Best. Cover. Ever.
Fffffff. Speaking of hilarious Pokemon.
YOUR POLIWHIRL EVOLVED INTO—UHHH ANGRY POLIWHIRL.
When Politoed happened everyone was just like “okay finally.”
I actually collect Poliwhirl as a gag, because it’s really not a very popular Pokemon, but for some reason there’s more merch for it than almost any other Pokemon. What is the deal? It even started long before Misty got one. It always seemed like in the early days, the main merched Pokemon were: Pikachu (durrr), Clefairy (makes sense because of that first manga), and Poliwhirl. I don’t get it.
Um. Yeah.
POLIWRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH.
Day seven of the Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge. Fighting type.
So, over time I have determined that I have the absolute worst sense of humour ever.
It goes beyond bad puns and the like, and into things that I really just should not find funny. Like Jynx. Which is, lets face it, horrible. So horrendously culturally insensitive about things that really should not be taken lightly, et cetera.
And that’s exactly what makes it so funny. Every time I see Jynx I’m like
“WHAT MADE YOU THINK THIS WOULD BE OKAY?” Which is why I collect it. Because I get a good chuckle every time I see my small Jynx collection. One of two joke collections.
HILARIOUS! COMEDY GOLD!
Day six in the Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge. Ice type.
May’s Bulbasaur. I know that’s ridiculously specific, but there you go.
As someone who is as fully immersed in the Pokemon fandom as I am, I have to take a lot into consideration when I’m designating favourites: game stats, merch, personal significance, appearance, and of course how it features in the television series and movies. I collect only two grasstypes: Celebi, and May’s Bulbasaur as an offshoot of my May collection.
I’m super gay for May.
I think how much I loved May really made it hard for me to accept any of the human characters of four gen. And is making it still hard to accept fifth gen. Gen three meant so much to me, and brought back so much. It was gen three that brought me back into the Pokemon fandom after so much time spent away (I missed almost all of gen two, I was there for the VERY beginning, and then faded out a bit). Hoenn was this incredible world that had so much that excited me so greatly. Contests, HM Dive, the Pokemon (Relicanth, Jirachi, so many that I loved above all others) and nearly above all else: May.
And also Max. I’ve actually cosplayed both.
So, yes. Weirdly specific but still totally awesome. (For those of you not in the know, May’s bulbasaur has two heart-shaped spots on its forehead, instead of the regular shape).
Day Five of the Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge. Right at the start of the day because I’m going to be busy all day going out of town for weaboo fun times.
Yeah, I know.
But I would be lying hard if I said anything but Pikachu was my favourite electric type. What can I say, that little fucker captured my imagination as a child and never really let go. It represents so much for me. And also, it’s really the only electric type I collect whatsoever. I don’t have a single non-Pikachu line electric type plush. And I only had to specify because I have the 1/1 scale Tufty Pichu.
I also have an incredible soft spot for Dittochu. But that’s mostly because I think merch of ditto as ANYTHING other than a pink blob is hilariously wonderful. And I have a lot, and I know I’ve only scratched the surface (Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Clefairy, Watermelon, New Years Mochi, etc). So Dittochu makes a guest appearance.
What hell man, what hell. Also, yes, late to the party. I was busy recaulking my bathtub and being at work today.
Day Four of Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge.
I think that we all knew this was coming to be fair.
I love Relicanth like wow. The first time I saw it, in Ruby, using dive, I shrieked. I shrieked loud enough to alert the RA across the hall (I was living in the dorms at the time) and then subsequently get told to calm the fuck down by said RA.
It’s a Coelacanth Pokemon. ‘Nuff said.
Also, yes, it does vomit awesomesauce. Just, you know, in case you were wondering. That is a factual ability of this amazing Pokemon.
Entry three in the Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge.
“Can I let my breath out?”
Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan. I will forever maintain the best superhero team-up ever. (Also my otp but omfg we’re not even going to talk about that.)
I was inspired on the bus home from work. I was originally looking forward to a nap and a quick bite to eat, but instead I got home and spent a couple of hours churning this thing out.
Acrylics on unmounted canvas.
I swear I haven’t actually finished an acrylic painting in nearly three years, and I just pushed out two in a week. Huh. Lets see where this takes me.
So, apparently I don’t really have a favourite fire type? I thought long and hard about this actually. I collect pokemon (pretty hard, uhhhhhhhh, anyone who has had the misfortune to stumble into my crowded tiny apartment can attest to this) and going over all of the Pokemon I collect, I determined, well, I don’t collect a fire type.
I have a couple Ho-oh odds and ends, and I still have my KFC Vulpix that I got wayyyy back when, but that’s it. When it came to starter types I always leaned towards water, and fire has been fairly consistently my last choice. I could probably come up with half a dozen random fire type pokemon that I like, but I couldn’t really think of one that was, you know the one.
And I did feel pretty bad for not calling Arceus my favourite normal type. Of all of my collections, I really only collect two normal type Pokemon: Arceus and Clefairy. Of Arceus, though, I’m a big fan of the mind plate. Because he’s all pretty and pink.
But, yes. Flame Plate Arceus is my stand-in favourite fire type Pokemon.
Can we get a fire fish in B/W pleaseyesthankyou?
Entry two in the fuck yeah super effect Pokemon type challenge.
I have to say, I love Clefairy.
It’s got that adorable pink n’ fluffy girly funtiems charm of Jigglypuff, with claws and that one oh so cute fang. Also, that manga—oh that manga. With the male clefairy. It makes me laugh so hard.
But yes, Clefairy. Satisfying both the side of me that wants adorable girly things, and the side that demands the necessary accoutrements for rending human flesh.
Entry numero uno in the Fuck Yeah Super Effective Pokemon Type Challenge.
