yk if she Rlly wanted to be an ally to the lgbt community as well as upset the royal family, princess diana shouldve started taking testosterone
now this wld b allyship
her penis might be problematic... but im critically consuming it đ
Back in the summer of 2006, exciting things were on the horizon for Nintendo fans. Nintendoâs new console, the Wii, was just a few months away, and with it would come The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the more immediate horizon, however, was the Japanese release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.
Munchlax and Bonsly had appeared in the anime and the side game Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and rumor had it that for the first time the starters would deviate from the Grass/Fire/Water formula. There were a few minor leaks, such as Lickitung and Magmar getting evolutions, which a few people drew their own interpretations of. These images being used in hoaxes such as fake leaks ultimately lead to what those who were there call The Summer of Fakemon.
It felt like new fake leaks were appearing every day. It was pretty easy to recognize most as being fake, but for some it was hard to be sure, while others were completely convincing. At that point, Iâd been drawing and editing sprites for a Sailor Moon web comic for about two years, so I was mostly interested in the pixel art aspect of all the fakes. Granted, I wasnât very GOOD with pixel art, but I still enjoyed it. When I threw my hat into the hoaxing ring, it was with something that I thought would fall into the âobviously fakeâ category.
It was picked up by several major Pokemon fan sites, particularly Spanish-language ones for some reason, and got around enough that Serebii added it to their Fake Pokemon page. I think the reason a lot of people believed it was real might have been because it was just too ugly. If someone were trying to pass off a fakemon as real, they would make it cute or cool, not ugly and weird, right?
My fondest memory of people reacting to it was one person, who seemed to believe that it was real, referring to it as âCthulhuâs dogâ.
I didnât bother making it look convincing, since I didnât think anyone would buy it and it was going to be in a small distorted image anyway. As you can see, itâs crudely cobbled together⊠but what exactly are we looking at here? As luck would have it, I never delete my working files.
The head is actually that of a Beautifly, with a single smoothed-out Articuno wing mirrored to serve as both ears (âŠor whatever those things are), which also seems to be where I got the blue color palette.
The body is an Espeonâs. You can actually see those lines, left over from the legs, in the final design.
The fins are the leg-wing-things of a Crobat, recolored but otherwise unedited.
Needless to say, when I started I just thought that Beautiflyâs head would look interesting, and had no clear idea what direction I was going with the design.
Next up was a Gorebyss tail, and this is where things went a little⊠experimental. I knew that I didnât want that purple fan on the end, but I really didnât know what the end of the tail SHOULD look like.
I ultimately settled on the tail in the bottom-right, which is actually the feathers from the top of a Swabluâs head. I considered leaving it like that, but felt like it was still a little too simple. I decided to add part of a Magikarp tail, to make it more similar to the Kingdra design in the top-right.
From there, for whatever reason, I had the idea to shape the tail into a fishing net, hence the creatureâs name, Tsurigu (Japanese for fishing tackle). I honestly have no idea if anyone but me ever saw the tail as a fishing net.
Finally, the adornments! I used the rear part of Lanturnâs antenna, editing it just enough so that the ball portion looked like it was in the foreground. I removed the bottom (earlobe?) parts of the modified Articuno wings, and drew on some gold rings just to add a few points of visual interest.
There you have it! Eleven years later, the full truth of Tsuriguâs creation. Itâs hard to say how far it spread or how many people saw it, considering itâs been so long and most of the sites that posted it have disappeared. Over the years Iâve seen the design used in a few different ways, including things like reinterpretations and a creature made in Spore that I can no longer find.
My favorite is actually one from just last year, by DeviantArt user Urbinator17.
It was never that well-known, and at this point has been almost entirely forgotten, but the terrible amalgamation once called Cthulhuâs dog is a highlight of The Summer of Fakemon, and one of my favorite memories of 2006.
oh my god I canât believe the person who made that is right here
Internalized homophobic zoomers on twitter will see a gay guy post about something as normal as armpits and be like âthatâs it, Iâm gunna unalive those f words! Calling Millie Bobby Brown!â Miss clearly you are not having sex to be having these reactions
This user blocked me, but why am I bringing sex into this? Because sex has been integral to my experience as a gay man and how people perceive me since before I even started having it. Because not everything has to cater to you, and I donât care if that makes you uncomfortable. When I made this post I was not thinking about asexuality in the slightest, but about people in my own community who show contempt for their more sexually active, less monogamous, more experimental peers. I was thinking of those with the ahistorical notion that assimilated gay men are the ones who paved the way for freaks and not the other way around. I donât think youâre homophobic because you donât have sex. Why would I even care about that? I think youâre homophobic because you canât read a gay man complain about internalized shame in the community without taking offense and making it about yourself. If the shoe fits, wear it.
when Walter white said "smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating does not constitute plans in my book" he was wrong. this is the moment he really became Heisenberg. if you ask me
nothing makes one more suicidal and despondant over the ever creeping passage of time than the inability to no longer say âbro we are teens problem?â
the worst thing abt gay peers my age is that i cant tell who im allowed to say faggot around and who will go on tiktok and make a video about me saying faggot around them
my bad TW: tiktok
if you think about it calling things "chronically online" is itself chronically online behavior
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^ magic spell idk what it does just trying it out rn
. sorry. this was meant to be my own post not on yours.
This is the original cirnovslobster.jpg, taken some time in September of 2007, though the oldest version that can be found now is a 4chan post from 2009, but I tracked it to a now defunct website that seemed to be a personal blog of some sort. The lobster is a scorpion mud lobster, and those are likely mangroves in the back, but I could not find a definite location in my research two years ago, when I became enamored by this image despite knowing it for many years before. Outside of this I still know little about it and could not find any further information, so there are many things I still wonder about it to this day (if any more is known, do share). But I did find an ebay listing where someone was selling the exact model of Cirno figure (a keychain/charm), baffling because of how old they are, and since it was a "factory reject" or something, but I managed to snag the powerful artifact for five dollars. She is very cute and I have her attached to my bag. One day I hope to recreate the image with her somehow. Happy Cirno Day.
I believe Iâve stumbled across the answer by sheer luck! This is the Walakiri Beach located on Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia! Windows used images of the mangrove trees as itâs placeholder login screen today! :)
Anonymous asked:
are you still abusing your cat
i pick her up and bash her into walls. she loves it
Today I put her in a big pot and rendered her down into cat grease. Too bad!
