Can't Afford Art School?

eyo anyone know what kinda bug this is 🤨🤨🤨🤨

GOD. I'M SO BAD WITH BIRTHDAYS- happy extremely late day of entering this world Vic!! Have Five Pebbles in a ziploc bag as my offering

thank you for your offering <3

could you tell us more about the gift? :D

Oh, sure! I can stick some of my Gift drawing backlog in here while I'm at it~

The Gift is an unruly creature whose presence begets chewed wires and headaches wherever it goes. It's spunky and mischievous with a penchant for violence, and it revels in its job: to kill as much rot as it can without getting eaten by it first.

It exists only in an alternate universe where Pebbles is stopped before Moon collapses. Moon is damaged but alive - and after many long talks, Pebbles begrudgingly allows the other iterators to assist him with his rot.

The Gift's campaign uses the points system with an emphasis on rot kills. The gross cyan mixture on its spears is - via interacting with their stomach, in true slugcat fashion - weird altered barf. On contact with targets, "immunospears" explode like a spore puff and damage everything Five Pebbles related within their radius. This means you can kill even Mother Long Legs with good aim and enough food pips. Unfortunately, this does also kill neurons and inspectors, so the Gift has to be a little bit careful on its path of carnage.

Notably, Gift's goal isn't to eradicate the rot, just to help control it. If there's a way to cure the rot, this one silly creature can't do it for a whole superstructure.

It's been specially made (with love and care) by the other iterators so that Pebbles' inspectors don't target it. This is also why Pebbles won't murder it unless it shows direct violence towards him. His local group worked hard on this wretched being and they'll be very upset with him if he kills it. Plus it is actually good at its intended purpose. He just has to count the days until it keels over on its own.

Gift probably has some scavenger in there somewhere too, and maybe a bit of lizard. They're strong, but outside of fighting, I wouldn't say they're the smartest slugcat...

I've also played with the possibility of Arti and Spearmaster existing in this timeline. It ends as well as you'd expect. (I thought it would be funny if you could team up with Spearmaster and piggyback them around as your living spear generator though.)

There's some other stuff to the idea, such as a repeatable campaign where your strength and food requirement goes up every time you replay it, and a random pool of pearls you spawn with addressed to either Moon or Pebbles. I might go ahead and post that old campaign writeup still, so there'll be more in that!

Would also be really annoying if they wore heat resistant gloves to throw back the hot tear gas canisters and if this got shared to all those protesting…

I can imagine how Koriadon got the scars on his face, but WTF happened to Miriadon's LEG!? Are you okay robo-lizard?

WELL HELLO THERE- It's been a while! Had an insane couple of months but now it seems I have a brief moment of peace to answer some asks so graciously given to the lizard kiddos.

Thank you for being patient! I will try to reach all asks if I can, I do genuinely appreciate all of them and feel free to send more if you want to.

Also there are image descriptions/transcripts in the alt text of these images! In case you can't read my handwriting or otherwise.

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

rendered the two bits i have done together. because it feels like ive achieved more. idk!!! its overdone again ofc lol. theres a couple new shots here

overdone - ludo

Okay the rabbit was to be expected for multiple reasons

but

I didn't expect the Freaking DENTURES to steal my heart.

WAIT ACTUALLY I SAW PPL DRAWING MOON IN A SUIT AND REMEMBERED I HAD THIS HIDDEN ON A CANVAS…i drew it after i had a dream where moon tried to get me to join her cult…while wearing a suit. needless to say she didnt have to ask me twice

This'll be the main info post for this au, so it might be updated with any info I find important heheh. Or when I finish these images cus theyre so CRUNCHY

Below is au summary + refs and other information that will be added over time

Miraidon and Koraidon are a massive secret in this au, as well as the other paradox pokemon and Area Zero. However unlike the other secretive paradox pokemon, Miraidon and Koraidon are sentient and intellegent in this au, making their life in hiding a bit hard.

However that changed when they found they both had alternate humanoid forms they could change into at will. Instead of having to hide for the rest of their lives under Arven's care, they could exist as humans and actually live their lives- Though maybe not in the way they had expected.

Turns out the explanation for their alternate forms is the fact all legendaries here have one, which they find out later when they're taken under the other legendary's wings (specically Dialga).

Update 9/16/2023

Dialga's reference. As explained in this post, Dialga is an employer/mentor sort of figure for Mirai and Korai. What exactly they do for him is yet to be explained.

Some of you may have heard about Monarch butterflies being added to the Threatened species list in the US and be planning to immediately rush out in spring and buy all the milkweed you can manage to do your part and help the species.

And that's fantastic!! Starting a pollinator garden and/or encouraging people and businesses around you to do the same is an excellent way to help not just Monarchs but many other threatened and at-risk pollinator species!

However.

Please please PLEASE do not obtain Tropical Milkweed for this purpose!

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--also commonly known as bloodflower, Mexican butterflyweed, and scarlet milkweed--will likely be the first species of milkweed you find for sale at most nurseries. It'll be fairly cheap, too, and it grows and propagates so easily you'll just want to grab it! But do not do that!

Tropical milkweed can cause a host of issues that can ultimately harm the butterflies you're trying to help, such as--

Harboring a protozoan parasite called OE (which has been linked to lower migration success, reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability) for long periods of time

Remaining alive for longer periods, encouraging breeding during migration time/overwintering time as well as keeping monarchs in an area until a hard freeze wherein which they die

Actually becoming toxic to monarch caterpillars when exposed to warmer temperatures associated with climate change

However--do not be discouraged!! There are over 100 species of milkweed native to the United States, and plenty of resources on which are native to your state specifically! From there, you can find the nurseries dedicated to selling native milkweeds, or buy/trade for/collect seeds to grow them yourself!!

The world of native milkweeds is vast and enchanting, and I'm sure you'll soon find a favorite species native to your area that suits your growing space! There's tons of amazing options--whether you choose the beautiful pink vanilla-smelling swamp milkweed, the sophisticated redring milkweed, the elusive purple milkweed, the alluring green antelopehorn milkweed, or the charming heartleaf milkweed, or even something I didn't list!

And there's tons of resources and lots of people willing to help you on your native milkweed journey! Like me! Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions!

Just. PLEASE. Leave the tropical milkweed alone. Stay away.

TLDR: Start a pollinator garden to help the monarchs! Just don't plant tropical milkweed. There's hundreds of other milkweeds to grow instead!