Recent content by Scythemantis

I like Pokemon based on their design and concept, and do my best to make as good a team as possible out of those that appeal to me. Unfortunately for me, those don't make a good team...if I only used my top six favorites my team would be Gloom, Parasect, Garbodor, Eelektross, Weezing and...

My hands-down favorite since gen one was always Gloom. I find the whole notion of a horrible smelling, slobbering, unhappy looking flower creature just incredibly neat and the whole design appealing. Vileplume is based one on of my favorite plants (the Rafflesia or "corpse flower") but Gloom has...

Meerkats, mongooses and hyenas aren't quite closer to cats than dogs, but belong to neither. They're a group all their own, which also includes skunks, badgers and otters :) Slaking would seem to be a sloth due to its prevos, but looks a lot more like an ape.

There aren't any pokemon I really actively dislike, but there are many I would probably find at least a little more pleasing if the designs were more streamlined, with fewer clashing colors and tacked on "doo-dads." It's not that more details make a design worse, it's that in many cases, certain...

It'd be most appropriate for a leech pokemon to learn moves that heal allies :D A swordfish seems like a strong candidate for water/steel. I had an idea for one where the sword would be chainsaw-like. I've always wanted a virus pokemon. I don't mean a legendary humanoid alien who happens to...

It seems exactly like something gamefreak would do, lots of pokemon bust the stereotypes/preconceived notions of the animals they're based on :D Mightyena may be hyena based and a hyena isn't even a canine, but it looks enough like a wolf that it ought to appease people who want one. Same with...

Dolphins regularly kill sharks, even harmless sharks they don't intend to eat or anything. In many cases they're a huge threat to endangered species because they're just so territorial and violent :p Lanturn is an anglerfish, not very mammalian....it's too cute an anglerfish, though. I wish we...

Since generation one, I've eagerly awaited a cockroach and a fly...I can't believe such commonplace creatures aren't represented yet. First person to say Ninjask is a fly fails zoology forever. I don't want to sound like I'm plugging but my biology articles cover hundreds of other plants and...

Why are people acting like being grotesque is a bad thing? Pokemon are monsters. Monsters are cool. What makes most monsters cool is looking monstrous. It depresses me how many pokemon AREN'T more gruesome. Weezing, Garbodor, Muk, Gloom and Eelektross are practically my reason for playing...

I actually find this gen 100% great. Garbodor is still cooler to me than every other pokemon that ever possibly might exist, but even without him, it would still be my favorite gen. EELEKTROSS is another big reason, I've wanted a leech or lamprey (any sucker-faced, elongate parasite, you know?)...

So like, the instant I even heard there was a pokemon made of garbage, I knew it would be my new favorite and that its design couldn't possibly go wrong. When I actually saw it, Garbodor exceeded my highest expectations. Let me run down the reasons I adore Garbodor: 1) He's very reminiscent of...

Wasn't Ji_ji_rachi just joking? The post they quoted didn't contain any swearing... Anyways, the one where you eat your dead pokemon is hysterical.

JUST ran out of bandwidth :P Stupid homestead...ah well. Igtica - it's an old urban legend. You look into a bathroom mirror, turn the lights off, say "Bloody mary" a certain number of times (I forget exactly how many, it may vary) and this ghost will begin to replace your reflection in the...

This one time......... ......In a place JUST LIKE THIS... .......ON A NIGHT JUST LIKE THIS... .....THERE WAS.............. A GHOST!!! Don't be so terrified it's just a story! OoOOoOoR IIIS IIIIIT!?!??!

The only art forum is pokemon-only so I'll put this here. I've been drawing these all month for a different forum. There are more, but these are my favorites and then some not-so favorites that bring it up to 31! This halloween is my 20th birthday (I'm still going trick or treating) These are...