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POKEDDEXY CHALLENGE DAY 5
-Favorite Fairy Type-
Carbink, the Jewel Pokémon
I’ll be honest with you guys, I’m not a huge fan of the Fairy type. None of the Pokémon with this type I find really appealing and they nail my Flygon and Mega Ampharos. I DO like that they’re the second thing the Poison type, my favorite, is strong against. Took it only 17 years to become more potent.
Carbink, however, I do not mind. It’s based on the interesting process of how Carbon becomes Diamond when exposed to high pressure and temperatures 140 to 190 km down in the very Earths mantle. This process takes 1 billion years at the very least. That’s about 25% of our plantes age! Naturally, this stuff is really deep down in the mantle, but some of it manages to surface via volcanic eruptions for example. No wonder diamonds are rare!
Furthermore, Carbink also seems to be based on a carbuncle, a creature of myths that’s said to have gems growing out of it, specifically it’s forehead, just like Carbink.
(Do yourself a favor and DON’T google “carbuncle”, as it is also a type of abscess (collection of pus within a tissue of skin) and is quite frankly very disgusting to look at, especially if you have a weak stomache.)
As for Carbink ingame, it’s actually a little similar to Shuckle, whom I’ve dealt with in Day 1. Carbink has a mere 50 base stats in everything but it’s defenses, which both have a massive 150. It also shares the ability Sturdy with Shuckle (though it’s a bit harder to get on Carbink). Sturdy rarely matters though, as Carbinks defenses make it an near-immovable object. It is however the ONLY Pokémon that can learn Trick Room and have the ability Sturdy. It’s Speed of a pathetic 50 and amazing bulk makes it an optimal Trick Room setter. It also learns a few useful support moves, such as Guard Split, Reflect and Light Screen.
Being a big fan of Trick Room teams and needing a new Trick Room setter in the most recent generation, I decided to give Carbink a spin. It’s turned out quite useful: Carbink is perfectly capable of staying around for a few turns, in which it sets up the Trick Room and follows up by setting up either Reflect or Light Screen, depending on the opponents Pokémon. After that it spams Dazzling Gleam to break Sturdy/Focus Sashes on the opponents and do some additional damage. Should the match not be over by then, it can refresh the Trick Room.
It also looks like a Football, so that’s kinda neat I guess.
“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
(via lunar-bunnie)
Day 2.- Favorite Dark-Type.
In the dark of the night, cacti will find you~ =w=
Yeah, I decided to go to hell with this and go at my own pace -_-
Just look at that low-ass quality, I fucking lost my touch because of this increasingly annoying shitness I used to call a life “orz
Every woman has mastered this. We are actually born with this skill.
You level up when you can do it with long sleeves
(via cookierambles)
Breaking news from India: DON’T FALL ASLEEP DRUNK!
wat
Snake is part of the elite Indian police task force to clean up the streets.
I keep being told that no snake in the current world can swallow an adult human because of reasons, but then I also keep seeing stories like these and I just want the internet to stop lying to me
I don’t even care which one is the lie .-.
(via pencil-rebagels)
the entire history of earth has merely been a buildup to this point
i really dont care that this isnt animal crossing this is the most important thing i will ever post
“And Capcom was like: FUCK.” - Egoraptor
(Source: lizkbuns, via putuksstuff)
POKEDDEXY CHALLENGE DAY 3
-Favorite Dragon Type-
Flygon, the Mystic Pokémon
I’m very fond of Flygon. It’s another example of how much the people at Game Freak must know about biology. Flygon is, infact, NOT based on a dragonfly, but much rather an antlion! I’m sure at the very least a few of you were confused when you found out that Trapinch, some little brown creature with massive jaws, evolves into Vibrava, a dragonfly-looking Pokémon (who inturn becomes Flygon). I know I was.
Some of you might know antlions as insectoid creatures with large jaws that dig collapsing sand pits and dwell at the center of them, waiting for pray. Trapinch fits this description: it has a massive maw and the ability Arena Trap. This however is but the larval stage of an antlion. Antlions will stay in this stage up to three years. It should be noted that antlion larva don’t have an anus. That means they don’t poop for THREE YEARS. Of only I could manage to hold it in that long, travelling would be much more enjoyable! Finally, after said constipated three years they build a cocoon out of sand and silk and stay that way for a month. Finally, they hatch into dragonfly-like creatures, which Vibrava and Flygon are based on. Their lifespan is about three weeks in that form. This, thankfully, does not apply to Flygon.
Ingame, Flygon isn’t as interesting as the concept behind it (but that’s a pretty hard thing to top anyway). It is however, a solid physical attacker and it’s typing is Ground/Dragon. 100 in both Attack and Speed and 80 in all the other stats may not be the greatest thing around, but it’s far from bad. Flygon also gets a STAB Earthquake to boot, which is nothing to scoff at. Aside from that, it has a STAB Dragon Claw, Stone Edge, Power-up Punch and a few other attacks. Sadly, it’s movepool isn’t the most amazing one. As for it’s ability, it has Levitate, which grants it full immunity to all Ground type moves, which is a nice bonus.
As I said earlier, I was no exception when I was stumped about how Trapinch finally becomes Flygon. The only indication I’ve had was that Trapinch is #328 in the Pokédex and Vibrava and Flygon are #329 and #330. Back when Gen III was new, I trained a Trapinch up, hoping it would become a Flygon… and I was right! I loved my Flygon and it was the first Pokémon to reach level 100 during Gen III.
Another reason why I love Flygon is its very interesting real-life counterpart. But the reason I like it most, is a completely different story. Flygon is my favorite Dragon type, because it reminds me of a dragon from a childrens book I loved when I was younger. It was titled “My Father’s Dragon”.
Flygons chubby build, gentle eyes and striped body resemble the dragon from said story a little.
The story (as far as I recall) was about a boy, named Elmar, who had a dream about a timid dragon, who was held captive by wild animals on a faraway island. Elmar sneaks out of bed and travels to the island. There, he ventures forth in search of the tied up dragon.
As Elmar gets closer and closer to the dragon, he meets the wild animals, one by one, who try to stop (and sometimes eat) him from freeing the dragon. He manages to outsmart and trick them and finally does reach the dragon.
Elmar frees the dragon and the two fly from the island, back to Elmars home, accompanied by the angry cries of wild animals, who lost their dragon. Elmar and the dragon become friends, but part ways, as Elmar needs to get back to bed, so his parents won’t figure out that he was out all night.
Huh. I was half-expecting you’d do Dragalgae and leave this guy for Ground day :/