is the bug/glitch pokemon c 7 (index 233), and i wanted to think of a visual design for it so i could draw it and maybe turn it into a plushie. my c 7 is just my little dude that i want to draw, but i have absolutely no idea where to begin making a design im happy with

do you know any bugs that either resemble wooper a little (johto guard), have a pink and blue color palette, or are known for being fast and having a weird ability (high speed, very high special)? i think it'd be cool to base my c 7 design off an actual bug like an actual bug pokemon, but i know pretty much nothing about them lol

i love this blog btw. from what ive seen, its got a lot of joy for flora/fauna stuff i dont know much about, but im delighted by it nonetheless. im planning on reading through your glitch run because it looks really cool, but as of writing this it is almost midnight lol. i noticed #233 there and im excited to see someone else using it! cant wait to see what mischief it gets up to in your game :D

Oh!! I love #233 so much! They were amazing in my playthrough and are one of my favorites too. I imagined them as a sort of collective of nano-bots that came together to make a larger being (similar to Wishiwashi) since I was trying to incorporate the fact the menu sprite is a pokeball, and thus more machinelike (and the fact their front sprite has multiple forms, kinda shapeshifty). Plus, playing around with the whole bugs = glitches concept, so making it more digital/mechanical in nature, yet sticking with something that seemed buglike (nanobots). But there's so many other fun ways they could be conceptualized.

I am probably going to go on a bit of a ramble since insects are a special interest of mine, ahaha, I hope you don't mind.

In terms of speed, Tiger Beetles are probably the fastest land bugs out there; they chase down their prey like Cheetah, basically. Meanwhile, Dragonflies/damselflies and Robber Flies are also pursuit predators, essentially the hawks/eagles of the insect world, snatching prey out of the air at high speeds. They're honestly all really cool, charismatic species.

But there's also lesser-known critters that I find really cool too, which I think would be great inspiration for a pokemon. For example, springtails. These are technically not insects but are closely related animals, and they come in a wide variety of shapes and colors. Everything from Round Bois to fat, spiky gummi bears, to shimmering and sleek:

As the name implies they often have tails that allow them to spring up to incredible heights relative to their teeny tiny size.

Wasps also offer some intense diversity that most people are not aware of (with ~30,000 species identified and many more estimated). Most are solitary and many of them are parasitic/parasitoids on various fellow invertebrates. "Fairy wasps" are especially teeny-tiny, some of them smaller than an amoeba. That's a complex, multi-ceullular insect, smaller than a single-celled creature! (I think they would be great Bug/Fairy types) One species of parasitoid wasp injects its host prey (a caterpillar) via its ovipositer/stinger with virus DNA (along with its waspy eggs) to help subdue its prey's immune system. The wasps have basically domesticated the virus DNA for their own use as a biological weapon. Bonkers. Here's three species of wasp I took pictures of myself! The left one is a teeny parasitoid wasp that landed on me, the middle actually has paralyzed a cricket and is dragging it back to the hole she dug so she can lay eggs in it and bury it for her bebbies, the third wasp was looking in those nooks and crannies in the rock for a nest site, I believe. <3 This is just a small sample of the crazy shapes and sizes of wasps ("Velvet Ants" are also some beautiful wasps, and Ichneumon Wasps, and the stunning Tarantula Hawk . . . I could go on and on)

There are definitely lots of bugs with blue and even a decent number of bubblegum pink insects (including the California Pink Glowworm, the Rosy Maple moth, pink katydids, pink springtails, etc) but I'm not sure of any that have both the baby blue and baby pink at once. Not off the top of my head at least, odds are there's something out there though lol

The bug that first comes to mind when thinking about Wooper is maybe the Toad Bug-- Wooper isn't a toad of course, but there are some visual similarities and they are so neat. You also could look up Mayfly nymphs, who are aquatic with feathery gills on their butts (kinda like Wooper's axolotl-inspired gills). Damselfly nymphs look similar. Insects like mayflies and damselflies are, in a way, similar to amphibians like Wooper since they have an aquatic nymph stage and then turn into air-breathing adults.

I'm gonna stop here, since I could go on forever 😅 I'll probably think of even more I'd want to mention later haha. Also, thank you so much for your kind words. It always thrills me to find another person interested in some of the funky and wild creatures out there. I think that's why I love glitch pokemon so much too. They're weird lil freaks and I love that about them! Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, as Mr. Darwin said.

[teapotpigeon]

i was not expecting to read one of the coolest pseudo-essays of my life when asking about my silly glitch lol, but ive been hit with a people's elbow of interesting stuff

also, HOLY SHIT, BIOWEAPONS?!?!??? i have many ideas now, and when you said you cut yourself off, ngl i mentally mourned a little. id love to hear more about this kind of stuff if you'd like

i was thinking of visually combining the *holy shit bug bioweapons* with the gills to make it kind of scorpion-like, but combine it with a springtail body too just because i was immediately charmed by their squishy appearance

it was kinda strange combining so many critters jurassic park style, but then i remembered that gamefreak ok'd a dinosaur with saws for hands as a bug, so anything goes lol.

it ended up turning into my cat, as all things do. mew? thats a cat. budew? cat with nice blanket. ill probably draw it more, and it'll simplify itself even more into a snom lol

your interpretation of the glitch pokemon being more mechanical is interesting to me because i always thought of them in my own narrative playthrough as more like a blink-and-you-miss-it folklore creature that gets written off as a fluke. kinda like how things distort in peripheral vision, or family heirlooms that got packed away in the attic for a little bit too long that just have something off about them. something's fundamentally off about them. id think that if a professor really tried to study them, their equipment comes back looking all glitchy, like the glitch unown dex or normal glitch dex entries (and also end up with cryptids singing endless songs in their ears for at least a few hours.) im still thinking about how id separate them from legendaries, ghost types, and paradox pokemon more...

their unidentifiable nature is why my trainer has big ol' "google"-y eyes to see them (because i googled pretty much everything to get things to happen lol.) in this interpretation, i thought of the pokeball menu icon as 233 hiding in empty pokeballs and jumping from place to place, and the way you find it is its loud noise (stupidly long name. i thought it was funny it just kept talking)

also, toad bug is a national treasure. just look at its stupid little bodyyy <3 sad it didnt work out that well in the overall design. i tried, little buddy... may you and your dumb (affectionate) face rest in peace. and the second side tangent i'll go on was the continued struggle with the face. i made the mistake of looking for what the actual bug faces looked like and accidentally recreated the spongebob wormy episode. strictly stuck to pokemon as reference after that... bugs may be really cool, but im also a coward. im glad theyre so small--the little guys are damn terrifying with detail